BailerAppleby's recent activity
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Comment on Giving away three copies of my friend's recently-released game in ~games
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Comment on Best of Humble Bundle: Beamdog & Owlcat: RPG Masters (pay what you want and help charity) in ~games
BailerAppleby LinkGlad you posted this deal here. I'm very much inclined to buy this bundle at the second tier (as I have Rogue Trader from a previous bundle), but the one thing that is holding me back is that this...Glad you posted this deal here. I'm very much inclined to buy this bundle at the second tier (as I have Rogue Trader from a previous bundle), but the one thing that is holding me back is that this bundle represents thousands of potential playtime hours. I suppose that's not necessarily a bad thing, but man, that's a lot of playing.
This bundle showing up now is quite a coincidence for me as I have been binging the YouTube channel for Mortismal Gaming, this crazy guy who 100% all the games he reviews, of which the CRPGs in this bundle are his bread and butter. In fact, his hard playthrough of Tyranny is downright insane; it's where he spends half a week doing 50 runs to pass a particularly difficult section.
Anyways, he waxes so poetically about Pathfinder that this bundle sounds really appealing. This is a nice balance between old and new, which for me will probably mean playing Planescape again as well as Mythforce for the novelty of it.
Honestly, the time between Steam sales are too short, I have got to slow down, so this won't help the backlog at all.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby LinkThanks to @aphoenix, I've had the pleasure of playing Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, a perfectly competent boomer shooter. It runs fast and crisp, you'll die a lot, and much of it is earned, making it...Thanks to @aphoenix, I've had the pleasure of playing Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, a perfectly competent boomer shooter. It runs fast and crisp, you'll die a lot, and much of it is earned, making it a fair genre entry. The biggest complaints you can say about its functionality is that the enemies are spongy and the shotgun is terrible, a sin that nearly makes it unplayable, as the parlance goes.
Hot take time: Boltgun is a good game, but it's one Warharmmer doesn't deserve because fascism doesn't make for a good hero's narrative.
Sure, religious fanaticism sure makes sense to have in your tabletop game for collectible Freemasons as a justified motivation that allows for the sacrifice of blood-pressurized meatbags in untold numbers, wave after wave against the enemy. This type of desensitization allows for enjoyable fragging when you're Master Chief and the game is Halo.
Instead, with this uniquely first-person oppressor simulator, you're the chud that does the Emperor's bidding, only able to spew fascist doctrine such as "My love for the Imperium is matched only by my hatred for the heretic" (points for devoting a button controller for taunts). Sure, this guy is some hero in the Warhammer universe, but he's not very interesting here. Because as a fascist hero, your true value lies in your death as a martyr. It's complete this mission, or death. Failure isn't even an option, making for a linear narrative that is straighter than our hero being the edge of this blade!
I'd think the Warhammer strategy games are more interesting and relevant, but I'd say if yuppie deathcult spergers are truly confident in their hobby, they would make a cozy crafting video game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Players can show fealty to the Emperor by customizing their digital minifigs with heretic skulls and NMM bedazzled armor.
The other game I've been playing is Radical Relocation, an underappreciated puzzle game where you move from house to house with all your furniture Jenga'ed on top of your car. There are far too few games about cars that aren't about racing, and this is one great example (similar but different to You Suck at Parking, Distance, and various vapourware-inspired cruisers). In a sentence, this game is like working as an engineer with a gun pointed at your head.
This game really needs a campaign mode with characters and a story, a free roam mode where you can take jobs located throughout an open world map, and more humor to match its absurdist premise. It also needs a customizable radio in which every station is filled with relaxing, formless smooth jazz. But this version was so buggy and underappreciated that this will remain a gem hidden in the earth, so to speak.
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Comment on How many Hosers are there on Tildes? in ~talk
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Comment on Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of February 1 in ~games
BailerAppleby LinkFanatical is offering a charity bundle that benefits Safe In Our World: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/safe-in-our-world-charity-bundle-2026 22 games offered; the vast majority seem to be...Fanatical is offering a charity bundle that benefits Safe In Our World:
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/safe-in-our-world-charity-bundle-202622 games offered; the vast majority seem to be cozy-related games of which Peak is probably the most well-known one.
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Comment on Humble Choice - February 2026 in ~games
BailerAppleby Link ParentKey redeemed! Thank you so very much!Key redeemed! Thank you so very much!
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby Link ParentI'm sorry to have deprived you of this wonderful game! All I can say is that it is a genuinely self-affirming experience, ideologically relevant to our times, and is a type of fun that I wish more...I'm sorry to have deprived you of this wonderful game! All I can say is that it is a genuinely self-affirming experience, ideologically relevant to our times, and is a type of fun that I wish more games had. Here's wishing more people get to experience this great game!
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby LinkThanks to @CannibalisticApple, I've been enjoying Say No! More, and it is simply phenomenal. It's short, it features very limited gameplay, but it offers a sublime interactive experience that can...Thanks to @CannibalisticApple, I've been enjoying Say No! More, and it is simply phenomenal. It's short, it features very limited gameplay, but it offers a sublime interactive experience that can not be duplicated with other mediums, putting it on a golden-narrative standard as Bioshock, Braid, and The Stanley Parable.
Say No! More can probably be best be described as an anti-visual novel in that your input limits the content you see. And yet, your singular verbal communication action is so wonderful to use, you'll be "Heavy-Rain-Shauning" with glee during the extended cutscenes.
This is an uplifting, empowering story that is not afraid to be political. It successfully melding its warning against toxic positive with gameplay in the same way as Hardspace: Shipbreaker does with pro-union talk or the Terror of Hemasaurus does with environmental catastrophe. Say No! More features an incredible presentation and enjoyable destruction physics that you don't need to care about the evils of climbing the ladder of corporate culture; it's enjoyable all the same.
One more tip: Although you can not change the story audio that is exclusively English, one thing you can do is change the MC's speaking language, meaning you can say "No!" in a dozen languages, standout of which include the female Chinese one and the male German one, who starts singing Ride of the Valkyries when powering up his wacky "No!"
The only other thing I can add is only the double barreled shotgun from DOOM is as satisfying to use as a weapon than a "No!" from this tour-de-force.
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Comment on Humble Choice - February 2026 in ~games
BailerAppleby Link ParentI would like to request Date Everything if that is still available.Date Everything
I would like to request Date Everything if that is still available.
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Comment on Catherine O’Hara - legendary actress dead at 71 in ~movies
BailerAppleby Link ParentThey don't make them like they used toRIP Lola Heatherton
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Comment on Highguard | Official launch showcase in ~games
BailerAppleby (edited )Link ParentGeoff Keighley at the end of next year's Video Game Awards: Wow, what a great show. We gave away a lot of awards, and showed a lot of trailers. And now, we're done. [looks directly into camera]...Geoff Keighley at the end of next year's Video Game Awards: Wow, what a great show. We gave away a lot of awards, and showed a lot of trailers. And now, we're done. [looks directly into camera] That's it, the show's over. You can go home now.
[Geoff is also wearing a bathrobe and alluding to some reference, maybe. Consummate professional that he is, Geoff will continue to look into the camera for as long as the shot is live.]
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby Link ParentI'd recommend RE6 if a) you can pick it up for cheap and b) if you can stomach the excesses of triple A gaming. RE6 is bloated in all the worst ways possible to make it more palatable to mass...I'd recommend RE6 if a) you can pick it up for cheap and b) if you can stomach the excesses of triple A gaming. RE6 is bloated in all the worst ways possible to make it more palatable to mass audiences. Chris' campaign has been justifiably compared to being a Call of Duty copycat. One of the very worst things about it is that it has completely given up on the stop and shoot mechanic that made 4 and 5 so engaging and compelling.
Like, say I told you the milk has spoiled. Do you need to check it for yourself and go, "Yeah, that's spoiled milk alright"? That's me recommending RE6 to you.
Have not tried 7 or 8 yet, but can tell you that the hype for 9 is through the roof. Leon is back, and you can shove zombie heads into walls with your feet, so it looks like this is the version the fanboys have been clamoring for for years. Definitely content to wait it out and enjoy the memes in the interim.
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Comment on 2025 was a dumpster fire, so I made it into a model | Light-up flaming dumpster sculpture in ~hobbies
BailerAppleby LinkLove this YouTuber! He is a good foil to that other hobby miniature channel (Boylei?) and more of a regular contributor than Bobby Two Fingers. I think this is a good example to show how you don't...Love this YouTuber! He is a good foil to that other hobby miniature channel (Boylei?) and more of a regular contributor than Bobby Two Fingers.
I think this is a good example to show how you don't need to be overtly political (especially in places where such opinions are not welcome) to express your dissatisfaction with the way the world is going.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby (edited )LinkThanks to @kfwyre and the Christmas Giveaway, I've been enjoying BZZZT, or Celeste in which the self-actualization has been replaced by robot slavery. It's enjoyable precision platforming, but...Thanks to @kfwyre and the Christmas Giveaway, I've been enjoying BZZZT, or Celeste in which the self-actualization has been replaced by robot slavery. It's enjoyable precision platforming, but this scrolling adventure story fails to inspire the player motivation needed for this type of grueling genre.
I was in the mood, so I've been playing Resident Evil 6, the one that broke the series. It is fascinating how Capcom spent $50 million+ to have 600 people work on something that could be a topic for a Red Letter Media BOTW video. But it's not all bad. I truly hated Chris' campaign while playing it only to realize it is the best one of the bunch:
Spoilers for an obtusely confusing game
Chris has PSTD from screwing up and getting people killed. It's made clear that he is on a redemptive arc where he needs to correct the sins of his past. But that doesn't happen. You'd think this make for a bad story, but no.
The story concludes Chris' redemption arc by making him responsible for even more deaths. Chris gets paired with a red shirt who sacrifices himself against the big bad so that Chris can continue to star in more Resident Evil games.
Chris learns that to stop being sad, he needs to accept that these deaths are necessary. He is not the kind of hero that saves everyone if for no better reason that his failures are forgivable.
(Let's not bring up all the people he killed with the Racoon City-ization of an entire Hong Kong neighborhood that Chris is responsible for. We want him out of the dive bar and out punching boulders.)
Truly transcendent material for an RE game.
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Comment on The "why does this movie exist" scene in ~movies
BailerAppleby Link ParentJust watched the clip, and my first thought was "Those poor, harmless people are being gunned down by the one guy in a room armed with a gun." All the same, I am sure this clip is remains the best...Just watched the clip, and my first thought was "Those poor, harmless people are being gunned down by the one guy in a room armed with a gun." All the same, I am sure this clip is remains the best scene in the movie.
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Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | X-Men teaser in ~movies
BailerAppleby LinkThe MCU cannibalizes the titles of its most popular storylines for name recognition, not to faithful to its legacy. So although there may be some elements that remain (i.e. heroes gathered in a...The MCU cannibalizes the titles of its most popular storylines for name recognition, not to faithful to its legacy. So although there may be some elements that remain (i.e. heroes gathered in a big crossover event), I'm making the prediction that few things from the original Secret Wars and Secret Wars II (when the Beyonder had jerry curls) will remain. There won't be a Battle Planet, there won't be a lineup of Marvel villains (that have mostly been killed off), and there probably won't even be a Beyonder.
Instead, I bet its Dr Doom who is responsible for assembling all the heroes (including bringing in the X-Men from a parallel universe). Most of the fighting action of the first movie will be the heroes fighting each other (the superhero way of dogs sniffing each others butts) to which Doom will win at the end. The second movie is the heroes finally teaming up to take on Doom and win.
More left field predictions:
- At least one hero will die, but it won't be those that deserve the send off. Instead, Marvel will squander some guy like Shang-Chi who got just the one movie and then was left out to dry. My bet is on Dr Strange, Feige's favorite, who will no longer be the franchise's anchor character now that Pedro Pascal has arrived.
- As if the announced lineup isn't enough, there will be even more teases of new characters. My dark horse pick is Squirrel Girl because Marvel knows it needs to really appeal to fans, and her IP is ripe for exploitation.
- Things are going so bad for comic book movies that I predict the impossible will occur within 5 years: Marvel will do a crossover movie with DC, and it will be with Spider-Man and Bat Man. This movie will have something that points in that direction.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby Link ParentI feel like a guide will be used sometime in my life very soon, but I will resist the temptation as best I can. Glad to meet a fellow blobber, bet you harken back to the halcyon days of MS-DOS....I feel like a guide will be used sometime in my life very soon, but I will resist the temptation as best I can. Glad to meet a fellow blobber, bet you harken back to the halcyon days of MS-DOS.
Yes. I have examined myself, asked the pertinent questions, and come up with the answer that I very much want this game, please.
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Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards in ~games
BailerAppleby LinkWith Steam users spending just 14% of their playtime on games released in 2025, they need to open a retro category that appeals to the majority who, by this metric, should not be voting for the...With Steam users spending just 14% of their playtime on games released in 2025, they need to open a retro category that appeals to the majority who, by this metric, should not be voting for the Steam Awards and all of its current-year nominees.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
BailerAppleby LinkThanks to @kfwyre and the Holiday Giveaway, I had the chance to play Etrian Odyssey HD and be blessed with the game's affirmation that manual mapping is the best part of dungeon crawling. Like CGI...Thanks to @kfwyre and the Holiday Giveaway, I had the chance to play Etrian Odyssey HD and be blessed with the game's affirmation that manual mapping is the best part of dungeon crawling. Like CGI to a comic book movie, automapping is a quality of feature of dungeon crawling whose mandatory inclusion actively makes it worse. This game makes an approximation of making old-school grid maps, and it directly nails what makes monster habitat spelunking so compelling.
I don't know if I have the required number of hours to put into this time sink and its massive skill tree, but I am glad all the same that cute anime girls don't seem to be the focus of this modern blobber.
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Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: Holiday 2025 in ~games
BailerAppleby Link ParentSo awesome, thank you very much for this!So awesome, thank you very much for this!
Congrats on joining Tildes, good on you for helping your friend, fortuitous for me as this is my kind of game.
Good luck everyone!