The funny thing is, having full control of it doesn’t fully make it better. You’d think that’s objectively just an improvement, but there’s peculiar value in channels curating what’s shown and when.
Even moreso, it’s was wonderful to know that the TV didn’t keep a bookmark of what you’ve watched or how far you got, and if you miss something you miss it. You could just stop watching something, or miss several episodes and pick up on it, and that’s fine - liberating in retrospect!
There’s a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.
I hadn’t heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it’s a different take on the same idea.
I don’t have any better tips for getting involved, but I just want to say thanks! OSS clearly needs help from skilled designers all over the place. Any time someone like you steps up, it’s a good thing. n_n
On Desktop Enhancer for Youtube has this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/ Though I thought Firefox had Picture-in-picture as a browser feature… I can’t remember since I never use(d) it.
But clearly you’re asking about mobile. No idea if this or any other extension is supported there.
It is really cool! I expected to it to enjoy seeing the machinery in both main parts come together, but I did not expect the surprise 1-2 cameo inside the console.
I just built the NES/CRT set. It was about 2600 pieces - not very big compared to a lot of the serious sets I’m sure. But the only real one I’ve done.
Definitely would do it again! It was very relaxing to take a few minutes out of each day and go through a bag of legos and instructions. I was kinda sad when it finished - the end product is cool, but the fun was really in putting it together and slowly watching it turn into a thing. I mean, I’d enjoy doing it again, but I don’t expect or plan to for any reason.
Right, I don’t even know how you would cheat it. Down at this point, I guess I’m just lamenting that more games aren’t able to keep healthy communities after dev support ends.
Wasn’t Rising Thunder the one that at least handled part of shutdown right by semi-open sourcing?
But yeah, it’s all part of a wider problem. Personally I don’t want an invasive devloper over-tuning fighting games all the time, and I don’t want any microtransactions. But unless you keep dangling new shiny, very few players will stick with a given game, making it hard to find matches on-demand.
So bizarre to me that a game has to be a runaway hit to even remain accessible for any length of time.
Stopping updates I get (and good, most game updates are annoying), but shutting down servers completely and especially delisting it seem so over the top.
TWSBI has been good, in my experience, for fountain pens. But I haven’t tried many different brands, just a handful.
Sorry! Just wanted to say why people might, in case you were actually asking. 😅
I upvoted the post, but the caps and mulitple exclamation marks tempted me not too. Feels a little overbearing.
But overall, I guess I’m more glad to see the excitement than I am annoyed by the yelling.
Checked this in my state a few years ago, ended up getting like 50 bucks back. Took a while, I forgot about it by the time the check got here. Seemed like the state treasure was happy to have his signature prominently slapped on there.
Jeremy Parish has less than 100k, and constantly puts out great retrospectives on the nooks and crannies of retro game history.
While the Retronauts podcast he’s involved with is well known, I feel like his YouTube kinda flies under the radar.
There are dozens of us!
Yeah, I also wish they’d have better support, but Linux players are not a huge group.
Steam Deck and Steam machines have helped a lot though. Without Valve’s weight behind it, trying to game on Linux would probably be a lot worse.
Not far off from what already happens from the race-to-the-bottom popular content found on YouTube, in f2p games, and on social media.
AI slop will get better at grabbing, holding, and harvesting attention. Kids will grow up on it and adults will get comfy with it, shortening attention spans. They’ll end up under-educated and under-ambitious, leading to a more gullible, more anti-intellectual population.
I don’t have any sources to cite, it’s all vibes. I’m already a product of manipulative media. 💀 That, and some of this is exaggerated inter-generational grumpiness.
(This is not even touching on the potential for propaganda that a lot of other answers are getting at.)
Yep, that is indeed what I was thinking of (though I don’t have a link handy either).
Didn’t mean to imply that’s where experience levels were invented. The clarification is appreciated though.
And even thought I was alluding to that DQ comment, I’m sure it wasn’t the first game to adapt experience levels, and across the board making things easier wasn’t always the impetus.
Don’t know about CRPGs in particular, one way or the other. But in general I agree with you op.
If you level up, and it means your stats go up and all your enemies level up and stay at the same balance with you, it’s pointless. It still affords a moment of happiness ‘cool I levelled up’, but in a much less satisfying way.
The point of level up early in RPG video games was, to my knowledge, so that any one with time and patience could beat a game regardless of skill. The idea of level scaling is almost the exact opposite, to remove the advantage of levelling. They cancel out and both player level and enemy level should be removed if that’s happening.
That’s assuming a 1:1 unversal scaling though, which is rarely the case. In the details it can be tuned to something worthwhile - which enemies scale, how much they scale, etc.
Still, my thought is when games want level scaling, they should consider why. If you want players not to overpower enemies via stats, maybe get rid of the stats (or don’t change them on lvl up). Levels can still augment your player with new spells, unique abilities, or more options. Or maybe more carefully consider the placement of enemies and what their default level and stats are set at. Or maybe consider a lower level cap, or a lower range of stat values.
The possibilities are wide open, but level scaling done poorly can make level ups feel like a punishment.
If anyone else was confused by the typo, difficult > default.
I’m not sure what to think. On one hand, yes, Google is of course slimy. But if Mozilla loses it’s big source of funding (and crumbles as a result), that may put things in a worse place?
Then again, it’s a shame that the only major competing browser engine is funded by the dominant browser’s company. Maybe Mozilla can be fine without it?