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SimplyTadpole

@ SimplyTadpole @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hi! You can call me Tadpole. I enjoy maps/geography, sci-fi and speculative fiction, classic and sports cars and motorsports, and retro and retrofuturistic technology from the 70s-90s. Also a racing, role-playing, indie and retro video game connossieur.

I am a certified lurker.

  • Day 86 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

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  • Day 86 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

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  • I really need to get more into Project Zomboid, I really love its Sims-like aesthetic and early 90s setting. But the whole zombie apocalypse thing quite scares me since I'm pretty terrified of the idea of being eaten alive by a zombie horde and then becoming a zombie @_@ (the end of the tutorial shook me to my core, lol)

    I actually made a little "modpack" collection and sandbox game mode that turns it from a zombie apocalypse game to something more like Silent Hill (replacing zombies with eldritch entities, and making them spawn less frequently and move slower, but be far more resistant to damage), since that ironically makes the game less terrifying for me and more manageable to play 😅 (plus I quite like liminal spaces in general, which is something I wanted to replicate with the mod collection)

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  • This is currently me with modded Kerbal Space Program and Cities: Skylines lol

  • Happy 12 million!

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  • I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol

  • Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development

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  • I don't know how or why, but I get absolutely atrocious stuttering while playing games on X11 that simply doesn't occur with Wayland, so X is just not an option for me.

  • Fallout London - I just can't anymore

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  • Now I'm honestly kind of glad that I've been too lazy/depressed to figure out how to get FOLON to run on Linux. I really hope they fix all this...

  • DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change

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  • I'm fully out of the loop on what's going on, but I really hope the emulator doesn't shut down, I love my PS1 emulation...

  • What are your favorite racing games?

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  • Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 is my childhood game and I will always love it. I also like various other games from the NFS series, from the first one up to Carbon.

    Not many newer racing games I like, but I do enjoy occasionally playing art of rally, Inertial Drift, Forza Horizon 4 and Wreckfest.

  • When is the last time you witnessed a real life situation where you were like "Wait, what? No."

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  • As a fellow ace, I get your frustrations, I'm sorry you have to deal with this.

  • PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives

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  • Whoa whoa whoa whoa, WHAT? I don't use RetroArch most of the time (I find its UI rather inconvenient), but I had no idea its main developer was transphobic, can you tell me more?

  • What is the most painful thing you've experienced ?

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  • Appendicitis. I described it as feeling like a Chestburster from Alien was gestating inside me and ready to chew its way out of me at any second. I needed near-lethal amounts of painkillers while awaiting surgery to not feel like I was about to die.

    For comparison, I broke my foot last year and it still wasn't anywhere near as painful as appendicitis.

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?

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  • I'm not technically inclined at all, so the most duct tapey thing I can remember was hacking Gnome to use Nemo as my file browser instead of Gnome's default file browser once.

  • Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds

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  • I dealt with that too, sadly. Thankfully there is a mod that can alleviate it. (I'd link it but it'd also reveal spoilers...)

  • Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds

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  • I beat it last week. Amazing game.

    Can't wait to get the DLC and play it!

  • Finally got this after two months of waiting! A bit uncomfortable and heats up easily, but it's still great to have a retro handheld of my own.

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  • That's a fair assessment, though I personally believe there should be a distinction between "previous generation" and "retro". When the PS3 was a current-gen console, the PS2 and PS1 weren't really seen as retro, just old and outdated.

    Then again, I guess it's a distinction without much of a difference. ^^"

  • Finally got this after two months of waiting! A bit uncomfortable and heats up easily, but it's still great to have a retro handheld of my own.

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  • It's a Powkiddy V90!

  • Finally got this after two months of waiting! A bit uncomfortable and heats up easily, but it's still great to have a retro handheld of my own.

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  • Personally, I consider the cutoff point between Retro and Modern as being when the sixth generation (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Dreamcast) ended and the seventh (PS3, X360, Wii) began.

    I guess I'm a bit weird in this regard, because I did grow up with sixth gen games (I never had a GBA, but I did dabble with GBA emulation at the time) and thus should probably also feel the same way you do, but I remained quite fond of them even as a lot of people moved on to newer consoles and no longer shared my interests. I guess I had an easier time labeling them as retro because it was easier to justify me still liking them as opposed to "being stuck behind the times" or "being too poor to afford the newer games/consoles" like people used to say to me.

    Like... yeah, I was too poor to afford the newer stuff, but that wasn't the ONLY reason I liked the older games. I just thought they were neat and had sentimental value to me.

  • NASA just scored a badly needed win: The best potential evidence of alien life yet

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  • Fair enough! That's a good point.

  • NASA just scored a badly needed win: The best potential evidence of alien life yet

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  • I'd say not at all. Venus has an atmosphere 92 times denser than ours filled with sulphuric acid, its average temperature is hot enough to melt lead (455°C/850°F), probes sent there never lasted more than two hours before being completely destroyed, and it for some reason rotates backwards compared to other planets.

    Mars doesn't have any of these issues and mostly resembles a cold desert with a very thin atmosphere, so it's far similar to Earth than Venus is.