alright, new #HamWrites post. this time i try to explain the appeal of Sim games and why there's so, so many of them on Steam now.

All Work And All Play

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people now dont get it you would smoke like 4 bowls of straight swamp dirt and go "man im so high right now dude" because you'd enjoy watching winamp visualizer back in the 00s. nowadays you take a vape hit of some shit called femboy sweat and suddenly youtube videos are scary and you cant stand up

Yup, that sounds like game freak alright

Hobo JC Dentons, unemployed Matrix Squiddies and anti-war Terminators join rebel Princess-CEOs in haxxin the planet - in Neofeud, 70% off in the Steam Cyberpunk Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/673850/N... #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame #retrogame #NoAI #scifi #art #artist #Steam #Cyberpunk

Dunno if its an ADHD thing or general capitalism/human spirit thing, but that agonising choice paralysis for starting a new game from your backlog hits twice as hard when you get home from work

Ill reread that cheese article in more detail but for now I recall the inmortal words of Josh Sawyer "Min Max, Save Scum, murder every npc after the quest is over for more exp, do whatever it is the mechanics implicitly encourage you to do, face god and walk backwards into hell!"

Finally finished RE4make and wrote a bit about it bckl.gg/vG3M

LordDarias's review of Resident Evil 4 | Backloggd

Resident Evil 4 Remake was about what I expected from a modern remake to Resident Evil 4. I played it long enough to finish it, which is more than I can say for most Resident Evils Ive played, but a l...

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Whilst Im generally in favour of the whole "no/minimal visible loading screens" thing in action games of today it does make it pretty noticeable when you hit the next post processing volume and the screen changes colour abruptly like you've just crossed the US-Mexico border in Breaking Bad

Meds ran out during the weekend and I forgor to ask for another prescription on friday. Thankfully they're not like "deathspiral without em" type meds, more like "20% debuff to all your stats whilst not taking em" types so itll be a pretty lazy weekend filled with mood swings

LURRUNA is OUT NOW!!! ($9.99 USD) Play as Dafne in an explosive remix of arcade and Classicvania mechanics! Itch (includes Steam key) - pd-cgt.itch.io/lurruna Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/4315900/...

I know its not a fresh observation, but comparing the PS1 and N64 libraries is kinda dire, in both quantity and overall quality, and I say this as someone who doesnt even like a lot of PS1 games that are considered classics

"DS2 on low agility is unplayable, ADP is a bad mechanic" Yeah? Well I dont need any iframes to strafe, so I can dunk on the entire early game lol

Herbert@xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Roll addicts crumble in awe at the mighty UP AND TO THE RIGHT

Made a list of those games that really break the mold, for better and for worse. bckl.gg/vC1w

'Breaking the Mold : Most Unique Games' a list of games by LordDarias | Backloggd

Games that really do something new and different that makes you wonder how much untapped potential there still is to explore in gaming when you let go of certain common conventions Note that this does...

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Borges and Cortázar are truly impressive writers because they somehow wrote videogame stories before videogames were invented

Playing RE4make. So far its about what Id expect from a remake of RE4. Not sure I like these Rockstar esque movement physics, your inertia and turning radius feels quite "bumbling?", in contrast to OGs more rigid but absolutely precise tank movement. Also this is something I imagine most people

The best thing a political figure can do to ensure their legacy as a great leader/statesman etc is to do a couple great things and then to inmediately die or retire before they do something stupid and ruin it. Alexander the Great died at 32. Napoleon? Lived too long after Austerlitz

Some games would do well to mandate a further step of QA for each level called "visual clarity" where someone who hasnt played it has to (with HUD, map etc off) get through it whilst identifying the most important gameplay elements within it in a time limited manner. If every room has your tester

the mechanics-heads are getting to shine this week... celia and I both got articles featured in this week's critical distance! go give it a look!

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This week: Blades, Parades, Plays, Arcades: critical-distance.com/2026/07/26/j...

I do get that there's only a limited number of 2 word area names and that most of the good ones have been taken by previous Rain World base game and mod areas, but come on

The email I have linked to my steam account is an old ass shitty yahoo mail account I barely use for anything else and therefore rarely check, so I missed my dumbass steam controller purchase confirmation FFS. Couldnt it have notified me via Steam itself like everything else?! *sigh*

Yeah yeah that FSR thing is great Im sure but in more important news apparently an english patch for Brightis got released?! Ive been looking forward to playing it www.romhacking.net/translations...

I'm still not playing FSR btw.

I fell asleep and woke up WITHIN my dream! Thats some next level shit

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Its a seemingly ironclad rule of nature that the more fucked up your sleep cycle, the more vivid your dreams within

Guy on your steam friends list who IS legitimately just playing Space War(1962) for hours

Its a seemingly ironclad rule of nature that the more fucked up your sleep cycle, the more vivid your dreams within

Lungfish are cool

You thought I was done writing about Rain World? You naïve fool! Anyways here's some stuff about an expansion sized mod for Rain World called the Sunlit Trail. bckl.gg/vtbh

LordDarias's review of Sunlit Trail: Complete Edition | Backloggd

If you're a follower of mine, you might have thought I was done talking about Rain World. Fools! I'm never done talking about Rain World! After playing all the base game and DLC campaigns to death, I ...

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Guess Im sharing my #BackloggdWeekly. Mixed impressions overall lol. Sunlit Trail is a DLC sized mod collection for Rain World FYI

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Let's try something new with #BackloggdWeekly, share your last played games!

Its funny, reading about how short and brutal the lives of humans were in the past, especially before settled agriculture and the like always made me feel a bit sad, and lucky to have been born in this current age. But looking at the numbers, despite lasting from about 300,000 BCE to 10,000BCE, the-

Always fun playing a game for one hour, going "this shit sucks" and then checking althe backloggd reviews to see that all my mutuals gave it high scores. Thankfully im totally not insecure and remembered a key fact : everyone is stupid and wrong except me! (The game was "Keep Driving") Goodbye