[2021] Tweets by Orteil42 on 25 Dec

i tend to shelve or tone down some of my sandbox game ideas like "a persistent world that size would take up way too much disk space and resources" as if people haven't spent 10 years happily playing infinite Minecraft maps with a billion mods

central/northern europe may be a tad over-represented in Cookie Clicker's cookie upgrades and the upcoming update doesn't exactly go against that... those folks sure like their baked goods

mind you there's also a whole bunch of french and dutch cookies in the game but that's mostly author bias. i'll see something at the store and go oh yeah i need to pixel that

of course a lot of this is due to many cultures having different kinds of treats taking up the spot that cookies have in western countries so sometimes for fun we stretch the definition just a little bit. maybe a small cake or other confectionery can be a cookie. it's cool

@xolimono baklavas are just slightly too outside my parameters for what constitutes a cookie but i really love them so maybe i'll add them to one of the not-cookie boxes

@kasualkaymer always thought those looked so pretty! might find a place to squeeze them in