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I always review games I've finished. This way I feel less bad for my backlog. Sure, there are 1000 unplayed games left, but also look, 100 ones I've beaten and reviewed! =)
Also, yes, reviewing a game is the second best way to help a developer, after actually buying it for money.
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Ah, classic.
My friend once said "yes" to a fey who innocently asked "may I steal you for a moment?".
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So that's what the Spinal Catastrophism theory is about.
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By the way, search results for this card looked like this.
But no, I'm not photoshopping that guy on an MTG card.
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Do it.
If you can't, make small steps towards it.
Still can't? Take a nap, but lie down facing it.
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Has he already colonized Jupiter?
Because each time I see a new tweet of his, he's getting more stupider.
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I especially love the system that determines whether the Dude Dies. At the bottom, you can see a bingo card of Consequences, like burnout, anxiety or alcoholism. Whenever a Mechanism wins, Dude gets another Consequence. Dude Dies if he has gathered a bingo. Brutal and brilliant.
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Very interesting. This one I actually have in a book!
Look, there's yet another invocation of one of Borges's favorite themes, that of barbarians being afraid of cities.
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Wait, weren't they the same god?
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Ugh. I liked Shad's work while he sticked to what he knows -- medieval warfare. Why did he have to go and have garbage opinions of things he knows crap about.
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...oh, and now I've found that Tolkien wrote a book about Hengist. These two writers didn't know each other, but their works keep intertwining through their shared love of old English poetry!
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I dug up a pdf of the magazine. Here's a screenshot:
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...except this word comes from the proto-Germanic "hlaib", same root as modern English "loaf" and, interestingly, "lord".
That pesky science just can't stop messing with patriotic sentiments!
(3/3)
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No -- we said to the fascists --
Our people won't allow
For the fragrant Russian bread*
Was called by the name "brot"
The Russian word for "bread" is "khleb". Very patriotic, except... (2/3)
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Thanks, it's amazing! I'll explore your site.
But the rabbit hole goes further: I didn't even know about that poem by Borges, and it was a bit tricky to get a copy, as the link to a blog on your page is dead.
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Thanks, I'll check it out if I have a chance. I'm just a well-read dilettant, and I can't read old English, but Borges and Tolkien have sent me down an enormous rabbit hole that I'm currently exploring. Just got a translation of poems from the Exeter codex (riddles included!), that's fascinating.
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Now that's some rabbit hole you've sent me into! :)
Thanks!
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Of course a specialist would know that, but I'm just a casual reader :) It was an amazing find for me, even if Tolkien scholars already know that.
A reader? Interesting! Are you talking about this book?
www.amazon.com/Middle-Engli...
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Patapon! Oh, yes, please, I've wanted it for so long.
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Weird, isn't it? Borges was fascinated by the idea of made-up worlds and languages. He wrote Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. But even though he met a literary work that came close to that in real life, he dismissed it as boring. Irony itself worthy of a short story by Borges.
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A funny thing about it is that I've found this poem in a book of lectures on old English poetry by Jorge Luis Borges. Interestingly, Borges didn't care for Tolkien's writing. He found LOTR too boring to read more than a couple chapters. He did quote Tolkien's scholary works, though!
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Compare it to JRRT's Lament for the Rohirrim:
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
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Very cool idea with the Frostgrave cultists!
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Well, this looks like a gut punch of a game.
Getting it!
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Ten weird indie games I've played this month (some better, some worse, all interesting in some way):
SEASON: A letter to the future
Look Outside
Disillusion ST
NORTH
Whale Flesh
Children of Clay
That's not my Neighbor
Knights in Tights Spaces
Gorogoa
Jazzpunk
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Thanks for the recs! Haven't heard of Bundle of Joy, it looks amazing, getting it right now.
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Here's one I've just played: NORTH. Pretty bad design-wise, but also pretty unique as an experience.
store.steampowered.com/app/461890/N...
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This so much. Always broaden your horizons!
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I love how you do the emotions on your characters. So simple, but so expressive!
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I'm a simple girl, I just go mono black :D
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Reading Beowulf and Volsungs saga gave me so many flashbacks to #Tolkien books. A dragon woken up by a lowly thief who dared to steal from his horde. An ancestral sword, broken and reforged. Also, the old man wearing a cape and a hat who comes to advise kings? In the sources, that's Odin!
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The term "Lord of the Rings" first appears in Hobbit, way before the whole story about Sauron and the Rings took shape. Maybe #Tolkien came across that epithet in a saga, and felt a potential poetic power inside it, unused in the source material, like he did with the forest prophecy from Macbeth?
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It's not a bad thing as such. Humans adapt to our tools and, yes, get "addicted" to them by relying on them and incorporating them in our brain's routines. The state of AI tech is abysmal, but let's focus on actual problems, not stuff that happened to every tool since Socrates was mad at writing.
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May I interest you in the Head of Vecna?...