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Comment on What's something that's more challenging for you than it is for others? in ~talk
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Lapbunny (edited )LinkI've been playing two hacks of Pokémon Fire Red. One is FRLG.ips. It lets you catch all the Pokémon, among some other things, and there is a new rock by the water. It's just like you remember....I've been playing two hacks of Pokémon Fire Red.
One is FRLG.ips. It lets you catch all the Pokémon, among some other things, and there is a new rock by the water. It's just like you remember. Would recommend to a certain subset of people. There is a new rock by the water.
(conceptual FRLG.ips spoilers)
FRLG.ips a neat little hack that consolidates assorted Pokémon rumors and creepypastas into a narrative. There's a big ARG element that makes up the meat of the narrative, which I won't spoil the start point in case there are some serious freaks who would go many many hours of content in or solve the cipher puzzle to find it.
It was a fun ride. I'm writing a Backloggd review to sort out thoughts; the story was between fine and flat-out bad. Conceptually it was extremely derivative of Toby Fox projects without adding much to his commentary. But it has some flashes of brilliance that I think will jive hard with certain others who grew up on TRsRockin kinda sites or a 1998 playground, and I don't regret it at all. Tedious at times, to mixed effect, but I think it has a surprising amount of reservation in how to pace itself at times.
Then people were pointing me to Celia's Stupid ROMHack afterwards. I've played four sessions in the last three days with some friends in Discord, and every time I come out in physical pain from laughing too hard. Celia's feels like Undertale in how meticulous it is at trying to get you to interact with everything and reward you with humor for doing it. Every Pokémon, move, ability, item, NPC, fight, or corner of the map, text box in the game is the opportunity for a quip, cheap or not. My friend mentioned it's like Airplane! in joke delivery, except Airplane! wasn't 30+ hours long. And somehow I'm still not tired of this. The sheer effort behind some of these bits is insane.
If you consider yourself a Pokémon fan in pretty much any regard - even if you've fallen out of love with it - or especially if you ever enjoyed Pokémon Red / Blue or Fire Red / Leaf Green, and you don't mind the hit-or-miss nature of a comedy game, I recommend this. Terribly. It's so stupid. I can't guarantee every joke is going to land; some of these are some real deep cuts that my friends had to explain along the way. But I can probably guarantee there will be at least one joke in the first ten minutes that will slam into your gut and make you too curious to stop.
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
Lapbunny Link ParentFor what it's worth I think games can be very capable of telling players to veer away from those areas as a new player and keep it in the game as an option with good signposting. I didn't like...For what it's worth I think games can be very capable of telling players to veer away from those areas as a new player and keep it in the game as an option with good signposting. I didn't like Mina the Hallower enough to play much more, but it was pretty clear about an intended order while keeping the map open.
Not that I disagree, though - the last thing I remember about playing DS1 was choosing to go down an elevator at a fork and getting immediately bodied by some ghosts with some kusarigama kinda weapons flailing about like sawblades. (if anyone could enlighten me on whether that was a bad idea I'd appreciate it 🙃)
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Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games
Lapbunny (edited )LinkDeadlock. I have enough MOBA sense to play and enjoy League, I liked FPSs enough to play heyday TF2 or Neon White, but this is a mix of a little too hardcore for me (who doesn't have time to keep...Deadlock. I have enough MOBA sense to play and enjoy League, I liked FPSs enough to play heyday TF2 or Neon White, but this is a mix of a little too hardcore for me (who doesn't have time to keep up on this meta) and very dependent on some twitch FPS skills that I don't have. Playing Deadlock just makes me feel terrible. The community seems great and it is fun to play when I'm not sandbagging...
Horror games. If they're too scary I psych myself and I stop playing, lol. There's stuff with a happy medium like Resident Evil and 4 where I don't, but I really nope out of some very atmospheric stuff.
Soulsborne. I just don't have the on-the-fly reflexes, patience, or time; it's like I panic and white out every time I run into an unfamiliar scenario. Which is, y'know, all the scenarios.
F-Zero GX, but I think it's fun even when you constantly go out like a buster. I mean, who among us can really say they're good at it? Eh? Eh?
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Comment on Night of the Living Dead (1968) in ~movies
Lapbunny LinkGaia Online had this on one of the in-universe movie theaters. I invited a girl to watch it with me there, and 13 y/o me tried to put the teenage weeb moves in the chat, but I think my attention...Gaia Online had this on one of the in-universe movie theaters. I invited a girl to watch it with me there, and 13 y/o me tried to put the teenage weeb moves in the chat, but I think my attention got split by this movie being too fuckin good and I lost my spaghetti.
...Uh, anyway. I love Night of the Living Dead! I feel like as much as I love the concept of zombie movies, the only ones I actually like are this for doing something more with the concept, and then Shawn of the Dead for just, like, getting what makes them tick right.
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Comment on What are your favourite anime and/or manga? in ~anime
Lapbunny Link ParentI see it's been mentioned elsewhere but I've gotta tack on my personal favorite manga here again to that list, Yokohama Shopping Log / Yokohama Shopping Trip. There's barely anything to its...I see it's been mentioned elsewhere but I've gotta tack on my personal favorite manga here again to that list, Yokohama Shopping Log / Yokohama Shopping Trip. There's barely anything to its chapter-to-chapter narrative, but in these little impressionist strokes of a plot it feels like it tells this grand epic about the nature of death and our inevitable end in a way that's serene and hopeful.
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Comment on Kavinsky, French DJ behind hit track ‘Nightcall,’ found dead at home in Paris in ~music
Lapbunny LinkRIP. OutRun had an insane impact on car culture, via Drive obviously but also being the soundtrack to what feels like a good 10% of all car videos on social media...RIP. OutRun had an insane impact on car culture, via Drive obviously but also being the soundtrack to what feels like a good 10% of all car videos on social media...
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Lapbunny Link ParentI wasn't going to bother with VR since I encountered some pretty frequent visual bugs on my (admittedly not officially supported) CV1 in Riven. I just don't think I need to try it again, honestly,...I wasn't going to bother with VR since I encountered some pretty frequent visual bugs on my (admittedly not officially supported) CV1 in Riven. I just don't think I need to try it again, honestly, but I didn't know going in that it was conceptually made for the Quest first. That would explain some wonky stuff... Every mouse area around the reset lever in the clock tower makes you move back out a screen, which made interaction with that super annoying in pancake. Probably makes more sense in VR.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Lapbunny (edited )Link ParentPlay Myst: Masterpiece Edition. It's a cleaned up remaster of the original 2D game which doesn't mechanically change it, and I would heavily recommend it as the one to play for the original...Play Myst: Masterpiece Edition. It's a cleaned up remaster of the original 2D game which doesn't mechanically change it, and I would heavily recommend it as the one to play for the original aesthetics. There are some QoL things it's missing (mainly holding one page at a time) but nothing I would dissuade anyone over. I imagine they packaged this Steam release to run on modern computers just fine, but if not, then it should run in ScummVM. (I played my OG disc in 2009ish using a Win 98 virtual machine if that works for you.)
realMyst is the first attempt at a 3D remake that was reportedly not very good, and realMyst ME was them trying to fix that one up. Your post has made me want to try realMyst just to say I did, but the more recent edition was made to kinda make up for them dropping the ball the first time. I wouldn't suggest it first.
EDIT: Oh, and as always - if you enjoy Myst's aesthetic, please please please play Riven: The Sequel to Myst! It took a lot of development lessons from Myst, and Cyan made a way more impressive narrative. The puzzles are more anthropological in nature and baked into the story itself. Plays more like the puzzling in Outer Wilds than Myst, IMO.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Lapbunny LinkI played the 2021 Myst remake this last week, through one Age (Selenitic). I very much enjoyed the Riven remake, but for some reason this version of Myst really turned me off? To me it's like the...I played the 2021 Myst remake this last week, through one Age (Selenitic). I very much enjoyed the Riven remake, but for some reason this version of Myst really turned me off? To me it's like the original's style was very heavily based not just around particular aesthetics but the specific vantage points that you see the landscape from, and how those vantage points emphasized certain pieces of the Ages or puzzles. In Riven, I thought Cyan did a great job in 3D keeping the cohesion of traveling between five islands. Myst just feels... Wrong? Definitely cramped and lacking in impact.
One of my favorite bits was that all the Myst linking books from Ages spit you out directly and perfectly under the library chandelier; it feels like the border of waking up from a dream to land looking up at a disorienting geometric object looming between you and a painted sky before you click off, snapping back to the view of the library and refocusing your goal to the next loop through another Age. And the link process would always smack you with that abrupt black screen, the dramatic sound, and then immediately drop you in some completely alien point with no fade-in. The loosey-goosey 3D and loading screens really kill all the emphasis and foreign feeling, IMO.
Myst was always really video gamey, but it felt like it was in a way that stressed that there was stuff you could do with that to evoke a mood. Without the precise ambience it just feels... Like an Unreal Engine puzzle video game. And puzzles weren't really Myst's strong suit.
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Comment on What pre-NES games do you still recommend today? in ~games
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Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games
Lapbunny Link ParentI remember it as if it were five minutes ago! :^) Really though, even though I'm privileged to have it in the first place I'd still love an official port to get it out of the technical gutter it's...I remember it as if it were five minutes ago! :^)
Really though, even though I'm privileged to have it in the first place I'd still love an official port to get it out of the technical gutter it's in. It's fun as hell, but today either you emulate and have to figure out the hardware angle (the Xbox 360 keypad natively works, funny enough) or you pay hundreds for the controller and you get a dinky little screen. But it's so fun! The online multiplayer is somehow still going! (And I'm too chicken to play it because I know people will shred me! lmao) Such a cool game and it deserves a little more attention than a Kinect spinoff.
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Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games
Lapbunny (edited )Link ParentLanguage and audio updates would be if they weren't in the original release, sure. Graphical enhancements via an emulator typically don't require any modification to the game files, though. They...Language and audio updates would be if they weren't in the original release, sure. Graphical enhancements via an emulator typically don't require any modification to the game files, though. They just apply changes to the computer's rendering behavior when it interprets the visual commands of the original software. (More extensive updates like custom texture packs certainly exist which require updates to the original game files, but that's not mentioned.)
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Comment on Introducing XBOX backward compatibility on PC in ~games
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Comment on Tildos, let's be unserious for a while; show us your dankest memes and god-tier shitposts! in ~talk
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
Lapbunny Link ParentSure, but other people didn't use a banana.Sure, but other people didn't use a banana.
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
Lapbunny (edited )Link ParentI'm hiding behind a little irony here and didn't want to get into it but you put it well. What if he picked a different day? What if he was thrown out? What if the banana fell off? I also was...I'm hiding behind a little irony here and didn't want to get into it but you put it well. What if he picked a different day? What if he was thrown out? What if the banana fell off?
I also was looking at the Wikipedia article to find Meth Fountain had done this before with a half-eaten croissant. But we're also here because he failed to realize bananas are goddamn hilarious, so.
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
Lapbunny Link ParentYeah, but in 2019 there was already a pretty good guideline on how to paint the Sistine Chapel, namely the Sistine Chapel. Maurizio Cattelan was a trailblazer in banana-taping. (I'm mostly joking?)Yeah, but in 2019 there was already a pretty good guideline on how to paint the Sistine Chapel, namely the Sistine Chapel. Maurizio Cattelan was a trailblazer in banana-taping.
(I'm mostly joking?)
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
Lapbunny Link ParentHonest question here, how is that even possible to argue? All art is execution. Even when you tape a banana to a wall, it matters whether the fuckin' banana sticks.Honest question here, how is that even possible to argue? All art is execution. Even when you tape a banana to a wall, it matters whether the fuckin' banana sticks.
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Comment on CGA-2026-06 🦇🧛♀️🔥 REMOVE CARTRIDGE ⏏️ Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow in ~games
Lapbunny Link ParentPrime is definitely worth a play! The remaster was very good, though twin stick controls make it way less difficult in the process of making it way easier to play. I played it right after Super...Prime is definitely worth a play! The remaster was very good, though twin stick controls make it way less difficult in the process of making it way easier to play.
I played it right after Super Metroid, and I get why people were so memorized by it at the time. It isn't as natural as Super; it's segmented and very backtracky through some very grand loops of the environment without adding a ton on the reroutes, so there are some rooms which get very annoying to repeat. But it does feel like they took the environmental and exploration cues from Super and put them in 3D, kinda like how OoT feels like LttP Zelda in a totally new context. Also eternally an aesthetically gorgeous game - mix of good art direction, solid visual tech, and wonderful music.
Navigating an unfamiliar area. I either need to be innately familiar with every landmark along the way or need to be staring at pictures the entire time to reorient myself or understand directions. A GPS helps, but I don't want to have my nose in it driving and I don't want to look like a tourist in a new city looking completely lost. I grew up going to NYC pretty often, so I put on the thousand-block stare and try to warpath through the streets in a new place out of self-preservation. Then realize I'm blocks away from the right place and feel like an idiot.
...Also wow, I hadn't thought about this - I always figured my anxiety about being in a foreign country was entirely language-related, but that's also probably stemming from this? I literally never left my friend's house or my hotel room in Japan to go somewhere new without them or having to get home, and I'm realizing it wasn't just because my Japanese sucks, it's also because I worried I couldn't get home. Should probably work on that...
Uh. Thanks for posting this!