MonkeMischief
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Oh that’s a lovely game! We really enjoyed that one too! The voice acting was sublime and the characters were so loveable. It was so endearingly quirky without going way over the top.
Exciting to hear that there’s a sequel coming!!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
X-COM 2: War of the Chosen:
I’ve played this game off and on for years. Fondly wishing I could get back to it and just not having the time. Then I caught strep throat and literally couldn’t do anything but just play games.
Honestly? Finally. I felt like crap, but I was so happy to have an excuse to just enjoy myself instead of being obsessed with what I “had” to do.
The game changed a lot since I last played so I had to start a new save, and I’m having a blast. I love this game so much even with some of its flaws. Do your squaddies miss a 90% shot sometimes? Yes. Infuriating.
But when they make that hail-Mary hit that saves a teammate, or you sneak through a compound to break out an imprisoned comrade and exfil, it’s ADDICTING.
Also, not gonna lie…the game hits a little different in 2025, seeing as it’s about being resistance fighters waging insurgency and a propaganda war against an alien occupying authoritarian regime that is kidnapping people and hauling them to blacksites. Man, that uh, is a little uncomfortably close. (But it’s only a game…The aliens are actually competent.)
The custom voice packs are incredible too. (My sniper with a Bob Ross voice calmly saying “Let’s do a little painting today.” Or “Let’s get a little crazy.” When setting up a shot from across the map never gets old.
This game’s complete version I’ve seen on Steam for like $5 before. This is one of the best tactical experiences there is, and at first I hated the “pressure” this game puts on you, but I’ve come to enjoy the urgency and being forced to weigh difficult decisions rather than just sending my “A-Team” of snowflake OCs to clear every single mission at a leisurely pace haha.
And the soundtrack. Oh man. Once that “Ready for Battle” track hits where you select everybody’s loadout, you really feel the weight of assembling the right squad when you never know 100% what you’re about to send them into.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
From the trailers it honestly looked really cool, but then I saw and heard about the all draconian user-disrespecting stuff like the online-even-for-campaign requirement and highly invasive kernel level anticheat that requires TPM 2.0?! That part felt bonkers to me.
Like is that gonna be a thing now? “This game demands to register a cryptographic key with your bootloader to make sure you’re not up to funnybusiness.” (I’m not 100% sure how it works, so my ignorance is filled in with LOTS of suspicion…)
Also EA just got bought by like…Saudi private equity? That’s pretty spook to me, too.
I dunno. I just wanna play Titans on Battlefield 2142 again. And BF 3 and 4 were nice too…
Also a Linux gamer. (Shrug)
Don’t wanna scare you off too much! Just things to consider, because £60 certainly ain’t chump change! :)
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Oo I hope it can be paused for when a customer shows up. Looks fantastic for a slow day!
(I considered MUDs but lots of people talk about how obvious the traffic is, it’d freak out I.T, blah blah blah…)
- Comment on Built to last 4 days ago:
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
Woah you know what? I think when I got it on 360 I didn’t get any of the DLCs. (Just a special edition that gave me a…nuke launcher? Lol)
Here the remastered trilogy is just sitting in my library…I need to finally get to it!
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
Swimming Nougat didn’t come out until Steak Eater tho.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
The ending of ME2 alone makes the whole trilogy worth it IMHO. I dare say that’s just about a “perfect game.”
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
I really miss that. I’m sad that even games like WoW where I gladly chatted with strangers all day has turned into…well…
Kinda like everybody’s going grocery shopping with their headphones on…
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
Ah modding it…I remember, for some reason, whenever I wanted to make a new NPC, everyone in the world reacted as if I were naked. I have no idea what that was about!
…so I just did goofy stuff like putting a ton of that ice ore chunk stuff in a barrel right next to the guy that makes you ice armor in Bloodmoon. <_<
I also made a fun house in Balmora with a bunch of replenishing colorful torches (I LOVE the light sources in this game) and embedded tons of chests in the walls, since the poor sucker it belonged to never would go inside. XD
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
I doubt anybody’s gonna actually use it much, but I’m currently setting up a Minetest/Luanti Voxelibre server accessible to friends and fam through TailScale on my home server.
I thought it’d be so neat having a world running whether I was there to see it or not.
But yeah, I know I won’t get that community aspect of having a digital third-place the people in my life can just vibe. =\
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
“I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”
–Jiub
Truly loved Morrowind. The first game that I played that had such a powerful construction set!
I’m still enjoying OpenMW to this day, when I can, in my adult life. Also (can’t find the image at the moment)
YoU wOuLdN’T sTeAL a LiMeWaRe PlaTteR!!
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
Similarly, the first time making it through winter in Banished! If you don’t get it just right, swaths of folks just freeze and starve to death. Scary stuff!
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
Beating halo final level with wife in co-op
Ah, The Maw after your very first experience.
“Stop! This is where Foehammer is going to pick us up!” (PUNCHES THE GAS)
Such an incredible final mission haha.
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 1 week ago:
Fantastic reference :D
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 2 weeks ago:
Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.
Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It’s got some quirks, but in the end it’s just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!
Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)
- Comment on oh cool 3 weeks ago:
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
- Comment on oh cool 3 weeks ago:
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
- Comment on oh cool 3 weeks ago:
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird features like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
- Comment on Looking for a simple personal homepage 3 weeks ago:
This is so cool, thanks for sharing! I’m really excited about the “indie web”, being a network of expressive people being people rather than just a giant commerce machine.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 4 weeks ago:
Hey that’s super helpful, I really appreciate it! Thank you! I haven’t checked in on the project(s) in quite a while. :)
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 5 weeks ago:
Minecraft is still the hardest thing to host lol
I’m actually considering hosting a Luanti / “MineTest” server for this experience, since my wife lost her Minecraft account / key thingy since the time we played in beta ages ago haha.
I wonder if it’s any easier to host or not. 🤔
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
Oop oop hrk! >=[
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
In this regard, I absolutely have come to agree.
I always say: “The Internet should be for anyone! But it shouldn’t have been for everyone .”
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
There it is. Now you can all see it! This is the violence inherent in the system!
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, I try to remind myself to marvel at the incredibly cool science we wield every single day.
But I’m also pained because I understand where the “boring future” folks come from too:
Where would we be if all this incredible technology was actually designed for humanity and not simply for profits at all cost? If optimizing for humanity was the target instead of exploiting it?
Smartphones, for instance. Small, networked computers! In your pocket! Wow! I’ve always wanted a pocket laptop! But they sure don’t feel like it. They’re designed to be content (mainly ad) delivery devices and data miners first, and useful machines second.
(There are some tiny niche actual-computer palmtops now which are pretty cool.)
I think that’s the part that gets people kinda depressive about modern science breakthroughs. The coolest stuff, the working folk don’t even get to tangibly feel much benefit from.
Discovery is locked behind paywall research journals and implementation is marketed in the interests of capital and used against us to make us work harder for longer hours for less pay.
What’s happening to space is a VERY stark illustration of all this. NASA unifying humanity and working globally on projects like the ISS was INSPIRING.
Now it’s all about private interests and their stupid desires, like space hotels for the elite.
I bet we’d marvel at technology designed for human beings, and not sheer exploitation.
- Comment on Hot on the heels of the H2S, Bambu Lab announces the seven-color, wireless nozzle-swapping Vortek H2C 1 month ago:
I want to see open source printer devices doing this.
I couldn’t care less about Bambu Lab, if anything they irk me because they’re driving 3D printing towards a “the magic black box just works until it doesn’t and then we throw it in a landfill and buy a brand new one.” model.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 month ago:
“You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby…”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 month ago:
“They said I could become anything, so I became everything.”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 month ago:
Bursting through the doors OUTSIDE in a panic.
Looking at some random shocked person pointing toward the park.
Rushing to the park to see grass.
Sobbing uncontrollably feeling all the grass.
