Out of curiosity, which idlers have you played and enjoyed? I play a lot of them (hell, I have a re-play of Progress Knight Quest running in another tab right now if that tells you what kind of person I am) and I have to say your gameplay criticisms sound pretty on-track for the genre. Hanging around long enough for numbers to go up then prestiging when you hit a wall where things become impossible to progress, and persistence disguised as design in place of skill all sounds about right. This one sounds pretty standard just with a more dynamic presentation.

I’m not saying you’re wrong or anything, sometimes things just don’t land for someone and that’s cool, there are a bunch of super popular idle/incremental games that I absolutely can’t stand. Thanks for the post, I hadn’t heard of this one before.

I don’t think they do convey the same information.

“They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.” US President Donald Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying he would try to avert further planned attacks.

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Trump delivered an extraordinary four-letter outburst as he criticised breaches of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Trump aimed the bulk of his anger at Israel, saying he would try to avert further planned attacks.

All the summary has done is remove the quote. That part IS the news that’s being reported on, it matters just as much as the context.

Qatar was the “obvious choice” for Iranian retaliation against the US because it hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East while also acting as a trusted intermediary for Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari explained after the missile attack near Doha.

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Qatar was the “obvious choice” for Iranian retaliation against the US. It hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East.

This one has removed the source (which is fair enough if you think that’s not useful information, but I wouldn’t agree), one of the two reasons given, and the context. Someone who only sees this summary will have no idea what it’s about or how to look into it further, which means they’re going to have to read the (one sentence) article anyway.

As for paragraphs, yes. Text that looks like this

is not useful to anybody. I’m not reading this, you haven’t read this. It’s awful.

Obviously. Point is it’s either completely unreadable or completely unnecessary. Why are you summarising a postcard?

I’m like the only person here actually giving feedback. Make it readable and don’t waste people’s time summarising two sentences.

When I looked a couple of hours ago the first link’s summary was an enormous block of text with no formatting and the second was about 40 words summarised to 20.

What’s the point? If you’re not enjoying your life and you think everyone else should be doing this too so it’s not like your “sacrifice” is so that they can enjoy life, then what are you working for?

I just looked it up because I never played the 2nd game and never cared enough to look into it. I knew people hated her but just assumed she was probably trans or something based on her physique. Not sure whether the real reason is better or worse tbh, it’s pathetic.

I was in a similar position. I’ve at least tried almost all of the games since Demon’s Souls on PS3 (plus a few other Soulslikes like Surge 2 & Last Remnant [edit: Last Remnant is something else entirely, i dunno. It was something like that]) and I could never get into them. Elden Ring especially is exactly the kind of world I love in games and I wanted so much to enioy it. It took a handful of 10-15-hour attempts over nearly two years before it finally clicked with me and I started really getting into it back in December. I got the platinum last week and then started Sekiro for the first time a few days ago, so let’s see how that goes.

My advice, if you can’t get into it give it a few months then take another honest crack at it. If you don’t enjoy yourself that’s fine, just try again next time you start thinking about the game, but if that switch finally flicks on you can clear your schedule for the next fortnight.

Stuff+ generally always has a Prison Architect and one other game series going, then does one-shot videos of random indie stuff in between. He’s also not loud and annoying the way youtube gamers tend to be and doesn’t have a webcam feed covering a quarter of the screen, it’s just about the games.

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Plans to announce an upcoming game? How uh… exciting. Give us a buzz when it’s available.

Alright Lavrov, grab a gun and get moving.