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Some games I’m excited enough for to want to spend full price on release. Some games I’ll wait for a sale on. Just depends on the game.

Well, I’ve been trying to put some content on [email protected] and [email protected], but there’s been almost no engagement. I can’t imagine it’d be worth even trying to start communities for even more niche topics than that.

Clicking the “Create a Community” button doesn’t magically spawn an audience of people who share my hobbies and want to post about them.

An improvement.

BlueSky has money. We don’t.

People are going from one corporate-controlled social media platform to another corporate-controlled social media platform. You and I both know that’s the problem, but to the average user, they’re going to go to whatever has a large corporation spending a lot of money to tell them that their platform is the next big thing.

BlueSky has the one thing Fedi doesn’t: a large advertising budget. Hate to say it, but we have lost.

Good showcase, but feels a bit strange not to use an actual handheld game for the LCD comparisons.

I’ve been trying to inject any life at all into [email protected] and [email protected]

I used reddit for two things: news, and niche subcommunities around small hobbies and fandoms.

We’ve got the former here, but I don’t know if we’d ever have enough of a critical mass to sustain the latter. And that sucks for me, because I no longer have a good space for that stuff, but I still don’t ever want to go back to reddit now.

Strongly recommend playing Earthbound before Mother 3. Mother 1 is entirely skippable, I’ve tried to play it multiple times and never could get through it.

• Celeste
• Most Kirby games. Skip Amazing Mirror I guess, and for Super Star you can play every mode except Great Cave Offensive.
• Metroid Fusion (I do feel somewhat bad putting it on this list though)
• OneShot
• Persona series
• Punch-Out!! series
• Rhythm Doctor
• Rhythm Heaven series
• The World Ends With You
• Any stage-based arcade(-style) game. I’ll name Puyo Puyo (Tsu, 20th, Chronicle specifically), Panel de Pon, Puzzle Bobble 3, Twinkle Star Sprites just for a few.
• Any visual novel

Percentage-based damage doesn’t make you struggle more with more health, it just means a few attacks take the same number of hits to kill. You’re never any worse for it, and you’re still better against every other attack in the game.

Also, I said evasion anyway, not health.

I have heard a lot of good things. I’ll probably start on it whenever I finally finish Persona 4 Golden.

• 1 - …I respect the historical importance of this game.
• 2 - Actually, dual-wielding shields and attacking yourself to grind evasion is peak game design.
• 3 - Beta for FF5. Shame about that final dungeon.
• 4 - First game that actually holds up.
• 5 - Peak.
• 6 - I liked this game up until I found out that I was supposed to be grinding three distinct parties the whole time.
• 7 - I went into this expecting the first 3D installment to be another example of historically important but poorly aged. Was pleasantly surprised by how well it holds up.
• 8 - I went into this knowing it’s the weird one. I was the sicko that liked 2, but I still couldn’t get through it.
• 9 - Bought it alongside 8, when I dropped 8 I never got around to this. I will eventually… maybe…
• 10 - Perfects the classic formula while still feeling sufficiently modernized. Uh, for some definition of modern…
• 12 - Hated hated hated the combat. Painfully tedious to take manual control, automation is too primitive. And I don’t want to automate the game away, I want to play it!

I recognize the importance of Proton to bridge the gap and bring users over who would never switch if they can’t play all their Windows games.

But I won’t ever agree that Proton should just replace proper native support.

I have a channel that I barely use once in a blue moon, and I watch players who are good at my favorite games so I can study from them, as well as following tournaments.

It was a great game that I enjoyed start to end, but ending on a “this will only make sense when the 3rd game releases in X years!” note leaves a really sour taste in my mouth.

Well, one problem with ZTD is that it completely ignored the teaser in VLR’s epilogue. Actively contradicted it even.

I don’t think the teaser made VLR feel incomplete though, since it was also completely disconnected from VLR’s otherwise self-contained story.

Ryujinx was released as open source under the MIT license. They can’t retroactively rescind that license.

Sounds like this was more of a bribe than any legal case against the emulator. In which case nothing is stopping anyone from putting a fork back up, and gdkchan gets to laugh all the way to the bank.