every video game dev team should be forced to ask themelves, “would our game be better if we cut out the entire tutorial and just dropped the player into the map with everything unlocked at the start?” before releasing. i want to like Pokemon ZA (got it for Christmas) but it’s doing everything in it’s power to prevent that.

The industry has spent millions on hiring psychologists to figure this shit out instead of making games more fun.

introducing my new ETF NSDR

it exclusively trades on suspicious stock market activity by government officials.

cyclizar evolution where it grows a sidecar

CA has an approved pistols list that they use as a catch all to keep this kind of stuff out. Would be very funny if it were allowed though, it’d pair perfectly with my Garand.

American spaceflight isn’t going anywhere, it’s just in the process of being privatized.

yeah the weasely language stuck out to me too. They technically claimed that the invasion and kidnapping of Venezuela’s President was a “law enforcement” action, so if any invasion happens I would be willing to bet that they’d say the exact same shit. “We’re going after the cartels, and Sheinbaum is the most notorious cartel leader since el Chapo”, etc.

Currently at a 9% chance (CW: Gambling site)

Do you feel the same way about professional sports? If so then we just disagree but if you put esports in a different category then that’s a contradiction you need to examine.

fuck Gamers and everything but cheating and lying are still bad so

i liked it. about as subtle as a mallet to the brain, but they say you gotta meet your audience where they are.

I dunno which thing got spoiled for you, but I’ll say that there are multiple things

like and share this video with someone who is interested in using the bible to analyze final fantasy ten

not a phrase I was expecting to hear, tbh

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that feeling of accomplishing one thing in the morning and feeling completely drained like you’ve been working all day

The year is 2027. The world as we know it is unraveling after fifteen years of economic meltdown and widespread global conflict over dwindling natural resources. A once proud America has fallen, her infrastructure shattered and military in disarray.

large lady

wishing i had tortillas right now

Pykrieg can now play full local games!

Pykrieg is a python engine for playing Guy Debord’s Le Jeu de la Guerre (A Game of War), it can be downloaded for free and played from the terminal with these commands (assuming you already have python 3.8 or higher on your system):

linux/mac users:

pip install pykrieg

windows users:

pip install pykrieg[console]

playing the game:

python -m pykrieg.console

The next step for me is implementing an AI opponent, then cleaning everything up to make the engine more usable. The intent is that you can use it kind of like python-chess, where you let the engine handle validating all of the game logic and build your own UI and stuff around it, so I’ll make a separate program that demonstrates that functionality with some royalty free music and simple graphics, then the last thing I’ll add is the ability to define custom maps, units, and rules.