Grangle1

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[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a good thing they saw firsthand the beginnings of understanding that when players are given an open 3D expanse to explore, even with a set goal in mind, the fun is as much about the exploration on the journey to get to that goal as it is about completing the goal itself.

I also wonder, from watching those kids play and try to break the boundaries of the game, what he would think of all the grown adult speedrunners and YouTubers who do all that as a hobby now, lol.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 35 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Odd to say Veilguard was a success when from what I can tell, one of the few things uniting the very fractured and divided gaming community this year was that the writing in Veilguard was horrible. And you know that's true when the various members of that community can give their own varied reasons why the writing was horrible and they would all be valid.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

And continued crickets from the media about it. Kinda easy to believe the Vikings really are hated by the league and the sports media. They never want to admit we may actually be anywhere near good.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention the increasing list of other injuries to the defense, which may also be at least partially a product of being coached to play hard to the point of pushing themselves beyond what they can handle. (And especially as a Vikings fan, I can say) they may not even win the division at this point. Doesn't mean they couldn't make the Super Bowl as a wild card, but they definitely don't want to play that extra game to get there. Though also as a Vikings fan, I would love to see the division come down to Week 18's game between us, so still somewhat hoping we both win our other two games to get there.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Bingo. This gives no indication of what they discussed or what said CEOs actually think of him. Basically just routine politics to ensure they don't get on his bad side regardless.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

The only time I was really caught off guard by a game like that was Darksiders II. I went into the final area expecting a gauntlet of challenges, beat the first big boss enemy in there... And final cutscene and credits. That guy was the final boss. Made me literally put down the controller and say "That was it?" I've always known long games were going to be long going in to them.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

To piggy back on this, here's some more specific examples (as far as I'm aware listed games have both Genesis and SNES versions unless otherwise noted; note that versions may differ in gameplay and/or quality):

  • TMNT Turtles in Time (SNES)
  • TMNT Hyperstone Heist (Genesis, IIRC same game different name)
  • Captain America and the Avengers
  • Spider-Man Maximum Carnage
  • Batman Returns
  • Adventures of Batman and Robin
  • Spider-Man/X-Men Arcade's Revenge
  • X-Men 1 and 2 (Genesis only; for X-Men 1 you may need to work around resetting the console at one point in the game)
  • there's a Justice League fighting game, IIRC I think it's called Justice League Task Force
  • X-Men Mutant Apocalypse (SNES only)
[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How have I not heard of Freedom Force? That's a pickup for me ASAP. Thanks! 👍

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Combination of software availability and the perception that Linux is only for developers/servers and you have to be a computer genius to use it. Even if you can convince someone that just running Linux isn't rocket science, there's still commonly used software like the Adobe suite and MS Office that just don't have feature-parity level alternatives, even if those alternatives are almost there. I can do most of the stuff I used to do at work on LibreOffice compared to MS Office, but not everything. And while compatibility with the MS Office file types has really improved leaps and bounds over time, there's still some noticeable issues when opening those documents with one program after making changes with the other. People mention Photoshop a lot as a deal-breaker, but especially with GIMP 3.0 coming, GIMP will be a lot closer to Photoshop than most Linux PDF editors are to Acrobat. The only one I can find that has even close to Acrobat's features is Master PDF Editor, a piece of paid software (if you want all those features without an annoying watermark) that I don't think the free version of is in many repos. People say to use LibreOffice Draw, but that's drawing software meant for entirely different file types and is really not good for any PDF with any type of formatting in it because Draw isn't designed to handle it. I don't need those features on my own home PC, so I've been running Linux on my personal machines since 2009, but for those who do need those things, it might be a hard sell.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds a lot like Hypnospace Outlaw, which came out a few years ago and had you exploring a fictional Internet from the mid/late-90s era on an OS designed to mimic Windows 95/98 (with an upgrade to an XP-like desktop later in the game). You were basically a mod/censor who went around and busted people for copyright infringement and stuff. Also a real nostalgia trip if you miss that kind of aesthetic.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm half a year from 40 myself, and I'm quite concerned. We were fortunate enough that social media never really took off in popularity until we were adults. We're basically the last ones who can claim that. Sure, our parents wrung their hands and got upset about too much garbage TV and video games, but there is something legitimately different and more alarming here. Even when social media was first coming onto the scene, the technology was different and any algorithms that existed weren't nearly as fine-tuned as they are now. You basically just got a feed of whatever the people you included as your friends were up to or wanted to share, and efforts to profile you or curate that content in order to keep you glued to their site were not nearly as sophisticated. Smartphones were a brand new tech, so most people still had a "dumb" cell phone that could just present a super stripped-down mobile version of a website, and most apps for them came directly from the manufacturer or service provider. All of that technology has exploded in the last 10-15 years, faster than even the rapid rise of the Internet itself in the '90s. All the goofy Flash games and stuff back then, or skibidi toilet today, aren't really the problem, I will agree on that (even if I think the stupidity of that stuff has only continued to go downhill). The danger is in that rapidly increasing sophistication of the algorithms and other psychological patterns that social media companies, advertisers and other big tech moguls have been using to ensure we never put our smartphones down, and all the data we give them just makes those algorithms stronger by the day. TV broadcasters and game developers could utilize some techniques to keep you watching or playing, but they could never fine-tune an experience tailor made for the individual user like these tech and social media companies can. The stupid nature of so much of the stuff that's out there is certainly not helping, but that's also a matter of "garbage in, garbage out". But the user would never know exactly how garbage the content they're consuming is if they never break out of the bubble these companies contain them in.

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

I've used GNOME in the past but currently use KDE Plasma. Both are good, but as for recommendations most Linux people I know of say for new users that if you're coming from Windows start with Plasma and if you're coming from Mac OS start with GNOME since those are the closer desktops to what you used before and will make things a bit easier. Depending on the distro you choose you may also have access to other desktops like Cinnamon, which I haven't used but have heard is even easier than Plasma for new users coming from Windows. It's not ready for daily use yet, but the upcoming Cosmic desktop may also be quite good for that.

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