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Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.

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  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)

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  • I once had a job in an office building that was shared by several different businesses. One of them was an accounting firm that seemed like an incredibly boring place. And I swear, every time two guys from the accounting firm passed each other in the hallway, they had to say to each other, "You having fun yet?" or "Are ya workin' hard or hardly workin'?"

    It must have been a requirement. Literally company policy. I heard it so many times in just a couple years, there's no other explanation. Like, if you didn't say it, the manager would ask to see you in his office, and he'd be like, "Hey Phil, someone tells me that you and Dave passed each other in the hallway, and neither of you said 'you having fun yet.' Now you know we like to have fun around here, and 'you having fun yet' is part of our company culture, so I'm gonna need you to make sure that you say 'you having fun yet.' It's for fun. And we like to have fun. It's mandatory."

  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)

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  • Job: cashier. Not my current job, but definitely the one that racked up the most irritating quotes.

    Customer: "Now, don't you try to double scan my items. I'm watching you."

    I heard this one constantly when I was a cashier at a grocery store. At first I assumed that they were kidding. After all, it's such a stupid accusation to make. It was only after about 100 elderly people had said it while staring daggers at me that I realized they weren't kidding.

    I assume there must have been a news report in the 1960s about store clerks charging you twice for an item and then taking the extra cash, and a certain kind of person had been paranoid about it ever since. Except this wasn't in the 1960s, it was the 2010s, and such a scam couldn't even work anymore. The cash register isn't just a lockbox like it was in the 60s, it's a computer and it knows exactly how much money should be in it. And if it has less than that in it when your shift ends, you're screwed.

    Plus, you're paying with a credit card, Gertrude, how am I supposed to steal your shit when you're paying with a credit card?

    I think the thing that made it so irritating was the fact that they are willing to whip out this assertive, domineering attitude at you based on information that hasn't been true for about forty freaking years. They have a mistrust of other people because they don't know how the world works anymore, yet they think they've outsmarted you.

  • Stardew Valley creator swears 'on the honor of my family name' that he'll never charge money for DLC

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  • I swear on the soul of my father, Stardew Montoya, you will get all DLC for one price.

  • Day 4 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

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  • Nice screenshot. One thing this game did get right from day 1 was the art style.

  • It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games

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  • This article brings up a great point.

    In addition, I've always thought that video games work the way we were told the world worked. (At least, the way we were told it worked in the 90s in America.) Work hard to get some resources so that you can use those resources to build more stuff to get more resources, etc.

    Kids today can work as hard as they want, only to still have no chance of paying for college and still have no chance of buying a house. Video games at least provide that "strategy -> effort -> reward -> next level" cycle that our brains find very rewarding, which, for far too many people, does not exist in real life.

    That's probably what makes modern games so disappointing, too. Games were one area that actually was a meritocracy... until pay-to-win messed that up.

  • what're some of your gaming hot takes? In regards to opinions about certain characters or plot points, etc.

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  • Sonic and Dr. Robotnik are codependent. They don't actually want to defeat each other. That's why Robotnik is always building these elaborate bases that, for some reason, have a bunch of perfectly Sonic-sized tubes for getting around in. And it's why there's always that moment at the end where Sonic is chasing Robotnik but doesn't catch him.

  • A sim rally & racing game community

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  • Cool! I'm not a hardcore sim racing fan, but I got a little into them when I realized that you can play them without a wheel if you use the gyroscope in a PS5 controller for steering. It's not perfect, but it's accurate enough to play these games that are otherwise unplayable with an analog stick.

    BTW if anyone is reading this and thinks you might want to try it, Assetto Corsa is two dollars on the Steam sale right now. It came out a while ago, but there are graphics mods that make it look nice. https://store.steampowered.com/app/244210/Assetto_Corsa/

  • I want to want new keyboards but I can't move on from this one

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  • I had no idea any solenoid keyboards were being made. Looks like a solid endgame right there.

  • How’s the progress of (insert retro game title) going?

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  • Been mostly playing Capcom vs SNK 2 on my Anbernic Arc handheld lately. IMO, it's the only handheld with a d-pad that you can enjoy fighting games on, so I've been using it for that. Current goal is to get through arcade mode as Terry and Evil Ryu with no deaths.

  • METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE is now available on GOG

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  • In case anyone doesn't know, this game is basically Devil May Cry but in the Metal Gear Solid universe.

    I'm telling you that because I didn't know that when I bought it. I had played MGS 1 and 2 before buying this game, and it took a couple of hours for me to realize, I don't think I'll be sneaking up on anybody in this one. It's a good Devil May Cry game, though!

  • New Feature to Highlight journalism on Mastodon

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  • This is very cool. I'm hoping 404media.co and aftermath.site do it -- those are two independent sites that I've subscribed to after hearing about them on the fediverse. Seems like most of 404media's writers are on Mastodon, at least.

    I also like that this feature creates the ability to have a known link for an author across multiple websites. With that, you could show posts that link to any other article by the same author, regardless of which site the article was published on. So then you can see all the threads of discussion about all of the articles that particular author has written.

  • Anyone know any good shooters for switch?

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  • This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but Neon White is one of my favorite games of the last few years, and it's on the Switch. I played on PC, but I haven't seen any complaints about the Switch version.

    I don't really know if I'd call if a first person shooter. It's more like a first person platformer and you have to shoot some targets before completing the level. Levels are very, very short, and you'll replay them many times to shave a fraction of a second off of your time.

  • New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega

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  • It could've been the first YAAA YAAA YAAA YAAA YAAA game. Instead, it's just an AAA game, and I'm probably going to skip it. :(

  • Let's discuss: Deus Ex

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  • Thank you! Was just about to ask if there were any suggestions for someone who had never played the original.

  • Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right.

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  • Yes! It's the only kind of game where an LLM would be a good addition.

  • Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port?

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  • I bought Rayman 2 on GOG a few years ago, and it had a hard time recognizing controllers. I even tried launching it through Steam, which usually fixes all controller problems, but it still didn't work. The Dreamcast version still looks good enough, and your controller will definitely work.

    Due to licensing issues, Crazy Taxi 2 has a different soundtrack on the PC from the original Dreamcast version. The Dreamcast version is the one with The Offspring.

    Sonic 3 has also had music licensing issues, so the version included in Sonic Origins has a different soundtrack. Sonic Origins was also buggy at launch, but I hear that's fixed now. Sonic Origins also adds a bunch of new features though, so this one may be a tossup.

    Question for y'all: did anyone buy the recent PC port of Metal Gear Solid 2? It seems to have both a lot of praise and a lot of complaints.

  • Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right.

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  • Me too; in fact I have two games for it on the way right now! Games made in the last few years! Intrepid Izzy and Postal.

  • Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right.

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  • Seaman is one of those games that I'm intentionally not replaying, because it absolutely blew my mind when I was ten years old, and I just want to leave it that way. I'm guessing the tricks they used to mimic conversation would be very obvious to me now, but back then it seemed completely real. That game turned your CRT TV into a fish tank with an honest to god talking fish inside of it... and Spock gave you updates about how he was doing when you checked on him after school.

  • What are your plans for when the Milky Way galaxy collides with Andromeda?

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  • I'm more than happy to jump over to whichever side is winning. Got my Andromeda flag ready to fly as soon as things start leaning in their favor.