Bougie_Birdie

@Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are trailers revealing too much again nowadays?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The headline implies that trailers at some point stopped giving away key plots.

  Then again, I stopped watching trailers a while ago, so maybe I never noticed that they had stopped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beginner gamedev projects?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, well you can definitely build for Android with it then. I haven’t personally, but so far every other platform I’ve built for has just been a few clicks and away you go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beginner gamedev projects?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly recommend Godot for a new developer. I made the switch from Unity and it’s just been a pleasure to work with. I’m actually unlearned a bunch of patterns I had to use with Unity because Godot makes things even easier to access .

  I don’t know if it’s got any kind of support for retro systems though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think nostalgia plays a pretty big factor in retro games. Like, yes, I agree that enshittification marches onwards and the state of the industry today is pretty lame.

  Every time I’ve gone back to a retro game I find myself vaguely disappointed. Quality of life has come a long way, and development is iterative so it makes sense that games made twenty years ago are lacking some features that make life easier for the player. Things like fast travel in metroidvanias, or inventory and quest management, or just trying to remember what it was I was supposed to do next in an RPG are often quite lacking. Or at the least, they’re not up to today’s standards.

  Survivorship bias plays a pretty big role here too. We remember the good games that stand out from the rest of them, and we forget about the crap. There was shovelware back then too, maybe not to the degree of the modern app stores with F2P games loaded with microtransactions and dark patterns, but they were there too.

  Anyway, long story long, the trick in whatever generation you play seems to be to find games that respect your time as a player. I’d also recommend checking out indie games, they’re made with love, and you can find all kinds of retro-styled where you can tell the devs were passionate about games of the era.

  Here’s a short list of games I’ve enjoyed that give me that retro SNES feeling:

  • Bzzzzzt - Just delightful
  • Gravity Circuit - Megaman, but the platforming actually feels good and fast
  • Nuclear Blaze - This one has a unique offering where have to put out fires while platforming
  • Skull Girls - okay, this one’s a bit older too, but in another comment you said you like Street Fighter so this might be up your alley
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always hear people talking about how beef is so cheap and I wonder how that could be when it costs twice as much as pork in my grocery store. I never thought about subsidies in other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨myconerds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨duck duck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe started with a Big Bang, I guess it makes sense it’d go out on the BIG HONK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a groovy meme, dude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every generation has different challenges⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  grudgingly sips water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨land shrimp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what the ethics of marinating a creature alive is. Like, I’d be willing to try eating a bug, but I don’t want my meal to suffer any more than it has to. Then again, I’m not sure Worcestershire is acidic enough to hurt it.

  I wonder what would happen if you sat in a bathtub of Worcestershire for a few hours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smooth spread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That much bread will just sit in my stomach like a rock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game fits this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The factory must grow!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a couple different opinions on the order of the letters. Normally, I’d say that order doesn’t matter because it’s a collective, and the order comes from the point that communities merged together. For instance, there were originally alliances of Lesbians and Gays in the 70’s, but Trans often wasn’t considered its own thing until sometime in the 90’s. And since Queer was originally used as a slur, it didn’t make sense to add it until even later when sentiment had changed.

  So usually what you see happening is more letters getting added on to the end at the point of adoption. However, and I just learned this today, the government of Canada today is now using 2SLGBTQI+ as their official acronym. This breaks convention for a couple of reasons, in that Two-Spirit is represented with ‘2S’, which means that it now has precedence and more symbols than the other communities in the group.

  They say this is to represent that the Two Spirit community would be the historically oldest group in the collective. I’m not sure if I really believe that though, since these labels are about human sexuality, and that’s been around as long as there have been humans. There was no ‘first’ sexual or gender minority in my opinion. This feels more like a do-nothing feelgood thing where a government that’s failed to do right by its indigenous people pats itself on its back for being inclusive. Which doesn’t mean I’m not happy to see it, it just also feels jarring and weird, and I doubt that the acronym will actually see much practical use when people are talking to each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you refer to the lgbtq+ "community" least excludingly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, I’m one of those queer people.

  For my two cents, I find in conversations it’s easiest to refer to it as the “queer community” or “gay community.” If I’m feeling an acronym, the first one I reach for is LGBT. And that’s me speaking as one of those q+ folks.

  Now for me, I prefer to use Queer because it’s sort of an umbrella term. For instance, all lesbians are queer, but not all queer people are lesbians. It’s also great for people who don’t like labels, because it doesn’t pigeonhole someone into a specific box.

  The term “queer” has a little history behind it too. When I was in middle school, being called queer was like, the ultimate insult. It was used pejoratively, and it felt bad to hear it. Nowadays we’re reclaiming the word, and it loses its evilness. That all said, you can call people “queer,” but don’t call a person “a queer” or else you’re being insulting. It’s to be used like an adjective, not a noun.

  For my money, this is the most inclusive flag without singling out a particular community. Image

  Generally speaking, I don’t like an overly verbose acronym. It’s part of why I stop at LGBT or LGBTQ instead of going all the way to LGBTQ+, or as my government seems to want to say, LGBTQ2IA+. In my opinion, the effort to make the community more inclusive by adding more sub-communities to the acronym has the opposite effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be getting wooshed because this is wordplay, but ‘bill’ in this context is used like ‘invoice’ or ‘expense’

  Something like less than half of americans can afford a $1000 surprise expense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab a blankie, cuties! We’re watching the whole trilogy! :3⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it’s Special Extended Edition There’s some deleted scenes, and for the trilogy it adds quite a bit to the runtime. You can make a whole day of the marathon, but it’s a looong day (totally worth it though)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Works in anyplace that serves fried chicken⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dark meat is basically meat that’s closer to the bone. Compare to white meat, which is basically just the breast.

  I prefer the dark meat, it seems to be more flavourful. I know a lot of people want nothing to do with blood and bones, and they prefer white meat because of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when you drink pop or other sweet drinks do they taste sweet the whole time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the same way. If I drink something really sugary my palate gets all mucked up, and then I don’t taste too much of anything else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to turn into food, what food will you turn into?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if your food is once sentient people, is it better for your food to want to be eaten, or to hate being eaten?

  I’m going with Pineapple, because it eats you back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is the character for lemmy a rat or a lemur?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, now imagine this thing is ten feet tall and running you down Like some kind of rat ostrich