that is a very ugly Tommy lol

wtf is this lol

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For these discussions I think it would be good to link relevant communities.

I don’t think there’s a community just for Monkey Island, but there is [email protected]

I played the first Monkey Island as a kid with my family and still love these games. Great humor, puzzles, and music. #1 is probably still my favorite, all of them are great except maybe #4 I still need to play (now that it works in ScummVM it’s a lot better with modern computers). #2 is probably the hardest game in the series. Tales of Monkey Island is maybe the easiest but still good. Return to Monkey Island was also very good.

Zelda: Minish Cap, and Castlevania are my favorites

I haven’t played many JRPGs, but I’ll say Grandia 2. I liked the way the timers worked, and the cancels. Also positioning always adds depth to combat.

Panzer Dragoon Saga was pretty cool too, with the circular movement.

He called Git simple lol. Some good points here though. GIMP is definitely a bit clunky. Kdenlive does crash a lot for me, and often fails to recover the autosave, and it renders slowly. But there’s a lot of other good open source programs too. Firefox, OBS, Blender, some people in the comments were saying Krita but I haven’t tried it yet. There’s also Chromium and VSCode but obviously those are backed by huge companies.

here’s a good video essay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxOKEsBx4NU Ross’s Game Dungeon: Deus Ex

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgJazjz9ZsA Deus Ex: Human Revolution is FINE, And Here’s Why

I feel the same way about the prequels, but I think the original game is the best game ever made.

I would suggest against GMDX for a first time playthrough, it changes A LOT. From the aesthetics, to the gameplay, to the sounds, the mood, the feel of the game, and the viable approaches in each level, there’s so much that’s changed it just isn’t the same game anymore.

You’re much better off with the Vanilla Fixer tool, Transcended, or Zero Rando (I’m the dev). You could also use Revision and toggle every setting to vanilla, but make sure you also disable the HDTP models, and disable Shifter and Biomod too, and definitely set the maps to vanilla.

then I wonder what the cutoff is for “low power charger” because I don’t think I’ve ever seen that, it could probably stand to be increased a bit

below 5W, then the charger is considered “slow,” and the message “charging slowly” is shown on the lock screen. If the power is above 7.5W, then it’s considered “fast,” and the “charging rapidly” message is shown instead. If the power is between 5 and 7.5W, then the charger is seen as “normal,” and the lock screen simply says the phone is “charging.”

Seems to be a purely cosmetic change. I was wondering if the OS has any different behavior when charging quickly (like being more aggressive with running background processes, and running updates/backups) but the article didn’t say anything about that.

If my phone was only charging at 5 or 6W I’d want to know the charger is garage. That might not even be enough to use the phone without losing battery. What they really need is to rename “slow” to “very slow”, and then 5W to 7.5W could be considered the new “slow”. The intent being that “very slow” is problematically slow (maybe the OS scheduler could pretend the phone is not charging). And “slow” charging would just be for mild inconvenience.

If only the phone could just tell me the actual number of watts it’s charging at lol. Even if it’s rounded and averaged.

ScummVM supports many many games. Some people might think it’s an emulator, but it’s actually a collection of reverse engineered game engines.

eDuke32 and other Build Engine source ports

I’ve got a few more for you that I forgot earlier

Point and click adventure games [email protected]

Doom [email protected]

RollerCoaster Tycoon [email protected]

StarCraft [email protected]

Haha yeah you got me! You added the correct ones though, thanks

ok this is really niche, but The 7th Guest series (with The 11th Hour, and The 13th Doll, of course the upcoming VR game, and maybe some other related games like Clandestiny and Tender Loving Care)

[email protected]

and the Deus Ex series [email protected]

also some communities for my mods for games (like Deus Ex Randomizer) https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

Monkey Island

so many good alternative frontends exist

don’t forget the mobile apps are frontends too, which shows how flexible we can be while keeping the backend intact

I think forking might be an overreaction at this point, a better idea would be to work on plugins/extensions support

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3562

And also new frontends can be made without touching the backend, so you could fork just lemmy-ui or one of the phone apps or one of the many web uis

When I first read “hold close to cast” I thought it meant close as in the X button to close/kill the app lol, made no sense. Now I realize they mean close as in nearby…