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That IS my motivation, but the thing wasn't on my quest log because it doesn't show up until you happen by that train station, which the main quests don't put you near. It's insane

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(given that only half to three quarters of all potential players know Chris Murphy)

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Arkham City did this too, grapnel boost gated behind "AR challenges" which you'd never do otherwise and it doesn't tell you? It was fine for me because I know @highlyspammable.bsky.social and he told me before I even started the game but it's weird to design the game around knowing Chris Murphy

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If I had this ability earlier I would have been enjoying the game so much more, god damn. I should not be surprised I guess since I ended up writing an actual guide to enjoying the first game bsky.app/profile/did:...

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It was crazy hard at first to the point of being bullshit, and then it was satisfyingly tough because I was nailing all my dodges, and now I haven't dodged for hours because I'm powerful enough to just barely take damage I guess. It's weird

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Also the ability I couldn't do without this side quest is plainly the same move he does if you execute a sufficiently staggered enemy? It's the same animation and everything. Fuck off

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I eventually just googled "what is the go with these distorty orbs" since I hit a main story arena clearly designed around them and the internet is like "yeah you have to go to this random point on the map". Fuck off

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 8h

maaaan Control 2, why you gotta have an essential traversal ability not only gated by a side quest but it's one you aren't even told about until you stumble upon its exact location. I'm so confused. If you do this 2 games in a row you must think it's good but how could you think that!

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nothing is more optimistic than a mailing list being like "did you unsubscribe by mistake?" girl don't even ask you are embarrassing yourself

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i would a billion times rather replay a linear, same-every-time, authored experience that i like than something that tries to keep things fresh with random elements

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 12/02/2025

you haven't lived until you've been told "we finally wrapped up vertical slice 4 and we'll be moving everyone on to vertical slice 5"

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every time i listen to the album "gorillaz" by gorillaz i want to repeatedly play the single player demo of star wars jedi knight jedi academy on a crt monitor in a 120 year old house in brisbane in 40 degree heat 95% humidity. i assume this happens to everyone. g_saberrealisticcombat 1

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 15/10/2024

facts

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They're saying it will ruin the family computer

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 25/05/2026

PSA: the experts are saying that chatgpt will give you a computer virus

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vonnegut... hell of a guy

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 28/09/2026

yellow is an underutilized colour of car

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KEY LARGO MONTEGO BABY WHY DON'T WE GO

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weirdly finding the bosses in control 2 to be the easiest part. first one i got in 3 tries, second in 2, third in 1. it is normal mfs who fuck me

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daphne is seemingly doing pretty ok btw .. everyone who gave her money for her vet care is a saint

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playing control 2 in the middle of the day

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"do not ingest the mould" god shut the fuck up, i do what i want

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ripped a hole in a chain link fence using scythe today

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i couldn't believe in control 1 that they didn't just put all the weapon forms on number keys and let you switch without going into a menu and i again can't believe that shit in control 2. what the hell kind of a choice is that

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hey gang what's the best kind of blade for cutting a stout black thorn to banish ghosts and goberlins one two tree fer foive

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That'd be cool if reliably how you got poisoned was drinking something, but it was usually a gas

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i've had so many of these working on imsims. my first was the guards in my stealth game who could hear each other's footsteps and if they didn't already know roughly where the other guy was they would investigate each other and be surprised to see each other. in first person this looks like nothing

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blog post: i know two things about runescape www.joewintergreen.com/i-know-two-t...

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I think you technically can if you find one with both stairs onto the roof and a skylight, lmao. If that exists...

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you didn't even have to be near the saloon for this to happen so of course sometimes you'd just rock up and everyone was dead or fighting or on fire

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coolest cut interaction i think, even though it was right to cut it, was if someone had too much to drink they would vomit and the vomit was the alcohol and the alcohol was flammable. so you'd get a guy drinking too much at the saloon and vomiting near a candle. whole place erupts into chaos

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also on WW for a long time there was a much more elaborate "elemental" system where the (still present) puddles could be heated or cooled. heat would evaporated water and make a cloud. cold would make an ice patch, you could slip. not just water, other stuff too. very many interactions. mostly cut

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theoretically you could devise a reason to do that but we took it out. not sure if at any stage it was advantageous to be poisoned ever. i *think* if you drank the oil you vomited? no good reason to vomit though

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not quite the same but also in WW, if a barrel is full of water you can drink it. if it initially has oil or poison in it, you can tip it out and set it upright and wait for rain and it fills with water. for a while, the "drink" verb was on the barrel no matter what. you could drink oil or poison

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idk if it is a common word but i have always called this "oversimulating". which is interesting to think about in an imsim because you really are looking to "simulate", on some level, most things. that's how you get the emergence. but you can oversimulate. you get a feel for where the line is

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the player only ever assumes the place you'd stand to get wet is "outside"; the cool behaviour only ever reads as a bug, "was outside, didn't get wet". or "got wet inside" because you were near a window. i changed it to a straight-down line trace

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another one was, i made the rain in Weird West, which wets things and fills containers and puts fires out and whatever. for a long time i had the rain coming in at the correct angle based on the wind, so in a storm you could shelter behind a building and get less wet. "cool". not legible, not useful

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