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  • Losing interest? How about some shorter games that are super high quality all the way through?

    So, what kinds of games do you normally play? We can help you more if we know where you're coming from.

  • Tekken? Nah. It's a four button game, and you only need to map the shoulder buttons if your character has a good move with a weird button combination like Square+Circle. Street Fighter Alpha 3 really needs all 6 buttons, though.

    You might want to search for a RetroAchievements collection of PlayStation Portable games.

    • Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection and Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max are in top shape on the PSP with extra characters and decent single player content.
    • Rock Band Unplugged is a stealth sequel to Frequency and Amplitude, worth a try for juggling a whole band's worth of instruments.
    • I also had a lot of fun with Half-Minute Hero, Lumines, Everybody's Golf Portable 2/Hot Shots Golf Open Tee 2, and the racing games DdCno1 mentioned.
    • And that's not even getting into the excellent options for emulated games, both retail and homebrew.
    • RetroAcheivements PSP games sorted by number of players is a good way to see the most popular games.
  • I thought Soft Garden's boss Jackle was a good fight. He tries to zone you out by throwing tarot cards at you, and it's satisfying to slip through his cards and hit him.

  • Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about-- ah, forget it. I'm lucky to keep my elo higher than my @FloatingIsFun@fedia.io post count.

    I dunno, Nc6, then Qa5+, then Nb4? They'll probably take our knight but it stops their attack.

    Then I guess we push king and try to check their king with our king.

  • Moments like this make me think Mike DeWine isn't dumb enough or evil enough to actually be a Republican. He actually has a soul and he'll make his own party double-down on transphobia if they're so committed to it. We should've still impeached him for screwing up the March 2020 primary election, though.

  • Check each game's entry on PCGamingWiki. They're a good resource for finding what it takes to get old games running well on modern PCs. A lot of times, the answer is either "buy it on Steam and use a community-made patch" or "buy it on GOG".

    I'm curious, what games are you trying to get working?

  • Chocolatey, a command line driven package installer for Windows that works like apt-get for Linux. Replaces thousands of bloated installers with simple commands. My first step with an updated Windows install is to install Chocolatey, open command prompt, and do something like choco install firefox notepadplusplus gimp zoom windirstat winrar to install them all silently.

  • Yay! I love Shiren 1 on the SNES and DS and I actually just started it again after seeing it get challenged on GameCenter CX. I still need to actually play the other Shiren games.

    Is there a community for Shiren the Wanderer on Lemmy or Kbin? I don't want to have to go back to Reddit for it.

  • Increased knockback distance on Housecat's claw attack, removing Housecat's infinite combo vs several woodland creatures

  • I liked a lot of the parodies and jokes in Conker's Bad Fur Day, but the game had too many frustrating parts in between them. About half of this game should have been left on the cutting room floor, but Rare wouldn't cut their bad ideas out of the game unless Nintendo was supervising them.

  • If you're wondering how flying squids eat and breathe and other science facts, repeat to yourself "It's just a name; I should really just relax."

  • Getting the mainstream ones out of the way first: 3s, Garou MotW, ST/2X, Tekken 3 (PS1), UMK3, MvC2, CvS2, SC2, KOF '98, Vampire Savior

    Got it? Good. But have you played:
    Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Strange Mortal Kombat-looking game with three Jackie Chans, but surprisingly accessible
    Fighter's History Dynamite/Karnov's Revenge: Karnovember is coming! A 1994 fighting game that held up very well
    King of Fighters '95: A prime example of SNK's old school style
    Fighter's Destiny and Toy Fighter: 3D fighters where certain knockdowns earn you points, and first to 5 or 7 points wins
    Street Fighter EX2 Plus: Arika's quirky take on Street Fighter with plenty of unique characters and mechanics
    Slap Happy Rhythm Busters: Fast polygonal 2D fighter with simple controls and supers that make a rhythm action game happen
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters SNES: The good Turtles fighting game. Fun mechanics to learn and break.

    Edit: Added videos for the games that didn't have links to a wiki

  • I tried writing alt text with the image on this post on August 9, and I thought it wasn't working. On mine and other Kbin instances, alt text does load but Firefox just doesn't show it when I mouseover. In the page's source, it's an "alt" argument instead of a "title" argument, and Firefox users can't see alt text if the image loads successfully. It would work better if Kbin allowed users to input title text instead of alt text.

    I didn't notice until just now, but that post's alt text works perfectly on Mastodon! It simply duplicates the alt text into the title text and I can read it when I mouseover the image.

    That leaves Lemmy which seems to have no alt text support at all. I've inspected the page and my alt text simply doesn't federate to Lemmy. But Lemmy apparently has working spoiler tags and Lemmy users are considering using that to describe images. The Lemmy spoiler tags don't work anywhere else, though.

  • Thank you for giving the Fediverse some of that Imaginary Network action I crave from Reddit. I tried asking them to move to Kbin and they aren't interested. You and @Martineski have been doing a fine job making quality posts and always citing your sources. I hope Martineski's Imaginary communities come back soon. I want to contribute more to ImaginarySliceOfLife here!

    I'd offer my own @FloatingIsFun to join the Imaginary mix, but it wouldn't work because we accept floaty things that aren't fictional and aren't static images. Besides, with that Lemmy/Kbin bug making all my posts appear to come from two hours in the future, I feel like I've already gotten more exposure than I actually deserve.

  • The Republicans in state legislature asked us to vote to give up our right to vote on things. All they accomplished was making us more angry at them.

  • Source is George Takei on Mastodon, and there's a lot of discussion there too. I didn't know Spock Hand Emoji 🖖🏽 was a thing, but here it is.