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how 2 kill a fly

self-dubbed(by the author) as cyberpuke aesthetic.

short-ish game. approximately 1.5 hours. a little gimmicky but overall pretty fun with quirky characters. if you get tired of the main gimmick(which you might, but its still worth experimenting with), there's an assisted mode that highlights relevant text. the main gimmick is you're a flesh automaton slave who can only repeat what has been said to you. So if a guy says FILL SUCKZ to you, then you can say FILL SUCKZ to the next guy. Wish you could say more shit to people as otherwise its a straight forward puzzle game using context clues to figure out what to say to people. 6/10 game but was fun

>>47803
>self-dubbed(by the author) as cyberpuke aesthetic.
damn so cruelty squad is so influential it's now inspiring small aesthetic currents

I finished Bloodborne and then I bounced off mega hard from shadow tower abyss so I think I'm going to put off FromSoft games for a bit. Meanwhile I picked up a game I had also bounced from ages ago: Hitman World of Assassination and oh my god man, lowkey it might be a better game than MGS V? Once you really internalize that getting spotted is not a fail state and set it to master mode which forbids save scumming, it is insanely good to experiment with these carefully put together clockwork dioramas. It also feels really good to escape from a fuck up, and oh man I've never seen so much care and consideration being put into a game in like decades. What a game, man.

>>48128
WoA is pretty great, you should make a point to do all the escalations so as to really get into the meat and potatoes of the game's mechanics. For example, the Paris mission has one escalation where you gotta use a battle axe to kill three targets. The level has three stories, and each target is on one of those stories (ground floor, second floor, third floor). It can be a challenge to figure out how to kill them all without getting detected. The game doesn't outright tell you what to do, you have to use the tools available to make inferences and figure out what will be most efficient. It's almost like a puzzle, and the escalations are rather short, so it's the sort of thing you can pick up and put down at your leisure. They help you build meta knowledge so you can get the Silent Assassin rating on main missions and survive in other game modes like Freelancer. Cool game.

Sweet Home or Paper House in (chinese? idk if its mandarin or not) about a lesbian girl who has neglectful parents, straight best friend crush, pathetic BPD lumpen thief stalker(extremely lesbian) and weird and offputting apathetic and nihilist leaning college dropout and of course a tiny puppy. tw: violence suicide self harm and of course falling from the middle class angst. perfectly encapsulates me. would recommend all routes 8/10

>>45796
I just download using the magnets from dodi or fitgirl, if it's a ROM then I'll use the myrient magnet that's already on my torrent client

>>45486
This is not an advertisement, I use proton VPN and they give you a single port per connection and up to 5 connections, but it is a dynamic port, so you either need to configure your shit with gluetun or script it or manually change it every new connection. AirVPN offers 5 ports per connection but I haven't tried that. Mullvad offers NOTHING it's not very good for torrenting.

Oh you said free VPN, a free VPN that offers port forwarding doesnt exist, I looked, you're better off paying upfront proton with crypto

RIP
https://gog-games.to/

>>48133
there's like at least 5 backup sites doing the exact same thing chill out

>>47874 (me)
>Finishing this mode unlocks two boss characters, making for a total of 16 characters.
Correction: There is a third boss, Monster (again, you gotta play story mode for seeing that). But that one does not become playable. So 17 characters, of which 16 are playable.

>>47877 (me, posting again about that game because I'm a masochist)
MJ is a character that when crouching is invulnerable to many crouch attacks. But don't worry, everybody has some attacks that work on her lol. Everybody has an overhead and the overhead is… your throw move. Optically this doesn't make sense of course, but gameplay-wise this is actually better than not having an overhead. Blazing Strike is really a 3/10 game that could be a 7/10 with some simple bug fixes. As it is, it feels like a Mugen title and sadly the dev is busy working on the next game instead of fixing this (and his reputation).

>>38427
>melty blood actress again current code.
>Fate/Unlimited Codes
>touhou hisoutensoku
>J-stars victory vs ( 1vs1 with no assist. I am subhuman sorry)

Done.

I like Bloody Roar

Is there actually a single 2D fighting game out there with silhouette-based collision detection? I know 16-bit games of any genre have rectangular boxes all oriented in the same way because of technical limitations, modern games still have those because it's considered good enough and it's tradition.

I suppose with hand-drawn animation frames one can argue that collision zones must exceed the silhouette areas because of implied movement between animation frames. But for 2D gameplay with polygonal graphics and fluid movement this is not an issue. And even with hand-drawn 2D animation with big gaps between frames, more accurate collision detection could be done by computing invisible morph frames with corresponding collision data. The question is: Is there a point to this extra effort, would players even feel the difference? Maybe I was a stupid kid, but back then I did not notice that everything on the SNES was really a rectangle.

>>48118
yeah by raising the bar for upcoming mods, since people have more powerful tools for developing niche hobby software, you're so right bestie

this is who you're up against, sabiny. godspeed.

>>48121

he modding FO4 tho, i ain't touching that can o worms til there's a reason to play FO4 since Fallout London was a flop

>>48077
What group did you get btfo of?

>>48123

Another Millenia

>>48052
you'd have a much better life if you stopped making up people to get mad at
(hunting bluesky for one crazy person to validate your idea that "this person actually exists" is a form of making it up, just like we can already find your unwritten novel online in the library of babel if we look hard enough.)

>>48059
a much wider phenomenon is being discussed in that post, of SJWism and anti-SJWism as a whole, a conflict which predated and outlasted gamergate. it's replying to a post about the FBI distracting the occupy movement in 2011! learn to read!
>they identify social inequalities everywhere
sounds like a good trait to have! much better than ignoring them, handwaving them, and in the final result arguing they're natural and good.

maybe this is why SJWs realised all these inequalities were rooted in capitalism and became communists, while the anti-SJWs for the most part have pledged total fealty to god-emperor trump.

>>48062
>they identify social inequalities everywhere
>sounds like a good trait to have! much better than ignoring them, handwaving them, and in the final result arguing they're natural and good.
Imagine trying to problematize an inequality between someone who saved their money and invested it properly and someone who didn't do any of that, and being known for that bullshit because "fitness is fascism".

>>48063
I agree.

>>48064
I don't think any of the individuals involved wanted the publicity.

i was lurking one of their threads when the whole thing was starting and one of their biggest points was "redpilling normies about white genocide"

>>45494
Larger countries entirely crash my system that's running an i9 CPU.

I just picked up the game, with it being the final map game from paradox I've tried
Every time I try to get my economy going, construction sends me towards bankruptcy. Every time I try to change to a Republic, I get boned by a coup. When I don't, I get boned by revolution.
I haven't tried a great power yet, which I assume would help with the construction economic death.

>>48036
Paradoxes took the position of mensheviks-trotskyists - that communism is impossible to build through one state, there needs to be a world revolution. I wonder how much nonsense about "forced inustrialization built on bones and blood" will they put in their game

>>48079
“Workers of of the world unite” is not exclusive to mensheviks-trotskyists.

>>43929
>>43931
>>43932
Essentials are kind of a secondary stat from what I understand, there is a hidden mechanism that improves it based on other stats. So, competitiveness improves it for sure. Market coverage, competitiveness from sliders are a trap, it means you are essentially subsidizing those, not developing industries to provide competitiveness and market coverage, if it makes sense
There's also probably a hidden mod of aggregate quality of workers, education multiplied by healthcare and something else, which should be improving industries

Okay, I found the "90s slowdown" effect. For me, it's solved by unifying Soviet bloc economy, it gives 2x money from trade compared to previous level, but the decision is locked behind 250 price Brezhnev policy. Also, decreasing 40 hours week to 48 is pretty good, but you need to offset it by something like UBIncome.

Attachment to factories gives a decision to force +5% income and +3 powers monthly at the cost of healthcare for a year and 100 political power. Lowest level immigration policy gives a decision to import workforce, where you can choose either +3 powers +competitiveness and something else, OR -3 corruption and -3 forgery monthly, or quick fix to radical opposition -3 monthly. These two decisions can save your run easily

Filling Aral sea with Russian rivers gives NOTHING. Very sad, you just get a malus forever, no transformation of nature ot make the land green, no decision to dig channel to the Caspian sea to connect Siberia to the Soviet navigable river network, no nothing. Very ahistorical realization of the 1948 idea!

And early game forgery + corruption solution is Soviet democracy law (opposite of personal dictatorship). It flatly gives 3 and 3 reduction to both

I have no fucking clue how to speed up the wars, though. Iran war is just stuck at 87% in favor of Iran, and that's it. Afghanistan has miraculously ended in 1991, despite me putting every decision on

Oh, and also, for the next run, I'll try to move breznev policy up once to unify SEZ for maximum profits, then two policies down by 1989 (or what was it when you can sign friendship treaty?) to befriend China and drag them into SEZ by the ear. And then hopefully force them to switch sides in all wars

And also France. Man, diplomacy in this game is stupid because it's event driven

>>43453
First game had disaster tied to ecology level, IIRC. In this one, it's probably either money getting put into research (160 accoridng to the guide) or modernizing reactors through science? In any case, reactor science is pretty great for speeding up other research

Okay, I think I get it now why there's such wonkiness with economics

When I switched from authoritarian parliament to soviet democracy, from +8 to -25 political power, Instead of losing 33 political power of a total income of like 150 per turn, instead I got into -100 range. Meaning that there are multipliers in play - pluses/minuses in budget screen are not +0.05 or something but rather +5%

Say, I had 400 state expenditures, meaning 80 pluses, meaning that if one plus is equal to 5%, +400% to political power, meaning instead of a 33 drop I got like 132 drop. There are other ++political power places to get to 250 total, but you get the idea. So, republics loyalties flipping from +1 to -3 political power randomly hits you quite hard on higher budgets

So, there are two questions for this kind of a system, if it indeed works like this: 0 base income or what happens when you go below 1 to -1, and going from 100% to 0% and 0% to -100%.

Depending on how it works, it might be actually beneficial to stack as much positive or negative base income, and then fix it with budget. Say, if you have +2 corruption and you get 20 minuses to corruption then it would be equivalent to -1 corruption base income without pluses or minuses. Essentially, 100 in state expenditures might be worth as much as a full -3 corruption base modifier. I'll need to try a full authoritarian and a full democratic runs to test this shit out, but it makes sense to me with how game behaves. Though, pluses probably get less than 5% effect when there's a lot of them and this malus gets listed as overgrowth effect (or whatever it's called in english) in the tooltip

Okay, my final AAR (i swear)

1990s slump is due to game having a hard limit on industrial output. It's probably around 100 for each industry, modified by "+25% to industry incomes" mods. You just won't get any improvement beyond that, and that's why there's a slump. When that happens, you can earn some pennies by fighting corruption, but better approach is to either unify SEZ, solidify republics with a law (requires high loyalties of everyone), or get into taking over Africa and South America for trade deals

Market share and competitiveness are really important. Dropping service industries to zero at the start like in the guide is a working strategy, but eventually you need to hike that back up to 100 to get a better market share

Beyond a certain market share threshold, you replace dollar with ruble as a world reserve currency, and you get a x3 modifier to every country's trade i.e. you get triple the income from trade. Maybe the amount of countries in SEZ matters also, but I doubt it. This is how you get to 4000+ GDP as USSR, too, the levels USA has at the start

The best economic strategy is to advance science. That's about it. You have hard caps on mechanical improvements, you have no way to improve meaningfully except for events and science decisions

500 reserve demand for better relations from policies doesn't matter for active help and world revolution foreign policies. It matters for sucking up to Westoids, though. You also CANNOT have both good relations with the West and have good influence on the rest of the world, even if you spend ~1000 on diplomacy, you STILL cannot win over Europeans without proper state policies. Without proactive diplomacy stance on world revolution, don't even bother influencing Mexico, you'll spend a lot of resources for nothing

Europeans do offer a good trade, but they are kind of unnecessary. I have no idea how to get them out of American sphere without destroying USA first, though. You'd need to support communists from the start of the game at the very least. France had a path with supporting gaullists/far-right that made them leave NATO in the first game, but here I dunno, decision's not shown from the start. It probably does still exist. It seems like France gets a USA military base if centrists win, or maybe at a certain date. They do this without an event, so I have no idea when this happens. French sphere of influence depends on influence points you give therm bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Wooh game got some nice updates this year

I will not play the vanilla game at all and will possibly only get it when it gets some mods

>>47961
>I bet socialism and communism are going to be entirely absent from any of this of course
Probably but i am sure I read that they said this game will have their most advanced modding support yet, I bet some very interesting mods could come for this game, as someone who enjoys modding myself i am looking forward to it.
HOpe somebody does Europe, which i'd rather play in as a setting, but i'm not looking forward to a paradox-brained Europe mod, with the expected allusions to the Holy Roman Empire and a bunch of meme shit.

>>48037
anon that is a different game

>>47961
Maybe it will be like "christian socialism" since the game wants to do le epic schizo religious ideologies

>>47363
a capitalist is a person who owns means of production and exploits workers. people like being capitalist because it makes them a lot of money. a capitalist is not simply a worker who "believes capitalism is the best system". that's called false consciousness.

>>47324
>caring about physical media
This is childish discourse. DRM is what should be talked about. For fucking decades physical releases have meant jack shit. So many physical games require online authentification and in today's age with the normalizing of half-ass releases and "redemption-arcs" so many games on release will be updated coutless time, having a physical 1.0 copy just doesn't make much sense unless publishers just want to make some extra coin off collectionists via fomo.

Crack a final version of a game to make it drm free, put it on a disk or portable drive. There you go, physical media. Hell, for a little extra money pay someone on etsy to make you a replica or custom box/case. The outcry for physical media is the outcry for corporate handholding. We don't need the corpos to enjoy games.

sony just cancelled the kojima game physint and i'm starting to suspect that the ps6, if it ever gets released, will be a portable console.

like it makes perfect sense, people actually don't expect portable mini pcs to support physical media, i'd like to see the people currently protesting staying true to their cause when sony releases a AAA-gaming "hybrid" console, in fact many people protesting will perform incredible sony apologetics if that happens.

>>47501
Yes, DRM is the problem. Every game should just be a file that you run. No more launchers, no anti-cheat.

>>48053
The next step is making games in portable VM formats like Z-code. Electron apps don't count!

Sokoban clone Kwirk on the original Game Boy. (You shove around various shapes, not just boxes. There are holes you shove things into to walk over them, there are things that rotate 90° when you brush against, and there are levels where you control two people. That's pretty much it.) And Baba Is You', which I classify as half a Sokoban, half something else.

I'm also moderately excited about gigadouche Jonathan Blown's next game, Order of the Sinking Star.

>>48048 (me)
I fashion myself a gifted thinker and puzzle solver, yet here I stand with trousers down in public committing errors in basic formatting.

we are charlie kwirk. i've yet to play jonathan blowhard's the witness, maybe this weekend.