daniyeg [he/him]

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  • visual novels work very well on even toasters because they are basically slide shows.

    old adventure games are also a blast and work very well, look into lucas arts and sierra online catalogues. a great starter could be sam and max or grim fandango.

    you could also try N64 emulation. there’s a lot of good games on it and not demanding at all.

    if you need something more sandboxy, rollercoaster tycoon and transport tycoon deluxe (or opentdd for the modern open source version, has multiplayer too with mod support) are great. apart from that, old civilization games and simcity are also great.

    old real time strategies are also great. command and conquer series, stronghold series, age of empires 2, age of mythology, warcraft etc etc.

    (help me folks im running out of genres)

    basically either look into blasts from the past, or the indie scene. i recommend the former since although there’s a lot of great stuff in the indie scene, it all kinda gets samey due to the same tools being used and the limited resources available pushes people into certain genres. you can’t certainly beat the olden but golden ones on variety.


  • i like deltarune but unfortunately i always have to torture myself by having a guide open in order to extract as much dialogue and secrets as i possibly can. i understand that toby fox likes secrets and it’s cool for the fandom to have these and meta stuff but personally it doesn’t sit right with me, and i think it’s genuinely poor design if i feel a compulsion to actively ruin the fun of the game.

    also there’s some slight polish issues like your custom keybinds not working on the start chapter screen. otherwise it’s pretty much perfect. banger soundtrack, amazing dialogue, always keeping it fresh but never overstaying. i reserve the masterpiece title for something like disco elysium but deltarune might come close.


  • unfortunately i suspect that most new signatures are forged and botted. even if the initiative passes it’ll probably go nowhere and the organising I’ve seen while valiant has been rather poor. if it wasn’t for the drama it wouldn’t even pass the “we’ll think about it” threshold. consumer advocacy is really hard when you’re up against hundreds of millions of dollars of corporate interest and admittedly the low priority of this issue outside one specific demographic. i hope it’ll do something but i wouldn’t count on it.





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    28 days ago

    it looks like a current gen ROG Ally but they allowed the xbox team to inject more code into the bloated carcass of windows. unfortunately, Goomers™ consider the steam deck hardware outdated (they can’t get 60 fake frames of bouncing teenage titties in their favourite hentai game).

    as for normal people, it’s a windows device which supports gamepass and has near perfect compatibility with any game, it’ll also probably have a nice sleek UI and they said they are turning all the non essential features off (not the forced telemetry though of course). if they managed to actually do that then the slight performance increase of linux and the longer battery life advantage will be gone.

    i actually think it’ll sell well. people are already talking about it (if not for the silksong footage). of course it wouldn’t be Microsoft without selling an underpowered machine with the same exact shape and the same name just without the X on the front, just to terrorise the poor kid that got this from their mom, who thought the white one look cuter and they are basically the same and the kid shouldn’t complain. well they are not the same mom!!









  • there used to be other terms relating to specific things. reverse racism and white genocide, cultural marxism, LGBTQ propaganda, gender ideology, removed. but then the right decided to adopt intersectionality and decided to be bigoted against all minorities at the same time. this has the added benefit of not “excluding” someone if they belong to only one of the categories they hate while spreading hate against everyone they deem undesirable.

    their first attempt was SJW which worked great in 2016-2017 era but 1. it’s an unwieldy three letter acronym 2. it sounds like jew. also the breadtube popularity in the subsequent years helped killing off the phrase. after breadtube creators either fell off or decided to only make artsy fartsy videos once a year they clapped back with woke and DEI.

    one other thing woke and DEI have going for them is that they tie to this false notion of meritocracy which is unfortunately broadly popular. on the other hand SJW is relating to a specific stereotype of “blue haired feminist raging in tumblr” which most people really don’t care about.