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if they persuade chris barrie to do the audiobook i’m in

nice one, cheers. it’s there in line 16607 in EasyPrivacy, same guy runs btdig dot com?

||gyrovague.com^$domain=archive.fo|archive.is|archive.li|archive.md|archive.ph|archive.today|archive.vn|btdig.com

from the blog in question

On January 21, commit ^bbf70ec (warning: very large) added gyrovague.com to dns-blocklists, used by ad blocking services like uBlock Origin. This is actually beneficial, since if you have an ad blocker installed, the DDOS script’s network requests are now blocked. (It does not stop users from browsing to my blog directly.)

- https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/

can’t find anything from a quick look that confirms this list is used by default in ubo

now that’s initiative. and steam tags could hardly be much worse anyway

of course you’re right that a core feature of roguelikes is that each new game starts from scratch. it’s roguelite that is vague

this makes sense, appreciate the perspective

I like most games that fall into the category

same. but considering that, it’s still a bad name for a sub (sub sub) genre at best, not a top level one. your RPG and Action examples are quite right but it’s easy to imagine games as being e.g. action > beat-em-up > roguelike or RPG > TBT> roguelike. it’s the same level as isometric or coop imo

edit: you’ve helped me talk myself out of my own argument, now i want to spend all my money on combocore and get upset about the inevitable subsequent wave of combolikes

i think i agree with this which means i only dislike roguelite as a top level category (but see below). in your mario tennis example it might go something like

sports ¬ tennis ¬ arcade (as opposed to simulation)

a mario tennis where it would be practically impossible to win a randomly generated tournament without grinding out some progression would be

sports ¬ tennis ¬ roguelite

so it seems to me like roguelite is less useful as a genre rather than just being descriptive of a feature i suppose

agree re roguelikes but roguelite seems far too broad to work as a genre? like if there was a ‘combos’ genre that included blazblue, bayonetta, and bejeweled

most-played roguelike/roguelite

hit action roguelike The Binding of Isaac

highly acclaimed roguelite and roguelike games, such as Hades, Vampire Survivors, and Balatro

i’ll accept that roguelite means fuck all except ‘has meta progression’ but none of the games mentioned in this article are roguelikes

I took it as a play on world war three

english judges depicted banging gavels is one that annoys me a bit. relevant to the topic, i never got the pun in world war z until i realised it’s the american zee. but missing ‘phil banks’ from fresh prince of bel air was my own fault

best answer, the others so far mainly seem to be just lesser known rather than actually underrated

tyvm

top level posts, i usually upvote anything i commented on or just liked for any reason. i almost never downvote them

for comments, more or less the same except i will happily downvote stupid or belligerent comments, i don’t buy this ‘does it add to the discussion’ thing, if that was true it would apply to upvotes as well. piefed has an ‘attitude score’ so when i downvote a comment, i will upvote surrounding comments at random to keep my good boy points at an acceptable level

the other attitude score related thing is upvoting almost anything that has been highly downvoted regardless of its quality just because it seems funny to raise my score by upvoting stuff that everyone else hates