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- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 4 hours ago:
I played the heck out of the Renegade demo, it scratched a FPS RTS itch I didn’t know I had. I wonder if it holds up?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th 2 days ago:
Is the experience at all spoiled by the game’s popularity? It’s a great game in its own right IMO
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th 2 days ago:
I’m playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.
I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.
There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you’re trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.
Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.
Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.
Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things~1~. Strong recommend.
1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making “free” games here
- Comment on compost.party: a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It's a web server pieced together from scraps, humming in the attic of an apartment building. 1 week ago:
I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it’ll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?
I’m sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 months ago:
Same, workspaces are great!
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 months ago:
It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 months ago:
I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 months ago:
Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.
I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 3 months ago:
$11 is wild for all that!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 3 months ago:
The New Order was enjoyable vengence porn against Nazis, it’s a good time; maybe I need that again!
I’ve been playing the heck out of Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech; I haven’t binge-played like this in a long time. It never feels fair; 2-1 odds is typical, but it’s always possible. Pretty satisfying to overcome unfair situations. Makes me feel smart and capable! Plus, jumpy stompy robots!
- Comment on Star Trek - Fleet Command - Lower Decks 2 Part 1 1 year ago:
500 internal errors in console, video doesn’t play