Still waiting for gloomwood (spiritual successor to Thief) to come out of early access. Probably will be a few years yet, tho.

Thanks for mentioning harper, hadn’t heard of it until now.

And really horrific events like the holocaust must’ve had countless people praying to be spared, but since most of them died anyway, that must mean the Holocaust was God’s will, since that’s what religious people always say when prayers go unanswered.

Your family member survived cancer? “God saved them!” Your family member died of cancer despite praying? “Must’ve been God’s will, He works in mysterious ways!”

As a thief fan, Dishonored’s stealth system felt terrible in comparison.

Honestly can’t disagree, it’s unbelievably polished and high quality for being free.

These are the best I’ve found that also have no trackers in them (most are in f-droid, a couple from aurora/playstore):

• shattered pixel dungeon (roguelike)
• breakout 71
• endless sky (space trader)
• pewpew live (stick shooter)
• vroomies (odd swipe racer)
• Datawing (super fun racer/timetrial drifting game, best out of all of them IMO. Not on f-droid)
• the frostrune (point and click adventure)
• ScummVM (emulator for classic point and click games, many of which are free)
• Arx Libertatis (an engine to run Arx Fatalis, though you need the OG game files, which isn’t free, but… Yarr)

I think Star Wars Kotor and Kotor 2 have android ports. Those are great RPG’s, but not free.

Even after adding a dash of powder detergent to the pre-rinse (by just tossing some in)?

You can also eliminate mineral build-up from hard water by adding a cup of white vinegar to a cup or dish in the top rack (left facing up).

Also on summit. Not only is it a really nice to use app in general, it also has the best mod tools that I’ve seen in any app so far.

100%. An android device will recieve updates for 7 years in the best case scenario (on average more like 4 years), while a steamdeck is fully supported with mainline Linux, so it’ll continue to recieve support for 20 years at a minimum (support for 486 CPU’s from the early 90’s are only just now being dropped).

Honestly deserved since they union busted so hard recently.

GNU Taler would be a good global solution. It’s an anonymous (for the buyer) digital cash. Do far its been adopted by some swiss banks.

There’s more info on it over at !money@slrpnk.net

Just gonna throw this out there; If you’ve never had a Nintendo Wii, I’d genuinely recommend picking one up and modding it.

My last console was a PS3, after that I went exclusively PC since every newer console seemed far too expensive for the very few exclusives that interested me, and they began to charge a monthly fee to play games online. The only console I didn’t have from that generation was the Wii, as I’d always written it off as a gimmick. But after taking a closer look at its library, it’s surprisingly packed with good titles, and the motion controls are a pretty unique way to interact with games.

I picked one up a few months ago off ebay, and even for a lot that included a Wii balance board, it was less than $80. Modding it was extremely easy, and after it was done, I was amazed to find that it has access to a surprisingly polished online homebrew store full of emulators and cool little homebrew games that download and install with a single click.

That means the console has access to:

• The entire Wii library (Including unique modern light-gun style games, like Deadspace: Extraction, plus Wii fit with the balance board, which is actually really fun)
• The entire gamecube library with the Nintendont emulator (best paired with either a gamecube controller or the Wii Classic controller)
• Pretty much every retro console such as SNES, Genesis, GB, GBC, GBA, etc with emulators
• The highlights of the N64 and NeoGeo catalog thanks to being ported to the Virtual Console (the Wii shop is dead, so you’ll need to sail to get those).
• You can even still play online in Mario Kart thanks to modders, and it’s still active!

All for less than $100. It’s an absolute gem of a console, especially when paired with sailing the high seas (which is really easy since the Wii has an SD card slot, so you can slam it full of stuff), and has quickly become my favorite of all time. I sold every other console I’ve ever owned, but I suspect I’ll be keeping the Wii for the foreseeable future due to its versatility and ease of use (especially for retro games, no messing around with RetroArch’s horrible interface!)

But it is possible to pick up a cheap used office PC off ebay and stick a used GPU in it, which would let someone play almost any game on the market for much less than a console.

It certainly was my kind of game growing up when I had a lot of free time, but even then, I wasn’t super into grinding, I just did it to get to the quests, which I very much enjoyed.

If there was a server with virtually no grinding and just quests to where I could play it essentially like an online point’n’click adventure with some combat, I’d hit it for sure. :)

I tried a couple of those a few years back, but even with the xp multipliers, it seemed like a bit too much of a time commitment :(

Uhh, no? I pointed out the good parts about it that stand out even to this day, and that I had a much higher tolerance for endless grinding when I was younger (the clear negative of the game).

Your response is leads me to believe you only read the first few words of my comment.

I played the older rune scape growing up, like a lot, it was my first MMO, and also my last, since nothing else scratched the same itch.

The draw of the game, at least for me, were two things.

One: the punishment for dying was losing all but 3 of your items, so there were high stakes that made enemy encounters kinda exciting. It was pretty unique at the time, though maybe Ultima Online had that too, not sure.

Two: the quests in run escape actually slapped. Unlike literally every other MMO on the market (which had simple fetch quests or kill X amount of things quests), Rune scape had really well written, funny, interesting quests that often played like an older point’n’click adventure, many of which gave really unique and odd rewards that you could practically use in other parts of the game.

Those just blew my wee little mind back then, and I was absolutely hooked on it. I think in particular the quests would hold up, even against modern titles.

The downside was to get to those quests, you had to grind like a motherfucker to get the required skill levels to start it. That padded out the play time by hundreds of hours, but doing it with friends or chatting while you did cooked some lobster for the 300th time made it bearable, sometimes even soothing to zone out to.

I could never tolerate the grind today like 12 year old me could, it’s unbearable, but if I could play a version of runescspe that removed the grind, I’d be tempted just to play allthe quests I never got to.

My instance and Beehaw still have that earlier friendliness (IMO, at least).

The threadiverse has gotten a bit more hostile since then, but on the whole I still find it pretty friendly, with many pleasant convos and sharing of useful info, but perhaps that’s just the places I visit here.

Ahh. Still might be worth considering though, since pixelfed and mastodon have a different crowd she might jive with better.

You could use the GPU to help host a peertube instance.