Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is free on Epic Games!

I don’t know too much about this one but the vibe I get is that if you like the Castlevania games then you’ll probably like this a lot too

competitive Smash players determining if a stage should be banned

dear me. why is everyone around me so freakin' cute

- Skye 💙

omgg Janet lets you have docstrings for variables as well as functions! I love that so much

https://janet-lang.org/docs/bindings.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/115054349302146150

Because it's the time od the year when people start posting their yearly reading reviews - a reminder that "but how many of the xy books you've read do you really remember in detail?" only shows a deep misunderstanding of what reading (and learning) is about.

Paradise Killer is free on Epic Games!

this game is very well-written, has an interesting mystery that’s fun and challenging to investigate, has an extremely unique and fun vibe, and has some fascinatingly surreal and creative worldbuilding

I’d definitely recommend trying out it, but with the caveat that:

this game’s worldbuilding is full of over-the-top cruelty, on around the same level as Warhammer 40k. also all of the characters are over-the-top horrible people as well. if you can handle the Shin Megami Tensei series (or maybe the Nier series) then you can probably also handle this game, because they have similar levels of edgy grimdarkness, but just be warned

I feel like a pretty decent metric for the user-friendliness of a Linux distro would be:

• can you install the distro from scratch and play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?
• after 6 months, can you update all of the software and still play a youtube video without ever opening a terminal?

at least one of these tests would fail if any of my most common issues with Linux happened:

• display problems
• video card driver problems
• wifi problems
• audio problems
• problems during installation
• DE problems
• updates breaking things

random thing that’s bothered me for like 15 years:

if you were holding a pokéball you wouldn’t hold it with the button facing away from you. you need to be able to press that button, so you’d hold it with the button over your thumb or index finger

someone recommended a #Minecraft mod to me about a month(?) ago and it sounded so cool but now I can’t find it. I don’t think I saved it anywhere T_T

it was a tech mod that tried to avoid the “here’s a magic box that does exactly what you want” problem by making you build your own multi-block cooling systems and other things like that. it basically deliberately made it difficult to build tech things

it was a fairly modern mod too IIRC - like probably 1.19 or above

does anyone know what I’m talking about? I know it’s not a lot to go on but I feel like “it’s a tech mod but not a magic box tech mod” will at least rule out like 95% of tech mods lol

edit: the answer was Crossroads!

I told a normie that I don’t like D&D and they took that to mean that I don’t like any TTRPGs at all

please enshittify faster, Hasbro. I need your stranglehold over TTRPG culture to end

@tabletopgamingdeals y’all Eclipse Phase is so good just for the worldbuilding and transhuman tech alone. I definitely recommend getting a copy

it has some very disturbing aspects that you might expect for a techno-thriller or horror setting, but you can skip past those and just get to the cool gadgets, transhuman bodies, augmentations, etc.

plus there are anarchist communities and the book goes into a decent amount of detail about what life is like there

also this book is licensed under Creative Commons! so you can share it with your friends if you want

RE: https://dice.camp/@tabletopgamingdeals/115759638128795293

Without getting into the story that's making the rounds, here are my thoughts on using generative AI for placeholder assets in #gamedev. (1)

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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Doom: Hideous Destructor Co-op !!

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just tried coffeemate for the first time and it’s so gross

I got the brown butter flavor (the one that’s supposed to be like chocolate chip cookies) and now my coffee tastes like burned chemical factory runoff. if you told me this was a petroleum product I’d believe you

I think I’m sticking with two sugars, no cream lol