Cyborg Justice was great. I only learned recently that no, pits were not just a death sentence if you didn’t have the pneumatic legs, you can transition out of a jump into a forward lunge to get the distance you need.
Pulling robot pieces off and attaching them to yourself was an amazing mechanic. Same as kicking legs back upright and slamming torsos on to resurrect enemies (and possibly allies?)
And the music is peak Genesis music.
I feel the same about Ticket to Ride. Spend the whole game maybe doing something, maybe just drawing and passing, and then the game ends and somebody wins at random.
But these are good gateway games, games that lead from Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders to games like Betrayal and Root and Gloomhaven.
For the OP I would recommend Spirit Island, which is the perfect subversion of Settlers of Catan. Pass through Puerto Rico if you must (it’s a better game than Catan but yeesh, slavery, and then double-yeesh, casual slavery erasure).
I see the gateway board games but not the advanced ones, why stop when you’re so close?
I read that in Matt Barry’s voice and so should you
Was the Titan a Forgotten Beast? I saw one of those at least once per fort. Once it was a completely helpless squirrel made of ears that got caught in a trap without my noticing, once it was a colossal brass spider that casually strolled through my fortress, sticking all my surviving dwarves onto walls and ceilings with a web cannon. I had to wait for those dwarves to die of dehydration, since the fort isn’t considered lost while they’re still alive, but they couldn’t free themselves to eat or drink.
One was named Cyrus, the other was Jeff
I’m on Android. You’ve motivated me to dig up that setting and change it. I had assumed that each application handled that individually.
Mm. Looks like Android also has that locked down these days. We need a viable Linux phone.
I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.
That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.
This gets more and more relevant every day
Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow
Not clicking on that link (oh wait, I can see that it’s the xkcd link, it’s legit (I know you aren’t going to trust me either, that’s good, you’ve learned well))
I eventually found the actual website, thank you all for joining me on this emotional journey
https://cactusfacecomics.com/?comic=001&sid=168
Are these only on Instagram? How the fuck am I supposed to read these in order of release, aaagh how does the internet keep getting worse
Thank you for tempering my expectations. I’m gonna go binge all five or six strips.
Well now I am extra pleased by his daughter’s life choices.
Oh. Is that how they knew Godzilla was pregnant?
You can also throw an item up, jump and grab onto a climbing surface, hold the grab button down, and line yourself up under the falling item to carry it.
I would still get a ThinkPad, but then, I would never be putting Windows on it anyway.
Confirmation from the Sega Genesis Sonic 2 manual:
Two images, one of the front cover of the instruction manual for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (giant shadowed Doctor Robotnik head and arm in the background, reaching for and clutching a giant checkered numeral 2 in the middle ground, with Sonic and Tails in the foreground, with game title and the text INSTRUCTION MANUAL below them, with the console logo at the top with stylized text reading SEGA GENESIS / 16 BIT CARTRIDGE.
Second photo: the manual opened to page 10 (greyscale), title text Super Items, description text: Spin, bash or bounce to break open monitors any way you can – to get the Super Items inside.
Five square pixelated images are arrayed in a row beneath the text: a shoe, a ring, Sonic’s face, three four-pointed stars, and a circle with a horizontal gradient.
Beneath these is a bulleted list of names and descriptions:
Under this list is a cropped screenshot of Sonic in a shield sphere, with Tails behind him and a mechanical preying mantis in front, the latter of which has launched small curved blades at Sonic’s shield.
The following page is visible in the photo but is outside of the scope of this post. It’s about Star Posts.