I believe the things you are calling out are an integral part of the ARPG genre so there isn’t going to be much change to the core without fundamentally changing the game you’re playing. Plenty of people enjoy the wanton clicky destruction and seeing numbers rise, just look how popular stuff like cookie clicker is.

Have you tried monster hunter? (Or god eater or wild hearts) Those games sound a lot like what you’re describing. At its heart the core gameplay is ‘Hunt monsters to gather parts to make better gear to hunt more powerful monsters’

Instead of mowing down tones of small things though, you take down a single large and dangerous foe. As you progress, new and more powerful foes appear, but despite the large roster of monsters, they all feel unique. And while better gear certainly helps, a good deal of skill is also required.

Wait, the three mile island thing wasn’t a joke?

I lived the collectibles in Anacronox, they were little golden taco trophies and their lore was that they used to be highly sought after until it came out that TACO stood for Totally Arbitrary Collectible Object and it tanked the market.

You meet a guy that held on till the bitter end but finally had to sell off his collection because he needed the money, so you give him any you find for trinkets and stuff to help him rebuild his collection.

Edge defaulting to the default pdf viewer is the bane of my existence

Kerbal space program 2 was somehow both rushed and delayed :(

It looked intriguing at first even if the trailer was all prerendered, unfortunately it’s an asymmetric pvp game which is an instant turn off for me :(

I don’t know if I’m opposed to store exclusives exactly, but epic was paying out the nose to drive people to their store that didn’t even have a shopping cart.

They launched a store without a feature every online store has had for decades

It was always a matter of when, not if.

Oh man, it has been ages since I read transmetropolitan. It is strange that I was just thinking about it the other day though.

I only ever got to play one game some number of years back, and it was under the savage pands rules, but I absolutely loved it.

The magic system is all flavored as mad science, so you picked your spells from the generic savage worlds book and then flavored it however you felt fit your character.

My stun spell was a little hand-held contraption I had built called a ‘gastrointestinal defortification projector’ It went ‘BWOMPH’ and anyone within 20 feet shat themselves or threw up.

I pooped myself the first time I used it in combat…

I feel like the Ghostbusters reboot was the first big example of this. It was rightly criticized for being an actually bad movie, and Sony dismissed it and doubled down on the misogyny angle.

The funny thing is Whill Wheaton has famously bad luck with dice

I tried bazzite and nobara which are both the big gaming distros. Bazzite worked the best but I had a ton of just weird little issues with stuff randomly not working unless I restarted it. I don’t have much to say about nobara because I couldn’t actually get steam to work for some reason.

I went back to mint and honestly it’s been the smoothest and easiest to use distro, plus it has a larger user base so it’s easier to find help.

Oh…so I dug further, and apparently the only in-house game to their name is a blade runner title that’s still in development.

Annapurna was both, this article is saying that the development side broke off from the publishing side.

I was so looking forward to this game because the aestetic was so cool…and then I played, and it was a buggy always online mess with a convoluted crafting system. So disappointing.

Disposable vapes have to be a thousand times worse than k-cups.

I was floored when one of my coworkers was showing off his vape that played games and stuff and said he went through one a week.

I wonder if they will confer special abilities to essentially build a custom class on the fly.

I totally understand the mortality aspect, I was just thinking if a patient is 100% going to die from liver failure without a transplant, any chance to live from a live donor seems worth it. Of course I don’t know any statistics so I have nothing to base it on.

Maybe euthanasia should be a legal option instead of a slow agonizing death that puts next of kin into medical debt.

It’s not super clear, but the article makes it sound like if a partial graft from a live donor fails, then the recipient is automatically fast tracked for a new transplant from a deceased donor.

If that’s the case then maybe policy should be changed in the case of alcohol abuse.