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- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 2 weeks ago:
Bummer!
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Always Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection.
It’s freaking fantastic. Anyone sleeping on it needs to check it out.
It runs on just about anything, too, including some eReaders.
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 2 weeks ago:
Yes! Balatro!
In that vein, does anyone know if Monster Train 1 or 2 has been ported to mobile?
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 2 weeks ago:
There’s less, but still some great ones.
Since you asked for non-predatory games, I still recommend spending some time searching F-Droid. It’s the only place I find most non-predatory games.
On f-droid, I would try out:
- Burger Party
- Breakout 71
- Duck Run
- Gurgle (Wordle)
- Gridle (Wordle variant)
- Luanti
- SuperTuxKart
And on Google Play or Aurora, check out (paid, but nice if they haven’t enshitified yet):
- Mini Motor X
- You Must Build A Boat
- Ridiculous Fishing
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 2 weeks ago:
There’s so many free open source games that fit your need.
Check out this search on F-Droid: search.f-droid.org/?q=game
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 3 weeks ago:
I always wished for a Street Fighter side scrolling beat em up.
You’ve just described the 16-bit era forgotten almost-classic, Cyborg Justice.
The learning curve is steep, and the graphics are kind of boring. But after that, it is a a co-op ongoing series of Street Fighter brawls with surprisingly deep combat and some interesting and satisfying progression.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 3 weeks ago:
Probably same thing with Starcraft, but I’ve never tried it.
Oof. Yes. I recall Starcraft II’s tutorial requiring what felt like South Korean world champion commands-per-minute play to get through maybe the third level of the tutorial.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 3 weeks ago:
just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.
Wayfinder does this pretty well. There’s some rough edges from where they pivoted in the design, but I got it on sale for less than a single month of WoW, and have been playing through it at my own pace ever since.
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen this exact screen, but since there’s very little help in this thread so far, I’ll speculate.
I’ve seen plenty of single solid color screens that turned out to be “fuck you i didn’t like something, have a plain color instead of your image” from some piece of Digital Rights Management software.
If it is DRM, the two approaches I’m aware of are:
- Try to guess what pissed off the DRM, while being treated as an enemy at every level and step of logging and debugging.
- Turn to the clear, communicative, well documented piracy community for help. Note that their solutions may not be strictly legal, but they tend to actually get me access to the thing i already paid for.
- Comment on Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds 4 weeks ago:
Yes. If steam shuts down, I’ll probably just stop purchasing games entirely.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 4 weeks ago:
Wha-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow?!
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 4 weeks ago:
Yes. It was speedy enough to merit a “Turbo” button to slow it down to a reasonable speed!
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 4 weeks ago:
Holy shit! 486 support was still in there? Damn. Wow. Nice.
I don’t want to lose support for classic machines, but it’s not like the previous versions of Linux will stop being available to put on old hardware. If we were purging archive copies of old Linux kernels, then I would be alarmed.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 4 weeks ago:
I’m so sorry.
- Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 1 month ago:
I think we’re still waiting to learn whether he did, or not, though.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 1 month ago:
Yes. And it constantly comes back to Reagan.
Reagan understood that Jesus loves corporations, but children.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 1 month ago:
Are we all using 4e rules? Because my GM ruled it was a “grapple”?
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar 1 month ago:
My unstanding is that the Windows core team made this change as another step in their commitment to the Year of the Linux Desktop.
The moveable taskbar, specifically, eases the transition to Windows, since most Linux DE have had moveable taskbars forever.
I would tag this as sarcasm, but I’m not honestly 100% sure it’s not partly true.
- Comment on Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC 1 month ago:
I’m looking forward to something like “Undersea Survival” made by the same creatives they’re taking a shit on now.
If that’s already happening, someone please link me to it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Surprise is overrated.
Spoil the best bits early. If it gains traction, you can fill in all the earlier and later details.
Silly example: Star Wars owes it’s success today at least in part to Lucas being willing to drop into “Episode IV” first to let folks know what it’s really about.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 months ago:
Allegedly.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 2 months ago:
That was so rude, but also hilarious. It was a big lobby that night, but Luigi was really keeping everyone chill.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 2 months ago:
I really want to play this, but I cannot in good conscience give money to Ubisoft.
Sadly, Ubisoft’s godlike digital rights protections are perfected in ways that my meager search engine typing skills could never trivially counter on a boring afternoon, assuming I don’t find a free pack-in copy before then on some kind of random mall kiosk plug and play TV game device.
Woe is me that I’ll have no choice but to ignore this game until a copy literally falls into my lap through random chance because software wants to be free.
Bunch of dumbasses at Ubisoft’s leadership ought to relearn that the paying games industry runs entirely on good will.
- Comment on Contractual trap on remote working job offer 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, a case like yours was what I needed to get HR to clean up their act at my company.
I documented each candidate we lost, and I documented the increased job offer prices we needed as we ran low on qualified candidates.
Pretty soon, HR was on the same page, and this stuff stopped.
Anyway, who knows if their engineering manager will do the work to fix it, but at least you have them a chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh, here’s another. I’ve actually never had “the site” go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.
My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?
I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 2 months ago:
There will certainly be statues. That’s probably inevitable.