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Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead Fan: "Okay so this is my favorite game, it's about fighting zombies, do you want to watch"

Normal person: "Sure"

CDDA fan: *3 hour long lecture about how to optimize putting items in each of the pockets of your cargo pants, how to stay hydrated without getting sick, how to get comfortable enough to get a good night's sleep, some tips and tricks of how not to get scurvy or depression*

Normal person: "Wow that was quite a tutorial. Okay, now let's start having some fun"

CDDA fan: *blinking* "But we are having fun"

TeflonTrout :bc: he/him

@TeflonTrout@beige.party · 60 minutes ago

@cwebber

Worm Girl on yt does an amazing playthrough, which includes a one woman zombie killing spree on roller skates in a skate park

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@zzt@mas.to · 12 hours ago

@cwebber why are you trying to make me download cataclysm dark days ahead

Kevin Granade

@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place · 10 hours ago

@zzt @cwebber dooooo iiiiit...

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebber@social.coop · 1 hour ago

@kevingranade @zzt The thing about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is it appears to be a zombie fighting game from the surface, but then you realize it's actually a deadly version of Stardew Valley for simulationists

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@zzt@mas.to · 1 hour ago

@cwebber @kevingranade fuck yes

I’m assuming it doesn’t have controller support? this may have to wait until I have a keyboard handy

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebber@social.coop · 13 hours ago

Normal person: "This is absurd, I just want to go fight some zombies. I am going to go outside and start fighting them."

CDDA fan: "I wouldn't do that if I were you"

Normal person: "That's the whole point of the game! I am going to go do it"

*one minute passes*

Normal person: "WTF I died immediately"

CDDA fan: "Well what did you expect to happen"

timorl

@timorl@social.wuatek.is · 4 hours ago

CDDA changed my life, it’s literally the reason why I even sew. I’ve been wondering if it also worked the same way on any other people, but so far I haven’t met any, so maybe I’m just weird.

timorl

@timorl@social.wuatek.is · 4 hours ago

CDDA story

Also there’s that time I’ve been quite far in exploring a city and some much stronger zombie noticed me and started chasing. I shot it a couple times with my bow, but it clearly would get to me, so I started running. It caught up to me. After a short melee where I damaged it, but was still far from defeating it, it got to pummeling me almost without resistance because of the pain. My irl heart is racing, is this it? But I remembered the one handgun I had carried for precisely such a situation, take it out, and spray, aiming was out of the question, would take too long. Literally the last bullet in the clip finally kills it. Exhilarating, but I’m not completely out of danger yet. Hoping that I was far enough from the still zombie populated parts of the town that they didn’t hear that, I start crawling towards my base, periodically blacking out. Only when I got to bed I calmed down IRL.

Organic

fucking

storytelling.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebber@social.coop · 1 hour ago

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social · 13 hours ago

@cwebber

I will never play CDDA because the tutorial showed how I needed a recipe in order to put peanut butter in between two saltines

Kevin Granade

@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place · 13 hours ago

@richpuchalsky @cwebber I just checked and the pb and pbj sandwich recipes are autolearn at cooking skill 0.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@cwebber@social.coop · 13 hours ago

@richpuchalsky it's a good recipe

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social · 13 hours ago

@cwebber

It's like the joke about how tech people believe that AI is conscious and that people are not conscious. Really picky detail orientation is fine but can my character please have the inherent thinking skills of a 5 year old.

Kevin Granade

@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place · 13 hours ago

@cwebber immensely accurate no notes.