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Clippy! What’s up man! It’s been forever! It’s me, Netscape Navigator! Remember me?

Unless it’s free because it’s open source!

It’s really easy to forget, but yes, Steam was annoying back in the day. I hated it so much I bought Borderlands 1 from somewhere else in protest. My friends bought it through Steam. The patch dropped and they got it, I didn’t, and I couldn’t play anymore. It finally came later, though. This pushed me to give it a second chance. Now it’s amazing. Apart from some gripes about the UI of Steam itself, there’s not really much to complain about.

I’m not saying they’re realistic, just that it has some of the flood/farming mechanics the blog author wanted to see in a game.

This is a great article! It’s really interesting.

I have two comments to make, and I hope nobody thinks this is me trying to disagree with the article or something, I don’t want it to come across as defensive. In explaining some of the challenges medieval cities go through and saying Banished is a pretty accurate game, I think this might just be a genre issue. I consider Banished a colony management game, not a city builder, and indeed, in colony management games your people’s health and safety are usually a much larger concern than in a city builder.

The second comment is that the writer suggests a game with flood mechanics and arable farm land. I don’t remember if it was out in March of 2020, but Timberland is out now. It’s a beaver based colony management game that includes a lot of fluid dynamics. It has flood mechanics like described. It’s unrealistic, of course, because they’re beavers. But also because flooding isn’t the end of the world if it gets into your buildings, I think it’s more of an inconvenience. Regardless, I think it’s a cool game to check out.

Lemmit already existed and was annoying as hell. It was the first account I remember blocking.

Never played Bully so I can say this without you thinking it shaped my world view: Just admit you’re wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_(video_game)

• Games should have some way to take notes in game.
• External wikis are great and I love them, but they aren’t an excuse for not explaining how your game works within your game. There needs to be good in game guides.
• All games need some way to save and quit. Looking at you, rogue likes. People have lives. That’s more important than protecting some weird form of honor by making the excuse that it’s to prevent save scumming.

I haven’t really dived deep on this but my gut feeling is because they linked to the erotic games. I looked into this a bit in the past, but I may be getting it mixed up with Google’s policies on Docs now that I’m thinking of it, but maybe they have similar policies. The gist was that they weren’t as concerned with hosting legal artistic erotic content as they were linking to it. Like they didn’t want their platform to be used in a way to sort of advertise porn. I’m actually pretty sure I’m thinking of Google Docs though. I was looking for a way to publish erotic stories and considered GitHub Pages as well as Google Docs so it sort of blends together.

You can still have mirrors of your stuff on GitHub and push there, just have your primary forge be a different place.

Rare Fossil win

In theory you could make a bot that stores all of those things within git periodically. Maybe do something with git notes https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

Has there been any console pair besides Gameboy and Gameboy color that had games released that would work on both but behave differently on each? Some carts were black and white, some worked only on GBC, but some (like most of all of the pokemon games) would still be black and white on the original but had unique color palettes on GBC.

Looks like the technical term is “Color-enhanced Game Boy Game Pak”.

The color-enhanced Game Boy Game Pak (also known as class B, dual mode, or black cartridges) improved the gameplay experience on the Game Boy Color and subsequent systems while maintaining compatibility with older monochrome devices.

These cartridges can use the full color capabilities of the Game Boy Color and subsequent systems, displaying up to 56 colors simultaneously out of a palette of 32,768 while remaining compatible with the original Game Boy where they were presented in four shades of gray. However, this compatibility comes at the expense of not being able to utilize the handheld’s increased processing speed and memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Game_Pak

Compare that to GBA, which had GBA games but could also play Gameboy and Gameboy Color games. But there were no GBA games that could run on Gameboy or Gameboy Color. That weird middle ground might be why they count them together.

And they lied about it on the award application, but yes.

If you’re applying for an award that asks “were toxic ingredients used at any point while making this cake” because part of the culture of the award is not using toxic ingredients, then yeah, you need to disclose that you used toxic ingredients.

Space Station 14 is a blast. If you’re really interested in hosting it though you might need a larger friend group. I think you’d need maybe 10 or so people before it actually feels interesting.

Edit: There are plenty of public servers to play on too.

“never said it did” was a response to where Forgejo supports federation for issues and PRs.

Never said it did, and the comment replying to didn’t say it did either.

concept of users, write permissions, or authentication

collaborative things like issue tracking, PRs, forums, etc

Forgejo has those, yes.

If a selling point was drastically redesigned UX I might give it a go. I hate how much the menus force you to wait in the game. Going to islands is a pain. That dumbass bird’s dialogue takes FOREVER. Letting multiple people join your island at once would be nice too. The method to buy items and clothes is so slow. Let me buy that shit more quickly. Let me craft shit more quickly. Little things like that are the worst.

Also, having more things to do in multiplayer would be good. Like some mini games or something. You can sort of make your own but it’s so minor. Running around pitfalls can only be so fun.

Another killer feature would be letting us make outdoor buildings, but I doubt they’d do something that involved.