@lunarchstudios Congratulations, it's a great game, the reception is well deserved!
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Michael Grankin
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Michael Grankin
@michael_grankin
The guy next door.
Mariupol, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Katılım Şubat 2010
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19 reviews to go until we hit the 500 needed to be Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam!
The craziest part is that *all 19 of them could be negative* and we'd still hit the 95% threshold needed for it.
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@lolnvmtho "Zoomer" is just too great a word. How would you call gen A. "Alpher"? Sounds dumb.
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@inkblotPrincess "they're only doing it like that because it's cheaper / easier to produce" Great decision, understanding their limitations and all that.
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It's very funny when you watch the interview segment of the video and you hit the 'Ah!' point where you realise that the only thing they want to be 'retro' about their game is the aesthetic and they're only doing it like that because it's cheaper / easier to produce
Eleanor Red@TheRedGoner
In this video Nerrel interviews some random indie devs about their early-3D style platformer and they start talking about not being able to turn in midair in Mario 64 as a problem that they wanted to avoid in their game and if they made it like that now then no one would play it
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Sometimes I pick up a game and move the character and just feel immediately “eww this is gross feeling”. It’s like you can feel the engine limitations or something.
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"You can't tell the plumber your shit doesn't stink."
Bob Martens
1945-2026
Years of dreading this has in fact made it easier, but not by as much as I'd hoped. Zero out of five stars, thumbs down, would not recommend.
I'll see you when I see you, Dad.
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@timsoret It's mainly the music. Far Cry 5 loading screens are also extremely popular on youtube.
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I need a team of neuroscientists to figure out why Resident Evil save rooms are so incredibly soothing, ethereal & melancholic. YT Compilations get millions of views.
It's engraved in the memory of gamers. Millions of us were in these rooms, lonely, finding temporary respite.
𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚🦇@highkeydracula
Nothing comes close to Resident Evil 1's save room ost
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@WildMageGames Cool, I look forward to it! It was one of my favorite demos
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Today I finally started polishing the last levels of Neverlooted Dungeon and preparing the last main private beta.
There are still a lot of things to do before release, but the wait if almost over, after 11 years of development ND will be released in a few months !
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@nazzobetweeting Jesus, don't post if you "don't care"
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everyone with houses and backyards and motherly responsibilities telling me how they wash and dry their clothes oh my God i don’t care. most people with apartments don’t have an “outside” to hang all their clothes nor do most people live in year-round sunny climates where this is even feasible, why are yall SO PRESSED THAT WE USE DRYERS 😭😭😂😂😂
Jeanette Botha@JeanetteBotha4
@nazzobetweeting @reed_alissa How many kids? I had 3 kids and washed once a week - 5 full loads on a friday night, hung out to dry on Sat (outside). Ironed for 2 - 4 hours on a sunday night. It worked for me.
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@SamuelWHG @ImNotOwned I'm not sure that the brunt of regulation is needed to ration luxury goods. Some artists give cheap tickets to be raffled through their fanclubs, that's a good practice.
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@ImNotOwned The point of a free market is that higher prices induce more supply, creating more for all. When the supply of something is relatively fixed like concert tickets, the case for price controls mixed with lottery rationing and/or physical queueing is good, actually.
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Yes. People legit want price controls on everything. It’s why it’s important to not be an actual populist
Kyle Metz@_kylemetz
I don’t get this. Is there any better example of basic economics than concert tickets? They cost that much because you buy them. Do you want some sort of federal department of ticket prices? Not to mention that modern concerts are classless anyway.
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There are too many games.
The pie is split too small for all of those who deserve success to attain it. With the accessibility of indie game dev widening - which is good - competition rises between thousands of new games a year, and back-cats. There is no fair solution to this.
lyrify@lyrverse
Hit me with the harshest reality truth.
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I'm genuinely curious: can anyone in favour of these various (unworkable) age-related bans explain, precisely, what they achieve — that the most basic parenting could not?
Because the favourable comments I have seen just seem like mothers (and seems invariably to be mothers) who want to outsource parental responsibility to the state so they can have an easy life.
I read one today from a woman who goes through her daughter's phone every now and then, and is very disappointed that the government hasn't taken her Snapchat away yet.
Which (she acknowledges) is something she could do herself, but she doesn't want the fight.
When I was a kid, my mum didn't want me playing GameCube after 9pm. She didn't ask the government to ban GameCubes, she took it away at night and hid it (badly).
When I was in middle school, teachers didn't want us using phones on school grounds. They didn't wait for the government to ban them, they just confiscated them if we were caught using them.
My sister has a little kid, she doesn't want him to grow up addicted to screens, so she doesn't let him play with phones and tablets, and she doesn't let the TV babysit him.
This all seems so basic that I find myself assuming there must be something I've missed.
Is there some reason parents and schools can't choose what devices to give their kids, and when they are allowed to use them?
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
The UK government is moving forward with new rules under the Online Safety Act that will ban VPN services for anyone under 18. VPN providers will be required to carry out age verification. This is expected to involve ID checks or other forms of personal identification to confirm users are 18 or older. If enforced, adults in the UK would also need to prove their age with official ID to continue using most commercial VPN services. The stated purpose is to prevent children from accessing age-inappropriate or harmful content online.
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@actsmaniac Idiocy of rent control never fails to amaze me
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a Berlin landlord got convicted for charging 400€ for 30qm / 322 sqft for an apartment
legally he could only have charged 200€
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@maxswitness If tickets resell for 3x it means that they are still too cheap. Many people want to attend, many people are affluent, it is no wonder prices of popular acts climb up.
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its getting to the point where I feel like im being forced to outgrow concerts because of how inaccessible they are. every artist no matter who, always has a presale queue of 100k+ and "prices" are a months rent. Tickets sell out in 2 seconds and resale is 3x fv. im so over this.
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@Lenscap And you used blue screenshots from botched extended release
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@NikTek Also driving on the left side is a fun little change!
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Sleeping Dogs was slept on and hugely underrated.
For a game that came out almost 14 years ago, it had a development budget of 30 million dollars and it managed to do such a fantastic job at everything that it had to offer.
For starters, this game had a solid story, great character, amazing fighting mechanics with different finishers, parkour, good driving mechanics and small details that some open world games today wont even bother to add.
Melee Combat is fantastic, you can grab different objects from the ground and smash NPCs with them or throw at them, this added so much versatility in combat.
Finishers are also extremely satisfying, any object that is highlighted in red will guarantee you that you'll get to see one of the most fun ways to finish off an enemy.
While driving mechanics were nothing too spectacular, it still offered you a great way to play while driving by having Ramming added to vehicles so you could push other vehicles away while you're being chased, in-game races were also very fun to play in my experience!
Its a real shame this game didn't get nowhere near the recognition it deserved because I truly believe if we'd ever gotten a sequel, it would improve upon everything that the first game lacked and it would be an amazing franchise.
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Important personal news:
I’ve never seen Lord of The Rings. My biggest blind spot as a movie guy. Just kept putting them off.
I have decided I’ll be viewing them all for the first time in theaters with the rerelease. Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition) tomorrow night.
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@timsoret What if AI gains are asymptotic and have soft ceilings using current technology?
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I think we are <10 years from having an entirely new OS, possibly several, potentially many.
Finally some real competition to Windows & macOS.
Until now, the colossal scale & complexity of the task reserved it for a few select giants .
But AI is about to change this.
Emad@EMostaque
Given a trillion tokens of Opus 4.5 could we write a whole operating system and productivity suite from scratch. What about Opus 5? Opus 6?... Linux is about 30m lines of code/500m tokens to give you an idea..
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Англичане переизобретают фразу "Я тебя услышал"
Ellie@basilYam
I wish there was a pithy phrase that meant "I hear that you think this. I neither agree nor disagree. This is your thought, and I really have nothing to do with it."
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Michael Grankin retweetledi
🎁 After Calendar giveaway 🎁
Follow us on Steam + RT to win a Steam key for #TheForgottenCity!
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@CultureCrave Backlogs are so immense and older games can be had for so cheap that I'm surprised this percentage isn't even lower
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Steam players spent just 14% of their time on games released in 2025 — preferring older games 🎮
How it compares to previous years:
2024 — 15%
2023 — 9%
2022 — 17%
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