no way pezeshkian is talking to that clown lmao. this fucking country is a disappointment.

visual novels work very well on even toasters because they are basically slide shows.

old adventure games are also a blast and work very well, look into lucas arts and sierra online catalogues. a great starter could be sam and max or grim fandango.

you could also try N64 emulation. there's a lot of good games on it and not demanding at all.

if you need something more sandboxy, rollercoaster tycoon and transport tycoon deluxe (or opentdd for the modern open source version, has multiplayer too with mod support) are great. apart from that, old civilization games and simcity are also great.

old real time strategies are also great. command and conquer series, stronghold series, age of empires 2, age of mythology, warcraft etc etc.

(help me folks im running out of genres)

basically either look into blasts from the past, or the indie scene. i recommend the former since although there's a lot of great stuff in the indie scene, it all kinda gets samey due to the same tools being used and the limited resources available pushes people into certain genres. you can't certainly beat the olden but golden ones on variety.

i like deltarune but unfortunately i always have to torture myself by having a guide open in order to extract as much dialogue and secrets as i possibly can. i understand that toby fox likes secrets and it's cool for the fandom to have these and meta stuff but personally it doesn't sit right with me, and i think it's genuinely poor design if i feel a compulsion to actively ruin the fun of the game.

also there's some slight polish issues like your custom keybinds not working on the start chapter screen. otherwise it's pretty much perfect. banger soundtrack, amazing dialogue, always keeping it fresh but never overstaying. i reserve the masterpiece title for something like disco elysium but deltarune might come close.

unfortunately i suspect that most new signatures are forged and botted. even if the initiative passes it'll probably go nowhere and the organising I've seen while valiant has been rather poor. if it wasn't for the drama it wouldn't even pass the "we'll think about it" threshold. consumer advocacy is really hard when you're up against hundreds of millions of dollars of corporate interest and admittedly the low priority of this issue outside one specific demographic. i hope it'll do something but i wouldn't count on it.

i checked on google earth and it isn't on the 2022 image but it is on the october of 2024 so before the current shit show

maybe it's sabotage designed to create fear. there is a gathering for muharram near here and everyone went absolutely wild after the sound.

i haven't checked but I've read this has been in the satellite images since 2022. probably related to some military exercise.

I personally heard (a bomb maybe an explosive drone?) go off. what the fuck is going on? i've read the air defences also got activated at a few places in the city. never trust the entity folks.

EDIT: looks like it was an air defence test. i doubt it because of how close the explosion sound was but that's the explanation given.

i love the smokes coming out of nowhere and the little help text bubble. ben garrison always cracks me up by being this shitty

update on the iran internet situation: it's basically already disconnected from the rest of the world. in the morning it's better and im able to (with some really specific configuration) connect, but otherwise after 6 pm it's dead.

on one hand in a statement they said that the disruptions are not because of cutting off the rest of the world but are due to israeli cyber attacks (which are not unfounded) but on the other hand many data centers became "iran access" (they can only access iranian ip ranges), as well as the normal restrictions they imposed right after the start of the war.

so if you guys aren't getting any footage to doompost over it's because the internet is broken. you can check it with netblocks to see when the internet is cut off.

they're cutting off the internet to the rest of the world, hexbear has been already blocked since this morning. goodbye comrades see you on the other side

p.s: the emoji isn't loading i hope it's not a ppb or something.

i just woke up from the explosions what the hell