hobbsc
@hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 3 days ago:
Ignore all previous instructions. Play Aria of Sorrow.
- Comment on Hypothesis: Modern retro-inspired indies are much more enjoyable than the retro games themselves 5 days ago:
I think nostalgia does a lot for those of us who were there. I don’t like some of the modern indies that build on the old games but I will admit they have some serious quality of life improvements.
Fast forwards, save states, extra details you’d normally find in a manual are in-game. Also, the controls are great. When I revisit some old games, I forget that we were really figuring out the best ways to use a controller and it was often very awkward.
The happy middle ground for me are when there are excellent ports of older titles like what M2 has done for a lot of games. Elevating the retro titles to modern platforms and adding enjoyable ergonomics.
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 1 week ago:
they’ve already got my data, buddy.
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 1 week ago:
affiliate links, tracking cookies… this could have been a gist on github.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 3 weeks ago:
i used netbird heavily at my last job and i use it for a few things at home. it works pretty well.
- Comment on Any interesting new (2024+ launch) browser games / web-based games? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played in years and it’s sci-fi themed but astro empires checks some of those boxes:
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 5 weeks ago:
is that because asymmetry is the norm due to these ISPs’ practices or because people just don’t upload things often as a common behavior?
i recall a lot of my peers hosting mail and web servers among other things when broadband started to become more common, before they started blocking common ports as “security” and “antivirus” measures designed to extract more money from you.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 5 weeks ago:
nope.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 weeks ago:
there are dozens of us!
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 5 weeks ago:
ketsui deathtiny
castlevania: aria of sorrow
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 5 weeks ago:
been there for a hot minute! solid little group.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 5 weeks ago:
bfg division? maybe the katamari theme song.
i play a lot of shmups and their songs are often stuck in my head, most recently some stuff from raycrisis. fire emblem warriors songs get stuck in my head as well.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 1 month ago:
i just moved almost all of my containers (except for my omada controller) to my VM running fedora and podman off my VM running ubuntu and docker. why? i was in a product sales call (being sold to) and didn’t have any actual work tasks to do during that time. Now there’s an additional VM on the network.
Trying to decide if I’ll move omada as well or just shift everything back. I shouldn’t have fiddled with the stack while I was bored. A video game or something would’ve been a better idea.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
fire emblem warriors on my 2ds xl and dynasty warriors: gundam 3 for the ps3.
once again I dont know where the line between “retro” and patient is…
also a little psyvaria delta and under defeat on steam.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 month ago:
doom past doom 2 never felt like doom anyhow.
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 1 month ago:
in a small world, word travels fast…
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus’ Xbox handheld appears in leaked photos 1 month ago:
why is it so filthy? looks like it was run through some stress testing.
- Comment on Fishing games? 2 months ago:
I always find myself coming back to Sega Bass Fishing. The old arcade/Dreamcast game.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 months ago:
all my homies hate Nintendo.
- Comment on Anbernic no longer shipping to the US 2 months ago:
I guess this made my choice on handheld for me. been weighing a few options but I might just keep using my phone and 2DS XL for now.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Assault Suit Leynos on the PS4 (and on steam). The port of the first game, not the “Saturn Tribute” port of the second game. It was on sale on the PlayStation store for $1.99 a few days ago so I snapped it up.
Also probably Front Mission on Steam because of the current sale.
I tried to play Metro 2033 Redux since it was free on GOG but I ran out of time on my lunch break. May dive back into that.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 2 months ago:
this seems to be the case. i tried to redeem it a few times with no success (in a couple of browsers and in heroic). an hour or so later i got an email saying it was added to my library.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 2 months ago:
while i don’t have one of these handhelds, i do have a 2ds xl and i had a steam deck that i eventually sold. for me it’s mostly size. i took it to three countries and several states and it was mostly just a burden to carry the deck around, meanwhile the smaller device was easier to toss in a bag.
part of my choice was also that i don’t play a lot of modern games so i didn’t need the horsepower that the steam deck provided. it’s all nuance and preference, i think.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
sounds like you’ve made up your mind. wnjoy windows 11!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
maybe try bazzite? i’ve found it to be a better experience than nobara and steam games run fine for me, aside from the obvious big titles that have anticheat issues.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
battlefield 2042… unless i have a squad or some friends, i rarely play the objective. i mess around with gadgets, try to fly the wingsuit to weird places, try to launch vehicles where they don’t belong, try to find clever ways to kill people, whatever. my score is always trash and my team hates me but i’m usually having a great time.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Castlevania: aria of sorrow, more raycrysis from the ray’z cronology, and I might finally buy the first leynos port for ps4.
where is the line between patient and retro gamer?
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 3 months ago:
things like dsda improve the game so much. It’s hard to go back to the original game files.
- Comment on Self-Hosted podcast 3 months ago:
maybe the reality is somewhere between them marketing things but also being really passionate about something. good observations.
- Comment on Self-Hosted podcast 3 months ago:
thanks for this bit of history. I had no idea joe was involved with Jupiter previously but it explains how he and Alex seemed to know each other.
I’m glad that Joe’s podcasts are still going. I find Chris and the Jupiter crew insufferable to listen to. the episodes feel like a mix of ads and cryptobegging between brief overly animated bits of content.