lutesolo

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[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

🕹️ Gamedle: 07/08/2024 🟥🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜> https://gamedle.wtf

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

🕹️ Gamedle: 04/08/2024 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜> https://gamedle.wtf

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

#GuessTheGame #813

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#Gamer https://GuessThe.Game/p/813

Watching Let's Plays pays off sometimes.

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 11 points 6 months ago

Roughly 18 years ago, my buddies and I took the California Zephyr from the Midwest out to San Fran. We were riding coach and it was two days travel each way.

The train was fine--about what we'd expected, nothing amazing but in generally good condition. The trip was great, though. The scenery traveling across the west was almost always interesting, we played a bunch of poker, and we met a bunch of interesting characters we still talk about to this day.

The most interesting guy we met (we dubbed him "The Stranger" after Sam Elliott's character in The Big Lebowski) was a guy who made an annual trip coast-to-coast and back. He had some kind of grift where he was getting unemployment checks from two different states and would schedule his Amtrak trips such that he'd always miss his Chicago transfer and get put up in a hotel so he could shower and sleep on Amtrak's dime. He'd mail a suitcase to his destination with clean clothes, cigarettes, etc, and mail his dirty laundry back home. When we got struck with a delay in California, he left the train station and bought a bunch of pizzas at a nearby Domino's for the passengers and staff.

I highly recommend it as an alternative to air travel if you can spare the time. I often think about doing it again.

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you want something very similar to the three you named, do not sleep on Case of the Golden Idol.

It might have a little more replayability due to they way decisions you make impact the story, but I'd also put in a strong recommendation for Pentiment.

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

The longer I follow these, the funnier the setup/punchline gets between the post/original. You're doing god's work, keep it up!

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

If you're on Android, the emotion/sticker/gif browser in Gboard includes ASCII emoticons at the end! (⁠。⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 77 points 1 year ago (29 children)

As someone on the receiving end of this, it may not pan out for you. I was verbally told I was getting a raise, then my paychecks showed I got a larger raise. I thought nothing of it and enjoyed the extra money, thinking of myself as a hard worker who was worth the extra.

Months later, someone noticed the discrepancy. Queue the company informing me that the overpayment will be taken in one lump sum from my next paycheck, which would have made me unable to make rent. I convinced them to spread the repayment across as many checks as they had overpaid, but that was a pretty miserable experience to say the least.

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 44 points 1 year ago

That's not the point. Does Jerry Seinfeld deserve $40-60 million for the last 3 years since he made one TV Special in 2020? No. But does he deserve a cut of the profits for the wildly successful content he made earlier in his career that is in syndication? Yes. Streaming platforms are trying to get out of equitably sharing the profits on content they host. That's my (layman's) understanding of the issue here.

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'll have to stick these on the old to-do list! Already played and love Cultist Simulator, Forager, Inscryption, Into the Breach, and Ascension. Thanks for the recommendations!

[–] lutesolo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose it depends how you think of "hidden". In my mind, if you follow awards and gaming news, you're already in a fairly small niche of well-informed gamers. To people who don't stay on that pulse, marketing budgets and cultural moments can largely determine what's known or not known. Most of these didn't get much marketing, and few (like Undertale) had a cultural moment I was aware of. But I didn't include games like Hades which I love but kinda thought got a bit of both.

Ultimately, of course, you're right and I just took advantage of the question to list a bunch of my favorite games. 😂

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