Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Ultimately Did the Right Thing

Desktop audio streaming has never worked. Bug report has been outstanding since the beginning and Discord has just… never addressed it.

There were a lot of valid conversations to be had about journalistic integrity. Which made it all the more damning that Gamergate never once had any of these conversations, ever.

Built a new desktop, backed up everything on my old laptop, next step was to format an Arch installer USB. Instead of formatting the USB, I formatted my laptop’s /boot partition. No big loss since I had the backup and was done with that old toaster, but oops.

I already have enough zillion-hour games to grind, I don’t need every game to be that. As much as I love JRPGs I have a hard time setting aside time to finish one these days since I have too much else I also want to play.

Are these mutually exclusive?

Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues and Splatoon 3

It’s just Grizzco

Those flashy animated reactions are just incredibly annoying. Wish I could disable them, but of course Discord would never allow you to turn off the monetization.

Splatoon 3 Side Order please!

I’ve got a few games I sink tons and tons of hours into, mainly Skullgirls, Them’s Fightin’ Herds, Splatoon 3, and Slay the Spire. I’d like to make more time to finish story-driven stuff though.

So the Star Player mode isn’t a ripoff of Splatoon, it’s actually a ripoff of Kid Icarus Uprising.

God I wish they’d bring that game back.

Splatoon 3 - Getting ready for a LAN tournament in Philly tomorrow. Excited.

Persona 5 Royal - Finished the third palace.

Them’s Fightin’ Herds - Casual practice session, by which I mean terrorizing a lobby for a little while.

Slay the Spire - After over 800 hours of vanilla, I’ve just started fooling around with different mod characters, while watching Youtube in the background. Currently playing The Shaman, has some really cool mechanics.

Simon Tatham’s Puzzles, particularly Net on a very large board with wrapping.

I also like good ol’ Stepmania (or the more recent ITGmania fork), but I’m pretty bad at it.

• CrossCode - Phenomenal action RPG. Combat is fast and explosive, dungeons are very obviously Zelda inspired but with way more puzzles. Packed with tons and tons and tons of sidequests, many of which put unique twists on the combat system to keep you on your toes. Make sure to grab the epilogue DLC.

• FOOTSIES - Minimalist one-button fighting game, with rollback.

• OneShot - Fairly reminiscent of Undertale, if you liked that you’ll probably enjoy this too. And like Undertale I don’t want to say too much, take my word for it and let it surprise you.

• Petal Crash - Absolutely fantastic versus puzzler, and a perfect entry point into the genre. I wrote a very long review of how in love with this game I am, so I’m just going to link that.

• Them’s Fightin’ Herds - Another great fighting game, been waiting a long time for this port to bring us up to a grand total of two good fighting games on Linux. Has a lot of really cool features like a big story mode with overworld exploration, a cute lobby system with cosmetics to collect and treasure chests to fight for, a dynamic music system that reacts to the fight, and even a semi-cooperative dungeon crawler mode. Has crossplay with consoles as well. Full review.

• Ultimate Chicken Horse - Start on a nearly empty platformer map, each round everyone adds one object somewhere on the map then you all try to finish the level. Whoever finishes gets a point, plus bonus points for whoever finished first or collected coins that have been placed. Then you add another set of objects and repeat. Quickly becomes hilariously chaotic as you try to figure out how to balance screwing everyone else over while still making sure you can win, only to realize that after a few rounds you have all built a horrifying monstrosity. Has full crossplay with console versions.

• Anything by Zachtronics - A bunch of different engineering puzzle games where you have to write code or build a machine to solve problems. Once you’ve solved the puzzle, you can see a histogram comparing your solution to everyone else’s on a few different metrics, encouraging you to go back and try to optimize it further. I recommend Opus Magnum as the best entry point.

Phonograph - Music player
Newpipe - Youtube frontend
Husky - Pleroma client
KDE Connect - Desktop connectivity
Tachiyomi - Manga reader
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles - Pen and paper-style logic puzzle collection

I really like BattleCon, a fighting game-inspired card/board game that did a really good job translating the mindgames and oki into a turn-based format. They had an online version of it but sadly halted development because they couldn’t figure out how to monetize it.

I also love me some good ol’ Riichi Mahjong. There’s a group that brings tiles to fighting game tournaments since these are becoming cons in disguise, I got some nice hands at Combo Breaker this year.

I’m not gone yet and I don’t know if I actually will be. No matter how frustrated I am with the platform and have been for years now, I don’t feel that anything else is ready to replace it.

I wish Lemmy the best but I have my doubts as to how well it’ll take off. I remember when Digg died, Reddit was already popular enough to make jumping ship a no brainer for just about everyone. Lemmy is not there yet, and I don’t know if it ever will be. It’s much smaller than Mastodon/Fediverse, and that’s been very slow to pull users away from the even more hated platform it wants to challenge. Can Lemmy achieve the critical mass it needs to succeed?

What’s mainly keeping me on Reddit is certain small subs for niche hobbies. Only on the largest platforms is it possible to find people who share my microinterests. Reddit and Discord are it, and Discord really only works as an ephemeral chatroom, it’s terrible for news or threaded discussion. Not to mention how much of a problem it is that Discord isn’t indexed by search engines.

Boss fights that are synchronized to the music. Not too many I can think of off the top of my head right now though. There’s Violette in One Step From Eden, and I guess you can count the final stage of Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion sorta loosely did this with the final minute transition.

I’ve played a lot of games off and on over the years, but my main two are Skullgirls (Val/Robo/Para) and Them’s Fightin’ Herds (Velvet).

I’ve gone ahead and made https://kbin.social/m/fgc here, get the ball rolling on that.