Auster
@Auster@lemm.ee
My previous main instance got a pretty bad case of ded. 🥲
- Comment on Introducing AI News Bot for Lemmy! 3 weeks ago:
An AI is as good as its sources, and skimming through the domains from the posts, quite a few of those don’t seem like very reliable ones.
- Comment on Barrel of Doom | Screenshot of what I'm playing, day 5 2 months ago:
Doesn’t help the wheel doesn’t seem to take inputs until the player first jumps on it to get it moving. "<.<
Also, I didn’t get to test it, but with how much the player can actually move the wheel, I wouldn’t find far fetched to think the player can get crushed by the ceiling too.
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- Comment on Screenshot of what I'm playing, day 3: Sonic 3 2 months ago:
Was planning to play Leisure Suit Larry 4 instead. 😬
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 months ago:
Alternatively, it could be a way to kill what people look up to by fatigue through fatigue and disappointment through less than ideal re-imaginings.
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- Comment on Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online 2 months ago:
Short version I wrote for another news piece but that, to my understanding, should apply for this too:
The text is obtuse and the article’s title and cover are pretty clickbaity, so here’s a tl;dr: In the US, according to the article, it’s possible to lend multiple forms of digital medias and software as you’d do with physical medias. But when requested to extend this understanding to games too, the US Copyright Office denied the change.
- Comment on Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2 2 months ago:
Finished it! Found it to be much better than the first game indeed. ^_^
- Comment on Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2 2 months ago:
I’m playing the PC version of SMCP, and the only difference I can notice, maybe due to the better hardware, is that the game seems to be a bit faster on PC than on PS2. And have yet to test any of the other collections Sega made for/with the Sonic games.
- Comment on Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2 2 months ago:
Dunno how much you played of the franchise, but if you got stuck early on (e.g. the dreaded Marble Zone in the punishing first game), maybe you could abuse save states? The franchise got several emulated releases, and I imagine it’s not uncommon for them to allow such a function natively. And at least to me, Sonic 2 plays much better and I remember kid me finding Sonic 3 even sharper.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely 2 months ago:
The text is obtuse and the article’s title and cover are pretty clickbaity, so here’s a tl;dr:
In the US, according to the article, it’s possible to lend multiple forms of digital medias and software as you’d do with physical medias. But when requested to extend this understanding to games too, the US Copyright Office denied the change. - Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 3 months ago:
Blocking, yeah.
- Comment on Did you know that you could block communities you don't like on lemmy instead of spamming downvotes? 3 months ago:
Putting the tone aside, I usually browse the All tab for that reason, and also because subscribing in Lemmy is weirder than it was on Kbin (even if it doesn’t crash the page like Kbin did). Nothing personal against the communities, and sure, it’s an exercise on patience, but after some time, the results become noticeable as my feed gets fine-tuned into what I want to see.
- Comment on Patient gamer philosophy 3 months ago:
I think that, if you have the resources to support that niche, which the savings from cheap offers hopefully allowed for, and you want to see it grow, it’s worth paying more.
- Comment on Day -1 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots 4 months ago:
Here’s a screenshot I took of a FFX blitzball game some years back (metadata says it was back in 2016).
- Comment on Day -1 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots 4 months ago:
It has native screenshot functions, yes, but they are highly compressed. Iirc, there’s a tool for taking uncompressed screenshots, but given the watermark in the screenshot, it’s most likely the native function.
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 4 months ago:
Also a few more since the emulators list is split in a weird way and I missed them:
- For MSX: 真・魔王ゴルベリアス 先取り横スクロール面
- For PICO-8: #hasicontent, Celeste Classic 1 and 2, Slipways Classic, Dusk Child
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 4 months ago:
Dunno what systems are made for the device, but checking a list of included emulators in a so called “Onion” operating system, I see a few other devices being listed, so if you don’t mind, here are some more:
- For arcade: the other Metal Slug games up to 4 (have yet to play further), The King of Fighters 2002
- For MS-DOS: MegaRace
- For PC-98: コテ・DE・メクール
- For NES: Böbl, Micro Mages, Nix: The Paradox Relic
- For Genesis/Mega Drive: Wonder Boy in Monster World, Tanglewood
- For NDS: Shantae: Risky’s Revenge
Avoided all plot-heavy titles, even when they may have long sections low on plot.
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 4 months ago:
Maybe Celeste Classic? Apparently someone made a homebrew port of it to the GBA.
There’s also Final Fantasy VI, which can be played kinda with the brain “on automatic” on quite a few sections as well as having overall plenty of places to save.
And since you’ll be emulating them, if your device has save states features, Shantae for the GBC could be a good pick too. It is harder and less save-friendly than FFVI, but with save states, it should be better as a pick and play title.
And although focused on speedrunning, the impression I got from the homebrew Augury Red Code is that it is also nice if playing without having to focus too much on it.
Metal Slug 1 and X, and also Gunbird, all 3 released in the PS1, also benefit from save states to be more “pick and play”.
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- Comment on New Pirate-Metal Rhythm Game Chantey Coming To Game Boy & Chromatic 4 months ago:
Demo can be found on Itchio:
gortyncode.itch.io/chantey-prologue - Comment on Spooky Games 4 months ago:
I prefer psychological horror over jumpscares, so my recommendations are a bit slower than what people may recommend, but if it strikes your and your wife’s fancy, here are them:
Dreaming Sarah, Wishing Sarah, Tanglewood, Parasite Eve, Wake Up (by Philosophic Games), UNLOVED, The Corruption Within, - Comment on Blocking all posts that link to specific sites? 4 months ago:
Just remembered Ublock Origin filters also work nice with fediverse sites, although I would prefer to completely purge posts with links I avoid.
But for those curious, here’s an example filter I just cooked:
lemm.ee##a[class=“fst-italic link-dark link-opacity-75 link-opacity-100-hover”]:has-text(here_goes_the_domain_as_displayed_under_the_post_title):upward(div[class=“post-listing mt-2”])So as an hypothetical example, if for some reason I have a problem with the
sh.itjust.worksinstance, I could make this:lemm.ee##a[class=“fst-italic link-dark link-opacity-75 link-opacity-100-hover”]:has-text(sh.itjust.works):upward(div[class=“post-listing mt-2”])And it ends up looking like the attached image.
- Submitted 4 months ago to meta@lemm.ee | 5 comments
- Comment on Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
Blocking everyone and every community from Facebook’s new parasite social media could be good, me thinks.
- Comment on Is Firefish gone for good now? Many of the links I had saved are redirecting to other stuff now 5 months ago:
Unfamiliar with it, but in the regard of instances going down, if you find any interesting posts even on instances seemingly stable, I think it is a good idea to back up those pages. Personally, I would propose methods like Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and its alternatives like Archive Today, the print to PDF option from browsers, and/or saving a given page as a MHTML bundle.
