supersquirrel
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- Comment on Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware 1 week ago:
I used to love Rock Paper Shotgun but I feel like they kept letting go of the talent that defined the place.
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 1 week ago:
My favorite low spec gaming setup is to load Xonotic on the shittiest computer I can find just to see if I can actually find a computer lowspec enough that it actually starts struggling with framerate.
I am not sure it is possible without resorting to some old ass computers or a raspberry pi (which still might run it ok lol idk).
Also during the periods I haven’t had access to a computer that I could play actual games on I end up playing a lot of Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead because it is one of the most amazing games ever and it will run on pretty much any computer period.
- Comment on Has anybody played Foundation, the medieval city builder? Looking for a laidback game 2 weeks ago:
also check out
Patron
Zeus and Poseidon
- Comment on Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta 2 weeks ago:
il give it a try!
- Comment on Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta 2 weeks ago:
In other news, yesterday I was messing around and realized luanti, voxel game platform runs great on android with touchscreen controls and everything!
f-droid.org/packages/net.minetest.minetest/
Check out the minecraft-like built on it called voxelibre
- Comment on Pure Rock Crawling looks like a knockabout MudRunner without the mud 2 weeks ago:
I want mud though!
I have my eye on Offroad Dead Planet once improvement on performance happens, it is rock crawling with some really nice looking suspension mechanics but with broader goals and challenges.
store.steampowered.com/…/Offroad_Dead_Planet/
Out Of Ore looks like it might have some pretty cool offroad driving feel even though/because? it is a mining simulator but I haven’t tried it yet
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 weeks ago:
What I miss about Morrowind was how unconcerned it was with being weird as fuck, it isn’t that Oblivion or Skyrim are bad it is just they feel like they got a crew cut and a Linkedin and I am like no!?! why did you sterilize all the most interesting parts of yourself even though I know why, it was a career decision.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 weeks ago:
next get drunk and play oblivion while listening to young scrolls
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 weeks ago:
I think for me this weirdness is most obvious with books, the best novels that change you, stick in your memory and make you see the world differently are never 10/10s because that would mean they simply fulfilled the expectations you had before picking the book up,
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 weeks ago:
BAR is the kind of rts that makes you realize chasing after Starcraft style gameplay (when Total Annihilation presented a totally different and arguably more approachable experience with shift clicking and less obsessive micro) was a fatal error for the broad popularity of the rts genre.
A competitive rts hyper focused on apm and units that move in artificial and uninteresting ways (especially airplanes) was never going to inspire a new generation of rts fans with diverse interests and brain types to dip their toes in instead of leading to a narrower and more constrained vision of what rts games are and what kind of brain types can suceed at them.
BAR is both a living breathing cryptid (descended from the ancient TA itself) that somehow survived the great RTS extinction event and also paradoxically a vision of the future of RTS games.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 weeks ago:
Hey, make sure you get a balanced diet of board sports though.
You got your downhill longboarding racing with Driftwood
store.steampowered.com/app/2223700/Driftwood/
and your realistic, park/trick focused realistic snowboarding game with Shredders
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 weeks ago:
For me it is loading up Xonotic to strafe jump around and blast bots. The movement in Xonotic is hypnotic, and while I usually play in short bursts I don’t think I will ever get bored of returning over and over again to learn the nuances and creative opportunities of combat and movement in Xonotic. All it takes is the first strafe jump to put a stupid smile on my face.
Also I love open world driving games and Motortown is my jam. I do urgent taxi jobs and just let my mind relax as I drive like a complete madman. The tire grip and burnout mechanics along with the vehicle handling in general is the best I have ever tried in any game.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 weeks ago:
Also Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead!
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 5 weeks ago:
Also see Voidigo, Blazing Beaks and of course Nuclear Throne!
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t call it cold blooded, the CEO was cold blooded. The shooter presumably only murdered one person, the healthcare CEO was undoubtedly a mass murderer.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
ughhh multiplayer would be amazing
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Xonotic is from a different reality were competitive movement shooters never died! It is the active fork of what used to be called Nexuiz.
Xonotic runs on the darkplaces engine, it isn’t just stylistically of the arena shooter era it is directly descended from quake and the lot.
Playerbase is small but consistent, Xonotic is very easy to download game (it is on several linux repos for one) so there are always new people wandering in and a solid community of veterans.
High level gameplay is absolutely wild
Xonotic “defrag” is a community of people who just strafe jump race, Xonotic is very popular for that given movement given the buttery dream like highspeed movement.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Is the mobile version kept up to date? Does it have multiplayer.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Thankfully we have Xonotic
- Free & Moddable Tactical Shooter, Operation Harshdoorstop, Nears Major 2nd Anniversary Updateyoutu.be ↗Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Ghost Recon 2001 with Heroes Unleashed Still Plays Well 1 month ago:
One of the cheat codes for xbox ghost recon did that, the genius came from how terrifying the chicken sounds were post explosion audio slow-mo fx. The xm24 grenade launcher hybrid gun became a portal straight to foul hell.
- Comment on Ghost Recon 2001 with Heroes Unleashed Still Plays Well 1 month ago:
You didn’t mention the cheat code that turns grenades into chickens 0/10 review
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 2 months ago:
Oh they are but they are squished inside mechanical turks in countries you have never heard of doing the most inane or shocking things over and over again for horrendous wages to keep the dream of whatever “smart” “ai” nonsense they are currently selling alive but yes… I don’t disagree with the thrust of your point here, you are right.
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 2 months ago:
Definitely but that isn’t something inherent to gaming on a phone.
There are occasional actually good paid games on mobile but they get hopelessly buried, there is no reason it has to be this way though, this is a result of atrocious, catastrophic failure to steward a platform and ecosystem.
- The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...?sopuli.xyz ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Comment on Driveloop is a mental mixture of Mad Max and Vampire Survivors 2 months ago:
Reminds me of Renegade Ops.
store.steampowered.com/app/99300/Renegade_Ops/
Maybe this game could get co-op someday?
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 2 months ago:
there is a youtube channel that shows all that shit tho
m.youtube.com/user/SchmidtOceanVideos
It is hours and hours of the most powerful non-fiction hallucinogens you can possibly take but also it is very calming and relaxed often with a friendly science narrator.
In a way I guess it is like going on a field trip with Mrs. Frizzle but from the slightly horrifying perspective of actually being on the field trip.
The deep sea dropped so much acid it just got stuck down there, and at this point nobody fucks around down in that neighborhood when it comes to being as absolutely fucking weird as possible.
Scifi movies don’t have shit on the actual real deep sea.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
Try going to the home page of instances of accounts you like (or of instances that seem interesting) and browsing there federated feed, you can discover tons that way.
As a general mastodon instance mas.to looks good and is a nice size with a good stable history.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
bluesky does not have functional federation by any reasonable measure.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
Curation was made by users.
Right, users not corporations make social networks, so the community not for profit corporations should own those social networks.
Can we not all see this as the same old pattern of predatory rent seeking behavior applied to online communities just seasoned with even more jargon and condescending handwaved half explanations?
