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Damn it Russ, they’re peppercorns.

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Came here for this. But to me they are now shapes.

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For anyone who enjoys the new Half-Life 2 commentary, Valve also has full commentaries for Half- Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2, Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Team Fortress 2, and Half-Life: Alyx. They are very enlightening about the work that goes into the games.

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I loved the commentary nodes in Portal 1 & 2, and I might give HL2 another try after bouncing off it a few years back (didn't like the driving sections).

The early Amnesia series also have similar commentary nodes that I thought were really informative too, and wish this was an option in more games.

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y’all gotta check out The Bazaar. by far the best take on an auto-battler I’ve played, it’s addicting.

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Just here to shout out that Inscryption is out on Gamepass now. So, if you’ve slept in this game like I did, the time has come!! It’s sooooo good!

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Best cold open ever. I would listen to a full podcast just about Russ “freeze-that-fuckin-bread” Frushtick’s food revelations.

Also, funny, I *just* bought an Anbernic RG35xx+, and while the RG40xxv is already giving me FOMO lol I am excited by the idea of figuring out port master and bringing over games like UFO 50.

Retro game corps has a guide on how to install Shovel Knight on your device and I think that will be my first non-retro game I try, although I admit at that point I could probably just play the 3DS version lol.

Also also, holy shit is Matthew me?! lol I bought both RdR2 and D4 this year and had a hard time with each because of the slow pace of the former and the overwhelming options of the latter and not knowing how to play. I would love to hear from him what build guide he used or where he looked for them.

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I would like to personally thank griffin for helping me survive this work day, I downloaded Pokémon tcgp and played it all day. I started liking Pokémon at an age where I couldn’t justify the price of trading card and this feels like everything I dreamed of and for free, as well as being perfect for my job. I never would have considered downloading it myself!

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https://youtu.be/QAi1SoyNUUw

John Rambo in Half-Life 2

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Big head's up for the UFO 50 on retro handhelds question: Some of the games included in UFO 50 have slowdown even on the better Linux-based devices. I bought an RGB10max3 as my dedicated UFO 50 handheld and games like Ninpek and the towns in Grimstone run very slowly. The developer of the port has confirmed that there's no slowdown on the new Retroid Pocket devices that support Portmaster but at that point you're spending like $200.

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This is going to say a lot about me, but I always think of all indie rock bands as just a bunch of white people. I never knew that TV on the Radio is exclusively POC. That doesn't change anything about the band. They're still very good, but I definitely need to update my point of view on that.

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Pro tip to mix things up in Pokemon TCG Pocket: if you put in the code “NOEX” in a private match, you match up with some random person playing a no ex based deck.

Yes there are some trolls out there who will queue into that with EX decks, but you can just concede and go in again. The community developed this and now it’s a thing. Bet we will see it become its own game mode or event.

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This rules, thank you for this!! I like EX/V/etc cards a lot in the regular TCG where you need 6 points to win, but with Pocket's 3 points I felt like matches really came down to who lost their EX first, since the surviving EX can usually just sweep out the next pokemon (and one energy per turn means they probably aren't set up, anyway)

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Agreed. Sometimes I feel like I have an advantage when I’m not using and EX deck and my opponent is because of it being a 3 point game

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Breath of the wild was a game that I liked much more once I slowed down and played it at its own pace. When I first played it, I played it like an on-the-rails Zelda game, and didn't really get what it was going for. It was only on my second try where I truly got lost in the world and understood the magic

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sorry super late to this episode, but have to share for anyone looking for a UFO 50 device that the trim ui smart pro running crossmix os is a perfect fit and you can from aliexpress for like $40-50 when it's on sale. and you can totally transfer your saves around. If you follow the conversation in this reddit thread there's a decent discussion of how to transfer saves and how to resolve some of the issues along the way. https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/comments/1fydfow/ufo_50_running_smoothly_via_portmaster_on_the/ That said, I'll also add that if you're new to these retro handhelds, be ready for some trial and error and figuring out exactly which files to put exactly where as part of the experience... nothing's as close to as seamless as the official cloud saves from any of the big companies.

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To the person that rediscovered Red Dead 2,

I played this the same way and enjoyed it very much. I think the devs really intended the have to be a slow process. Slow down and smell the roses. For example, in a session, I would decide to do a mission and make a whole day of it. I would eat breakfast before leaving camp, maybe go into town to get supplies, travel to to mission, do the mission, set up a camp site, go hunt something to eat at my campsite, sleep, go to town to sell the pelt or maybe donate it to camp. It was built so well to love in the world and I loved it!

Another game that I had a similar experience with was Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The game is very very long but it has some of the structure that made me enjoy RD2. There is a settlement in the game that grows over time. New people arrive with character missions. You can eat and sleep at the camp. A lot of the main story missions are localized to their own region. So I would make these long journeys to go do the London missions and end it by coming home and throwing a give feast at my settlement.

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I just watched Kiru (aka Destiny's Son) on Criterion Channel. It is an epic samurai tale from Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub and Zatoichi) that is only 70 minutes long. Yall gotta check this out.

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One of the worst cold opens yet, keep it up boys!

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🎮👾

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