I don’t think any of these people know what “smart” is supposed to mean cause these must be the dumbest ideas for any product I’ve heard so far.

Ooh poow widdwe Jimmy … you know who didn’t have a choice? the kids whose heads he blew off. I don’t care if he had a choice in going there or not, Jimmy doesn’t deserve a blink of sleep for the rest of his miserable cunting life if he didn’t knowingly miss every single shot.

4x4 bingo?

you must sell lots of em

supergiant made the first game I ever played that actually left me conflicted. I’ll try to keep things vague to avoid spoilers:

in the game you play a series of “matches” of what’s essentially magic basketball. at one point I encounter a “team” whose captain hates one of my “players” because of what they’ve done in the past. the problem is that my player is absolutely crushed by their regret for what they’ve done.

this is an rpg without classic rpg mechanics, you can “lose” every “match” and the story will keep going. however at this point I have a spotless record: I’ve “won” every “match” and intend to keep it that way. ok so one of my “players” really hopes the opposing “team” would “win” cause that’s the only way things can be made right but hey that’s drama, right? I can just “win” and live through the consequences.

so I’m playing … terribly. I’m making more mistakes than usual. my “player” keeps pleading to whatever forces may be out there, please let their opponent “win”. and I’m “losing”. I need to “win”. why is this suddenly so hard… am I throwing? fuck, i might not be able to do this.

yeah. first time I “lose”. my “player” is happy. I’m happy. never felt this way in a game. a true choice. not a moral choice Ike most games where you can A. save a town from a bomb or B. set an orphanage on fire… not a mechanical choice where A. you do the bad thing and get red rewards or B. do the good thing and get blue rewards.

no. Just a choice. no clear right or wrong. no special rewards. no new mechanics. it isn’t even presented as a choice. it’s just sportsball with a story, just like each one before. you play to win, right?

maybe not.

pyre is the peak of video games as art.

wow I hate this meme format

we have 330ml standard, but i find that a lot too. 250ml is pretty common too, I used to drink those before I quit buying them.

yeah but also that’s too much coke. 355ml? jesus, are you eating lava wtf do you need that much sugar water for

I disagree. the guy looks nothing like the meme imo. that’s just Logan Paul with a big beard

hey only 86 million people didn’t vote

it’s spelled img - ur

no, it’s spelled imgur. I know what img stands for which is why I said it would be one thing to call it imgr. the u doesn’t make sense and it hardens the g. it’s funny that you talk about how it’s customary that img stands for image but you act like ‘ur’ is also a thing by itself.

well it is, just not in that way. if your img-ur breakup made any sense for pronouncing img as if it’s independent then why not consider what ur stands for? it’s a shortening of your or you’re. so why not pronounce it image your? because it’s bullshit and the spelling is ridiculous.

as it’s spelled: im gur.

It’s one thing to name it imgr, but putting a fucking u after the g makes it a hard g in literally every instance. the letter u is the reason the g is pronounced as a hard g in words that otherwise wouldn’t need a u: fragile / guile, digest / guest, etc.

I laughed out loud when I first learned that imgur is supposed to be pronounced as "imager’… well you fuckin chose the wrong combination of letters for that didn’t ya

i pronounce “gay” as “jay-why” because of the bloody alphabet

so I assume you also say “jit-hub”?

I agree and I think we should merge instances too, and maybe appoint a CEO to take care of it. we can call it lemmit.

I tried to play it 4 times or so. it’s so fucking boring that even after I see the first statue thing and reset, my spirit is already too broken to go on. and I tried to push further, it’s just not compelling. the thought of going through that slog is an insane proposition.

even if you do push a bit, reading a dumbfuck uninteresting conversation between people I don’t know by “deciphering” without actively doing anything is the most boring way you could execute the premise of the game.

protip: if you’re making a groundhog day game make sure the first iteration isn’t boring af. I’m already sick of games getng longer and longer intro sections in general but at least with most of them you know that part is going to be behind you forever. you can’t make a boring intro and then the second things seem mildly interesting send them back to the boring section.

the sexy brutale was so much better at this in every way.

Fascistan

Ignorancia

Corpoland

Gun-ited Steaks

RetroPolice, like metropolis but it’s a reactionary police state

the hypersuck swasticar is a death machine that should not be allowed on the road to begin with (and isn’t in relatively sane countries). vandalism is getting off too easy imo. the appropriate response is to total the car but that’s not practical. or maybe you can just spray some water on it and it explodes or something idk