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Anime racer Screamer no longer demands you retrain your fingers, with a fresh patch adding single stick drift controls

Both James and I dug anime-styled arcade racer Screamer when we gave a verdict on it earlier this year, but one aspect that raised both of our eyebrows was the game's unorthodox twin stick drift controls. Usually, steering and sliding in racing games are managed by the one singular controller stick, keeping things simple and intuitive, but Milestone opted to make you kick out the tail with a…

Anime racer Screamer no longer demands you retrain your fingers, with a fresh patch adding single stick drift controls

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Brunch Gem: Isolated Development Environments for Git Branches and Worktrees

Switching Git branches changes your code instantly. It usually doesn't change your development environment. You may switch from main to a feature branch with a different database schema, different…

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