Did you know there was a play-by-email X-COM game? What about a play-by-email NASCAR game?! These, and more, in my new video - the defintive retrospective of Hasbro's Em@il Games series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOe-b3dkIX4

Years ago I was on a (dev) team and helping with interviews, and one question we'd ask sometimes was "What is your favorite piece of software, and why?" It was interesting because the reasons helped illustrate how applicants thought about software and what was important to them (UI, performance, community, features, etc etc etc)

I used to say Microsoft Flight Simulator, due to its enduring legacy and detailed simulation (and picking business software is yaaaaawn). But now I think Excel is my choice. What's yours?

I was posting some screenshots of the unhinged character creator from Mabinogi: Fantasy Life in a Discord server (where I've been a mod for 4+ years) and they locked my account for "suspicious activity" / "possible spam" for 2 hours. Which is nuts. But much funnier is that while the restrictions stop you from sending messages in chat, or sending messages to anyone you hadn't friended pre-suspension, you can still add reacts

So we had a seance