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I think so yes!

I also arrived in Cologne for Gamescom! I wish everyone attending Gamescom a timely 3 meals a day and 8 hours of sleep 🫡

One and only

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How do I even explain this to the English speaking world

negative steam review: Scripted death right in the beginning of the game, no way to avoid, no way to remove the 'achievement' stain from your play history when it happens And the game dev and their crony community call this 'a pivotal part of gameplay mechanics' and not what it actually is, a direct, coded betrayal of player trust. Why should I bother investing any further time in this title when the dev just seems comfortable arbitrarily killing you whenever with no recourse to fit their childish metaexamination of savegame mechanics? Life is too short to be a script kiddie's emotional punching bag. Even worse I have no idea how many more 'omg you died teehee' little moments and 'achievements' they've created to litter my profile with unerasable proof of failure. But since the art is pretty and it's about friends, everyone will just ignore how emotionally abusive insertdisc5 is and how casually they just dismiss all criticism Last and most bitter to me, the game is paced that you don't get the gutpunch till JUUUUST after the refund window. I kind of feel that was deliberate on the dev's part to even more severely punish people like me who don't enjoy being railroaded into character death. Toby Fox did the same motherloving thing with their ;uwu omg toriel scripted crit,; and the community defended his abusive actions then just as I expect insertdisc5's will do here. I am so motherloving tired of indie game devs being emotionally abusive and calling it cheeky fun

this just in: im an abusive gamedev for (checks notes) making you feel things

AO3 has been blocked in China for 5 years but it doesn’t stop people (women, dominantly) from writing fanfic

'Gujian 4: Swords of Legends' announced for Consoles and PC.

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Thanks so much for trying! This is mostly based on personal experience haha 🫣 I need to check out the game you mentioned too!

+ the game only has 5 endings and it’s not based on points because Downpour doesn't have a counting system 😂

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Bahahahahha

I should probably visit Leeuwarden 😭

Amsterdam housing is not real and cannot hurt you

*Auramaxxxing!!!

Only has a handful of endings so don't take them too seriously 😂 Let me know if it’s accurate

"Auramaxxxing: Moving to Netherlands Sim" by zogoz A Downpour game by zogoz

I made a small Buzzfeed quiz style Downpour game called Auramaxxing: Moving to Netherlands Sim

This is inspired by @krishraghav.bsky.social ‘s workshop on nonfiction games yesterday, which blew my mind!

100% based on real life!

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This is what puzzles me too

Lmao you clocked them 😂😂

One of the most popular Steam reviews of Wuchang that represents Han nationalism had over 10k upvotes. The game had 37k reviews and over half a million copies sold. So the small group we are talking about could easily be millions big

I think about the idea of “small vocal group” a lot. I've understood that in the context of China, there’s someone doing every single thing you can ever think of, and there’s an audience for everything which is always bigger than you think. This applies to everything from cults to ideologies

The wish to purge anything/anyone not Han enough is more similar to another ideology imo. They want Han to be the sole representation of Chinese-ness as if the culture isn't Han centric enough

There's also the element of machismo here - Han nationalism is a very gendered hobby

This article quotes a Reddit thread which concludes “Han nationalism is kind of a counter culture established by the younger generation, to oppose how Chinese culture is usually depicted in mainstream media.”

I think opposing “Qing Romanticisation” is more like the result, not the goal

Decent article but was it necessary to end it with “was this CCP’s doing”? 💀

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers patch messes the game's story all up, renders bosses technically unkillable, and it's all the Qing Dynasty's fault, apparently A bizarre move.

This English language article does a good job of summarizing the main factors behind the recent Wuchang patch.

In this case it is a vocal minority, not a majority, that has led to the changes. Another example of a dev changing a game for a small group.

www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/wu...

Pre 2016 was a combination of pirated PC games + East Asian MMOs + flash games+mobile games

If I didn’t work in games I’d still be playing one game a month and life would be good

Steam Charts Top selling and top played games across Steam

The King Is Watching made it to the gold tier of July Steam releases!!
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hot take: video games are increasingly becoming virtual chore simulators. where’s the playfulness? where is even a hint of meaningfulness beyond busywork?

Ok mesa = 平顶山 (flat topped mountain) = the name of a city in my home provence of Henan 💀

I see what you did there