@Minholkin Yep. We talk to all the cats (4 of em) but one in particular, Alien, absolutely talks back, and will often initiate conversations. Tho we rarely know what she wants, she certainly does want to discuss a lot with us.

Industria (Multi, XPd on PS5) Short, surreal FPS that sends you (as Nora) chasing after your partner Walter inside an AI's world.
This was an impulse buy last year(on sale now too!) and I'm kinda glad I got it. It's not super hard (except hard mode) and the story is interesting, if obtuse. Half Life inspired, this prequel (sequel is TBA) does a decent job hitting its target, tho you do have to be a bit forgiving. A good 1st effort for this team.👍
#CoSoGaming #Gaming
https://www.gog.com/en/game/industria

You know, when I was growing up and reading SciFi books, I never imagined we'd end up here with machines being used for "human connections".

#AI #ThisIsSomeDystopianShit #WTF
https://intouch.family/

@Kaysymmetry Yeah, when Bruce Nesmith did that interview where he said "ok yeah, our games don't have polish but at some point you have to just release the game, even if it has 700 bugs" I immediately thought "NO YOU DON'T YOU DOUCHE, ESP IF HALF OF THOSE BUGS BREAK THE ENTIRE GAME. Seriously, even tho I'm not getting younger, I'll wait a bit longer for you to polish THOSE bugs out, thanks."

@Iresine True that.

I grew up in a deeply Red county and so I did not make many friends as a kid, as I had parents so Lib they had MLK's "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community" and Malcom X's autobiography in their personal library, heh. I did not fit in at school 😀
Moved to a city and made some friends, but mostly homeless people who are gone now. Most of my social interaction these days is online and I prefer people with brain wrinkles, whatever their Gen might be.

@Iresine *points a giant foam finger at the education system that by the time Gen X hit the 80s was already failing hard enough it didn't give most of our Gen the knowledge it needed to like.. KNOW THOSE CHARACTERS WERE THE IMMORAL/AMORAL ASSHOLES OF THE STORY, you know, the bad guys* Gotta give credit where it's due, lol. I do look around at people my age and wonder what might have been had Reagan lost, tho.

The Plucky Squire (Multi, XPd on #PS5 ) As Jot, rescue your book from Humgrump's bad intentions.
This is a pretty cute platformer with a cool concept: as a char in a book, you are 2D, but 3D when you leave the book's pages. They stuck quite a few minigames in here too. And the ability to change the book scenes by moving words around is fun. Overall just a nice 10 or so hour experience. Do recommend, and it's in PSN Extra's catalog atm.👍 👍
#CoSoGaming #Gaming
https://thepluckysquire.com/

@th3j35t3r These look like alternate Brokeback Mountain covers.

@holon42 @ToruOkada @th3j35t3r

Yeah.. so I saw more than a few screens of Shitter posts where people were "conjecturing" that the Mayor of Coachella had something to do with it.

I think you'll be waiting an awfully long time.

@th3j35t3r Cyberpunk as fuck. Only way it could be more would be if you shopped in some neon. Although I do also wish it wasn't necessary.

@th3j35t3r also, it's even more amusing considering the event he just held with the taxis and all that shit had the Optimus robots making headlines as he talked about how they'll be ready for sale in like 2 years.. while they were being controlled by humans backstage.

@th3j35t3r This is ironic coming from someone who regularly shares "AI" images of obviously false concepts.

On the hardware repair side, I recently acquired a Switch OLED (just the tablet) for $100. No power, no charge. Checked the C port and yep, bent up pins. Got replacements and swapped in a new port. Plugged it in.. battery icon on the screen. It was flat dead lol. Took 20 mins before it would boot up, but it did and charged to 100. I got some Joycons and a Dock on the way to test it with. Guess I need an acct, heh. Hope it's all working, be worth more to resell. #CoSoGaming #Gaming #DIY

https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/little-nightmares
Played through Little Nightmares 1/2 the last few days, and hoowee, do they make Limbo/Inside seem tame lol. Whoever did the designs/SFX for the various things you encounter sure knows how to make your skin crawl. A bit finicky with the platforming, as most "2.5D platformers" are (really these have a lot more 3D depth than most) so some "cheap" deaths. Still enjoyable, do recommend. 👍 👍
#CoSoGaming #VideoGames #Gaming

@northernbassist So did you accept the Quest?

@ArcturusSaDiablo
^^ Yep, this. Also wasn't there some mobile game they were working on in 2020 that was like world police, putting down protestors they called "terrorists"? I could swear that was a thing that blew up for a bit.
And Ubisoft open world games all started feeling the same over a decade ago.
I'm all for diversity but I'm not giving Ubisoft another dime. Only got a used copy of Far Cry 4 recently to test repaired Xbones. It was the cheapest game at Game Stop lol.
@feloneouscat

Apparently 4th time's the charm, lol. The last PS4 I gave the neighbor must have had a faulty PSU. It would lose power after 12-24 hours, forcing him to unplug and replug it. So I bought another broken one off eBay. Deep cleaned, swapped the HDMI port. Then I spent 3 days playing through No Man's Sky's Aquarius expedition on it, had no issues😀 So today, finally, my brain can be content in the knowledge I have given him a good working console that should last a couple years at least. #CoSoGaming

^^^^ Still a couple days left to get this Godot 4 course bundle from Humble. I just finished Course 3 which was "Create a 2d Platformer" and I'm actually having fun? Course.. I did take over a WoW addon back in '08 and learned some Lua for fun, so maybe I'm just weird that way. Anyway yeah, what I learned today I could drop a Mario Clone on Steam in like a week 😜

@Bix Yeah, and considering that the company that sells the figures does not make them with or sell Nazi insignia which are clearly seen on the ones dude owns/owned means he made them himself or got them from someone that made them.