Sauce - https://xcancel.com/funscubatuba/status/2023229308416778355

I saw that Indie Gala has a royalty free music bundle for sale of this - https://www.arcade-origins.com/

Thing is, checking their site, there's no way to actually buy straight off them, which is super weird. All "covers" are AI images and every video on YT channel was posted after Jan 2025.

I don't know enough about music other than listening to it, so I have no idea what cues, if any, to look out for when it comes to AI music. I also do not want to spend a single cent buying something done with AI.

tldr; A budget shooter that goes from tolerable to insufferable real quick

Chaser is a 2003 FPS from Cauldron, who would go on to create all time classics like Secret Service (2008) and Cabella's Dangerous Hunts 2011. Clearly a household name synonymous with quality. This game is also billed as having "A gripping story full of intrigue, plot twists and believable characters."

In this game, you're John Chaser, an amnesiac protagonist who escapes a space station and crash lands back on a futuristic Earth city. Shortly afterwards, you find yourself working for the local mafia because Chaser's too fucking stupid to take a hint. No, seriously, there's this dude in the cutscene that says "If you got any sense, you'll turn around and head as far away from this city as you can" and mr. protagonist goes back to the mafia owned casino. You also get some flashbacks in the first couple missions, but they go away. Don't worry too much about the story, everything done on Earth is like a sidequest until you get back to Mars. Overall, the game can be divided in 3 thirds: shitty city, soviet part, Mars. The latter 2 drag on for-fucking-ever.

For the story, here's a rundown of it:

But it's a first person shooter, so how's the shootin'? Kinda decent, most of the time. Ironically, the futuristic weapons feel like the worst ones when it comes to killing enemies. While a M4 rifle will typically kill an enemy in 1 or 2 shots, the futuristic HK11 might take 10+. Sometimes fucking explosives to the face won't kill enemies outright. Hand grenades are the worst, you don't click and hold to throw, you click and he'll do a fixed distance throw because fuck you. Fucking Quake 2 and Medal of Honor let you hold the grenade to throw it further or drop close by.

One of the main problems of the game is that a lot of the time you won't even know you're losing health. Save for a few situations when you're shot from the front, you'll have a hard time knowing if there's an enemy shooting you from the sides or from behind. There's nothing to indicate you took fall damage, not even a grunt or crunch sound. Savescumming is essential not only because of that, but also due to the likelihood that you might end up stuck somewhere in the scenery. Ladders are one of your biggest enemies, too.

Level design goes from "eh, ok" to "oh, fuck you" - the latter especially on levels like Lighthouse, Submarine, Cosmodrome and the entirety of Mars. Levels become overly long for no reason, with enemies spawning in places carefully designed to piss you off the most, sometimes behind your back and where you already went through: in some situations, you can literally see them popping out of thin air in front of you because now you stepped on the trigger!

The game has multiplayer and I wish I could test it, but I don't wish anyone to suffer through this game. Still, I suspect the multiplayer is leagues better than the singleplayer experience simply because it's not the singleplayer experience.

In all seriousness, if you do decide to check this game out for whatever reason, like morbid curiosity, don't be afraid to put it down and give up for good before you even . It does not get better. It gets more tedious and more groan inducing. There is no fair challenge, nothing that will give you any sense of satisfaction.

The link is for Sonniss collection of royalty free music and sound effects that get released with each GDC.

Here's the more important part of the license, tldr you can use it on any number of commercial projects:

RIGHTS GRANTED

a) Licensee may use the licensed sound effects on an unlimited number of projects for the entirety of their life time.

b) Licensee may use and modify the licensed sound effects for personal and commercial projects without attribution to the original creator.

c) Licensee may publicly perform a reproduction of the sound effects over any form of medium.

d) Licensee may use the licensed sound effects for the purposes of synchronization with audio and visual projects the Licensee is involved with, which includes but is not limited to: games, films, television & interactive projects.

NO AI TRAINING OR USAGE

For clarity and avoidance of doubt, the Licensee is expressly prohibited from using any sound effects licensed under this Agreement for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies. This includes, but is not limited to, technologies capable of generating sound effects or works in a similar style or genre as the licensed sound effects. The Licensee shall not use, reproduce, or otherwise leverage the licensed sound effects in any manner for purposes of developing, training, or enhancing artificial intelligence technologies, nor sublicense these rights to any third party, without the Licensor’s specific and express written permission.

At a party, found it while sitting near a tree.

No idea about the species, but it's cute looking. Brazilian Midwest if anyone wants to search

I'm looking into making some game boards as foldable cloth for easier storage. I'm not currently interested in neoprene as it tends to be 2x more expensive than most cloth options, even if staying straight on a table is very desirable.

Asking here because the boardgame communities seem dead

Apparently this is a group called XG. Don't ask me, I'm an old man yelling at clouds

Reminiscing on how kids of the 80s, 90s and 00s can all get games of their respective times via emulation and piracy, but anything inside Roblox is likely to be inaccessible when present day kids become adults and look back with nostalgia

Dice are pretty much synonymous with RPGs, but there are a few rare systems that forego them altogether, like Castle Falkenstein.

What are some other systems that don't use dice? Are there any that completely remove luck/random chance on "important player actions"?

Post title at limit, but meant to be peak tactile feedback in computer storage.

The space saved from being thin made it bad for looking up and finding a specific disk within a stack, tho, as it couldn't fit an end label

If you live in an apartment, just don't get one

Reasoning edit: pets, especially cats, will leave a smell all over furniture. Cleaning becomes an even worse chore due to the fur. They also require "house training" in order to not chew/claw/destroy most stuff that's lying around the house.

Yes, please, hide options in a place of the window that simply cannot be accessed