Yeah I think a lot of “gamers”/programming type people actually would look down on most of what farming really is and it is the reason there are so few genuine farming games.

Stardew valley is actually a farming game in both mechanics and spirit. If you think the puzzle of growing your factorio farming machine bigger and bigger is the only interesting or desirable experience of running a farm you categorically don’t understand.

Personally I haven’t managed to get into stardew valley myself but I respect the hell out of it.

More cool detail about a modern jet airliner than you thought imaginable all delivered in a cool 3D animation.

https://youtu.be/NZLbTuBDhJg?si=mdgytNATo5Tz9ltx

Make it on the same engine as the mad max game

It is rational to feel that, you are grieving for the future denied to you and everyone else.

Our language around grief is distorted into toxic positivity except when we talk about losing loved ones, it is ok and natural right now to feel horrible, your job is to grieve well and to give those emotions space.

People are so quick to say don’t focus on the past, you can’t change it, but fascism rises when a society no longer can earnestly look to the past and must blindly and numbly charge on to block it out.

It is going to get worse but we can still make it a better worse so long as we hold space for the parts of us that have been irrevocably crushed. To do that we must grieve, not adopt an unfallibly positive perspective.

It won’t work but that isn’t the point, the point is to dehumanize game development. Failure is just a chance to consolidate and to normalize treating game development as a low quality of life “low skilled” job.

on mastodon/microblog part of the fediverse people typically put politics posts behind content warnings so yeah that kind of already exists

Wish they put all this money into funding indie game devs and connected small game studios with the professional film and live action apparatus netfix has access to.

I haven’t played it but Hellbade Senua’s Sacrifice seems like it categorically demolishes whatever netflix execs thought they accomplished from burning all that money.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/414340/Hellblade_Senuas_Sacrifice/

Just install blender from the discover app on the steam desktop, add it to steam as a non-steam game and you can launch it as you would any other game.

As for controls I prefer joysticks + gyro, but that is just me.

Yeah it is actually pretty amazing how good performance dayz gets on the deck, even on deathmatch servers with 25+ players in a small area it runs great.

The gunplay is superb especially with some of the more common weapon mods.

Not sure why arma 3 runs so much worse in comparison, the difference is massive.

Honestly mostly been learning blender, I am sure sure nobody ever intended blender to be used on a handheld gaming system but that is the beauty of the steam deck right?

Also been playing some everdell.

Coincidentally I had just downloaded Apex to start playing with a friend :(

lasers are way slower than bullets they are super easy to dodge, have you never even seen star wars?

I made this post because demographically with early voting we are potentially seeing a historic gender divide in voting, it seems women in general want Trump nowhere near the whitehouse at this point.

We will see how the numbers shakeout when all the votes are in but if the numbers keep going the way they look like they will, and Kamala Harris wins, what people will remember is that Trump and Jdcouch fucked with women and got wrecked for it.

If this happens I am sorry I don’t have any other way to describe it other than “sexy”, but I am referring not to an attraction or leering towards any particular woman, rather the nebulous blob of feminity that is a whole range of lived identities and expressions of gender coming together to say fuck off to a fascist is the thing I was trying to call sexy. It is an expression of collective depth of caring interwoven with a practical expression of power, “badass” doesn’t really encapsulate it.

It is totally reasonable to find voting (not for a fascist) sexy?

People aren’t monolithic, you get different versions of people depending on how you invite people into a community (and reinvite in every interaction).

Corporations are only interested in inviting in versions of you that will make them a profit, which warps the whole experience and inveitably emphasizes shallow interaction. Profit also requires chokepoints and the algorithm will always tend towards making the popular more popular and the obscure more obscure to create influencers who can be used as vehicles of advertisement and influence.

It isn’t the amount of people that is the issue with reddit!

It is the choices made about the structure of interactions in a community and the fundamental motivations behind them that defines the span of possible communities that can exist within.

Is a social network a physical asset of a community or a business that exists solely to create profit for investors? The answer to that question pretty much tells you everything you need to know.

What an epic game, I haven’t really gotten into it beyond the initial zone but even the world building of the default starter zone is fantastic. I feel like this game transports me to a different place more than any AAA game with gorgeous graphics.

Subspace Continuum

Yeah it is a blast splitscreen and I could care less about (american) football honestly, it is just good arcade fun.

Not Mutant Football League!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/529520/Mutant_Football_League/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

lol ok Reddit is a ghost town of bots now.

The interactions and posts I encounter on the fediverse are so much higher quality than Reddit, it is like drinking fake ass tropicana orange juice after having hand squeezed orange juice whenever I go back on Reddit.

It is why I stopped caring as much about how fast the fediverse was growing or how large it is, any worry with that is eclipsed by the visceral feeling that this is a place for humans. The conversations in general here, even when they are about silly shit, are so much higher it is kind of shocking going back to reddit sometimes.

Reddit becoming profitable now only shows that corporate social media companies are incapable of making massive profits off of social media without ruining the experience of using it.

Just remember you might prefer some grit to your dx7 patches, especially to make them sit in the mix. Idk personal taste but remember that modern DAWs and home recording devices are massively higher fidelity than they used to be, and the dx7 wasn’t necessarily designed for a super clean signal chain. I recommend loading up a saturator, or characterful compressor onto your dex vsti track before you even start browsing patches and judge them with a touch of dirt added in. Or whatever, it is music do whatever you want!