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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • Lab cotton could, hopefully, be efficiently grown

    While there are not many details this is hopefully a great step toward more efficient cotton production. There are a number of possible reductions from this method (hard to know without full details though), that being lower usage of land, water, pesticides, herbicides, and shipping.

    Longer term what I find exciting is the some of these lab grown systems may work well “closed loop” which mean they might work off planet at some capacity or another. That is a much longer term vision though and we have a long way to go before we master that aspect.





  • Thief Deus ex (you can choose stealth in this game but it isn’t specifically a stealth game imo) Dishonored (superb)

    Was surprised to not find these games in the main list. Thief and Deus Ex (I play it stealthy as much as possible) have been my go to stealth games. And no matter how you try to play Skyrim it always ends with stealth archer. 😅


  • Developers have been trying to put themselves out of their own jobs since the beginning. Automating/scripting things, creating tools, IDEs, etc.

    As a developer I always thought this was sort of the point. If the mostly automated system doesn’t require less maintenance, make life easier for the user(s), or require fewer humans, I’m doing something wrong. Always feels a little bit like undermining your position, but when things do break you are also the person most likely to know the fix and fix it quickly.



  • Here are some rough categories and hours included.

    Builder / Survival

    Sounded like you were not that interested in this genre but they can be fun co-op experiences.

    • Terraria (850 hours) - Two of my friends I have done two clean slate full play-throughs of this game.
    • Core Keeper (77 hours) - Also played through the content of this game with same 2 friends.
    • Valheim (344 hours) - Did a co-op play through with a friend on this one. Might do it again with Mistlands or with other updates.

    Boss Encounters / Building

    • V Rising (79 hours)

    Played through V Rising with a friend, co-op pve, and it was a blast. We really enjoyed the different boss battles. We are going to revisit this one soon as they dropped / are dropping new content.

    Exploration / Melee Combat / Story

    • Dying Light 2 (87 hours)

    Enjoyed playing Dying Light 2 with a friend, playing the game turned out to a mix of playing solo and playing co-op.

    Platformer

    • Trine

    Fox mentioned this and I’ll add it as well. Fun co-op platformer with some fun story telling aspects.

    MMO

    • Guildwars 2

    Fox also mentioned GW2 in the thread. There is a ridiculous amount of content in this game with no subscription required. Combat feedback/force has always felt weak imo but there is a massive world to explore and jumpy puzzles if you are into that (love them).

    More story focused co-op

    Also watching this thread as I’m curious what shows up. I haven’t played many games in this area on PC.