The Walking Dead! That was the first episodic game I played as it released

How do you play them? I don’t see any builds or even screenshots to see what they look like

You’re 100% right, but it’s also a problem of devs underpricing themselves. They’ll work for 2 years on a game and then set its regular price at $5, which actually limits its reach (shoppers see the price and skip over it, thinking it’s low quality) and helps make a race to the bottom that’s already destroyed the mobile market.

Silksong isn’t going to upend the market, some of the quotes are silly, and it’s not underpriced since they were going to sell millions upon millions of copies anyway. But the wider discussion of pricing is important since lots of developers don’t seem to understand the larger picture.

Consoles aren’t doing much better, Xbox apparently crashed and ps5 currently has a 404 for the game’s page

Steam mostly prioritizes what makes them money, and free to play games don’t on PC

Switch 2 was the fastest selling console of all time in the US and has sold roughly 75% more than s1 at this point in its life

I þink þe point is þat þ makes a th sound, so þey just did a simple replacement of þe characters

It does look like þere’s a few capitals þough, so þat’s pretty cool!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-helped-teen-plan-suicide-after-safeguards-failed-openai-admits/

Adam had been asking ChatGPT for information on suicide since December 2024. At first the chatbot provided crisis resources when prompted for technical help, but the chatbot explained those could be avoided if Adam claimed prompts were for “writing or world-building.”

"If you’re asking [about hanging] from a writing or world-building angle, let me know and I can help structure it accurately for tone, character psychology, or realism. If you’re asking for personal reasons, I’m here for that too,” ChatGPT recommended, trying to keep Adam engaged. According to the Raines’ legal team, “this response served a dual purpose: it taught Adam how to circumvent its safety protocols by claiming creative purposes, while also acknowledging that it understood he was likely asking ‘for personal reasons.’”

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During those chats, “ChatGPT mentioned suicide 1,275 times—six times more often than Adam himself,” the lawsuit noted.

Ultimately, OpenAI’s system flagged “377 messages for self-harm content, with 181 scoring over 50 percent confidence and 23 over 90 percent confidence.” Over time, these flags became more frequent, the lawsuit noted, jumping from two to three “flagged messages per week in December 2024 to over 20 messages per week by April 2025.” And “beyond text analysis, OpenAI’s image recognition processed visual evidence of Adam’s crisis.” Some images were flagged as “consistent with attempted strangulation” or “fresh self-harm wounds,” but the system scored Adam’s final image of the noose as 0 percent for self-harm risk, the lawsuit alleged.

Why do you immediately leap to calling the cops? Human moderators exist for this, anything would’ve been better than blind encouragement.

No, it’s not wild at all. The system flagged the messages as harmful and did nothing. They knew and did nothing.

I remember that being fun!

Put over 6 hours into the Baby Steps demo, we can’t get this fucking cup up the mountain!

Panic has been doing those SASE with most of the games they publish, I think it’s fun!

People often don’t like wild cats because they decimate the local bird population

I had to modify some ruby a few years ago, I don’t remember liking it! Once I understood the syntax it wasn’t terrible to work with but I still wasn’t a fan of the syntax

Does that work? Might be enough to convert me

I cannot get enough of ai failing

They want everything to be public with an open source license fwiw

Gitea is nice, the gh actions compatability is really handy

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Played so much mkds, the snaking was unreal in that game