CAPC’s Favorite Games, Memes, and Cultural Moments of 2024

During the month of December and January, the Capc team collected a list of favorite artifacts of pop culture from the previous year. Unlike most lists of the end of the year, we do not claim that this is the “best”. Instead, these are the things that have brought us the most joy and satisfaction in the past 12 months.

For the year 2024, our favorite games, memes, and cultural moments included Fashion criticism, Excessive Terraforming in capitalism, JRPGS, and more.

Derek the man

A social media account for men’s fashion may seem strange to celebrate it, however Derek the man– Ka “The Menswear Guy” – is not just a fashion blogger or an influential social media. It is true that he spends a lot of time to criticize men’s fashion, such as men’s liability, and highlights elegant fashions of the past. However, his posts are more than entertaining. It is useful and educationally beneficial, highlighting the ways in which fashion has evolved, and the forces responsible for this development. Not only fashion, but also how the concepts of our culture and the definitions of masculinity have changed over time.

As part of that, it is not afraid to call the emperors who do not have clothes, they offer Dipness, Farhan – and yes, sometimes brutality – from politicians and public figuresAnd not only for their weak taste in relationships and preachers. Fashion commentary shows hypocrisy as much as the poor High fashion.

Jasson Moraid

Cravter planet

Cravter planet It is a game for the first time from a independent studio with a significantly simple hypothesis: it was shattered on a barren planet with a pistol that plays everything and makes anything. Your mission? Make the planet to live. It is a beautiful game that really embodies the wonder of creation as it also indicates the dangers of physical.

You are at the mercy of a company, which is an indisputable company that takes the convicts like your personality and release it mainly on the planets with more than one oxygen tank and said omni-gun. They have a little care or attention to their “employees” and to contact you only as soon as they are completed by the dangerous work and they can harvest the planet’s reward. Although you can prepare a sustainable and automatic system that produces and charges goods outside the plan, the various records that left around the planet indicate that this will not work in the long run. The indigenous people left the huge gravitational basin who carries no person on this planet specifically because they saw an outdated destruction that humans were making on the galaxy in general.

Despite this dark message, Cravter planet It is a beautiful and undeniable game. Even the arid version of the planet is great in infertility, with huge dirt storms and clear, shining planets on the horizon. The player can discover complex rock formations and abandoned effects that are chased in His Majesty. As the game advances and the player offers an atmosphere, water, plants and animals in the world, it is really amazing to see the way in which familiar languages ​​change and become great pictures of life.

It should be noted, of course, to some extent Cravter planet He criticizes materialism, the same beautiful transformation of the planet is a process that has become only possible through the technology of the material society that besides the game. In this way, it can be displayed Cravter planet As an excellent expression of this type of supervision of the land that God is going through in his speech, an expression that appreciates the natural beauty of creation while also seeking to exaggerate it more.

John Closemman

Blues

When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, then returned it in his image as X, some people may be excited due to Musk’s allegations that she is “fans of freedom of expression.” Twitter increased chaotic, bypassing robots and censorship accusations. Musk promised to change all of this, which he did before – studying notes – exchanging conspiracy theories and making the place more friendly for Nazis and other extremists.

It is not surprising that many people start searching for an alternative as X began to nourish and grow increasingly, not only for advertisers but for ordinary users looking for information and society. Meta has been published Subjects As a branch of Instagram, and although it contains a greater user base, it can be said that it is in the normal stage Blouse This is the real alternative x/twitter.

After a long period of invitation only, Bluesky opened for public records in February 2024. However, the Bluesky focus on the user control makes it the safest basic system; It is much easier to control the content that appears in your news file that you interact with. Moreover, it is based on the “decentralization” protocol, with the aim of allowing people to create and operate their Bluex versions, which means that the content of users is not under the control of a single company or its owner of billionaire.

Jasson Moraid

Satisfaction

After years of ability to play with Satisfaction Early arrival, Coffee Stain has finally released the full game in the fall of 2024, prompting me to start again from the beginning. What a joy!

One of my favorite things in games is to build ongoing structures. The idea of ​​changing the scene in a world I can pass quietly for me. Laying a building, house, or small settlement in a place that lasts for the rest of the game is just a wonderful type. Everything is fast (clear!), But inside the game space, you have always created something with the time.

Minecraft The early market besieged the idea (even if we see this in a primitive form in previous SIM games such as Sim City and Populus) But while Minecraft Excellent in creating things that are functional effects and buildings that only serve any purpose (A) To be interesting aesthetically and (for) You may be a place where you can be inside without eating your face spider, Satisfaction Sweex some of that character for the supports that do something – which is to remove all boring parts of them Minecraft.

Beyond being a game in which the player works to automate all mining grinding/cunning Minecraftand Satisfaction It includes a rich world for exploration. The design of the world is beautiful, varied and large (a little larger than Skyrimand GTA: San AndreasAnd Forgetfulness) With 21 different vital areas and a lot of vertical to explore. Sometimes, while you are waiting for your factories to finish producing everything you need, you may just want to wander for a period of time to find new resources, other ships that have been shattered or beautiful horizons. None of this game has been created procedurally. Everything is designed by humans who are deliberately designed as trees, rocks and ground heat openings may go.

And all this beauty makes it more amazing when you pave all of this in the end with the industry. An original world, not touched human colonialism, suddenly converted into a giant production facility from one hand, all until the end of the production of the required quantitative materials required for the Save the Earth program – because we seem to have detonated it with our own planet and move to the world like locusts Between the stars. So, oh, I think there is that. But man, look at that twin sun, what a beautiful scene!

-Sth T. Hene

Unicorn Overlord

One of the surprise 2024, Unicorn Overlord It is JRPG, whose main character is not, disappointing, unicorn, but largely. The Blue Poetry’s protagonist should form an army of coarse and talent experts to topple the traitor who killed his mother years ago and continued to control the world. Despite the apparent tactics game, in fact, the main gameplay in Unicorn Overlord In approaching your friends and learn to work together to overcome obstacles.

Unicorn Overlord, Unlike other rotating tactical games, do your characters automatically offer their attacks without any inputs in the battle. This simplifies a lot of fighting, but it mainly makes the game the issue of placing a group of artificial intelligence attackers against the other.

For this reason, the main feature of the battle comes from finding the best characters that work better and maximize their effectiveness when they cooperate by developing their relationships with each other through “team dinner”. Although you, as a leader, make decisions about the teams that are best able to deal with threats, you need to trust the capabilities of Ask on themselves well. It is a lesser feeling of being a tactical genius, and more than just a game about relying on talented people who have the same goal.

This fact was particularly emphasized by the fact that the main villain is a crazy dictator who wears all power in himself and a brain washing machine to follow his orders exactly. There is no collective action on the competing side, just one cell mind (formed, as was revealed later, by a group of uniform souls from a long dead kingdom). Individuals are like insulting and ventilating each other, or even noon when it is possible. Others, when they are released from the control of the demonic leader, delightly joins your logo – assuming that you forgive them, which encourages the game.

Unicorn OverlordSo, a dictator, like a “strong man”, is digging against a leader who avoids glory and greatness to serve his followers. It is a non -stereotype where the hero is not, in fact, very strong or very smart – at least, no more than his opponent. Instead, Alain’s main quality is his grace and ability to work with others. Hope for a new kingdom shares and inspires a society of broken, defective, biased and broken warriors to fight together against evil. It is an excellent picture of how the church itself works.

John Closemman