Pure functional programming is often like this.
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I was always so frustrated in college when I'd run a load at the laundromat, and then discover I'd missed a dryer sheet someone had left in the dryer. I'd be itchy all week.
Fair enough. I know that style can be polarizing, it's why I put that caveat in there.
I really enjoyed Ys VIII ("Lacromosa of Dana"), if you can tolerate the kind of anime-ish story. It's an action RPG. It's not especially immersive (very game-y), but it's got pretty good level design, and the combat is pretty fun, if not particularly challenging (a little button-mashy).
They can't really keep them in stock, though. I was checking on them shortly before the sale started and the refurbished 64GB LCD models were all out. Now all the refurbished models are sold out.
It's just as well, though. Between the Switch 2 and the Deckard, I've got some other stuff I might want to waste money on this year.
The one I thought was a good compromise was 14 years, with the option to file again for a single renewal for a second 14 years. That was the basic system in the US for quite a while, and it has the benefit of being a good fit for the human life span--it means that the stuff that was popular with our parents when we were kids, i.e. the cultural milieu in which we were raised, would be public domain by the time we were adults, and we'd be free to remix it and revisit it. It also covers the vast majority of the sales lifetime of a work, and makes preservation and archiving more generally feasible.
5 years may be an overcorrection, but I think very limited terms like that are closer to the right solution than our current system is.
Sean Duffy is the transportation secretary.
I should preface this by saying I don't actually have a steam deck yet, so I haven't tested these on there. So I'm only commenting on the games themselves. These are listed as deck "verified" in the steam store, though.
One I haven't seen mentioned yet is Yoku's Island Express. Breezy summer vibes, not much difficulty. It's kind of a pinball metroidvania.
Tinykin is another game with a very cozy/low stakes feel. It's an exploration/collectathon platformer with cute environments made up of household objects.
Littlewood is a life sim sort of game, kind of like Stardew Valley, but it's extremely chill. There's no time limit or anything like that.
And others have mentioned these, but Toem, Alba, and Donut County are all very good and gentle games too.
Oh, and Tchia. That one has some dark moments at times, mostly in cutscenes, but when you're actually playing it's mostly gentle and island-y.
Maybe also Wuppo? It's a strange one. The story and humor and animation are pretty great in that one, but there are some boss fights that can get a little frustrating. It's mostly a fairly chill platformer, but then it's got kind of bullet-hell-adjacent bosses. I still really like the game, but it's not quite as purely relaxing as some of the others here.
Pikuniku is kind of in the same position as Wuppo, but I liked it a bit less. The humor feels a little more forced or stilted, and the frustrating bits are because the controls are kinda floaty. My niece really liked it when she was 8, though, so it had that going for it.
Hope this helps! I've been looking for this kind of game a lot the past few years
It's a British TV anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone, but most of the episodes are about technologic dystopias
It was in Black Mirror years ago.
I assumed the stunning part was this:
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
It's just pretty blatant.
I never actually played Fable 2 (it never came to PC) but 1 was decent for its time, and yeah, 3 kind of fell apart. (You get to what seems like the halfway point, then the rest of the game plays out in a few minutes, entirely through menus, and is super boring.)
But mostly I'm finding it hard to imagine how a new take on this would stand out in today's market. It's, let's see, a third-person action game with RPG elements tacked on. The setting is...generic western fairytale fantasy. I'm not saying the game couldn't be good, but what would be distinctive about it? Having people call you "chicken chaser"? What is the contribution of the "Fable" pedigree here, apart from Molyneux baggage?