This may not necessarily apply to you, but those 30 minutes of walking would do wonders for the overall health of your average American.

Pretty much every country except for the USA seems to be a bull shit magic fantasy land. At least when living in any kind of larger city.

Psychonauts is really good and currently less than 2 bucks. There’s also a sequel, currently about 9 bucks. (Both in €)

I’m fuzzy on the details, but it went something like this:

• I set up long resource lines of coal, copper and iron.
• I needed a thing#1 and built a neat little package to build it, exactly to order and on minimal space.
• I copy pasted that design 10 times left to right along my resource belt line.
• Then thing#2 came along. Needed the same stuff and combined with thing#1 into thing#3. So I wrapped my resource belts, designed a second package on minimal space and also copy pasted it 10 times. So I had pairs of thing#1 and thing#2 with a line in the middle to combine them and a belt to collect them. Worked nicely.

Then:

• Coal was replaced by electricity. I had no space for powerlines.
• I got other types of the grab thingies, potentially simplifying my setup.
• Suddenly I got sorting, making my belt setup a waste of space (I had one line per thing/resource).
• All belts needed to be replaced by better belts.

Oh and:

• Thing#4 came along, needing 2 of thing#1 and one thing#2 with some additional resources. Since I built to order, I basically had to start from scratch or severly hamper the production of thing#3. Also, my packages didn’t work anymore without wasting space and/or entirely fucking up resource belt management.

Therefore, I designed stuff from scratch to fit the new requirements.

That’s from the very beginning, but after repeating this pattern a few times, I gave up. Building it non-optimized felt even worse.

Being on the patient side of things, two games I’ve played in recent years and didn’t enjoy were:

God of War (2018) - it just felt like AAA slop to me. Meaningles upgrades, tons of obvious puzzles at any corner - never throwing in even a single brain teaser, boring combat - the best option was almost always to throw the axe, that thing were you start walking at a snails pace to mask loading and/or play a cutscene and on top of that your god powers being mostly cutscene exclusive. Just your bog standard AAA game with no ‘friction’ - boring.

Factorio - it just feels like work to me. On top of that, going in blind, I just didn’t enjoy building something up just to tear it down again because I’ve unlocked something new changing the requirements. Once again, feels like a job in IT. Also, resource patches being limited just gave me the weirdest kind of anxiety despite never actually seeing one run out.

I get that it would be impractical in the US specifically. I just didn’t think about you guys.

Of course, that works. However, I was thinking about cooking the same meals you get at the park (assuming you guys have actual restaurants in there).

Too european for that, I thought you meant half an hour by foot. Most old people shouldn’t be allowed to drive anymore.

Actually, it’s a win at that age. You get out of the house and can interact with lots of people, that’s something most old people need more of.

Still faster than cooking, too.

That’s a problem across the board. Assuming AI does establish itself, all it’s training data dries up and we basically stagnate.

Also, in this weird inbetween phase until it is actually good, we’ve already generated so much bullshit that AI trains on the hallucinations of other AIs.

I don’t know about you, but the prospect of becoming a warlock themed around blood, flesh and clownery sounds pretty sweet to me!

I’d definitely play that campaign.

That’s just practical thinking right here! Someone else argued for shaving cream pies, which naturally leads to the counterpoint of cannibalism.

Luckily, most of these arguments assume living clowns. Something that can be easily remedied, it just shifts the entire problem space to doing it fast enough!

On that note, what’s their EXP value?

That’s half the fun! Sometimes, the true clown you spawn is yourself.

There’s so much role playing potential in the ability to create a giant mob of clowns at will by repeatedly opening and closing the bag. You almost don’t need anything else!

Spawn them as a distraction!

Use them to hide!

Plug any entry or hallway at will!

Build yourself a mountain of clowns to scale any wall!

Never starve again with their endless supply of pies! (Eaten fresh off your face.)

Use their weight to bring down any air-/ship!

Air drop them on your enemies! (Assuming they have a weight and are bound by gravity, they do damage - all you need is a bit of levitation, a tower, airship or a ceiling to hang from.)

Just crush your entire party by spawning hundreds of them in a closed room!

The possibilities are truly endless.

Endangering others for your entertainment makes you a criminal too.

Honestly, it would be weird for any industry to start caring about ethics after all this time.

Not an endorsement of AI but a criticism of capitalism.

Yes, but all the later Tucker stuff from the original series isn’t.

They released almost 30 years ago. Adding a few more years, since you can’t properly play them with no reading skills, we’are looking at enough time for some of them to be grandparents.

Heck, I and most of my peers started with Gen 3 in elementary school. There’s a 3 in front of my age.

Personally, I don’t care about TLOU, but I don’t think you should be leading with a massive spoiler as the thumbnail. Others might give you a lot of shit for that.