Kissaki
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- Comment on US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser 1 day ago:
Being the gateway, access point, and ad server of the internet certainly does not bode well for fairness or openness, or stability (in more ways than one).
I hope something comes out of it. I’ll be interested to read the courts assessment and reasoning.
- Comment on Who wants a stretchable screen? 1 day ago:
Finally, when something is hard to read because it’s small I can stretch it!
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 days ago:
What’s your problem with ADL? I’m not very familiar with them.
- Comment on Freevee sent to Amazon graveyard 4 days ago:
but is US only
- Comment on There is an Easter egg on the Half-Life 2 Anniversary Documentation webpage 5 days ago:
I mentioned it in a comment in the last post.
Really cool gimmick. Especially that you can use the gravity gun not only on the can, but all the website elements.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 5 days ago:
The title made it sound like a full lock-in. But one survived.
Harper grabbed a bar from his truck and handed it to another bystander, who managed to break the back window and pull the young woman to safety.
Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update 6 days ago:
Huge update, with a lot of changes, and workshop support. Valve does it again. Quality update for a very “old” title.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update 6 days ago:
Half-Life 2 is currently free on Steam
From now through the weekend (until November 18th at 10am Pacific) Half-Life 2 is free to own , so if you’ve never played before, grab it now and keep it forever.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update 6 days ago:
Haha, go to the bottom an grab the gravity gun - really cool gimmick
- Comment on The Walking Dead, The Expanse and more in the Telltale Collection Humble Bundle 6 days ago:
IsThereAnyDeal link - if you want to check prices or against your owned, wishlisted or ignored games
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mascot Platformers 1 week ago:
I forgot there was a sequel. At least I think I’ve seen it before.
Grow Up is currently 75% off on Steam. Very positive ratings, and watching this ign review, seems like a decent iteration with enough fresh content. I think I will buy it 🤔 and go climbing again :D
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
They’ve already been doing that, right? I assume this is marketing more than new or a change?
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 1 week ago:
I’m playing the free hexceed, which - I have to assume - has an automated translation to German.
The exit button is labeled “Ausfahrt”. Which means road exit, not program exit. German has different words for them.
I found it very funny. Seeing the program leave as a road exit. But as a translation it’s bad of course.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th 1 week ago:
Is it good?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th 1 week ago:
I’m currently playing mainly the free hexceed, which to my surprise has a lot of free content. I found it mentioned elsewhere on Lemmy, and have been playing it since. hexceed is a hexagon puzzle game.
Being controllable mouse-only is nice. Needing focus it’s not always fitting to play though. :)
I also bought some pick-bundles and tried out Cash Cow DX, but it wasn’t for me.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mascot Platformers 1 week ago:
playformers
You mean platformers, right? Or is playformers a term?
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mascot Platformers 1 week ago:
What do you think about full-degree aiming in platformers?
I like being able to play platformers with gamepads, but the Steam Controller has no right stick, and the track pad doesn’t feel appropriate/consistent enough for aiming.
Not that I have not played platformers with keyboard and mouse and enjoyed them. A good title will still win over a worse title, but in general, I think nowadays I prefer platformers without aiming anything.
Thinking of Webbed, I think I may have tried that with gamepad first, but had to switch to keyboard and mouse. Which worked well, and was a very enjoyable game. But I can’t chill on the couch with that control scheme.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mascot Platformers 1 week ago:
For me, great platformers have fluid and responsive controls, and either implement a forgiving persisting experience (climbing the environment) or quick and not too far-off resets (level screens).
Platforming can be great in pure platformers, action platformers, 2d or 3d. They may shift but do not limit how stories can be told and how worlds or progression can be designed.
I imagine it can be difficult to balance forgiving platforming with challenges between novice and experienced players. Often, we see alternative or stretch-goal paths for collectibles or challenges, which is a good approach to serve both kinds of players - even if maybe not total novices.
Introducing game mechanics step by step can give good introductions and learning controls, preferably in-game without dialogue, popups, or text-only introductions. They can guide into a natural level and mechanics design progression, giving a natural progression across longer gameplay.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mascot Platformers 1 week ago:
I love platformers. For 2d, I usually prefer action platformers over pure platforming. So, let’s see what comes to mind.
You gamers HAVE to play Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It’s free and has an exceptional atmosphere.
I started with what I had fond memories of and came to mind, but of course, I went to my steam library, and looked through games tagged platformer. And now I’m wondering if I should also link my reviews of the titles, specifically the most interesting ones. Either way, the list of fond memories / very positives became too long for one list, so it’s split by category now.
3d ego platformers
- A Story About My Uncle, left a lasting impact on me back then as a very good if not exceptional title
- Portal
- Hot Lava, great, pure 3d platformer, a lot of of quality content
- Supraland, 3d puzzle and action platformer
3d 3rd-person platformers
- New Super Lucky’s Tale, a great 3d platformer
- A Hat in Time, a great 3d platformer, with cute characters, good humor
- RiME, I remember I wrote a very positive review about RiME
- A Short Hike, great
- Yooka-Laylee
2d platformers
- Sheepy: A Short Adventure, free, exceptional atmosphere
- Ori, with its great atmosphere and visuals
- Webbed, very cute, great theming, playing as a spider
- Yoku’s Island Express, great mixing of pinball and platformer, in a great setting
- Spiritfarer, great atmosphere
- Battleblock Theater, great absurd humor
- Super Meat Boy, ok, this has been a long time ago, but it was incredibly fluid and fast, with a ton of content
- Dustforce DX
- Jubilee, I played this on my Steam Deck quite a bit (unfortunately no save sync)
- Trine, for its great physics approach and narrated humorous storytelling
- Wunderling DX, an “auto-runner platformer”, quite interesting, well polished, so try to for something different
- Braid, I don’t actually know if it holds up today, it’s been so long ago
I’d love to hear your opinions on
- A Highland Song, deep lore, great atmosphere - I felt a bit lost though, or wasn’t captivated beyond that, and beyond one run
- Treasures of Aegean, another “roguelite” platformer, with interesting progression and discovery - still, I found it well made, but ultimately not personally captivating, maybe because of the disorganized nature [of re-runs and timeloop-crossing story]
- Sable, only partially platformer, and not the best quality overall, but great atmosphere, exploration, and platforming discovery
- Verlet Swing
- Viking Hiking
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- Comment on Ubisoft Made an NFT Game; It Sucks - Jauwn Review - Champions Tactics 1 week ago:
I like watching Jauwn’s NFT game reviews. They almost feel like satire, with sarcasm, jokes, and criticism. They’re an interesting insight into the NFT game fad and its products.
In other videos it’s also sad to see they work as scams, leaving [naive] people lose a lot of money.
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- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers 3 weeks ago:
Just like it took a decade for media and mainstream to pick up Reddit, it’ll take a decade for that to seep through.
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 4 weeks ago:
They are for adult weirdos.
Where do I sign up?
- Comment on Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor 4 weeks ago:
IIRC Windows has an accessibility feature where the cursor jumps to the primary default action in opening dialogs.
Doing it screenshot based seems inefficient if y du could iterate through windows and controls.
- Comment on History's Major Downtimes: Lessons from the Biggest Outages 4 weeks ago:
Going beyond “that you remember”, Wikipedia has a list.
- Comment on draw.io changed license from Apache 2.0 to non-FOSS-license on August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
lol; Thanks Dave Kinne!
Note: This is from August. So it’s been a while since then.
- Comment on A New Law Just Forced Valve To Change Steam. 5 weeks ago:
any non-video source?
- Comment on WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring user groups • The Register 5 weeks ago:
Will we call it WeirdPress?
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 5 weeks ago:
Is that what the pilot calls “streaming through the cloud”?