Oh that’s so kind of you to say! I have to say, I’ve been pretty down about it all, but writing this up made me so very happy. I really love Lemmy for how easy it is to share these long-form posts :)

Happy to read this (the part about writing this making you happy I mean!!).

Lemmy is great for sharing long posts, much like reddit was before the enshitification. It’s good to see long elaborated posts here among all the memes and other low effort content. And in the case of your posts, they are also a nice read in my mornings because of all the possitivity and joy you can feel when reading them. You really pour a lot of that in your posts and it feels!

Sounds wonderful, I’m looking this up now! It sure sounds weird, but the longer the gaming industry runs and ruins great things, these odd little different ones just make me happy!

I love “'weird” or unconventional games. And right now, it’s the indie world that provides these gems. In an industry that looks for the short-term profit like the “mainstream” videogame one, they rarely innovate anymore. They just pick a formula that works and copy it until they find a more profitable one, so innovation now happens mostly in the indie world, giving birth to games as odd as this one, a yo-yo player bat that goes around a city beating corpo suits to recover a monopoly! You won’t see EA making this kind of game, ever.

I was waiting for this post, thank you! Since I discovered this “series” I’ve been hooked. It’s nice to read some long content in a non clickbaity way (that seems to be the norm in the industry nowadays).

I’m really sorry about your nerve damage and hope you recover as soon as possible!

As for what I’ve been playing, right now I’m going through Blasphemous 2 (i loved the first one too) and a nice surprise: Pippistrello and the cursed yo-yo. A zelda-like adventure in which you play as a bat with a yo-yo fighting industry magnates to help your aunt recover the monopoly on energy she built to keep a grip on the city (I know! The setting is original, to say the least).

The gameplay makes you think of 2d zelda games, but the yo-yo makes combat (and even movement) a completely different thing of other games, I suggest you to try the demo!!

I’ve spent half of it doing so. I arrived to a point where I stopped caring and just let the others deal with it whether they like it or not.

We’re not broken, and if they don’t want to meet me in the middle when accomodating to each other, I’m not going beyond the middle point for them, actually, I feel more and more that I don’t have to meet them in the middle.

Go figure. Probably they are going to monitor traffic somehow to see if you visit certain websites and if you stay on them for too long, they flag you as a pirate. I’m not concerned, I browse the internet through a vpn.

In Italy they are aiming to block not only soccer streams but any audiovisual content. And they are threatening to fine people using the sites, unlike before, when only the site owners could be prosecuted.

Isn’t that the whole point of it?

Depends. If we take from when I was a kid? Probably something in the hundreds of thousands or even in the millions. I pirated pretty much everything because I lived in a very small town with no electronics shop so I couldn’t even buy games.

However, in the last 8 years or so? I find that I rarely pirate games anymore. Bundles, steam sales and refunds allow me to buy without worrying about liking the game.

Music is also something I don’t pirate anymore. I’m not one needing thousands of tracks, but rather a small and select collection. So I occasionally buy from bandcamp or other services so I can keep the music I want in my jellyfin server.

Films and shows are a different thing tho. At home whave netflix, so for most stuff we go there, but if something’s not there, I’ll pirate it. So… idk but… some hundreds? I’m not a fan of movies and most of the stuff I watch (which is not a lot) is on netflix.

This was a nice read. I just discovered today these post and it was a great sum up of news. Keep up the good work!

Seems they don’t expect people to vote anymore.

I bet they are going to talk about switch pro 2 in that direct.

It’s been a couple or months since they showed switch 2 and there hasn’t been any talks of a pro model yet! We’re well behind the schedule!

Ohhhh raytracing is required? Awesome, I can’t play it so I guess I don’t even have a reason to follow it for price drops. Oh well, Selaco’s new campaign act is about to drop, I’ll guess I will give it a rerun instead of playing doom.

I’m not even american. And every time I can vote, I do against fascism. Because if I have to choose between a literal nazi and someone who’s imperfect but it’s not a nazi, I kinda prefer to be governed by the one that’s not a nazi.

And since we are talking about genocide: remember that the turd YOU helped putting in the white house is allowing the zionazi to run wild and even think of annexing Gaza (after “cleansing” it).

Salty, much?

Imagine being part of a minority that a president has vowed to hunt and actively or passively help that president come to power so he can hunt you.

“Queermunist”, implying you are both queer and communist.

Mate you… you know you are the first group of people the turd wants to get rid of?

You deserve what’s coming for you, because you are the one asking for it, so when they come for you (because, unless there’s a very significant change, it’s not an if but a when), remember that you voted for it.

So, between someone who doesn’t allign 100% with my views and it’s not a nazi and an actual nazi, much better to choose the nazi, right? I mean, I guess it’s your vote so you can do as you please with it, but I reaaaaaally hope you don’t get any of what’s coming for you, because you know… you voted for all this so there is no empathy left in me for someone who’s getting what they asked for.

I just ditched spotify completely in favour of a jellyfin private server that works like spotify for me. If I want to get recommendations, listenbrainz gives me a weekly list based on what i listen.

That cancer took the wrong president…

If in a table there are 11 people sitting with a nazi, in that table there are 12 nazis.

About damn time! These fucking leftists were so mean to me by imposing onto me that I can’t harrass people based on their sexuality! Like… what kind of world are we leaving our children if they can’t even discriminate others peacefully?