Sunsofold

@Sunsofold@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For some reason I read Tactical Breach Wizards and thought of Sexy Battle Wizards, and I just thought, that’s a cool recommendation but why here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd be screaming too lmao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Death is like chicken pox, right? Deal with it once and you never have to worry about it again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal that I have this inner conflict of not knowing where I belong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fairly common. Everyone wants to feel like they ‘belong.’ The trick is, it’s not a place. It’s people. There is an underlying culture in any place you find that is highly localized, even down to the neighborhood, but there are also always exceptions. You can find the sweet Berliners if you look, and the reserved, non-materialistic Americans, and the sober, minimalist Parisians. First, figure out your values. Then, find the others in your area who share those values. Unless you are living in the middle of nowhere, they’re out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess they hate shoppers (context below)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Allow us to introduce you to… malicious incompetence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨optimizing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard that the big Republican conventions are business suits all day and orgies all night. A bout of pubic lice could probably swarm the whole party if it got in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Nah, you’re right. Looking, sounding, and acting like a bitch is bad enough. You don’t want to completely remove all doubt.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They kind of are, just based on the need for housing rather than a romantic connection… which actually describes a number of ‘battered wives’ scenarios, now that I think of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not trying to be a dick about it but I love that you used apples and onions as an example of things with minimal variety when one of those is the most varied product class I’m the produce department. For onions there are red, green, white, yellow, and shallots. Most of those are different enough that you’d see and taste a swap out immediately. Then, with apples, there are so many varieties at this point, even without including the more niche varieties, a well supplied produce department can have an entire section just for types of apples. They could probably be knocked down into half a dozen categories but many people will be able to differenciate them enough to complain. Most other things are relatively unvaried, maybe a binary split, some a literal monoculture, but those two…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘What, you don’t think you’re manly enough to pull it off?’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favorite, classic greentext⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor snake. He walked into its home and woke it up only to slaughter it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This really is what me and my friends do⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Call? People still do that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't fooled by planes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …fake and gay

  Hey now. Let’s not blame gay people for the common-sense-defying demon-wizard sorcery that engineers get up to when someone threatens to take away their calculators and caffeine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨70% of games that require internet get destroyed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the difference shareholders make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Less racist in the modern sense, more profoundly stupid and racist in the archaic sense.

  Civilized coutry is a redundant phrase if taken literally. A country is a territory and the associated state. You can’t have a state (political structure) without being ‘civilized.’ (participating in some kind of civic process) They are using civilized in a manner akin to how people used ‘white’ many years ago, referring to acceptability rather than color. e.g. The oft noted ‘Irish and jews weren’t white.’ In that context it seems more of a sign of lack of critical thinking than colorism or essentialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re replacing coders with AI at MS? Everybody ready for windows to gain a whole new set of vulnerabilities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Debuts Contextual Pause Ads And Shoppable Inventory For Brands On Prime Video⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped watching amazon when they introduced ads just for their other shows. No chance I go back with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New poster for James Gunn's "Superman"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I see James Gunn mentioned, I can only think of Charles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you ask for something without ‘grind’ I have to ask if you know what you are asking. Grind is entirely subjective. It’s not a mechanism of a game but rather what happens when you personally don’t find a game mechanism fun/rewarding.
  Take classic examples, like mining in… most games, really. It’s smacking a rock. It doesn’t have much variety. For some people, they love their own little game of ‘hit the rocks in the most efficient way,’ or they like to relax with music and bust rocks, or they feel like every rock is a loot box. Other people hate it for being too complex to automate and too simple to feel engaged.

  The difference between ‘grind’ and an ‘endlessly replayable part of the game’ is how the player looks at it. You are asking for ‘the drug to which you will never build a tolerance.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eggplant droplets droplets 100 crying emoji “Bruh” crying emoji crying emoji crying emoji dead emoji hashtag 2010s memes you can’t live without hashtag India teens hashtag soap dispensers in your area⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steve Hughes.

  I’ve got some homophobic friends… I mean they’re not mental cases, my mates. They don’t hit gay men. They’re not waiting in the woods with a crossbow and they’re not fucking insane, right? They just don’t like it, and that’s their fucking deal, and they’re very funny, mate. One of my mates especially… He’s my age and he still can’t deal with it. He’s tried, but I saw him about a month ago, and he’s still freaking out. “I don’t like it, mate. I don’t like them.” I’m going, “Who?” He goes, “the puffters, mate, the gays, mate. I don’t like them.” I said, “Why not, mate?” He says, “I tell you why not. Cuz they’re not real men… and they’re not tough.” “They’re not tough? They fuck men. That’s hardly gay.” What do straight men want? *gay accent*"Ooh, I want a woman… soft… feminine…" *normal accent* “And what do you want, Dave?” “I want to fuck a bloke. I want a big strong bloke to come fuck me in the arse.” Is that a bit tough for you and your pussy-loving mates, is it? Fuck you, cuz we want COCK, son. COCK! Go and play with your girly tits, you fucking gaylord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked that it wasn’t a parody of itself. Most of the writing could have been unchanged if it hadn’t been anthro themed. And the writing was nice, nothing ham-fisted, and had some respect for the reader. I keep running into games where you’ve just talked to an NPC about how they need you to hit the blue button, and you’ve gone through a hallway of posters saying your goal is to hit the blue button, had a quest marker guiding you there that says ‘this way to the blue button you need to press,’ and your character still feels the need to speak to the air about the need to hit the blue button when you walk into the blue button room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open World Games: yay or nay?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first time to experience it, it’s amazing. Each time after that, it’s a disappointment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give an inch take an inch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The NASA computers were among the most advanced computer science of their day. They were built by engineers with cutting edge technology. Chrome is a web browser, an absurd behemoth intended to view everything from a static page from twenty years ago to a dynamically assembled webapp using frameworks even the app’s creator doesn’t know one tenth of, but still has to import, and the whole thing is built to spy on what you do while you surf for cat pics and pussy pics for the ten trillionth time, feeding google’s monopoly.

  Not even apples to oranges. Apples to the lump formerly known as the planet Pluto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft’s VR support is now gone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Headline from the future:

  MS announces Minecraft VR, will cost less than $5/month when you buy a full five year subscription

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to see someone play Vagante, check out Pakratt13 on the tubes. He did a daily show of roguelikes for a bit and vagante was in the rotation. That’s how I heard about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I play, almost exclusively, non-AAA games. Some gems, known and hidden:

  • Autonauts and Autonauts Vs Piratebots - Cute automation games
  • Spelunky - Elegantly simple and well executed platformer
  • BPM: Bullets Per Minute - Rhythm FPS. Others have tried. None I have found have been as good.
  • Immortal Redneck - FPS roguelite
  • Ziggurat - FPS Roguelite
  • Receiver II - Unique FPS roguelike. Every part of everything that moves is simulated. The hammer on your gun hits a firing pin which hits the primer on the cartridge. You can get stovepipes, misfires, double feeds, etc. You don’t reload by hitting ‘reload’ but go through the full manual of arms in a shooter where the tolerances for failure are fairly slim.
  • Valley - running game. The feeling of letting a hill propel your running to otherwise impossible speeds, bottled. Nice little story too.
  • Dredge - Lovecraftian fishing game.
  • Tunnet - lovecraftian network technician simulator. Build a network to allow communication between computers in an underground society with unspeakable horrors occasionally destroying your mind/body.
  • Opus Magnum - Programming puzzles
  • Vagante - roguelike with tight tolerances
  • Ruiner - Cyberpunk slash n dash with a soundtrack half by Sidewalks and Skeletons. Very fun.
  • Tails Noir - Detective story. Normally find the anthro thing a bit tiresome but this was pretty good. Well written. Not a ))))
  • Elderborn
  • Moonlighter
  • Webbed
  • A Story About My Uncle
  • Tormentor X Punisher
  • Tin Can
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never played it but ‘Pony Island’ seems to have a pink color scheme and I’m guessing it’s about ponies, so maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be that. Never played Ghosts so I don’t know about that one in particular. Some games do other things with it, but that sort of thing is absolutely usable to create that ‘trapped’ feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to produce the sensation of being trapped you have to use the feeling of power and loss. It stems from the sense of ‘If I could just…’ If I could just get out there, I could defeat that henchman for him. If I could just get out there, I could solve that riddle for him. If I could just escape this box, all would be fixed.

  Now, the trick is, because this is a video game, players have a reduced sense of agency. The player’s sense of capacity is ‘what happens when you hit the button.’ Mario, before more modern adaptations, had a capacity to move left and right, jump, run, and ‘use ability.’ The player never had the ability to do anything else, so it never feels like a limitation. No one ever said, ‘playing Mario makes me feel trapped because I could beat Bowser if I could just access the cannon that’s right over there.’

  So, to produce the feeling of confinement, one must create the sense of power, and then take it away. Give the player enough power that they could even defeat the dragon, but then take it from them so they feel limited. If you can find a way to make it feel like it’s not even forced, as in they feel like they could have won the game in Act 1, Scene 1, but their lack of skills as a player were what made them lose, all the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s the style of game you are looking for, I could see a structure of 'do code golf puzzles to:

  • program robots to help the knight directly’
  • ‘trick’ henchmen or magical castle elements (abstracted coding) into doing things that help the Knight’
  • write the guard’s ‘daily action plan’ so they patrol in a way that doesn’t get the knight caught’
  • complete abstract ‘magical haxors’ that open the dragon’s firewalls’
  • social engineer the dragon between runs to let you have more supplies’
  • give simple instructions to collections of small woodland creatures to do simple things that add up to a real goal (in the vein of Opus Magnum)’