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a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

I was in fact told by a teacher that my town of 30 thousand people might be targeted because we were near (over an hour away from) a tiny air force base on the east coast

It's got to be great brand power that the only one of the sites listed (other than Polygon) that I've used on purpose is fextralife and I fucking hate every second I'm on it

Can't think of any other time a US backed candidate has caused a problem. Let me just take a big sip of water real quick before I open this history book for the first time

I feel like "she could have won" is a way to absolve yourself of responsibility.

Like yeah, if we ignore all evidence to the contrary, she could have won 4 months ago. What's your plan for tomorrow? Are we still pretending that we can "wait til midterms" and go back to "normal"?

Be serious.

Similarly: listening to a lot of leftist news has taught me everyone's got a ben shapiro impression on a hair trigger

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Thanks for sharing this. "Snorting friendship in the corner of the peep show" is a line that's going to stick with me

Regarding Docs: a lot of folks i know swear by Scrivener and Ellipsus. Don't know if either works for your needs, but could be worth a look

"Oh, you're me but luckier" is a pretty common refrain whenever I'm in a rough run lol. If you stay interested enough to get deeper into the mechanics you might check out howbazaar.gg , a fan built wiki. It's a good tool for at least determining what an enchant does or what npc to fight

It does get better as you start to figure out what triggers are good to look for to either build into or counter the current meta. But even after a couple months it's easy to go from "I'm an unstoppable god" to "I'm a buffoon" based largely on RNG. Satisfying when you do build the god engine tho

Someone who chooses not to read the post: "Oh so you think Elmo is smart? I bet he can't even read"

Is this why folks are so interested in gooning these days?

Fully convinced the average elected dem would starve if no one was around to open jars for them. Terminally allergic to doing anything

Gen X is just thrilled to be talked about without having to remind everyone they exist first

That's fair. I think I sounded a little more negative than I actually am on the writing, because in the end I did find it charming enough to keep coming back. But yeah, the driving felt almost like it had built in mouse acceleration, even though I was on a controller

Maybe a bad pick for my first review, but we're all just posting into the wind. Hopefully I'll get better at putting my thoughts in order for the next one. Thanks for reading. I love you bye

Overall Cloudpunk is a weird one for me. I found myself frustrated while playing it, but coming back to it excited to just sit in the ambiance. Overall I would highly suggest picking it up while it's on sale and playing through, maybe with a movie or podcast on the other monitor. 11/11

One thing I really can't abide though is the driving controls. They somehow managed to make the car feel both slippery and overweight. For me the worst part of this driving game was the driving and it's not even close. 10/x

The visual design of the city was genuinely incredible and I'd love to see this group build something in that voxel style again. I often found myself in awe that people built this. In a way that higher fidelity games don't hit the same. Something about the low poly made it feel more hand crafted 9/x

It sounds a lot like I'm shitting all over this game but that's not the intent. I found myself enjoying my time with Cloudpunk sometimes in spite of itself but often I felt genuinely interested in the lives of the people you met. Mostly the side characters, honestly, but invested nonetheless 8/x

That brings me to the actual writing, which felt a little juvenile. I touched on it a bit above, but the dog/Rania interaction is not too much more simplified than it is in the game and also not all that different from your interactions with the rest of the main story characters 7/x

I'm not exactly expecting the next great philosopher of our time. That's a little outside of scope. But I'd have liked if the game had more to say or maybe just gotten to the point a little faster. I dunno, I just found myself wanting more after each little post quest blurb 6/x

The talks with your dog often come across as
Dog: "Good things are good, bad things are bad"
Rania: "I know, but sometimes doing bad things means you get to eat."
Which is fine, but not exactly treading new ground. 5/x

I loved that a lot of your in game decisions are essentially read back to you as your character Rania describes them to her "dog" companion, even though it often comes off as a bit hamfisted and shallow. 4/x

That's something that I think Cloudpunk does right. Obviously it's not sunshine and rainbows, but it never feels like you're just spinning you wheels and waiting for the next fucked up thing to happen. You're making decisions or hearing from locals with every job. 3/x

I do appreciate that Cloudpunk seemed to understand the genre in a way that I didn't feel with Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk media can often drag its characters and its message through the mud, but at its core it's not a genre about suffering needlessly 2/x

Promotional art for the game Cloudpunk. A woman in a flowing cloak leans against a high-tech car with a cyberpunk neon backdrop

Played Cloudpunk recently and as much as I wanted to like it I just couldn't fully get myself immersed into it. The world was interesting, the voxel based design was genuinely incredible, but the characters and especially the dialogue just fell flat for me. Spoilers to follow 1/x