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Comment on Let's build a playlist! in ~music
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger Link ParentSimilar experience: a while back, I got MK11 and MKX, mostly out of nostalgia. I don't have any interest in gitting gud at fighting games so I was playing through the story modes. Mainly to play a...Similar experience: a while back, I got MK11 and MKX, mostly out of nostalgia. I don't have any interest in gitting gud at fighting games so I was playing through the story modes. Mainly to play a variety of fighters/styles and matchups. The story is so stupid and the motivation for characters fighting each other is paper thin sometimes. I finished 11 but not X.
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Comment on DuckDuckGo seems like a significantly worse search engine than Google despite SEO bloat, and I think community discussions mislead people by omitting that in ~tech
DFGdanger Link ParentFor completeness...You can set this up in chrome-based browsers too. chrome://settings/searchEnginesFor completeness...You can set this up in chrome-based browsers too. chrome://settings/searchEngines
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger (edited )LinkPerfect Dark Decompilation This project takes the decompiled source code of the N64 game Perfect Dark, and adds in QOL features - modern Xbox dual stick controls, keyboard controls, etc. You just...Perfect Dark Decompilation
This project takes the decompiled source code of the N64 game Perfect Dark, and adds in QOL features - modern Xbox dual stick controls, keyboard controls, etc. You just need to download and unzip the latest release, create a
datafolder, drop in your Perfect Dark ROM, and rename it to what they specify in the readme. On Steam Deck, you can't just run the binary because dependencies are missing. But if you add the game to Steam and configure it to run with Steam Linux Runtime in the Compatibility section, it works.Unfortunately I ran into a couple scenarios where the game unexpectedly freezes. Near the end of the second level (on Perfect Agent difficulty, if that's relevant), and playing vertical split screen multiplayer (on an external monitor, horizontal split didn't seem to have any issues).
Some of their default button remap choices were a little weird to me, but on N64 they did overload A and B with a lot of functions. Maybe when this gets into a more stable state I'll play around with the config.
Portal Revolution
A free mod for Portal 2 with a new campaign. I've played for 90 minutes and I still can't make orange portals. The voice for the GladOS replacement AI is kind of annoying and hasn't made me laugh. I'm dropping it.
Celeste
Decided to give the D-sides (mod) a shot after watching the speedrun at AGDQ this year. I made it to the first checkpoint of 1D but I think that might be where my journey ends. That screen is brutal.
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Comment on Library asks users to verify that books actually exist before making a loan request because AI invents book titles in ~tech
DFGdanger Link ParentLast I read, they are now just "posts". The funniest suggestion I saw was to call them "xeets".Are posts still called "tweets" on X?
Last I read, they are now just "posts". The funniest suggestion I saw was to call them "xeets".
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Comment on Gladiator II | Official trailer in ~movies
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Comment on Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it’s a social network in ~tech
DFGdanger LinkHorror movie protagonist: "Oh my God...This isn't a music app! heavy breathing It's a fucking SOCIAL NETWORK!! chorus of screams <quick cuts to other characters' horrified faces interlaced with...Horror movie protagonist: "Oh my God...This isn't a music app! heavy breathing It's a fucking SOCIAL NETWORK!! chorus of screams <quick cuts to other characters' horrified faces interlaced with images of awful comments>
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger Link ParentNow's a great time to pick it up, it's on sale for $2 USD on steam until the 11th. I've replayed the base game including the B and C sides a bunch of times, and that video inspired me to try out...Now's a great time to pick it up, it's on sale for $2 USD on steam until the 11th.
I've replayed the base game including the B and C sides a bunch of times, and that video inspired me to try out the D sides
I got to the first checkpoint on 1D and might have to give up lol. Stamina management is so frustrating.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
DFGdanger (edited )LinkAllegaeon - technical death metal with some progressive elements. Their last album DAMNUM (2022) was incredible. I listened the crap out of it when it released and every few months come back to...Allegaeon - technical death metal with some progressive elements. Their last album DAMNUM (2022) was incredible. I listened the crap out of it when it released and every few months come back to it. Some standout tracks:
To Carry My Grief Through Torpor and Silence - A demonstration of the absurd pace the vocalist can deliver harsh vocals, the dynamic tempo changes and classical guitar interlude. I also like some of the lyrics a lot, though they are hard to make out especially if you're not that used to tech death (like me haha).
I come to my feet and careening
Screaming into the empty
Looking for something, for anything
Other than me to carry my grief away...
My tongue is laced with blades of ire
To scrape away this taste
Left by tears and rain and ashes and waste
The faceless coward within me glowers
Taking and giving out miseryCalled Home - doing their best Opeth impression. The song is about coping with the loss of a friend taking their life. To be honest a lot of the lyrics don't work well for me but the delivery is really something else. There are a lot of beautifully sung clean sections. There's also a reference to a poem:
All dim, all pale, so lift me on the pyre
The feast is over, the lamps expirefrom The House of Caesar by Viola Garvin. American Author Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian)'s suicide note read
All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over and the lamps expire.so I guess it is more of a reference to this but they quoted the original poem verbatim instead of the modified version.
If this all sounds too depressing, DAMNUM has a lot of that, but they have some more light-hearted things in their body of work.
Some of their songs are just about natural processes like cell division (Interphase // Meiosis) or volcanic action (Terrathaw and the Quake)
The video for 1.618 has them parodying different subgenres.
They also have done some covers of prog rock bands (Subdivisions and Animate by Rush and Roundabout by Yes).
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Comment on Funny, crazy and silly mods in ~games
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger Link ParentThe World Series of Board Gaming tournament adds this rule to the base game: I saw an article somewhere calling them the "Power 4" (I guess borrowing the nomenclature from Magic's Power 9). In the...The World Series of Board Gaming tournament adds this rule to the base game:
The following four bird cards may not be played in Round 1: Chihuahuan Raven, Common Raven, Franklin’s Gull, Killdeer
I saw an article somewhere calling them the "Power 4" (I guess borrowing the nomenclature from Magic's Power 9).
In the game I won I had the American Crow, whose power is juuust a little weaker than the ravens haha. But extremely flexible.
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Comment on What are some great time savers on CLI that you would recommend? in ~comp
DFGdanger Linkbtop is another good system monitor I prefer micro over nano (the default shortcuts are more natural) rg (ripgrep) is great for searching for text within files fd (fd-find) is great for searching...btopis another good system monitorI prefer
microovernano(the default shortcuts are more natural)rg(ripgrep) is great for searching for text within filesfd(fd-find) is great for searching for files by namerangeris a good file explorerautojumpcan help you navigate quickly to folders you've been to before -
Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger LinkMarvel's Midnight Suns Was free on Epic Games last week. I played through the intro/tutorial bit up to customizing my character and just about to leave for the next mission. The writing seems...Marvel's Midnight Suns
Was free on Epic Games last week. I played through the intro/tutorial bit up to customizing my character and just about to leave for the next mission. The writing seems pretty poor. Every time Iron Man makes a quip, I can recognize in my brain that it's "quippy" but doesn't make me smile or laugh. I didn't seem to be able to reliably see the enemies' health before I attacked them or used environmental actions (ie bashing an enemy with a nearby rock). Maybe I was doing something wrong. Unsure at this point how I feel about the system of accruing hero points to play certain cards, would need to play more. There were a bunch of cutscenes, and the plot is heavily in the magical part of the Marvel universe which I like the least. I like Blade, but the few lines I heard from him didn't do anything for me. Overall, not enjoying it. Probably not picking it back up.
Slay The Spire: The Board Game
Finally finished the 4p run we started a couple weeks ago. I think it was about 5 hours for each session. We will probably play again, and hopefully we can get through it a bit faster. I would say the run itself went very smoothly. Biggest hiccup I'd say was that we didn't flip any energy relics off the first boss so we were all stuck on 3 for a while. We didn't take too much damage and were able to aggressively path to elites and pile up a bunch of relics.
I played as the Watcher and my first few card rewards were Calm/Wrath switching ones and it felt like my deck was doing it's thing pretty early on. They nerfed Rushdown though! Can't go infinite. Which makes a lot of sense for a cooperative game. They buffed Alpha though...in that they skipped it and Beta and go straight to Omega. That was fun, but still a bit tricky to find the time to play it and not take a bunch of damage.
I also started a 2p game with the game owner as Defect. Orbs seem way more powerful in that they can be evoked from anywhere, not just the front, and Dark orbs scale with number of powers in play rather than over time. Only got through the first act with him but also having a good time.
If you like the StS video game, like board games, and can stomach the price, I would recommend it!
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Comment on Co-op game recommendations in ~games
DFGdanger LinkPortal 2? Gears 5? (I don't care for the story but the gameplay is fun)Portal 2?
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Comment on Bro summer waits for us all in ~life
DFGdanger Link ParentI'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, 'cause we're all dudes, yeah 🎵I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, 'cause we're all dudes, yeah 🎵
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Comment on Suggestions for games with addicting skill mechanics that you can play while listening to an audiobook or podcast? in ~games
DFGdanger LinkSome Android games I fidget with: Minesweeper - The Clean One Spider Solitaire Super Hexagon (also available on Steam)Some Android games I fidget with:
Super Hexagon (also available on Steam)
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Comment on Your favorite deeply unpopular music in ~music
DFGdanger LinkComplex and frenetic electronic music: Jorts - 201 Orchestral technical death metal: Fleshgod Apocalypse - And the Vulture Beholds Sort of a hybrid? Savant - FantastiqueComplex and frenetic electronic music: Jorts - 201
Orchestral technical death metal: Fleshgod Apocalypse - And the Vulture Beholds
Sort of a hybrid? Savant - Fantastique
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger Link ParentNo, I haven't tried the expansions. My friend whose copy we were playing did say he was considering getting one.No, I haven't tried the expansions. My friend whose copy we were playing did say he was considering getting one.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DFGdanger LinkBZZZT Last week I mentioned the reviews saying it takes 2 hours to beat. It took me 4.5 on normal mode, though I wasn't speedrunning it. Most of the time I was trying to collect all the bolts as I...BZZZT
Last week I mentioned the reviews saying it takes 2 hours to beat. It took me 4.5 on normal mode, though I wasn't speedrunning it. Most of the time I was trying to collect all the bolts as I went (which isn't necessary). For fun I also went back and replayed the first 'row' of levels (so about 1/4) to collect the 'perfect run' trophies (where you collect all the bolts and finish in target time) before trying to beat the rest of the levels. As of today I have gotten the perfect trophies on all of the levels, so basically 100% the game on normal, and it took me 10 hours. So, I think I got my money's worth, and I'd recommend it if you like platforming games.
Only achievement left at the moment is beating the game on Insane mode. The dev just dropped an update with a Very Easy mode, and they hinted in the steam thread that they will be adding more difficult stuff later, so maybe I'll come back and revisit it then.
I like the music in the game, it's got that retro feel you'd expect. Minor gripe is that there are a few vocal lines thrown in that I could have done without (typically a robotic voice saying generic things like "more power"). The sprite work for the enemies and environments is also good.
Gameplay nitpicks: when you start a level, you have to wait a second or two for your character to do a little animation. I'm not really mad about the time lost but it makes it feel unresponsive and when you're doing time trials it's not good to not know when you can start dashing. After a while you get the timing down but it still feels a little annoying. Second nitpick is in the same category, after you finish a dash there's a cooldown to when you can dash again or use your second jump, and there were a lot of times I pressed the button a little early and the input is lost. I think it would feel better if this window was a little more forgiving. However I can understand if it is the way it is to enforce tight challenging gameplay.
Wingspan
Played my 3rd game of this and came away with my first win. Lesson learned from last time: cheap birds early are good. Lesson not learned: don't commit too hard to the round objectives. I ended up taking 1st in 2 rounds and tied for 1st in the last. The game felt pretty tight, in that I was always just barely able to get the resources (cards, food, eggs) I needed to do things just before the round would end. One of my opponents stumbled in the opening but developed a really strong engine that would have clobbered me if the game went on another round. The other opponent had a massive point lead from birds on the board but didn't spend any actions in the last round getting eggs on them (which I think was probably overall a mistake, though he did have some compensation from objective cards and getting additional birds down).
There are a lot of things I really appreciate about the design of the game - how certain food types can be a little bit scarce but it's really easy to convert other types, how some of the spaces let you squeeze out a little more from an action if you give up a resource from another action type, how you lose an action each round but your individual actions become much more powerful as the game goes on.
I think the thing I still don't really like is the randomness of the birds. After playing a few times I have a bit of a better eye for some of the birds that you want to try to take quickly if you see them...but sometimes you get 3 birds that no one wants sitting there all round, and you don't know what the top of the deck will give you. And all 3 games I seem to struggle to find really good engine-building birds, maybe it's bad luck or maybe I'm just not drawing enough.
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Comment on Poppy - New Way Out (2024) in ~music
DFGdanger LinkI like this one, maybe a little more than V.A.N. The Disturbed-like "augh! augh!" is fun. The flat "get up" before the sort-of-breakdown reminded me a bit of her "go" from Bite Your Teeth. Also...I like this one, maybe a little more than V.A.N. The Disturbed-like "augh! augh!" is fun. The flat "get up" before the sort-of-breakdown reminded me a bit of her "go" from Bite Your Teeth. Also the part "I caught myself before the bottom" very faintly reminds me (sound-wise) of the part in Spiritbox's Circle With Me that goes "It could all be yours, if you echo birds of prey". Does anyone know if this song will be part of an album?
I hope she puts out another album with a similar style to I Disagree sometime. EAT was close but not quite. I know she's going to bounce around genres and do whatever she wants, and that's fine, just hoping :)
Xilent - Chemical
Zomboy - Vancouver Beatdown
Poppy - Concrete
Black Crown Initiate - Stench of the Iron Age
Rivers of Nihil - Subtle Change (Including the Forest of Transition and Dissatisfaction Dance)