It sucks that music replacement is almost expected. A track was popular once, they’ll ask for 30x royalties on the next go.

I’m also curious if there’s any risk of the Japanese government finally cracking down on those places and setting stricter laws on gambling. Maybe not in the next few years, but sometime in the future.

My own argument to these people has been that I’d prefer they go out and cast their (wasted) votes for a third party, rather than simply stay home. A lot of Lemmy disagrees with me on that, focusing on the (true) realization that their third parties won’t get elected.

In this election’s current aftermath, much of the blame has been stating that voters were just lazy or unmotivated. The only thing this message encourages is to repeat more rallies, make more promises by demographics and region so people know to get out and vote.

If you vote third party, it sends a message that you are motivated to vote, but you are not pleased with the current messages of the party. That results in a very different change of action.

Unfortunately, this whole practice is extremely long-term-focused. Many people in this election have been desperate for short-term solutions, like the Ukraine/Gaza wars. Ideally, this kind of reaction would have started in 2016/2020 - but third-party votes have been miniscule in those elections too.

I’m still not sure why there’s a trend of scaling down the experience. Half-Life: Alyx felt shorter than a Half-Life game, and had MUCH fewer weapons.

At best, these games are slightly extensive tech demos.

Reminded of the time a recruiter asks Porky Pig to give his name. He can’t hear it through the stuttering, so he has him write it out. Porky continues, writing out his stutters.

I highly doubt the intent was to always approach ledges, then walk to the edge, then step back, then run forward, EVERY single time you need to make a jump. It breaks the flow of exploration.

Theoretically, you just need enough space. But the game’s coding is incredibly murky about how much space that is. I’ve failed jumps after running forward from the back edge of a block, just because I had landed from somewhere else, and did not then perfectly measure out one full jump-back. Ultimately, it causes plenty of annoyance and makes the controls inconsistent. If you want to read it as “You didn’t correctly backstep at every single jump” then it just means the game is boring.

“If you are holding the jump button as you run off a ledge, Lara will always jump right at the edge.”

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Dead by Daylight added mystical smoke grenades survivors can use that are a lot of fun - many are suggesting it might become an ability as part of the main game.

I’ll admit, AW2 has been a hard sell for me. Paranormal mystery always is, because it wants to invite you to ask questions, but it can pull answers literally out of anywhere. Why doesn’t anyone remember old events? Paranormal magic. How did Alan Wake survive at the bottom of a lake for all those years? Paranormal magic. Etcetera.

I don’t even mind games like Ace Attorney that set up a paranormal system like spirit channeling, but cleanly express all their rules and limits before they become involved in the mystery. I’ve watched some partial streams of AW2 but it felt so easy to get lost and have no expectations for it to suddenly defy.

I finished Crow Country, a cool survival horror game that looks a lot like classic Final Fantasy 7. Great game, actually had a decent story and the final confrontation was pretty eerie.

No big spoilers, but there’s a scene near the end of the protagonist descending a giant, disconnected ladder in total darkness that was chillingly effective.

There’s no smaller surprise in the day for me than someone saying they’re uninterested in a Ubisoft game. What baffles me is the incessant need to keep vocally informing other people you don’t care about that thing, though.

I am not entering Train Simulator 2024 threads to loudly announce I don’t care about trains. Just scroll past.

I think campiness can be okay in short bursts but a lot of recent Japanese writing just overstays many jokes.

FFXIV (the mmo) for instance, often gets the balance right and most conversations involving the main heroes are about political drama, with the brief befuddled funtimes.

I just finished a horror game called Crow Country, and it gets some good laughs out of twisting surprise expectations; but it also keeps most conversations and general exploration serious.

Like a Dragon is definitely better with camp. It’s often very segmented to the side quests, and doesn’t just play up fanservice alone.

I’d like a Final Fantasy 7 remake.

Yes, a remake, not a pseudo-sequel lore platform action combat game with all the cutscenes slowed down to 0.02x pace of the original.

Honestly I wouldn’t even mind keeping visuals more basic for standard gameplay just so the rest can be updated.

Bazzite lets people choose between GNOME and KDE when downloading it. I had no familiarity with either, but received tips that GNOME is more user-friendly.

In terms of discoverability, I was investigating the OS’ settings menu pretty intensively, and saw no suggestions that I could add commands to the menu. My other annoyance was around having the right set of things available from the left-hand quick-access on the Files screen. On Windows, this is simply a matter of drag and drop. It’s possible I could change this on Bazzite’s base file explorer, but if so, it did not make anything readily apparent, even from investigating the available settings and everything in the default menus.

I’d definitely prefer Flatpaks for software, but not every program is available by browsing the Software screen. Programs that I attempted to install through BoxBuddy both took far more terminal knowledge and googling than should be necessary, and didn’t actually export to my programs menu as they claimed.

I’m okay with adjusting to a different experience. Less okay with things just not working as documented, or losing out on obvious discoverability options. It feels like an OS has less longevity when its documentation is not built in and relies specifically on message boards - many of which apply their solutions more broadly to Arch or Ubuntu than something as niche as Bazzite.

Bazzite seems excellent if you’re putting it on a gaming handheld. I had my own complaints when using it on a desktop.

I really really wish Bazzite’s file explorer was a bit better. The right-click options for file interaction are miniscule - definitely built for baby users. You can install another like Dolphin, but it will still use the other interface anytime a program needs to open a file.

And, of course, I ran into myriad issues trying to use BoxBuddy and its system of containers to run other (native) Linux software. Not something for amateurs used to “apt install whatever”.

Wish I could say the same. Several times I came back from sleep and the whole OS was suffering from graphical corruption.

I mean, it makes sense. The Onion is a parody, so the political cartoons would be double-parody.

I’ve misunderstood you, COBRA. I thought you were a handout given to the poor, but when I had a gap in my health insurance you helped me get my medications. /s

It was worth it when you had the surprise hits coming in. Things like, a rhythm-based combat game about a corrupt corporation.