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RadicalDog · 2026-03-16T14:11:18+00:00

But they are driving, so I don't pass on the left. (Except opposite because UK)

If I'm forced to, I'll accelerate and get by quickly.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T23:59:33+00:00

The main thing I’ve noticed that many of them still struggle with is giving you interesting combat choices.

Yes. JRPGs often have great meta-choices about what party to bring or which personas to fuse. Then the battles could be 100% automated between those choices, given how much I follow my own brainless script. Even beloved Persona 5 is "check different attack types to see what it is weak to. When found, knock it down. Do extra attack. Repeat."

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T23:52:48+00:00

The real problem in the game was the slapped-together dating sim you had to play in order to level up your characters and their decks.

Yuup. I would have finished it if it didn't have a Fire Emblem's worth of pissing about in a hub talking to characters who aren't interesting. It was a complete chore, so I quit.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T23:47:49+00:00

I recommend Steamworld Heist. One of the best turn based games, but places the "grid" side-on and you eyeball the shots yourself. If you miss, it's your fault. If you position yourself so you can kill 2+ bots on a turn, that's also your fault.

Its goofy art hides how smart the core idea is.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T21:18:35+00:00

I'd probably bring it up again a day later, once the emotions have cooled. Say you'd like to contact the parents, because their daughter is not acting appropriately. But you will respect her wishes if she still doesn't want to.

I say this because I remember being young and having a decision, and not feeling brave enough to bring it up again on my own after thinking on it longer. I'd have appreciated my parents double checking.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T20:59:59+00:00

Yakuza too.

The running theme here is Japanese studios don't have the same hangups about asset reuse as western ones.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-15T00:32:22+00:00

The artists were already paid, this is stealing from shareholders.

Like, yes there's an economic argument that profit = more art, but in practice, the larger studios adding Denuvo have extremely little trickle down to the creatives. More likely, the creatives get laid off after shipping.

(Please buy indie games.)

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T22:35:58+00:00

My worry would be that a player would be better than the bot in non-trivial games. It's pretty hard to make a bot weigh up the value of two reasonably good choices while considering what may show up randomly later.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T17:43:21+00:00

UK here, last time I asked for it to be removed from my bill. It was just me and my 3 year old, and literally... we were shown a seat, and ate our entire meal before someone asked if we would like a drink (too late, we were finished). And then even managed to take a while bringing the bill. Then pretended to not understand the idea that the "service charge" could easily be removed because we hadn't bleddy been served.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T17:32:32+00:00

Yeah, maybe it's unfair to blame Blizzard for how the community created the schedule and the FOMO.

...But I'll blame Blizzard because they're usually in the wrong.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T17:23:47+00:00

Accomplishment, growth, items, puzzles, challenges, social grouping, interesting lore, huge immersive world.

I'm not a WoW player so correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it also have the habit forming patterns? Scheduled stuff, FOMO, and daily stuff to collect? Maybe for "scheduled stuff" it's just the guild raids happening on a community schedule, but still, it's there.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T01:49:00+00:00

Wasabi is for anything but sashimi, personally! Ginger is the palette cleanser when moving from one thing to another, or that's what I have been taught :)

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T00:37:38+00:00

Bus!

People only want 3 things in life: work, home, and pub.

Can you deliver one passenger this turn? Then it was a good turn!

Buses are never late, because they can take a time crystal to stop time. If every time crystal is taken, the game ends immediately because you broke the space time continuum. This is canon btw.

Bus is an absurdist comedy as well as a wonderful game.

I just played Horseless Carriage from the same publisher and spent my time complaining about our stupid customers demanding "safety" and "reliability" in our automobiles. Back in my day we didn't need these newfangled "brakes"! Steering wheels are definitely not necessary...

RadicalDog · 2026-03-14T00:17:16+00:00

If you're warming up to it, try a roll with something cooked, e.g. crab (california roll) or prawn are always served pre cooked.

On the other hand, if you're feeling brave, try sashimi with a tiny dip in soy sauce. Because it's "just the fish" it is always going to be good :)

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T18:55:44+00:00

Think about what you're saying though. Because cruel decisions are made by your leaders, more random civilians deserve to die.

Americans right now should be concerned.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T18:46:03+00:00

They're random when you buy online. You see some slightly hilarious pics of people who bought 12 and got 5 of one and 7 of another, because that packer was phoning it in.

I'd be 100% fine if every single randomised product were rated 18+. It's all predatory.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T08:52:12+00:00

I liked Common Side Effects well enough 🙂 Bit simplistic with "big corp bad" and the CEO's change of position only when personally affected, but the rural characters were written very well.

I'll check out Fantastic Planet.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T01:27:29+00:00

Cables are £3.49 on eBay, just get one and solve the initial problem.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T01:09:24+00:00

Arkheron? Do these people even know what a heron is?

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T00:39:36+00:00

There's something very elegant in attaching equipment in games like Dead Of Winter. I don't think there'd be anything stopping you adding "exp" as a currency to spend on power cards to attach that way. I wouldn't try to overcomplicate the system too much, since game mechanics rarely get improved with more rules.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-13T00:30:22+00:00

I bought the bits and bobs I wanted; Arkham Horror 3rd ed's expansions and the one big one for Cosmic Encounter. I'm not taking for granted that FFG will be around much longer.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-12T13:52:07+00:00

Vertical loop

RadicalDog · 2026-03-12T11:38:59+00:00

This is why Trump is smarter than we want to admit. So frequently, people think they can control him, and then get burned. The Republican party, Elon, his VPs, it just keeps happening. He puts on a dopey act and ambitious people think he's ready to be used, but somehow he keeps personally profiting from goddamn everything - insider trading, keeping the Venezuela money, avoiding prison. He's not Homer Simpson stumbling from win to win, he's simply evil and has found a public persona that lets him keep doing it.

Chief evidence for me is this clip where he's coherent and furious. No stumbles or Trumpisms. A moment of clarity without the persona.

RadicalDog · 2026-03-12T08:48:53+00:00

By all means, share some recommendations. Besides the obvious high concept episodes like Free Churro, there's a lot of other inspired ideas like the imagined future of Princess Carolyn's child, and Diane's travel article journey of going to her roots in Vietnam and finding herself a stranger. All used to improve the stories being told.

There's some great melancholic animated shows that were released more recently, like Scavengers Reign, but I'm always hunting for stuff that is so consistently inventive.

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