AndrewZabar
@AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
- Comment on What YouTube downloader are the kids using these days? 3 months ago:
On Android I use Seal. Aside from an occasional hiccup it’s awesome and does a phenomenal job 99% of the time. If I ever can’t get one item to work and there’s no alternative, I use one of the ones on my Linux machine. I’ll post the name when I’m home and can check.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
Ah, see I am interested in a lot of variety but these days I don’t really have the time for extremely involved stuff. I enjoy games that you can spend small clips of time on, rather than having to devote a lot at once. I like cool visuals and gizmos - that’s why Torchlight appealed to me so much. Upgrading and advancing. I loved all the Angband clones I played over the years. I love lots of the BigFish style games like where there’s a cool story, hidden object puzzles, other types of puzzles, click / find stuff, and problem solving. Also I enjoy really good musical score. Ever play Drawn the Painted Tower and its sequels? Absolutely mesmerizing game of artistic beauty. I liked games like Sword of Fargoal, as well - also a sort of fancier Angband. Dungeon crawlers, adventure stories, cool gadget type equipment / magic spells etc.
I think it would be easier to specify the things I definitely won’t devote a single second to: sports, racing, RTS, hugely long-term upgrade stuff à la Sim City (though I used to love it). Roads of Rome is an exception. God I love that. And I also loved loved loved Magesty. Nothing where reflexes are needed. Again, used to be great in my youth but it’s not my thing anymore.
I loved the Krondor series by Raymond Feist. I enjoyed every Zork incarnation, especially Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Zork Grand Inquisitor. Might & Magic I loved, as well as Wizardry. Kings Quest series and of course Hero’s Quest. I liked the Diablo editions that were very like Torchlight.
Most of all is that I prefer it be on Android or Linux.
Wow did I just write ALLLL of that? Meh. Just sharing my game tastes.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
Nice! Thanks.
Anything else out there these days worth putting time into?
I’d love to see Torchlight ported to Android.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
No, I was joking.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
Link please? (New game)
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
Well this is not a tech issue at all, it’s the fact that global economics have become a dumpster fire - particularly, in America. I can’t say I’m certain there are no other factors, but economically everything has gotten out of hand.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
So you want to be a hero!!! I only ever played the first one but fell in love with it.
Erana’s Peace. hidengoseke. Meep’s Peep, my friend.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
Well, retro etc. but I wouldn’t consider this to be that. There’s no inherent value of a run-of-the-mill drive with merely lower storage capacity. And certainly not worth a premium.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world’s governments about wanting a bailout.
Ahem… Whining? Wanting? Try instructing. They own the governments so they will just tell them to do it, and it will be done.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
I think ten years from now you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone even wasting their time on something so small.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 months ago:
8TB? That’s my ideal RAM configuration lol. ;-)
- Comment on What the Internet Was Like in 1998 10 months ago:
Way back in the early '90s I was using what passed for the internet. Email, Usenet, ftp sites and all text websites before they started embedding graphics. Browsers were very odd back then.
- Comment on caddyserver.com has those vintage browser buttons at the bottom of the page 11 months ago:
My favorite that I had on my site for a while because I was coding purely manually in html, was a tile that said “Made with NOTEPAD.EXE!”
- Comment on caddyserver.com has those vintage browser buttons at the bottom of the page 11 months ago:
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