Noxy

you’re absolutely right about the rush when everything is on the line.

my most memorable moment was at night, pitch black out, and there’s some idiot kid screaming about Shrek running around outside. I had a pipe shotgun and a small bunch of resources, and I was hiding in my tiny 1x1 shack.

that was the scariest shit on earth. and when he came knocking on my door asking me some shit about Shrek it gave me a few seconds to line up the shot through the door, so I quickly opened it and fired. immediately the yelling about Shrek ceased and I was left with complete silence and darkness.

Monster Sanctuary was so good. I tried it when I had Game Pass, and I loved it so much I bought it outright for Xbox, and then again on Steam. Also got the hardcover monster journal.

Aethermancer, made by the same folks, is looking really good from their demo. Clearly lots of inspiration from Monster Sanctuary but very much its own sort of game

Monster Sanctuary. A superbly polished, extremely fun, and decently challenging metroidvania and monster collecting/battling game. If you played the first few Pokemon generations on gameboy and don’t find the newer games capture that same magic, check out Monster Sanctuary!

Pacific Drive. A station wagon building amd exploration game set in a STALKER-esque Pacific Northwest in the Olympic mountain range. Extremely original and unique game, and with an excellent soundtrack.

Hardspace Shipbreaker: spaceship salvage, with increasing hazards and challenges and complexity of ship systems to expertly disassemble. With a pretty cool workers’ solidarity and union struggle type of plot.

Rimworld. Hundreds of hours lost.

Stardew Valley. A literally perfect game.

Terraria. Also a literally perfect game.

Caves of Qud. Like if Dwarf Fortress adventure mode was actually polished, and also if distant future scifi with mutants and cybernetics and sentient plants and sapient gun turrets.

Dwarf Fortress. It’s Dwarf Fortress.

WolfQuest. Wolf simulator set in Yellowstone, with a focus on real world accuracy. So cool to raise a pack and manage territory and hunt and explore and howl a lot

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. A brilliantly executed spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future.

Descenders. Crazy fun downhill bicycling game.

+1 for Pacific Drive. Nothing else like it out there. And you get to form a relationship with a station wagon, which is peak passenger vehicle design.

And the soundtrack is outstanding!

I still got lost enough that I’ve never finished the base game

Bill Gates deserves the guillotine exactly as much as the rest of them.

key facts:

“reported that” “may have”

Half Life 2 for me

Where the fuck are all your dedicated gun nut independents?

Everywhere, in plain sight, not talking about it on heavily surveiled social media.

“an historic” is wrong and terrible if you pronounce the “h”

unless you’re queer. queerphobia was much more rampant back then.

I approach from the side, put my hand over the camera, and say “no thanks”.

The more obvious it is what I’m doing to the folks in line behind me, the more likely it is that someone else may also opt out.

You want my face? You already get it through fuck knows how many other surveillance systems. Fuck off asking me for one right in front of me when I’m already handing over my damn passport.

The real solution to pedestrian safety isn’t chipping at the margins of the problem with “safer” vehicle front ends, it’s designing streets appropriately to slow vehicles down or keep them away from pedestrians to begin with.

I feel like both are equally vital.

Have fun with that

just a classic Republican.

Right. Like I said, a Nazi.

He’s a nazi for other reasons

Chuck Norris is a nazi