MangoKangaroo

@MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org

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Bane of avocado toast enjoyers.

It’s not a competition, all operating systems suck.

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MangoKangaroo,

Nevermind the government or hackers, I use a home-grown VPN to keep Comcast off my ass.

MangoKangaroo,

My honest answer:🥚

MangoKangaroo,

😳

MangoKangaroo,

Maybe you’re a Matryoshka ;D

MangoKangaroo,

Zero. The only new games I purchased this year were BG3 and Lethal Company, both of which are goated for completely different reasons.

Beyond that I’ve just been sticking to games I’ve been playing for years. No stinkers there, probably.

MangoKangaroo,

Ayy someone else who’s been enjoying Against the Storm.

MangoKangaroo,

Goodness gracious you’re far further along than me! I haven’t touched it for a bit because I’ve been busy with other games, but I’ll get back to it eventually because it’s super fun. (Also GL on P20 I believe in you.)

MangoKangaroo,

Just do what I did. Build a server that runs a Windows VM with GPU passthrough with the intention of using it as your own cloud gaming service, realize the performance is shit because you bought old Xeons with horrendous single-core performance, and give up and just accept that some games won’t be playable because of anticheat. Nvidia please make GeForce Now usable at more than 1080p60 on Linux

MangoKangaroo,

Unfortunate but completely understandable.

MangoKangaroo,

Finally I can put my modded Minecraft experience to the test

MangoKangaroo,

I own and have opened Factorio but I feel like I’d need a firmware update for my brain to be able to play it well.

MangoKangaroo,

I just sunk basically an entire extended weekend on Killing Floor 2. It’s garbage entertainment but I can’t stop playing 😭

Watching George Romero got me in the mood for zombie sims, so I’ve also been edging my way back into playing Cataclysm: DDA.

MangoKangaroo,

Sick! What distro are you running?

MangoKangaroo,

I think it definitely depends on the sort of game. I don’t mind paying AAA pricing for a game that actually feels like the studio gave a rat’s ass about providing good value. BG3, for example, was very much worth what I paid for it even just with the ~100 hours I got out of my first playthrough.

Of course, there have also been value kings that I’m not sure will ever be beaten for me in terms of price to hours played. Minecraft and Terraria are good examples here. I got Minecraft during either late Infdev or early Alpha, and so I paid fuck all compared to the current price. Considering I’ve probably put tens of thousands of hours into that shitshow in the over 13 years that I’ve played it, and I’d say it’s more than been worth it. The same goes for Terraria. At 1.5k hours of playtime and counting, it’d’ve been worth it to me even at far more than the $10 price tag that I (probably) got it at way back when.

So tl;dr, I’d say that if a game is truly well-made and enjoyable, then I don’t mind paying whatever the devs need to charge to keep their doors open. Bonus points if I can purchase the game DRM-free somehow.

What is something (feature, modes, settings...) you would like to see become a standard in video games?

I’ve been thinking about making this thread for a few days. Sometimes, I play a game and it has some very basic features that are just not in every other game and I think to myself: Why is this not standard?! and I wanted to know what were yours....

MangoKangaroo,

One of my all-time favorite games, Barony, just added an option that replaces spiders with isopods. I’m not an arachnophobe, but I thought it was funny and thoughtful that they did that.

MangoKangaroo,

Less a design choice and more a technical feat, but I’m hoping that we start to see the phase-out of loading screens and more of a push toward seamless gameplay. I was watching a video from the newest Spiderman and it was pretty damn cool. Practical for all games? Maybe not for a while. But I certaintly would like to see more investment in leveraging improvements in disk and memory capabilities going forward.

MangoKangaroo,

See, I figured consoles might actually be more likely to cross that finish line first. My logic is that the controlled platforms would give developers a) potential access to a more bare-metal style of storage medium maybe not practical on PC, and b) a consistent performance target (no needing to account for people using those pesky hard drives!)

I feel like we’re maybe already starting to see this with the PlayStation 5, but it probably also depends on how much work actually goes into optimization for these development teams.

MangoKangaroo,

Wikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it’s definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)

MangoKangaroo,

Not sure it counts, but I played a loooot of Killing Floor in my early teens.

MangoKangaroo,

Same. Looks like you and I both will be getting unlimited searches now. :D

MangoKangaroo,

I lean toward the “here’s a goal, good fucking luck getting there” types of games, but I sometimes play more open-ended games like Cataclysm: DDA and Dwarf Fortress. Currently I’ve been binging Vechs’ Super Hostile Minecraft maps, which I guess offer a fusion of both?

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