TropicalDingdong

TropicalDingdong, 3 days ago

bipolar radio jet is stored in the balls

TropicalDingdong, 3 days ago

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TropicalDingdong, 24 days ago

100%

And all, ideally with a

nice fruitbowlhttps://files.catbox.moe/47ze7c.mp4

TropicalDingdong, 2 months ago

I want to gamble on Balatro.

TropicalDingdong, 2 months ago

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TropicalDingdong, 2 months ago

But poly is going to fix all my problems!! At least thats what the OF model told me.

TropicalDingdong, 2 months ago

Is the switch 2 even competitive?

It’s a hall pass to an ecosystem. It’s barely hardware.

TropicalDingdong, 2 months ago

I mean the hardware is at least decent. And they aren’t shitting out another one because they aren’t seeing the generation improvement in performance they wanted (its coming). If I buy a Steam Deck, I at least get capable hardware.

Nintendo last several generations of hardware are born anemic. They start behind where even close to the cutting edge is. Nintendo has long since gave up pushing any kind of interesting boundary with its hardware.

I can’t just download “SwitchOS” and throw it on some non-anemic hardware to get a decent experience.

As much as people want to project onto Steam the idea that its a walled garden, its not. It is a cultivated garden, but its not walled off. You can enter and leave freely.

TropicalDingdong, 2 months ago

What are you on about with the switch having higher specs?

hothardware.com/news/switch-2-vs-steam-deck

“Not pushing any interesting boundary” is somewhere between extremely opinionated and outright incorrect, quite frankly.

I mean its not. Nintendo, in ancient history, did actually push boundaries around hardware. Most console makers did. The switch did not represent that. The completely transformed their approach to hardware, to shift to weaker, cheaper hardware so that they don’t push themselves out of reach for their target market: children.

The steam deck was a real advance in that regard. The handhelds that have followed have also pushed further. That’s not at all what the Switch2 is. Its behind the starting point for things that were available a few years ago.

The hostility is that Nintendo products have developed from actually capable, latest capabilities things, to a ticket you need to have punched to play a brand of games. The franchised is being carried by fan-boy-ism, not anything that they are doing that are objectively good, or that advance the industry. Its annoying also, that they are constantly being white knighted.

It seems like you are mostly concerned about grinding your axe against steam.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

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TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

I wonder if getting further away from it (in time).

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

Was just now in another thread having nostalgia about this game: Reamlz.

It was distributed as freeware/ shareware back in the 90’s. You had to physically mail the producers cash if you wanted to get the expansions. I played through Balders Gate III recently and honestly, it doesn’t even come close to the replayability that Realmz had.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

Me and my friends, we would play together by each getting a character and then taking turns during combat moving each of our characters.

I might buy that bundle on just your recommendation. I never tried those but if its vaguely like Realmz, I want to try it, since I pretty much only play on my steam deck these days.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

Its the replayability. I mean, look how many people are still playing chess. Stick a human intelligence on the other end of the stick and you’ve pretty much got it figured out.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

So Realmz is truly open world in a way that BG3 only pretends to be. In BG3, they create the sensation of this huge diversity of endings and paths you can take, but its all pretty much a fugazi: the illusion of choice when actually only a small number of endings are possible. In BG3, the choices add “color” along the way, but they don’t fundamentally change anything about the game, or what its about (like what even is the point of the game?). I have a whole essay of criticism I’ve developed on it, because I truly did enjoy it, but it was so… it pointed in the direction of how much possibility it could have but didn’t execute on it. Its really only an impression of what it claims to be.

There is no ending in Realmz. Its just a big open world. And as you dig, you find more, and more and it just keeps going. But there is no particular path to take. You just can go anywhere and find adventure along the way. There are a huge number of random encounters, and the combat style is basically top down tile based D&D, which BG3 is also, more or less. Then you get into some corner of the map in Realmz, and you find some cave or castle or dungeon to explore… and it just keeps going. And going and going and going. And instead of it being one monolithic story like BG3, its a world in which many BG3’s happen. The spider tower. The kobald army invasion. The castle in the clouds. The necromancers tower.

Another thing is, predictability/ “jail breaking”. Modern games have this expectation that we “know” everything that is possible for an item or method or whatever. This is a big departure from early games where we would often “find out” about what is possible. In modern games when something unexpected happens, the dev’s patch it and change the game. In old games when something unexpected happens… well… thats just part of the game. Dota is a great example of this, where basically, finding ways to break the game to come up with a new strategy was quite literally how the game was played. Its now devolved into a poor impression of itself. In realmz, I remember beating some adventure and its final wizard and getting a wand of polymorph. I used it on one of my characters and it polymorphed them into a red dragon and it killed the entire party. I highly doubt the game developers planned that as a possibility, but game development then was often about creating possibilities, not limiting them. Whenever anyone figures something like that out in BG3, they patch it and the game becomes a little more sterile, a little more boring.

Also, BG3 is just kinda… empty. Which I was really surprised by, considering how many studios create amazing, populated worlds with complex day night cycles and economies. In BG3, once you’ve pretty much cleared an area, thats it. Not much more to do other than advance to the next area. In Realmz, you had to watch your ass if you were really out there, because no-matter what state your party was in, a random encounter can happen at any time, and in that game, death is permanent. Also, wtf is with there not being a day night cycle in BG3? Like wth. I’ve got a damn vampire and they aren’t weak during the day and OP af at night?

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

I’ve definitely played City of Bywater.

<span style="color:#323232;">    Prelude To Pestilence (1995, Sean Sayrs)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Assault On Giant Mountain (1995, Tim Phillips)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Castle in The Clouds (1995, Jim Foley)
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Same. I also definitely played City of Bywater, and I know I had both Assault on Giant Mountain and Castle in The Clouds (this one was giants right?)

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

This abandonware site appears to have a Windows release:

Yeah I downloaded it while we were chatting. I’m going to try and get it running after work.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

Oh man. When I was in the Navy, I had the game boy advance. Advance wars had this sick turn based mode, where you could get your moves in, and then stick it in your pocket and wait to hand it off. We’d have four players playing games that might take all day, sometimes days. Just make your moves, stick it in your pocket, and whenever you find your shipmate, pass it along.

TropicalDingdong, 3 months ago

I’m trying to recall. I know we always had a solid supply of rechargeables underway. I also distinctly remember that there is a kind of blanked out hand off screen between players because of fog if war. I don’t recall it having any kind of sleep function. But I know it could run for several hours no issue. I don’t recall having to mind the batteries in particular.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

TropicalDingdong, 4 months ago

Make Lamont Hill is always great

TropicalDingdong, 4 months ago

^ This comment is fucking delusional

TropicalDingdong, 4 months ago

Hide and go seek.

TropicalDingdong, 6 months ago

I play more than I ever had time to with a PC on my deck. Also, I can play in the yard, on the couch, or if I’m feeling fancy, with a monitor, mouse and keyboard. Its great on a plane,

Also, it was a serviceable backup for the week where my work laptop died. I’ve felt priced out of a “fun machine” since the 30 series.

Its graphics are so so. I am in no rush to buy triple A’s, although I did play through BG3 a couple times on it. Witcher3 was great.

It depends on how seriously you are with yourself about always being docked. A $700 PC, if you can get a used Vcard, a PC is going to be an improvement. But have you ever been exposed to the mobility a deck offers? You can play in bed. At the breakfast table. In the back of a car. What the steam deck offers is bigger than just graphics. You may not think “I’ll do those things” because right now, its not even an option. But once it is… suddenly gaming on the porch with a beer becomes a mighty fine way do do things.

TropicalDingdong, 6 months ago

I played through all of BG3 with no issues. It was a pleasure. The only real graphics hiccup I had was when i stacked barrel after barrel of smoke powder in Gortash’s throne room and one shotted him.

TropicalDingdong, 6 months ago

Heres the thing. If you get a deck, you know that at least steam won’t be gaslighting you to buy another one for a hot minute.

I liked my deck enough that I bought the OLED when it came out to give my old one to my partner. Now we play in bed together side by side. She hadn’t played in years because well, life and being busy.

A deck can (somewhat) replace a PC. A PC could not replace a deck. Its a fundamentally different thing. I am going to buy a banger gaming PC. My deck allows me to play and have fun until I can buy the rig I want instead of the one I can afford.

TropicalDingdong, 6 months ago

I bought Witcher 3 AND ALL dlc for like 8 dollars last year during this sale.

TropicalDingdong, 6 months ago

I think part of this has to be related to the idea that you cant do good, creative, interesting things on e the number of cooks in the kitchen gets above a certain size, which might actually be quite small. I mean look at terraria and stardew valley. Microscopic dev teams with impact the size of asteroids in terms of total effect and the long term impact on gaming.

I think “good” in media is an extension of having a singular vision for what you are trying to do. Focus too much on crowd pleasing and you lose the plot.

TropicalDingdong, 7 months ago

We are the internet that Aaron wanted to see.

TropicalDingdong, 8 months ago

I completely disagree with the top comment. Dont worry about the main game.

I advocate that you go in with the mindset that you are a part of an old and important guild, and that the main story is just an extension of your every day job of being a Witcher. The “side quests” are unbelievably good. So good that half of them have better stories than entire video games and series. I didn’t bother with the main story (only in parts, organically). I just wandered the country side and “did the job of a Witcher”. There is sooooooooo much to this game. Also, get the DLC’s.

One word of warning however. The power scaling is somewhat broken. If you over-level before moving forward, the game can get pretty boring only because the enemies become trivially easy to beat.

edit: Also, try and bang anything with eyes.

TropicalDingdong, 8 months ago

Interesting. I found the game to be basically boring without the extended difficulties.

TropicalDingdong, 8 months ago

Be, um, …selective seductive

ftfy.

TropicalDingdong, 8 months ago

Yeah I think I tried like 4 controller layouts on the steam deck before settling on one.

TropicalDingdong, 8 months ago

I didn’t have an issue reading small text on the Deck.

I will say that I found the experience of playing Witcher on the deck to be an absolute pleasure.

TropicalDingdong, 9 months ago

Idk. Like, I’m sure some of you have seen the most recent gen-AI stuff, but its like, un-fucking-canny.

I don’t know where this all goes, but its happening so fast, I’m sure legacy institutions like unions are going to struggle to keep up.

TropicalDingdong, 9 months ago

10 years? Bruh 10 months. I saw some stuff recently that was image gen, and there is not a fucking chance I would be able to say it was or wasn’t generated. Like I do some aspects of this shit for a living and I’m fucked.

Code generation, image and video generation, voxel generation, voice generation.

We’re fucked. This is like, seeing the iceberg in that minute before it hits on the titantic.

TropicalDingdong, 10 months ago

You know I could have played Euro Truck simulator for more than an hour if it had been an online pay-to-win MOBA.

TropicalDingdong, 10 months ago

It’s my bonsai buddy. how else would I find good deals on the Internet?

TropicalDingdong, 11 months ago

Depends on the game. I couldnt play bg3 without pads. Really need both.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

This highlights the importance of anonymity and things like federated spaces on the modern web.

The tendency for people to want to take credit for their work is also at issue here, but the old Internet has a stronger, “I am my username”, emphasis on anonymity and relatively little credit taking for creativity.

I think the focus on personalities, and on single platforms gives companies leverage over as a users and creators of the Internet.I think if we were less concerned about ownership and taking credit, and more concerned about distribution and access, we can make it basically impossible for companies to gain leverage over ideas.

I think also the modern, reactionary view of copyright law is deeply problematic and counter productive. I don’t think the online left quite realizes they can’t can’t have it both ways. Like I get the instinct towards protectionism of small creators, but I think that modern concepts of copyright are fundamentally flawed at both a fundamental legal.level, but also at a conceptual level for what they are ‘pre-supposed’ to protect.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

Mmo game of were wolf or sheriff, but there are goal is to blend in the the NPCs

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

Poorly. that shit was hard.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

yeet

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

If there was oxygen, I’d basically say its alive.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

Yeah not in a way detectable to radio telescopes though. If an atmosphere is stoichemetrically ‘far’ from equilibrium, this implies a biogeochemcical process that is pushing it out of equilibrium.

Oxygen very quickly gets reduced out of the atmosphere. Thats the whole point of it as a bioindicator molecule. There aren’t many other species of molecule that are such a clear indicator of the presence of redox reactions. Preter oxidative respiration, If nitrogen was the electron receptor, but its species like ammonia might be visible via radio telescope. Google great oxygen holocaust. We know photosynthesis was happening before then, but oxygen wasn’t the terminal electron receptor.

Oxygen would be a smoking gun, because you don’t keep oxygen in an atmosphere if something isn’t replenishing it.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

bruh

…nasa.gov/…/trapping-of-methane-in-enceladus-ocea…

We know of abiogenic sources of methane in this solar system.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7aeb01d6-017c-4b3d-883d-c67e3652cb58.jpeg

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

I mean, it’s my favorite genre, so if EA can stay the fuck away from it, that’s not a bad outcome

Had you heard of it?

I’ve literally never heard of it, but not my genre.

TropicalDingdong, 1 year ago

They will probably pull their games from steam next.

Oh no.

Anyways…