Noxy

I wonder if the clock is intentionally that bad as a way to annoy its victims users into giving it an internet connection

you’re absolutely right about the rush when everything is on the line.

my most memorable moment was at night, pitch black out, and there’s some idiot kid screaming about Shrek running around outside. I had a pipe shotgun and a small bunch of resources, and I was hiding in my tiny 1x1 shack.

that was the scariest shit on earth. and when he came knocking on my door asking me some shit about Shrek it gave me a few seconds to line up the shot through the door, so I quickly opened it and fired. immediately the yelling about Shrek ceased and I was left with complete silence and darkness.

Monster Sanctuary was so good. I tried it when I had Game Pass, and I loved it so much I bought it outright for Xbox, and then again on Steam. Also got the hardcover monster journal.

Aethermancer, made by the same folks, is looking really good from their demo. Clearly lots of inspiration from Monster Sanctuary but very much its own sort of game

Monster Sanctuary. A superbly polished, extremely fun, and decently challenging metroidvania and monster collecting/battling game. If you played the first few Pokemon generations on gameboy and don’t find the newer games capture that same magic, check out Monster Sanctuary!

Pacific Drive. A station wagon building amd exploration game set in a STALKER-esque Pacific Northwest in the Olympic mountain range. Extremely original and unique game, and with an excellent soundtrack.

Hardspace Shipbreaker: spaceship salvage, with increasing hazards and challenges and complexity of ship systems to expertly disassemble. With a pretty cool workers’ solidarity and union struggle type of plot.

Rimworld. Hundreds of hours lost.

Stardew Valley. A literally perfect game.

Terraria. Also a literally perfect game.

Caves of Qud. Like if Dwarf Fortress adventure mode was actually polished, and also if distant future scifi with mutants and cybernetics and sentient plants and sapient gun turrets.

Dwarf Fortress. It’s Dwarf Fortress.

WolfQuest. Wolf simulator set in Yellowstone, with a focus on real world accuracy. So cool to raise a pack and manage territory and hunt and explore and howl a lot

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. A brilliantly executed spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future.

Descenders. Crazy fun downhill bicycling game.

+1 for Pacific Drive. Nothing else like it out there. And you get to form a relationship with a station wagon, which is peak passenger vehicle design.

And the soundtrack is outstanding!

I still got lost enough that I’ve never finished the base game

Bill Gates deserves the guillotine exactly as much as the rest of them.

key facts:

“reported that” “may have”

Half Life 2 for me

Where the fuck are all your dedicated gun nut independents?

Everywhere, in plain sight, not talking about it on heavily surveiled social media.

For me it was mostly Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven, but yeah Disney’s Robin Hood was also a factor!

I approach from the side, put my hand over the camera, and say “no thanks”.

The more obvious it is what I’m doing to the folks in line behind me, the more likely it is that someone else may also opt out.

You want my face? You already get it through fuck knows how many other surveillance systems. Fuck off asking me for one right in front of me when I’m already handing over my damn passport.

but the garfield couch doesn’t even have garfield’s strangely detailed feet

he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor

Stonewall was deemed illegal by the cops that raided it, and that’s the genesis of queer pride.

Sometimes illegal shit is not only okay, but necessary.

I see at least one knotted toy in that picture. Nice.

I got like $50 from an Apple settlement a month or two ago

One of the drivers mentioned in this article has a youtube video showing his odometer going from 124,999 to 125,001, completely skipping 125,000. One of the comments asks him to reach out to the law firm handling the class action lawsuit, but the owner replies with:

Happy to help if you’re interested in paying a consultation fee for my time-- but otherwise these actions only enrich the law firms and I’m not volunteering to do that.

This mindset is so frustrating. Class action lawsuits are legit, they hold companies accountable and they pay out cash to people. To say that they only enrich law firms is not just wrong, but I think actually harmful to repeat like he has, especially in the great age of enshittification where everything tries to force binding arbitration agreements into every contract and agreement.

I am so glad the image went the same place my mind went

now go enjoy this brilliant parody, “I Can Only Count to Four”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es