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Releasing a niche new IP from a well-regarded but lesser-known developer with little to no marketing in the extremely busy autumn and expecting success is... a bit weird. You gotta wonder what they were thinking.

You Need to Watch Tim Burton's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie (www.inverse.com)

In 1996, Independence Day became the highest grossing movie of the year, cementing Will Smith as a leading man, turned director Roland Emmerich into one of Hollywood’s top names, and solidifying the alien invasion movie as the ideal summer blockbuster spectacle. But another alien invasion film came out in 1996, one with the...

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I saw this when it was in theatres, haven't seen it since. It came with a lot of hype due to all the big-star names, and its marketing really hadn't communicated how tongue-in-cheek it was. People went in expecting something akin to ID4 or Batman, and it sure wasn't that.

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Gött, straffa packet som inte har råd med en elbil!

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Try to see it like a choose your own adventure instead of "gotta catch 'em all". I find it helps to have a soft rule against savescumming for myself - if I make a mistake, my character made that. The only times I let myself reload is if the outcome of what I did was unclear, and went entirely against what I thought it would do.

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It would, except they transferred all story-related items, regardless of whether the quest was finished or not, including some equipment and alchemy item, and IN BAGS for some reason. It made a whole mess of my MC's inventory whenever I swapped my party around.

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If it ain’t voxel-based, it ain’t Delta Force.

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Newsflash: Alla svenskar bor inte i Stockholm.

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Firewatch
Well-made story-focused, no combat whatsoever. Very few puzzles, almost exclusively about exploring.

What Remains of Edith Finch
More "puzzley", but lets you discover things at your own pace.

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    @Varen
    Whenever you find someone else who'll take on the full responsibility for caring for the kid. Or when your kid moves out, whichever comes first. Sorry.

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    Jaysis. Just stop buying these exploitative and morally bankrupt games. No "at least on the X franchise". No "I won't pay any microtransactions". No "I won't preorder".

    They will not change, nor get better as long as they're selling.

    Just STOP buying this shite, everyone.

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    The Eurogamer forum was my place in the early noughties. The forum was suddenly shut down in late 2021, removing about 20 years of discussions.

    Stunned Couple Finds Viking Buried Under Floor While Renovating Home (archaeology-world.com)

    A Norwegian couple made an unusual historic discovery during renovations of their home. First, they found a number of Viking-era artifacts, and then archaeologists declared that they had found a Viking grave, right there, under their floor. Experts have carried out a survey of the site and the grave is being hailed as a very...

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    Fermented herring, it’s the Icelanders who do shark, I believe.

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    Is there a decent open source alternative for navigation?

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    When you walk through the garden

    You gotta watch your back

    Well, I beg your pardon

    Walk the straight and narrow track

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    Yes.

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    To be fair to the man: The early Foundation stuff was written in the late 1940s and early 50s, and he later freely admitted (it’s in his second autobiography, I, Asimov) that as a huge science/science fiction nerd he had no idea how to write women and avoided it.

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    I really cannot understand why everyone gets so excited by Rogue One. It’s a story that there was absolutely no need to tell, and I felt it only cheapens the stakes of both itself and A New Hope. Besides, the plot is barely coherent at times, with characters who are worked up into huge deals being left behind without any meaningful affect on the story. I liked the Vader scene, I’ll give it that.

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    Star Wars never was Science Fiction, though. It’s got space wizards and hyperspace stuff. It’s fantasy set in space.

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    You are quite probably right: I must admit I haven’t read much of anything of his for ages, but in my teens I devoured as much as I could. That was nigh 30 years ago now, though, and not only have what’s acceptable changed, I have grown up, too. :)

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