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melee was the last smash brothers i played (not out of dislike of the series afterwards, I just haven't owned or been acquainted with anyone that has the applicable consoles since), so... no

i did not play subspace emissary

... does remind me I once hit a dragonfly out the air with a walking stick. Can't say it was a good thing, exactly, but it was a pretty good hit regardless. Not sure if I'd be able to do it again even if I tried.

There's less people and more shiny things, mostly. Also it's good to have options if a planet cracking space rock decides to head for the only planet you have access to.

but yeah it's pretty hostile to most forms of life up there, not that it isn't also that down here, just... relatively less so

(I also feel like I've seen something very similar before, but can't quite place it.)

It's just the old pipes type puzzle game. They've been around for a long time (earliest a half-hearted googling can find is 1989), and have both dedicated games for the mechanic as well as being a common mini-game in other games. Backpack hero has a neat implementation of it going on, but it's definitely not a new idea, heh.

It's maybe worth noting 10tons (the crimsonland dev) never, like... stopped, or anything. They kept putting stuff out, and some of their more recent-ish stuff (Tesla vs Lovecraft, ferex) is pretty similar to Crimsonland if you're interested in more-but-different. Crimsonland definitely holds up remarkably well for being nearly 20 years old, tho'.

news person on tv somehow sounding sad/disappointed about some retail chain having to cut prices due to reduced demand

like wow, how terrible, some chain store ripping people off less, such an unfortunate thing, sad, sad

...

To be vaguely fair, it did occur to me when I started typing this they might have stock in whatever the company was, or they were depressed over something else or whatever, so maybe there's some sort of reasonable cause to it, but... still. Still.

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Anyway, yeah, you can eyeball the easy definition of nepotism to see it extends to friends as well as family, and extends to both power and influence -- it's not just a rich person thing by a country mile (pointedly, out here in the country it's wildly rampant even among folks operating below the poverty line). Corruption related to that is rooted fucking deep in the US hiring process, to the point I've regularly gotten just flat out incomprehension from folks when pointing out that, yes, favoring friends or family or even just acquaintances in the hiring process is, in fact, corruption and/or nepotism, even when the person being selected is largely or entirely qualified. Hire competence doesn't change that you're passing over people that may be just as, or more, qualified based on personal familiarity and whatnot. So on and so forth.

The extent that kind of behavior is tangled into everything (largely everywhere, it's not unique to the US even a little, just much worse than we like to admit over here) makes it a messy and complicated issue.

Oddly enough, from the description I figured it wasn't Recettear, 'cause I don't think you actually went into the dungeon in that one -- you had patsies that did that for you. I'm only aware of a couple other shopkeeping things like that (some Kemco mobile RPG I'm forgetting the name of and Moonlighter) that actually has the shopkeeper do the delving, too.