A worrying trend in recent social software platforms is that you can’t block people. Slack, Teams, Discord (not really, it still shows you that people you block say things, which defeats the point), so many of these garbage social platforms (… all Electron-based) don’t let you block people. Even Discourse doesn’t have a block feature. They all just assume that everyone gets along.

I have installed the CEMU Wii U emulator on real Arch and run Wind Waker with it. Maybe look into that if you want the Wii U controls? I haven’t tried it on the Deck, but given it runs on vanilla Arch, it’s theoretically possible :D

Glad to have woman playing.

Just one? Guess it’s fitting given you’re on lemmy.one :P

RIP Satoru Iwata, the least bad gaming CEO. Dude actually took a pay cut when Nintendo wasn’t doing well.

“God” has a lot to do with it, yes.

All indies all the time. I have been thoroughly sick of “AAA” games (and the industry itself) since the switch to 3D. Spelunky HD / 2, the new TMNT, Streets of Rage 4, Neuro Voider, Stardew Valley, and on and on. Also old console games because it’s always morally okay to emulate games on old consoles. Related, it’s always morally okay to pirate Nintendo’s games.

It’s surreal, isn’t it? I grew up with nethack and angband and moria (also on FreeBSD) and now I play games normal people have heard of!

As OneRedFox says, it’s all about the UX. From the perspective of your average gamer, IRC has awful UX. I know that speedrunning, romhacking, and other gaming subcommunities have used / still use IRC, but they’re very much on the technical side of gamers. Discord is a lot friendlier to the average gamer (I know, I know, it’s Electron and proprietary and shit for reasons besides those two, but consider your average console CoD player here). I still like IRC, too, though I’d love to see it evolve a little more quickly. IRCv3 is nice but my goodness, how long have they been working on it?

More Spelunky 2. It is my current roguelike hyperfixation. I never get very far, but that’s not the point.

No stranger than Doom and Animal Crossing.

The thing is that the marketing for it–and everything about everything Kojima does in particular–hails it as the most complex, deep, meaningful game ever. But you’re playing Philip J fucking Fry. Kojima is almost as bad as David Cage and everyone seems to be okay with it.

Oh, yeah, it was this huge, frankly surreal, thing. The founder of Private Internet Access decided he wanted his own IRC network and bullied his way into being in charge, along with a team of cronies and yes-men.

This is exactly what happened when the folks behind the hostile takeover of freenode started banning people for talking about libera.chat. And we see precisely how well that went for freenode. This is what happens when business people make decisions.

I will never recommend Persona games because Atlus is a bully and a jerk.

Looks like spez is done with the AMA. His responses constitute 0.07% of comments in the thread.

And he’s already started with the personal attacks against Christian Selig, the Apollo author. Already. Barely 10 minutes into the AMA and he’s already personally attacking someone. What a piece of shit.

There are several good mastodon instances, just not mastodon.social. Moderating is hard and you have to actually do it and not be afraid it’s censorship. Oh, and not being a fascist helps. I’m beginning to wonder about the mastodon.social admins.

I think we should stop saying “JRPG”, but if you must, another vote for Chrono Trigger, though it will spoil you on games of that type: no grinding, no random encounters, good balance of playable characters, unique combat mechanics that to this day haven’t really been explored (specifically, dual and tri-techs, special abilities that require certain combinations of party members and that utilize all of their abilities).

I have stayed as far as I can from web development for about 10 years so I can’t answer that question.

neovim. I’ve been using vim or neovim for >25 years and it’s changed how my mind works to the point that other editors are awkward. I can also reliably find some form of vi on any machine I log onto and, while I am not necessarily writing Rust on a random machine at work, having to learn just one program for editing is nice.

The biggest issue is that they don’t really moderate, so hate speech and bigotry have a greater presence there. I specifically remember a situation where multiple people were reporting things and it took them days (maybe a week or more? I can’t remember, but certainly several days) to take it down. And this happens pretty regularly.