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"i've won" too. i approve.

https://extrasolar.com

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― Karl Malone, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:18 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

holy fucking jesus how is this not the post of the year

Probably been mentioned somewhere already, but Dead Space is free on origin at the mo : https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/buy/dead-space-ANW.html

http://game.notch.net/drowning

jeez that's disturbing

yup that ranks pretty high on the depresso-meter *slash*

CARDINAL QUEST 2

yes, great ^^

http://shimage.net/one-tap-quest/

3rd go = Game Clear, Score 13700

17300 and i got a dragon on the way thru, booyah

very important to get the beer

it can be done without the beer, tho it helps, but if it's in a bad place it's not worth pursuing

19100. i got the beer and a lot of other shit.

17900

don't think it's gonna do anything surprising but dammit

14000 low level victory

beerless win 13600

20800 and no exciting new features so cobblers to this

15700 but I don't think I really got it. Like, I guess it's okay but, eh...

after 20 seconds i beat it with a score of 19,200

i feel empty

20200 with beer

No depth, but a fun spin on Pachinko

it's ogre battle with less restarting

I love when I have the perfect scenario setup for a good run, then I hit the first green thing.

http://euclidthegame.org/Level1.html

I think I've seen someone do this before?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/641066

http://www.molleindustria.org/to-build-a-better-mousetrap/ Cute, not much depth, nice 'idea.'

feel like the message is at odds w the mechanics but, what do i know

So I guess the message is you can't win - you try to make it go with more workers, you can't afford it, and if you try to modernize / improve your tech / use automatons revolution happens anyway

u click the clock, somehow it gets ok

comme irl

you can win tho

i got an 8192

i mean the message it teaches is that if you have capital you are right to think that everyone is against you, that your workers are shiftless idiots who will always demand more, that the public are idiots whose wants are tailor made for programmed redundancy , that you are within your rights to use yr influence with govt. to reduce the rights of the populace. this game is worse at politics than theme park

the dancing mice are cute tho I guess?

I read it in totally the opposite direction? Note that the 'boss' is a mouse until you drag it to the top and it becomes cattish? And if you lose the results are basically utopia, with production automated and all mice well-fed at last? I may have missed the government-influence mechanics though...

i meant putting mice in jail

my claim is that the ending sequence is at odds with the story the mechanics tell, and that since this is, allegedly, a game, the latter is more important

also lol that it is harder to make a reasonable profit and retire than bring about a technocratic socialist utopia, thanks for that guy

so how do you win that game?

Ah okay, I see. Well, that's fair - the only thing I could offer is that it's a short game, probably meant to be played 1-2 times, so it can operate more like a joke-with-punchline: All along, you were identifying with the bad guys! Whereas if it were a longer thing and you were struggling for hours to better and better exploit the workers, then maybe that would be more uncomfortably dissonant? I mean, this is probably meant to operate as a stripped-down parody/critique of sim games where you really do spend hours/days building the company and reveling in satisfaction as your screen fills up with productive little workstations (that is, as you exploit people more and more thoroughly). The end of WarGames works because Tic Tac Toe doesn't take very long to play or understand. If it was actually as elaborate and consequential as Global Thermonuclear Warfare, it wouldn't be much use as a rhetorical device. Not saying it's great art or anything.

I couldn't figure out how to consistently put mice in jail (sometimes I had the option, sometimes not) or really do anything with the 'police cat.'

On another topic, I sunk a few hours into Westerado the other day - http://games.adultswim.com/westerado-action-online-game.html - before getting frustrated and walking away. There's some lovely art and the core of a cool game there...going around, gathering clues, visiting different places, filling in the map, picking up subquests from people. But it's just a little too brutal in its "get it right the first time" mechanics: there's permadeath and it's wayyy to easy to screw things up or do them out of order (once you've let all the buffalo loose for one quest, how are you supposed to talk to the ranchers for another one?). If it took less time to do everything you could just keep breezing through and trying to refine your game each time.

wait, you put mice in jail?

Well this was fun
http://sortieenmer.com/?lang=en

Oh god. That's worse when you play it well.

Wait, you didn't give up?

Well, I'm pretty sure you can't win. But the first time I failed in about two seconds b/c I was working out how to scroll without a scroll wheel. The second time... was a bit more harrowing.

yup

just clicked on my cookie clicker tab for the first time in several months and i have 84,233,891,392,408,379,892,793,002,392,811 cookies!!!!!!!!

just kidding but it would be really neat if someone did that

and after the funeral i noticed dad's laptop was still on and there was a tab open...

...suddenly i flashback to the wake and dad's utterly destroyed fingertip on his right index finger, bloodied with broken scabs. it is becoming clear...

haha I "played" this again this spring, "made it a lot further"

not really enough " " to talk about this tbh