Yeah that one was made into a real game in the molyjam, or whatever the game jam based on that twitter was.
You play as the road, and the cars racing on it have ever shifting emotional states depending on how they're doing.
I'll see if I can dig up a link
Yeah, admittedly I did play the originals on release so nostalgia is certainly a factor for me. I did have the thought "maybe it's a licensing issue?" Until I realized the tracks are still in the game, just only if you're using classic visuals. I would have liked the ability to shift between classic/remastered visuals and audio separately (though I think with the remastered cutscenes at least, this wouldn't have been an option)
May be worth noting that, for the licensed music, in the game it's all instrumental versions, regardless of whether the track has lyrics or not. Searching for the tracks online will probably provide versions with lyrics where applicable.
If you're enjoying ARK, that's the game palworld was inspired by, they're extremely similar. Personally I found that palworld was much more respectful of my time, whereas ARK wanted me to play it like a full time job if I wanted to have any dinosaurs.
The improved graphics look great for H2A, especially cutscenes, but it always bummed me out that it also changes the soundtrack. The original OST is just worlds better, with works from known artists (Incubus, Hoobastank, Breaking Benjamin), and the new music is just much more generic and mid.
I've been playing Tactics Ogre Reborn and just got to act 4 and.... Man I really want to enjoy this game, but it's difficult, and the board is rarely even in a way that's frustrating.
For example, casters are clearly stronger than martial units, but they need mp. Pretty typical. But, during combat your units can pick up cards that give buffs like increased mp generation or increased activation of automatic skills (which do things like generate mp, cause buffs/debuffs, one of them fully doubles healing done for the turn). I like the card system, somewhat, because it pressures you to move up as opposed to bottlenecking and defending set points whenever possible. But, once you're a little way into the game, enemy casters come in with four cards, one of increased magic damage, one of increased auto skill proc, two of mp regeneration. Now your casters are weak as shit and need to run to the front lines to get the buffs necessary to cast high level spells more than once every few turns, while the enemy casters are goddamn artillery pieces that can attack from across the entire map. Your martials need to run through artillery fire and break through enemy tanks to target the back line (oops there are skills that tanks have that restrict movement so you have to kill them) and your casters can't cast more than once every handful of turns, and can't consistently benefit from the "your spells have longer range" auto skill, so in some fights you're just beholden to rng of your enemy skills procing and cards you want/need showing up in places your casters can access without ending in a meat grinder.
It's the kind of game I wish I had a friend who had beaten it a couple times to give me advice on. I'm open to looking up builds and strats online, but since it's a remake of a game that was originally on SNES and then PSP, a lot of balance changes have occurred and sometimes you'll find a forum post going on about how good xyz build is, only to later find someone else remarking "oh yeah that worked amazingly on the PSP version but it doesn't work at all anymore"
While your take is generally valid, Americans defaulting on car loans is one of the biggest events indicating oncoming recession. Since so many Americans need their cars to work, they only lose them when things are getting bad
I strongly recall hearing he was leaving after Ninja Gaiden 2 and thinking "how much of a difference could one insane pervert make?"
Then NG3 came out and felt like a mashy mess that never hooked me at all. Real shame he was doing such harm.
RIP you insane pervert.
I finished doing all the everything in Hades 2 and moved on to another, much weirder roguelike, BAZR, a mod of Super Mario 64 which makes it a roguelike deckbuilder. Great game and easy recommend, but time bonuses make it hard to suggest to anyone who hasn't played a lot of the original already
If the housing market crashes, unfortunately, it won't be good for anyone good. Last time it crashed in 2008 it led to a historic high loss of, I want to say, 20%, which is a ton, but if you couldn't afford a down payment before, that kind of drop won't change that, plus, last time, lenders to individuals were reticent to lend because of the ensuing economic downturn.
In the end, it just meant that private equity and other investors bought up a shitload more of the housing market and it became even more consolidated.
Damn. I really thought this was from Darkwatch, a very weird 2005 shooter where you play as a vampire cowboy. I have fond memories, but, given the timeframe, couldn't say whether it's good or worth playing today
To hammer home how your "just stop buying coffee" attitude on poverty today is bonkers, lets run the math on today. Average 6% returns over 40 years with the $10 a month you said. Over 40 years, with the power of compound interest and $10 a month ($120/year, 4800 total), you end up with, ta-da! $15,000. This is not a retirement fund.
I read the article. Bro, that dude started investing following the stock market crash of the great depression with an initial investment of ~$2500, equivalent to about $60k today.
That's not $10. That's $60k which was then invested over 80 years starting at the lowest point in the history of the market and going into the postwar economic miracle of the US in WW2.
This is not a reasonable comparison, even a little. Average returns today are a tiny fraction of what this guy saw in his lifetime, and he was able to put down an amount that is nearly the median household income in the US today. If someone can put down a years wages into the stock market then they're already financially stable. Nearly a third of Americans have less than $1k in savings. Not to mention, for most of the working class today, if you have $60k to throw around, it would be a better financial strategy to use that as a down payment on a house than put it into the market.
Let's do the math. For baby boomers, I have average returns since 1970. An average of 10% a year. As a reminder, this is MARKEDLY LOWER (we'll get there) than what your example saw in his lifetime. You're right! Even investing $60 a month ($720 a year) over 40 years ($28,800 total) makes you a cool half a mil at that rate. HOWEVER. At today's rates, an average return of 6.1% means you would need to invest almost 5x as much, $250 a month ($3000 a year) to reach the same amount in 40 years ($120,000 total). Meanwhile, your example lived through times where returns were, at times, on average, over 40% a year. On average. While that wasn't the market state for his whole life, it WAS the state not long after he started investing. If you could get those numbers comsistently, it would take less than $1 a month over 25 years to make half a million dollars.
A handful of friends and I went DEEP on this way back. My strongest recollection is having an agonizing time on mother brain. Can't recall one way or another whether I finished it
Yeah he also went on to admit that hyperloop was a deliberate misdirect to draw funding away from other rail and other public transit projects, since, you know, he's the ceo of a car company
Ooh "Good Game, Bad Sequel" will ALWAYS make me think Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. It's a GREAT game, but it's not a banjo kazooie game.