50% (or more) of the content they will be releasing going forward will be IP tie-ins.

To me it mostly comes down to just three things that give the roguelike experience. There needs to be permadeath, there needs to be some kind of clock (traditionally hunger) that encourages messy solutions and exploration, and the player needs a lot of tools (inventory) to be able to come up with creative solutions to problems. A lot of these action roguelikes are mostly lacking in giving the player a lot of tools and encouraging them to experiment, they are a lot more like build slot machines that are mostly about good physical execution and understanding basic synergies. These games are still fun but not really the same vibe as a classic roguelike. But a realtime roguelike can be done, I’d argue Barony is just that.

Sourdough with chunky peanut butter, ground mustard, and aioli.

I’d argue memorizing it is the natural way, at least if you work with numbers a lot. Think about how a typist can type a seven letter word faster than a string of seven random characters. Is that not good proof that we have pathways in our brain that short circuit simpler procedural steps?

Lord Kill The Pain

It takes a village to raise a child, not a “mother” and “father” specifically. I do not idolize the hetero nuclear family.

Your internal gender didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree.

Explain how they make money buying property?

Landlords inflate prices of property.

Turns out having a value proposition beyond “we bundled a lot of software together that you can get on any distro” has allure.

Most politicians in the West don’t actually care about humanitarian issues in China. That has almost nothing to do with why we don’t play nice.

Same energy (hah) as a corporate venn diagram.

The liver is one of the most complex organs in the human body. It is responsible for a wide spectrum of toxin breakdown and chemical synthesis. The heart only needs to pump blood, though it’s uptime is very impressive. If your liver stops working you won’t die immediately but if your heart stops working your body will be starved of oxygen in mere minutes. Ultimately though what the heart does is mechanical and simple.

Hair tie. I always have 1, or 2, or 3 in my pocket.

What vegan thinks you can turn a cat vegan? That’s like thinking you can turn a cat hegelian or something.

You’re asking the wrong question.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_United_States

We are allergic to exploiting great solutions that already exist. Everyone wants to be “disruptive”.

It reminds me of the investment that went into hyperloop stuff when our current best transit solutions aren’t anywhere close to full saturation in the US. Similarly our current best green technologies are far from being fully exploited.

I don’t need the acrimonious screeds of a racist incel to tell me how language should function. I communicate daily, in English, both on and offline, and have yet to witness this breakdown of communication you’re decrying.

Call me crazy but I mess my fries up and eat them with a fork.

I wouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Following aesthetic trends is just being savvy, it’s not necessarily compensating for something.