Old sci-fi trope regarding AI- People treat their robots terribly, to the point when they go full murder-bot it's hard to be on humanity's side. New sci-fi trope regarding AI- Murder-bots don't need to kill anyone, they're just subservient and reaffirming as people accidentally off themselves.

Too rainy outside to adventure today so Max is assisting me while I work.

Amnesty International UK apologized for its anti-trans rights article. So here it is, preserved (hopefully) forever. I can't believe I'm telling @amnestyuk.bsky.social to go fuck themselves, but here we are. We need them not to be spineless, cowardly douchenozzles. web.archive.org/web/20260709...

Great little action-roguelike pixel-art shooter Minegeon: Renegades released today after a two-day setback. Shoot enemies, beat on slimes, upgrade through the run, and keep on working up the power curve. hardcoregamer.com/a-little-beh...

A Little Behind Schedule But Finally Here, Minegeon: Renegades Tears into steam

A great pixel-art roguelike action extraction shooter into the slime-infested tunnels of a planet that's dangerous and rewarding in equal measures.

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Got an email for a release of a new game, "an old-school Dark Fantasy Action RPG", and it's hard to overstate how over Dark Fantasy I am. Been there, done that, I'm tired of the gloom. I don't need perky and upbeat but the "...and then everything was terrible" thing is exhausting.

No no, it’s fine, I don’t have anywhere to be.

Picked up the new Robert Kirkman book Terminal this week, and while I normally enjoy his writing, I’m a little taken aback by how much I disliked this series. It’s like The Death of Joy as a comic, just miserable from start to finish. Got lucky with a blind bag, too, so read the first 2 issues.

Got a review game I should be playing, big and needs all the time I can give it. It's one I'm actively looking forward to, so no reason not to. Except my brain doesn't want to do anything at all this evening. So that's a problem.

Weird wood-based crafting with light automation game, @nullref-entertain.bsky.social's Chop Chop Inc., got a release date of 8/07. Beat up trees, make wood-based items like PCs and boom boxes, and do terrible things to your former employer's monopolistic status. hardcoregamer.com/there-is-not...

There Is Nothing Wood Can't Be Used For in Chop Chop Inc. Release Date Trailer

Chop Chop Inc. is a not particularly serious crafting game about using a forest to drive your former employer straight into bankruptcy.

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Oh hey, excellent timing! I was thinking I was short on spyware, and here's a nice savings on LG to help fill that spyware gap in my life.

-watches trailer- Well I'm 100% sold on the robot designs and Gorf-voice alone.

Antti Tiihonen@anttitiihonen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New gameplay trailer for puzzle-RPG-FPS Reconfigure! Public pre-alpha playtest begins today! Sign up for playtest or wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/... youtu.be/JJTYc9cQ_c8 #godot #indiegame

There's a lot to enjoy with the combat system of @nisamerica.bsky.social's Disgaea Mayhem, but the lack of content and need to manually adjust the difficulty from insta-win are real problems. Well before it's over, all leveling up is good for is leveling up more. hardcoregamer.com/review-disga...

Disgaea Mayhem Review: Action-Packed but Loss of Potential

Disgaea Mayhem is an action-RPG that adapts the power grind of the strategy series into something more similar to the Dynasty Warriors games.

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Max in the fern jungle, the primal hunter at rest.

I’m sure there’s a reason to get out of this hammock and be productive but…. *looks straight up*

Nobody needs those real-world physics anyway. @denshattack.bsky.social's Denshattack! is out today and proves that trains are even cooler when they can take to the air and pull off insane tricks through the countryside of a post-disaster Japan. hardcoregamer.com/review-densh...

Denshattack! Review: Pure Train Madness

Denshattack! is a trick-based game from the Tony Hawk school of design, except literally on rails.

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Cheerful, upbeat tropical automation in @easmussen.bsky.social's Factory Town 2: Paradise, which just released today into Early Access. The first game was a fantastic automation/town-builder and I'm looking forward to digging in properly to the sequel. hardcoregamer.com/automating-a...

Automating a Slice of Tropical Heaven with Factory Town 2: Paradise Release

Factory Town 2 is a combination automation game and town builder in a tropical paradise, a giant Rube Goldberg machine of ever-expanding production.

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I don’t think the sun is supposed to do that.

It's awfully orange out today. Turns out Canadian wildfire smoke is in the atmosphere filtering the sunlight and making it look noticeably weird out there. I'd take a picture but my camera phone likes to believe it's capable of thinking, color-correcting when it really shouldn't be.

Ultra-fast-action stripped-down dungeon crawling thanks to @kalinarm.bsky.social's KAZ being released today. It's a score-attack semi-roguelike where you need to take out as many enemies as possible in ever-tightening time limits, but with a new buff every level. hardcoregamer.com/fast-faster-...

Fast Faster Fastest With Ultra-Simple, Ultra-Intense Arcade Roguelike KAZ

KAZ is a stripped down roguelike that gets straight to the action, each run a mad dash to maximize the score against the unforgiving timer.

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Semi-snoozy blep.

ICE's latest murder is 30 minutes away from my home. I wasn't exactly thrilled when the murder-gestapo was half a continent away and now it's here. Fuck ICE.

Lindsey Graham. Mitch McConnell. One more for the trifecta, and no monkey paw shenanigans allowed!

Speaking of physical games, I think I'm going to have to give up and order Rhythm Heaven Groove online. I can't find it anywhere around here at all.

I could change with the gaming industry or, as it turns out, I could not do that at all. My copy of the Switch 2 fully-on-cartridge copy of the @superraregames.bsky.social printing of Minishoot Adventures feels like a perfect antidote to -waves at everything-

This is fair, I have no issues here. If purchasing a game doesn't take care of the people who made it, then why bother?

Megan Fox@glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 4w ago

If the team that made a game gets immediately laid off it's perfectly legal to pirate it Look I don't make game law but I do fancy myself something of an expert on this so you can definitely steal the pirate game whose devs got laid off and they didn't even let em have a real launch party its legal

I really, really did not want to vote for Graham Platner in November but it seemed like I was stuck with it. I was planning on grumbling the entire time and giving him my vote, despite many, many, many reservations. That's obviously off the table now.

Megan Greenwell@greenwell.bsky.social · last mo.

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

While there’s a while rant to be had about America as a failed country let down by greed and laziness, everyone knows already. Ignoring all that, today was a great day spent with family, food, and fireworks (and apparently alliteration) so I’m actually really happy with it.

Oops, just realized it looks like I’ve done nothing in terms of writing recently seeing as I haven’t posted anything. They were embargoed, scheduled articles last week so I just forgot.

A bit over a month to go before Doloc Town hits its 1.0 update. I don't do a lot of farming/life-sim games but Doloc Town slipped past all my defenses. hardcoregamer.com/chill-post-a...

Chill Post-Apocalyptic Garbage-Punk Farming Game Doloc Town Gets 1.0 Release Date Trailer

During its year in Early Access Doloc Town has grown in a number of ways, with everything from livestock, social events, story beats, and more added.

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Mushroom arc, it’s safe for the moment.