Lovely interview.

Lutris got Magic: Arena working for me on my Linux machine a few years back and gave me a very enjoyable card game grind for about 3 years until I stayed limiting MtG:A to my phone on the commute.

Amazing work both from the Lutris team, and the interviewer.

I’ve found from employers it tends to mean “we should be valued and given time at least on par, but we’ll push for more, than your actual family. Work will call you at any time of day or night and you should be ready to drop everything and get in on no notice.”

Disconnect it from the network and factory reset it.

That stopped mine showing me adverts. Won’t stand adverts from a device I’ve paid to bring into my home.

Only had to do that because I checked to see if the “download subtitles” feature would actually work.

Megas XLR was great. I very much dig giant robots.

Invader Zim, Clone High, Duckula (and Dangermouse (original) are all very good - but of them only Clone High is aimed at people older than 14 (not that older people don’t or didn’t appreciate them) none of them feel obscure to me, although neither Clone High nor Invader Zim were well known in the UK when released in North America, but Internet word of mouth got them known in time.

Chilly Beach, Oblongs, Undergrads, and Mission Hill I have never heard of. So deep enough, at least to a Brit of my age.

Actual deepcut: cybersix.

Edit: although edited from the comics to be much more child friendly. Forgot the original prompt.

Yeah, I mean I love my Adult Swim line up but very few of them are deep cuts.

Yes, it hurts seeing those 3 or 4 digits numbers.

But once you’ve finished a run once or twice, you’ll get more options and be able to turn it essentially into Sudoku or some other solitaire puzzle and do most levels perfectly once you know what’s going on and having a few more options.

I’ve not, but it looks very British.

I’ll try to get round to giving it a watch if/when I get the chance/time.

Obscure for people outside the UK:
Monkey Dust

Minimetro and Cultist Simulator are my go to “comfy” games, but cultist simulator really does get you feeling like you’re chasing a mad eldritch horror when playing at times. It’s deliberately obtuse and odd, and then a revelation of the truth takes you over and you push on beyond your wildest expectations.

Slay the Spire and Hollowknight have both been mentioned enough in other posts in case anyone reading this is somehow unaware of either of them.

Faster than Light and Into the Breach are both excellent games. FtL is rng mitigation and crisis control par excellence. ItB is basically chess, and you play out the turns as best you can. It’s rewarding, but once you get good you need to ramp up the difficulty somewhat to keep it fun.

Yeah, the sinophobia is often atrocious. I lived and worked in China for a few years, so saw a lot of the good and some of the bad. People are people, and have the same needs and goals mostly, regardless of made up lines on a map.
I try to bring a reasoned, level line when I can… But I’m pretty done with trying to correct all the sinophobia nutters running off lies. It wears me out. Thankfully others do that so I can rest less guiltily.

Both the PRC as well as Anglophone media love playing into and orientalist stereotypes for their own reasons. Which doesn’t help.

https://mordheimer.net/docs/campaigns/skills#strength-skills

Was on my way to a game and needed to get my level ups in order.

I decided on Pit Fighter in the end.

“Internal migration rules” - yes, the Hukou system is alive and well.

Though for some smaller cities the restrictions have been lifted, but for any city most non-Chinese have heard of legal migration to it won’t be easy.

But there is a lot of illegal internal migration, and those people are pretty much the bottom rung of Chinese society, working hard jobs long hours in poor conditions, and often sleeping 4, 5 to a small room.

You’re right to quibble.

I’ll gesture towards “cementing” and “remained”, but your clarifications are important for people to bear in mind.

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Sykes-Picot also did a lot with this stuff, and the Suez Crisis is not the start or end of any story.

Everyone else seems to have covered the basics… But what’s missing is The Suez Crisis.

France and Britain, the two preeminent colonial powers in Europe thought that they could use Israel to pressure Egypt into returning the Suez Canal to them (which Egypt had nationalised following Britain, France, and the USA reneging on their obligation to help build the Anwar Dam).

France and Britain coordinated with Israel for an Israeli invasion of Egypt, and then France and Britain would step in “as peacekeepers” and control the Seuz as a demilitarised zone. However, the US was having none of it, and went behind France and Britain’s back to undermine them and coordinated with Israel and showed to the world it was a British and French plot, humiliating the two nations, cementing the US as Israel’s main backer, and destroying what good will remained for France and Britain in the Middle East.

For the formerly top dogs of Europe, it was a rude awakening which showed them that the pre-Second World War order was truly gone and they could no longer make big geopolitical decisions without the US.

More that as independence movements grew, and the economy shifted to valuing high value manufactured goods colonies became more expensive to hold and less profitable.

Combine that with the anti Nazi rhetoric, it made holding colonies militarily much harder to do. Especially as Britain, unlike France, has never really seen itself as a military force.

We much prefer to control the seas and play off local groups against each other and help the preffered side to come out on top and work as a local ruling elite.

In the US the barrier to firing workers is much lower than in other countries. Even layoffs for purely arbitrary or personal reasons are easy and hard to challenge in courts. This is one of the reasons companies have little free capital and choose to lay off many workers as soon as the market looks to be turning. But it also has positive economic impacts as well. That said, EA are a bunch of greedy cunts, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don’t get a cut, if they released any games worth owning).

OK, once you get thermometers and sums not being able to see the whole object makes me think it kinda defeats the point. But maybe that’s just me being a filthy Sudoko casual.

I’ll press on and see if it can click. Did get the second boss done in the end.

I think this for people on a Sudoku level or 3 beyond me.

The sight of a blank grid with a multitude of arcane extra rules across it is something I just can’t sink my teeth into.

Also, is one meant to/does one have to put numbers into areas still covered by the fog?

Ahh, I shall do that then and see if I can get further than the courtyard.