What do you call the face in the third panel? I was trying to find a copypasta for it the other day and didn't know what to search for.

...yeah, that sounds like me :P

Here you go! Thanks for letting me know: https://bougiebirdie.itch.io/hex-a-guess

That's a nice set of hooters

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The plot thickens

Sounds like you're stressed out about all the things you have to do.

Take some time for you. They'll still be there tomorrow.

Why worry? They'll still be there when you get back

The vase full of bones gets me

The headline implies that trailers at some point stopped giving away key plots.

Then again, I stopped watching trailers a while ago, so maybe I never noticed that they had stopped.

Usually, but that's half the fun with Farside

Isn't that the joke behind "It's not a bug, it's a feature?" That the supposed feature is, in fact, a bug?

No, friend, we made it to Friday!

My buddy has a homemade Hobbes doll that his mom made in the comics' heyday, it's like his most prized possession.

Still technically a bootleg, but very sweet all the same

Okay, say you've got four inner loops (a crime on its own, I know), do you use i, j, k, l or i, j, k, ii?

Ah, well you can definitely build for Android with it then. I haven't personally, but so far every other platform I've built for has just been a few clicks and away you go

I highly recommend Godot for a new developer. I made the switch from Unity and it's just been a pleasure to work with. I'm actually unlearned a bunch of patterns I had to use with Unity because Godot makes things even easier to access .

I don't know if it's got any kind of support for retro systems though

I hate this, thank you.

One thing I try to avoid when I'm writing is when two words repeat. Kind of like your example "the thing is is that." If I catch myself writing it, I try to rearrange the sentence.

Although a pretty extreme example tickles me: "The cookie he had had had had no effect on his appetite."

I think nostalgia plays a pretty big factor in retro games. Like, yes, I agree that enshittification marches onwards and the state of the industry today is pretty lame.

Every time I've gone back to a retro game I find myself vaguely disappointed. Quality of life has come a long way, and development is iterative so it makes sense that games made twenty years ago are lacking some features that make life easier for the player. Things like fast travel in metroidvanias, or inventory and quest management, or just trying to remember what it was I was supposed to do next in an RPG are often quite lacking. Or at the least, they're not up to today's standards.

Survivorship bias plays a pretty big role here too. We remember the good games that stand out from the rest of them, and we forget about the crap. There was shovelware back then too, maybe not to the degree of the modern app stores with F2P games loaded with microtransactions and dark patterns, but they were there too.

Anyway, long story long, the trick in whatever generation you play seems to be to find games that respect your time as a player. I'd also recommend checking out indie games, they're made with love, and you can find all kinds of retro-styled where you can tell the devs were passionate about games of the era.

Here's a short list of games I've enjoyed that give me that retro SNES feeling:

• Bzzzzzt - Just delightful
• Gravity Circuit - Megaman, but the platforming actually feels good and fast
• Nuclear Blaze - This one has a unique offering where have to put out fires while platforming
• Skull Girls - okay, this one's a bit older too, but in another comment you said you like Street Fighter so this might be up your alley

I've been living in apartments all my life and I've got to tell you: loud neighbours isn't a racial thing