Another traveler of the wireways.
That’s always a relief, but also awkward feeling. “But…Up-to-date thing you’re supposed to work with the rest, wtf are you doing breaking things??”
My “favorite” is when drivers do this. Go from visuals fine to, “What do you mean you want your game to render?”
Would you edit the OP to rephrase your last line? No pics/no sexual stuff would be better, as it currently reads as having some prejudice against homosexuality, but the no pics part suggests you mean no sexual stuff more broadly.
Thanks in advance
Was hoping they might have added an option to Not Update/Skip Update or Never Update, or some other means to preserve the currently installed version. I don’t like Valve’s (and other tech businesses’) assumption that updates are always good.
The only games for which these update settings make some sense are always online, “service” games. Other games are largely fine to indefinitely delay updates on, or never update at all.
Streaming isn’t the middle ground in my opinion, rather it’s unrestricted downloadable files that you can then handle however. Streaming provides some convenience but no consistent access (see various shows being delisted or shuffled between services).
Companies would love if everyone forgot having home video, in the sense of owning copies of movies and shows they always have access to and ability to watch whenever.
Yes and no. Mastodon instances can show Lemmy community posts in a clunky looking way, as they treat communities like a group account which boosts every post.
If someone on Mastodon is familiar with Lemmy, they can technically also follow individual people to ensure their feed looks a little less awkward. However, given the default limited character count of many Mastodon instances, it’s still going to display as the title and link to the Lemmy post at best, if I remember right.
On the other hand, Mastodon people can post to Lemmy communities and reply to comments in threads here, but it also tends to come out rough, especially if they’re unaware of the formatting differences. If you’ve ever seen a really long title that abruptly cuts off mid-sentence, there’s a good chance that was someone posting from a Mastodon account, unaware that it’s better to make a brief opening sentence as title, then an empty line followed by body text, to best fit the formatting here.
Similarly if you see someone replying to a comment starting with an @ mention to the person they’re directly replying to, chances are it may be someone from Mastodon, as replies there include @ mentions by default. Also due to federation weirdness, I’m honestly not sure if they have to keep that mention or not for it to work properly, think I’ve seen it work without, but it’s honestly easier to make an account on a Lemmy instance to participate than deal with awkward federation issues that come up between it and Mastodon.
For a light, simplistic open source editor that’s easy to get into, Goxel has been my go-to. I’d liken it to a voxel sketchpad with how easy it is to load up and simply mess about with.
For a more robust open source editor that’s kinda rough around the edges, there’s VengiVoxEdit, which I’ve honestly only scratched the surface of personally.
For a similarly robust editor that’s less rough around the edges, the standard recommendation is MagicaVoxel. It’s a solid choice, but I’m not sure if the developer is continuing work on it or not, which makes a difference here as it’s not open source. It still works fine right now though, so if you’re on Windows/Mac, it’s a good option for a smooth, feature rich editor.
Mainly games built for replaying, so arcade puzzlers like Super Hexagon/Tetris Effect/Mixolumia/Equaline/etc, roguelikes such as FTL/BrogueCE/etc, or strangesims like Powder Toy or Vilmonic. Although even with those it’s more occasional, like when I’m uncertain of what I’m wanting to do.
That’s a fun mix, Gemini Rue was a pleasant surprise to see!
You might also enjoy Primordia given that.
obligatory but entirely sincere addition for those looking for palate cleansing games: Outer Wilds
and for those after a variety of others, in particularly no order, that may or may not come up as much:
But this is all from a flipside of a flipside, so each is as likely to appeal as repel, quick slide to catch clicks and clunks
I should finally get into that. I keep putting it off for silly reasons that will never be addressed by putting it off. Can’t get better at making models if I never make any, much less texturing a model if I never texture anything.
Also one of my favorite finds in a related area were voxel editors. Highly encourage anyone into voxel art from games like VoxeLibre or Minecraft to look into them. All the fun of building with blocks with a lot more flexibility.
No, since there is only the PowerPC bits on the disc, there is no way to play the game on a newer x86 cpu without downloading the x86 bits
Something worth adding here, if you happen to know, would be if the games still work after download & install while offline. Microsoft’s been rather inconsistent with this over the years (which is part of why Xbox One fell behind PS4 at launch).
There have been a few titles that I think reach that potential, but most of them are quite old now.
Don’t leave us hanging! Quality endures the ages, well, mostly.
maybe CDPR (hopefully the cp2077 release was just a fluke but we’ll see).
Cyberpunk 2077 was Witcher 1 repeat tbh, people forgot Witcher 1 was a mess at launch since they patched it up a bunch and some other stuff to try to make amends
Saw where you mentioned being into fighting games, action games, & shmups, so I wonder which games you find yourself bouncing off of more.
Along with reasons other have mentioned that are similar to my own (many games demanding a lot of time, better finding what games really click with me, etc.), I’ve also been put off by other details (hyper-monetization, big budget photorealistic & cinematic styles, etc.). Personally it’s less being into very few games, and more being into more specific kinds of game design and creative style, which are sometimes harder to find.
Like not being into drawn out progression systems immediately narrows one’s options pretty significantly, especially among many recent games.
This is more fitting for the aforementioned Perchance community (!perchance@lemmy.world) than here, so going to lock this. Also reads too much like an ad, instead of inviting discussion.
Yeah, it’s not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.
Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.
Exactly. The need/desire to write longer form like this may not come up as often with other more immediate means to communicate, but when it does, email’s there to serve its purpose.
“Behold, I’m a unicorn!”
Ah, the vim part was me trying a little too much to express a short e sound lazily.
Saw some chatter coming up again encouraging people to make their own websites which is fun. Somewhere in the process also found someone mentioning the Ooh Directory, which is such a great url.
Shared another of my finds the other day to !vocaloid@ani.social of the Yameii - Synesthesia music video. It’s definitely a niche within a niche, but if you like vocaloids, bright gaudy colors and surreal 3D animation, you might like it.