Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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The first video game I ever played was a Lode Runner clone for the IBM PC called Freddy's Rescue Roundup.

Same setup, same results. I do intentionally keep the resolution low though.

Nah, that one is going to be emblematic of this period. In 2035 they're going to look back at videos from 2024 and hear all the skibidi and cringe the same way we do looking back at 2006 and hearing "FAIL!" every other word.

Every cohort of kids will have their slang and in-jokey vocabulary, a very small part of which will be entered permanently into the lexicon. I'd like to nominate "rizz" as this generation's contribution.

Being anti-patriarchy is an inherently anti-male stance. A feminist walks up to a man and says "We're trying to erode your influence on society, isn't that great?" Yeah, and what the natives need is Christianity.

They'll try to lie and market "The Patriarchy" as whatever they think they can get away with at the moment with the audience they've cornered, pretend like defeating "The Patriarchy" should be the goal of whoever they're talking to as well. It shouldn't.

Feminism started out as things like the suffragettes, wanting the right to vote in elections. Fair enough. "We want to be equal to men!" Uh huh...so here in 2025 what right or privilege do I enjoy under the law that a woman doesn't?

I will also assert this: No feminist will be caught dead genuinely helping a man. A feminist is more likely to burn down a men's shelter than build one.

You can't help men and hang on to feminism. Feminism is inherently anti-male.

Man I haven't had Einstein Bros since college.

In a different system where you've got multiple parties and there's the "20% of GDP goes to welfare, we're meh on cannabis, duh on gay rights, our top priority is unions and workers rights and our second priority is environmental protection" party and there's the "25% GDP to welfare, we're meh on unions and workers rights, duh on the environment, top priority is gay rights and second priority is education" a couple made of one member of each of those two parties will probably work, because those two parties likely unite against the "20% of GDP goes to kicking the poor in the stomach, we're death to the environment and death to workers, our top priority is making the rich richer and our second priority is war in the middle east" party.

In the American system, which is quickly devolving into two religions whose core tenets are to hate each other as obnoxiously as possible, I just have to wonder where you even met? At what trans-ally klan rally did that meet cute take place?

lasagna is a sandwich.

Every single microwave I've ever seen set it either as a percentage or a...perdecage? 1-10. Like I don't think I can set my current microwave to 73% power; I get 70% or 80%.

Do you mean the setting called "Enable Steam Play for all titles" that was usually unchecked, that you'd have to go in and check, which some folks wouldn't do (because they might not have known they were supposed to?)

Those are coveralls. Or a jumpsuit, depending.

These are overalls:

Fathers versus childless men, rather than husbands vs unmarried men. Telling.

openscad is kind of a bad choice for architectural drawings.

Is RNG always bullshit? No; only a sith speaks in absolutes. There are appropriate uses of randomness in video games. Is RNG very often a source of bullshit? Absolutely. Do I feel like that's the case in Blue Prince? ABSOLUTELY

"I got the pump room but not the boiler room again so I still can't try doing the thing I've been trying to do." Said players of a game designed to disrespect their time.

If, at the start of each in-game day, you were given all of the rooms you'd unlocked so far, and were allowed to arrange them however you like right then and there, and were then free to move around in it however much you please, would the game be worsened? I'm convinced it would only be improved, because pretty much all you would do is remove "Welp, for the fifteenth time, I know what I want to try, but random chance prevented me from doing so."

The presentation is charming and the puzzles are intriguing but I think the community is putting up with the deeply terrible mechanics out of sheer novelty, and another game made like it isn't going to be well received.

What's the context here?

Adding bullshit RNG to a puzzle game to make it take longer might make it more "challenging" but doesn't make it better, is my point.

I may have phrased that in a strange double negative way.

Modern mobile platforms like Android and iOS are sinister in a way that PalmOS wasn't. PalmOS, becasue the devices weren't connected to the internet much if at all, didn't have the big brother always watching and trying to come up with new ways to exploit the user as is standard today.

Putting a jigsaw puzzle together is a challenge. You could increase that challenge by requiring yourself to roll a die and getting 6 five times in a row before you're allowed to try to fit a piece. Does that sound like good game design to you?