Elevator7009sAlt
@Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social
Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.
- Comment on Witchbrook - First Look Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Worth crossposting to !lifesimulation@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any interest for a "Pokemon VGC"-like game? 3 weeks ago:
For people like me wondering WTF VGC is: www.smogon.com/smog/issue7/vgc
I’ll follow this project with mild curiosity, no specific asks from me. Best wishes’
- Comment on Perspectives on the LISA Series? 3 weeks ago:
I can usually read anything without having issues, but I just read the tropes page for this and this depressing game lived rent-free in my head for too long. And some of the themes are things I can usually read about no problem but actually seeing? Not sure if the game would show it on-screen, but if it did I know I would handle it poorly. Finally, I do not want to play something that depressing, and I am already familiar with some of the themes in real life so I don’t need a good art game to teach me about it or make some commentary. Dark things are usually not cathartic for me, just another painful reminder about the bad things in the world. So I am going to avoid this series and I think others might have the same reasoning. Of course, I’m aware others can like it and that’s totally fine! It’s just extremely not for me.
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how much of this is network effects? I cannot describe how many times I have fired up Minecraft all over again after not touching it for awhile because oh, a friend made a server and my other friends are playing too! At least in my experience, it seems to just be a thing that if a social circle contains mostly people who happen to enjoy video games, even if we formed around liking to sing or something and not our love of video games, it will try to make a Minecraft server.
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 3 weeks ago:
Players will be able to toggle between the new and previously existing visuals of Minecraft with the simple press of a button, meaning a classic look can be maintained by those who desire it.
thank goodness, shaders are pretty but I am massively suspect to nostalgia bias and I do not want to dedicate performance to shaders if my computer cannot handle it
- Comment on This city builder has the best brick-by-brick building system around—here's our review 4 weeks ago:
Please crosspost to !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Launch date announcement trailer for our squad tactics heist RPG, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint. Fully launching on Steam May 15th! 4 weeks ago:
This game is very much outside of my wheelhouse, but it sure is nice having indie devs come to the Fediverse to advertise, not just Reddit. Best wishes to you and your brother!
- Comment on My submission to the Road Trip Game Jam 2025 4 weeks ago:
I am not sure if this qualifies for this community or not, but I think ttrpg.network would be happy to have you if you have not posted on that instance yet.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 4 weeks ago:
Happy to see an idle/incremental here as a lover of that genre. Wish the Mbin side of incremental.social worked, I’d love to participate on !incremental_games@incremental.social or use my account there.
- Comment on What are your favorite Switch exclusives? 4 weeks ago:
+1 to Animal Crossing. Love the aesthetic of cozy games but sometimes a lack of a solid goal, casual-ness/lack of complexity, or not-the-best gameplay drives me away. I enjoyed Animal Crossing a lot.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 weeks ago:
If you browse a lot on mobile and cannot install extensions, all you have to do is replace the “fandom” in the fandom wiki URL with “antifandom”
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 5 weeks ago:
I was like that until Epic released free games that I decided to claim just in case my tastes changed or I was with a friend who enjoyed that game, but that I myself was very uninterested in playing. And then I got busier, and bought games I have high confidence I’d like but did not have the time to play just then past maybe a demo or a short while to check if I did actually like it—I’d get to it sometime later when I had more free time. My tastes tend to expand to include more things, but not to reject more things as well, so I thought the risk of tastes changing was an okay risk to take in order to capitalize on the sale of a game I am interested in now, even if I would play it much later.
- Comment on Do you want to see gamed content? 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean you can’t promote him? You’re very positive about him to the point it seems you really want me and other Lemmy users to go pay attention to his stuff, and are willing to make posts to do so. That counts as promotion.
Thanks for answering my question about whether he is supposed to be mainstream enough that I am supposed to know who he is without explanation. Unfortunately, there are probably plenty of YouTubers who have higher subscriber counts than the count of total active Lemmy users, most of who are totally irrelevant to me and who are still not someone everyone who does not live under a rock would be aware of. I’ll assume he counts as one of them. I am glad you enjoy his content enough to advertise for him on Lemmy, but it’s coming off less as a person sharing their enthusiasm and more as an advertisement I really do not want to see.
- Comment on Able to Play, a game repository that helps you find games that match your accessibility needs, just launched! 5 weeks ago:
I am lucky enough to not need the site. I am glad it exists for those who do.
- Comment on Do you want to see gamed content? 5 weeks ago:
I feel like you just ignored my question to go full-in on promoting whoever this person is, which makes me feel extra resistance to checking it out, on top of my already-existing aversion to watching videos.
- Comment on Do you want to see gamed content? 5 weeks ago:
Who-like? Am I just out of the loop and “Dani” is some big name most gamers know, or is the description making a bad assumption that we all know who “Dani” is?
- Comment on Balatro's Pokermon mod is incredible 5 weeks ago:
!pokemon@lemm.ee might like this
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Oh boy.
I did learn cursive, but I have been playing games on laptops since I was little too and was never told I had to learn PC building. And to be completely honest, although knowledge is good, I am very uninterested in doing that especially since I have an object that serves my needs.
I have the perspective to realize that I have been on the “other side” of the WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE SATISFIED, LEARN MORE AND CHANGE TO BE LIKE US side, although I’m exaggerating because I don’t actually push others to take on my decisions. I don’t spam the uninterested to come to Linux, but I do want people who get their needs adequately served by Windows to jump to Linux anyways because I want to see Windows 11, with even more forced telemetry and shoved-in AI and things just made worse to fail. Even though that would actually be more work for satisfied Windows users. But I would not downvote a happy Windows user for not wanting to switch, and that kind of behavior is frowned upon, is it just more acceptable to be outwardly disapproving to those who do not know about GPUs and are satisfied with what they have with zero desire to upgrade?
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for explaining!
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for explaining! I am not sure why people are reacting badly to my statement, is knowledge of GPUs something every gamer is expected to have and I am violating the social contract by being clueless?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 5 weeks ago:
I’ll absolutely punish your eyeballs with just some stuff on steam that will leave these two games looking absolutely mainstream.
Genuinely curious since that sounds interesting. What games are these?
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 5 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I have never paid attention to GPUs and I don’t understand what your comment is trying to say or (this feels selfish to say) how it applies to me and my comment. Is this intended to mostly be a reply to me, or something to help others reading the thread?
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 5 weeks ago:
Makes me appreciate reviews that are able to give pros and cons to the game, and the ones that are able to say an opinion between “best game ever” and “absolute trash”. Which I still often see on the Steam reviews, usually voted as one of the Most Helpful!
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 5 weeks ago:
I’m having a good time on a laptop with no fancy graphics card and have no desire to buy one.
I also do not look for super high graphical fidelity, play mostly indies instead of AAA, and am like 5 years behind the industry, mostly buying old gems on sale, so my tastes probably enable this strategy as much as anything else.
- Comment on Pokemon GO Fest 2025 is Bringing the Heat with Volcanion, Zacaian, Zamazenta, and a Global Raid! 5 weeks ago:
I am back in for exercise reasons. I’m enjoying Dynamax as far as I can go being just one person—mostly because I live near two Dynamax spots and nothing else, and never played a mainline game with Dynamaxing so I do not know how different or how much of a betrayal it is from the mainline version of the mechanic. Curious to hear how it is greedy (honest question, not an aggressive “prove you’re right!!! because they are not!!11!1!”).
- Comment on The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk Blog 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but not sure where this question is coming from.
- Comment on The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk Blog 5 weeks ago:
Interesting read, mostly accessible for someone who has not and will never play Balatro. (Roguelikes just are not my thing, and for an irrational reason I cannot pin down, card games are a really quick turnoff.)
- Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items (187 games) for $10 1 month ago:
To each their own. I have no idea what Tunic is, I got it for
- charity
- Cook Serve Delicious
- Blobun
- Octodad
The fact you say it has lots of VNs and puzzle games suggests there is more in the bundle I’ll like if I just explore more as those genres are to my taste.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 month ago:
Like anything, it is about understanding what you are and aren’t susceptible to.
Hard agree. I get sucked hard into good stories and know I’d lose a lot of time to them, so I refused to let myself start anything over 30,000 words for a period of time.
It should be a cost/benefit evaluation of “how much enjoyment will I gain from this game and is the time spent enjoying worth it compared to all the other things I could be doing?” Sadly some things hijack this decision-making, and with some things you really only get to try once before you get hooked. “Try everything once” shouldn’t include heroin. I think that’s part of why knowing if a game is addictive is helpful for some people, so they know if they can try it or have to stay away forever. I have heard enough stories of MMO addiction that I’ve decided that I should never play one.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 1 month ago:
I’ve heard about Minami Lane being cool. I bought because that and the strike