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[PC][2024-now? Not sure] Recent/upcoming big(-ish)-budget sci-fi stealth game with blockbuster garnishes? It was in one of the recent Steam demo fests

Platform(s): PC

Genre: sci-fi, stealth, blockbuster action epic

Estimated year of release: No clue; it was a demo in a recent Steam festival of some sort.

Graphics/art style: Hyper realistic, maybe UE5.

Notable characters: I recall playing as a ninja girl. Maybe an android?

Notable gameplay mechanics: There was platforming, a lot of stealth, and a couple of big action setpieces in the demo. It was in a cyberpunk-esque environment but had a drab color palette, lots of grey, like I was in a giant facility of some sort.

Other details: It was very much focused on stealth with a little bit of platforming and I believe a big action setpiece is what ended the demo. I recall it being from a recent-ish Steam demo festival; past few years. It wasn't a souls-like or anything of that nature. It was a lot of crouch+get close to baddies type action.

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u/Robert_Writes — 9 hours ago
▲ 5 r/suggestmeabook

Books like Jennifer Government?

I'm looking for sharp, almost academic-level funny. Satire especially. Max Barry style of dry+biting humor. Succession with just a touch more warmth/humanity, if possible. A novel akin to Tim Dillon's old-school porch podcasts.

It can be a non-fiction recc too, so long as it's hysterical or reliably chuckle-worthy. Any topic is fine. Any degree of darkness in the humor is fine. Just nothing excessively low-brow or reliant on SNL-style "lol so quirky" normie yucks.

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u/Robert_Writes — 10 hours ago
▲ 5 r/writingcirclejerk

Whatever happened to overwriting?

Everything's so succinct these days. Novels are beyond economical.

What happened to excess? The good ol' days of thousand-page prologues and elaborate worldbuilding nobody asked for? Where's the grandeur? What happened to the golden age of shitty books padding their runtimes with 60% filler?

If your book doesn't have an uncalled for sex scene that lasts at least 4,000 words, just stop now. Save everyone the embarrassment.

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u/Robert_Writes — 20 days ago
▲ 3 r/freebooks+1 crossposts

[Free Kindle eBook] [no DRM] EARTH: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION by Robert Carnevale - Free 'Til August 4! (Sci-fi adventure comedy)

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u/Robert_Writes — 20 days ago
▲ 18 r/sciencefiction+2 crossposts

My sci-fi LITRPG pride and joy, EARTH: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION, is free 'til August 4!

I've opted out of DRM, so grab it on Amazon and download as a PDF or epub to truly own it forever! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKWWT3XZ

The sequel's discounted from August 1 to August 4. And the third, final book in the trilogy arrives later this year. Here's a little blurb about EARTH: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION to get you started:

Jack, a young and jaded New Yorker, is done with life.

Its challenges are plentiful, and there's a simple solution just a toaster and bathtub away. But everything changes when a teenager from another realm informs Jack he's a sentient AI trapped in a video game—one that can be manipulated.

For Jack's sake, the teen hacks the game to make it easier, forcing its cruel developers to intervene. Out of cheats and options, the digital protagonist must confront reality: If he wants a better future, he's going to need to earn said future legitimately.

Can Jack rise to the occasion and beat the developers at their own game?

EARTH: GOTY EDITION is about AI but not made by or with AI.

COVER ARTIST: Breno Girafa.

AI USAGE: No AI used (only traditional computer tools, spellcheck, etc. No generative AI for anything)

u/Robert_Writes — 20 days ago
▲ 82 r/scifi

Finally watched Primer...

Admittedly, maybe a little too smart, dry, and densely packed for me to properly appreciate. But what I can appreciate is how solid it was for such a microscopic budget. Razor-sharp execution.

Anyone else ever give themselves a headache thinking about sci-fi movie ideas that could be shot on such tiny budgets? It kills me because SF is my favorite genre, but thinking up quality feature ideas that can fit inside a $10/20/30K film budget is tough going. My head's in the studio-level clouds with, like, Inception.

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u/Robert_Writes — 21 days ago
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Hi all,

The EARTH series' newest novel, Earth: Super Turbo Arcade Edition, is having its very first sale/discount right now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Super-Arcade-Robert-Carnevale-ebook/dp/B0GLRC2NRH

It's satirical and full of sharp humor; great for anyone who enjoys comedians like Norm MacDonald or old-school Tim Dillon and wants that kind of funny candor mixed in with their gaming sci-fi. A blurb for you:

"EARTH, the world's most famous video game, has a sentient artificial intelligence problem.

One particularly unlucky AI, Jack, finds himself trapped on a server run by a sociopathic gamer who wants to enslave this new virtual species. But having migrated from another server hoping for a better life, Jack isn't about to settle for captivity.

Cut off from the friends and allies he left behind in search of a new home, the pixel-bound protagonist must search for a way to reconnect and save his people from ill-intentioned players before it's game over. It'll take all the wit, cunning, and survival skills he has to rescue them without getting permanently deleted.

Can Jack surpass his programming and become the savior cyberspace needs?"

If you want to read the first book before this, it's 99 cents as well as on KU: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BK79RL4N

u/Robert_Writes — 4 months ago