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Elevator7009

@ Elevator7009 @lemmy.zip

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  • Day 585 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • Haven't poked my head into !games@lemmy.world in awhile. Impressed to see you are still going!

  • Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report

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  • I do notice that it takes more effort though. Before online platforms figured out the whole engagement outrage pattern, I spent a lot of time playing video games, yes, but also reading books or making art.

    Then the online platforms started investing in trying to figure out how to engage you, and it is easier and easier to spend time online by default to the exclusion of other things and feel bad about it because your online time wasn't spent on something that made you feel good like it did in the past. It is surprisingly hard to resist the current big platforms are trying to push us down.

    People on the Threadiverse have taken at least a small step by disengaging from Reddit and going to an open-source, non-corporate-controlled engagement-maxing platform. But human negativity bias still makes it a lot easier to post outrage and comment outrage and get in fights. Hell, I am making this comment because of my own negativity bias and desire to expound on how much I hate what has been done to our attention spans! It's a lot easier to complain than to analyze why I enjoy something. And I think the engagement bait outrage has ruined my brain a bit to still sort of seek that out and scroll (but better Lemmy than Reddit). I've been trying to get off but change is hard. Sometimes I relapse and click an article I know will have negativity and anger, like this article I clicked on.

    I do really appreciate what you did by posting something to help instead of yet another "thing bad" even if I super agree with "thing bad", and I'm being part of the "thing bad" pattern right now.

    I do know of !takeyourtimeback@lemmy.world which might be able to help with the whole online engagement problem.

  • Tobiano, a horse range management game x horse-riding sim hybrid, with genetics gameplay for horse breading, released in early access on Steam

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  • Despite not being a horse girl, I do still look at https://themanequest.com/, a site for people looking for high-quality horse games instead of shovelware, and they have a bit for this game!

    On the project’s website, Tobiano promises to focus on the training process and dressage movements, with plans for other disciplines later on. “Horses also have temperaments and fitness levels which will impact their ride ability,” says the site. “Horses can get stressed by high demands like new exercises or strenuous work.”

    Tobiano’s developer is actively sharing their progress in the TMQ communities on Reddit, Facebook and Discord, and Beta testing is currently ongoing.

    https://www.themanequest.com/blog/2025/8/17/game-announcement-roundup-here-are-10-upcoming-horse-games-to-keep-an-eye-on-in-2025-and-2026?rq=tobiano

  • NPCs (NonPolitical Comics) @piefed.social
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    Stardew Valley Rabbit's Foot

  • Factorio @lemmy.world
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    Shen Comix

    The factory must grow

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Been using Cattails: Wildwood Story, a !lifesimulation@lemmy.world, as my relax-after-work game.

    Started The Farmer Was Replaced (if you like things like that, !automationgames@lemmy.zip), to try to ease me into coding again. There is a function to pet a flying piggy available to you right from the beginning of the game, and they tell you this. I feel shocked that only ~25% of players have that achievement when about ~75% have gotten the achievements you get for the very first actions you do in-game. Also, the sounds of you harvesting crops (or of them going into the piggy bank for items, not sure which) reminds me very much of the Minecraft item pickup sound.

  • Save 100% on Smart Factory Tycoon on Steam

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  • Thanks for the heads-up, though!

  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    NeoSkitties, the Trainer's guide to the indie web

    neoskitties.org

  • Fallout: New Vegas - Me and the girls are taking back the Mojave, one dead legionnaire at a time ✨

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  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?

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  • Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?

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  • Power Word You're Not Invited To D&D Anymore

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  • It is also something I also want to avoid as much as possible. I'd rather have the uncomfortable conversation with someone than ghost them and I have actually walked that walk before, having uncomfortable conversations I wanted to avoid in order to not ghost someone else. Just wanted to show empathy for people who do it and maybe provide an explanation to the rest of us wondering why others hurt us that way.

  • Power Word You're Not Invited To D&D Anymore

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  • As a person who spent a lot of time feeling rejected and unsure of why people were happy to be my acquaintance but not my friend, never getting any explanation why I wasn't good enough (the answer was undiagnosed autism and the trouble with social skills that comes with that), ghosting with no explanation hurts me in my soul.

    I get why people do it though. How do you know if it's a person who was clueless to what their bad behavior and is desperate to have literally anyone tell them what they do wrong so they can change, or someone who will flip out and get violent or stalkery or super spiteful towards group members once ejected from the group? How do you know it will not spiral into some giant drama, especially if you were wrong or others disagree about if their behavior was objectionable? Conflict avoidance, whether for justified reasons or not, is very very common.

  • RPGMemes @ttrpg.network
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    Power Word You're Not Invited To D&D Anymore

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    Why'd you become a lich?

  • How Two Programmers Built The Most Complex Automation Game

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  • The importance of checking which community you are in!

    On one hand I get the resentment at having a negative opinion and getting downvoted by people who do not share it, especially when you expressed your opinion civilly; on another, it is a reasonable expectation that when you enter the Thing Enthusiast Club and say "Thing sucks" without a detailed critique they will not be too pleased, and I think it's kind of an understandable thing. While we do need to welcome differing opinions, always having an open and welcoming ear for differing opinions might make it hard to just sit and enjoy things with likeminded people. Sometimes you just want to watch the game, the movie, bake the cake, without hearing about why the sport sucks or the movie is a hack job or the cake is bad for your health.

    I think there are subscribers who are community regulars looking to just enjoy stuff together, and then the people coming in from Local or All understandably wondering why they cannot say anything negative about the Thing, especially when it might make an interesting point for discussion, and I am not sure how to resolve that!

  • Looking for ARPGs like Ys Origin and older Zelda gamma

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  • Looking for an Itch Recommendation?

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  • A nice thing about Lemmy is that you can edit titles! You can change your title to say itch.io

    (also shameless plug for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip where this post would definitely fit in, I see posts asking for recommendations/suggestions all the time on other gaming lemmy communities and wonder if they know of the community specifically made for that)

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  • I am so glad you liked my post :)

    I am also a fan of the dual region thing, and the content.

    I'm surprised they gave those moves to Pikachu, but I also should not be surprised. Series mascot. I am usually not a "oh it's popular so it sucks" person, but the overexposure and favoritism of Pikachu in other Pokémon media sadly ruined some enjoyment of the otherwise cute critter for me ;-;

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Still play(test)ing my in-progress ROM hack of Pokémon Soul Silver.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • OneShot, a game where the 4th wall isn't broken but simply doesn't exist

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  • Oh no, another game for the backlog. Maybe next weekend, I have stuff to do today and am just browsing Lemmy while I feed myself. Sounds cool, thanks for the writeup!

    Due to these concepts, the in-game instructions recommend playing in windowed mode instead of fullscreen.

    Feeling extremely validated about my preference for windowed over fullscreen.

    The robot teaches Niko to communicate with the player, telling Niko that the player is a god of the game's world whose responsibility is to guide the "Messiah" Niko.

    Feels like some Deltarune theories about the player being the angel of the prophecy. I've always enjoyed this kind of metafictional thing, and the idea of the player as some kind of deity-adjacent to a lot of game characters—also a nice convenient power fantasy :P

  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
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    Subway Builder, a "hyperrealistic" transit simulation/tycoon game

    www.subwaybuilder.com
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    Dwarves

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

  • Life Simulation Games @lemmy.world
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    Animula Nook, an upcoming cozy life sim where you're a tiny person (think "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids") living on a desk

    store.steampowered.com /app/3767320/Animula_Nook/
  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

  • Life Simulation Games @lemmy.world
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    Little Witch in the Woods Review - LadiesGamers (game exited Early Access September 14)

    ladiesgamers.com /little-witch-in-the-woods-review/
  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
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    Trailer for Republic of Pirates, a console (Xbox, Playstation) city-builder with real-time naval combat

  • Strategy Games♟️| RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy @lemmy.world
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    Timelake: Time Travel Tactics, a roguelite strategy game with time travel mechanics, has demo on Steam

    store.steampowered.com /app/3296330/Timelake_Time_Travel_Tactics/
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    old orchard

  • Tycoon Games @lemmy.world
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    Do you think any business types in tycoon games are oversaturating the market, and if so, do you want less of that type or for it to be done differently?