This reminds me of a bit I ran across recently.
Vampire is putting the bite on a victim in a library.
Librarian: "What do you think you're doing?"
Points to sign saying "No food or drink in the library"
Vampire: "Sorry, sorry" (starts dragging victim out)

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Oddly, exactly because I've never been a fervent Star Wars fan, I've been less affected by the Disney decline. So I'm not much more "over" Star Wars than I ever was . . . still planning on watching a few bits I haven't seen that are reputed to be good, and skipping the rest. And I like XCOM 2 quite well, and that general kind of game quite a lot. So, this does intrigue me.

I remember when I first bought the book "Star Wars", and it said "Soon to be a major motion picture" on the cover, and twelve year old me said "Oh like that's going to happen, nobody makes science fiction movies". Then it came out and I thought "Well, it's fun, but not exactly the 'Lensman' series. What's with these stupid ship guns going 'pew pew pew' instead of having ravening beams of energy? And what's with fighter spacecraft doing these curving turns in space using wings?! Come on!" But over time I became reconciled to Star Wars as a pretty good fantasy in space.

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Where is Pengling when we really need her? :wink:

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Well, the name is an old, nearly obsolete word that was in vogue for horror back in the day, like Edgar Allan Poe era; it kind of means horrifying, but very much with that "hair going up on the back of the neck" connotation (I think maybe even explicit denotation, like horripilation is literally the phenomenon of your hair standing on end because you're scared, so something is horripilant if it causes that to happen). So to me as a sometime reader of old school stuff, it's fairly cool.

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I feel like the last few days there have been a lot of Native Linux announcements. Some very, very late--but that's even more interesting. We're seeing games where the developers didn't think it was worth it to make the game native ten years ago or at any time since, suddenly saying "Now's the time!"

Co-incidence? Did it get easier recently? Does the Steam Deck just have that much buzz? But even there, they're not making sure it works on Proton, they're going Native. It's nice to see, but I'm curious if there's something driving it.

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That's an interesting explanation. I have to think something is failing in the corporate world when someone is saying "We did this for free because the way things are set up, actually making money from it would have been much too hard!"

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Deckbuilding? Look, I understand that in a pirate game you're going to be improving your ship, but it doesn't even start with a deck?! What about masts?

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Love the license plate in that first picture.

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When I read "boomer shooter" this time I suddenly imagined an FPS game where everyone above a certain age became zombies so you have to shoot all the . . .
Really it's kind of an iffy term.

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That does look rather fun.

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