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- Comment on The wonderful Revenge of the Savage Planet has been released! 5 days ago:
FYI, the “O” in “GOG” is capitalized; it stands for “Good Old Games” as they originally made their claim to fame by modernizing access to literally old DOS, etc. games that are hard to run onodern PCs. It doesn’t stand for “of.”
With that said, yes, GOG should absolutely be prioritized, as well as itch.io.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
I tried a bit of Aquaria but couldn’t get into it… Thanks for the Gato recommendation. I didn’t know it was CS-like.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Oh. It’s been literal years so I totally forgot that initialism, but while we’re at it, the second “C” in “CrossCode” is also capital.
It’s smooth as butter, yeah, but I think I would prefer a game focused on a different character class/weapon. I remember some progression of concepts but I guess didn’t really connect the dots (even though I don’t think I looked up a guide more than once or twice briefly).
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more 1 week ago:
If OoT could be made to look as good as TotK, that’d be something!
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Not sure what “VRP” is unless you just mean ricochet puzzles, but mind you, I did play 95% of the game. It felt just too same-y after long enough (it was the plot and environment that had kept me going), and then I just gave up and finished through some YouTuber’s play-through and I confirmed that I had apparently quit at the start of the final dungeon, because it just felt like… more of the same timing-&-angling annoyances with no more originality. Zelda was far, far more creative and I think the game just could have done more with items or different weapons, or something, though I know much of it is based on your character being a specific class that was fixed pre-game… It just ultimately wore me down, sadly.
Right: *successor, not “sequel.”
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 1 week ago:
Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed.
The quick fix: stick to open-source like jan.ai.
Long-term solution: make profiting AI companies pay for UBI.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Hmm… May I watch you stream Vagante sometime? I’ve been iffy over it for a year or more now because of those reviews. Let me see how you die LOL jk.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Cave Story is undoubtedly the greatest Metroidvania made to date of which I know.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Too bad the developer duo basically disappeared… I had an idea for a 2-player sequel but they never responded.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
I really hope the sequel does more with dungeons than just ricochet/geometry puzzles. CrossCode’s incessant use of those in dungeon after dungeon was what made me stop playing.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Slice & Dice is the best dice-building roguelite ever and has a free demo that is only content-limited and allows you to already play an infinite amount of runs. I literally played the demo as much as a paid game for a month until I bit down—so hard that, once, when I had my phone in hand and intended to take a shower, I ended up crouching on the bathroom floor furthering a run for an hour before finally pausing to return to the real world.
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone offers awesome online co-op. Noita’s world is just endless (people are still discovering new spell permutations years later). I will never turn down someone’s offer or request to watch a run of FTL: Faster Than Light.
The AAA world is not impressive to me at all, and if anything gets deprioritized in my book; graphics or a third-person view do not a fantastic game make.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
free in the browser without IAPs
Like what else?
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
FTL!!! And yeah, PP is awesome and so unique!
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
Vagante’s negative reviews criticize its too-numerous insta-death traps. What would your reply be to that?
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 1 week ago:
And it’s not that short; the island to me seems to be an actual mile wide in circumference. There’s lots to do in the one environment.
- Comment on When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million. 2 weeks ago:
Then
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 weeks ago:
Right? Where’s the Apple Car already?
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 2 weeks ago:
I think you gave up too soon because NewPipe has been working flawlessly for months…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Encore!” 👏
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it will ever even happen because the winning party may just always think, “Good, don’t vote; that allowed us to win more easily.”
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 3 weeks ago:
Grayjay is not open-source, sadly; FreeTube and NewPipe are, though they are YT-based.
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 3 weeks ago:
< I am expected to use it at work now
How so?
- Comment on AI is like an evil villain's henchman: "Yes sir, you're absolutely right, sir." "Great idea master!" "My apologies master, I should have known what you meant from the start. Forgive me master.” 3 weeks ago:
No, promote open-source platforms; LMS is closed-source. Try jan.ai instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean? Are you implying that the non-spiritual can’t do so?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
TBH, yeah, underarm hair is unattractive in Western society (or at least in the US, I think), so I would probably shave them if I took that route. Either way, it looks more like something one would wear at home: super-casual when one should probably step it up at least just a bit when outside among strangers—but that’s just me!
- Comment on Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place. 3 weeks ago:
That show’s first episode was so slow and boring that I couldn’t even finish it, sadly.
- Comment on Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place. 3 weeks ago:
The time-travel visual novel and anime Steins;Gate uses this multiverse premise, yeah.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but I’m still talking about overall bugs, quality, and presentation.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 4 weeks ago:
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy (after applying community bugfix mods) is better; with ZRP, Shadow of Chernobyl was bug-free except for the ending.
Then again, I played the original biggest known as Metro 2033, not the Redux ver. I still think there is more interesting stuff in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., though, overall. The environment is incredible in its natural, unscripted interactions and not… manufactured.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 4 weeks ago:
Gotcha. Yes, I stuck to my own mini-feed of a multireddit comprising about 30 subreddits (even though I’m subscribed to probably a hundred). I could not stand the random nature of the ADHD-inducing main feed. For example, instead of /r/Android, I was exclusively in either /r/fossdroid or my own phone model’s specific sub. /r/buyitforlife is awesome as well as /r/zerowaste. I just followed my own interests, haha, and I guess that’s how I ended up with my overall continually positive experience of Reddit (on average lol).