GrapheneOS has a duress pin that wipes the phone when you enter it, that's conceptually similar

Beans

I know on some of the more modern intel CPU's they run something like a big.little system, where there's a number of "performance" cores and some "efficiency" cores. Often it's just the performance cores that will have hyperthreading, leading to a whacky thread count compared to physical cores.

Typically in a metroidvania you'll be using the new abilities you've unlocked to access new areas, each one being something of a puzzle or introducing new mechanics to the player, so it's rarely just a walking simulator.

Also I think that "quiet time" is an integeral part of good game design, even in something like a shmup there's enemy and projectile patterns that are so trivial they're essentially inconsequential. Although the paradigms regarding what works across genres are obviously quite different.

Interesting point though, hopefully I don't see what you mean when I next play!

Good art is timeless

I've finally gotten around to playing Control, I'm maybe half way through and so far it has not disappointed

"First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had while alive the owls escaped notice. Medieval plagues had manifested themselves in a similar way, in the form of many dead rats."

• Phillip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

God I cannot stand Richard Dawkins, he just seems like such an insufferable prick

Granted, I haven't read any of his books

Absolutely, I loved it and thought it was one of the best Discworlds, I guess it takes all sorts

What about his rug?? It really pulled the room together

I dunno man, I prefer Harmy's Despecialised over the 4K*s, I find the color grading a lot easier on the eyes

What do you mean by country? I would have thought everyone had the same definition of country