No comment.

Can’t have enshitification if your product was shit to begin with

The Java edition of Minecraft is also pretty good for having no microtransactions.

Yeah I agree. the effort to profit ratio on speed running is so low there is no way anyone is doing it for profit over their love for the game.

I tried speed running a game once and it was exhausting. It’s like accusing math professors of publishing papers for the money.

I believe there is a a keyboard case called Clicks however it appears to only be aimed at iPhones. If it’s a huge deal to you this is one possible solution.

I also think it’s really hard to engineer a good slide phone. Modern smartphones are already really compact. So you either (1) make an affordable slide phone with terrible specs and ok engineering or (2) make a slide phone with excellent specs and engineering but costs a huge amount of money. And I am going to guess most small companies cannot engineer anything like (2) so you just end up with slide phones with bad specs and it’s only selling point is that it has a sliding keyboard. This phone will not sell well.

Dammit I was hoping for giant dicks

Straight and real

A couple years back I found my old Gameboy advanced. I tried to play Kirby on it and I was taken back by how much it sucked. The screen was way smaller than I remember it being and there was no backlight which meant I had to play the game in a well lit room. I don’t think I could ever go back to those days.

And if you try ace attorney and liked it then I would highly recommend Ghost Trick by the same creator.

Yeah cheating is a lot worse for competitive games than for casual games. For example, it doesn’t matter how well you make a fps game, if every game has one cheater in it, no one will play your game. Cheating affects more casual games as well though, although it usually only affects the economy (eg. If someone gets infinite resources with cheats then the price of that resource will plummet).

So is Valve going to make a Black Mesa 2?

Pizza party! Woohoo! 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

Power of Evil :^)

Dammit PoE is way too overloaded of an acronym. I thought you were referring to Path of Exile and got confused.

Oh wow. I only learned of the game this year so I might just be living under a rock. I don’t watch LTT often, do they do game reviews now?

Oh one game I forgot to include is Ghost Trick. It’s so lesser known I forgot about it.

This game is amazing. It’s by the creators of Phoenix Wright and it was originally made for the DS back in 2010. It was a commercial failure because Capcom didn’t advertise it at all and since it’s released it’s been pretty obscure. It was only ported to PC this year.

I think this is a game you should go in blind. I highly recommend this game.

I don’t see people mention Cross Codes often and no one has mentioned here yet so I think it’s “lesser known”.

It’s one of the games I got. I’m 20 hours in and the game is amazing so far.

The game can be pretty challenging sometimes so I’m not sure if it’s for everyone. I’d describe the game as a MMORPG but without the MMO. It has a lot less grinding than a MMO and a lot more puzzles.

I saw some people compare it to Zelda but I feel like that’s only accurate for some aspects.

You lucky bastard (a lot of people wish they can experience the game for the first time again). Have fun!

The best part of playing the witness was it helped me discover Joseph Anderson. I don’t really care for his video essays (a tad on the pretentious side for me) but his live play throughs are gold.

Holy shit. I’m in.

wtf

Minecraft has a decent wiki IIRC. I remember learning a lot about Redstone and circuits there.

Also in Undertale, when they hug.

Yakuza 0 - When she finds the wrist watch

Outer Wilds is kinda spooky though. I guess it depends on how old the kid is.

Red Alert 2 & Yuri’s Revenge are my favorite games of all time. I sunk so much time as a kid beating the campaign and then making custom maps and levels for fun. The installer and the cut scenes were so memorable. It also had an amazing sound track. It was also one of the few RTS I tried at the time where the game didn’t feel like it took forever. For contrast I remember playing some C&C and also Dune 2000 as a kid and I remember each campaign easily taking over an hour to complete. I also remember it got kind of boring fast.

Aside from those some other honorable mentions:

• SimCity 3000: My first sim city game. It was fantastic with an amazing sound track.
• Pokemon Red: My first pokemon game.
• Runescape: First MMO I’ve ever played.

I miss Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium. What a wholesome guy who had to put up with all of our BS.

What remains of Edith finch.

Also if you have certain phobias I can definitely see this game being an issue.

I own a wine empire and a giant gold clock. Pretty cool.

I guess I’d go to the bus tunnel and check if any of my wine is ready yet.

Replaying stardew valley in anticipation of the big update.

Poggggggggggggg

Oof. I’m in the exact opposite boat. I’ve made a dozen friends from playing the game. I’ve been playing since season 2.

I love the setting tho

Undertale

Ghost trick (it’s on steam now woohoo)

BioShock trilogy

The original Ace Attorney trilogy

Also +1 to outer wilds. It’s been mentioned a dozen times here already. It’s my game of the decade.

Shouldn’t need to be mentioned but play all of these games blind because story is a huge part of them.

I’m kind of sad that the RTS genre kind of died. I like RTS games and I hope they can make a comeback one day.

I tried using a pi3 but it kept crashing from going OOM like every 2 days (maybe I had too many devices?). I have it running on a more proper home server now and it’s always up as long as there’s no power outage.

Weird. It was the first result for me: https://www.home-assistant.io/

Home Assistant is great, but it has a steep learning curve imo and it takes time to set up. I would only recommend it to tech savvy people.

That being said, if you are tech savvy (familiar with Linux, docker, self hosting, etc) then it is extremely powerful and it works with pretty much everything.