Neat. Thanks for the info!

“Unannounced 3D Mario Game”

Ahhhhhh OK, I see…

Do you guys curate this yourself, or is there a website or something that facilitates it?

But you don’t always know about every release a year in advance (I mean for games that weren’t announced yet at the time of your draft)… Are there “seasons”?

Lol sorry, I’ve just never heard of this and I’m intrigued.

Edit: clarity

Lol 9 times out of 10, they don’t actually play the games they whine about.

Just now we had a month with both Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 being released within weeks of each other.

Didn’t see your comment before saying almost the exact same thing lol

How can it be that it is more enjoyable than anything else I’ve bought over the last year (at least)?

Possibly because you’re buying the wrong games? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got a massive nostalgia-on for Oblivion, and I picked up the Remaster, and it’s cool…

But there have been a lot of great games so far this year. Just this month alone, Blue Prince and Expedition 33 have both been fantastic. Both better than the Oblivion remaster imo.

The Indiana Jones game is cool. I haven’t played Split Fiction yet, but it looks really good as well. Just to name a few.

Edit: More that I remembered: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. Wanderstop is pretty chill. Xenoblade Chronicles X was finally released on Switch (game map is like 5x the size of Skryim or something…). Atomfall. Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is pretty cool if you’re into that kind of thing.

As someone with no kids and a work/life balance that allows me to enjoy video games, I wonder how much of this vitriol comes from bitter millennials who are mad at the world because they don’t have time to play games anymore.

Fantasy Critic

Wait what? Is this like fantasy sports, but with video game reviews? Do you draft developers or some shit?

What gfx setting are you using?

I’m the farthest thing from an expert when it comes to programming, etc., but my understanding was that the FOSS end of it is more about which license you use to distribute, and whether or not you provide the code to the public?

I don’t really understand how that would affect the functioning of the app itself. But again, I’m not a programmer so maybe I’m missing something here.

My uncle works at the fediverse and gets all the games before they come out

He was a good boy.

For one of his last meals, we got a pizza and specifically left some out for him to “steal” for the last time.

Ah fucking hell this got me…

Lol ultimate life hack? Just add this comment to every order you make…

Joking of course.

It works great for me. I’m using a Pixel with stock Android, so I can only speak to how it behaves on my phone. I know sometimes carriers add/change shit.

A little pop up comes up saying something about “getting the most out of your phone” with the option to turn the mic on for the app that’s requesting it (phone app). Only turns on for the call. Just gotta tap the screen once.

I keep the mic and camera options at the top of my quick-… whatever they call them… options, so if I need either one for something else, it’s super easy to turn off/on.

Android shows a little green logo in the top right if the mic and/or camera is on as well. So if I ever do enable them, it’s easy to remember to turn them off again.

It’s so disingenuous to pretend this is the same as editing a photo in MS Paint.

Not only on iOS. I use Android and my microphone is always off unless I allow a specific app to use it, and even then, I have the option of only allowing it for that one time. Including the phone app.

Mic and camera are always off.

But why

Weird, this game has been on my PCs for decades 😉

Cool game though. If this is more than just AI upscaling, maybe I’ll check it out.