Really enjoyed your talk! Would recommend The Abandoned Planet for puzzles that fit into their surroundings - by the end of the game I'd memorised chunks of an alien language and was using their numbers to both navigate and solve puzzles. Lots of fun 👽

Love a bit of Spargo! Really scratches the Tom Scott itch (which I should probably get looked at by a doctor)

It's a dire watch in most respects anyway but when they're tasked with making video games on The Apprentice...

Not much change there, then. I love that they're always at the top of search results with template pages full of placeholders now, though, it's so cool 💞

Burn so devastating the account was immediately suspended 💥

I must've missed the part where Neo secretly also took the frog pill and looked like this for the rest of the movie

Ha! I'm actively mapping that exact box you're talking about (assuming it's this one* in tempest layer) - would love to know what the hell they were thinking! DK better get to punch the camera man at the end 😂

* If there are any more box levels I will go bananas

now, why were you searching for boobs on sketchfab dot com

Agreed - It's a bit maddening that the maps are designed to show the sublayer on top of them, too. Even if they're "greyed out", it's hard to see much of anything without wrestling with the camera 😵‍💫

Yeah! It's like the game is moving too quickly in some areas and too slowly in others. Makes me wonder if some scenes were cut 🤔

If you haven't already, try Whispers of a Machine, the developer's other game. Better plot and gameplay, in my humble opinion - hoping for a sequel! 🤞

Always a treat to hear that the hints have been useful 😁 you'll have to let me know what you thought of the game overall once you've had time to digest it!

I started using this text macro thingamajig called aText to look out for typos and auto-replace 'em with the proper words

Dunno if it's better or worse for my psyche to hear it make a satisfying little noise every time I type "hte" or "taht" - but at least it's auto-corrected 😆

The guilt-tripping crying owl sprite is the cherry on top 😵‍💫 shame I never got to the part where it taught me to say "cry harder"

I've always thought of it like the speedrunning community - everyone's got a common goal so sharing strategies, writing guides, or jumping into older multiplayer games to boost stuff is all part of the fun 😁

There's some other upsides - making games last longer for teenagers with limited funds, thinking outside the box for the most cheesy way to get otherwise difficult trophies... but it's nice to not NEED to sit down with every game* for god-knows-how-long now.

* f you, Super Meat Boy

Having hooked myself up to that dopamine machine at, like, 13 y/o and retiring from it last year with 177 platinums - mixed feelings 😂

The community aspect is the part I miss most, but it was a good way to see everything games have to offer (and got me on the career path of guide writing fwiw)