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Flamekebab, do games w Dustland Delivery plays like a funny, tough, post-apocalyptic Oregon Trail
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

I've bought a copy but the interface isn't very Steam Deck friendly so I've barely played it.

ThePantser, do games w Switch 2 preorders [in the US] delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty
Yawweee877h444, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

Sigh. Why can’t it be 109%

This place sucks.

psud,

It’s not big enough to fix anything. If it hits, it won’t hit America or Europe

It’s in the big nuke scale of energy, enough to do a lot of damage to a small area. Were it to hit a city, the city would need a lot of rebuilding. Were it to hit, few people would be in danger as we will have years of warning. The only people in the impact area would be “storm chasers” travelling to see the impact

Floshie, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

should I mention “don’t look up” ?

expatriado, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

that was Trump chances in 2016…

Blackout, do games w The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales
@Blackout@fedia.io avatar

Well no one is saving for retirement anymore. Climate change will take care of that. Live it up.

blackris,
@blackris@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Hey hey, some of us here are hoping for the 2060s and 70s to still be nice enough!

TwilightVulpine, do games w 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5

There’s only a handful of games who really need the PS5, no surprise.

kelvie, do games w Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden

Can anyone recommend one? I honestly haven’t played one since slay the spire, and loved it. My wife didn’t enjoy the music after a few hundred hours so I stopped playing a few years ago.

Theharpyeagle, (edited )

Everyone and their mother is playing Balatro, and for good reason. Super fun deck builder based on a normal playing card deck and poker hands. Great music and visuals, too.

Also, check out Inscryption. Truth be told, it’s not really a true roguelike deckbuilder, rather it uses the genre as a storytelling medium. Still, really fun game with solid core gameplay and an engaging story. There’s also DLC that lets you play more of the deckbuilder part indefinitely.

MrPoopbutt,

To anyone reading this - if you try Inscription, go in blind.

jpeps,

I had a lot of fun with Aces & Adventures too, which similarly is based around poker hands but is very different to Balatro.

duffman,

I’m hoping more people reply to this than one person. The whole thread only lists slay the spire and balatro.

TwoBeeSan,

Monster train is phenomenal.

It combines tower defense elements and multi deck selections for crazy replayabiity.

It, and as someone else said, balatro, are my 2 favorites since slay the spire.

cafuneandchill,

I’ve played Wildfrost, but I don’t feel confident in recommending it, because it’s quite hard and very RNG-based. But, maybe that’s your thing. Honestly, I played it just for the art style lol

Drummyralf,

Space Food Truck is like FTL meets deckbuilding.

Fun stuff, can be played coop too.

9point6,

Well that sounds like crack to me

Creat,

You know you can turn off the music, right? Just play your own or none at all.

olutukko,

Or use headphoned

Sylvartas,

The music in slay the spire is perfectly fine but it gets repetitive after a while. But it’s also a great game to play while listening to podcasts so it’s a non issue

Ashtear,

I had a lot of fun with Cobalt Core. Much more lighthearted; great soundtrack too.

stalfoss,

Dreamquest was the original roguelike deck builder, and it had a lot of depth that you wouldn’t expect from its shitty art, I think it’s still worth playing. One of those games that seems extremely difficult until you learn the strategy, it is amazingly well balanced, small mistakes are the difference between win and loss

SpellRogue was fun for a bit but not sure it has staying power the way StS does.

toxicbubble, (edited )

ring of pain, monster train, inscryption

0ptimal,

Haven’t seen Vault of the Void mentioned here - I’d rate it higher than most of the others.

lolcatnip, do astronomy w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

Y’all, the article is obviously written for people in the path of totality. You’re not being clever complaining about the cost and hassle of traveling.

spoopy, do astronomy w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life
@spoopy@lemmy.world avatar

Niagra falls City has preemptively declared a state of emergency because of how much of a shit show this eclipse is going to be

Graphy, (edited )

My wife works for the NPS and her old coworker invited us to help out with their eclipse event in Ohio. Apparently they’re already prepping to close all the parking lots and are real worried they won’t have enough rangers.

rhythmisaprancer, do gaming w Twin Galaxies, Billy Mitchell settle Donkey Kong score case before trial
@rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social avatar

I can't believe this King of Kong dude is still around, holy cow what a butt.

Crotaro, (edited ) do gaming w Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam

Reading the entire article, it seems that they still want to tread very carefully with this whole AI ordeal. Valve isn’t just opening the floodgates, as the title would make it seem.

While yes, a healthy dose of skepticism is good to have, I think if I had to trust someone to navigate AI in gaming in the gamers’ favour, I would pick Valve. Or maybe I’m overestimating Gabe’s involvement in the happenings of the legal department’s section that is currently responsible for AI stuff.

EDIT: Shame on me, @princessnorah , I think I had already seen the PMG video about the Steam Marketplace and its lootboxes and the gambling sites. But because I neither play these titles nor participate in the marketplace, I forgot that these serious issues exist. And the documentary concerning actually working at Valve rocked my stance back and forth. On one hand, I love the concept, but there are big problems here as well.

Once more, a genuine thank you for pointing me at these two video documentaries, even if I had already seen one of them.

princessnorah,

I seriously don’t understand how people can still hold Valve up as this paragon of virtue, defender of gamers everywhere.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

Crotaro,

Oh, People Make Games have not one but two vids on Valve? I never noticed that, thanks. I’ll watch them after work and possibly (because PMG really are good at the whole journalising stuff) change my stance on it.

Kichae,

Well, you know, holders of virtual monopolies are well known for being benficient paragons of prosocial goodness. At least, whenever their owners are known by their screen names and they produced a beloved product once, a quarter century ago.

Crotaro,

That last half-sentence really isn’t in good faith. Just in the past couple years Valve made three “beloved products” that come to my mind immediately. Valve Index (the VR set), SteamDeck (the handheld PC) and the Steam Controller (although that one could be a bit older than “just in the past couple years”).

stom, (edited ) do gaming w Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core looks like a tougher, action-minded co-op dig

Meanwhile the original game is stuck with rockpox for 8 more months.

I do not enjoy the rockpox.

Zaniad,

GSG_Jacob on Reddit stated “I’m definitely on Team End Season 4, myself. We’re still discussing how to approach this internally.” This statement was in response to a redditor expressing hope season 4 could be ended early or that rock pox could be confined to a single area.

Seems like the rock pox issue should be solved earlier than 8 more months.

Jaysyn, do gaming w Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that?
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

Yes, but if you don't upgrade, you can keep using the old license. Unity tried to delete this from the Internet.

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

So if you've published a game, just keep on keeping on. You can sell that game, maintain an older copy of Unity to update it for bugs, even develop new content for that game with the older version of Unity.

I figured this must have been in here. No professional organization would allow a TOS to pass into publishing that allowed a company to unilaterally change fees.

spriteblood,

This is still up on their FAQ:

Yes, the fee applies to eligible games currently in market that continue to distribute the runtime. We look at a game's lifetime installs to determine eligibility for the runtime fee. Then we bill the runtime fee based on all new installs that occur after January 1, 2024.

ripcord,
@ripcord@kbin.social avatar

I love that their "proprietary" method of determining installs is to just look at the # of installs reported publicly by Google and Apple app stores.

Hegar,

So if you've published a game, just keep on keeping on. You can sell that game, maintain an older copy of Unity to update it for bugs, even develop new content for that game with the older version of Unity.

According to the article, probably no.

Many devs may have updated unity and used it for minor updates, but also the clause in question probably doesn't protect anyone anyway. There's a broader ToS that supercedes it with much more restrictive language.

Hegar, (edited )

According to the article, it's not that simple. This is from the ToS for the Unity Editor, which is subservient to a broader Unity ToS that has much stricter legal language about changing anything without warning and the customer being able to go fuck themselves.

So, yes, technically this bullshit may be completely legal. Devs who were sold Unity on "no royalties" may be forced to pay royalties. Which is definitely healthy for our society and not obviously a problem.

Truscape, do games w Google’s latest swing at Chromebook gaming is a free year of GeForce Now

Steam on Chromebooks died for this?

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