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stagen, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics
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Against the StormRogue lite city survival builder with gorgeous art, awesome game mechanics and a fantastic dev team whom have basically built the game in collaboration with the community that’s risen around the game.

MossyFeathers, do games w What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

Cruelty Squad.

slazer2au, do games w What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?

Mass Effect and Borderlands

TokyoMonsterTrucker, do piracy w should you pirate an image or an nft

Why would you pirate something with no intrinsic value? It’d be like stealing seawater. Piracy requires booty, NFTs have none.

lemming007,

Don’t insult seawater, it definitely has more value than NFT

max2078, do piracy w Torrenting Past NFL games from last week

Does anyone know a good source which highlights past games worth watching without spoiling the results? It’s easy to download the games but hard to figure out which one to watch…

iHUNTcriminals, do piracy w Torrebting security.

Sorry to kind of hijack… But does anyone have any leak tips for this set up?

Omv… Portainer with a stack of VPN (gluetun) + qBitTorrent.

qBitTorrent does not have the VPN set up in the software itself.


With my VPN it has separate servers for p2p but I don’t know what to use for them to set up the VPN in qBitTorrent. Does it make sense to still use the VPN option in qBitTorrent?

Should I set another docker up with gluetun that the original gluetun runs through?

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w Game recommendation, looking for easier western 3D ARPG

I feel like a cheater, but I tried my best to not cause any griefing. I’m also in my 40s and don’t have the time to git gud when I just wanna play the story.

Dark souls 2 & 3 have mods that make it easier. DS2, I had crazy defense and rolling. Poor invaders would backstab me 5 times and only take me to 50% health. Then 3 basic quick hits would kill them.

DS3, I was around level 200 thanks to a xp multiplier mod and was able to steamroll bosses. Invaders still destroyed me, but that’s fair. Frequently I let them and to my surprise, most invaders if you don’t attack, won’t attack back and will just goof off. I loved it.

I’m going to wait until Elden Ring is a bit more quieter before I play with mods. Again, not interested in griefing. Just want to adventure on my own terms.

FooBarrington,

You shouldn’t play online with those mods. Sucks for other players to be up against someone they literally can’t beat because of unfair advantages.

Katana314,

The game also hides a bunch of secrets that are only meant to be found by messages from online players.

The game is both designed to be played online, and also causes serious issues in its online mode.

FooBarrington,

That’s kind of the price you have to pay if you use mods. You can either not use mods and experience the full game (if you can beat it), or you can use mods, but shouldn’t go online so you don’t kill other peoples fun.

AceFuzzLord, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

I don’t know how many other games have done this (or if anyone actually cares), but Me And My Shadow. It’s a 2D puzzle platformer where you have to record your movements to move the shadow version of you in order to reach the end of each level.

It’s a discontinued open source game that can be found on SourceForge and has a couple different level packs available for when you complete the ones already included.

MasterBuilder, do piracy w Looking for obscure, older television

Tubi has one. I think it is called The Final Days of Planet Earth, and is about an insect-like alien accidentally brought here from a moon landing.

Hawk, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

I really love Terra Nil.

You basically have to restore a wasteland back to lush, green nature.

Much like a city builder, this is achieved by putting down buildings. The twist is that at the end, you can’t leave a trace so you need to demolish everything again.

It’s not a long game, but I thought it was very satisfying. A relaxing puzzle/city builder with soothing music.

Carighan, do games w Game recommendation, looking for easier western 3D ARPG
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Would branching out into spectacle brawlers work for you?

In that case, check out Bayonetta 3 on the Switch and Armored Core VI on PC/whatever!

For something closer in combat feel to Elden Ring, Atlas Fallen maybe? But I haven’t personally played it and reviews are mixed, so can’t really say how enjoyable that would be.

Psyduck_world,

You just reminded me that I haven’t finished Bayonetta 3. I am going to get on it asap.

donuts,
@donuts@kbin.social avatar

As someone who has been stuck on Balteus for the last 2 days, I'm not sure AC6 is a good recommendation. It also doesn't really feel or play like ER.

Crystal_Shards64,

Just a suggestion, but I’ve heard you might need to adjust your playstyle for certain missions.

aka_oscar, do gaming w State of gaming on immutable Linux distros?

All my games work the same as a non inmutable distro. Steam, Lutris, Heroic, Bottles, Retroarch, all those apps are on flathub, so ive never felt limited in that regard.

An annoyance i had with steam flatpak is when you configure multiple locations for installing games on the same drive. Steam will just show them all as “/var/cache/” no matter what youve actually set them to.

From what ive read, Steam flatpak is not an option for you. Bazzite is a variant of Silverblue but it has set up an arch container with the latest version of steam. They did this bc they considered it to use too many undesirable workarounds. Maybe that could work for you.

wmcduff, do gaming w What's the funniest game you've played?

I think it'd have to be Portal...mmm, the first one. I think learning about Glados the first time is a little better than the whole potato thing.

Vodulas,

Portal 2 has some jokes that did not age well too.

zuzu,

Whoa, do you remember any specific examples? I haven’t played since it came out

Vodulas,

There are a lot of fat jokes, and they aren’t punching up at all. Don’t remember specifics since it has been about a year since I last played.

SpaceCowboy,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

But wasn’t that the evil AI very explicitly trying to psychologically hurt the protagonist and being really lame about it? I mean it’s the evil AI doing it and I remember the point of it being that fat jokes are lame.

Vodulas,

I get that context, but see my other comment about that. beehaw.org/comment/1142644

Sorry don’t want to have to copy pasta on 2 threads covering the same topic. Probably should have not replied to both comments initially

amio,

This is a new take to me, anyway. What do you mean?

Vodulas,

There are a lot of fat jokes, and they aren’t punching up at all.

Reil,

I always sort of read those jokes as illustrative as GLaDOS being a bad person fielding weak material more than like, an earnest expression of the game writer’s values. Like, the game itself doesn’t present the remarks themselves as funny so much as GLaDOS being rude, snippy, and actively incorrect given that Chell is mega-fit.

bermuda, (edited )

I agree, especially considering Wheatley makes fat jokes the moment

spoilerhe takes over for GLaDOS.

LoamImprovement,

Yeah, that always came across as “I’m trying to neg you but I ran out of my best insults like an hour ago so I’m throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.” Same with the adopted joke.

Defenestrator,

I’ve always assumed it’s Gabe Newell getting revenge for all the fat jokes he’s endured.

Vodulas, (edited )

I get that context, and I think that was for sure the intent, but they did not stick the landing. We already knew GLaDOS is evil. Casual fatphobia was not necessary. Plus the fact that some people won’t get that context or choose to ignore it and just think it is funny, as evidenced further down this thread.

Edit: The person saying they would replay it for the fat jokes was removed, so my last sentence makes less sense, but that was the reason I said that

SpaceCowboy,
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There’s an extremely long list of creative works made to be satire that idiots don’t understand. The Colbert Report, Starship Troopers, hell there are people that think Homelander is the good guy in The Boys. I think it’s a little too restrictive if someone can’t make a point that certain jokes are lame out of fear of how a few idiots might misinterpret it (many times deliberately). There are people right now arguing that the Barbie movie is actually “anti-woke”.

Also consider how many people actually did get the message. They heard how lame the jokes sounded and realized how stupid fat jokes are. From what I recall, the game really makes an effort to deconstruct these jokes. There is no audience within the game laughing at the jokes, and the evil AI explicitly states that it’s making the jokes solely to to negatively affect the protagonists psychological well being to prevent her from achieving anything. And the jokes are directed at the player, so someone that might have made these jokes themselves hears someone else directing these jokes at them and can hear how lame they are. The evil AI comes across as lame, petty, and desperate. Someone who made fat jokes before playing that game might have had the realization “is that how I sound?”

I feel like the people that didn’t get the context likely made fat jokes before playing the game, and would be making fat jokes even if they never played the game. So I don’t think there was any negative impact. Someone that committed to being an idiot isn’t going change in either direction from any kind of media.

Vodulas,

Like I said, I understand the context. I don’t need more of it.

Jokes like this and the other examples require either a very deft hand or an extreme level of satire. The jokes did not achieve either of those for me. The harm it causes by folks misinterpreting or ignoring context is not worth the people who get it. I have friends that would 100% understand the context and would still be made uncomfortable by the delivery. That to me is the best indicator to how well it aged.

Also, posting a wall of text full of ableism is also not a great way to convince me otherwise

SpaceCowboy,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah I never except anyone on the internet to admit they’re wrong about anything. But randomly accusing someone of being ablest based solely on a disagreement over the interpretation of a piece of media is rather petty behavior (even by internet standards), don’t you think?

Vodulas,

I am saying you used a ton of ablist language in your post, that part had nothing to do with the disagreement. It put me off reading your post at all.

executivechimp,
@executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The cake is a lie.

Catastrophic235,
@Catastrophic235@midwest.social avatar

Nice! I’ll have to play it again one of these days to check them out lol.

Vodulas,

Wow, you still think fat jokes are funny in 2023. how embarrassing for you.

Catastrophic235,
@Catastrophic235@midwest.social avatar

“You do thing I no like, how embarrassing for you”

Lmao maybe if you keep saying it it’ll be true?

CrazyEddie041, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics
@CrazyEddie041@kbin.social avatar

Cultist Simulator is pretty unique... not necessarily in a good way. It's a storytelling/puzzle game with some great writing if you can power your way through the gameplay. The mechanics are deliberately very obtuse, with no tutorial, to emulate the fact that diving into the occult is confusing and dangerous. The end result is that the game is very unique and cool, but it's absolutely not for everyone. TL;DR on the basic mechanics: you have a handful of verb boxes, such as Talk or Research, as well as various cards that you can slot into them. Each card has a variety of tags on it. Depending on which cards with which tags you put into the various verb boxes, you get different results.

Suppoze,
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Cultist Simulator somehow made me feel the same fanaticism as I assume a cultist would feel. It can be very addicting, chasing the endgame, driven by curiosity and desire for power. Not for everyone though.

p03locke, do piracy w Am I obligated to be a pirate in Starfield if I got the game via piracy?
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes, because that’s built into the copy protection. You thought they cracked the game, but the game just limits you to the one role now.

gjghkk,

In the past, some publishers intentionally spread the fake game, where there were annoyances, or limits in the game, there was one where it bugged out or something when you came to the endboss, etc. The weird thing about this is that the p2p community just went with it, and there wasn’t a correct version much later on. Everybody just shared the faulty game.

Mr_Buscemi,
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Earthbound did that thing with the final boss. A pirated copy would have more enemies on the screen and it would also crash before the final boss

Game dev tycoon had a thing were the pirated version of the game would be harder as it was coded that pirates would steal the games you make. I thought that last one was absolutely genius lol. You can now toggle the pirate mode in the settings to experience it yourself.

gjghkk,

Yup, I was thinking of Earthbound when mentioning the Final boss.

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

Because shooting chickens out of your gun in crisis warhead was fun.

p03locke, (edited )
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Developers have been creatively messing around with pirates for decades now. Serious Sam had that invincible scorpion. Talos Principle had an elevator that didn’t actually go anywhere after playing the game for several hours.

Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back had phantom sector copy protection that the game would periodically check to make sure the reads were random. If the checks were always the same, after a while, it would kill off your party, and not give you the option to reload. (You could still reboot the computer and reload that way.) I remember playing this game as a kid, with a pirated copy, because we were poor, but had good pirate connections. I figured out how to fool the system by taking out the disk when it was trying to read it, and only putting the disk back in when it really needed to load, like when I’m going up or down stairs. According to the pirates that finally cracked the protection, it was the hardest challenge they ever had.

Alternate Reality: The Dungeon had FBI agents that showed up as soon as you started playing your character.

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