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John Walker
rebotherer
Seeker of indie secrets, needlessly beautiful, purveyor of www.buried-treasure.org.

Do you show up at funerals of people you don’t have a real connection to and yell at the family because you think they chose the wrong coffin? What is wrong with you?!? Read more

This is my favorite leaked scene so far:

Energy maintenance kills me every time. So I go hard normal and use Noctowl for control, and a draw-heavy supporter spread. I cannot let my son get his big guns out without having an answer or the match is over.
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Pokemon literally taught my son to read. I had, as a way of beginning to dabble in this phenomenon myself, been getting booster packs with him since he was three (his very first had a shiny Pikachu, an auspicious beginning), and deep in the pandemic he asked me yet again if we could play Pokemon. And I asked him, yet Read more

Pokémon came out just a bit too late for me the first time around, but now that I have an eight year old it’s a completely different story. And by eight year old I mean a small, human shaped walking, talking Pokédex.  Read more

Thank you for this. I’m 38 and my 7yo is DEEP in this journey. Also started via Youtube, but we had to cut off the youtube videos because of the dopamine “unpack more decks!” fix. Read more

Trying to avoid responsibility, eh? No chance, Walker!
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The thought that Lopunny wouldn’t come up in this discussion is what a fool believes. Read more

My only complaint with Cult of the Lamb is that I wish there was more! It’s a great game. Read more

Fails to take into account number of levels, weapons, and cutscenes, which are essential for determining how good a game is. Read more

some indie developer came along and made a 15-hour RPG, but sold it for $3, you’d get a score of 3!” Read more

Free-to-play games are INFINITELY good. Finally some recognition for Diablo Immortal /s Read more

i gotta check this out, love a good imsim and the way u describe it sounds super interesting. tho the headline is funny as it looks like its also trying to push prey
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This is a classic case of execs looking at popular thing and saying “We need to make money off of that” without knowing why said thing is popular. Read more

Clickbait” is when the premise of the headline is not reflected in the content of the article. This headline is talking about how the writer feels their enjoyment of the game was dininised by a mechanic of the game. The body and text of the article explains that premise in furthet detail. This isn’t clickbait. This Read more

Damn, they really couldn’t have added 68 more pieces somewhere? Read more

Lego’s master plan to turn Gen X childhood into injection molded plastic bricks and sell them to us at a premium lands somewhere between pure genius and utterly diabolical. That faux wood grain hitting me right in the feels. Read more