Just got into the pokemon fan game “Pokemon Eclesia” last night, so I’m probably gonna be playing through that demo throughout the week if I don’t get bored of it. Pretty cool game so far, but has a fair bit of swearing.

Otherwise, I was getting back into Gemcraft: Chasing Shadows. Being the idiot I am, I just now found out how to quickly power level. Don’t know how much more if the game is left, let alone how to unlock the higher difficulties, but definitely wanna finish it on the easy difficulty at least once before I die.

That’s me right now. Just recently sent an issue report to Proton over the fact I have not been able to connect to their servers on my Linux running laptop for almost a week at this point and have given up on trying to self-disgnose and fix it on my own using what little skills I have and whatever information I could find through web searches. The worst part is how it effortlessly works perfectly on my desktop running windows 10.

Got an itch(dot)io bundle of games that goes to helping French devs, so I’ve been playing a couple of those. Specifically Flipon and Blocks That Matter.

Outside of those, also got into Symphonia and it’s pretty fun and so far has an amazing soundtrack. Also trying to make a level pack for Baba Is You, which is definitely harder than I thought it would be using the in game level editor.

Couple days ago I accidentally removed a package, not fully understanding what would happen. Ended up logging out thinking nothing of it. Couldn’t log back in as there were zero sessions available. Also, for some reason a huge on-screen keyboard kept popping up a lot when I’d click on the login panels things.

I am very grateful my distro came with Timeshift by default and that I had a backup from the day before to fix everything. Also glad Rescuezilla allowed me to install Timeshift and restore.

Doesn’t matter who you are or what you believe, it’s definitely a rite of passage to break your system once. That is something I’ll always agree with.

Just like the original, I refuse to watch the sequel because their 3D model for Ne Zha makes them, to me at least, look like an ugly gremlin creature that crawled out of a cave and has just started joining civilization. Movies like Legend of Hei definitely have the better looking depiction of Ne Zha in my opinion.

So long as the game doesn’t lag enough that I have input lag, I’ll gladly play through a game at prettyich any FPS.

Don’t know what’s going on at 2K, but I gladly took the offer and even got the bundle for a Steam friend I haven’t talked to for years.

Absolutely wild and I thought it was some sort of error at first considering right below it they were advertising just BioShock Infinite and their DLC pass thing for more than the whole bundle by a little less than $2.

I definitely feel like I got an absolute steal of a deal. No idea when the sale ends, but I got all 3 games in the BioShock series, with DLC, and the 2 remasters for a little over $11USD before tax this weekend. I just finished my first time playing any of the games on PC. Had to install the original on my desktop with win10 because I couldn’t get the resolution right or brightness slider working on my steam deck when docked. Definitely prefer console controls because I was having a lot of trouble with mouse and keyboard controls, so I’m gonna have to switch to controller.

Other than that, I started playing Stellar Initiative this weekend as well and it’s was pretty difficult on the easiest difficulty while I was learning how to play and what works well with which enemies.

I think it’s still nice to have just so that way if for some reason Proton suddenly disappears alongside Wine (alongside all their forks and other related things) in some catastrophically low odds event you can still play the game or use the program.

A25 here, so far I’m in the same boat, bloatware and all.

That is exactly why I almost always open search results in a new tab.

Extremely easy question: Sonic The Hedgehog (AKA Sonic '06). Such a buggy mess, but I absolutely loved playing it on 360 and definitely wanna play it again some day.

I’ll take the 50/50 because those are some damn good odds!

Looks like the number of bots has increased. No same person would ever create an account on there, not since at least the 2010s.

I remember, vaguely, that a lake resort my aunt runs (ran?) had something similar, and we aren’t even in a backwater, middle of nowhere area of the US. Candy cigarettes in the 2000s seems insane looking back. Hell, pretty sure one of the last times I was there in the 2010s they still had them for sale.

Since I just got my deck repaired and returned, I can continue Sonic Origins on there. Had to install it on my desktop temporarily.

I also just got the summon I wanted tonight in Fire Emblem Heroes: New Year’s Níðhöggr (Nithhoggr). As a casual I see strong unit like her and think I’m gonna be set for a long time (at least a new unit summoning banner or 2 from now hopefully), like when I got Heir to Openness Alphonse or Gatekeeper (even though he didn’t last long for me).

Definitely checking this out. The first screenshot I see and it, to me, looks better than Manuskript. Definitely gonna try it on my laptop so I can get the appimage.

Pikmin 2.

There are a couple of bosses in that game I absolutely hate to this day and do not like whatsoever. One returned from the original and one is a variant of it. Every game has had a variant of that shall which not be named. Any other arachnophobes probably know what I’m talking about without needing to mention the name.

I just got Ballionaire on my desktop and it’s more fun than I ever thought it would be. It’s a Balatro situation where at first it didn’t sound like a fun game to play, then I played it and it’s up my alley. Only things I personally don’t like about it are the dancing stick figure things on the main menu or when a run is over, but that’s just personal preference more than a critic of the game.

I also got into the 2.01 update of Pokemon Rogue Emerald (Emerald Rouge?) and even though it’s a lot different, I’m enjoying it so far.

Besides that, have not doneuch outside of mobile gaming since I have to RMA my deck.

I can almost certainly guarantee that less than a decade from now we’ll see all of the big fediverse things like threads and bluesky and whoever else joins trying to attract more and more people to the point they have the majority of the users. Then they’ll snatch away being able to view the content if you ain’t part of their newly walled communities. So, even though we don’t need it, the big Zuck and the others will absolutely try to force-feed us their slop until they’re able to take it away, g••gle talk style.