I've always been intimidated to try Costco cafe food (just got a membership a few months ago), but with praise like this I'll need to try it out.

I think another factor is Steam natively recommends games you own for nominations for these categories. Likely the real innovative games didn't sell nearly as well as Ark did.

To your point, Ark was like crack to people that wanted a more approachable Tarkov

I do not know anything about Silent Hill F, so I can't speak to that one. Larion does keep putting out patches, so that plus just how many people still play BG3 I understand.

I agree with you on the innovative category being a weird choice. Ark was good, but there were way more innovative games.

I may be missing something here. Which award were you expecting another outcome?

With this incentive structure becoming more normalized in tech, I've never felt more like cattle in my years of work like I do now. Just being saved for the right rainy day stock increase 🫠

I think one of the contributors to this difference is just how our generation was blasted with advertisements/commercials, as well as way merchandise to buy, compared to our parents generation. It planted in us really early to attach ourselves to a brand/IP.

My parents were like this as well. I think part of it is that their generation was on such a more standard timetable of life events, and were judged more harshly at the time by their peers if they went off that timetable. Marriage, buying a home, kids, ect.

Pray Return to the Golden Saucer

Yet their recommendation algorithm never tries anything else. Even after years of subscribing to HBO.

I forgot there was even DLC for this game! Yeah, you are right.

It has been so long since I remember playing it, I had to look up what Godhome meant.

I apparently got ending 3 back then rather than Godhome.

If you haven't tried the game yet, I very much recommend it! Available on Steam, mobile devices, and at your local board game store.
store.steampowered.com/app/965580/R...

I'm not sure if my life is better or worse for this knowledge, but I thank you for this context.

I am familiar with the Ralsei one, but what is the other one?

I see both of our cats have mastered misusing the fountain

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Oh that's gross. I hadn't noticed this yet, but trying it out now I'm definitely getting these ads on maps searches 🤮

They don't seem to appear when you search for saved locations, but they also seem inconsistent on when they do and don't appear.