I finally just installed the #emulators from RA itself. The #NES and #SNES ones work fine, but I had to map buttons on my #XBox#controller and they don't support filters.
Last post from me this lunchtime before I get distracted by something shiooooooohhhhh....
Unusually, Sharkey comes with Steam/Xbox style Achievements that are won when you reach certain milestones. I'm...unsure what to think about this. I can see how it might help someone brand new acclimatise, but I've a farly ambivalent view of Achievements in Gaming generally. They rarely correspond to things that feel like actual achievements. Some games hand them out like candy: "Achivement! You have played the game for five minutes!"
Some of these here feel similarly...basic. It's just endorphine-triggering reward psycho-manipulation, isnt it?
But then there's...this [bottom of image]: Just Plain Lucky, achieved for apparently achieving a random probability scoring? That's just great. 😆 That tickles my sense of humour, being daft enough that I can be proud of it! Do more of this, please, and less of the "Hooray you can use a mouse!" type.
PS: sometimes you eagerly reach for a screen-shot and then dismay kicks in when you realise how much typing you have to do to explain it for those with sight issues. 🥴 Nevertheless....
Today #CookieClicker is 10 years old! It's a great game to demonstrate how a simple game mechanic can be very satisfying and even addictive. It popularized the #IdleGame genre. I still play it from time to time.
Congratulations to Orteil and Opti for this success!
You can play it for free in the browser or buy it on #Steam to get hundreds of #achievements. But be careful not to waste your time with it and work on real achievements in life!
Marie Skłodowska Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the first person to win two Nobel prizes, the only person to win Nobel prizes in multiple sciences, and once successfully nailed a jelly to a wall.