Elevator7009
@Elevator7009@lemmy.zip
yet another Elevator7009 alt, now to mod !automationgames@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 hours ago:
There’s a wonderful contrarian-but-is-it-really-considering-it’s-making-the-lawful-choice delight in trying to follow the rules in a game about breaking rules.
No-commentary video of someone just driving in GTA trying to follow the rules of the road. I’m usually really not a video person, but just watching this feels nice somehow.
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 😼🚋 Jazztronauts — Plunder the Steam Workshop for money 3 hours ago:
For my previous posts, like this one on Gunfire Reborn, I went to the “Create a post” form and used the “upload picture” button on the toolbar of the main body text field.
Works perfectly. Cannot figure out why I had trouble getting several images in one post, even though I’ve used this exact tool in the past before. Thanks for helping!
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 hours ago:
Premise of that game is making me ask: have you played Ghost Trick before?
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 😼🚋 Jazztronauts — Plunder the Steam Workshop for money 8 hours ago:
Wow, nice writeup!
I’ll admit I’m disappointed that jazz music is not prominent enough in the game to get mentioned. I clicked on this post because of the jazz in jazzstronauts.
How did you get all the images at once, upload beforehand (whether to Lemmy or somewhere else offsite) and that is how you have a link? Repeated editing so Lemmy accepts each new image upload?
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 9 hours ago:
I gave Mindustry a shot and faded out at the tower defense bit of the tutorial. I do like !automationgames@lemmy.zip even though tower defense is not my thing, so I’m wondering: how do you manage to forget enemies and just make it a logistics game?
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 13 hours ago:
This is such a cool idea. Nudging a few things around and trying to see what ripple effects they have…
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 18 hours ago:
I always like to see people who go all in on the roleplaying in RPGs.
I do wish people would leave mods that aren’t for them alone. There are a bunch of mods extremely not to my taste that I just scroll past instead of intentionally clicking to tell the mod author just how much it is not to my taste and that they should not have made it because I am uninterested in the content.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 19 hours ago:
There are a few mobile or web idle/incremental games I have used as a substitute for a Pomodoro Timer. Oh, I am really into the game and it only progresses if this is the focused tab? I really want to make progress, but I am in a period of the game where active play isn’t that rewarded, and just watching the screen while I wait to earn the upgrade is pretty boring? How about we just leave my phone with that as the active tab, and I check back when the upgrade should be earned? Keeps me off my phone and doing the actual things I should be doing instead. Somehow, “abusing” games like this works better for me than the Forest app which has the explicit intention of making sure you do not touch your screen for a set length of time and instead do something else off your phone.
I also “abuse” Pokémon Masters EX in a similar fashion. You’re expected to level up with some combination of putting them through battles that cost stamina to play through, and some pretty easy-to-obtain level-up items. And although there is an Auto option I have a feeling you are intended to manually do the battles in-game. Instead, I start story mode battles which cost no stamina to play through, that still reward me with XP no matter how many times I repeat it, and have the game fight the battle for me with the Auto setting. I check back when the battle is done and restart it. I have essentially turned this into an idle/incremental game, albeit one with a pretty short time between waiting and checking back in on the game. Free level-ups! Even though it does take much longer than the intended way, which is why I suspect nobody tried to prevent this method from working.
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- Comment on The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ 20 hours ago:
It was my favorite for artstyle/graphics, but I was not pleased when I tried to stir up drama by kissing a Sim’s partner in the same room. That would have gotten the partner racing over to slap someone, an argument, and a Furious status in The Sims 2. In The Sims 4, they just didn’t notice, no consequences.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 21 hours ago:
I haven’t even pirated a movie in years. I just don’t have any more than an very mild “well if there’s literally nothing else to do because my arms are strapped to a chair for the next 2.5 hours, I guess I remember this one thing people said was good” (context: platelet donation, so yes this happens in real life and is not an insane hypothetical) interest in watching in the first place. Although I suppose that’s rare too ^^;
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 23 hours ago:
They could release a game that just literally flips you the bird
spoiler
I hate that I know something in the LISA series does this. Although of course it does actually deliver substance, and isn’t only a middle finger.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 23 hours ago:
The last triple A I bought was on a big sale because it’s long past its release date. Mostly ignoring modern ones, the only one I have wanted was BG3 which I am fully happy playing the many years waiting game for because I have so many other games to play first. c/patientgamers
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 23 hours ago:
Sorry you are being downvoted for your honest opinion. I’d understand if you had some nasty sentiment about people who find $80 too expensive in there, but you have no ill will or dim views of anyone expressed here… I’d like Lemmy to be a nice place and part of that includes not downvoting views that are unpopular but also not cruel towards anyone. Especially when the popular view is “I’m mad!” Dismissing everyone’s anger without trying to understand why they’re angry or where they are coming from isn’t the move, but this person isn’t doing that. The only “crime” they committed is not sharing in the anger themselves.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 23 hours ago:
I could argue the Ace Attorney series was that for me (played on Nintendo DS, am not purchasing the remakes), played less than 50 hours for $60 (individual games were not that high but it was a series I played) and felt I got my money’s worth anyways.
You could also argue I got lots more hours of enjoyment from it though, because I also spent so many more hours reading free fanfiction and looking at free fanart and reading fan discussions online…
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 23 hours ago:
There have to be gamers who are consistent in this—there probably is that potential hypocrisy in some people (at least, “hypocrisy” from the outside, we’re not sure of their actual reasons) but there are also probably people who are consistent in their behavior.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 2 days ago:
I love having my decision not to buy a Nintendo Switch and stick to PC games validated.
Feel bad for all the Nintendo fans though, I get how you can fall in love with a franchise they make and want their stuff only to have “except it costs a ton” stuck on, so you’ll have to skip for financial reasons and feel unhappy. It’s a lot harder to abstain from something you actually care about and want, than something you are maybe mildly interested in.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 days ago:
Nice to find another woman on the Fediverse. Usually I don’t mind male-dominated environments as long as nobody treats me badly if they learn I’m female, but the small amount of participants in !otomegames@ani.social and !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de (both communities for games that are aimed at women) makes me wish for more women here. Meanwhile the gender-neutral !automationgames@lemmy.zip attracted a lot more attention.
- Comment on Here is my video! Please no hate 3 days ago:
My earlier comment almost had a section that said “and if English is your second language, sorry in advance about all the incorrect assumptions! Learning a second language is difficult.”
Best wishes! I do think you would find better reception if you put more information about what you are posting about in the title and body.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 days ago:
Hey, just clicked on this series of posts for the first time. Genuinely, thanks for your effort in writing it. I usually see link posts, and I have missed big original writeups like this. We need more people like you on Lemmy.
]ANYWAY, to the point, I really enjoyed this video from Fastminer07 on YouTube, it was clear and reiterates how important this is. Worth a look if you’re searching for interseting videos for your down-time](www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Ih__mE05c)
Might want to turn that first bracket to be an opening bracket so the link works.
I’m not a perfect being so I use Steam out of convenience instead of GOG, though I do have a GOG account. I am pleased to see good news from them and that they are maintaining a good library of games. It is nice to see the option that I think people choose in an effort to be anti-DRM and to support games preservation doing well.
I should probably look into the Switch emulator thing more, sounds ripe for an original !hobbydrama@lemmy.world post.
politics
I guarantee Musk chose DOGE as the name to seem like some cutting edge internet maverick making a throwback to the meme, but it just… It doesn’t feel appropriately playful, like the actual CAN-SPAM act from the US government before he came around. It feels incredibly illegitimate, “stop trying to be cool,” and that’s putting aside any personal political beliefs I have about how it actually is an illegitimate department. I’m not sure why that got included in a gaming news post, though, to be honest politics is stressful. I do keep up to date, but having it show up in a gaming newsletter when it is not directly connected to gaming, even in what seems to be an agreement with my views, does not feel awesome.
Recently picked up shapez.io again, part of the !automationgames@lemmy.zip genre. Just started that community. Also love !incremental_games@incremental.social, !otomegames@ani.social, !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works, !tycoon@lemmy.world or management games, !lifesimulation@lemmy.world games, and !crpgs@lemmy.world.
- Comment on A PUBG dating sim has been released for April Fool’s, portraying each of its guns as schoolgirls 3 days ago:
If you actually do enjoy this genre and want some unironic takes (they are not all dating sims or erotica) take a look at !visualnovels@ani.social! Also related is !otomegames@ani.social, a VN subgenre: dating sims aimed at women with male love interests.
- Comment on Here is my video! Please no hate 3 days ago:
Oh boy.
I want to support content creators, especially the ones willing to post to Lemmy.
This also reminds me of kids just trying out creative pursuits for the first time, what with “Please no hate” in the title instead of using the title like an actual title and asking commenters to be gentle in the post body. Especially since not wanting hate is just a normal and understandable desire. “Tell me what do you think about this video” also isn’t 100% perfect English. I mean, who among us hasn’t made a screwup before with the English language? But somehow this just… really reminds me of kids trying out creative pursuits for the first time. I can’t really explain it.
I guess I’m expecting a description of what your video is even about in the body, and your message could apply to any video uploaded. A makeup tutorial, a math lesson, an avant-garde art piece… Something about this just feels weird and wrong and I figured I might as well help you by explaining why I feel so, so offput by this post.
- Comment on Spy x Family - Anime/Manga Community about beloved SpyXFamily series. 4 days ago:
lemmy.ca seems to be the 6th biggest server while ani.social is 33rd, so whoever created this community on lemmy.ca is actually contributing more to centralization than they would if they put it on ani.social if you’re looking at just instance size. It might be decentralization when it comes to spreading topics around: I understand not wanting all your anime eggs in one basket in case something happens to ani.social, although I myself am a huge fan of the topic-specific instance model.
- Comment on Terraria Hive Base 5 days ago:
Not everyone has to be a master architect/artist, just to enjoy the game :)
- Comment on Kriegsspiel! How Napoleon Accidentally Invented Strategy Games [Super Bunnyhop] 5 days ago:
Good content, just wish it wasn’t a video and was an article instead. Bless YouTube transcripts for getting me one step closer to that.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 5 days ago:
I am in the other camp, I like the immersion.
I also have a tendency to not bother with VA, though, and to just click through the second I finish reading the dialogue, except for lines in particularly dramatic parts of the story. Sometimes not even then.
- Comment on Fishing Paradise -- a fishing RPG with melodramatic backstories and a weird and wonky theology that still manages to reel you in. 5 days ago:
Not sure if more !jrpg@lemmy.zip or !crpg@lemmy.world, otherwise I’d ask you to crosspost there
- Comment on Fishing Paradise -- a fishing RPG with melodramatic backstories and a weird and wonky theology that still manages to reel you in. 6 days ago:
Steam link, pleased to say demo works for Windows, Steam Deck (which means Linux), and Mac.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 6 days ago:
embrace !crpg@lemmy.world, !visualnovels@ani.social, and !otomegames@ani.social, except you mash past all the voice acting because you can read faster than the lines are acted out
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 1 week ago:
An actually high quality mobile game… I never played it myself but was quite happy for iOS gamers when it came around. Should play it some day.