In trms of the vibe that the title gives off, I guess. First category is a fairly serious-sounding, usually 1 word title, and the second category seems to be a grab-bag of silly titles and titles where the first word is “______'s”

Something about boys maturing slower than girls, I’m sure. Jk it’s what you said

Specifically, it’s percent of adults who have attempted, not completed. I don’t think anyone in this thread is suggesting it’s the latter, but that was my first thought when I saw the statistic so I thonk it’s an important thing to note.

Pokemon Unbound is a gen3 romhack with updated mechanics and pokedex up to gen 7ish. When you start, it gives you 3 different options to make the game more challenging (difficult, expert, and insane). It also gives other options, like level caps for each gym, randomized abilities, and a “scalemons” option where every fully evolved pokemon has 600 base stats. I just recently did a run with scalemons and random abilities at the expert difficulty, and it became a really fun challenge of crafting a different team to beat each gym leader. And since I wasn’t doing a nuzlocke, the cost of failure and trying again was very low. Lots of side missions and postgame content too.

This game has somewhat spoiled me, in that I wish every other romhack I play had some of the things Unbound has

To be fair, that’s just the culture that’s come up around the game. You have to plan how you play if you want to “win” in the first 2 years, but the only thing you get is a few candles lit in your backyard, and you can still “win” in later years if you play more slowly. You absolutely can just plant some stuff around a sprinkler, sleep until they are grown, and do everything you want to do without being at all efficient with it

Sarah and the Safe Word have some absolute bangers

Never thought of it that way! What a dystopian world we live in where intelligent conversation dies because there’s no good way to profit off of it.

Yeah pet licenses should definitely be a thing

I have nothing to say about this, just wanted to comment because I’m a huge fan of Cracking the cryptic, and I love seeing their channel out in the wild

Ah, the old phineas gage story

I miss when his videos were just about the records and not the drama surrounding them

Folding Ideas is my favorite channel, but since someone else already recommended that, I’ll also recommend Thomas Flight. He’s a film nerd, but its all really beautifully explained and he also puts a lot of effort into highlighting things that he likes. His video “Why do Movies Feel So Different Now” was really enlightening.

I think yes. The intention was to scam people, but it got too much attention. Plus they’ll still probably make money off of it, I guarantee plenty of people will never bother to refund, either by forgetting or not hearing about it

After 4. Nf4+, wouldn’t it be better for the king to go to f3? Or am I overlooking something obvious

Edit: answered my own question, white king covers f3 after moving to e2, forgot about that

Copper gold and silver too

Oh hell yeah, we just finished this year’s rewatch last night

Become a politician, then sell out to a corporation

Ooh, thats sounds right up my alley. Used to love civilization and stellaris and those types of games, but war was always my least favorite part of the gameplay. It gets in the way of my perfect empire.

Having recently read Rise & Fall, yeah. The party started out as a small nationalist club with socialist tendencies to attract the impoverished WW1 soldiers. But Hitler only cared about the nationalist part, and once they had any sort of public presence, Hitler squashed any attempts at doing anything socialist. For example at one point when they were a minority party, there was a vote to take land from the wealthy Junkers, which some members of the party wanted to vote for, because it wouls be popular with their voters. But Hitler refused, because he wanted the Junker’s support and money.

TUNIC is another game that you can only play once. I recommend it to anyone who likes elaborate puzzles