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PineSol
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I work on video games and have way too many hobbies.
Yeah, 1-3 get most of the nostalgia love but imo 4-6 are just much better made games. 6 will always be my favorite.
January 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Megaman 2 has some weird curve to the difficulty because of things like Metal Blade being broken. Megaman 3 tried to go harder I feel because of this and went overboard on top of being a very rushed game. After Megaman 3 though the rest of the NES games have a lot better balance and design.
January 9, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Easy to start a game expecting everything to be doable with AI. Impossible to finish it with the same assumptions.
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The US has a history of keeping the status of the presidents health a secret from the public.

If he were to die we’d probably know very quickly but if he were to be in the process of potentially dying we won’t know until it happens or not know the truth for years afterwards if it doesn’t.
August 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Don't tell them that the Horus Heresy novels exist in universe and are based partially on old romance novels written about the time period, their heads might explode
August 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The wiki part is the real problem. People don't read the actual lore and just go through the wiki and then get shocked when they realize that the actual lore is presented very differently.
August 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I still remember early COVID era when a good chunk of my recruiter emails came from start ups wanting to make roblox games.
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm glad I try not to get involved with my hobby spaces online much these days.

Caught up with an ongoing book series this weekend and wanted to see what fan theories people had and immediately get hit with: "This series sucks, here's how I fixed the problems it has in my self published series"
June 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
But then again I've watched this play out dozens of times before with DnD and Magic. No matter how many amazing other games exist in the world people just keep flocking to WotC only to be let down over and over.
June 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Saw an ancient history professor talking about how students are turning in papers this year that all use conspiracy theories as sources because the actual sources aren't readily available online.
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My studio can’t keep tech artists because they hire to be generalists and pay them crap.

I’ve had to do tech art work recently because were short handed but I’ve also been told to not let it affect my engineering tasks because “you’re paid too much to do tech art.”
June 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yeah, been forever since I played through sky. Knew it was a C word hah
June 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM