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Cake day: September 3rd, 2023

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  • I’ve played several Shiren games (1 on DS, 3 on Wii, 5 and 6 on Switch) and I recommend Shiren 6 (Mystery Dungeons of Serpentcoil Island).

    5 kinda went too far from its roguelike roots and feels too grindy, with too many ways to escape safely, especially easy ways to undo your death indefinitely.

    6 is a lot more fun to me and makes good runs and crazy builds more special again.

    For a very good introduction to the series, if you can play it, the port of Shiren 1 on DS is great and already has a lot of what makes those games fun. There is also a rom hack translation for the original on Super Famicom (that one only existed in Japanese), but I’ve not played that one much.







  • I know that story. It’s a lot more nuanced than that.

    Thing is, Disney barely had anything to do with the restaurant itself (they’re basically the restaurant’s landowner). And the only thing on which they could attack Disney was to point that the restaurant had a description on Disney’s website… which is part of Disney online services, and subject to their terms of services.

    So yeah, grasping at a clause from an old Disney+ subscription is bullshit, but the claim honestly did not make a lot of sense to begin with. The restaurant itself should have been sued to hell, even more so because apparently they reinstated they were allergy compliant several times when asked.

    https://youtu.be/hiDr6-Z72XU




  • We had the original. The logical puzzles are quite clever. My sisters and I got a bit obsessed with it and completed it together.

    Yes, you can complete it, by bringing ALL the possible combinations to the village. That’s 625, and you can save 16 on each trip, if you don’t lose any on the way.

    There’s a short congratulations video if you save them all. I was honestly surprised they made one, given the commitment it required.




  • I’m not sure why there hasn’t been a business simulator where you could live up the glamorous, extremely vicious, exploitative, and horrible life of a movie studio owner in Old Hollywood.

    The Movies, 2005.

    Technically not just old Hollywood, it goes through the 20th century with technological advances and world events that change movie trends.

    Since it’s a business management game from Bullfrog Lionhead, it did have some grit to it, though mostly sarcastic rather than very dark.

    I welcome new takes on this though, the movies didn’t age well in some aspects (aspect ratio most notably, ah ah ). I know of Blockbuster Inc that tried to remake that already but the reviews are not great. I’ll try this one.


  • Not single-player, but snipperclips is good, relaxed puzzle fun.

    Goals are visual and easy to understand, each player controls a shape and they can cut each other to try and fit a predefined “hole” together. There are some physics puzzles based on cutting your shape in clever ways too.

    Mistakes have no consequence and often lead to funny interactions. You can’t really lose, you just reset your shape and try again.