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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I love mystery games, so–

    Love: When mystery games actively draw attention to the idea that you need to draw your own conclusions about what you find in the game, and make your own truth, instead of just following a track

    Hate: when the above is expressed as a formalized “Mind Palace” mechanic à la the more recent Sherlock Holmes games. That’s just covering the track with a tarp instead of letting you build your own theories. Either let people accuse who they want with the evidence they have (once again I plug Paradise Killer) or acknowledge that there’s only one acceptable answer

















  • As a fellow old.reddit user, you probably also remember when buying/being gifted reddit gold was a big deal. One stupid little gesture, very few actual perks (beyond an “exclusive” subreddit no one used), but the money went straight to reddit and it was so popular it was a staple of reddit’s early culture. Being gilded was a massive honor.

    Now it’s just one of a handful of paid reaction trophies you can give, and it’s not worth paying attention to at all. Reddit was so money hungry it cannibalized the process through which people gave money to reddit for basically free