Factorio did it right, IMO. V2.0 as a free update to the base game, launch a paid expansion at the same time.

Wube is pretty much the only developer I have faith in to consistently do things right.

Nobody’s mentioned this one yet, perhaps because it’s a bit obscure, but Vib-Ribbon (PS1) has such a unique and endearing OST. I never played the game, but I heard one of the songs and got totally hooked.

Just getting around to trying it now. Will update with further info.

Very first impressions:

Yep, its sexo pokemon snap! If you’re into furry or pokephilia, and enjoy photography, this’ll probably be a fun time. It seems like it is more anthro focused though, not that I’d be a good judge of any of this or anything. >_>;

Right off the bat, the walking animation is very janky, but otherwise it seems surprisingly polished. The tutorial is a bit info dumpy, but it’s not that overwhelming.

Just starting actual gameplay now.

Edit 1: Managed to soft lock myself on the very first quest. Got stuck in a tent flap. Lol. Fixed with a reload.

Edit 2: Now I can’t find this expedition log for the 2nd part of the first quest. This does not bode well. I swear I should work in QA, as I can’t find anyone who’s had this problem.

I’m giving up for tonight. It kinda feels like nobody play tested this.

Is Sapphire Safari… a furry porn version of pokemon snap??? I’m going to try it for shits and giggles because I adore pokemon snap. Wish me luck.

I just tried their site in fennec w/ NoScript and only have their main domain whitelisted. That bar appears at the bottom for me. Not sure what’s going on here.

That honestly makes me want to buy the game. Sadly, it’s not really a genre I enjoy very much.

I’m playing V Rising for the first time, and doing it solo on brutal mode. I have to say it’s been very challenging, but also quite rewarding, and a ton of fun.

The way they do brutal mode is very cool. It’s not just number-based challenge scaling, but the bosses get a bunch of new mechanics as well.

Eleven and twelve still do kinda follow base 10 rules. They literally mean “one left” (ain-lif) and “two left” (twa-lif) with the “over ten” being implied.

I’m not quite sure why we have different words for those two, though. Maybe when we added the 'teens, those two just sounded better than firsteen and seconteen?

I saw this one on one of the GDQs, and it looked like fun. It’s not really my genre of choice, but I’m still a little tempted to pick it up.

Could also be explained be recency bias.

Considering Google’s track record on simplifying UIs by taking away features, I’ll take my chances, and only update for severe threats.

Sadly software updates have turned in to an enshitification vector.

though we would need a lot of community work for parity with Discord

Not sure if it was FUD or not, so please treat this as an unsubstantiated rumour, but I recall another lemming telling me that Matrix was quite insular and not very accepting of outside code contributions.

So if that’s true, it could be a spanner in the gears.

We all know why. Because it’ll make them money.

I started playing Monifactory, a modern Gregtech CEu Minecraft modpack. Someone send help.

Basically extra complex Satisfactory, but everything is blocks.

Oof. That’s a nope.

I mean, they’re very different games… If you’re looking for something like overwatch, then seems like it could be a good match.

And yeah, the League new player experience is god awful. Even by people who still play it, it’s known for its toxicity. Riot let it degenerate into a cesspit because moderation was too difficult/costly, which caused all the friendly players to abandon ship. That means that the only people who still play are either clueless, toxic, addicted, seeking to profit, or somehow immune to vitriol.

Sadly, if you want a casual moba, I’m not sure it exists right now. Maybe ones that were never obscenely popular and still have passionate communities could be more friendly, at least? Smite, HoN, Eternal Return?

If you just want a casual game, then yeah, best to get in with a game that has a lot of other casual players, and Rivals fits that bill right now.

Maybe not that chill, but Liar’s Bar technically meets your requirements.

I played one because I really liked all the character designs. Eventually I stopped playing because it was too much of a daily time commitment, and my own need to be efficient and use all the free time-gated resources was stressing me out. Also, I realised I didn’t really enjoy the core gameplay that much, and the writing was really long-winded.

Kinda goes to show how much likeable characters can carry a game.

Hmm? Not quite sure what you’re asking, but it’s freely available here:

PySolFC (PySolFC is a collection of solitaire card games) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.lufebe16.pysolfc/

Factorio, Minecraft, Stardew Valley. Also solitaire on my phone (PySolFC).

Well, the article says they were in QA, sooo I guess we’re the QA now, and they can just slap an early access label on everything.

That’ll happen when your pollution gets slurped up by the biteys. If you can manage it, a wall with with turrets and an ammo supply belt to feed them is good early solution.

I’m still addicted to the new factorio expansion. 125 hrs on my current save and counting. The factory must grow!

Pepe is a beloved internet meme, not a symbol of hate. Rightoid asshats need to leave pepe and doge the fuck alone. >:(

I will warn you, it’ll push your requirement for understanding game mechanics, and make you solve problems in new ways from the base game. It’s also not feasibly beatable without at least some understanding of circuits, logistic mechanics, and (space) trains.

That said, good luck, and may your factory grow in perpetuity!

It’s not for everyone, but if it’s for you, it’s amazing.

I’d highly recommend beating the base game first if you haven’t already. The complexity really ramps up quite a bit, so if you struggle with the base game, it might be better to hold off. That said, if you’re confident in your problem solving skills and willing to push through some of the tougher bits, you could totally jump right in to Space Age.

I think I’m at around 100 hrs in to SA so far, and maybe (optimistically) half way through, and I’ve loved every bit. Except Gleba, fuck Gleba. :)

So was this just a purely “everyone’s doing it, so the customers (shareholders) expect it, so we’ll follow suit” type thing? Do mass layoffs inspire confidence in the stock so it goes up? It’s hard to understand from a rational position that throwing away money makes money for the investors.

Nova was acquired by a data analytics company. That’s the last build prior to the acquisition.

Thanks, fixed!

I really wanted to like DS. The world seems really interesting, and so does the story. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance, but I found the gameplay to swing between boring and frustrating, with a side of gorgeous scenery.

So no, I don’t think that was just you.

Wordle gets a lot easier with some strategic opening word choices. The basic strategy is to pick words eliminating RSTLNE early (the “wheel of fortune” strategy), as those are the most commonly used letters.

There’s also a more specific strategy aiming to win on the 3rd guess by maximizing common letters and placements using two predetermined opening guesses. “Clint” and “soare” were found to be the most optimal, but any combo on that list would be a very good pick.

I’m not entirely sure since it wasn’t my comment, but personally I wouldn’t find it unreasonable to dislike a platform solely based on who owns it, and want to discourage its use. That’s especially true for someone in the fediverse, as I think most of us ended up here due to the continual enshitification of reddit.

I read it more as someone just venting annoyance about the article relying on twitter embeds in the first place – something that’s not unreasonable to block – more than looking for a solution.

So your reaction to Asmon saying something kinda fuckin racist and then recanting, as opposed to just not saying the racist thing in the first place, is to give him more of your attention?

People like him get popular by manufacturing controversy.

“I’m sorry you found my actions hurtful.”

Just to mention, Fennec’s F-droid page does list the following as an anti-feature:

This app tracks and reports your activity
Connects to various Mozilla services that can track users.

It does say that telemetry has been removed, but that it still connects to services (like Firefox Sync, for example) which could still potentially be used to track you.

That’s not a dealbreaker for me personally, but if it bothers anyone else, it seems like Mull might be the more privacy conscious choice, at the cost of some convenience features.

Ahh, cool! Good to know. I just checked that 0day, and they’re both JS exploits (which I imagine most probably are), so NoScript will probably protect me unless some of my trusted domains get compromised. It’s not ideal, but it’s within my comfort tolerance.

Oh, cool. I hadn’t heard of this one before. I use Fennec. I wonder what the main differences are. I noticed Mull mentions fennec in their F-droid page:

It [Mull] is compiled from source and proprietary blobs are removed using scripts by Relan from [https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild here].

It seems like Mull is more privacy focused?

This might work for consumer markets, but they’ve got b2b partners with deep pockets and expensive lawyers that are not happy. Also, the problem is widespread enough that a class action suit would be a pretty big deal. I don’t think this’ll just blow over.