Thaddeus Crews

I could've told you that

With that said, I don't think I've ever chewed into a Hershey Kiss before... They've always been one of those candies that just stews in the mouth indefinitely, like a jawbreaker. Maybe that's because I disliked the feeling of chewing it but enjoyed the taste?

The texture isn't great, but I could look past that if I liked the taste. Unfortunately, it's *specifically* the taste that makes me gag, cooked or not

Here's the kicker: I like Hershey Kisses! The thing that should just be a giant chocolate chip is A-OK, for some reason

Every few years, I inadvertently take a bite of a chocolate chip. Every time, it's the single most revolting thing I've ever tasted by a significant margin

I love chocolate. I love milk chocolate. I love dark chocolate. I *cannot stand* chocolate chips. My taste buds are taking the piss

A dropdown menu for choosing a Language within Stoat two options are shown: English (Traditional) with a United Kingdom Flag; English (Simplified) with a United States Flag

Checking out the settings for Stoat, and these might be the single funniest descriptors for UK/US English I've ever seen

I think I get what you mean. So it's more a matter of the appeal coming from the monetary value of what's pulled, rather than the cards having intrinsic value. Poker chips with extra steps

I'd say that's more a logical endpoint of what that formula always was, but that doesn't make it hurt any less

Hasn't that always been the case though? Booster packs are essentially proto-lootboxes, which themselves are thinly-veiled gambling

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Lost in Anomaly

Unsure if "anomaly" is a proper subgenre yet, but that's unashamedly what this is attempting to replicate. It's an early-access title that's not seen an update in over a year, with what's on offer now boiling down to rudamentary spot-the-difference puzzles and low-effort jumpscares

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Lawnmower Maniac

There'll never not be an alien charm to Samer's games. This one is probably on the lower end of enjoyment compared to his other titles, but I'm still happy to have experienced it

Slap City 2

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off

www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

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Berry Bury Berry

An delightfully addicting incremental game. There's very obviously a deeper story at play, and it's unraveled with surprisingly clever puzzles that often directly tie to your current incremental state. Also bless any VHS-filtered title that still supports 90+ FOV

Graph showing the relative share of game engines used in Global Game Jam from 2018 to 2026. It mainly shows a relative decrease of the Unity share from nearly 80% to 57%, while Godot grew from 1.4% to over 25%. There's a notable inflexion point in the year-on-year growth from Godot in 2024.

The 2026 Global Game Jam #GGJ26 was last weekend, so let's take a look at their historical data for engine usage.

📈 @godotengine.org is having a good run!

#Godot is now firmly established as the #2 engine in game jams (correlated by #GMTKJam data), rapidly closing the gap with #Unity.

This is the first time I've seen this overlay used, so this both works and shows how superflous the overlay is to begin with

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Bad Bitch Blasters

This game is deranged and I love it. Equal parts shitpost and manifesto. Best experienced blind.

Yeah, this was about as close as games got before. This and Juniper in XB3 are all but confirmed to be nonbinary based on their pronouns and (for the latter at least) in-game systems setting aside a unique "gender" value

Not to say that alone is insufficient, but it's ultimately not explicit

...Is this the first time Nintendo *explicitly* acknowledged enbies?

Like, we've had characters whose gender is unknown or unmentioned, and plenty of androgynous visual designs, but it was always on the player to extrapolate intent. So to suddenly NAMEDROP "nonbinary" as a gender option is unreal

Pipe bombs

Bad Bitch Blasters on Steam In this mind-blowing insane-arcade RPG, Jennyfer takes down "The Organization" and summons The Legendary Devourer of Dead in order to wipe the planet.

The game is called Bad Bitch Blasters. It's only 3 dollars. Buy it right now

store.steampowered.com/app/3591360/...

It's only January and I've already found my GOTY

Butter on toast goes hard, damn

The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.

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Eclipsium

Made with deliberate and beautiful intent. It takes a very special kind of game for me to OPT OUT of uncapped framerate; authenticity meant that much. Much slower paced than I'm usually comfortable with, but the inventiveness of the last hour or so alone was worth the price of admission

bugs are very cool.

LMAO completely forgot that was a thing

Looking into the laptop market for the first time in years, and holy hell I didn't realize how shoehorned AI has been for them. Literally every single listing touts an "NPU" and CoPilot integration. I'm having Wii U flashbacks where you're forced to pay a premium for hardware nobody cares about

This and Pikmin 4 feel like something happened internally to cause a pivot away from Switch 2 Editions

Oh shit, congratulations! Live your best life!

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ANTONBLAST

Fast-paced 2D platformer absolutely bursting with charm. Literally everything in this game is capable of exploding, and they all explode with the same stock explosion sound effect (compliment). I was grinning from ear-to-ear the entire time, and can't wait to do it all again in hardmode