Easy, just send him back in time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349230/5D_Chess_With_Multiverse_Time_Travel/

Gulf War: 1990-1991

Idiocracy: 2006

You may be thinking of the sequel, Gulf War II

Hammerwatch II and Sea of Stars just in the past few weeks. En Garde not far off. The hardest part of gaming is finding the time.

I saw someone posit that he might have a humiliation fetish. It's the only explanation I've seen that seems rational.

Gnosticism 2.0

"How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb."

Having read it, this is basically correct. The last hurdle was that the sewer system was designed to use the river to dump overflow in the case of heavy rains. Now they're finishing up a large reservoir to use instead.

You wouldn't download a meme.

If they're truly trying to be old school, I agree. Many such games actually come with adjustable filters to simulate that kind of distortion, and even arcade-like screen curvature (e.g., Hammerwatch).

That said, modern pixel art is evolving its own aesthetic that is valid and enjoyable in its own right. I don't think everyone making modern pixel art games is necessarily trying to be old school.

Good question. Maybe they did it deliberately to make it feel more alien and strange? Or maybe there's another rule about the relative number of syllables (e.g., Tom and Jerry, Jak and Daxter, etc.)

That's what they want you to think. (not sure if I'm being sarcastic or not)

Even if that's true, once they become a part of the ecosystem, they will start looking for ways to dominate it. That's just the nature of for-profit corporations.

I even got an error page the first time I tried to load this post. Just like old times! 🥲