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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Stark made the suit with no help. He doesn’t need a specific suit because he has the skill to invent whatever he may need.

    At this point, Peter can’t make himself a suit like that, so if he is nothing without it, he can’t respect the power it brings. But he isn’t nothing without it, which is what Stark is trying to teach him: not to rely on power of others.








  • Me too, especially because I love Commandos. Timekeepers doesn’t have even half the amount of elegance in its level design. Half the enemies are standing still facing the wall with no-one else around; at that point why bother placing an enemy there at all?

    It’s mind boggling that this was originally supposed to be a single release game. Ok, so they blew past the deadline, and they made the interesting choice of releasing half of it, with the rest free later. At some point they must have realised that can’t work because then they are just spending more money to get the game finished after they’ve already taken profits. So now they’ve come up with the idea of season passes in the hopes that one day the sales will catch up to development costs. But they are doing so badly that the rest of the first game needs beta testing? The second half that was supposed to be released for free in April? Sucks to be whoever invested capital in this project.










  • It’s definitely a shame. The fact that they are essentially making a genre clone (Commandos/Desperados/Shadow Tactics) meant that they had so many successful examples to pull from. It really just feels unfinished, but I guess they were against the wall and needed to release something to keep the accountants happy.

    The upsetting thing is that this and every other failure to make a Stargate game just makes it that much more unlikely for a good one to be made. The fan game Stargate Network was shaping up to be really good, but at the time that Timekeepers began MGM sent them a cease and desist. This game essentially killed a much better game that was in development.









  • Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.

    Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.

    It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.

    It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.