I agree, force of habit for me to dumb it down a bit because a fucktonne of people get really angry when I suggest that this is a deeply racist country, institutionally speaking. Our very laws were written to keep the Indigenous Australians down, the racism is by design.

I hate when media puts terms like racist in quotes like this. By definition, it is racist. But quoting it implies it's an invalid claim.

The treatment of Indigenous Australians in this country is disgusting, and deeply, deeply racist, even if "just" systemically.

EDIT to note the use of "just" was sarcasm, because systemic racism is a real and fucked problem, and it exists at the very core of Australian society, and if you're white and haven't actively studied it, you won't know it exists

All This Shit is Weird:

The Dalek_Thal Story

The thing is, businesses have a vested interest against wage growth, as wage growth is directly and totally incompatible with annual record profits - wage growth would eat into that.

Put simply, it's a conflict of interest. If people with conflicts of interest ceased to be allowed to participate in conversations wherein they have that conflict, the world would be a better place.

Housing as an investment is what went wrong - we told a fucktonne of rich cunts that a return is a right when dealing with property, and so the moment interest rates rose, they forced us tenants to eat their loss. Guarantee you if and when interest rates drop again, they won't pass on the savings though.

Fuck, I definitely drank too much, how the fuck did it cycle back to 2008?

Please don't be Bioware, please don't be Bioware...

Seriously mate, you didn't warn about the TVTropes link? Some of us need to go to bed!

Hey mate, I'm doing a quick response rn and will return at some point to properly write up a lengthier response!

The claw can happen in Frontier if you're running the default controls - I've been playing in Portable mode though, which uses the Tri Classic Controller scheme, although my experience was it's a pain in the backside to figure out how to change the controls if you're not used to Freedom Unite's menus (Frontier was based on Dos)

As for the variety, Frontier boasts something like 188 unique monsters including subspecies, rare species and other variants. Each of these has their weapons (to no one's surprise). In addition there are two unique weapon classes that haven't appeared in any other games - the Tonfas which are basically very short dual blades that punch and give air time, unique buffs and a powered-up explosive attack, (think a proto-Insect Glaive), and the Magnet Spike which is the most unbalanced thing I have ever had the pleasure of using in a video game - it simply melts most G Rank monsters. Further, the game has an extra layer of difficulty above G Rank called "Zenith" which includes fifteen unique variants of existing monsters, which has similarities with Deviants from GU. If Frontier does appeal to you, I recommend you track down PewPewDojo's discord, they can get you set up with a private server.

Can relate to your comments about GU, it's a massive game and honestly even after playing it for nearly four hundred hours over the span of the last five years I'm still discovering new stuff.

I've always been intrigued by Wild Hearts tbh, never had the chance though (it came out during my thesis and just kinda slipped by). I really do need to try it though.

I really need to start listening to the Paternoster Gang spinoff series - everything I see coming from it makes it seem fantastic; just been so focused on the Davison stuff lately I've not had the chance to try it

Hello fellow Monster Hunter! Similar experience, but it gets worse as someone who really likes Monster Hunter Frontier - because not even die-hard classic MH players will touch it, because of the perception that it's "too anime". It's sad, because honestly it's a great time, no other game in the series has Frontier's level of variety.

Sure, if Splatoon 3 were actually good. It's a game designed from the ground up to be frustrating, between terrible matchmaking, peer-to-peer multiplayer, and stage design that forces players into very lopsided combat.

Play something good with your family, not Splatoon 3.

Can't concentrate at work, and so stressed that food doesn't seem friendly.

But maybe things will work out this evening. Either that, or it'll get much worse. Definitely feeling at a crossroads.

Yeah, blinked the other day. Now this bloke keeps following me and telling me I'm in Hull.

That was disproven several times - the guy who claimed it even admitted he'd altered Palworld's assets to show that supposed 'similarity'

That's fair, I apologise for being as defensive as I was.

Honestly that's 100% the right way to play it - it is such a laugh, the writing is really tongue in cheek, and the gameplay is really, simply fun, so I really think you and your mate will love it!

Quite a lot honestly, but the trailers are really awful in terms of advertising what the game actually is. It's a survival game with management sim elements, using creature collection as its core gameplay loop. It feels weirdly cohesive in terms of mashing together these styles - kinda like Dave the Diver in that regard.

Far as I've been able to tell, it was first announced in 2021, so it's been in development since then, at latest.

There's no evidence whatsoever of AI use (lot of accusations, but actual devs have spoken out and challenged them). Really strikes me that there's a non-zero number of people who feel somewhat threatened by this game's existence, considering the death threats the dev team has reportedly been receiving.

Far as I can tell, the original port's apk isn't region locked, so much as the play store page is. Either that, or people who didn't buy it before the netflix port went up can no longer view the page.

Link doesn't work in Australia I'm afraid - lots of corporations have a big thing for giving us the shitty end of the stick.

Really? How? I've been wanting to play World of Goo again but the only version available is the netflix one