If you haven’t played it, “Stardew Valley” is, like, ruin-your-life good. And I think part of what makes it so faith assuring and life uplifting is that it was made by one dude who has continuously (for YEARS) released huge, free updates for the game. He’s awesome. It feels good supporting him and recommending such a great game to people. :-)

Almost looks like his left hand has six fingers, but that’s the little nubbin at the bottom of the bat.

Excellent revision. Would love to see something like this actually implemented, even if it was from an unofficial organization. I think it’d catch on, especially the more people are displaced.

I love it. Just go down the list of companies and conglomerates that produce the most greenhouse emissions. Just put the year after the name to keep things straight.

• “China Coal '24”
• “Vistra Energy '25”

The lower you are on the list, the less likely people will associate your company with the destruction of their homes and communities.

Gaming ads in the 90s didn’t give a fuck.

“Our game will literally kill you. Try it, pussy.”

Dude, Captain America ain’t got SHIT on when that Martian finally goes “Ack!”

If you can, I would like to recommend that you do.

Damn, this is an epic project. Props to the Polygon people who coordinated all this!

I know this is the ultimate cliche answer, but it’s gotta be Sephiroth for me. The original FVII just caught me at that perfect time.

Spoilers ahead…

When you play through FFVII (the original, that is–I haven’t played the remakes yet), you only just hear about Sephiroth at first. Then you see some of the carnage that he’s caused: the President of Shinra dead at his desk and the super difficult snake boss piked on a giant stake.

In one of the flashbacks, he’s doing freaking research. That sounds boring and bland, but it was a level of depth to a villain that most people (or at least I) had never seen before. In another flashback, Cloud as a new recruit is with Sephiroth, and the difference in power is incredible. Sephiroth makes child’s play of this enormous dragon.

The final battle(s) is fantastic, and his theme song–hinted at throughout the game by Uematsu’s classic score–is iconic. Phallic imagery aside, the Masamune blade is simple but super cool. And he freaking kills Aerith?! Can he do that?! A friend of mine stopped playing the game for weeks after he got to that part.

A lot of these things are super common in games now, and I know there are several games before FFVII that had characters with this amount of depth (FFVI comes to mind), but Sephiroth is just the coolest, man!!

Holy shit, that was incredible…

Every time I see a Dragon Quest trailer, I’m reminded how lucky we were that the composer for the series was convinced to let them include actual real-life, modern, symphonic recordings of the music for DQIX instead of the dinky computer shit he insists on using.

Oof…

Oh, look. Another once-in-a-lifetime disaster event. Aren’t we lucky…

My hover bike always tilts to the side… B-

Huh… At first I thought it was going to be a music game. Butt it’s fine type of Limbo/Inside/Cocoon-inspired puzzle game? Interesting.

Neat idea, but the gameplay seems like it’d be shallow. I’d be interested to read some reviews, though…

Was that really Switch footage?!

This, more than anything I’ve seen on Lemmy or reddit, makes me want to get a 3D printer. I know they’re great for lots of different applications, but this speaks to me.

I disagree. I think labor is a good thing, and I use that term to encapsulate any sort of occupation. A person who doesn’t have some sort of fulfilling labor is missing a big part of life. There’s so much pride and fulfilling that can come from working hard.

The problem is that, currently, laborers are not fairly compensated for their work, and it’s increasingly difficult for someone to just live without working beyond their limits. And so labor is no longer a small part of a fulfilling life but a perpetual cage for an exploitated husk of a person.

In my opinion, freedom is equity and justice, not a life of pure leisure…

Stardew Valley! My wife (who is normally not a gamer) and I have put 100+ hours into our splitscreen co-op game. It’s very, very fun. :-)

Honestly, though, your list represents hundreds of hours of gaming. So unless you put in some major hours on the reg, I would just focus on what you have instead of what you want to add.