I seen the gameplay. They really did the research to get the details just right. Might be my GOTY for 2026 
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New Year…had to get our entry in early.
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Damn, ive worked full days just for 40 quid and i didnt even get offered a sangich
Hytale looks good but from what i gathered from the comments, a lot of the advertised features are not in place yet.
Sounded like this was out of early access by the headlines but its more like it just came out of early-early access after almost going belly up due to internal problems with the team and feature creep.
Its good to know it survived the cancellation from Riot Games but the reports from former staff members etc sounded like upper management was a bit schizophrenic in their direction.
Riot would purchase the studio outright in 2020. Development on Hytale was canceled by Riot in June 2025, before being revived on 17 November 2025 by its original founder, Simon “Hypixel” Collins-Laflamme, who had repurchased the game from Riot Games and recommenced development.
Will be keeping a watchful hopeful eye on it 
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Thats certainly the closest to the Lara I remember (havent played past the third game in the original series) that ive seen so far.
And Phoebe Waller Bridges as director?
This has the potential to be epic.
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The thought just popped into my head. They need to do a throw away scene of Lara just swigging back a Lucozade. I don’t know if that made it stateside but the ad campaign was inescapable in the UK & Ireland.
I figure, the fallout show is doing a LOT of deep cut fan service only an obsessive fan would notice. Tomb Raider show should do the same. Lucozade Lara! Make it happen!
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…What is Lucozade??
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Many years ago, before advertising regulation, there were many products sold as “medicinal” on the basis that they supposedly had health-giving properties.
People bought them for generations. Over time, the health claims were gradually dropped. Some of the products survived, however, because people like the taste.
In the UK, these include soft drinks such as Irn-Bru, Vimto, and Lucozade, and alcoholic “tonic” wines such as Sanatogen, Wincarnis, and Buckfast.
Lucozade is carbonated citrus soft drink in which most of the usual sugar has been replaced by glucose. This supposedly provides the drinker with faster and more readily available access to energy, and was therefore claimed to have health benefits.
Lucozade was, for many years, marketed as being of particular benefit to convalescents. If you visited someone in hospital, you would inevitably find a bottle of Lucozade beside their bed.
Nowadays people mostly buy it because they like the taste. It is extremely sweet, with a citrus flavour somewhere between orange and lemon. It is an alarming bright orange colour, which cannot come from any natural fruit.
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Yeah, I’ve never heard of any of these… 
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Lucosade was advertised as a sports drink, any time I’ve ever drank it my mouth has completely dried up and I felt dehydrated
Irn bru is delicious though.
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So I have run through a number of early game strategies in this Terra Invicta Sim (loath to call it a game). My general perspective on the ‘Grand Strategy Genre’ is that there are so many ways to make fatal errors in the early game that you won’t even know you made until much later that it’s best for me to get a solid grip on the early game balances and the game mechanics before investing a complete playthrough.
In this beast “early game” means something like eight hours, assuming you’ve pretty well tamed the game mechanics. (pro tip: the clock stops ANY time something important happens, so set the clock on its highest speed immediately and never change it) It is brutally long, and definitely leans more towards challenging than fun. More of a NY Times crossword puzzle than a carnival ride for sure.
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I must jump back in soon, only played maybe the first thirty mins of the tutorial. The 3d Haven Map for NMS still has its hooks in me.
I knew id be making lots of early game mistakes so i set it to the fast/short campaign so I know what to expect on my first true run at a campaign.
I havent checked the custom modes settings but im hoping theres an option to randomise when the aliens arrive, be fun to keep it a surprise. I know theres default game modes for a 2070 or 2026 invasion
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AC Switch 2 v 3.0. Had to jump back in, squash all the bugs in my house and clean up the town for the new seaside hotel
Each hotel room has a choice of 2 design themes.
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I am just gonna run out to my workshop and do this real quick. See you guys in a bit
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Wait, so they just rip all the hardware out of all the boxes and put it into one new box? Do people want something like that?
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Apparently she had the money to attempt it
I wouldn’t dare to. I could see the advantage but it looks like a really big box.
I will stick with my current setup. They take up all the space but they fit and I have a drawer for physical copies and a really clicky keyboard I pull out and use sometimes
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Looking at the equipment that was used (I hesitate to say “she” used, because in most cases it’s clear the fabrication was done by someone else), I estimate they used about half a million dolllars worth of equipment, and the facilities of a medium-sized manufacturing facility. Just the machining centre that was used to clean up the mating surfaces of the aluminium casting is around $200,000 worth.
It’s not the sort of thing available to Norman Normal in his garage.
In any case, it’s been possible to combine the functionality of a bunch of consoles in one big box for many years. It’s called a PC - and I highly recommend them.
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Yes. I figure she worked with others and used equipment from someplace, maybe a university or some group…but still, it was a lot of work and would require quite a bit of money to be set up for it
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Forget the tech, I just want that cardigan 
I remember someone a long time ago made a portable N64 with screen using an old fishing tackle box. Think that was my first introduction to major console form modification.
After a quick search, it seems the internet has forgotten about it. I did find someone doing something very similar in 2020 but it’s not even close to the same build, but this guy clearly saw that build at some point in the past and tried their own. Didn’t watch the vid but I hope they at least credited the original creator (3d printing wasn’t even part of the conversation, this was in the late 00’s)
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But … does it make coffee?!
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I just want that library
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