Not necessarily today. You never know!

It makes it harder but it’s still easier than I’d like hahaha

Made me look at the calendar, I thought I had been in a coma for a few days!

… It is Wednesday, right?

I’m out of town and didn’t think a lot about which game to bring, so I just started a second playthrough of Pokémon Scarlet with only flying type Pokémon. I didn’t even like the first playthrough that much, but I had wanted to do a monotype run of any game one day, and this one was right here, so here I am. It’s ok I guess.

I liked messing around with openbox but I’m very aesthetically challenged so I never managed to make it look good. Any tips?

*cannon

It’s in the title of the post. Canon would be if something would be verified in the Star Trek universe. Which this is, sure, but think about it: it’s much more likely to be a comment on the girth and power of Klingon instruments

How old are these games? What OS did you play them in? Better question: which games specifically?

What are the contents of the CD? If every file has an uppercase name then it’s likely to be a DOS game and DOSBox really is your best option.

If they are point-and-click adventure games, look into ScummVM, it may be easier than messing with DOSBox.

The “new content” is new spirits and new spirit board events, which is OK but not the incredible thing this headline is claiming

I still see a few posts and comments from Beehaw so I don’t think so.

Everyone’s hating on this approach but I think it’s nice that we have other options. I’m sure Ublock is going to come out on top of this cat and mouse game YouTube is playing with them, but if YouTube manages to temporarily disable Ublock I’ll look into this solution. Thanks!

We had a post about not pooping for 3 days as one of the main things to happen here. Any art project is good enough for lemmy lol

Notepad streamed over a Zoom meeting. Each token is represented by a single character, as in an old-school CLI roguelike.

I was in the exact same boat as you. Except I also switched because Bitdefender, the anti-virus I used at the time, was not playing nice with Firefox.

Earlier this year, like a few months ago, I decided to try and switch back. It was seamless. In like half an hour I had every bookmark, most passwords, and even some new extensions that have saved me a lot of work since. I recommend you try it and keep Chrome installed on the side in case you run into some problems, but I think after a few days you’ll realize you don’t need it for much.

(in my case it’s still installed for when I inevitably remember that I forgot to transfer a random password that didn’t automatically migrate)

I dunno, I liked it deep fried

Unfortunately, I agree with the other commenter. It’s very hard to talk about the game without taking a bit out of the experience.

I will say that it’s a space exploration game, where you fly around a tiny (handcrafted!) solar system and explore the various planets. There are a handful of mysteries around this solar system and you eventually figure out how the various clues intersect.

It’s also very much a game about information. You never gain upgrades or stats or anything, your character when you start the game is exactly the same as when you finish it. But you learn things about the solar system and your knowledge of this world and it’s mysteries increases, directing you on where to go next and what to do. The game also doesn’t present you with explicit goals, so at the beginning you can do pretty much everything you want, but there is an ending you will eventually reach by following the clues laid out around the universe (and I seriously recommend that you don’t stop before the ending).

It’s also a very hard game to replay, as after you know the answer to the mysteries, there’s a part of the appeal that is lost. I wish I could forget about it so I could replay it fresh!

Will check it out! Thank you for the recommendation!

I was almost not going to respond with Outer Wilds, since it feels like I played forever ago. But apparently I only played it in June of this year, so that’s my choice. It’s one of my favorite games now, if not my favorite game ever.

It’s so good, in fact, that it’s helping me get over this weird anxiety I have of talking about my hobbies with other people (including my closest friends). Outer Wilds is so good that even though I hate talking about games I like, I still feel the need to recommend it to people. And now that the floodgates are open I feel a bit more comfortable talking about my other favorite games, like Baba is You, which I got another person to play as well, and The Messenger, which I’m playing now and loving it.

You say “stupid”, but I’m kind of worried it’ll have a positive impact in their sales, making these types of ads the new standard… I hope not, but my expectations are getting worse and worse

I remember that at the beginning of Voyager. Janeway tries that on B’elana and she responds with something similar.

People have mentioned good options such as books, and they have mentioned hobbies, but since apparently you like video games, why not try developing some games?

It’s free, just download a game engine such as Unity, Unreal Engine or Godot (my vote goes to Godot as it’s open source but you can’t go wrong, try whichever sounds more appealing and if you don’t like one check the others out) and follow some tutorials. That’s where YouTube can shine again!

It’s a great way to exercise your creativity and learn some programming. If you don’t like programming, you can join a team and just be a designer, thinking up gameplay concepts. Or the other way around, someone else can help you design the game while you code it.

Or… Maybe you don’t like programming. Why not try making digital art? It could be pixel art, 3D modeling (both of which go really well with a game development hobby, but with 3D modeling you can transition into 3D printing) or just plain old art, digital or not.

It’s just an example. It’s amazing how many things are available for us to learn on the internet, you cá try anything you ever had a passing interest on. Always had trouble drawing? Go watch some tutorials and try again! Want to learn a new language? Get on Duolingo to learn some basics and then watch some TV shows or movies in other languages!

I know when you are really, truly bored, all of these will sound dreadful. But stick with it past the initial boredom and you will find something that will make you unable to stop.

Keep us updated!

Amazing write-up, I love reading things like these.

I saw that you have similar posts in your profile so I’ll check them all when I have some time!

… Can you subscribe to a person on Lemmy?