I just bought this after playing satisfactory and I love the optimism in this game.

I’m so into it. Sure you can tell it’s made by a small team but I couldn’t tell it was made by 2 people. I don’t like playing with mods but this one worked well with them to get rid of a bit of storage monotony.

Oh my god, that’s awful. I am in shock people are dismantling our healthcare system and their voters think it’s a good idea.

Which Provence are you in?

Joe-joe-bah oil!

I loved exile so much! It was made by pesto studios and I feel like cyan wouldn’t want to make any of the non cyan Myst games. However they sought after and received the rights to all of the Myst games. So who knows, maybe they would.

This demos so well! I played the original 1997 Riven, I hope 2024 Riven can make an impression on newcomers!

It’s so deep, expansive and immersive and I’m not sure if there is anything else out there that has the same feel.

I think you’re right in that it’s better to be subtle.

The thing about audiences is that they span the gamut, so a little bit of in-your-face is likely seen as warranted for that spectrum of the audience, and a little bit of subtle for observant viewers casts a wider net.

Although I find Doctor Who to be among the least subtle in whatever it tries to do in the genre so, anything over the top kind of feels like it fits in the show as long as they intersperse the season with less obvious commentary as well. My partner only complained that everyone was running around and screaming the whole time 😂

Let’s just hope nobody interprets using proper pronouns as leading to a nuclear apocalypse 🫣

I liked the commentary. I find in sci-fi a short parallel to our world is often not seen as a jab because the veneer of sci-fi is enough to disguise it for most people.

I asked my partner if he noticed the commentary and he didn’t at all 😅

There is a drug called loyal in testing, someone linked to it here as well.

https://kbin.run/m/[email protected]/t/388022/-/comment/3632342

It’s mostly sold as alternate history for the space race, but it’s first and foremost a drama.

Drama about people that happen to go to space in an alternate world.

Drama about people having sex with >! their dead children’s best friend who they also raised once their parents went to space and died, the repercussions which amazingly happened for multiple seasons, it’s kind of weird. !<

The driving force of the show is not the alternate history.

You don’t need to be sorry, it was still a great post ☺️

URU turned into a side project and still is one now and has been one longer than it was a main effort so technically you’re right 😅

Myst IV was made by Ubisoft Montreal. They had some heavy hitters on the team, Mary De Marle is an excellent writer and went on to do amazing things! Jack Wall, the composer that did Myst iii became a very productive video game composter.

URU wasn’t a side project, it was cyan’s big bet that nearly tanked the company. They had other side projects like a third party QA and testing department that kept them afloat. URU got cancelled before launching properly.

Myst V wasn’t meant to exist. After losing so much money on URU, Ubisoft pressured Cyan to put their unused assets from URU into a game that would sell. So they slapped it together with the Myst name that was more recognizable. The game plays and feels just like you’d expect.

Obduction was their big comeback and return to form. Myst-like game without the baggage of the old franchise.

Oh my god. I played those when they came out, except the newest one.

They were good for its time for the people who loved Myst games and then sought any adventure games that remotely resembled point-and-click adventures. We played really cool but definite imitators like Schism Mysterious Journey, The Longest Journey, Atlantis games, and The Journeyman Project.

Then came a developer called Microids with another pre-rendered point and click: “Amerzone”, everyone played that.

Once we got used to low-budget point and clickery it was only natural that when Microids came out with Syberia we all played it and loved it in the vacuum of adventure games back then. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone blindly as they were a product of its time.

I still have to play the newest Syberia and Longest Journey, for nostalgia’s sake only.

Yeah they are relentless with their silly stuff.

I’m glad to see windscribe on this list. One of the best performing VPNs for Canadians.

Ok now I want to know where people live, if they have AC, what temperature their bedrooms are and how it effects their night water habits.

I’ve never tried keeping water by my bed at night, and chugging if I wake up in the middle of it now I’m night bottle curious 🤔

Like, will I feel magically hydrated and limber in the morning? Just another thing that I add to my routine to make me feel great in the morning?

I’ll update if I piss the bed.

Do people wake up in the middle of the night and drink a whole bottle of water? Am I missing something?

I’m usually like “don’t want to be warm under the covers and need to pee, I don’t dare hydrate past 9 pm”

Foundation is one of the few adaptations that I think benefits from it’s lack of fidelity to the source material.

I think they actually made these changes more in an attempt to make it good than poor writing or lack of respect for the source material.

I’ll be more pissed at apple not finishing the series than the writing or accuracy.

Tbh this isn’t a bad take. The books revolutionised science fiction writing and it deserves credit for that but that was 1942. They haven’t aged well. But nuclear powered everything is funny to read about from today’s perspective. I loved that the show actually mentioned nuclear powered ashtray as an Easter egg.

Asimov forgot to even acknowledge women existed until much later. So the show is less gender swap and more actually including women at all 😅

Omega mart in Las Vegas might come close?

Can’t think of large scale ones unless you include the rest of Las Vegas.

Like Ridley Scott and milk android or machine-blood. But he only makes original things so he gets a pass.