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Apparently Starbucks just puts caffeine in there drinks and today I learned a drink I thought was just juice that I sometimes give them in their sippy cups has caffeine in it.... like lots 😶😶😶😶
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Becky This reminds of Bullfrog's Theme Park (1994) in which you can control the amount of caffeine in the coffee sold to park visitors. I liked to crank it up to the max, which made the visitors who frequented the coffee shop zoom around the park much faster than the others.
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Becky
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Lol!

Honestly the fact that I never noticed additional energy.... but my kids are already busy I guess 🤷‍♀️

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard There are absolute gems and few games have since managed to be both light-hearted and engaging economic simulations. Theme Park, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper are a holy video game design trifecta in my book.
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silverwizard
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I didn't realize Dungeon Keeper was them, I need to play that more

I got CorsixTH running once and then never really went on, I should do that again

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard It’s technically Theme Hospital but not in spirit. Interestingly the open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe has maintained popularity, probably because there wasn’t much design magic to the original game, and a purely technical port could preserve the game’s interest.
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Wait - what's missing from it?!

TTD is a game I never played but definitely know people love OpenTTD

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I wouldn’t be able to fully describe it. The intro cutscene, the weird animated main menu, the thoughtful level progression. CorsixTH faithfully reproduces the core gameplay loop but the original game was much more than it.
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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard Even Theme Park starts out smallish, you have to pay to open bigger and more challenging locations.
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Oh, wait -CorsixTH takes out all the progression? Just free for all?

My CDs were buried and I'd only tried the demo when I tried it, though I did find my CD

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I take that back, they have the original campaign, but not any of the cutscenes (intro, game board movements, main menu). It is a very neat port with modern screen resolutions, but if you have the original game handy, I'm not sure what more it brings to it, especially since the GOG version still runs on modern machines.
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Becky
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I just got a brief description of Theme Hospital.... and yet... it sounds like my kinda jam lmao
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Hypolite Petovan
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@Becky It can be anyone’s jam. It’s fun and straightforward during the first few levels, the PA jokes and the illness descriptions are still chuckleworthy.
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