These works are stunning. This one in particular struck me.
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mastodon 4.7.3Linux enthusiast since 2007, gave up on Windows in 2012. Currently running Garuda,dual booting with straight Arch. Agoraphobic, Sociophobic. Hates Nazis. Likes cats. LGBTQ+/BLM Ally. Gaming is life. Currently own NES, SNES, N64, Wii, GBC, Genesis, Dreamcast, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Vita, 360, Series X, Steam Deck. I solo MMOs. Music is essential. Reading is fundamental. I use some version of this screen name just about everywhere so if you recognize it, we've crossed e-paths at some point.
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Gee I wonder which room their "mom" is in.
If y'all into sim games and you like cars well then I got some good news for ya. Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 is currently free on Steam for its 8th anniversary. Don't wait tho, this offer ends on the 27th. I happen to have Car Mech Sim 2021 and can absolutely rec that one (excellent podcast game btw). Never played the predecessor but it looks to be fundamentally the same. (also there's a new one coming this year woo)
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/645630/Car_Mechanic_Simulator_2018/
Season: A Letter to the Future (PC/PS5, xp'd on PS5) Your best friend in the village has a dream that the Season is about to end. You decide to leave the village and go out into the world on your bike to catalog as much as you can so that the future might remember this Season.
This is a short (9h to credits for me) "walking sim" that, if I'm honest, is rather melancholic. In this alternate universe, there are purple crystals that have affects on people's memories, and dreams. While the world is very pretty to look at, there is an underlying current of sadness, of inevitability. There's moments of amusement, to be sure, but this is a more ruminative game.
Overall gameplay is simple: take pictures, record sounds, sketch, scrapbook, and talk to the people you meet to fill your notebook with all the memories you can make of this Season before it ends. The game doesn't feel rushed, tho. Plenty of time to observe and talk to everyone, and pet all the animals too.
I always enjoy games that have that "hand drawn" art style. The music is very well done and complements the game well. There's good voice actors, too. Considering that they play a big part in the game, the SFX are also very well done.
Overall this was yet another small experience I am very glad I was able to partake of. Highly recommend. 👍
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https://www.play-season.com/
Mixtape (Multi, XPd on PC)
"On their last night of high school, three friends embark on one more adventure together. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.
Skate. Party. Avoid the law.
Make out. Sneak out. Hang out."
This is the 2nd game from Beethoven & Dinosaur, following the excellent The Artful Escape, so I had high hopes for it. These hopes were not dashed. As someone that also "came of age" in the 90s, this game absolutely nails the esthetic in every way possible. Assuming the role of Stacy Rockford, you and your 2 best pals are on a quest to have the best "last night before adulthood" ever.
So this game is a mix of a lot of genres. You skate around town doing tricks. You "point and click" through memories in each kid's room. You search for clues to a fabled stash. You move a couch. Skip rocks at the pond hitting targets. To be fair, there is a not small amount of watching cinematics here because the story is central. Personally didn't bother me at all.
I love the "claymation cross cel shaded"-ish graphic style. It takes a little getting used to as the slightly jerky movements make you wonder if your PC is acting up but after a bit I stopped noticing it. Everything is super colorful, quite pretty to look at.
The soundtrack is dope asf, plain and simple. It's not restricted to just 90s stuff nor is it just "hits" but also more obscure stuff which is awesome as that's what I've been into since I was a kid.
Coming in at 4hrs to roll credits, it's not a long experience which is fine since it's supposed to take course over an afternoon into evening. And it's not a pricey game, so IMO it costs exactly what it's worth. I only wish they sold the OST along with it, lol. (yeah I can just go get em myself but sometimes I'm lazy.)
I very much enjoyed this game, and would highly recommend it. Don't skip out on this one, esp if you're like me, a 90s kid.
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https://mixtape.game/
I been awfully quiet for most of a month cause busy. So far, I have:
✔️ Rebuilt/replaced half the front door steps.
✔️ Repaired the front/back entry doors so they open and shut properly, and installed deadbolts.
✔️ Installed a new toilet, discovering "my friend can fix that for cheap" horrors. (this whole house reeks of that thought process, btw.)
✔️ Installed a new range hood
✔️ Planed the bedroom doors so they'd open and close properly.
✔️ "Repaired" the shower drain (really I just put a rubber seal down to fill space and then a decent amount of silicone to seal everything AMAP, likely replace that shower stall with something else)
✔️ Installed a new bathroom faucet, which "magically" fixed the cold water pressure there, so
✔️ DC'd the kitchen faucet hot water hose and blew it out with my compressor which "magically" fixed the hot water issue there
✔️ Installed a PVC/ABS awning over the front door (yeah it's plastic with aluminum bracing strips but it was cheap and feels sturdy enough once bolted to the house + it looks nice, plan to put one over the kitchen window to deal with summer sun)
✔️ Rebuilt the back porch which was rotting out due to a corroded bit of weather stripping
✔️ Tore the ramp off the back porch (led straight to the back yard, assume a more elderly than me person wanted to keep ability to get out there) which was rotting out, discovered the porch end foundation was rotten, rebuilt that and ended the porch with a railing.
✔️ Prepped up an area in the back yard for a 10x6' shed, which involved tearing out a fire pit of railroad tie, bunch of broken paving stones, cherry tree sucklings and roots, leveling the area and placing foundation stones. Building shed today.
✔️ Replaced some bottom skirting with lattice/mesh wire to let the crawl space breathe, smelled mildew so def necessary.
Still have managed to find time to play a little NMS and check out the new Expedition tho. Not sure if being trained to clean toxic waste is Hello Games being cute or prescient 🤪
It's been 40 years. I still remember it well. I was in school. It's a few days till my 10th bday. Our (very small, maybe 14 kids) 4th grade class stopped our studies and tuned in the launch. The surreal moment of watching the explosion grow while the announcer calmly continued reporting the stats before realizing there was a problem. The teacher having to explain what we just watched. The day we learned that going to space is still a very difficult task.
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Installed a much needed new 72 pin connector on the ole front loader NES yesterday. Naturally the connector is Chinesium crap, so I was not entirely shocked that it failed to work correctly right away. Testing a known working, clean pins game I got blank screen. Messing about with the tray, I got a response when it was about 3/4s of the way to the final locked position. Fine.
Figuring it required a bit of "breaking in" so that games would properly load in the locked position, I then embarked on a project that took a good few hours: cracking open every game cart I have and cleaning the board pins to make sure they wouldn't foul the new connector, then testing each one.
And yes, "breaking in" was in fact needed, as after about a dozen testing attempts with the first cleaned cart the game started launching properly with a little fiddling. By the time I got through cleaning my collection the games were launching properly first try nearly every time. I have a couple carts that seem to be misaligned a tad such that they fail to launch when fully seated in the tray, so I have to pull them slightly back so that they juuuust clear the NES chassis when the tray is locked down, and then they launch.
Nice to finally have a properly working NES again. Also pleased with the 2007 Magnavox 15 inch display I got off eBay for $60. Fully functional and only one bad pixel in the upper right corner that is only notable on black screens. Much better than the little 9 inch I was using. Wish it was a CRT but they are damn pricey these days so it'll have to do.
Next will be the SNES Jr. Needs a new 62 pin cart slot. That one will be more fun as it'll require soldering. Also I don't seem to be able to find anything but "normal" slots for sale so I guess I'll have to gamble it'll fit in the chassis? They seem the same other than the metal shield, shrug. Might look into acquiring an OG SNES parts console I can fix up. Never liked the Jr.
Total Reload (PC) You wake up in an AI's droid body, and are quickly tasked with solving your way through the puzzle maze he's been building for millennia, with quite the lofty goal as your reward.
This is a pretty good Portal inspired FP puzzle game. Has all the things you'd expect: a disembodied "AI" talking to you, cubes, a gadgety gun, lots of rooms that require you to figure out the what the order of actions is.
Gonna get my 2 nitpicks out the way first. 1) the actor playing the AI speaks in a stilted, fast, odd pattern, which is fine, but also mispronounces words for .. reasons? Ex, "cube" is "koob". IDK, maybe it's just a me thing but I thought it was a little annoying. 2) I found myself slowed down by the switch hitboxes being so small that if you're carrying a cube, you can get it "knocked out" of your hands, making you have to pick it up and hit the switch again etc. Again, could just be a me thing, shrug.
However, those weren't a big distraction from my enjoyment of the game. It's not Portal (what could be, really) but I certainly found myself scratching my head more than a few times trying to decipher what I was supposed to do, which is great for this kinda game.
The story is decent, and being able to "ask" the AI questions is a neat add. Mechanics are a bit floaty and slow but not gratingly so. (I also had odd issues with the controls/controller at times, but that could be a local deal with my Linux Distro.) The few music tracks are decent bops, so they don't get annoying which is good as you'll likely hear them often, heh. I clocked 15 hours to complete it but it's me so at least an hour, maybe 2 is afk time?
All around this is a very good effort to make a Portal game by a small dev. If you like the genre you should pick it up. It's a solid 3/5 👍
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I don't "need" any of it but I'm still tempted by all of it simply because I want it all to succeed so hard the AI tech bros lose their fucking minds.
I am actually interested in the Frame, TBH. Do have a PSVR2, but that's got shitty PC implementation, esp on Linux which is all I run, sooooo...
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@killed2@social.linux.pizza To be fair, other than having to laboriously peel the wrapping off each, stupid, panel, making the building process 10x longer than it needed to be, this shed was easier to put up than the last one I built a couple years ago. .. Of course I got that one for free cause the people that bought it tried to put it up in a windstorm for some reason. So half the panels and frame were bent and broken. That was a fun Lego puzzle.
But the shed makers kinda have you cornered. The options other than metal are literally Rubbermaid plastic ones, or prebuilt wooden ones that cost 10x what the metal one I just built cost. $400, or nearly $4000... yeah I'ma take that $400 one every time and just power through the suck.
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Got dressed in jeans and a long sleeve shirt, gloves, partner tied a fabric scrap on my head to keep shit outta my hair. Took the flashlight and started crawling. First stop was 10 feet over to a vent that I knew wasn't connected cause I'd had to reset the pole it was braced by and it pulled right out. At the time, I couldn't see what it was supposed to be attached to. Now I could, and was somewhat concerned a kitten could have fallen into the pipe. Thankfully not. Got the vent back onto the pipe and moved on
Crawled my way to the middle of the house, where the axles still reside. Mama moved away from me as I approached. Kitten louder now but still not sure where it is. Got to about where the wall between bathroom/2nd bedroom is and looked up into the rather large opening in the floor. Looking back at me was the tiny face of 3rd kitten.
Adjusted my position into a kneel and reached out into the space, as the kitten started to retreat. Was close, but was able to just stretch enough to catch it by its little tail and pull it back, get a good grip on it. Twisted around and resumed a prone position, crawled my way back to the rear of the house, passed out the baby and then exited. Fun times.
She took the 3rd in to reunite it with its sibs. I got to work fixing the skirting back in place/filling in holes so this wouldn't be a recurring thing. Left the panel on the side off so mama could leave. She still just stared at us, no intentions of coming near. Went in, no word from friend yet. Babies have settled down in the bin, on a towel. Bottle of warm water to cuddle with.
We have 4 cats already, so babies must go, ASAP. They spent the night in the 2nd bdr. Happened to have kitten wet food, mixed it with a little egg yolk and got a couple of them to eat some. Friend got back to us next morning and picked them up a few hours later. Mama had left, so I closed up the crawlspace. She came back and hung around for a day or so, but that was it. She's already moved on, lol. She got free child care 🤣
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I been bashing Mint and its Disks app over the formatting choices, but I will give credit where it's due. They have SMART built right into Disks, making it really simple to check your storage health.
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@LibreNyaa@social.linux.pizza The closest close up ought to have "-ultimate" at the end 😃
Sent over the $1k "Please hold that place for us thanks" payment this afternoon. Time to start planning for a move in earnest.
I must admit, I have a big sad though. Not about leaving this place. Fuck this place and everyone involved with it, except the maintenance dude. He's always been pretty up front with me, and does what he can with the little the slum lord owner gives him.
No, I have a sad about one individual here. Not a neighbor, exactly, but a tenant, of sorts. The big orange tomcat we named Pippen. He showed up here when he was months old. More or less adopted us. It's been 3 years now, and AFAIK, we're the only people in here he'll let pet him. Definitely the only ones who can pick him up.
And can still pick him up, even after we took him to a shelter when he had an infection in his face, where he got a shot of antibiotics, and lost the tip of his ear and his nuts (they clip the ears of "feral" cats here, he did NOT like being in the shelter, lol) We helped him heal when the infection failed to be cured by the antibiotic shot and his swollen "cheek" burst and was pretty awful for most of a month.
I'd sure like to take him with us. However, we already have 4 indoor cats. It would be real hard, even in the new much bigger place, to be able to keep him isolated from the others while they got used to the new sitch, etc. And I didn't really want 4 cats, so 5 would not be an improvement, heh. Esp as we already have a male and the few times Pip has come inside to hang out, near fights have happened.
We're not the only ones that feed him, so he won't go hungry. I'm sure he'll miss us though. I'm going to miss him. Might have to come by now and then to see how he's doing.
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Just keeps getting better right to the end. GOTY material fasho.
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The sale officially "closed" today so we took over the bed and frame plus some other things to our new home and collected the keys. Unboxed and set up the platform, unboxed the bed onto it. Checked some things. Gas stove only has one igniter working, seems less than serviceable to get into it and figure out why the others have failed. Water heater doesn't seem to be able to ignite the pilot light. None of the fairly newish doors have a deadbolt, something I hadn't noticed. Good thing there's hardware stores open and I have a keyhole saw set. Gonna take some more stuff over and buy a couple deadbolts on the way to install.
The swamp cooler on the roof is toast. It still powers on, but when I went up to look at why the sides were all off it, I found it was because they had all rusted out. Rigged them up as best I could to block out as much rain as possible the next few days, will prob wrap a tarp around it soon.
The place is definitely rough but it's not so bad we regret it. I can address all the issues so, at some point it'll be more than a decent investment. And it *is* plenty livable, right now, and so much more space, which is so welcome after 8 years in a glorified refrigerator box.
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@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza I been running Garuda/XFCE for the last couple years and found it to be quite impressive.