whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 2 godziny temu

Is half-life cyberpunk?

whotookkarl, 9 dni temu (edited 9 dni temu)

www.raspberrypi.com + batocera.org + yarr + a USB controller

Rewarding bad behavior only encourages more

whotookkarl, miesiąc temu

Doom 2 was already covered so I’ll go with Roboquest, indie arena roguelike shooter with randomized weapons and perks but static arenas/mobs/bosses. Once you get a handle on the movement it’s one of the comfiest shooters I’ve played in years.

whotookkarl, miesiąc temu

I used to be kbm exclusive but there have been some pretty good controller improvements made over the years, things like hotkey layers in Skyrim UI mods or the final fantasy MMO giving dozens of unique hotkeys on a controller, and new hardware with back buttons and shoulder buttons that keep both thumbs on the thumbsticks. Can’t beat mouse for precision, but there are tradeoffs for that.

whotookkarl, miesiąc temu

AAAA stock

whotookkarl, 2 miesiące temu

Randy may be one of the greasiest people ever, but he does deliver what people dig about gb games, the loot slot machine

whotookkarl, 2 miesiące temu

My favorite layout so far is on the Razer Wolverine V2 Chroma Xbox wired controller. It has x/y up between the shoulder and triggers, back buttons for a/b, so you can keep your right thumb on the thumbstick without moving it to hit face buttons a/b/x/y.

whotookkarl, 2 miesiące temu

The back buttons are near the middle so I’d assume it’s more comfortable for bigger hands, I think the v3 wireless version has the back buttons closer to the outside where the controller grip connects to the middle of the controller like the elites, I haven’t tried that style yet but I think that may be better for a shorter grip or hands.

V2: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/76572a77-167c-4d01-9abc-630d2713cf85.jpeg

V3: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32aab1f2-59fa-40bf-a0e9-c73cee1e028e.webp

whotookkarl, 2 miesiące temu

That’s true, I’ve had mine 2 years and am seeing some up/down drift on the left stick. Not great on the quality but I have used it often, and I can’t find anyone else with that button layout.

whotookkarl, 2 miesiące temu

Realized pre orders were a scam in 99 when I pre-ordered ff8 from Toys r us and when I went to pick it up they told me they don’t have any copies left

whotookkarl, 3 miesiące temu

Let me just fire up all these Xbox exclusive and first party games they’ve released since like 2021…

whotookkarl, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Gamers are not asking devs to work until burnout on social media or forums, that’s management and usually in person or department/company policy and procedure.

Edit: more specifically to the article for solo devs they are talking about critics complaining they should have made something bigger which is not a bad problem to have for securing funding for future games if people like your art enough to request more and doesn’t require working burnout hours.

whotookkarl, 4 miesiące temu

If you don’t mind a classic chess. Blitz/bullet/rapid/horde are different styles that don’t take as long to learn enough to have fun. Chess puzzles or against the computer are available if you want to keep it strictly single player. Lichess for multiplayer or I like chess tactics pro for puzzles.

Crosswords, there are programs like alphacross that aggregate from other sources to try different puzzles to find ones that aren’t too easy or hard.

whotookkarl, 4 miesiące temu

ScummVM is my emulator of choice, like ePSXe it runs on phones and opens it up to a bunch of classics

whotookkarl, 4 miesiące temu

A raspberry pi running batocera has been a good cheap way I’ve been using to revisit some classics. You can integrate it with retroachievements.org too.

whotookkarl, 5 miesięcy temu

It also doesn’t help that a bunch of games have an upgrade charge, I mostly just use it for Blu-ray lately.

whotookkarl, 7 miesięcy temu

I agree with the rest but it’s not just modern gaming it was happening back in the 90s on consoles and earlier in arcades. One of the first games I played was an obvious cash grab by Marvel, Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge for the Gameboy. It was barely playable.

whotookkarl, 7 miesięcy temu

Not an astronomer but if I read the article correctly the observations gathered about galaxies rotating and colliding would be explained instead by regional changes in what were previously assumed universal constants, which would be very interesting if true but 1 paper isn’t consensus yet

whotookkarl, 8 miesięcy temu

90s style adventure games like Sam and Max hit the road, day of the tentacle, monkey Island, Indiana Jones, etc. Lots of comedy you can’t hear again for the first time, and puzzles that can be memorable.

scummVM can be used to run those games and runs on basically everything, phones, tablets, desktop.

whotookkarl, 8 miesięcy temu

That’s the zone for liquid water at the planet surface. There’s other sources of heat; gravitational pressure, geothermal vents from plate tectonics, etc. In this case they’re looking for methane with a chemical signature that indicates it comes from geothermal activity as opposed to other processes that generate methane.

whotookkarl, 8 miesięcy temu

So that’s also studies by astrobiologists looking at atmospheric methane because we know it can be created in large quantities by metabolism in an organism in addition to non organic processes, and in the atmosphere it reacts to sunlight so it needs to be replaced to stay present in large quantities.

This is something different where they’re looking for chemical signatures, primarily methane, indicating geothermal vents which we’ve seen providing the energy to sustain life on earth at the bottom of the ocean. If abiogenesis requires some non organic processes like sublimation, evaporation, heating up and cooling down, etc to allow a self repeating process to start and continue to hold form until it’s able to use sugars to continue to maintain itself instead of depending on its environment to kick start the life process then you’ll want to look for those phase changes or boundaries like water/atmosphere or extreme heat/cold to provide the gradient that natural process may need like those studied in systems chemistry.