Running from ac to AC like its cover in a warzone.

Getting your masturbatory material from pornhub is for normies. Real degenerates are home free on account of the relative obscurity of our sources.

While I had some fun playing torchlight 2 with a friend back in the day, in reality I never got on with the entire genre (or its sibling the Looter-Shooter)

It’s like

Every video game is on some level a skinner box, but arpgs and lootershooters are the most transparent and cynical about it, idk. Well no, the SECOND most transparent and cynical about it, MMOs still take the cake.

The move to “HD” when the PS3/360 were dominant was the death knell of hundreds of mid-sized studios, and gaming never really recovered from it.

• If you try to remind GAYMURS of industry abuses after Hypernormalisation has kicked in for them, they’ll call you names.

I feel like people who talk about graphics fundamentally misunderstand what they themselves crave.

People want things that are nice to look at. Some artstyles require more computation than others, but ultimately all of gaming is art, and all of art is a conjuring trick, much like Cinema, how something is accomplished or how “believable” it looks is secondary to how invested you are in what you are consuming, yanno?

I do however have personal opinions, and my personal opinion is that gaming peaked during the PS2/GameCube/Xbox years. Hardware was just about good enough that pretty much anything developers wanted to make, they could achieve. Nothing looked like real life, sure, but it looked good enough. And the more detail you are throwing at the screen, the more expensive it is to make. So back then we had a lot of mid-budget games. That had resources not available to modern Indie studios to do ambitious things, but were also not these insane investments that had to please every executive under the sun and monetise everything in order to break even.

The perfect balance between niceness and feasibility.

As someone else pointed out, that is false.

What IS true is that Wind Waker seems to generally be remembered more fondly than Twilight Princess. Plus it aged much better.

Who put the kitten meme in a Japanese adult animation?

I guess this means I’ll finally get to actually play it

My playthrough on release got aborted midway through act 3 because I was using mods before official support and the constant updating and mod breaking eventually destroyed my savefile.

If you think basic features are necessary you are a toxic and unserious person who doesn’t understand professional interfaces. /s

That they’re a condescending and unpleasant person.

Speaking metaphorically, just someone you are consorting with. Close friends or associates with strong ties.

Well hello there, sir. Are you also an aristocratic warlock with otherworldly bedfellows?

Thanks for that open letter. Very useful list of apps to never install :)

Winter but I live in Brazil, so winter just means it’s not a temperature that euros would call deadly like it normally is

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Seems we had a similar idea –

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (850 MiB):

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Super NES (2,03 GiB):

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GameBoy+GBC (570 MiB):

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Sega Master System (91,7 MiB):

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Currently seeding all these.

Why would I, a right wing libertarian, lend my time to developing a piece of software that I am unable to make a profit from? I have no motive.

Because you do stand to gain regardless. “I have my code on the source of <major FOSS project every tech guy has heard of>” is like. Amazing portfolio material for any job interview. I had a friend get a job in the games industry (though they regret it to this day because the game industry sucks–) with nothing on his resumé except for a smattering of mods for popular games.

Any pro-capitalist person with a functioning brain will acknowledge the role of non-monetary “Profits” in every human relationship, yanno?

As a left winger myself…

… I’m not sure Foss is inherently left wing. Inherently anti authoritarian for sure, but I can totally see a libertarian type making a pro-FOSS argument from a capitalistic-individualistic and it being rather sensible. (Aaaaas long as we ignore the ways it’d contradict other beliefs right wing liberals tend to hold, but yknow. Compartmentalisation is a human superpower)

First OS: DOS 4.something on dad’s PCXT clone.

First Linux: Kurumin Linux