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Yeah, can't even look this show up without adding "australia" in each search. Apparently it was distributed as "Dreamland" in the US, except that doesn't get you anything either since there's some other unrelated show named Dreamland! They really didn't have any luck with the naming.

Gunsmith Cats!

Shame it was just a 3-episode OVA

Gunpoint's a neat stealth/puzzle game about hacking stuff and jumping through windows (very little actual holding people at gunpoint though). Being of that genre, playtime could vary a lot, especially if you try to be perfectionist, but it should be doable in a day. Great jazzy soundtrack too.

Jazzpunk is a weird comedy game, essentially FPS exploration levels with various comedic gags peppered throughout. Again, playtime can vary depending on how thorough you are about checking every single corner for something, but it probably wouldn't take more than say 3-4 hours. Obviously your enjoyment will depend on your sense of humor, but I found it pretty hilarious

Linear FPS campaigns are a good candidate in general, older games could be decently long but there was a period where 5-6 hours (and sometimes shorter) became a pretty common length.

Heh, that's the same torrent I watched today (although I didn't listen to the commentary, I just found this video afterwards). It's a pretty cool spy thriller, and a great Kilmer role

:kazuhira-miller: Boss, we've established our base of operations on the island of Socotra, off the coast of Yemen. Its location in the Indian ocean is ideal, allowing us to support operations in both Afghanistan and Africa

Ah yes, "universal sockets", the type of socket which can allegedly accept a number of different plug types. We have dismissed that claim

I recently watched Designated Survivor: 60 Days which I felt was decent on this topic. Spoilers for the first couple of episodes:

But this was 2019, during the Moon Jae-In presidency and the attempts at reconciliation then, so maybe this was just reflective of the political climate at the time.

damn, when did I manage to post that much

I wonder who has the highest posts-to-comments ratio, a true posting warrior who cultivated Inner Post while everyone else was commenting in the megathreads

one of my favorite bits in Freeman's Mind is him rationalizing the batshit level design as Black Mesa making sure to fully spend its budget

"If we don't spend a billion dollars one year, then we don't get a billion dollars the next year. And if we don't get a billion dollars the next year, then we have to go and spend more money on lobbyists to get the laws changed so that we get our billion dollars the year after that! ... in the long run it's probably faster and cheaper just to build a giant nutcracker, write it off and be done with it."

Love the Half-Life games, although I definitely prefer 2 over 1. I dunno, I've never really got the takes that the games are outdated, I really wish I lived in the world where they were because I'd fucking love to have more games like this, but I really don't see anything that has surpassed HL2 (I can see it to some extent with HL1), there's just something about it. Even with the whole boomer shooter trend, most games seem to be taking inspiration from the earlier generation of shooters, few true HL2-style games around.

Black Mesa's alright, but I really don't like a lot of the changes that were made. Never understood the On A Rail hate (especially when, like, Residue Processing exists, no way On A Rail is worse than endless fucking conveyor belts), I actually genuinely love all the vehicle segments and wish more games had that "road-trip where you occasionally stop to explore a little or deal with something blocking the path" vibe, Metro: Last Light had its own On A Rail style section and it was pretty good. So that getting cut down was kind of annoying, and Xen I just really don't like - it drags way worse than the original ever did, that one cable puzzle just comes up again and again, and aesthetically, while the whole space jungle thing is kind of neat (and the "Sauron-eye tower as landmark to indicate how close you are to the end" is really cool, although of course HL2 did that with the Citadel too to some extent, but I just love shit like that, give me less minimaps with objective markers and more massive towers for me to inch towards), the barren wasteland (or really, little pockets of floating mini-wastelands) of the original Xen makes it feel so much more unique, and, well, alien. I've had several Black Mesa playthroughs which just fizzle out at that point - maybe the final section is better, but I've played through it so few times because my spirit was drained by cable puzzles that I can't really comment on what happens there.

How about other mods? There's just so much amazing stuff, HL1 in particular basically has several extra expansion packs thanks to mods - Echoes, Field Intensity and Delta Particles are all amazing and I would pretty much consider them on the level of the actual expansions (maybe even better than Blue Shift, tbh), maybe short of voice acting but that's understandable for free mods. Plenty of great stuff for HL2 as well.

far better military protection for the people of Canada

PROTECTION FROM WHO, DONALD

I love the random capitalization too, Lumber folks, we're going to have so much Lumber , more Lumber than you've ever seen before

"I see... so that's what the signal is" is still my favorite bit from this video, I chuckle every time