DFGdanger's recent activity

  1. Comment on Sports entertainment makes me angry in ~talk

  2. Comment on Canada will take part in Eurovision Song Contest 2027 in ~music

    DFGdanger
    Link
    Knock 'em dead, Archspire!

    Knock 'em dead, Archspire!

    5 votes

  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

    DFGdanger
    Link
    Dune: Imperium Love the board game, fav of all time. Combines Worker Placement and Deckbuilding in a wonderful way. Bought it on Android a while back, but it drains the battery quick, makes my...

    Dune: Imperium

    Love the board game, fav of all time. Combines Worker Placement and Deckbuilding in a wonderful way. Bought it on Android a while back, but it drains the battery quick, makes my phone hot, and isn't suited that well to a small screen. Had a board game weekend with some friends I don't get to see often anymore because they are married with young kids. One of them I got to introduce Dune to and he loved it. He plays the digital version of Root (same developer Direwolf Digital) and told us how it supports asynchronous play, and that's how he plays with his coworkers. So we play a couple games. Steam sale comes along and I decide to buy it again there so I can have a better experience. And I picked up a couple expansions (Rise of Ix and Immortality) in a bundle. The rest of the group got Ix for now. Uprising [re-implementation of base game] just became available (we'll prob wait for it to come down in price), I assume Bloodlines is a long ways off (as well as Conspiracy which is releasing IRL this fall).

    Playing on a bigger screen is definitely a much better experience! There are a ton of single player challenges that change up the game and encourage you to think about some of the mechanics in a different way. I had played a few on mobile but I've been tearing through them on desktop. Thankfully, expansion purchases apply across platforms (via your Direwolf account), so I can get access to the expansions on mobile as well - which bring even more challenges, and progress is synced across devices. Cross-play is supported, so I can play a turn on Steam, then play a turn later on Android, against an opponent on iOS.

    The async play has a few problems. 1, just from gameplay perspective, having many breaks in play makes playing long-term strategically really difficult. Sometimes I have to completely re-do my analysis of the game state a bunch of times. I might mess up and chase after some short-term benefit that messes up my long-term plans. It's also just frustrating sometimes to wait hours or overnight for your next turn...but that's what you sign up for. 2, technical perspective, resuming the game shows a ton of animations of what others did which is a bit tedious. There's a skip button but it then shows a loading screen where isn't not even clear how much time you saved. Presentation is flashy but a bit to the detriment of getting the info across. Then, sometimes the game will disconnect me and boot me from the game, when I'm not even taking a turn, for some reason. If you open the game and it's your turn, it will give you a button to jump right to the game which is nice. But if it's not your turn and you wanted to review or plan, it takes several clicks to get back to it. I wish there were a list of games and challenges you've joined/started right on the home screen.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech

    DFGdanger
    Link Parent
    RES on desktop, OldLander on mobile I'm not sure if I'm willing to log in

    RES on desktop, OldLander on mobile

    I'm not sure if I'm willing to log in

    9 votes

  5. Comment on Tildes Survey #10: How often do you visit/read Tildes? (Results) in ~talk

    DFGdanger
    Link
    - Chewed Up - Bite the Curb (Jarrod Alonge)

    I go to church
    Every damn day

    - Chewed Up - Bite the Curb (Jarrod Alonge)

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Should the plural of "milf" be "milfs" or "milves"? in ~humanities.languages

    DFGdanger
    Link
    The collective noun for a group of them is called a Coolidge

    The collective noun for a group of them is called a Coolidge

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Tides Eye | Trailer in ~movies

    DFGdanger
    Link Parent
    My sober ass will only read it this way as I scroll

    My sober ass will only read it this way as I scroll

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Steam Next Fest June 2026 in ~games

    DFGdanger
    Link
    Kind of last minute looked into a few. Had some fun with antigravity racer AGX GP. It's a pretty arcade-y approach, which I like. I kind of sucked at it, squeaking by with bronze medals as I went....

    Kind of last minute looked into a few. Had some fun with antigravity racer AGX GP. It's a pretty arcade-y approach, which I like. I kind of sucked at it, squeaking by with bronze medals as I went. Probably would take me a while to master.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on What are your favorite custom games? in ~games

    DFGdanger
    Link
    StarCraft Brood War Fastest Possible Map: Your base spawns right next to (touching) a bunch of minerals stacked on top of eachother, and a bunch of vespene geysers semi-stacked closeby. Lets you...

    StarCraft Brood War

    • Fastest Possible Map: Your base spawns right next to (touching) a bunch of minerals stacked on top of eachother, and a bunch of vespene geysers semi-stacked closeby. Lets you mine crazy fast off 1 base as the workers don't have to spend any time moving.
    • Penguin Warz: You spawn zealots in your base, get currency for killing enemies. You can spend currency on "hero" units (no XP or special abilities really just buffed HP and attack). The zergling can really quickly mow through zealots, the hero zealot can beat the zergling and kind of camouflages in with the free spawn ones. Then there are a bunch more.
    • Cannon Defense: typical tower defense game but used some weird glitch to add fog of war over your own stuff and let you build cannons on top of each other.

    WarCraft 3

    • Footmen Frenzy: pretty similar idea to Penuin Warz except with custom WC3 heroes. Could upgrade the spawning units.

    Halo 3

    • Rocket Race: Teams of two (a driver and a passenger with a rocket launcher and unlimited ammo) drive a mongoose (atv) around with invincibility and try to get to the checkpoint before the other teams do.

    Halo Reach

    • Infection: One player spawns as a "zombie" with fast movement, no shields, and an energy sword and has to kill the human players (who have pistols and shotguns), who will then respawn on the zombie team...until all the humans are gone.

    Celeste

    • Loopy Lagoon: One of the maps from the Strawberry Jam mod. It adds these "cereal blocks" that are really fun to interact with, flinging you far.
    • Strawberry Orchard: you have to carry a jar of jam with you through the level similar to carrying Theo. You can throw it into glass tubes and bounce along with springs and catch it as it comes out the other side.
    • Square the Circle: Cool neon aesthetic, cool use of red bubbles spinning against moving kevin blocks
    9 votes

  11. Comment on Taskmaster Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full episode in ~tv

    DFGdanger
    Link Parent
    The pod link takes me to the Kumail episode

    The pod link takes me to the Kumail episode

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Polyphia - CAN YOU FEEL IT (2026) in ~music

    DFGdanger
    Link Parent
    The video itself has a warning on it at the beginning as well ("contains content that may be disturbing to some viewers"). Appreciate you leaving the comment though. I tried to communicate that...

    The video itself has a warning on it at the beginning as well ("contains content that may be disturbing to some viewers"). Appreciate you leaving the comment though. I tried to communicate that info through tags on the post but it's quite possible for people to click without reading them. Considered marking nsfw but thought that was probably a bit much. Also I don't know how to do it lol, do you just use a tag?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Taskmaster Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full episode in ~tv

  15. Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic story trailer in ~games

  16. Comment on freemediaheckyeah - The largest collection of free stuff on the internet in ~tech

    DFGdanger
    Link Parent
    I've been using it for a while now; it's the closest thing I've found to what I want. You can have it send you emails and you can have it integrated into Google calendar (or others, I'm sure)....

    I've been using it for a while now; it's the closest thing I've found to what I want. You can have it send you emails and you can have it integrated into Google calendar (or others, I'm sure).

    It's not perfect - sometimes you gets false positives on similarly named artists, sometimes a certain release will fly under their radar (and therefore yours). But overall I do think it's pretty great.

    6 votes

  17. Comment on Kings of the losers in ~life

  18. Comment on ‘Stargate’ TV series from Martin Gero not moving forward at Amazon in ~tv

    DFGdanger
    Link Parent
    "Now that's the power of Egyptology!"

    "Now that's the power of Egyptology!"

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Taskmaster Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full episode in ~tv

  20. Comment on ‘Stargate’ TV series from Martin Gero not moving forward at Amazon in ~tv

    DFGdanger
    Link
    What a bummer :(

    What a bummer :(

    6 votes