The Picard Maneuver @ The_Picard_Maneuver @startrek.website

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Outer Wilds (not The Outer Worlds)

Thank you for this distinction! I've heard people rave about Outer Wilds and all this time thought they were talking about Outer Worlds, which surprised me because I thought Outer Worlds was boring. Taking a look at gameplay now!

I hope the ramen rocks

Oh yeah, it all started with the arcades. There was a whole culture attached to it, and they were very popular.

I think it's fascinating to learn about how the developers figured out how to do things back then, the limitations, scaling/distribution, and then the rapid arms race between customers and devs to make games harder and harder to beat. There was an excellent documentary about this on Netflix a few years ago, but I can't remember the name off the top of my head.

Yes... I must expell the frustration

My spirit animal

It's just a common shitpost format out there that's playing off of those unironic religious posts that you might see on FB or something. I see good/bad get flipped back and forth as part of the joke.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-child-will-x

Are there more games out there or something?

FromSoft games are my absolute favorite. Seeing myself getting better and mastering a challenge is peak fun to me.

I think the type of game really makes a difference. Games with fetch quests, a laundry list of waypoints on a map, and tons of bland cutscenes in between simple gameplay put me to sleep now.

Challenging games keep me better occupied, because it's fun to be solving a puzzle of some sort (even if that puzzle is "how to approach this boss"). Strategy and tactics are consistently fun for me too.

Makes me wonder if they planned it or if mom or dad is artsy and just had a black and white mushroom photo lying around.

"it was just a prank"

You and me both then

Yeah, I guess it must be instance dependent to view it. And even then, it's also probably limited by what posts/comments are visible to the viewer based on federation.

Omg, thanks! I noticed that it had hit a million recently, and I was thinking about writing up a post to commemorate it and maybe share some thoughts about my experience posting like a madman on the fediverse for 6-7 months so far. If I do, it'll probably be on the c/fediverse community, unless anyone can think of a more fitting one.

I'm also surprised it's still visible! My instance upgraded to 0.19 recently, which supposedly takes away the upvote count from your profile view. I was secretly hoping to make it to one million before the upgrade happened... Lol

(Edit: also glad to hear you got into TNG!)

Exactly! And don't get me wrong, there are a ton of great indie 2d games out there now, but back in the SNES days, these were THE devs. You can tell the difference in polish from having been made by the biggest and best studios.

(disclaimer: I didn't make this meme, but I do share the sentiment of rapidly losing focus/mental energy when gaming now.)

Favorite of all time? The SNES. It felt like the peak of 2d graphics before the slate got wiped clean for 3d, so we saw a ton of great games from devs that had been playing/creating 2d games for decades.

Favorite currently? PC. I have a switch, steam deck, and PS5 as well, but 99% of my playtime is on PC.

You're right, we should be cutting out the bloated middleman entirely.

This is a good step in the right direction, but I'd like to see it applied to commercial plans as well. Prior authorization is everything they're saying it is and worse.

If you take care of your words now, then your words will take care of you later.