Why is everybody saying slay the spire pioneered the genre when it’s a clone of others?

The same way you fix a car, first you figure out what’s wrong, then you fix it.

I gave up on DoDonPachi. Same thing, 20 years of just grinding and sticking with it, even did the classic “final final true boss has one hit point and I choke” move.

Now I’m 49, my reactions will never be what they were when I was younger, the dream is over.

It’s like you didn’t read the article, and are specifically focusing on a one-dimensional argument while you can conveniently ignore the greater issues at play.

Go and read your own comments, in fact go read the article, and please try to come back with some meaningful thoughts.

It’s also a half finished, borderline empty, mechanically broken, quest broken, AI broken game.

I know people love the combat, and that won me over as well - it’s about as good as you can get. The rest is basically dog shit in my opinion.

I’m not going to elbow drop Owlboy, but I think you should try it within the refund window because in my opinion it’s way overhyped, and does not deliver much mechanically.

When you show up to drop a video and ask for donations, you’re not adding anything to the community, you’re leveraging it for selfish gain. Therefore, spam. I’m not going to encourage this behavior by watching or engaging with the video.

Spam

I can log on to anybody’s computer in the world, install Steam, and have full access to my entire game library.

I can make almost anybody I know (with limits) a “family member” and share my library.

I can stream my games from my computer to my phone.

My steam deck lets me play my entire library anywhere.

I see no personal benefit to using physical media anymore.

I guess a disclaimer would be that I trust Valve but you truthfully, I don’t trust all game companies/vendors.

Oh there’s lots I have to set the record straight about and there’s lots I could talk about, but without being asked a specific question that would just leave me to write an open-ended essay and I’m not up for it right now

Certainly, I’m always happy to share with inquisitive minds.

Is there any particular question you’d like me to address?

Squarez Deluxe.

License was changed to Freeware and it’s one of my all time favorite DOS games.

I spent 20 years as a producer, developer, and project manager in the lottery and games industry.

Trying to explain how lottery and games work to people and have them hear me makes me want to cry.

720 streams run from strange websites in timbucktoo have higher fidelity than the 4K stream I paid good money for.

Here’s a great price and you can share it with your friends. Wait not those friends. Wait your phone isn’t authorized anymore. Okay you authorized your phone but you need to authorize it again. Okay we just doubled the price and cut the quality again. Now you can’t watch the movies that you downloaded for offline viewing without an internet connection. Now your ad-free service has ads.

Netflix can take a long hard suck on my pudding factory, they’re never going to see another penny of my money again, and this is from somebody that goes back to the DVD days of Netflix.

Not quite on topic but I miss one thing from Llamatron. When you paused it showed a small icon of a toilet or a cigarette.

Hell no.

In 1980s I used to have to go to Adventure Games in downtown Winnipeg to pay $50 for a mediocre (at best) game on two floppies.

In today’s money, it would be about the equivalent of $150 plus tax.

When you consider how much pleasure and value we get from a modern game, we’re actually paying the less thana 1/10th what we used to, per hour played.

I played ER 3x no-wiki… I am fine with a decent break, it will hopefully make the new content that much more savoury

The home version of pong when I was 4 years old.

My friend’s dad owned a small local cable station so he had access and money to get all the latest crap.

I remember he also had a brand new beta max, and I was just this innocent 4 or 5 year old kid and I was asking why the time was flashing and the adults didn’t know. So I just walked up and programmed it. They praised me as being a literal genius and I was like you idiots It’s just a fucking clock.

No you’re not curious lol You’re doing textbook sea lioning

Go find someone else to mildly anmoy

I think its a fair question from a certain perspective.

However, the law requires that the package contents contain at least as much as stated. If humidity is an issue, it’s up to the manufacturer to factor that in. Besides, this is dry pasta my friend.

I also bought salami. It was 13 g short. It’s produced in the plant 4km from me.

There are no excuses to short the customer and it is illegal.