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gmr_leon

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i ramble about video games. i like sharing & weird stuff. @ me with weird games.

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grumpygamer, to random
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I'm very conditioned from years of playing WoW to like "!" and "?" for quest icons above NPCs. Is there a better way? I haven't seen one, but that might be my WoW bias. I could go "old school" and not show anything and expect players to figure it out, but that seems cruel (I know I'd hate it).

gmr_leon,
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@grumpygamer A method I haven't seen others mention yet is giving questgivers a more distinct appearance/visual design beyond lights/glowing.

No voice work or animation necessarily, just a look that stands out more. Less reliable maybe, but is an option if subtlety is desired.

llamasoft_ox, to random
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I like to use notepad++ as a second memory, particularly now I am getting to be old and shit. I have a bunch of tabs open on there, with stuff like notes about the current bit of code, Welsh vocab that I add to as I do my lessons, notes on how to use the sequencer I designed a while ago but have done a zillion things since so when I do come back to actually using it to make some music I'll need those notes, sort of thing. Random shit I need from time to time.

gmr_leon,
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@llamasoft_ox I personally use Joplin for something kinda like that. No accounts needed for it. Can be synced across devices by pointing it to Dropbox or OneDrive or, if you feel like tinkering a little, local filesystems via Syncthing.

Notes can be linked together, & even better, easily exported to open in other programs as well! I use it pretty often for writing thoughts on the go & making lists for stuff to look for when out & about.
https://joplinapp.org/

jplebreton, to random
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https://www.osnews.com/story/136370/new-play-store-policy-will-publish-developers-phone-numbers-in-app-listings/
2027. every dev's bedroom is hard wired with an airhorn that any irate customer can sound at any time for any reason. the platforms themselves are hosted from orbital data centers administered by robots, completely uncontactable, owned by trillionaires.

gmr_leon,
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@jplebreton whoa whoa whoa, I was gonna joke before reading this that they're gonna dox developers and then it basically said as much: "This may show verified identity information like name, address, and contact details."

Wtf? Perfect way to show they only think of larger businesses vs. independent developers. Hopefully they backtrack on this, or more likely clumsily make it some opt out feature. 😒

mt, to random
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I could use some help. I am working on making an open source animatronic app so you can make your own waldo or print a version of one of mine and program your own animatronic. I am using pico w's for input controllers because they are easy to get but I'm struggling with a good starter microcontroller for the output. Ideally it would have audio and a way to control a few servos plus wifi. A pi 4 would make sense but you can't just get them easy...

gmr_leon,
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@mt I'm not familiar with this to help, but you might draw those that are by adding some hashtags like or , or maybe , to help improve the discoverability of your post.

You may know better terms to use as tags for this than I do tbh, basically whichever folks in your space use to discuss the topic. Best of luck, the project sounds really cool!

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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the best thing masto can do right now, imo, is to prioritize features & support for organizing communities.This is why facebook has society in its jaws, people are able to easily create, find, and post in any number of communities they overlap with.

if mastodon or an adjacent fediverse platform can better facilitate self-organizing communities, they will win all the spoils and then some

gmr_leon,
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@seachanger Oooh, that could be an interesting feature for sure!

Add a tooltip when adding profile hashtags & settings for it so folks would have to opt in to allow this, and that might be solid, yeah!

gmr_leon,
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@seachanger "- add hashtag to local server feeds (my dream)"

I'm curious, what do you mean by this? Distinct from trending tags, I take it, but I'm not sure what this may look like.

mcc, to random
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So to be honest: The thing that's been scaring me about Threads is less that they'll eat the Fediverse and more that by existing they'll schism the space around Mastodon so hard that pervasive defederation will make the whole non-Threads fediverse unusable, and Blue Sky winds up winning the hearts & minds war. Like I was worried Eugen might take a actively pro-Threads stance and the few remaining servers that haven't defederated mastodon.social yet would finally do so.

gmr_leon,
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@developit A number of smaller Mastodon communities have defederated from Mastodon.social, for a variety of reasons, yeah.

I made another account on Mstdn.social due to this, as a number of folks I followed, such as Mcc were there.

mcc, to random
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Three minor feature frustrations with Mastodon that never get better:

  • Lack of a choice between chronological and "relevance" when searching. I search my own posts a lot & now I have a year and a half of history it's REAL hard to find stuff if I can't search chronologically.

  • When replies to a post are shown, you can't "collapse" or sort down sub-replies. If a post explodes such that subthreads spawn the replies become unreadable. It would be nice to be able to say "hide non-direct replies".

gmr_leon,
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@Sylvhem @mcc a tag zone sounds so much cooler than the awkward hashtag mess

mcc, to random
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I feel in this era of painfully uncool corporate net spaces it is easy to overlook the best thing about the internet is when it is allowed to be fearlessly uncool in a human, organic way https://cohost.org/lutz/post/1907611-if-you-re-not-on-tum

gmr_leon,
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@mcc a dead mall with display walls covered in bad MS Paint art

gmr_leon, to random
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more games after Halo should have taken inspiration from its bright colors and big open levels that aren't open world imo

maybe there were but I dunno how you translate the above into search terms

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gmr_leon,
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@joe_wintergreen I should get around to giving it a go, now that ya mention it.

Especially now that it no longer eats computers 😂

gmr_leon, to random
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Tbh I wish there was a good word for "games" that aren't games in the traditional sense.

I know there's been some inclination to expand the meaning of the word to include non-traditional games, but I think there's still a deep-seated association with games and fun and enjoyment that you can't really shake.

Game just doesn't feel right for titles like What Remains of Edith Finch or, hell, even Soma, at least imo.

gmr_leon,
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Experimental or alternative or indie games are all such expansive categories or tags that you're looking through about as much as regular categories & tags.

Experimental maybe a bit less so, but then you're possibly looking more at prototypes or the like than finished works.

gmr_leon,
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I also don't really agree with the VR side of the industry trying to coin the term "experience" for their different sort of, uh, "games." It sounds more in line with a theme park ride or something, which sometimes fits for their works, but...Eh.

Part of the reason I bother to think of this tbh is that I want a better way to find these sorts of "games", but there's really no great tag or category they have or fit under to filter by.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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A business sim game but you don't run or manage a business, you spend most of the time trying to make the case for different businesses so they can even get the resources do anything at all. Once you succeed the other part of the game is handling resource allocation so you can avoid having to go pitch your businesses' projects again.

There is no win state btw, it's really a white collar survival game.

gmr_leon, to random
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...I should probably upgrade my PC, or at least install a Linux distro alongside the Windows install.

Windows now takes way longer to boot from for me, which isn't usually a problem as I tend to put my PC in sleep mode, but on the odd occasion that the power goes out, I'm reminded of this. Or is this a similar case even on more modern configs (i.e. SSDs, more recent processors, etc.)?

gmr_leon, to retrogaming
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Something I've been unclear on: for the open source versions of titles like Doom or Descent or...Quake, I think, do they technically want you to own/have a copy for the assets, or...?

gmr_leon, (edited ) to random
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I could have swore I bookmarked or favorited a thread from a few weeks ago warning of the potential issues has from a technical perspective, but now I can't find it & I'm bummed because it was really good & with recent events seems to have unfortunately held true.

Recent events being: a couple instances being compromised & screwed with due to a vulnerability.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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In a better world governments never would have allowed Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, or Sony to become such massive businesses tbh.

gmr_leon, to random
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"What's one of your hobbies?"

"...Is recommending games with fewer than a hundred reviews online a hobby?"

gmr_leon, to random
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the problem with exploring is rapid familiarization, which alters your standards for the unfamiliar, making it increasingly difficult to find spaces to explore that feel sufficiently unfamiliar.

your sense of the unfamiliar & unusual departing from others' so much that you almost need new words to indicate what you're really looking for. Different, weird, unusual just become inadequate.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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A game company called Odnetni/Nintendont that basically copies Nintendo but makes their work legally distinct enough to skate by and releases across all platforms would make bank tbh.

gmr_leon, to random
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They say read the manual all the time and fail to mention that often the manual was written by engineers who can only communicate among each other

gmr_leon, to random
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One of my favorite software features when dealing with feeds, social or RSS, has to be filters.

They eliminate/reduce what I consider to be noise, and at other times simply keep me from getting annoyed & into arguments on social platforms. There's no downsides from my end.

Of course, there's plenty from marketers' ends but they don't have a right to anyone's attention.

gmr_leon, to random
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Link rot but with connected virtual worlds could be really cool if, in place of the link going nowhere, there was a built-in dead space to roam around of abandoned ideas, maybe some old texts discussing the original ideas behind linking virtual spaces.

Tbh this could also be a fun idea for the regular Internet. Each browser having a unique dead-end page to poke around, maybe learn about Internet history & architecture.

gmr_leon, to random
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me: "why am I having trouble with this"

also me, with no depth perception: walking straight off a cliff into the bottomless void

me: "oh. right."

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Helldivers 2 looks like a husk of its former self, which is disappointing. Some friends & I played a bunch of the first game and really enjoyed it for its art style, satire, & gameplay.

Helldivers 2 may still have good gameplay & satire, but that satire isn't gonna hit as well with the new art style imo, which screams, "Take this seriously, this is real war!" The first via its art style as much as writing told you this was all pretty silly. Second? Eeh.

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