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basement community turns 2!!! check out the anniversary thread for some updates and come say hi! thanks everybody for posting here and have a good holiday season

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joined dec 4, 2022

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joined dec 4, 2022

@EnclaveCommsOfficer I was always a Pinsir person myself, even though you could argue it's the inferior bug. I just think it's cooler. I've never played but also looks like you might have access to Heracross, which is the GOAT

Also how come no Blastoise yet?

posted 10/29/2024, 7:04 pm

joined nov 4, 2024

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joined nov 4, 2024

ooh fallout 2 posters! i started going through it about a year ago and was really enjoying it but for some reason i also forgot i was playing it after a while lol. should probably come back to it sooner than later, seems like an important game to experience.

other than that, i've been playing lots of Against the Storm and Lost Branch of Legend lately. First is a kind of roguelite colony builder, and its probably the best balanced game on earth. Every settlement feels like it's on the brink of disaster, but you can usually manage to pull through just by the skin of your teeth. Lbol is a Touhou flavored Slay the Spire clone, and it's so well made i have no words. Everything that makes STS great, 5 colored mana mechanic from MtG, bunch of its own little ideas and all of that balanced really well and only getting better as development goes on.

also tried Moonring recently. it's kind of similar to Ultima or Rogue and has a pretty interesting dialogue/knowledge mechanic, fun dungeon crawling and all that good stuff. Very very neat, and was released for free! Didn't put too much time into it yet, but it's pretty high on my list of stuff to get through.

posted 11/4/2024, 2:43 pm

joined feb 16, 2023

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joined feb 16, 2023

quoting starbreaker:

Every corporation is a private dictatorship. At least Nintendo is honest about it. And at least their management seems the type to fall on their swords instead of immediately resorting to layoffs if they fuck up badly enough. Can't say that about any American corp.

That is a fair point. Nintendo's higher ups have always taken the blame for bad choices and poor performance rather than just appeasing the share holders with a quick round of lay-offs.

A big part of Nintendo's issue that they tend to let the lawyers take a little too much control. I get that lawyers are generally just defending their properties but it can be far too agressive in their cause.

I think the issue comes from is that Sega could very much act in the same fashion as Nintendo but chooses not too.

posted 11/8/2024, 9:42 am

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