I played the heck out of the Renegade demo, it scratched a FPS RTS itch I didn’t know I had. I wonder if it holds up?

App/platform separation is crucial. Finding the same thing for Lemmy. The official Reddit app is hot garbage.

Is the experience at all spoiled by the game’s popularity? It’s a great game in its own right IMO

I’m playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.

I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.

There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you’re trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.

Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.

Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.

Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things₁. Strong recommend.

1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making “free” games here

I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it’ll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?

I’m sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.

Same, workspaces are great!

It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.

I’m trying https://zen-browser.app/ now. It’s an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.

Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.

$11 is wild for all that!

The New Order was enjoyable vengence porn against Nazis, it’s a good time; maybe I need that again!

I’ve been playing the heck out of Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech; I haven’t binge-played like this in a long time. It never feels fair; 2-1 odds is typical, but it’s always possible. Pretty satisfying to overcome unfair situations. Makes me feel smart and capable! Plus, jumpy stompy robots!

I’m too early in the game to know this well, but I feel the lack of mod support. This feels like a game that would really thrive with community support, but they have no plans on supporting mods or open sourcing it. They are currently working on a new project that they haven’t elaborated on yet.

Still, I got this game for $14 and if I can find some people to play with I’m absolutely going to get my money’s worth - this kind of game just doesn’t exist with this level of depth. I love the technical detail of how the ship works on and how the systems interact with each other.

I just got this game and I’m having a blast, this is the style of game I’ve been hungry for for a long time.

yeah, looks like a total conversion mod

the DLC for stellaris has been recieved poorly on Steam, going by reviews. I’m a little worried this is high margin low effort attempt to squeeze even more out of it

i hope it’s good though!

yes!

It is pitch black.

dabu dabu

whawhawhawhat do you want

red alert… 2?

I think I got this for free on Epic and I haven’t touched it, but this might change that.

Katana Zero has a great soundtrack and fantastic gameplay.