Noxy

cool! I’d stick with commodore 64 if I ever actually do anything tho (very unlikely)

this page is great. starting right at “draw some pixels” in such a simple way just instantly makes it feel a bit more approachable!

where’s your furry cracktro then??

Its good. Not perfect, but better than I expected.

Headphones definitely recommended, a halfway decent Atmos home theater system sounds great but I still picked up subtle sounds better with even just bluetooth headphones.

Ambience is very much on point. Dialogue is a good mix of well-acted, and a tad “off” like the original. Angela and Eddie seem faithfully redone, so far. James too honestly.

Apartments were a nice change-up from the original, not too different thematically but still essentially a whole new layout, not at all a copy and paste job. Showdown with big knife guy was a big departure, though. Not sure if better or worse, but different from the original

Some graphical glitches (something like ghosting of the fog around objects moving on the screen, also flashes of light in the distance) sometimes that are frankly unacceptable for a $70 game, especially a game of this sort of mood, but hopefully they get those patched soon.

Combat is not exactly great. Nor was it in the original, to be fair. The dodging mechanic is a bit much, and at least on the hardest combat difficulty, it feels like you gotta already be familiar with enemy attack patterns, since it doesn’t give you much chance to learn and survive. But it does all feel learnable, so we’ll see if I just need to get gooder.

Steam achievement notifications at least one broke immersion for me, I might try to mute those next time I play.

But overall I’m very eager to resume playing after work, I left off after the apartments (and stayed up far too late doing so!)

Fuck Andy Jassy.

Smash garlic cloves with the side of a big knife to make the skin much easier to remove

Canned tomatoes usually taste way better than fresh tomatoes

When cooking pasta, save some of the pasta water to add to the sauce if it’s too thick, thins it out but the starch keeps it nice and saucy or something - acts as an emulsifier or something

ah yes, for professionals

They even have a turboprop, which is a jet engine with a propeller!

Disgusting. I would never park one in my driveway. What would the neighbors think??

That doesn’t look very safe

Lower Decks is a good comedy series! But I’m skeptical of another one being nearly as good

I would ditch the SD cards entirely and boot off of USB attached SATA SSDs. But your idea still sounds cool if you can’t or don’t want to invest in SSDs!

I’ve enjoyed btrfs on my laptops, definitely seems stable, and using BEES foe dedupe is rad (maybe don’t do that on an sd card tho…)

HORI, a manufacturer of popular gaming accessories

if they’re so popular why have I never heard of them? especially as I’ve very recently researched PC gamepads and settled on an 8BitDo.

HORI sounds like a bullshit throwaway Amazon brand.

That said, I am very very eager for a gamepad which can do gyro aiming, have back buttons that actually function as additional buttons (as opposed to merely copies of other buttons), and do so over better-than-bluetooth wireless. Doesn’t look like this is that, though, so whatever

backyard bacon*

zzt-oop or maybe robotic

Removed by mod

it’s been just fine for me for years.

I fucking love seeing queer characters in Trek. About damn time.

I assume that’s what you meant by “pandering”? Or is it the black woman?

nanaki

always and forever

they got enough revenue yet to fund adding a feature that lets you look up??