The Game Mage

Documenting one mage's journey to follow his dream and die trying

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Dune 2: Even More Dune

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“It sounds like you might be playing the ghost of a better game that lives inside this one.” – Claude Sonnet 4 Previously: Waking Up to Dune Awakening Part 1: How Stella Got Her Groove Back, or, When The Worm Lost its Teeth Okay, so. Uh. I’m still playing Dune: Awakening. Yeah, I also think that’s weird. I’ve never spent so many words explaining why I don’t recommend something only to go on and keep engaging with it.

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Waking Up to Dune Awakening

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Chapter 1: Dune. So hot right now. I’m not going to bury the lede. You probably shouldn’t play Dune: Awakening. The rest of this article is going to be an attempt to explain why, despite my own anti-recommendation, I’m still playing it. You should know that Dune: Awakening is mean as hell. Up to a point that meanness is clearly intentional. It’s a Dune Simulator, and Dune’s world is mean as hell.

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