The battle pass removed its daily check-in IIRC.

In Starsector markets have infinite money, but the per-unit price actively drops the more of a good you offer. Combined with sky-high taxes if you’re not selling on the black market (which has its own gotchas), this makes it impractical to earn a profit off of hoarding a single good. You’re expected to watch the intel feed for market shortages and take advantage of their desperation if you want to make it as a bulk trader. Or be a little sneaky and create a shortage yourself.

It’s one of only a few games where trading requires more than finding a good route and traveling back and forth. It’s surprisingly fleshed out for a title that’s mostly focused on combat.

“Luckily” bottled water companies bought unlimited access to municipal water sources for pennies on the dollar, so fresh water is cheap enough (since they’re piggybacking off of the water company’s work filtering and purifying it) that they see no need to adulterate their product.

Sure sucks for the communities whose water is being siphoned away, but meh. It’s their fault for not being born rich.

China started drafting legislation cracking down on engagement bait daily tasks a few years ago and some games (like Genshin and other Hoyoverse titles) dropped daily check-in bonuses and made more things reset weekly in response. I think China later backtracked (IIRC the politician pushing the laws fell out of favor?), but not feeling forced to log in every day made those games so much less stressful.

I haven’t played anything in the genre in years, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that crap crept back in again.

What other game lets you fight the demonic personification of Fox News and Bill O’Reilly?

“M-O-O-N, that spells ‘sword!’”

I know a lot of people hyped up Outer Worlds as a spiritual successor to New Vegas and were disappointed when it didn’t reach the same heights of writing. Obsidian not being given any time to make New Vegas and then missing their contracted bonus payout by a single Metacritic point was brought up a lot before release, and gamers trumpeted this new game as what Obsidian could have made without Bethesda mismanagement. Then it came out and had the temerity to be average, leaving fans acting like they’d somehow been betrayed by Obsidian.

It wasn’t Obsidian’s or the game’s fault that people decided it had to be a 10/10 masterpiece, it just got caught up in a stupid fanbase war against Bethesda and its reputation suffered when it couldn’t meet people’s sky-high expectations.

This diagram is missing Orthrus in the two dog crossover sections.

Portal 2 has the best introduction to jumping controls of any tutorial in existence.

Half of the plots of the Wizard books are about what happens when someone ignores that advice and does start poking at things better left alone. Wizards are only human after all, and the magical equivalent of a “don’t touch; wet paint” sign leaves them so very tempted.

That was the move to Firefox 3.0, wasn’t it? Back when major Firefox releases were actually major and not just minor changes to a few tertiary features.

I’m pretty sure that upgrade killed more addons than every update since then combined. It took years for some of them to return.

Sounds like he would approve of “rough Roman” memes.

Metal Gear Solid had a weird halfway version of this: you would automatically eat a ration and heal when taking a fatal hit, but only if it was equipped in the active item slot. It was always fun to get an unexpected game over because you forgot to swap items back before a boss battle.

That scene where Cypher is eating a steak and wondering what the real thing tastes like, except his is well done and slathered with ketchup.

No, he has a point. Based on the Path of Exile 2 fiasco, his life is exactly like a video game - he rose to the top off other people’s work, bragged about how great he is until he believed his own hype, then nosedived everything into the ground the moment he took the reins and tried to run things himself.

Same here. Though considering how the last attempt at a Dungeon Keeper revival turned out, it might be a good thing it’s not…

At least we have War For The Overworld.

Him being the reason Pence went against Trump on January 6 was a hell of a redemption arc, though.

Except those imports were used by a huge section of code you temporarily commented out, and now you’ll need to manually select a dozen imports to get it working again when you come back to it.

(Sure you could have just commented out the unused imports, but the linter auto-sorted them and you’re feeling too lazy to copy-paste a dozen scattered lines)

I could never get into Stellaris, or most other Paradox games for that matter. I have a thing where I want the complete experience on my first playthrough, and Paradox’s DLC practices are like anti-catnip for me. I can’t enjoy the base game because I keep thinking of what all I’m missing out on, but the game with all DLCs is overwhelming for a newbie.

Side note, I got excited seeing this post’s thumbnail because I thought you were playing Starsector. Great game if you haven’t picked it up yet, one of those indie games that does a half-dozen genres and does them well.

Bric hard indeed.