tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 1 day ago:
My bad sorry, I completely misread what your comment was replying to!
On the subject of Minecraft alternatives, I haven’t tried it myelf but Vintage Story seems pretty interesting. Started life many years ago as a Minecraft mod and is now it’s own thing.
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 1 day ago:
I’m not sure I understand you.
Java edition is also developed by Mojang/Microsoft and is basically identical to the bedrock edition in core features.
It was the original Minecraft edition, and if you remember playing Minecraft 10 to 15 years ago it would likely be the Java edition you were doing it on.
- Comment on Anon does a drug bust 2 days ago:
Java edition, my friend.
I have been playing Minecraft with a small group of friends on a self-hosted private server on and off for the past 15 years. No ads, no coin shop, no annoyance.
As for the screaming YouTubers, obviously they exist, but there are also some nice chill peeps out there. EthosLab or Bdoubleo100 for example - especially their single player worlds where it’s just them working on projects and building.
- Comment on why 4 days ago:
And yet ‘ship’ is oddly masculine in French, despite even in genderless English being referred to by sailors throughout history as ‘she’
- Comment on Wasn't afraid of radiation until you mentioned it??? 4 days ago:
Could be!
- Comment on Wasn't afraid of radiation until you mentioned it??? 5 days ago:
Deciphered:
Fast drying, and writes on any smooth surface without running. Replace the cap tightly after use.
- Comment on Chimes 5 days ago:
Plap plap plap
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 1 week ago:
That’s right. There’s an insightful blog article if you want to learn the full story.
You could get your PC upgraded for $99 if you also bought 24 months of dial-up Internet service through them. But you had to pay shipping both ways, and be out the use of your computer while you did it! So I don’t imagine almost anyone took them up on the offer - meaning that really it was a carefully crafted almost-scam.
That said, their machines were very competitively priced even without the deal and really disrupted the incumbents, making them good value machines even if you didn’t take them up on the “never obsolete” offer.
- Comment on Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box 1 week ago:
LatteGo, LatteGo, Can’t hold it back anymore~
- Comment on NeW zEaLaNd 🙄 1 week ago:
The Z80 part is right, but talking about a flag in the context of the Z80 instruction set it should be quite clear you mean a programming flag not a country flag
- Comment on WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore. 2 weeks ago:
I guess that’s part of WhatsApp’s terms of service, good to know.
Either way, my dislike for corporations using closed platforms still stands. I really wish we had some modern, secure and featureful version of SMS - a federated direct messaging system that everyone was on, and yet nobody owned.
- Comment on WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore. 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing to stop anyone sending you a message on WhatsApp if they have your number, be they an individual or a company.
But it IS absolutely infuriating - not because it’s an advert, but because I don’t want any aspect of my communication with companies to take place on third-party proprietary closed platforms of which that company has no ownership or data control and which would require me to have an account with said platform.
I’m sure many people love being able to contact customer support by shooting them a DM on Instagram, but to me that’s wholly unacceptable.
If companies want to talk to me it should be through email or SMS or email only - because those are the only methods which are providers agnostic.
Email and SMS are like the original federated systems.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 weeks ago:
You have to remember, the price isn’t only due to the hardware.
We often still think of “hardware” as if it’s some tool we actually own like a wrench or a hammer, and the price of it should depend on the cost.
But in the modern world the electronic hardware we buy is subsidised through gated ecosystems and by profiting from slurping data and selling ads.
The reality is that Meta hardware is priced aggressively low to encourage adoption - on the basis of all the money they expect to make later from your data. Same with smart TVs and everything else with a similar business model.
Valve’s hardware will seem exoensive but that’s just the price you have to pay in the modern world for some small amount of control and privacy.
Personally, I’ll pay it gladly.
- Comment on "Pro"gression 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely loved GameFAQs in the day.
I’ve just been replaying Freelancer (2002) for the first time since then, and it’s SO refreshing to find comprehensive guides on GaneFAQs which are just plain written text, not even any images.
If you want to find tips on a modern game you basically have to scan through a bunch of YouTube wikis, unless the game is popular enough to have a fleshed-out wiki (versus a placeholder wiki on fandom where basically every page is just enough of a stub to come up in search engine results despite having no actual useful content)
- Comment on NOW! 5 weeks ago:
Thanks.
Seems like CCC may no longer be the best choice, but it is still a free choice, and the article doesn’t seem to suggest they are falsifying their data.
Good to know, thanks.
- Comment on NOW! 5 weeks ago:
This custom SKU trick is also used by retailers to advertise “We’ll price match any other store!” when technically the only store who sells that exact SKU is them!
(Of course some retailers are genuine when they offer to price match, it’s not always a scam)
- Comment on NOW! 5 weeks ago:
Do you have a source on that? I can’t find any mention of this from having a quick search just now.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 5 weeks ago:
For anyone who needs a cheap but functional air filter which DOES do this, IKEA’s UPPÅTVIND remembers its last setting when turned back on.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
Watch out though, because while the TV anime ends on a sweet note, and you should probably stop there, the manga ends with time-skipping forwards 10 years to when they start a romantic relationship together.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
Kakushigoto is really good.
It is the story of a single-parent manga artist who is ashamed of his work and goes to great lengths to keep it from his young daughter.
The story begins when the girl, now older, discovers her Father’s job, and is told through flashbacks to her growing up and life with her father who was always trying his best for her.
I can’t find the official trailer with subtitles but it gives you the idea. Trailer.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
One word: Kewpie
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 month ago:
Looks interesting in other respects too, thanks for the suggestion
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
It wasn’t because of the apps.
It was because closing down the APIs - despite the widespread protests and subreddit blackouts - was the final nail in the coffin for many. It proved reddit was no longer a place where community opinion mattered at all, or had any sway in how the site might operate.
It was proof that things were firmly entering the enshittification phase of milking the reddit userbase and their content for profit, pushing a first-party app full of ads, and fattening up the balance sheet for investors.
I left at that time because I didn’t want to subject myself to that, and no number of “still working” apps would change my opinion.
- Comment on Bargain 1 month ago:
It’s an unholy testament to the hubris of man and an affront to the very concepts of ‘meat’ and ‘cheese’ but yes - also kinda cute ☺️
- Comment on Bargain 1 month ago:
Processed cheese, ham and crackers in a little box.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 month ago:
Thank you for all the suggestions! :)
Buddy Simulator 1984 looks great, and the most interesting, because it (seems to?) combine text chat with other gameplay.
I honestly did a bad job with the title of my post (entirely my fault!) because most people have been going straight to the text adventure genre for recommendations, and that wasn’t quite what I had hoped for.
Text adventure games are easy to find. So are games that simply involve a lot of typing of any kind. There’s a typing tag on steam, after all!
What’s not easy to find are games which aren’t necessarily entirely text-based or text parsing, but have natural language chat as part of their gameplay.
So they could be any genre - walking sim, puzzle, horror, anything, even an FPS or an RTS! Though I struggle to imagine how a game could fit natural language chat as part of a single player FPS, but if they did it, I’d be interested!
In all, what im interested in is a pretty specific and weird non-genre that doesn’t fit established categorisation, and that’s why I needed Fellow Humans to help, because tags on steam simply cannot.
So, thank you for the Buddy Simulator recommendation. I’ll certainly be playing that one! :)
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 month ago:
Definitely a left-field suggestion but could be interesting, thanks!
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 month ago:
I played the demo - it seemed novel but it didnt grip me and I dropped it.
However! I watched a friend stream it further into the game, and it seems like it got a lot more to my taste later on, with more puzzles and riddles, so it’s now on my watchlist :)
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 month ago:
I played Starship Titanic as a kid, and loved it! Its one of four or five games I still kept the original PC “Big Box” for, all these years later.
The text parser being used only to talk to characters isn’t a detriment for me, it’s a feature! Clicking on things is much more intuitive for interactions, so just like Event[0] (which works the same way) I consider that a plus. Thinking about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if the devs of Event[0] were actually inspired by Starship Titanic…
As for AI, that’s something I imagine we’ll see more of in the future. Something like KathaaVerse isn’t that exciting to me as it’s mostly a thin wrap around an LLM - which as you say is liable to go off the rails, and it’s not a rich experience.
For it to be compelling to me it needs to be a curated game first, with environments and interactions and actual programmed mechanics, and then AI second to potentially enhance that game experience with rich and natural conversation. It will be a fun match when someone gets it right.
- Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction? 1 month ago:
Thanks, interesting suggestion. Even if it doesn’t have free-text interactions (not sure on that point) it still seems to have other mechanics around how doing ‘investigation’ in the game works which makes me want to check it out.
