FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid, 14 dni temu

I can’t even imagine telling my child self playing Joust in the arcade about people like you…

FlyingSquid, 13 dni temu

What really pissed me off when I switched to Linux was I suddenly went from OS wars to sub-OS wars.

What? I’m an idiot for not switching to Linux? Ok, I’ve switched to Linux.

What? I’m an idiot for not using Arch? Motherfucker, all you told me was to switch to Linux and I’m already having trouble figuring it out.

FlyingSquid, 13 dni temu

A lot of people would rather just go to a store and buy a pie.

FlyingSquid, 13 dni temu

I’m 47. You do know boomers would be adults by the time those sort of games were out, right?

FlyingSquid, 15 dni temu

I remember when a friend of mine got that and showed it to me and I thought it sucked because it made the games too easy, but never in my life would I have thought anyone was infringing copyright by using it.

FlyingSquid, 20 dni temu

You needed something to convince gamers it was worth buying. Note the awesome art doesn’t actually give any sort of realistic idea of what the product was like.

FlyingSquid, 19 dni temu

Basically, yes.

FlyingSquid, 20 dni temu

Really, crypto’s existence legitimized grifting.

FlyingSquid, 20 dni temu

At no point did a real US dollar enter this process.

Yes, but something something fiat currency.

FlyingSquid, 20 dni temu

Oh wow. That takes me back. I remember doing it, but I also remember it being way too slow and annoying to do it for more than maybe 15 minutes.

FlyingSquid, miesiąc temu

Adults were fans of Minecraft when it came out since there was really no other sandbox game like it at the time. There were precious few sandbox games at the time period.

FlyingSquid, miesiąc temu

Sorry, we were in agreement. I’m saying there was always an adult market so you’re right.

FlyingSquid, miesiąc temu

This is amusing to me because I’m super old school and was using local dialup BBSes in high school. We all used each others’ BBS handles when we got together for local meetups. I’m still friends with some of them and they still call me by that name even though I haven’t used it since the 90s. I’ve been called by my handle(s) for literal decades.

I went to a really lovely meetup recently of people I’ve been talking to on a small forum for years who I never met before. One of the hosts had the same first name as me. People just called me Squid. I was fine with it.

FlyingSquid, miesiąc temu

That’s pretty cool! I’ve wondered more than once what prompts trans people to choose the names they choose but I’ve never felt it was really a polite thing to ask. That is one possibility for choosing a name that makes a lot of sense to me, especially when you can be completely genderfluid in a game. You could be biologically XY but have played games as a woman named Miranda for 20 years, so when you finally transition, you call yourself Miranda. I like that.

FlyingSquid, miesiąc temu

I can see that. You’re trying out new ways to express yourself and you’ll feel like you got it wrong sometimes, so you revise it. That could be your voice or the way your walk or the style you wear or your name. You’re living as your true gender for the first time in your life, so there’s bound to be plenty of trial and error.

FlyingSquid, 2 miesiące temu

I’m sure there were other uses.

Choking your little brother when he beats you at Pokemon?

(I have no idea if that’s how it worked, I didn’t have Pokemon for my Gameboy.)

FlyingSquid, 2 miesiące temu

The only kind I support.

FlyingSquid, 2 miesiące temu

Right in front of the Dunkin, huh? It would be terrible if people kept accidentally spilling their coffee, hot chocolate and the like on it considering you have to immediately scrape bird shit and dead bugs off of it when you get to where you’re going to avoid corrosion. (Really.)

FlyingSquid, 3 miesiące temu

Word Cookies. I absolutely love it. You can pay for things, but it is absolutely not necessary and is basically only if you feel the need to use boosts that allow you to cheat your way past the level. I think it costs $2 to go ad-free.

It does give you regular popups asking if you want to buy coins, which I admit is annoying, but they are unnecessary to enjoy the game. There’s also endless opportunities to get coins and other boosts for free. I have something like 80,000 coins and dozens of boosts and other than the $2 to go ad-free, I’ve never given them any money.

You do have to have certain word skills to enjoy it as much as I do. If you’re the sort who can crush it at Boggle, it’s the game for you.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6d8cdf52-9118-4bd7-b477-e7bc3ea2beda.png

FlyingSquid, 3 miesiące temu

I got free of this addiction years ago.

I hate you.

FlyingSquid, 5 miesięcy temu

I don’t doubt what you’re saying, but you have to admit that this is terrible PR for them.

FlyingSquid, 5 miesięcy temu

I love that Fallout is now thought of as a first-person game, but it started as a turn-based isometric team RPG in 1997 which was, itself, a near-remake of a 1988 game, which I spent hours playing as a kid.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_(video_game)

And then a few years ago, Wasteland was also revived in the style of the first two Fallout games.

Yes, I know I’m old.

FlyingSquid, 5 miesięcy temu

I was well into adulthood when that came out. If you want to make me feel old, remind me that the Atari 5200 came out 42 years ago. And almost no one bought it. And the people who did regretted it. And now it’s only old people like me who remember it even existed.

FlyingSquid, 5 miesięcy temu

Dude, I remember installing the first Civilization on my Mac LC II in high school.

FlyingSquid, 5 miesięcy temu

They’re amazing. I highly recommend it if you like games in that style. The first two Baldur’s Gates were also like that (I haven’t played the latest).

FlyingSquid, 5 miesięcy temu

They are turn-based, not real time with pause. I prefer the former too.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

There’s a reason it was in Goodwill.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

I’m not a huge gamer anymore, at least not of newer games… aren’t microtransactions a bigger problem in multiplayer games because it gives player willing to spend money an unfair advantage over skilled players?

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

Also true of timed arcade games like Gauntlet. Unless you were very good, you’d have to keep putting quarters in when the time ran out.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

Sure, not necessarily… but in practice? Again, this is not something I have personal experience, but based on what I’ve read about it, it generally is about giving someone an advantage, isn’t it?

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

God I hope so. This is ludicrous. People are still developing NES games ffs! A friend of mine did.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

Why should they be able to do this?

Because we own nothing now.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

Not trying to negate what you said, but I honestly don’t remember people saying that. I remember people complaining about Oculus being bought.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s not even a beta tester thing. They just bought it from Oculus, made a few minor changes (most notably requiring you to have a Facebook account to use it) and that was it. This is a “force consumers to upgrade” thing. And it should be illegal.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

My daughter does too. She stopped touching it about two years minus one day after we got it for her for Christmas. And she really wanted it for Christmas too.

Stupid kids.

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

Wait, so they just licensed Will Smith’s likeness?

They couldn’t have just done a character that looks sort of like Will Smith?

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

No likely about it.

thedailybeast.com/inside-will-and-jada-pinkett-sm…

FlyingSquid, 6 miesięcy temu

If you’re one of the most charismatic men in the world, what you actually believe is much less important to people.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

It sort of seems like another shot across the bow at abandonware archiving.

I just picked a title at random- archive.org/…/DungeonKeeperGoldEditionUSAEnFrEsNl…

As long as companies think they can keep making money from old games, they will keep trying.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

Sure, but the abandonware version should still be archived and playable and the goal here is to make that impossible.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

There’s a reason why Nintendo keeps suing companies making emulators out of existence.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

That’s awesome! I’d love to go to a store like that!

I thought the Doctor Who game was a little disappointing overall, but as a Doctor Who fan, it was still fun to play.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

Very cool! I’m looking at the pictures now. It reminds me of part of the City Museum in St. Louis.

I’m sorry I didn’t see it when I visited SF some years ago.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

If anyone is old enough to remember Infocom games, they came with “feelies,” just random fun stuff related to the game they decided to include. It occasionally was needed to solve a game puzzle, but usually not.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/efb22da1-bbcc-4003-8e4d-c3dc9168624d.png

I can still smell that box. They had a certain smell back then.

FlyingSquid, 7 miesięcy temu

Leather Goddesses of Phobos came with a scratch-n-sniff card. If I recall correctly, you can’t win the game without it.