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Control Alan Wake games. Max Payne 1&2 (Remedy, Finland)

Get it before the new (ex-EA) CEO turns the company into a husk of what it was becoming :\

Disco Elysium (Estonia)

The current state of that dev team is…contentious to say the least. If I recall correctly three different studios have spawned, none on good terms with the others. Good game, though.

Ancient Romans kind of count as immigrants, in certain kind of way.

Same tactic used by scammers sending “bad” messages - it’s at least partially in purpose to single out the good marks.

Didn’t they just get busted for leaking their verification data that they totally weren’t keeping?

25% correct.

it needs to feel effortless

What an entitled take. No community worth its space is “effortless”. Building an actual, worthwhile community takes care and time, and that need never ends.

But what people really want in these hollow comparisons to Reddit is an infinite content machine - a place to go for an endless stream of mindless content that requires no effort on their part. It’s purely selfish, and if those people are turned away by the “effort” required just to sign up, then good. Users like that are, at best, a burden, and more likely to sway these spaces into directions they’re better off not headed.

Whelp, hopefully federated video sharing gets the momentum it needs to compete with YT. Seems like it’s the only alternative that’ll be left.

1. It’s absolutely not “intelligent”. You’re letting techbros con you into thinking text predictors are sentient. Don’t let them.

2. This story is explicitly about how the robot wasn’t autonomous, and was clearly being operated remotely by a human.