The Fridge

Congratulations to Victoria 3 players on causing 860,000,000,000,000,000 deaths by famine in a single year, enough to depopulate Earth 107,000,000 times

Every great leader knows it: you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs. Sometimes you have to do bad things in order to achieve good things. Sometimes you have to spill a little blood. Sometimes you have to, let’s see here, kill 806 quadrillion people via famine in the space of a single year….

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Six PC Engine Games From Telenet Japan Are Being Reissued On Nintendo Switch Early Next Year

As part of Edia’s ‘Telenet Fuku-Bukuro’ collection. Edia, the company behind Telenet Shooting Collection, the Earnest Evans Collection, and other similar retro reissues, has announced plans to publish a compilation next year containing six classic PC Engine games from Telenet Japan-adjacent development teams. The Telenet Fuku-Bukuro collection was announced yesterday with an announcement trailer, as…

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This new Humble Bundle has one of my favourite TTRPGs in it, alongside a bunch of expansions, for just $15—or $25 for a nest of great Magpie Games books worth $365

Superheroes are a difficult genre to pin down in TTRPGs—game balance is basically impossible when you’re talking comic books, since having a cast of seriously varying power levels is part of the whole appeal. However, Masks—one of my favourite systems—nails it completely, and it’s also in Humble’s new RPG Bundle. This (up to) 27-item bundle…

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This utterly mesmerising beehive PC desk build took six months of painstaking labour and hypnotically simulates the bittersweet rise and fall of bee colonies in real time

“I’ve always admired bees, so I thought I’d build something that not only looks like a hive, but actually simulates one.” So says YouTube channel Full Stack Woodworking, which set out to build a desk that simulates a bee hive. A simple enough concept, but let’s just say this one spiralled a bit. And then…

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Morrowind mega-mod Tamriel Rebuilt is adding ‘one of the holy grails’ that players have wanted ‘for more than 20 years’ in its next mammoth expansion

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tamriel Rebuilt is one of the most impressive mod projects of all time. Its quest is to build every part of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind’s titular province that Bethesda didn’t get to, and it’s been doing that for literal decades. Earlier this year it released…

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