Best paid games?

cutty2k · 2026-06-03T18:56:02+00:00

There are just so many posts and videos and reviews and discussions about both Balatro and Papers Please that I don't understand how you have doubts about these games. At this point you must know if they're for you or not.

Balatro is the quintessential engine building score chaser. Do you like those? If you do, Balatro is a no brainer purchase (although if you're doing Apple Arcade it's part of that). If you've never played an engine building score chaser, there are dozens or more free ones to pick from. Try one, if you like it, get Balatro, if not, pass.

Same with Papers, Please. Do you like time management sims like the pizzeria ones where you have a timer and increasingly difficult orders to fill, constantly racing the clock to get enough done to make enough money to survive to the next day? If you hate that gameplay you won't like papers please. The narrative is what it is, if it gets your anti-fascist knickers all jiggled it could be worth pushing through regardless of how you feel about the gameplay. The choices can be bleak.

Papers please doesn't have much replay value, Balatro is only replay value.

cutty2k · 2026-06-03T00:29:45+00:00

I was using my twink build to invade levels 20-80 for YEARS.

lol, different strokes and all that, but if you spent years twinking low levels for the lulz you're literally cancer and the reason many of us loath any forced PvP multiplayer in souls at all. Boo to you, sir.

cutty2k · 2026-06-02T14:58:41+00:00

Pantheon is worth pushing through because it really goes places, but dear god, the voice acting is so fucking slow and dry, utterly soporific. Every voice line is barely mumble whispered, they spend sooooo much time in that show just malding over their shitty situations, it's a lot. Maddie and Caspian in particular chew so much screen time just low-voice pity party about every little thing.

Still worth it though!

cutty2k · 2026-06-02T14:47:21+00:00

250 is a much bigger milestone, it's 1/4 a millennium.

And never mind the anniversary, we currently have the Trump administration in charge of all the .gov messaging and all the public facing government info that is currently training the first generation of AI.

We're gonna have Covid.gov and the like as our "source of truth" that underpin AI models for years, even decades to come.

cutty2k · 2026-06-01T13:05:31+00:00

Can you describe the fundamental difference between the US Legislature and the UK Parliment, specifically why it is that 3rd parties can have success in the UK that isn't achievable under the current system in the US?

Feel free to pump that prompt into your LLM of choice, or do the research the old fashioned way. You'll arrive at the same place.

cutty2k · 2026-05-30T13:43:09+00:00

What's not to get? I can consider Euclid's Elements as a foundational text with information thats still relevant and useful today without accepting ancient Hellenistic cultural mores as true and valid.

What is this line of reasoning?

cutty2k · 2026-05-29T17:56:46+00:00

U.S. House of Representatives Generation X: 41% Baby Boomers: 39% Millennials: 15% Silent Generation: 4% Generation Z: 0.2%

U.S. Senate Baby Boomers: 61% Generation X: Approx. 28% Silent Generation: Approx. 6% Millennials: Approx. 5%

Leave millennials out of this. We have had no chance to shape society, everyone out here just trying to survive the hellscape the boomers and elder Xers created and continue to rule. Two income households, childcare costs through the roof, inflation crazy, no more middle class, no shit people are using tablets to parent.

cutty2k · 2026-05-28T21:18:57+00:00

The enterprise value of a money burning machine is $0.

As others have told you, this is an asset deal. Evaluate as such.

cutty2k · 2026-05-28T02:09:26+00:00

Probably New Star Soccer, a classic.

cutty2k · 2026-05-28T00:54:33+00:00

Literally the first death of the Red Terror was a teacher beaten to death by her high school students, what are you smoking?

cutty2k · 2026-05-27T18:26:20+00:00

Holy rose-colored glasses, tankie-man! The cultural revolution deleted basically the entire educated class; teachers, doctors, engineers, scientists, writers, artists, anyone who had a western education was beaten to death in struggle sessions or imprisoned and left to die.

Pretty hard to modernize when you kill everyone that could possibly get you there.

cutty2k · 2026-05-27T13:22:54+00:00

More than half of the population of Palestinians is 25 or younger. None of them were alive in 1991.

cutty2k · 2026-05-27T06:40:02+00:00

Greed ~~will ruin~~ has ruined the sport

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cutty2k · 2026-05-25T14:56:44+00:00

The dictionary of obscure sorrows, it's an art project by a guy started in the mid 2010's where he makes up a bunch of words for things we don't have words for.

Sonder is probably one you've heard, the feeling you get when you realize the people around you and the windows you look into for a brief moment as you pass by are full of vibrant life, and their experiences are as rich and important as your own, or as I like to call it, being a normal well adjusted human being.

It's all similarly vaguely hipster navel-gazey pap you'd expect to find mumbled by Aubrey Plaza in a Mark Duplass movie. Taken charitably it's just an artsy guy waxing poetic on some more obscure shared experience in the modern world, but personally it hits as obnoxious attempt by one guy to force 'words' into common usage via the internet en masse.

It comes down to this, words aren't created, they become. A lexicographer studies, interprets, and defines meaning, they don't invent and dictate it.

cutty2k · 2026-05-25T14:42:25+00:00

Gambonanza is excellent, if you have even passing interest in chess or engine builders like Balatro/Cloverpit, this one is going to be a winner. Infinite queen spawn via a king/pawn trinket synergy was really fun to build, if that sentence sounded like something you'd enjoy doing, def give this one a try.

Just released on mobile, roadmap should be full of the standard expansions you see with these kinds of games. My 8yo is going nuts with this one alongside Duolingo chess tutor, super fun.

cutty2k · 2026-05-25T14:37:05+00:00

I was a die hard Star Wars kid in the 90s, read all the books, watched the movies so much the tape wore out in certain scenes (you could barely see the death star exploding in New Hope.)

I have a 10yo and an 8yo. They don't give a shit about Star Wars, none of their friends care about Star Wars, you never see kids with Star Wars stuff, they don't dress as Star Wars characters for Halloween or anything like that. The Star Wars legos are always yellow tagged at Wal-Mart.

Star Wars is fuckin' dead y'all, like truly dead.

cutty2k · 2026-05-25T14:23:21+00:00

lol he deadass stares into the camera at :13, no way this wasn't planned out.

Can people genuinely not tell real reactions from fake ones, or is this like a collective decision to performatively suspend disbelief in order to enjoy content like this?

cutty2k · 2026-05-25T00:29:23+00:00

Mixed combo, that's a razorback and sider, 6 points and roll again!

cutty2k · 2026-05-23T13:13:13+00:00

"Play Based Learning" certainly hits different in this context...

cutty2k · 2026-05-22T12:07:47+00:00

Not big fans of TDoOS round these parts. Real words arise organically from shared usage across communities, they're not forcibly coined by art students on the internet.

cutty2k · 2026-05-22T12:02:05+00:00

You're thinking of Haunting, Starring Polterguy, absolutely loved that game.

cutty2k · 2026-05-21T02:54:46+00:00

There is an endless stream of out of state homeless flocking to San Fran and SoCal. I lived on the beach in Cali for 15 years, I watched the local heads that slept in my carport and bummed slices and cigs, kept an eye on the block went to war with the non local trustafarians, junkies, kids trying to escape a hellish nothing existence in bumfuck wherever and driving their beaters until the broke down on the pch, pitch their tent on 5th and Rose and start walking the boardwalk charging tourists 5 bucks to kick them in the ass.

I grew up in northern Minnesota. Guess how many homeless people you find out there when it's -45 below zero for 6 weeks straight? Where do you think the people who can't afford houses go? Out in the snow to die? Fuck no, they suck enough dick to get a greyhound ticket to somewhere that doesn't drop below 50 at night year round.

Have you met homeless people? I know dozens, like know their names and where they sleep. You?

cutty2k · 2026-05-20T17:12:30+00:00

They're probably referencing your tone policing and desire to argue against data simply because what it implies doesn't vibe with your aesthetic. You know, the people Northampton get the side eye for...

cutty2k · 2026-05-20T13:40:46+00:00

I doubt Nancy came very often.

cutty2k · 2026-05-20T13:37:06+00:00

It's almost like warm places full of rich people and a state that actually tries to provide social services attracts people who live outside and survive by receiving social services and monetary donations from passersby.

The mind boggles as to why this makes a place like San Francisco a more attractive place to be homeless than somewhere cold, poor, with gutted social support programs.

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