Maybe try Shaman, it’s pretty different from his other stuff. Although I’m pretty biased, I love every KSR book I’ve read.

I’m most of the way through 1 right now, and I love how much this remaster is showing how far ahead of their time these games were.

The redone controls aren’t perfect, but make the game a less daunting prospect than ever before. I prefer the old-school graphic settings, but it’s nice to hotswap to the new camera when I need the flexibility.

It’s an 8/10 remaster in my opinion; well worth a playthrough.

They’ve hired a PR firm to address, in the firm’s words, the problem of “How did the world’s greatest love story in Jesus become known as a hate group?”

More like how did “my dad’s gonna torture you forever unless you believe this hogwash” turn into “the world’s greatest love story?”

That’s why I switched to accordion.

That game was janky, but also so much fun.

What happens when the bird lands on the dog’s eyes and scratches it? How confident are you that the dog won’t give a warning nip?

Furthermore, mammal saliva is toxic to birds. This is stupid in more ways than one.

I noticed you still didn’t give an example.

Oh, I’d love to know which extreme left wing politics have gone unchecked.

I bet it’s “treating LGBTQ people as humans worthy of dignity.” That really seems to piss off conservatives.

It only takes one time being surprised.

It’s always a risk. Would you want your best friend to go into a polar bear enclosure alone even if the bear had never mauled anyone or acted like it wanted to?

It’s never worth the risk if you value the little bird’s life.

Many professional trainers believe that hard mouth can be a hereditary affliction. When selecting a puppy, by all means check out the parents first. Still, there is really no surefire way to tell if a dog is going to be predisposed to damaging birds once it grows up. That part likely falls in the luck-of-the-draw department. There are, however, precautions you can take while training your retriever puppy that may help prevent the dog from developing hard mouth. Common sense applies in most cases.

I mean, they’re literally bred to grab birds.

Please don’t do this.

A dog has a very strong predator instinct, and one little bite is all it takes to kill the budgie very painfully.

It looks very cute, but it’s a recipe for disaster.

Those are some good points, I think we agree more than not. I was a bit sloppy with my language, too so thanks for the check.

This is a word game that cryptofascists play; they’re quite open about using it to recruit people.

They love the plausible deniability, because it makes people who don’t know about the word game think the people who do are being ridiculous.

Was this a false positive? Perhaps. Is the game worse off for changing the name away from a fascist dog-whistle? I don’t know, it looks pretty terrible in any case.

Regardless, there are ways for a company to make it clear that they are not fascists even if they want to stick to their name. Maybe you’re right and we should just ignore the cryptofascist messaging game, but that just presents more problems in my opinion.

So would it change your mind if Holocaust victims were calling MAGA a fascist movement?

Nothing better than chili or miso ramen.

Well, that was back when Windows was handcrafted by artisans in the silicon valley and packed lovingly onto organic floppy disks.

They just don’t make 'em like they used to, with excellence in every byte.

I hope it lasts even after the docs are published.

I’ve never looked at a pelican the same way since I saw one swallow a seagull in one gulp.

Absolutely.