I Cast Fist @ ICastFist @programming.dev

Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

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Eh, old fucks and young fucks alike have fucked shit up since we learned to walk upright. The main cause of many of our worldly problems for the past ~150 years is ultra rich people.

Technically correct, but I don't see the point of stating that

Many games don't age well in part because of hardware constraints (CPU, RAM and storage), in part because there weren't that many games to serve as examples of good and bad practices to follow or avoid. Then there are games like the Silver Box collection of Dungeons and Dragons, which were bad even when they were new.

It's still interesting to note that you can find many "(almost) never copied since" ideas in some old games, which still make them useful for inspiration for game devs and even entertainment for anyone who sits down to play. Hell, Ultima 7, despite being janky as fuck, is still a gold standard in world interactivity. While there are a variety of pokemon clones (TemTem, Cassette Beasts, Coromon), I'm unaware of any game that's similar to Digimon World (evolving tamagotchi battlers that die out/reset after some time)

Then there are the timeless classics, like Age of Empires 2 or Final Fantasy Tactics, which are yet to be surpassed; or Mega Man X and Super Mario World, which, despite being comparatively simple to stuff that came after it, still hold up incredibly well.

Kinda funny when you consider that Chrono Cross had a fast-forward item reward when playing new game+, all the way back in 2000

The GBA one? I remember it being a better version of the PSX, with more content, but you only had 4 buttons to do stuff (AB, LR), which really limited the shortcuts.

I guess most indie platformers focus too much on being metroidvanias, which makes classic platformers rare

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Poor gorge never got around paying an artist for adding a bushy fluffy tail

That actually happened, but not from this PirateSoftware guy. The anti-woke godoters made their own fork, Redot, which, as you might have expected, doesn't do jack shit other than offering cosmetic changes

My lifetime of savings

Speaking of terminal emulators! - https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-emulation/

"But if you offer all these old games to play, why would anyone bother buying the new stuff?" - some corpo director

Mobile gacha shit

It's pretty easy on PC, with Steam itself and itch.io being pretty good for indies. Earning enough money from your game is a different story...

Very true. I vaguely recall someone on another thread saying a game is "unplayable" if it's not running 4k resolution and that PC gamers with 4k monitors are the majority

Hi Okay, I'm Dad

I hope Lovers Lab doesn't suffer the same bullshit of "oh noes, nudity and sex are illegal!"

Is there a SCP monster for EA or other big game company's marketing teams? Because they're a reality bending entity that creates unrealistic tasks that others are forced to do, despite knowing they won't manage AND will end up as lifeless husks either way

I'm over 30, but even when i was in my early 20s I couldn't stand the blaring lights. A HS friend built up a rig with full flashy RGB shit and I was like "why?" - He thought it was cool, possibly still does.

I mean, I'm supposed to look at the monitor, not the fan or the mouse. Keyboard blacklight is good, tho, so long as it's not red nor a dancing rainbow. Yellow or white are the best kb backlight imo

Won't be long for people to take that seriously and install raid sirens on corporate offices around USA or western Europe, to "ensure everyone understands the hardship of our colleagues"