caseyweederman @ caseyweederman @lemmy.ca

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I'm playing Oracle of Ages for the first time in a while, and it is not great! The level design is flawed. The eighth dungeon is a a dark room, some ghosts, and a hint owl that tells you to "attune your ears to the sound of sword on stone" which, right, standard Zelda fare, good of them to make explicit the reminder. But none of the walls clank! You need to push one of the non-pushable statues out of the way, in the dark, to even expose the bombable wall. I went over the whole place twice, and then thought "oh maybe they're doing a cool metapuzzle thing and I've got to leave the dungeon and bomb a new entrance" so I went out and tested the whole area with my sword and then bombed everything in case I was just misinterpreting the clank sound.

The underwater dungeon had the interesting raise/lower water level mechanic, but I explored in loops for an hour before looking up where to go next. I'm not saying it's supposed to be easy, I like a challenge, but it felt like the layout was deliberately withholding information, which is bad design.

The Long Hook is an upgrade for the Switch Hook. The improvment is marginal and the puzzles that require it feel confusing (I finally have the tool for this but it's not working (before you know about the L2 version)), forced (this is the same puzzle but the anchor object is two tiles further away) or frustrating (oh of course I was supposed to know about the offscreen anchor).
The Long Hook has an entire dungeon dedicated to it.

It seems all my fond memories are actually from Oracle of Seasons. I wonder if they had parallel teams working on them.

That is my personal preference, yes. But LMDE is the perfect overlap of "just use Mint" and "don't use Ubuntu".

The key part is "disable the HUD"

Dwarf Fortress is its own boss key.

🥰 Thank you

You directly replied to someone talking about LMDE.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18357337

I appreciate you sharing the link, but it's too late

Linux Mint Debian Edition, the current subject of discussion, is not.

Ubuntu is based on Debian though, not the other way around.

Agreed. And Canonical routinely tries to sneak snaps back in, to the point where the official Firefox instructions include instructions for pinning their deb repo above the Ubuntu one:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended

(see step 5)

ok fair

The law of the prophets was a costly covenant between old-testament god and humanity. Or, you know, whatever subgroup was in charge of translations at the time.
The "fulfillment" mentioned is a single lump sum of holy lamb blood in place of the never-actually-complete exchange of not wearing blended fabrics, not getting tattoos, and sacrificing your firstborn on a rock in the mountains. And slaughtering prisoners of war who you tricked into getting circumcised as a condition of their surrender so that they would be vulnerable.

Zoom was so bad, too. It was so unreliable, it was missing basic features, the UI was unfriendly.
They've improved on each of these things slightly since then.
But it's a testament to how bad Skype was that Zoom was found to be preferable.

Gold rating on protondb
https://www.protondb.com/app/553850

Jesus was in fact the one to say "yeah all this old rules don't matter, just focus on these two: don't be a dick and don't be a fucking dick, god damn"

I was going to say "2 but with 5's handle and if you say 1 I am going to" but I couldn't think of a silly threat that would be absurd but in a funny way

The first trick is knowing that there's a right package. The second trick is knowing what the right package is.

Use the thing that Phage the Untouchable had to use to eat.
It had claws to peel her lips back, and an extender that would push very raw meat down her throat (it would start to rot the moment it touched her, so the fresher the better)

The term is TERF.

Ooh, right.