Jack Slater

Kaizen: A Factory Story

Jul 24, 2025

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The new Zach-like from Coincidence Games’ team came out earlier this month, Kaizen: A Factory Story puts you into the shoes of David Sugimoto. He’s an American with Japanese roots who goes to Japan to take a sales job and gets involved in setting up assembly lines instead. I’m about two hours in and so…

Apskeppet’s Cosmic Collapse is a Fantastic Suika-Like

Jul 21, 2025

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Jack Slater

in video games

There’s a puzzle game for the Nintendo Switch and mobile phones called Suika Game where you drop fruit into a jar and try and merge smaller fruits into larger fruits as they bounce around and you’ve gotta do this without letting the jar overflow. It’s a fun physics romp that’s got competitive leaderboards and cute…

Duolingo Max is Expensive, Sad, and Ineffective

Jun 8, 2025

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Jack Slater

in learning, learning german

Duolingo gave me temporary access to their AI slop machine subscription, “Duolingo Max” which costs an extra $120 a year, twice what I’m paying for a Duolingo Super family plan right now. The main way you’d use Duolingo Max is through faux-video calls with Lily, Duolingo’s misanthropic cartoon teenager. I can see why someone…