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				Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Why do you think they got bad at making games though? I’m going to guess it’s because the guys who made kotor and ME1 were a bunch of Gen X computer guys who loved early pc games and were incredibly talented. As the commercial success came and they grew exponentially, they hired a bunch of diverse young millennials and women that wanted to instagram their first day at BioWare. Then trump 2016 happened and it became a moral imperative to use their positions to fight the culture war.




I mean, I remember people saying the writing was on the wall when they brought some community manager on staff (why is it always a community manager?) who thought it would be really fun if there were a button that let you skip all the gameplay and just experience the shipping story.  At least I think I'm remembering that approximately right.  Was a long ass time ago now.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Hard disagree.  I think real time with pause was perfect, and flawlessly bridged the gap between rigid turn based where 90% of your turns are going to be "Press X as quick as you can to attack", and stupid bullshit "Directly control a single character while your useless party members do random useless bullshit".  I think only Final Fantasy XII had a decent competing solution to the problem where you got to program your party, along with some real time with pause elements.  Technically Baldur's Gate let you program your party too, but I think that was an actual whole ass scripting language or some shit.  I don't remember too clearly.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 16, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Qeekly Finance Thread - 2026-10-10
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for October 9, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Phenomenal video.  I keep meaning to send it to a few of my coworkers.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Qeekly Finance Thread - 2026-10-10
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Wellness Wednesday for October 7, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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.