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- Comment on CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article) 1 day ago:
The crank folds down into an extremely satisfying magnetic dock that it can sit in while not using it.
Also… These aren’t classic Gameboy games, they’re modern games made specifically for the device. The unique control mechanism is the niche, and it’s surprisingly fun to use.
Sounds like this isn’t your thing though, there are lots of Gameboy emulator powered handhelds if that’s all you’re looking for. If you want extremely unique gameplay by tons of small indie developers (including Lucas Pope of Papers Please), super easy to make games for (I’ve made 2 just for friends), really easy side loading, and something just fun to show people, it’s a super easy sell.
- Comment on CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article) 1 day ago:
I’ve gotten easily $200 worth of value out of it, and if mine broke I’d buy another one. Sometimes niche things deserve the extra price. It’s more of a problem of the world draining everyone’s disposable income for niche things like these.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 days ago:
Is saying “not everyone is shitty” toxic positivity? I’m not denying the presence of malicious humans, but the first step to becoming a bad person is believing that everyone else is too.
What’s your end goal here - what are you trying to communicate? Just that the world is bad and people should agree with that fact and do nothing?
I don’t really mean to say that you can’t express your feelings on the Internet or that they aren’t valid, but I do just want to kinda poke people who seem to be in this “people are awful” mindset and point out that our psychology and our information ecosystem are all heavily biased towards the negative, but it’s not the complete picture.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 days ago:
Hey look at this guy! He’s met every human that’s ever existed, ignored all the times that humans have been good and caring, and has decided that we’re completely cooked!
But for real, I get that misanthropes are “in” right now, but if you look for the helpers, you will generally find them. Most people in the world are not out to cause pain - actively malicious people are rare. We just focus a shit ton of our attention on them.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 days ago:
The male loneliness is that feeling of having the burden of all your relationships in your shoulders, knowing that if you don’t go after people people won’t ever go after you. And that can be devastating with time.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it put so succinctly. Maybe this isn’t everything, but it is the root of the feeling for me. I’m constantly reaching out and checking in and it’s more rare for the reverse to happen (though it’s really important to notice when it does, which is something I’m trying to do more now).
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 6 days ago:
Absolutely. Procedural generation is not the same as AI generated. Spelunky’s level generation is great and the different combinations of hand-created rooms with smart rules on how they connect. Unexplored (that’s the name of the game) is a full on multi-level dungeon with puzzles and combat. Proc gen gives these games their life, but designing a good proc gen system is level design unto itself.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 1 week ago:
Definitely agree with everything you said… Except that Souls games are Metroidvanias. Backtracking is really the only thing that most souls-likes share with Metroidvanias. Unlocking gameplay abilities that also function as environmental keys is the main defining feature of Metroidvanias IMO.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 1 week ago:
I also really enjoyed it! Kinda felt mid about the story but the setting was phenomenal. The DLC is VERY good and I highly recommend it.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Here’s how you Grape Nut:
Pour a small pile (like a cup or so) in a bowl.
Take a spoonful of peanut butter and use the backside of the spoon to mix up the PB and GN. Smash it together for longer than you think until it’s well mixed.
Top with a drizzle of honey and then pour milk over it.
S-tier breakfast.
- Comment on GameVault - The Identity Update 3 weeks ago:
If you have a lot of DRM free games and want to have your own backup copies and be able to easily share them with your household, this does that. It isn’t for hosting games you buy through Steam or other DRM-protected platforms. It’s for giving you an interface to easily search and download your own library of games that you could get from a bunch of different sources, so you don’t have to go look up your credentials that you used to buy the game to re download it.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, many people KNEW your character pre-amnesia. There are very valid reasons for many of them to treat your character like an asshole, because to be frank, he kinda was. This is a very big and very intentional part of the game. You’re also a cop coming to police an area that hasn’t seen a cop come around in literal decades.
Garte, the hotel manager, doesn’t like that you’re being incredibly loud and trashing your room. He’s a bit of an asshole, but honestly with good reason, and he comes around if you make an effort to apologize.
Lena, the Cryptozoologist, is really friendly and very charming.
Cuno is a drugged out kid, he’s supposed to be absurd.
If anything, Kim is impossibly accomodating and patient with you. Even if you’re an asshole to him. There’s a reason people love him and call him “best boy” because he’s got these little windows into his personality even through his stiff police exterior.
There are some actual racist assholes in the game, but I feel very confident in stating that the vast majority of them are not assholes.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s an opinion article and maybe it’s OK for the author to make an subjective statement of the quality of a thing they love? Like, if they really believe it, is it wrong to state that? Do they need to qualify everything in their article with “this is just my opinion, sorry if you don’t agree.”
I get being annoyed by hyperbole in articles, but I don’t really think that this warrants this kind of response. Sometimes it’s OK to make strong statements. You can make statements like that without implying that people who think differently are bad/wrong.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s ok to not get it? It really does sound like you just don’t get it. If your example of why it’s bad is a genuinely funny, absurd result of a failed check, it might just not be for you.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 3 weeks ago:
That’s a really bizarre read, how do you come to the conclusion that every character was a terrible person? Even amongst the first 6 or so people you talk to, most of them are decent people living in a very poor area. I usually hate media where everyone is an asshole but DI is so NOT that that I’m just… Confused.
- Comment on That sounds like a fun thing to do 5 weeks ago:
Why can’t shitposts also be wholesome?
- Comment on DOGWALK is a free casual game from the Blender Studio out now 1 month ago:
It’s been mostly abandoned for some time now. It was my main entrance into game dev in middle school, and I used to be really active in the blender artists forums, so it is kinda sad.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 1 month ago:
I can’t seem to visit that site without it completely redirecting my browser to a full screen ad saying I had been “wiretapped”, so I googled it, and I cannot find any confirmation of that happening. Every article says Victoria Beckham is still not fully confirmed and nothing substantial has been announced.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 2 months ago:
This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.
- Comment on The Legends is among us 2 months ago:
If the server owner gives the bot access to those permissions and the users have activity sharing enabled, yep.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 months ago:
Giving feedback is the first step to contributing.
- Comment on Are you a Lemmy Shitbird? Click here to find out. 2 months ago:
I realized that I was accidentally voting on posts while scrolling in Jerboa.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 3 months ago:
Turns out you can click the link and find out! It links to a very short Bluesky post! Try it out! Lemmy has more than just headlines!
- Comment on Accurate 3 months ago:
For real. It’s so frustrating how someone will just text “let’s hang out” or “let’s play games tonight” and it’s always me who has to go the extra step of “OK sure how about 7?”
- Comment on The real inflation is on basic human interaction. We use to just be together and no one was trying to make money off of it. 3 months ago:
Depression is definitely a factor for many people. But the death of 3rd spaces is fairly well documented. The problem is that many people don’t know how to make friends. Friends very rarely happen instantly, they usually are a result of repeated and consistent interactions. Adults rarely seek out situations that would give them those types of interactions outside of work and school.
- Comment on ‘The damage is done’: Trump’s tariffs put the dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy 4 months ago:
It’s an important distinction that the majority of America does not want this, they’re just paralyzed for various reasons (many of which are self inflicted, but many of which are due to the greed-fueled erosion of our societal connections).
- Comment on Ben Starr recieves Balatro's BAFTA award in a clown costume 4 months ago:
Chess is a war game. Killing and violence in general are devastating. It’d be interesting to compare the brain activity of a murderer with a grandmaster player. I have my suspicions about what we would see.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 months ago:
Eh, still about 50-50 with these people. I’ve sent an email with 4 nicely formatted and numbered questions and had them respond only to question 3. Like… You read some of it, decided to answer one, and then give up with no other acknowledgement? Shit is wild.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 5 months ago:
It’s obviously not great for the type of community that’s about knowledge sharing and learning, and it does suck that a lot of communities went there.
But it’s a great platform for simple social servers that are just about communicating. It’s super easy to sign up and set up a server. A lot of it just works well for chat.
Them going public probably puts a timer on the service though, so if it happens Discord probably just will get worse.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 9 months ago:
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Source?
I’m pushing back on this viewpoint wherever I’m seeing it. Humans are certainly flawed in a lot of ways, especially in how easy it can be to mislead us, but this cynical worldview that most people are actively wanting others to hurt is not based in reality. Honestly it sounds like me when I was in the depths of depression.
I think we have a major problem with how we share and consume news. Stories are shared as screen-capped headlines that emphasize the Bad thing that happened, and even if you find the original article, it’s stuffed with ads that make you not want to bother. Random one-off bad/stupid things that one person did somewhere far away are reported as world news without statistics and context.
The result? Increasing cynicism. The good, uplifting stories rarely come through. People begin to base their worldview and how they interact with other people on this “fact” that most people suck. This culminates in them becoming the thing that they think everyone is - they go through life scared of or angry at other people by default.
It isn’t an inevitability. Maybe I’m wrong, but believing in people is a much better existence, even when they occasionally let me down.