Being the gateway, access point, and ad server of the internet certainly does not bode well for fairness or openness, or stability (in more ways than one).

I hope something comes out of it. I’ll be interested to read the courts assessment and reasoning.

What’s your problem with ADL? I’m not very familiar with them.

I mentioned it in a comment in the last post.

Really cool gimmick. Especially that you can use the gravity gun not only on the can, but all the website elements.

The title made it sound like a full lock-in. But one survived.

Harper grabbed a bar from his truck and handed it to another bystander, who managed to break the back window and pull the young woman to safety.

Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.

Huge update, with a lot of changes, and workshop support. Valve does it again. Quality update for a very “old” title.

Half-Life 2 is currently free on Steam

From now through the weekend (until November 18th at 10am Pacific) Half-Life 2 is free to own , so if you’ve never played before, grab it now and keep it forever.

Haha, go to the bottom an grab the gravity gun - really cool gimmick

I forgot there was a sequel. At least I think I’ve seen it before.

Grow Up is currently 75% off on Steam. Very positive ratings, and watching this ign review, seems like a decent iteration with enough fresh content. I think I will buy it 🤔 and go climbing again :D

They’ve already been doing that, right? I assume this is marketing more than new or a change?

In the United States, 14 states where oil and gas are key industries passed laws in recent years restricting state agencies from doing business with financial institutions that consider climate risk in investment decisions or pledge to reduce emissions

Insane

Lol first there was greenwashing now there’s greenhushing

Is it good?

Wayfinder on Steam

I’m currently playing mainly the free hexceed, which to my surprise has a lot of free content. I found it mentioned elsewhere on Lemmy, and have been playing it since. hexceed is a hexagon puzzle game.

Being controllable mouse-only is nice. Needing focus it’s not always fitting to play though. :)

I also bought some pick-bundles and tried out Cash Cow DX, but it wasn’t for me.

And I tried playing The Ascend last weekend, but the Steam Controller track pad feels awful for full-degree aiming.

I’ve also been playing Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara, but am somehow on a break there currently. If I go back to a platformer on my PC, it’ll probably be that though, to continue playing through it.

What do you think about full-degree aiming in platformers?

I like being able to play platformers with gamepads, but the Steam Controller has no right stick, and the track pad doesn’t feel appropriate/consistent enough for aiming.

Not that I have not played platformers with keyboard and mouse and enjoyed them. A good title will still win over a worse title, but in general, I think nowadays I prefer platformers without aiming anything.

Thinking of Webbed, I think I may have tried that with gamepad first, but had to switch to keyboard and mouse. Which worked well, and was a very enjoyable game. But I can’t chill on the couch with that control scheme.

For me, great platformers have fluid and responsive controls, and either implement a forgiving persisting experience (climbing the environment) or quick and not too far-off resets (level screens).

Platforming can be great in pure platformers, action platformers, 2d or 3d. They may shift but do not limit how stories can be told and how worlds or progression can be designed.

I imagine it can be difficult to balance forgiving platforming with challenges between novice and experienced players. Often, we see alternative or stretch-goal paths for collectibles or challenges, which is a good approach to serve both kinds of players - even if maybe not total novices.

Introducing game mechanics step by step can give good introductions and learning controls, preferably in-game without dialogue, popups, or text-only introductions. They can guide into a natural level and mechanics design progression, giving a natural progression across longer gameplay.

I love platformers. For 2d, I usually prefer action platformers over pure platforming. So, let’s see what comes to mind.

You gamers HAVE to play Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It’s free and has an exceptional atmosphere.

I started with what I had fond memories of and came to mind, but of course, I went to my steam library, and looked through games tagged platformer. And now I’m wondering if I should also link my reviews of the titles, specifically the most interesting ones. Either way, the list of fond memories / very positives became too long for one list, so it’s split by category now.

3d ego platformers

• A Story About My Uncle, left a lasting impact on me back then as a very good if not exceptional title
• Portal
• Hot Lava, great, pure 3d platformer, a lot of of quality content
• Supraland, 3d puzzle and action platformer

3d 3rd-person platformers

• New Super Lucky’s Tale, a great 3d platformer
• A Hat in Time, a great 3d platformer, with cute characters, good humor
• RiME, I remember I wrote a very positive review about RiME
• A Short Hike, great
• Yooka-Laylee

2d platformers

• Sheepy: A Short Adventure, free, exceptional atmosphere
• Ori, with its great atmosphere and visuals
• Webbed, very cute, great theming, playing as a spider
• Yoku’s Island Express, great mixing of pinball and platformer, in a great setting
• Spiritfarer, great atmosphere
• Battleblock Theater, great absurd humor
• Super Meat Boy, ok, this has been a long time ago, but it was incredibly fluid and fast, with a ton of content
• Dustforce DX
• Jubilee, I played this on my Steam Deck quite a bit (unfortunately no save sync)
• Trine, for its great physics approach and narrated humorous storytelling
• Wunderling DX, an “auto-runner platformer”, quite interesting, well polished, so try to for something different
• Braid, I don’t actually know if it holds up today, it’s been so long ago

I’d love to hear your opinions on

• A Highland Song, deep lore, great atmosphere - I felt a bit lost though, or wasn’t captivated beyond that, and beyond one run
• Treasures of Aegean, another “roguelite” platformer, with interesting progression and discovery - still, I found it well made, but ultimately not personally captivating, maybe because of the disorganized nature [of re-runs and timeloop-crossing story]
• Sable, only partially platformer, and not the best quality overall, but great atmosphere, exploration, and platforming discovery
• Verlet Swing
• Viking Hiking
• Grow Home

I like watching Jauwn’s NFT game reviews. They almost feel like satire, with sarcasm, jokes, and criticism. They’re an interesting insight into the NFT game fad and its products.

In other videos it’s also sad to see they work as scams, leaving [naive] people lose a lot of money.

Lol, from the Logo history

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/raw/c075dab29e494dd596ce84e9548a9b6e7f8c8a6b/data/images/gimp-logo.png

To PIMP?

Yeah, don’t use /r/depression. Too negative. Which is unfortunate.

/r/KindVoice or /r/InternetParents may be better for advice or support. I don’t know their state or activity since I haven’t used reddit anymore. I enjoyed commenting there before though. And I’d love similar communities here. But I doubt it’d be active with current size and user type.

There’s a kind voice discord community. I don’t remember if it’s from the subreddit directly.

The healthy gamer community may be the best fit. Discord community. The website looks like a sell, but it has tons of free videos and community. https://www.healthygamer.gg/

German language forum site https://www.psychic.de/