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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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RethinkJeff, to VideoGames
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Ay yo if you could stop having 10 hour prologs that'd be great thank you.

gmr_leon,
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@RethinkJeff the prologue is now trimmed to 10 minutes...But it's ten minutes of...Quick-time events!

Press Circle!

gmr_leon, to random
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I just used the Redact tools to purge my Reddit account's posts and comments.

I'll double check to ensure they remain deleted in awhile, but 11 years of posts and comments erased in roughly an hour and eight minutes. That's...Impressive.

santoshhari, to random
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This is a horrific story that’s being overshadowed by that fucking submersible https://apple.news/AnYJY8E9kSNO-4atCSM42-Q

gmr_leon,
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@santoshhari Sadly even before the sub incident, these stories were being buried.

This may be the worst loss of life from migrants trying to get to Greece and Europe more broadly yet, but it's also by no means the first as I recall. So much needless loss of life as folks try to make their way to better lives. 😔

gmr_leon, (edited ) to gaming
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My activity's now here instead, & I invite you to join me on Mstdn.social as it's a more general space to socialize like Twitter: https://mstdn.social/auth/sign_up

You can follow me by searching my name there, & find others with your interests by searching & following hashtag topics, e.g. or or whatever interests you to see tagged posts in your home feed.

If you join, feel free to @ me for help!

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Toejam & Earl in Panic On Funkotron had these great spongey bounce pads for navigating parts of their levels. What are some other games with squishy bouncy navigation elements?

gmr_leon, to gaming
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What other games besides DigDug involve inflating your enemies to bursting?

Thetruemasterofgames, to random

I kinda want to use something like spore as an art program like taking the little blob and shaping it into something is just amazing not sure if there's an equivalent as I've never dealt with 3d programs before

gmr_leon,
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@Thetruemasterofgames There is! It's often called sculpting in 3D software and there's entire software built around it, e.g.
https://www.maxon.net/en/zbrushcoremini

Blender also has some support for this style of modeling as well, so it's just up to you to find which tools work best for you!

gmr_leon, to Nintendo
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Reminder for myself as much as anyone else that if you really want games on hardware, get them used or borrow them from friends if you can.

Why? Nintendo's business & legal divisions are terrible, the opposite image of their development division presenting fun & creativity. Nintendo biz & legal actively make it more cumbersome to even get their games legally. Remember the arbitrary time-limited release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars?

They basically encourage buying Nintendo games used.

gmr_leon, (edited )
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@ChrisFerguson Sometimes that can be true, definitely, but typically only if you wait awhile, and the title was made scarce artificially.

On the other hand I readily found many of the Nintendo games I own (for the Wii/Wii U/DS/3DS) used much cheaper.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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I just remembered this brief part of a video doing a deep dive on how Fallout 76 hasn't really improved, and it makes me feel better that I'm not alone in thinking it's increasingly nuts how Bethesda fans will voluntarily and freely fix or improve their games when given mod tools.

At first it was kinda cool back when Bethesda was only just becoming a big success, so back with Morrowind say, but after Fallout 3? And especially Skyrim?

It's a gross joke.

gmr_leon,
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A lot of the talk of has me thinking about this too, despite the situations being different.

There's a sliver of similarity in how the companies ride off of unpaid, voluntary community labor. Of course the major difference is, Bethesda actually makes something you may enjoy regardless of community labor, whereas Reddit's literally nothing without community contributions.

gmr_leon,
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I guess I'm just more disillusioned than ever with larger companies enabling community-made content.

On one hand I greatly appreciate modding tools for games, but on the other hand, if they're for a bigger game, I'm basically making free content for them if I make mods for their game and...Why would I do that? Exposure?

I mean sure there's also the fun of it if it's just for you, but a lot of the fun of creating is sharing, yet how you do that may benefit a big business.

christinelove, to random
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twitch dot tv, the world's most confusing website that already requires a doctorate in rocket science to operate, is threatening to confound and frighten me even more by introducing so many more Capitalized Words it would make a fantasy author blush

gmr_leon,
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@christinelove -me when I had to catch up on just WTF bits were-

only online could anyone unashamedly throw single cents at someone for their efforts

gmr_leon,
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@Lowbird @Dee_Imaginarium On desktop you can be signed into different instances via different tabs, unless I'm misunderstanding you. Arguably a little clunky, but I do this with Mastodon to switch between a more moderated & focused instance, & a more general instance.

I imagine some may end up approaching Lemmy similarly now with Beehaw's decision (which I understand & honestly anticipated happening sooner).

gmr_leon,
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@cih (I think this will work...) I'm not super active but if you click my name it should lead to me over on a Mastodon instance. This is more of my general profile so my posts are all over the place, but likely fall back to video game stuff more often than not, with the odd boosting of game posts here & there.

Also sometimes just random old tech stuff or folks looking for help with old tech, 'cause I appreciate retro tech & maintaining it.

gmr_leon, to chat
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@chat What happens when you try to make a post through here (Mastodon)?

gmr_leon,
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@chat Yoo, it works! Funky formatting as expected, but cool!

Edit: btw if you're curious on how to do this, in Mastodon I searched: chat@beehaw and then posted @ the account. Not sure if there's a way to write a distinct text body atm, hence duplicate title/body text.

Probably better to stick to replies through Mastodon, at least until there's a clear way to make posts with distinct body text.

gmr_leon,
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@alyaza For sure, especially considering that I highly doubt Microsoft is unique in violating COPPA in this way.

PC Gamer's off in its writing about online PC games only requiring an internet connection, as nearly all the online games I can think of today require some form of account, & you just know many children aren't asking their parents to set up an account for every one of those games.

Then again, maybe I've missed other articles about similar violations.

gmr_leon,
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@Mars Tbh this is the risk with making games exclusive to any console (as well as any platform, speaking more broadly), or for any publisher.

The games industry across the board is largely terrible at preserving their past works, with it only recently becoming even of slight interest to any of them (e.g. Microsoft backwards compatibility). They'd rather old IP rot & be forgotten than risk releasing it & losing the slightest profit opportunity from a nostalgia cash-in.

gmr_leon,
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@Lowbird @Link To add to this, when Nintendo attacks emulators they even screw over folks that buy their games to show support and then play them via emulator for the benefits they provide over the original hardware.

Sure, that may be an exceedingly small number of folks, but I've personally done this with older titles simply 'cause emulation provides so much more flexibility. I'd do similar with other platforms' recent games if it was as viable (looking at you specific PS3/PS4 exclusives).

gmr_leon,
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@WorriedGnome @milkpiss @orbit Regarding the price, I wonder just how any business could effectively reduce costs without adding in bloatware or the like.

So far in the MR headset space the main ways have been to either just eat the cost (see: Meta/FB & Quest) or offer a lesser experience (see: Google's foray into Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, etc.). The Quest has been making some headway, but it's still been an uphill struggle even at its lower cost.

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