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Wow, I completely missed this game. Thanks BeefSanta for confirming it's not too difficult. I love these metroidvanias.

@Limberlost it's a common sentiment, and I understand that. What's not visible outright is that quotas highlight the invisible privilege. Being a white man, I never know if I was hired because I was better or because I'm a man. But as a man, I can choose to ignore having this privilege and instead be always sure it's just my experience and achievements that get me jobs. Quotas merely level the field: now nobody can be sure. And that's an issue, just not with feminism or anything social.

@Not_Soos actually we see that in the US corporate structures, where asian leadership hires more asian people than others. So yes, all kinds of biases are at work. But at the same time, if we allow while male bias, why not do the same with a black women leadership? Maybe it turns out black women naturally have more of a tendancy towards leadership than white men, and we just missed that.

In other news, a Sega executive is still unsure whether water is wet.

Some of you think that it is easy to evaluate a person's knowledge and experience without a bias. But between a white man and a woman / black man / person wearing bad clothes / person too young, who would you choose? "Yes I will ask them same questions and choose wisely" — no you won't. You will immediately hit it off with a white man because of shared experience and culture, and will be careful with others. And then hire the man because of "culture fit". Even if others had better experience and more knowledge — but you just failed to dig that up because you have been talking to white males in your company for many years and at this point have no idea how other kinds of people work. Especially in Japan, with their enormous gap between what's normal for men and women.

So no, the quotas don't make incompetent people get into your company. They make you do a double take and then reluctantly hire a competent person over a familiar one. And it works every time, according to some studies.

huh, so many republicans/conservatives in comments, I thought this website had a lower target audience age.

regarding the article, suprised pikachu face

Instructions unclear, my Switch is now inside a vacuum cleaner.

Hmm, I wonder if the score is low because the reviewer expected something more. Like, "just a book, not a game, 6/10" for a visual novel.

And, I wonder how it fares compared to other hidden object games — notably, Tiny Lands and Hidden Through Time.

Hmmm, "Minecraft Switch port devs" is not the best introduction for a game

I play Sky for half a year, and read of veterans coming back to it after a year or two. Nothing changes except for more area and more cosmetics. It is a very nice game.

Smushi looked really good in trailers and reviews!

@Fizza oh thanks for the reminder — was going to comment that E12S got me interested and probably gonna day 1 because I have kids, but on the other hand.....

Warning: this update closes some holes that made possible to install custom firmware. Basically if you update, you might lose the ability to jailbreak the console (for a time).

Source: https://twitter.com/mattgcn/status/1660819460859764737

Huh, Zhitinsky's name is pretty familiar to people who lived in Saint-Petersburg a couple decades ago, like me He became known from his online activity and connections to really good writers. Was an engineer, founded the first print-on-demand publishing house. Made a few literature projects on the net. Died in 2012, 11 years after this pokemon encyclopaedia was published. (facts from Russian wikipedia)

Pobble bobble everybobble looks promising for a 4-player coop, wishlisted.

Yeah, it's all 2D moving art or 3D low-poly scenes with some filters, so I believe it will look decent enough on Switch.

Started Lego City Underground recently, and cannot put it down. What an entertaining game! Very simple, hence quite relaxing, but with a few good jokes and a satisfying collect-a-thon.

Pretty sure I'll buy TOTK when I finish the BOTW, which is ~5 years in the future. So for now, Puzzle Buzzle Everybuzzle I guess.

Sadly I contributed to this with 7 tickets. Watched the movie twice. Didn't want to, but hard to argue with kids. It's very enjoyable in the moment (the second time around too), but feels empty when it ends.

Toad costs 40 €. So the actual sale prices are £24.5 / 28 €.

@Cashews they want to get everything out before announcing the entire new lineup for Switch 2 this June.

Don't forget BQM - BlockQuest Maker, which I bought on a sale for 1 € a year ago, and it can also be used to make isometric zelda-like games. And it has tons of user-created levels in its library!

https://www.nintendolife.com/games/switch-eshop/bqm_-blockquest_maker-

Devolver has been their publisher all this time, so nothing really changes except Microsoft cannot buy them now.

There is no dedicated page on EU eShop currently, but you can still buy it from the Deku Deals page. It costs 50 € / 40 £, and the full one 65 € / 54 £.

Given the max discount for previous games was -40%, I expect the same for the trilogy by Christmas.

I've got a child like Cereza and I should tell you it's not easy to be a parent of one! Very fun, but not easy.

@TheBigBlue yes, it's called "Box Boy + Box Girl" I think.

Digger Dan is a great Boulder Dash-alike, very recommended!

Yaaay, Figment 2! The music in the first game was phenomenal. Also, The Wreck sounds interesting, i liked the trailer.

Well in our shops (Baltics) I see Switch V2 w/o games for 340 €. So having a new one with a game included for 300 seems to be an improvement.

Amazing, added it to my wish list.

@molkom they explained in a tweet that while the Switch fix for the crashes is ready, they could not push it until Monday. So until the update, they have disabled chatting, since it was what made the game crash. Expect chat to be back with 0.20.6 update around Monday-Tuesday.

So first and important, this patch introduces crashes and door issues. They are investigating this and hopefull will fix tomorrow.

I have been playing Sky for two months, since Aurora. I cannot overstate how awesome this game is. First about the levels and platforming, then about candles and collecting, and now about people and friends. Graphics is wonderful, music never gets old, and there is nothing to get exhausted from: no competition, no fighting. It's a joy to open this game every day, do the chores and see the friends. I love it.

I wonder if "Pillars of the Earth" contains the whole story, or just the first book.

The new console is called Nintendo Sweetch, and half the games announced are actually made for it, but not explicitly stated.

Haven't started the first one yet, so by the time I finish, I'm sure I could get TotK used for half a price.

Whaaaaat?! Kate, I will miss your writing! It was the best! T_T
Good luck to you!

Seeing that one-punch skin is weird, given Saitama was a regular-looking absolutely unfit guy, who nobody supposed of having any powers

@Ventilator there are different kind of rhythm games, in some I suck, in others (Deemo!) I feel like a great musician Rhythm games are like musical instruments: hard to master all of them, but some may fit better.

I owned multiple consoles including playstations, psp, 3ds and others. Switch is the only one I didn't drop after a month. It's highly unlikely I'll play anything but Switch in the future. So Switch 2 please.

So many good games this week! Besides the obvious ones, Matter of Principle is made by a well-known comic artist, and Salamander TV got really good reviews.

Seen on reddit that Vox Populi feature requires a NSO subscription.

Bought this game the moment it went on sale (it still is — just 1 €, which is crazy) and almost finished the first level. The music and all the sounds are excellent, and there's a bit of history in there that's entertaining enough. I love the game, would've paid more. Too bad the choice is between 8 and 1 euro.

Wow, the last Pokemon have sold in few months almost the same as Mario Kart in 5 years. That's crazy.

So regarding Papers, Please, a month ago Lucas Pope posted to twitter that they rewrote the game in Unity. Which means, it's now multiplatform-ready. https://twitter.com/dukope/status/1596694987567435776

Merry Christmas NL and all the people who comment or read this

Will buy Melatonin the moment it drops to 10€. Amazing game.

They made it so wide that a dock would fit inside. I'd make it sleeker by putting a dock from a hole below, so that the gap is wide enough for a Switch alone.

As far as I know, merger is still not finalized, and now under a threat of being cancelled by antitrust authorities (see news from a month ago). One of the reasons is that with the merger, they aquire rights to biggest franchises, and their console gains an unfair advantage. Namely, CoD.

So now they are trying to make it look like they care about other consoles and that they definitely won't make their key games locked to Xbox. Hence the pledges to Sony and Nintendo. If all the console companies refuse the deals, Microsoft might be in trouble, since they now have to pay Activizion-Blizzard regardless of the outcome.

Not really a goodwill gesture, just a company trying to sugarcoat a monopoly.

Disabled the ad-blocker but still didn't see the survey. Inspecting the page source, I see a javascript that creates an iframe with a survey box, supplying it the user id. Obviously I cannot post the link with your user id.

I hope that building has enough cats. Will check.