MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 1 week ago:
That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like
“Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif”It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.
- Comment on snail lyfe 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂
- Comment on Fight me 2 weeks ago:
So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D
- Comment on Smells Great 2 weeks ago:
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so eat the fucking coffee cup. I’ll wait.
Bortus enters the chat.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
Let me know so I can hand them my Blender models I’m too lazy to RE-topologize. Ugh! Lol
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 weeks ago:
“BEHOLD. A MAN!”
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
I just got it on GoG on sale. Can’t wait to try and tackle it after like…20 years or more? Surely, my brain should be able to grasp some of its logic now! :D
My mom will be so proud. I grew up playing it with her and we had to resort to walkthroughs a lot. XD
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
That’s really cool to see this here. That’s one I haven’t played yet but keep thinking about because watching the wild first person parkour leaping just felt like some of the best dreams I’ve ever had.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
How fitting, you fight like a cow!
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
Based on this criteria, everything about the sequel, Riven, seems like it passes with flying colors, as everyone says the puzzles tell the story and feel like real devices in the world, rather than a world constructed to be a puzzle itself.
I’m really looking forward to playing it with my grownup brain haha.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
I got SO FAR through it and somehow lost my cloud saves after a hiatus so…I guess I am gonna have to experience it for the first time again!
It can be a little tedious in long stretches, but I absolutely loved how this game took us back to those fun quirky self-expressive days of the Internet.
Stand with Gooper!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Fantastic reference :D
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 5 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 1 month ago:
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
- Comment on oh cool 1 month ago:
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
