MrGabr

@MrGabr@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for 3D Platformer recommendations on sale on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neon White, Cyberhook, and Crumble are all excellent, though you might be looking for a more traditional platformer.

  Blue Fire is decent and definitely worth checking out while it’s $4 right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding social media feeds, I have mixed opinions, because you’re right about the echo chamber, but I also am only still on any mainstream platform for the memes, and I only want it to show me memes, which it wouldn’t do if not for personalized recommendations.

  As for games, I don’t want my recommendations to be dominated by whatever has the biggest marketing budget and can take over my feed. I mostly play indie games, and I think if my store page wasn’t personalized, I wouldn’t see nearly as many small games as I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you be willing to share why you don’t like the “corpo spying”? I personally never understood - an online service has to know your requests in order to serve the results to you, and keeping revords of those requests is the only way to have personalized recommendations, which I would rather have than be served ads for games (or music or whatever) I’ll never even consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. The sources I’ve read seem to lay blame with games not usually patenting mechanics (which apparently is all patent officers look at for prior art, not other games), meaning it needs active challenging to be thrown out.

  PocketPair is based in Japan, which is where the previous, more directly problematic patents have been filed mid-litigation. While there is clearly prior art for the US patent, it isn’t quite as comically broad as the Japan ones, and since Japan doesn’t seem to care about prior art, those remain the most concerning to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, yes. In Japan, it would appear such a concept does not exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best World-Building Game Coffee Table Books?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found one for NieR: Automata at a used bookstore that has maps, a ton of concept art, and a short story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie gaming's only three genres have inevitably converged into grimdark Balatro with a whimsical egg idiot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are thousands upon thousands of indie games with neither of those mechanics…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a little insane how many games release on any given day. On July 15, 2025, 150 “titles” (of which 78 are actual games, not demos or DLC) were added to the Steam store. I would guess that their data includes all titles, but even just 78 real games on what should be a slower-than-average random Tuesday could totally contribute to 34,000 games released in a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting delisted in March, Dark and Darker will be completely inaccessible on the Epic Games Store later this year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that several employees of Nexon left and recreated a game that Nexon had been working on, down to buying the same Unreal assets. I saw somewhere (but I have no source so this might be inaccurate) that as part of the legal proceedings, the Dark and Darker team were ordered to provide documentation about the early stages of creating the game as proof of originality, and they had nothing to show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become ungovernable!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is to throw yourself at the ground and miss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can calf raise as much as I can squat, yet I have pretty small calves relative to my thighs/glutes. What's the deal?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess you’re doing a much larger range of motion relative to each joint, squatting “ass to grass” but doing calf raises just from standing. Your ankles don’t move as far generally as your knees, but if you want to maximize calf gains, do them off a ledge so you raise from the bottom of the range of motion to flat-footed.