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- Comment on Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster 1 day ago:
Vibe-wrecking.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 5 days ago:
There wouldn’t need to be much of a line if we simply got such companies to cough up for UBI.
- Comment on Would you considering watching playthroughs of a game the same as playing that game? 1 week ago:
It’s sometimes better because I myself may not even like the actual gameplay (such as long grinds, which you can skip over in a video if it’s not a theatrical cut to begin with), but otherwise wanna see the story.
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 3 weeks ago:
Ha, curve ball deflected!
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 weeks ago:
Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.
Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you’ve gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I’ve beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 weeks ago:
Ironically, I couldn’t get into Outer Wilds, myself; it sucks to get stuck.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 weeks ago:
Sable is on a giveaway this week by Epic Games. Use the free-&-open-source Heroic Games Launcher to play it without having to download their platform.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Portal was originally a university student project called Narbacular Drop that got hired by Steam. In a sense from its limited narration and story, it felt a bit more like a proof-of-concept than almost a full-fleshed game to me at times, which, for me, was hands-down Portal 2.
They’re great fun to stream and watch, too.
- Comment on Day 333 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 month ago:
Oh. Well, if the mods are this active, then that could probably be changed, too! I’m not trying to insult you or something; I just think the titles could be made much more meaningful with just a bit more focus (which also means they could potentially attract more redditors or other lurking, fence-sitting denizens of the Internet through quality stuff in both title and body).
- Comment on Day 333 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 month ago:
Could you please rename such a long and misleading title to something more succinct and accurate?
Day 333 of game commentary: Minecraft
I strongly believe it would genuinely boost the quality of your submissions.
- Comment on [Announcement] The community and its future 1 month ago:
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world needs to change the title to “Daily thoughts: game X, game Y, game Z.” Continually saying “screenshot” each time is misleading and does legitimately sound spammy and annoying. A simple title change would be so much better.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Supplement?” I would have said “replace.”
- Comment on Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system? 2 months ago:
I have a certain potato-based experiment I’d be interested to know the outcome of.
Go on…
- Comment on The wonderful Revenge of the Savage Planet has been released! 2 months ago:
FYI, the “O” in “GOG” is capitalized; it stands for “Good Old Games” as they originally made their claim to fame by modernizing access to literally old DOS, etc. games that are hard to run onodern PCs. It doesn’t stand for “of.”
With that said, yes, GOG should absolutely be prioritized, as well as itch.io.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
I tried a bit of Aquaria but couldn’t get into it… Thanks for the Gato recommendation. I didn’t know it was CS-like.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Oh. It’s been literal years so I totally forgot that initialism, but while we’re at it, the second “C” in “CrossCode” is also capital.
It’s smooth as butter, yeah, but I think I would prefer a game focused on a different character class/weapon. I remember some progression of concepts but I guess didn’t really connect the dots (even though I don’t think I looked up a guide more than once or twice briefly).
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more 2 months ago:
If OoT could be made to look as good as TotK, that’d be something!
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Not sure what “VRP” is unless you just mean ricochet puzzles, but mind you, I did play 95% of the game. It felt just too same-y after long enough (it was the plot and environment that had kept me going), and then I just gave up and finished through some YouTuber’s play-through and I confirmed that I had apparently quit at the start of the final dungeon, because it just felt like… more of the same timing-&-angling annoyances with no more originality. Zelda was far, far more creative and I think the game just could have done more with items or different weapons, or something, though I know much of it is based on your character being a specific class that was fixed pre-game… It just ultimately wore me down, sadly.
Right: *successor, not “sequel.”
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Hmm… May I watch you stream Vagante sometime? I’ve been iffy over it for a year or more now because of those reviews. Let me see how you die LOL jk.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Cave Story is undoubtedly the greatest Metroidvania made to date of which I know.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Too bad the developer duo basically disappeared… I had an idea for a 2-player sequel but they never responded.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
I really hope the sequel does more with dungeons than just ricochet/geometry puzzles. CrossCode’s incessant use of those in dungeon after dungeon was what made me stop playing.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Slice & Dice is the best dice-building roguelite ever and has a free demo that is only content-limited and allows you to already play an infinite amount of runs. I literally played the demo as much as a paid game for a month until I bit down—so hard that, once, when I had my phone in hand and intended to take a shower, I ended up crouching on the bathroom floor furthering a run for an hour before finally pausing to return to the real world.
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone offers awesome online co-op. Noita’s world is just endless (people are still discovering new spell permutations years later). I will never turn down someone’s offer or request to watch a run of FTL: Faster Than Light.
The AAA world is not impressive to me at all, and if anything gets deprioritized in my book; graphics or a third-person view do not a fantastic game make.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
free in the browser without IAPs
Like what else?
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
FTL!!! And yeah, PP is awesome and so unique!
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Vagante’s negative reviews criticize its too-numerous insta-death traps. What would your reply be to that?
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 2 months ago:
And it’s not that short; the island to me seems to be an actual mile wide in circumference. There’s lots to do in the one environment.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Encore!” 👏
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 2 months ago:
I don’t think it will ever even happen because the winning party may just always think, “Good, don’t vote; that allowed us to win more easily.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
What do you mean? Are you implying that the non-spiritual can’t do so?