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  • Charzard4261toAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat's your superpower?
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    4 days ago

    I have extremely sensitive hearing. I can tell when there’s an animal scarer nearby.

    This brings me to Microsoft Teams. You might have seen people mention that their dogs know when someone joins the call before they do. That’s because they introduced “ultrasonic howling” to detect if they’re in the same room as you, and mutes their mic.

    It hurts like fucking hell with headphones on.







  • This article somehow set me on a long path of reminiscence and reflection on how I’ve not been particularly enjoying many new releases. I usually compose these ramblings and hit delete instead of send, but this hits close to home so please allow me to take to the stage just this once.

    It started by reminding me of one of my favourite games of all time: Kid Icarus Uprising. Each level opens with a 5 minute on-rail segment before transitioning to a third person mode where you can explore a little as you make your way to the boss. Every few levels has a unique mechanic to spice things up too, overall providing a great and balanced variety of gameplay whilst you experience an entertaining story through to the end. It’s repayable not because there’s a ton of different outcomes to dialogue trees or a different NPC to romance, but because it’s fun!

    I also love to be involved in the game’s story, watch the drama unfold around me in real time as characters come and go and tensions ebb and flow. I’d rather have one major choice to make or none at all than this constant deluge of meaningless multiple choice dialogue boxes and quests with outcomes boiling down to “the easy way” or “brute force”.

    I feel like the success of “open world” games has taken a toll on single player experiences, with it’s philosophy mistakenly applied when it probably shouldn’t have. I grew up with the DS+ family and since moving to PC I’ve seen a similar thing happen with Battle Royales and multiplayer, so I can only assume this has happened before and will happen again.

    Obviously the answer is Indie games, but visibility is the key problem to solve. I love seeing people talk about their favourites, so if you have one that resonated with you please give them a shout-out! I won’t keep you here any longer so I’ll only briefly mention the one that gripped me the whole time: CrossCode.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk.


  • Charzard4261toComic Strips@lemmy.world"Politics"
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    1 month ago

    This was the last place I expected to see a rant about DbD! There are some trulyawful people in the community, from playing just to waste other people’s time to getting into “us vs them” arguments and hurling insults. I’m glad there’s a few people who go above and beyond to set good examples.

    On topic, I don’t get how even if Behaviour retconned characters to be different sexualities impacts our ability to enjoy the game at all. It’s not like the pride charms are going to hurt you, lol!






  • I’ve been working on a online multiplayer simulator for the new(ish) card game Elestrals for a year now. It’s Pokémon meets Yu-Gi-Oh with a bit of Greek mythology sprinkled in, with my favourite mechanic being that your health is your resource. You can blow it all on a power play or conserve your health and strike when you spot an opening.

    It’s almost done and I’m really proud of it. Obviously excluding the programmer art, the only thing left to implement in the engine is displaying stat changes client side and… The functionality for every card they’ve printed. No biggie lol.

    The problem is they announced an official one and it really killed my motivation. That’s still a problem I have yet to overcome 😅





  • Charzard4261toLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldmwaha
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    5 months ago

    Yep! Specifically Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, remakes of the generation 3 games. It introduced “Primal” forms of the legendaries Groundon and Kyogre which is what you see in the image. It’s supposed to be them at their peak power.




  • Actually I’ve been using it all the time ever since it came out in beta. Being able to set it to record certain games automatically so I can share something funny or report cheaters after the fact is amazing.

    No need to fiddle with OBS to find some instant replay like thing, remember to start it and then edit them in another piece of software. it’s all right there, built in to Steam, and so easy to use that I often trim and save clips during gameplay.