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John Walker
rebotherer
Seeker of indie secrets, needlessly beautiful, purveyor of www.buried-treasure.org.

“Hmmm, I’m at 999 words, so what can I do to hit 1000?  Slightly rewrite a previous sentence?  Add more text and go a bit over 1000?  Nah, I’ll just add ‘It’ to the end.” Read more

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This is one of the reasons I haven’t particularly enjoyed any of the products that rely on OpenAI’s services. There’s being SFW and being chaste and then there’s the ridiculously over the top filtering that OpenAI requires from anyone using their service. It loses a lot of fun really fast when it keeps telling you it Read more

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Bruh, I made this in like 2 minutes. Step up your game.

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That’s even ouchier if you also discarded, say, Swarm and Apocalypse, the former putting in two 0-cost versions of itself into your hand, the latter replacing itself with +4 power. Pull Hela on turn six and, good grief, every slot will be filled with your whole discarded hand.” Read more

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This piece is peak Kotaku. Silly, riveting, informative, excellent stuff! Read more

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Gellar used to live in the village where I grew up - I semi-regularly ran into him when he was out jogging, and he invited me and my family round to his mansion a few times, gave us signed copies of some of his books and a VHS of a movie about his life. Not only that, but he maintained a correspondence with my mum and Read more

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They spent a lot of time on the exterior and not much on the “airport rental, but we upgraded you for free and I don’t know why this non-smoking car smells like smoke” interior.
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Glad the Kirby game lets co-op players also be Kirby so they can actually have fun too. I recently finished Forgotten Land with my 6yo daughter, and I’ll be happy if I never see Bandana Waddle Dee ever again.
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That one teaser from way back when looks worse every year. I don’t mean the graphics, I mean the tone—I would hope as a society that we’ve moved past the reflexive belief that grittier, more vulgar, this-ain’t-your-parents-Beyond-Good-And-Evil is an intrinsically worthy endeavour. WE’VE GOT A MONKEY THAT SAYS ‘MOTHERFU Read more

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Missed opportunity to have Angela Lansbury be the imposter, we all know she's the greatest murderer ever.  RIP Lansbury.  Read more

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The quintessential and ubiquitous videogame scene is where there’s a kid button mashing away like a crazy person, on a game where that makes no sense, with a gamepad for a different console that’s 3 generations behind the one they’re playing on. Read more

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The lesson here is that you shouldn’t mess with any kind of rodent in the industry, black, yellow or otherwise. Read more

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This cracked me up: “Atari died in 1984. Ever since, its cursed skin has been loosely and uncomfortably wriggled into by a series of companies, each falling to its bedeviled blight, only freed when it tricks another corporation into donning the rotting skin-suit.” Read more

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TR2013 had very little in the way of actual tomb raiding. Tiny “tombs” (usually just a single, small room) and very basic platforming and puzzle-solving. The previous CD trilogy (Legend, Anniversary and Underworld) was way better than the reboot trilogy when it came to those things, though SoTR was a step in the right Read more

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It’s actually kinda funny that Amazon went from “We’re gonna develop our own games and publish them on our own PC platform and even create our own game engine” to “Okay, well, we’ll publish PC games that were already successful in other countries on the Amazon Games platform but they’ll still be exclusives” to “Okay, Read more

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why are these complaints not levelled at other AI things, where are the scientists complaining their work is being used by drug discovery AIs, the coders complaining their code snippets are being used by AI code completion systems, the writers complaining that GPT3 is stealing their work. why is it only seemingly Read more

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In putting together my top ten games of 2022, I created a list of all 16 of them.
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1.I could not agree more about HFW. The story went a little off the rails, but it remained a super enjoyable gaming experience. I have been surprised by some of the negativity around it. Read more

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I rather liked the symbols, but also recognize how ridiculously hard it is to memorize all 150ish of them. Read more

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