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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentThanks for the additional bugfixes! And I definitely want CGA to be a place where re-nominating games is possible. I figure the population and their interests will shift over time (we’re already...Thanks for the additional bugfixes!
And I definitely want CGA to be a place where re-nominating games is possible. I figure the population and their interests will shift over time (we’re already seeing the effects of a significant shift since last time!). So, a game that didn’t do well in a previous round of voting might do better if re-nominated again later, especially if someone goes to bat for it.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 2 in ~society
kfwyre Link ParentConflicted here too. I think what we're seeing is a result of the fact there's been abstention/negligence at all the other levels that we could be addressing the issue of school shootings, which...Conflicted here too.
I think what we're seeing is a result of the fact there's been abstention/negligence at all the other levels that we could be addressing the issue of school shootings, which has thus forced its "solution" down to the level of individual parent responsibility.
That isn't a solution, and the broader systemic factors causing the shootings will continue unchecked as they have for decades now.
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Comment on Humble Choice - March 2026 in ~games
kfwyre (edited )LinkWell, well, well, if it isn't eight Windows-only games that run on Linux anyway... Everyone say it with me now: PROTON IS MAGICWell, well, well, if it isn't eight Windows-only games that run on Linux anyway...
Everyone say it with me now: PROTON IS MAGIC
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Humble Choice - March 2026
March 2026's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page OpenCritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Tempest Rising 79 85 / 88 Win 🟨...
March 2026's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
Steam Page OpenCritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Tempest Rising 79 85 / 88 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Chants of Sennaar 82 98 / 98 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Sworn 72 71 / 83 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Etrian Odyssey III HD -- -- / 89 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Bread & Fred 69 74 / 79 Win 🟨 Playable 🟨 Gold Zero Hour -- 65 / 78 Win ❌ Unsupported 🟨 Gold Smalland: Survive the Wild 76 83 / 81 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Hard West 2 79 76 / 81 Win ❌ Unsupported 🟨 Gold Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 2 in ~society
kfwyre LinkFather who gave gun to Georgia school shooting suspect for Christmas is guilty of 2nd-degree murderFather who gave gun to Georgia school shooting suspect for Christmas is guilty of 2nd-degree murder
A Georgia man who gave his teenage son the gun he’s accused of using to kill two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday.
Jurors took less than two hours to find Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, northeast of Atlanta. Gray now joins a growing number of parents being held responsible in court after children were accused in shootings across the country.
Colin Gray was found guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo. Georgia law defines second-degree murder as causing the death of a child by committing the crime of cruelty to children. Gray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killings of teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentYou’ve got three more votes on your ballot if you want to use them.You’ve got three more votes on your ballot if you want to use them.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentWe use a script to tally the votes so they have to be formatted in a specific way. Can you make sure your titles match the ones in the table and the votes go in parentheses so they’ll get counted?...We use a script to tally the votes so they have to be formatted in a specific way.
Can you make sure your titles match the ones in the table and the votes go in parentheses so they’ll get counted?
Example:
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre (edited )LinkCGA Announcement: 2026-03-03 Patch Notes Rollover decay strengthened from 30 -> 70% Seasonal voting event extended by 48 hours Voting table updated with new rollover data Hi CGA players! Current...CGA Announcement: 2026-03-03 Patch Notes
- Rollover decay strengthened from 30 -> 70%
- Seasonal voting event extended by 48 hours
- Voting table updated with new rollover data
Hi CGA players! Current nominations were getting steamrolled by rollover votes, so our dev team has been hard at work implementing our most recent balance patch based on player feedback.
What This Means for You:
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If you haven’t already voted and would like to, nothing changes. Vote as you see fit!
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If you have already voted, please check the updated table and edit your ballot if necessary.
Voting will now close 48 hours from the time of this post.
I apologize for the confusion! Such are the perils of running a live service Tildes event. I thank everyone for their patience, and a huge thank you to the devs, especially @Boojum, who collaborated with me on identifying the problem and finding a solution.
Also, if someone could check my work on the updated numbers, I’d appreciate it. I put them in hastily from my phone at work, so I might have messed some up. If there are any errors let me know and I’m happy to correct them.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentThanks again, Boojum! You saved me a ton of time. Also, the breakdown of the different columns is very illuminating. I think this is a much more reasonable outcome than what we had before. Unless...Thanks again, Boojum! You saved me a ton of time. Also, the breakdown of the different columns is very illuminating.
I think this is a much more reasonable outcome than what we had before.
Unless I hear any counters, I’m going to move forward with this. I’ll ping everyone tomorrow, note the changes, encourage people to edit their ballots if necessary, and extend the deadline.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre (edited )Link ParentI appreciate all the feedback, y’all! It sounds like adjusting the votes is the best way forward. I’d like to keep things relatively simple. I also don’t want vote normalization to be dependent on...I appreciate all the feedback, y’all! It sounds like adjusting the votes is the best way forward.
I’d like to keep things relatively simple. I also don’t want vote normalization to be dependent on a current number of voters, because I want people to be able to go into voting knowing what the scores are, rather than the outcome potentially changing based on how many people participate that round.
I played around with a couple different person-dependent formulas but couldn’t really find an elegant solution. I think just having a higher flat decay will work independent of population size, simply by nature of it cutting out so much?
With that in mind:
Current Proposal:
- Change the decay from 30% to 70%.
The raw votes for returning games from last time ranged from 17-32.
At 30% decay, this brought their rollover range to 12-22.
A 70% decay instead compresses the range down to 5-10. Not nothing, but not insurmountable either (equivalent to 1-2 people maxing out their votes on them). It’s an additional support but a game won’t win on that alone.
- Add in Boosts as normal.
The nominations round is current and it definitely doesn’t feel right to me to adjust these, so I say we keep them as is.
Lufia II got +9
Sid Meier’s Pirates! got +6
Aria of Sorrow, A Link to the Past, The Grue That Binds, and Back in a Flash all got +3- Edit ballots if needed.
People are always welcome to edit their ballots up until voting closes, but in this case we can formalize it as an option. I can ping everyone and extend the deadline.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
I haven’t run the numbers officially with this plan yet and won’t be able to do so until later, so if anyone has the time and wherewithal to do that before I get to it, feel free. I feel like seeing the current standings that way could give us a better lay of the land and whether or not 70% is a good target.
For a not quite exact reference, I suspect it’ll look a lot like @Boojum’s table here which used a slightly higher decay.
Also, big credit to Boojum for running the numbers and raising the issue with me in the first place.
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Comment on CGA-2026-03 🕹️🐸🕌🔔 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls) in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentNo worries! I always keep the Pastebin I send to hosts updated, but I don’t think that’s very clear in my hosting instructions. I’ll add that for this next round. Also, frogs aren’t around in...No worries! I always keep the Pastebin I send to hosts updated, but I don’t think that’s very clear in my hosting instructions. I’ll add that for this next round.
Also, frogs aren’t around in post-2010 gaming? Sounds like they’re the perfect CGA mascot then!
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre (edited )Link@balooga @Boojum @CannibalisticApple @JCPhoenix @J-Chiptunator @Lapbunny @PetitPrince @sotix @vili @xk3 A quick poll to all people who have already voted in this CGA round: Did you vote based most...@balooga
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@xk3A quick poll to all people who have already voted in this CGA round:
- Did you vote based most on what you wanted to play, or was it based on which scores you most wanted to raise?
There is no right/wrong answer, by the way. I’m just trying to get a feel for things.
The Issue:
There’s a big imbalance between the number of participants from our first round of voting and our current round. As such, the rollover votes are carrying a LOT of weight.
For example: Back in a Flash is currently tied for 7th place, but it has received NO votes this round.
Meanwhile, Space Rogue is tied for 16th place, and it’s got the most votes this round and showed up on 6/11 ballots so far.
I’m worried that, right now, rollover votes are so strongly weighted that they’re effectively negating current votes.
On the other hand, if a lot of people who wanted to play Back in a Flash saw that it was likely to win anyway, they might have decided to put their points elsewhere. I don’t know if the lack of votes on it actually indicates a lack of interest in it or not.
Potential Solutions:
- Leave everything as is.
This is the simplest option, but I fear it might be unsatisfying. I’m not sure the games at the top are indicative of everyone’s interests, so that’s also why I’m interested in hearing about how people voted (because maybe they actually are?)
- Retcon the rollover votes.
Perhaps we change the decay value to, say, 50% or 70%? Or we go with @vili’s suggestion of normalizing it per-person?
It admittedly would feel bad to change up the rules mid-process. I don’t want anyone to feel cheated by that, but I also don’t want anyone to feel cheated by the rollover votes either.
- Some other third option?
I’m open to ideas! CGA is collaborative, so if you have another potential solution, I’d love to hear it.
Let me know your thoughts on your own voting process, as well as the potential changes (if any). I want to make sure we’re having this conversation out in the open so that I’m not pulling the rug out under from anyone.
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Comment on CGA-2026-03 🕹️🐸🕌🔔 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls) in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentWait, there’s a ballot for this topic too? 😉 Anyway, fantastic job hosting! I’m (as always) so thrilled that you’re playing this on original hardware. Also, I love that this is only CGA’s seventh...Wait, there’s a ballot for this topic too? 😉
Anyway, fantastic job hosting! I’m (as always) so thrilled that you’re playing this on original hardware.
Also, I love that this is only CGA’s seventh month and we’ve already been able to feature the frog emoji twice. Maybe we’ve got ourselves a CGA mascot? 🤔
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentNo worries! The new ballot look great… …except for THPS2. Is it just me or is it missing a hyphen? 🤔😂No worries! The new ballot look great…
…except for THPS2. Is it just me or is it missing a hyphen? 🤔😂
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentI 100% thought you did that on purpose. XD Editing your ballot is fine!I 100% thought you did that on purpose. XD
Editing your ballot is fine!
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentYou have to make sure you enter the cheat code on the main menu first, otherwise the invalid ballot exploit doesn’t work.You have to make sure you enter the cheat code on the main menu first, otherwise the invalid ballot exploit doesn’t work.
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: February 2026 Voting Topic in ~games
kfwyre Link ParentFirst off, absolutely hilarious. I’m cackling. Second off, you have a great point about standardizing the system. I don’t want to make things TOO complicated, but I also don’t want it to be where...First off, absolutely hilarious. I’m cackling.
Second off, you have a great point about standardizing the system. I don’t want to make things TOO complicated, but I also don’t want it to be where we’re always playing old nominations that might not even have strong interest anymore and are just riding on momentum.
I am thinking the normalization might not need to happen long-term. I suspect our initial flurry of interest in the first round was the outlier, and that from now forward we’re likely to see roughly the same amount of participation. This is the track that the Backlog Burner has followed — it has been pretty consistent from event to event, neither growing nor shrinking by a huge amount.
I’ll be curious to see how this voting round shakes out, and I’m excited to run the numbers after
Space Rogue blows every other nominee out of the waterall ballots are in.
Last call for votes!
The polls close in 12 hours.