Cigarette_comedian [he/him]

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Cake day: March 13th, 2023

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  • Yes! The second of the Edgeworth games is one of the best in the series in my opinion, leagues ahead of the game before it. edgeworth-smug Though, I played the fan translated version of the DS release, so the remake is bound to have some writing differences, I assume. Excellent game, thoroughly recommend.

    Now, The Great Ace Attorney games, I wish I could have a more solid basis of recommendation, but as of writing I am on the final case of the first game. So with a grain of salt, I’d say that TGAA is also an excellent addition to the series. The mysteries are interesting, the characters fun (Looking at you, Herlock Sholmes) and the gimmicks non-overbearing. Also there’s a jury, have fun convincing a bunch of racist Londoners into believing a Japanese law student over the prosecutor with “Lord” in his title. Yes, do play them if you enjoyed the original trilogy and AJ.



  • A whole lot of Anbennar.

    Arg-Ôrdstun is fun if you like a whole lot of noble rebels, assuming direct control of Aul-Dwarov, being completely out of touch and creating a monopoly of precious gems. Its certainly more fun than Orlghovar, whole thing was kind of a let down tbh, a whole lot of pain for some fairly strong buffs, but nothing quite worth the effort. Though my baseline of “strong buffs” is Ovdal Kanzad.

    And the only other country to impress me was Feiten with its crazy modifiers (+6 movement speed to fleets? You can sail around the world in 4 months! Don’t forget to click “the funny decision” to instantly win any siege with your special merc comapny.) I should play Feiten again.







  • Personally, I have been hooked on Kittens Game. Now, fair warning, it does contain a modicum of anticommunism, in the way you can research the cultural tech ‘socialism’ with the description “does nothing”. That’s it.

    Now as for the game, you develop a civilization of kittens, keep them fed and they gather resources. You spend resources to gather and store more resources to reinvest into science and culture production. Then you start getting workshops, steam engines to auto-craft advanced materials, synergizing buildings, power management, foreign relations, trading, discovering new civilizations, extracting oil and uranium, happiness management, pollution levels, space exploration, praising the sun, sacrificing unicorns, and more that I have to reach after many many hours of clicking buttons.

    https://kittensgame.com/ui/















  • At age 13, sitting at the dinner table late one afternoon with my older sibling explaining socialism and subsuquently starting my journey to become a communist

    Quite young, probably 7 or so. On a little gravel shore by a lake, my family were fishing, but I was too busy setting sticks as ladders up against a flat rockface, recreating the opening scene with the roman invasion of Astrix & Obelix in Britain

    Crete, having walked way too far with my grandma, I was probably 9 or so, drinking out of an ice-filled bottle in probably 30C heat, getting ready to turn around and go back to the hotel

    A specific angle from my first childhood bed, room only lit up by the glow of my lamp, I see my closet and a box of toys, probably one of my first core memories


  • Earthbound can be a real piece of shit, everybody knows the clunky and limited inventory is a pain in the ass, and it is completely true. Furthermore, the story, while good, lacks a lot of personality building for the main cast of characters, which is funny cause every npc has amazing dialouge. While the lack of character building doesn’t harm the ending overall, it certainly does not hit as hard as Mother 1 or 3’s endings, due to them actually taking a few moments to flesh out the main cast of heroes at several points.

    Total War: Empire, a buggy mess that likes to crash in the late game. Unfinished, AI is illogical in both diplomacy and a lot of battle tactics (Which makes the few times they pull a clever maneuver incredibly surprising) and nearly requires modding to be playable, either through script edits or from installing overhauls.

    EU4: Now this is one I haven’t thought of much, but there certainly are many flaws to find in this one. First off, 93% of the gameplay is just finding buttons to press with the right timing, that’s it. The DLC’s have mostly been focused around adding more buttons to press. Powercreep has been a real issue, like how Spain will have colonized most of Oregon and Alaska before a Russia player can even hope to have gotten to East Siberia. Many intended paths require RNGesus to smile upon you, and whose alternative requirements can be very difficult to achieve in comparison. (So many MP games of my friends grumbling over many such cases.) And, despite being an 11 year old game, some regions are still not very fleshed out. India and parts of the Americas lack flavour and content. And of course, the UI can be a bit inscrutable at times, with a few features hidden away or poorly explained, like the macrobuilder diplo screen. And yeah yeah, the DLC policy is terrible as it locks out critical features behind a paywall, which has only been partially fixed with updates and working older DLC into the base game.