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Sonic Roboblast 2 Kart and its successor Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers are open source, and pretty fun! The exact degree to which they're free-as-in-libre depends somewhat on Sega's policy of turning a blind eye to fan games, so although GPL-2.0 permits commercial use I wouldn't recommend testing it.

There is a lively modding scene (or there was for SRB2K last time I was playing it; I haven't played RR yet). Ring Racers has single-player content if that's what you're looking for, I hear it's quite challenging.

The last time I was handing out candy at my old neighborhood, kids would ring the doorbell but then they'd just stand there and stare at me until I handed them candy. You're supposed to say "trick or treat"!

Now I live in an apartment, so I don't get trick-or-treaters. (I have candy just in case, but nobody ever knocks.) My roommate went to hang out with his sister and hand out candy at her place, and apparently their neighborhood has decreed that trick-or-treating ends at 7 sharp now so that nobody is out after dark? I don't get it. I thought staying out late (and, for teens, potentially unsupervised) was part of the fun!

Apparently the Narcan is "in case fentanyl is deployed as a chemical weapon." How often does this happen? I can find one instance of Russia using aerosolized fentanyl against Chechen separatists during a hostage situation in 2002.

This doesn't strike me as an especially efficient way to increase security.

Wow knowing the asset reuse was by design makes me feel way less charitable towards DA2. (I don't know if I'd go as far as the other commenter and say it's "a bad game," but I didn't like it.)

Initial reviews seem remarkably positive given what we saw in the first gameplay reveal a few months ago. My impression at the time was that about half the voice actors sounded like they hadn't been given enough context about the scenario and some of the cutscenes had questionable direction, which were bad signs for a curated ten minute slice. I still think it's ultimately not for me—I don't really want action combat in my Dragon Age—but I'm glad people are enjoying it.

So fuck Alex Jones, but I really don't think it's a good idea to force people to sell their accounts so that other people can impersonate them. It's just inviting social engineering attacks.

• Do what thou wilt
• This shall be the whole of the Law
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https://youtu.be/4nyHPIcbn88 (nsfw lyrics)

Was that this studio, or their other studio that's been running since 2017? This one, "Team Blue," was supposed to be working on some unannounced AAA game.

I think you're right, it must have been the sequel!

Is this the one where I kept trying to go visit my mom (as part of my belligerent insistence on looking for stuff to do in the open world after every mission), but the game wouldn't let me go into any building that wasn't the next story mission, and then later the main character got chewed out by his mom for never visiting her? I did find that annoying.

How good of a friend are we talking? I care about my roommate's new nephew. I know his sister, and we've played D&D with his brother-in-law. The baby is, like, a relevant part of being friends with them. Similarly, if he went on vacation I'd want to hear about how it went, especially if anything interesting happened.

On the other hand some of my coworkers at my last job liked to talk about this kind of stuff, and I didn't really care, but it was nice to have something to talk about while I was setting up a new printer for them, or whatever.