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  • I've recently been playing a lot of We Who Are About To Die, and even though it's an early access game, its been great fun. It's a roguelite physics-based arena fighter where you play as an aspiring gladiator, and fight your way up the ranks. The multiple types of matches and mutators really keep the gameplay feeling fresh, and the mechanics are surprisingly deep.

    The other game that I've been playing a lot is Dinkum, which is somewhat like a mix of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, with heavy Australian Outback overtones. It's a nice game to play with friends and significant others, since there's plenty to do with a good mix of action and cosy gameplay.

  • What is something that is completely legal that should be illegal?
  • It's wild that's legal there! Where I live learners and provisional riders are restricted by power to weight ratio (150kw per tonne/200hp per 2000lbs), and that honestly seems like it keeps them on reasonable bikes for the skill level without having them all stuck on 125cc bikes struggling to reach the speed limit

  • What is your favorite flower and why?
  • I've always loved a Frangipani (especially the white ones)

    Picture of White Frangipani Flowers

    I have a soft spot for flowering trees, and these always remind me of fun times by the coast (plus some part of me thinks they look like a delicious forbidden food).

  • When you're writing a song, how do you know it isn't just a song you've heard before but don't recognise?
  • Not sure how to help you out with it, but you're at least not alone. Robert Smith from The Cure had the same problem with the song "Friday I'm in Love": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_I%27m_in_Love

    "During the writing process, Robert Smith became convinced that he had inadvertently stolen the chord progression from somewhere, and this led him to a state of paranoia where he called everyone he could think of and played the song for them, asking if they had heard it before. None of them had, and Smith realised that the melody was indeed his."

  • I've been having a Burnout 3 obsession lately
  • I think it's Gen 6 (PS2/Xbox). But at the time the Gen 6 consoles were new, the Gen 3 that you consider retro was about 20 years old, just like these consoles are now. I think they still fit the label of retro pretty well, but it's always hard to consider something newer than your childhood as "old" tbh

  • First time I see this set, what do you think?
  • I just built this set the other day! It looks really nice, and there are some really cool pieces being used (like the minifig whips used as the center petals). It is a little repetitive because you're building multiples of each rose type, but they at least have a few variations so it's not just the same thing the entire build.

  • Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?
  • (If you're wondering why mine looks weird it's from YT Music instead of Spotify)

    I always find with these recaps that I don't remember listening to one specific song more than others, and I'm constantly surprised by what the top 5 are. That being said, I usually just listen to the personalized mixes, so maybe part of it is the algorithm deciding that I really like a song because I haven't skipped it 🤷

  • CRYPTARK free on Steam
  • Honestly, I had to look up what that term meant. I can see why it would look like that, but I just thought it would provide context to who he is. He's got 1.4 million followers on Twitch and I think a few million subs on YouTube as well, so I figured it was reasonable to say he's pretty popular

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