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Lowbird, do gaming w What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?

I just want a high quality horse game. Is that so much to ask? :( Apparently so.

And I mean, specifically focused on the horses, not an adventure game with unusually well done “horses as cars” like RDR2 or Zelda BOTW. A “girly” horse game, like one where you take care of and breed horses and participate in horse jumping or whatever, or one where you ride a horse around a forest and it has an actual personality and acts like an animal and not just a mode of transportation (Shadow of the Colossus is the one game I can remember feeling anywhere close to this, and even that was very minimal).

It’s maddening because the minute someone makes one it’ll sell like hotcakes - there are so many horse enthusiasts dismayed by the lack of quality horse games just waiting in the wings - aaaaand yet here we are. Sigh.

hzkvskd, (edited )

I’m not sure if you’re bringing this up because of the new Sims 4 expansion, but I thought Sims 3 Pets did a pretty good job with the horses and comes close to what you’re describing, but I’m guessing you want something more in line with a traditional RPG.

Evergreen5970,

Have you seen www.themanequest.com? It’s aimed at people like you trying to find a high-quality horse game. Tons of reviews of horse games on that site. I’m not even into horses but the website captivated me anyways.

morsebipbip, do gaming w Where are all the good stealth games?

Mandatory Dishonored 1 and 2 recommendation, but Prey is also very good

cyberpunk007, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Rdr2. I’m not making a damn account just to play the game offline.

Abundance114,

I would create ten different accounts to play a game that’s the quality of rdr2.

Godort, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Outer Wilds.

I very much want to play this game. It’s everything I want from a detective puzzle game, but actually playing it gives me motion sickness.

bluegreenpurplepink,

Same here. I get nauseous playing most first person games so I miss out on a lot. The only thing that sometimes helps is if the game lets you slow down the camera movement.

Famko,

I’ve heard supposedly that sitting back further away from the monitor helps with motion sickness, so if you have some sort of TV screen that you could hook up the game to, that might work?

mybuttnolie,

same here. i can play it 30 mins max and then i get very nauseated. and you can’t really get anything done in that time.

Katana314,

My issue was, I did not feel the expected experience of “Each loop, you learn something new.” It was more like, every 7 loops, I might get into the thing I was repeatedly trying to enter; and then it might just be a bunch of random ancient messages that don’t teach me anything. On top of that, I really hated the ship controls, especially when they veer AWAY from the autopilot path to pull me directly into the sun. If the game had been remade without any physics system, and simple direct puzzle mechanics, I might’ve enjoyed it more.

SkaveRat, do games w Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

TIL it was removed from steam. I play it on my deck all the time

NannerBanner,

Yeah, it’s no longer for sale. If you bought it before it was delisted, you can still download/play it through steam. What is fucking atrocious is that I had to go and make an account with epic to play. Well, they can spam and sell my ‘nannerbanner’sfakeemailforepiccunts@proton.me’ all they want. Fucking cunts. .

mic_check_one_two,

Yeah, I bought my own domain specifically so I could set up a catch-all email service. Everything sent to my domain hits the same inbox, but I can easily see who has sold my info. If I start getting spam addressed to “walmart@example.com” then I know Walmart sold my info. And I can easily set a rule to automatically mark anything addressed to that burned account as spam.

Lots of websites quickly caught onto the “just add a + after your regular email” trick, and set up an internal rule to remove any of the + tags. So that old trick is largely useless.

porcoesphino, do astronomy w Io in True Color
@porcoesphino@mander.xyz avatar

This seems to be the source:

…nasa.gov/…/global-image-of-io-true-color/

baguette,
@baguette@piefed.social avatar

Thanks! My opinion is that images from NASA, ESA etc should always link to the source. They always include interesting information about what is in the image. It is also nice if I don’t need to search the database for ages.

porcoesphino,
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Yeah… I kind of wish it was a request of the channel. I’ve found a few of the sources now and it’s mostly on this channel people seem to post other people’s images with no references

baguette,
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I guess OP found this in yesterday’s ‘Astronomy Picture of the Day’, which includes the link you sent. Would’ve cost a second to include it in the post.

porcoesphino,
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I wonder what we can do to help motivate including links to sources

I messaged the moderator asking if we could update the channel description but haven’t heard back

MetalSlugX, do astronomy w Io in True Color

Not true color. This is an “enhanced” photo.

Mac,

Indeed.

This color mosaic uses the near-infrared, green and violet filters (slightly more than the visible range) of the spacecraft’s camera and approximates what the human eye would see.

bear,

It world also appear much darker.

porcoesphino,
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I didn’t think about that. It almost looks metallic, or like the shading you see with 3d modelling software

sukhmel,

The source claims that enhanced is this one: …nasa.gov/…/global-image-of-io-false-color/

BootLoop, do games w What are your favorite RPG maker games?

I wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan of that era/style of RPGs but To The Moon is an absolutely fantastic game.

y0kai, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game
@y0kai@anarchist.nexus avatar

I haven’t had an issue with this at all. I’d say over 50% of the time, if I communicate with other players that I don’t intend to kill them, we end up working together.

artyom,

50% is way too low

oce, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles
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I didn’t know Xbox was so low compared to Playstation, no wonder there’s rumor Microsoft will drop console making.

RymrgandsDaughter, do gaming w Commentary on taking feedback as a game designer, from someone who worked on the original DOOM.

bruh “your mom sucks demon cocks”

of course he was mad lmao

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I mean, anything beginning with “your mother” can just be dismissed as lazy.

qarbone,

I mean, it’s a reference to The Exorcist, so…

RickyRigatoni,
@RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com avatar

Your mother can just be dismissed as lazy.

RobertoOberto,

Demons aren’t known for their creativity.

captain_aggravated,
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FishFace, do gaming w Commentary on taking feedback as a game designer, from someone who worked on the original DOOM.

This can be overused though. There are dumb mechanics and choices in Fromsoft games that the megafans bend over backwards to defend, and say you’re just “not into the genre” if you criticise them… yet millions of people play and enjoy the games but dislike those aspects.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I see a lot of people bitch about invasions, but personally I think surprise boss fight is the best mechanic.

Stabbitha,

There’s literally no reason to bitch about invasions, just play offline.

scutiger,

But then you lose things like the messages on the ground (good and bad) and jolly cooperation as well.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Wo Long straight up just lets you turn player invasions off. I would not mind it being an option, personally. I wouldn’t turn it off most of the time, myself, but I am always for more options than less.

I, personally, want it to work like DS2 but without Soul Memory. No level or weapon upgrade limits. You could be fresh out of the tutorial and be invaded by some level 347 dude with the strongest weapons and beefiest armor. It would be awesome.

leverage,

Valid reason is you want the online features because messages from other players is content. Counterpoint is, pvp is also content. Counterpoint is, people can want one and not the other, and it’s not that complicated to just give people a toggle. Elden Ring is not worse because of its improvement over the DS invasion system.

SparroHawc,

I like all the online features that aren’t invasions.

Invasions, however, are simply punishing me for reviving. I don’t seek out PvP, which means I don’t have all the techniques they use for cheap crits, I don’t have a PvP focused loadout (I tend to go for slow weapons and I’m usually not all that optimized), etc., etc., so when I get invaded it’s mostly ‘Welp, this run is a loss. Better die somewhere I can get back to.’ I know I’m going to get one-shotted with some OP weapon from someone who fishes out a lagstab, and it’s been that way since Demon’s Souls.

IronBird,

…just use the item that nullifies it completely?

invasions havent been proper invasions since DS2

Katana314,

And, we can see a huge set of third party fromsoft games that are generally doing well, even after removing the bad parts. I wonder what that says.

FishFace,

Heh, I’ve never played one, only the originals and bitched about them. Maybe I should check out the other studios’ offerings, but I dunno which.

Katana314,

Tunic is hard, and uses the Estus system, but it doesn’t take much on death.

Another Crab’s Treasure has an accessibility menu that lets you choose to return currency, make Kril invincible, or even give him a gun.

Stellar Blade has an easy mode you can choose, and no death penalties or retrieval. Although, even then, it can be a tough game.

EldritchFeminity,

Don’t forget the Nioh series, which adds Diablo/Borderlands style loot and skill trees that unlock weapon skills dependent on weapon type rather than the weapon arts specific to each weapon like in Elden Ring. It also has a cool take on the bloodstain mechanic where instead of seeing how a player died, you can see their gear and summon a copy of them to fight with a chance of them dropping some of their gear.

ProdigalFrog, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

I assembled a rather large list of free Linux games a few years ago, and most of them are low-spec friendly. Hopefully you find something interesting from it :)

lemmy.world/post/14336843

YurkshireLad, do gaming w For me, it was Microsoft Ants

For me it was a golf game but it was probably ASCII only, played on a green monitor, sometime in the late 70s. I loved that game. Either that or my memory is playing tricks with me.

AmbitiousProcess,

Is it Focal Golf?

Would look something like this, but… green, of course.

image

image

You could also check out this post on Atari Archive, this video by them too, and this collection of software you could search through using Ctrl + F and then “Golf”. There’s a lot of possible matches there.

There doesn’t really seem to be a lot of actual playable options or even recordings of a lot of them, though.

YurkshireLad,

Awesome thanks. I don’t think it’s Focal. It was a computer my friend’s dad brought home from work and I don’t think it was on tape.

Catoblepas,

There’s a non-zero chance it was a game someone he worked with just made. My dad used to work with a guy that would program playable text based games during his down time (this was in the 90s), he ultimately went on to work at an actual game company from what I remember.

kinkles, do gaming w He does it so fast
@kinkles@sh.itjust.works avatar

Cut vs uncut left hand

Agent641,

This makes me uncomfy

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