WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
I do wonder what happened with Amplitude sometimes. I remember loving Endless Space and Endless Legend, although I think the first Endless Legend had some of the issues you describe. I think I remember finishing the tech tree way before it felt like I should have.
I donno, the whole Space 4X genre goes through weird phases. Arguably the best one ever made is Master of Orion 2, and it's just the fact that it's an older DOS/WIN9X game, and the fact that it had terrible sequels, that even gives other games a fighting chance. For the longest time Galactic Civilizations 2 was the MOO2 successor, but then the company got into some political hot water over the CEO's common sense statements, and I don't think GalCiv 3 or 4 were ever as good. Also the Paradoxification of the genre took over and even good Space 4X games became highly variable on which of the dozens of DLC you had installed and active at any one time. Because nobody makes sequels anymore, they just make DLC for the same game for 10 years.
At least Piranha games tried with Mechwarrior 5: Clans. A shame the effort almost killed the company and they went crawling back to Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries expansions. Not that I can complain too much.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
I had to look up what the fuck you were talking about. I guess Jonathan Blow created his own programming language and compiler just for this game? I'm jealous.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
11d ago
so one of my major goals for the next several years is to find something worthwhile to point my brain towards so that it doesn't eat itself alive looking for problems to solve once Mojito Island gets old.
Man, I've got a journal of random game ideas I've had over the years I'm chomping at the bit to make one day. I don't think staying busy will remotely be a problem.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12d ago
Vidya Games?
I got Order of the Sinking Star last night. Well, technically Thursday night, but it took so long to download on Switch 2 that I went to bed before it finished. Fucking love it. In typical Blow fashion, every puzzle is solvable when you first encounter it if you think hard enough. At least I think that's the case. Blasted though about 85 boards before I passed out around 1 am. Supposedly there are 1400 puzzles in the game, so that'll be fun.
Performance on Switch 2 isn't great. I almost wish I got it on PC. But I just have issues with too many distractions on PC. The compulsion to have youtube on in the background, discord notifications, etc. I drag my lovesac in front of the TV and zone in for hours on Switch. Single purpose devices are good for that I guess.
I guess Jonathan Blow has said some obvious common sense things, because the comments section of every review are about what a terrible piece of shit he is. In the year of our lord 2026 people are still mad at him on reddit and in game review site comment sections about thinking that COVID 19 was a lab leak. There was a time when this would bother me, but now I just laugh.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12d ago
Phenomenal video. I keep meaning to send it to a few of my coworkers.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
12d ago
There is a serious potential I only have to work for 3.5 more years and can retire in my mid 40's.
The equity I was granted at my new job has already doubled in value. It vests over 4 years (3.5 years to go), but even it's value now is enough to push me over into never have to work again territory. The rest of my portfolio, after a very choppy beginning of the year, finally appreciated by my take home pay at my last job.
My work life balance is shit, especially with the newborn, but if I retire when he's 5, that's tons of time to spend with him while I do shit I want to do, like make video games in 6502 assembly.
I just have to hope when the other team comes into power, as they always do, they don't decide to virus bomb my office building for having done suspiciously well under the last administration.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14d ago
Hey, remember when I stepped on that rusty screw?
Well, after the antibiotics kicked in, it healed pretty quickly. All better now.
Now my problem is that the antibiotics wrecked my guts, and my chronic constipation has given me a monster hemorrhoid. The kind of hemorrhoid where you can't wait to get home from work, take a hot shower, and gently push it back inside your asshole where it can heal and stop bothering you.
Getting old is fun.
It's fine, they were probably just raping a 12 year country girl. Barely worth a citation.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
26d ago
Man, I'm almost afraid to put this out there, but I keep wondering when the left is finally going to discover some new bullshit like "cognitive equity". They aren't liars who faked all their credentials with AI. AI is actually a form of cognitive equity! It's leveling the playing field the same way retards of all walks of life can demand accommodations from the cradle to the grave, and push all the externalities of their misbegotten existence on the schmucks around them who are still dumb enough to try to be productive.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
27d ago
If only shame was all it took to spill the blood required.
That's insane. Its like asking who would win, Micheal Jordan in his prime, or some random college athlete from 2026. It presumes an obvious superiority because the absolute peak of the game is passing out of living memory. Europe of 1939 is possibly the most martial society ever seen on Earth, short of Europe in 1911. Africa is still just Africa. They couldn't even maintain the infrastructure and institutions they were gifted under colonialism. You think they could defeat the pinnacle of the societies that built them?
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