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Nautilus

Grudges must always be the first to die when a storm arrives.

After years away you return home to your dying father, but will you be able to get your brother to forgive you for leaving? And will you step up to the challenge to inherit your father's most prized possession?

Written as part of the 2023 Spring/Summer Contest: Gone Fishin' it is a game with a much bigger focus on story than gameplay, but still there is a decent amount of endings and variation for something this short.

Republished to fix a coding error in a later scene

Been a while since I played Mankind, but I'm pretty sure you could do that to all the bosses on top of the option to deal with them non-lethally.

I believe the explanation was that she was fully focused on her research and barely interacted with people in general before the game. Also the 100 years is somewhat more believable for a species that lives up to 1000.

There's dozens of characters like that in a new genre of AI generated sci-fi slop power fantasy stories you can find on youtube. Took me weeks to prune it from my feed, but I bet they're still being uploaded.

ME in general always felt bad at believably establishing relationships but once they were established it shined with paying them off in various ways. Also I always felt that Tali's romance was very similar to Liara's in their fundamentals, but so much better executed simply because she was a proper character and there was a believable explanation behind her crush. I almost feel like it'd be better if she was romanceable in 1 instead of Liara.

I like having the option for romance in games where it makes sense. The entire theme of Persona games is about human relations, and not having romance in those games would be weird even if they're done in a very anime way, and BG3 just wouldn't be as good at recreating the DND table feel if people didn't have the option to be annoyingly horny. The real issue is that modern studios treat it as a must have while being really bad at writing romance into their games, and if I have to chose between no romance and bad romance I will chose no romance 10 times out of 10.

As a relatively young(er) male I like reading, but it does feel like an activity that's in this awkward middle ground where if I need to sit back and relax my brain I'd rather watch something instead of straining my imagination as I flip the pages, and when I want to spend time on something more stimulating a video game will do that in more ways than a book. Because of that reading is something I do when the other options aren't available, or I find a story that really peaks my interest. Also in reference to the tweet itself shelves in Target are a bad example for which gender reads more. Those sections are actually targeted at women because they're are more likely to buy a random book while shopping for other stuff. Guys usually get what they want and leave the store while girls look around more and often tend to end up with extra shit at checkout. Not saying men read as much as women. My guess is they do it less, at least based on my own friend circles, but it's probably not nearly as bad as the video makes it seem.

DBNB Brings No Bitches

Can personally attest to Wrath being impressive from a writing and character standpoint. In certain aspects it even tops Baldur's Gate 3, even if it is a bit less friendly to those not familiar with table top RPGs.

A tale of an angry man brutally murdering every Mondeo driver he finds in his search for the one who hurt the thing he cares about more than most people. Bit cliche, but has potential

I ruined a rare factory wheel I can't just buy a single of and blew the airbags, but it's nothing I won't be able to fix with enough time and money. Most important thing is nobody got hurt, though if I ever manage to track down the moron who cut me off there will be a casualty.