In my imagination, Murderbot looked kinda like the player character from the game ‘Citizen Sleeper’, pictured below.

Which is to say, very androgynous and very obviously cybernetic.

There’s quite a bit of character similarity between them too, because the titular Sleeper is a human consciousness in a cybernetic body that has a lot of biological parts, and they are kept loyal to the company who owns them by a drug that will cause their body to break down if they stop taking it. Same intent as the governor module, but a different approach.

I found Murderbot’s physical appearance an important aspect of the books, not just for surface plot reasons (everyone knows they are a bot etc) but because it’s a large part of what people need to overcome from the perspective of seeing past their prejudices.

Wow yeah. That must have been a really infuriating gameplay issue, no wonder players were upset with it.

A shame the game was so rushed or I’m sure the dev would have fixed that in code.

Reading your comment I got worried about disk writes, so I’m glad this info is on the website:

Replay data is stored in RAM by default but there is an option to store it on disk instead.

Sensible design decision, because writing video to your SSD 24/7 wouldn’t do anything good for the lifespan of the drive.

What was the bug and workaround? :)

Sorry yes, that’s what I meant really. They could be straight. My poor description.

I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.

I haven’t looked back since.

God literally used the scale-up tool on a seagull. I guess it was a Friday afternoon in the animal design bureau.

You are huge!

Two of the lines having elbow bends in them when they could just be single right-angles makes me unreasonably upset

I haven’t! I may give it a shot :)

You should definitely go back, it’s so fun to learn about the inscrutable manual pages.

Rather than feeling like I was four, my experience was more like as if I was a kid in the 90s and my Dad was a businessman who brought home Zelda from Japan but it was all in Japanese and I didn’t know Japanese lol.

One thing to note about Tunic is that it has really good accessibility options. You can go in and give yourself extra hearts, or you can even turn on invincibility if you are really struggling and need to.get past a tough part sonyou can continue with the.story :)

I have a soft spot for Myst too, so I totally understand this. I own the “big box” PC versions of all the Myst games up until V (Revelations) which are the only big box games I still kept. It was magical to me at the time, Riven especially which I used to play together with my mother so there’s fond memories there.

When the textures are high-res but the model is low-res

What a twist :) I like it when games subvert your expectations

Yay <3

It’s great that you can trace your love of music back to that specific game. Go ahead and share! I’m not really a musical person myself and only just started learning piano as my first ever instrument. That’s one childhood regret I’m working on fixing :)

I think as adults we’re still looking for a game that recaptures that childhood wonder.

One game that comes very close is Tunic, which is a zeldalike with a lot of spirit. I won’t spoil it for you or anyone else who may not have played, but it’s brilliant and I highly recommend it.

Best enjoyed on a lazy Saturday morning snuggled in a blanket pretending you’re nine years old again.

I love how you didn’t mean to read the whole book but totally got captured haha. Definitely a formative experience :)

I’d never heard of that game or the associated editor, but it seems fascinating.

I just had a poke around on the site, and it gives me some very good and happy vibes of how websites used to be, and the cosy communities that they hosted where all the regulars knew each other by name. Or by handle rather, since nobody ever uses their real name on the Internet, right? ;) Good times.

Influential how? :)