Wot's that? Start with a single structure, a handful of dipshits, and a pile of resources?

And I have to build both the housing and industry from scratch?

And my dipshits are OK without the more advanced goods up to the point where I can produce those?

Man, I love that almost as much as I love the city having no organic development.

I love placing every shack (house) and shanty (plastic gathering center).

I love setting all the roads.

I'm going b o n k e r s for y o n k e r s for managing dozens of named citizens with rudimentary skill systems and nothing else going for them.

Folks have been talking up that 2023 has been one of the best years for video games ever. But between massive layoffs, horrible thinly veiled commercial that is the game awards, the increasing lack of discoverability for small games, and all the other stuff around video games this year, I figured it might be nice to run an informal survey of Cohost's favorite games of 2023 (and what 2024 games are folks here most excited for.)

Link to the Survey!

I'm still trying to get through some games but probably have a set list if I'm being honest. I would like to finish up 9 Years of Shadows and go through Humanity though. Also did you all forget that the Ghost Trick remaster came out this year even though you all promised to play it this time for real?

Anyway, feel free to share the original post with your answers if you'd like! And if you're not sure, I'm still going to leave this open til February 3rd!

So when I was a kid I dreamt of being an author the same way I dreamt of being a Power Ranger. Then I grew up and realized "oh shit, people can just become writers, nobody can stop you. So I started writing.

I love writing, enough that I kept doing it and I started to get involved with other writers and with the publishing industry.

And since then, my dreams have gotten smaller and smaller every year.

But I have survived and thrived off being a copywriter.

Except that I hate it! Now more than before, when I am an SEO copywriter and everyone's excited about AI.

I can't be the ways shitty tech will improve by job of internet enshittening.

I'm not even looking for an SEO job at this point. I want real shit, mostly for or about video games.

But I too am hostage to a world where the value of my work is decided by people who can't write¹ and would have replaced me with AI yesterday.

1. Lithuania isn't an English speaking country, so you can imagine what that additional barrier does when it comes to someone more then a single management step removed judging your work.