just heard Any Austin describe Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) as “fast-paced”. and the thing is, that is an accurate description of the gameplay. but also, please never use that phrase to describe one of my favorite games again

@kasdeya Dreams of Another has not yet released but I’ve read that it’s expected to be 20€ or so for something genuinely weird and cool. Demo is out already

@kasdeya don’t forget to also download the Still Alive mappack for Portal for even more puzzles to solve, also a fox can provide hints if needed

went looking into how hard it'd be to make a custom linux locale like en_US but with reasonable date/time formats, and found that someone had already done it: https://xyne.dev/projects/locale-en_xx/

I've gotten the sense that images are somehow considered more "real" that writing. Like, you're often allowed to write about things you're not allowed to depict visually, even though both depictions are equally fictional.

And I suspect that interactive media is in some ways considered more real than non-interactive media. There's been a lot of cases where controversy have erupted over something being depicted in a game that's being depicted in movies all the time and part of the reason seem to be that the interactivity makes you feel more culpable in what's happening, even if all you did was press a button.

(Though to be fair, it can be kind of hard to tell sometimes if people are mad at a video game because they feel like playing through something makes it feel too real in ways movies, despite generally being live action and historically showing at least a staged reality, don't... or if they are mad at a video game because they find the medium inherently frivolous and thus take issue with any serious topic being depicted in video games,)

@kit love how neurotypicals run society under the assumption that we can all just casually wake up at 6am

how do you think things are going in the alternate universe where instead of USB, we standardized on ethernet?

external peripherals plug in over ethernet, and just communicate over tcp/ip. usb hubs? you just use ethernet hubs. you recharge your phone and laptop and ebook over PoE.

There's PoE powerbanks and many people keep them in their purse/bag

for the price of the latest $70 microtransaction slop, you could buy:

• $10: Terraria
• $15: Hollow Knight
• $15: Stardew Valley
• $10: Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the old one. the good one)
• $15: Bastion
• $5: HOLE

and this is assuming that none of them are on sale, because a lot of these are frequently discounted by 50% or more

#HideousDestructor is one of the deepest and most well-designed shooters I have ever experienced. I’ve been playing it for years and I’m still not tired of it, and it is completely free

meanwhile the new $70 Indiana Jones starts by forcing you to slog through 1-2 hours of forced story and then you get about 45 minutes’ worth of slapstick entertainment from beating up fascists and I had to stop playing after that because there was more forced story

a $70 blockbuster AAA interactive movie PvP battle pass extravaganza will never, ever be able to compete with a $15 indie passion project

I’ve played about 8 games total in my life that I think are worth $70, but the funny thing is that none of them were priced higher than $15 when I bought them

meanwhile I’ve played plenty of $60-$70 games that are just… so unfun. like “I can’t get through the first hour of gameplay” levels of unfun

I miss when websites were exclusively serverside-rendered and the HTML was hand-written and it was really easy and fun to write userscripts

I’m trying to write an Akkoma userscript so that my tabs will have informative titles instead of all of them just saying “Cryptid Cafe” and all of the logic works except the stupid SPA keeps clobbering my changes to document.title all the time

I feel this and I hate it

#adhd #memes

so many fucking social media sites are now adding alt-text functionality and designing their UI so that the textbox you enter the alt text into COVERS UP THE IMAGE

I just learned how you’re supposed to decode HTML entities like ' using JavaScript and… I hate it. I hate it so much

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5796718/html-entity-decode

@ocean

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@rowan omg let me tell you about this one monster in particular 🤤