Elevator7009

Elevator7009, 6 dni temu

I never played Roblox and tend to be fairly out of the loop, and even I have heard about Roblox in connection with child exploitation. Hope those kids eventually get justice and their predators prevented from harming them.

Elevator7009, 7 dni temu

Clicked on this thread purely to see if someone would bring up Minetest/Luanti. Glad to hear it seems to be going well.

Elevator7009, 7 dni temu

Curious what the point of modern Minecraft is, and what part is appealing to modern people. I pop on sometimes purely because friends are playing, and it can be fun, and somehow I don’t think this is what you mean. Well, people do play for fun, but you are probably thinking of a more specific thing that makes it fun.

Elevator7009, 7 dni temu

Also clicked this post to see if someone would bring up Vintage Story. (Other reason was to see if someone brought up Luanti/Minetest.)

Elevator7009, 6 dni temu

Is this a game where I could reasonably discover how to progress by myself, as an average adult human with no special knowledge of history or technological progression? Or will I need to resort to a wiki? I’m cool with either but curious

Elevator7009, 11 dni temu

I know Lemmy’s objection to most of these and I honestly dislike them too (oh no, brainwashed drone alert! Honestly, I consider myself quite lucky I hit a group where I actually do match the hivemind instead of being different yet again. Except I think Lemmy has a much higher tolerance for political posts, and for personal insults towards people who don’t share the hivemind than I do, but hey, you’ll probably never hit 100% consensus with any big group), except: I wasn’t aware that Lemmy had something against a can of beans. Genuinely, could someone please explain? Is this a reference to something, or is it genuine dislike towards canned beans? What’s wrong with canned beans?

Elevator7009, 11 dni temu (edited 11 dni temu)

Luckily at the moment they have a lot more upvotes than downvotes. Probably because they are providing information and aside from the “you are stupid for breaking (a likely-predictable) TOS and expecting nothing to happen” judgment, it’s pretty neutral on passing judgment on the bigger argument at hand: whether this policy should be here in the first place.

Elevator7009, 10 dni temu

Oh yeah, I do report every time now, but I still see way too many.

Am aware downvotes are not insults and I don’t report downvotes, but also aware a lot of people use them as a plain disagree button.

Elevator7009, 10 dni temu

Thanks for the explanation!

I do not know the norms of shitpost communities, but as an outsider, I think it fits in perfectly.

Elevator7009, 9 dni temu

would also be appropriate for !automationgames

Elevator7009, 9 dni temu (edited 9 dni temu)

I really miss the days guides were text with images instead of YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. Blah blah typical Lemmy anticorporate views, but more importantly, I’d rather just read and have something I can CTRL+F instead of having to sit through a video. At least transcripts help with trying to skip to the part I need. And at least people who don’t handle reading so well have a format someone is guaranteed to have made a tutorial in. But as a reader I am saddened by watch a video being what everyone suggests now for tutorials. Especially because nowadays, sometimes there is only a video, no book or article.

Elevator7009, 13 dni temu

!hades would like

Elevator7009, 13 dni temu

link for lazy folks like myself www.moddb.com

Elevator7009, 15 dni temu

Content of the Reddit post follows:

See the original post here. reddit.com/…/nexus_mods_was_acquired_by_chosen_a_…

People on Restera did some digging: www.resetera.com/threads/…/post-141554013

Site of the company itself: wearechosen.io

Here is a monetization “cheat sheet” that the CEO posted on LinkedIn which is linked on Chosen’s main page if you scroll down: i.imgur.com/ztjS4K7.jpeg

In the CEO’s LinkedIn profile it says this:

Working closely with teams at NexusMods and beyond to build meaningful, sustainable experiences

If I had to guess the acquisition details are under some sort of NDA right now

Elevator7009, 15 dni temu

Thank you for editing with corrected information when wrong!

Elevator7009, 16 dni temu (edited 16 dni temu)

Online is a good place to share all the games you liked. It is where I talk about singleplayer experiences with others. In all honesty if they really are that niche you might not find people with similar experiences on Lemmy, just because we’re not a massive user base. Or you might!

You also might want to look into video game preservation.

Elevator7009, 15 dni temu (edited 15 dni temu)

Thanks again for your positive, takes-effort contributions to Lemmy! Especially with the nerve damage, I’d probably have just flat-out not posted at all if it were me. I do not know much about nerve damage but I hope things turn out well for you.

Elevator7009, 15 dni temu

All I can say is that for the bad things in my life, I haven’t come to terms with them at all. I still consider them shitty and bad, even if I have found silver linings. I am not one of those “I am so glad X disaster happened to me because of Y positive outcome it led to” types, I’d rather not have had X happen at all, though of course I say that as someone who has not had such a big silver lining come of my negatives in life. The mental pain fades with time. (Can’t speak to physical, thankfully, let us hope it stays that way, but that also means my advice might not be quite as applicable to you.) I do not and will not feel obligated to come to terms with these things or accept them (I accept them in the sense that they are events that happened in reality and I acknowledge reality as what it is, but not in the sense of being okay with it), it just happens to be that time means they take up less headspace and I do not dwell on them—a pretty similar end result to what I think most people who “come to terms” get. All this is to say: mourn, grieve, don’t feel obligated to act happy for others, and the “come to terms, get over it/see something positive” path will not always work for everyone and you can move on with life without taking that path.

Elevator7009, 18 dni temu

I have definitely bonded with people over video games. Playing them together, or playing them apart but doing so physically side by side, talking about them… most social groups I’ve been, even when they were not formed around gaming at all, went and made a Minecraft server for us to play together. I think it is telling that the fastest way to get me to open a game and start playing is if my other friends are playing. I am younger than your generation, though, so I’m definitely not helping your argument for retro games specifically.

Online play has helped a lot for when I am physically separated from friends. Just hop in a game and voice chat, and play together anyways.

Elevator7009, 19 dni temu (edited 19 dni temu)

I think people are very much taking this less as an “I’m curious, why do people find this fun? I want to understand” post, and more of a condescending “I think it’s not fun because I have taste and am presuming people who think it is fun do not until proven otherwise, now prove me otherwise” post. Some people, including me until I saw these comments, were seeing your post body that tells us why you don’t like the game less as sharing your own perspective and wanting someone to show you a bright side, and more as trying to denigrate people who see it as fun. I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think you can reread your post body and see how people might interpret a far less curious, far more judgmental tone from it.

To actually answer your question: I played Mario Kart Wii mostly as kid against the computer and other people, and a few times as an adult against other people. I like to think I was good at the game, that skill mattered and it wasn’t random and unfair. I won almost every time both against the computer, and against other humans. So I just didn’t perceive the game as “mostly random and unfair.” (Although now that I think of it, when I had the option I’d usually switch all items to Strategic against the computer, eliminating a lot of the catch-up items, so perhaps I did perceive it initially and just removed it from my experience to the point I don’t remember it? Although when I played against other humans it was usually on their console at their place with their settings, which probably didn’t have it set to Strategic.) The catch-up mechanics could sink me if I made a mistake, but if I drove well the whole course I almost always came out in front. Perhaps you’re thinking of later editions that I never played and have no opinion of, or the computer plays badly and the people I played against were bad at the game?

Elevator7009, 19 dni temu

Stephen Merchant.

Correction not to be an asshole, but because looking up Stephen Marchant brings up a different human

Elevator7009, 19 dni temu

Stupid person checking in. At least, compared to all the tech whizzes on Lemmy. What counts as hacked? I recognize ROPs are not the same as full system control.

Elevator7009, 20 dni temu

On the plus side, the virtue signalers saved $ and can spend it on something that’ll bring them more joy and is hopefully more aligned with their views. And gives them practice and a mindset of “I’m the kind of person willing to boycott” for any other boycotts that might have a real effect someday.

…I have thought about it and it is interesting that “virtue signal” is such a dirty word now. When I say “please” and “thank you” I’m essentially just virtue signaling that I’m willing to play nice, but nobody calls me the bad word for that. Although I understand that the current use of “virtue signal” is more about people you find to be sanctimonious and obnoxious online who you personally don’t think actually bother with real activism, just online keyboard warrior-ing, and not about any type of “hi, I am not horrible to interact with” social signaling ever.

Elevator7009, 19 dni temu (edited 19 dni temu)

Most charitable interpretation: social pressure to get others to not buy, thereby hurting Nintendo just that bit more. I can say I was planning on buying a Switch at one point, but all these comments and news posts about anticompetitive practices have turned me away and slotted me in the “not buying” category.

Somewhat charitable interpretation: maybe venting outrage? Frustration at being the little guy in this situation who can’t do much? If you hate homelessness you can go volunteer at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter or donate money to either two, but if you hate these rising prices not much I’m aware of that you can do besides raging online and hoping you turn others away from buying. Although to be fair, you just proposed some things. Promoting other games instead could also help.

I don’t care too much about virtue signaling. What bothers me is people getting nasty and personal, and unfortunately that often happens in Company Does Bad Thing comment sections, so I’ve learned not to click on them. I should probably change that to big company news at all. I say this all because I want to say thanks for kind of disagreeing with me while also not being awful to me in this discussion. But I get how virtue signaling can annoy others.

Elevator7009, 20 dni temu

I helped a friend with exactly one puzzle, and thought the artstyle was cool. Am browsing this thread because I’ve heard about the hype and want to see if I ought to check it out myself.

Elevator7009, 20 dni temu

Hey! Not sure if you’re on an app or browser. I’m currently on the Lemmy browser. Doing

<span style="color:#323232;">::: spoiler An example spoiler
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Something happens at the end of the game!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">:::
</span>

works for me to make

An example spoilerSomething happens at the end of the game!

I’m curious to see if copy/pasting that on your end will look correct on my end, even if it looks wrong for you.

Elevator7009, 23 dni temu

Glad I caught this post, turn-based combat makes me happy

Elevator7009, 23 dni temu

I have definitely not played 4,000 games. I tend to stick on a few games till I beat them and then I move on, sometimes returning to replay. I don’t have an astounding memory, but if a game is mentioned I’ll remember if I played it or not and that is good enough for me. If I forget a good experience, well, that’s another opportunity to have it for the “first time”, a la that old tumblr post about wanting to be able to selectively erase your memory so you could re-experience your favorite book for the first time.

Elevator7009, 23 dni temu (edited 23 dni temu)

It compares in that it’s an AI chatbot actually

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201658, props to @dontbelievethis for posting this link

Elevator7009, 23 dni temu

+1 for Skynet Simulator. Uplink was a ton of fun. Have not tried more than 2 minutes of Bitburner.

Elevator7009, 25 dni temu

Hey, you posted this twice. Pretty easy to do, if your initial post does not go through and you hit Reply again…

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

ncase! Site is full of fun and educational interactables, highly recommend. Though I did not know about this one, so thanks for the post

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

If we’re adding gaming communities to the sidebar, my list here of gaming genre-specific communities could be helpful.

Can testify to activity of !automationgames and !otomegames as their mod, to !incremental_games as someone with an account there (even if you do not see it from this side, federation issues…), and to !visualnovels, !shmups, !cozygames, and !lifesimulation someone subbed to them. The others might also have activity, including ones I listed as inactive at the time of that post. I sometimes post to the others on the list I am not subbed to if I come across a game in their genre, but I don’t remember off the top of my head.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

If we’re doing individual games, there are so many but off the top of my head !stardewvalley, !pokemon, !workersandresources, !cities_skylines, !baldurs_gate_3, and I guess !touhou even though that is mostly just reposts of other peoples’ art of the characters and nothing else because in the end, it is a video game series.

I realize hitting all the game-related communities might expand the sidebar too much. Spoilers are also useful for condensing lots of content to one dropdown. If that is still too much, you could make a whole post that lists video game communities and link to it on the sidebar. I know I collected a big mega list way back when, not the genre one I linked below, but one full of basically everything I could find video-game related… that is probably full of dead communities now because I think I made this list around 2 years ago when Kbin was still a thing with my now-dead account. So everything might fit on one separate post for now. But I definitely think having a sort of directory for video game communities might be useful and helpful.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

The screenshots frustrated me too, because I’ve seen that done before where it’s a daily screenshot and nothing else, feels low-effort and annoying and somehow spammy even if it’s still on topic. Although my approach was to just scroll on, especially since it was just another spam post and not outrage-inducing. If it got truly bothersome I could always click the user and block.

Then I actually clicked one and saw the thoughts. They belong here. Wish there was a simple way for the poster to communicate to people like me, who got tired of seeing low-effort “screenshot a day” stuff and will make assumptions, that their posts are more than those and have actual words and effort with them.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

Thanks for adding community links!

At least for me, they shove me over to lemmy.world. I suspect you may have clicked the autofill suggestion, which includes the instance in the link and thus forces all users who click onto your instance. If you don’t do that and just write !communityname@instancename, it will let people click the link and go to the community on their instance, so they can interact instead of just browsing. I see you’re from Emmy.world.

!videogamesuggestions should let you see from lemmy.world and interact and comment and vote and the like. !videogamesuggestions (I clicked the autofill this time, it produced [!videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip](https://lemmy.zip/c/videogamesuggestions)) will just toss you onto my instance, lemmy.zip.

Elevator7009, 29 dni temu

That’s interesting! What are you on? I use Lemmy from the browser only.

Elevator7009, 23 dni temu

Thanks! also, !tycoon

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

Even if it doesn’t work, I’d at least want to let people try and get practice doing something about a problem (even if that’s just leaving a comment on social media to direct others to sign a petition that will eventually get lawmakers’ attention with enough signatures based on that country’s laws, because that still has more chance for good than yet another comment about X Thing Bad. Even though I agree with a lot of Lemmy’s X Thing Bad takes), makes them more likely to do something in the future. At least they can walk away saying “I tried”. Some people might see no guarantee of results for their time and think of it as time wasted, and that is their choice, but I don’t really see a reason to say “that’ll never work” without any offer of alternative. Most charitably, you are trying to save them time and disappointment, trying to prevent a “it didn’t work, activism does not work, I’ll never do anything like that again” attitude if it fails, but I think a lot of people are just seeing the comment as pointless negativity.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

I heard about this on Reddit, glad to see it has made its way to the Fediverse. I am curious what you are using to develop this, since I’ve also been interested in making my own personal walking app (not going to be competition, only ever intended to release to myself and maybe a few friends).

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

Curious to hear what the criteria for “masterpiece” is, otherwise I think it is just peoples’ subjective opinion of what makes a great game that they also think others might agree about being a great game. Genuinely curious, interested in discussion, not saying this to shut down any of the answers here.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

!crpg would like this too. Glad to see more Fediverse devs! Might check this game out.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

Post linked on my list of at !videogamesuggestions

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

I feel like the association of Portal with that era and that type of person, even though I think most of them probably became different people with age, even though I was practically one of them, makes the song a little harder to enjoy. I am aware of Ellen McLain’s (GLaDOS voice actress) opera creds and think that’s super cool though.

Sorry to the composer, it is not your fault. Similarly, I think maybe the same thing happened with Undertale. I think I played before the fandom got a bad reputation, so it and its songs are not quite tainted in my mind, in fact I’m a big fan of the game’s use of leitmotifs (am I using the word right?) and really enjoy its music, but if I came in after I saw the fandom, I might like the work less through no fault of the composer.

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

you might like !shmups if you are not already subbed to it

Elevator7009, miesiąc temu

!baldurs_gate_3

I also see posts about it often on !games, although admittedly I don’t pay attention to the usernames of the people who make those posts, or the usernames of the people commenting. But I’d doubt the comments are all just @Cethin talking to themselves ;)