+1 on jukebox the ghost
frank
Hey that's our train of thought! Shopping now and it seems like a great contender.
Oh man, I was coming in here to recommend the same. I'd say to look up nearly nothing about it in order to enjoy the mystery the best.
Sometimes you'd beat a boss, get a manual page from it, and it's like "oh I could've done this the whole time, holy crap"
For any of the Outer Wilds or Obra Dinn fans, play tunic for the mystery. For the ALTTP fans, play it for the combat!
Oh man, as a (non structural) engineer I love the saying
"Any asshole can build a bridge, but only an engineer can barely build a bridge"
I think it's unlikely for a few reasons. The biggest reason being that F1 is sold out at most permanent race tracks (non street circuits) these days.
Having raced both cars and bikes at an amateur level, I don't think the safety features are similar enough. You move a lot of air fence/tecpro and widen or lessen gravel traps to switch between cars and bikes.
They may once for a promo type of thing, but I doubt it'd be a consistent thing. Happy to be proven wrong for sure, but it seems logistically too tough.
I've been watching both motoGP and F1 for a while (2010 and 2008, respectively), and I think liberty was really good for F1 fans. Yes, it's more popular and harder to go to some races now for sure. But the production value, amount of coverage you get is significantly higher than Bernie-era-F1. I'd be excited for better MotoGP coverage honestly.
Give me a package deal to watch both and I will buy it
Mortal Engines? Not quite but similar vein kinda?
These all sound like emulator-ideal criteria to me!
There's a lot of non-free versions of that which are super reasonable and meet all of your other criteria nicely. Stardew Valley, Slay the Spire. Games that are full games for a one time low cost.
Ugh. Scarbs doesn't post multiple places when he does typically. So it'll be a thought on twitter, a random post on reddit. So this is probably not duplicated anywhere. Best I can do is someone who was Twitter screenshotting so I can poorly post on here :)
https://www.jreltd.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-dry-break-coupling/
A meh pic and description of a drybreak
I stopped using reddit, I'm on my phone a lot less. It makes me less angry and more present, and I really like that. I also comment more, as many of you have said here.
I really miss Ask Historians. It'd send me down some lovely rabbit holes, get me reading books about niche topics I never knew I wanted to learn more about.
Hell yes on Thank You Scientist