With random flailing, most likely

Just to add: possible need to tap esc first, as your random flailing probably put you in insert mode, or something more exotic.

And only add w if you want to save the file. :q! If you don’t

so:

• posting not-funny in funny-specific community.
• advertising on a community which has rule against advertising.

5/5 performance right there.

In defence of Warhammer-fans, at least with physical products scarcity can be a thing, and as physical goods they do have resale value.

But yea, plastic crack is expesive. Wish I had a space to use a 3d printer. :P

Do you have any more red flags?

easy!

pledged of US$ 500 goal

US$ 500 goal

so essentially this screams of “grab any money we can and vanish” type of deal

Kinda cool this kind of “work sims” keep popping up. Though I tend to lose interest in them after few hours, as the gameplay generally turns to routine and becomes fairly boring… that said I don’t even know how many hours I’ve spent driving a truck in Euro Truck 2 so… not all routines are the same, I guess?

Is the game fairly dimly lit or is your store just trying to save on electricity?

“something something monkey paw curls” - maybe the contract didn’t specifically mention it would be a game of their liking, and so sony dictated it has to be a online-pvp-shooty

But then again, destiny was already an online-shooty so… dunno.

Never played a Marathon game, but as they are free on steam (bundled with some source port with AFAIK modern controls), I need to gather my pals and play them.

corn and petting? the future sounds great!

thanks for the explanation.

so… corn? Is this a thing or just something edible the cartoonist randomly chose?

But I do like corn though.

I’m just spitballing, but the ip owner needs to do something with the ip so they can keep it? IIRC similar things have been mentioned here and there when some long forgotten ip suddenly gets a new loweffort installment.

So, could be that they were making the extraction shooty anyway, so they slapped Marathon on it “just to refresh the timer”? I dunno if that’s how it works, not a lawyer.

+1 for keepetclassy. Good stuff there.

Originally found the channel via “Lets drown out” -series Gabe and Yahtzee (Zero punctuation, Second Wind, etc) did aaaaaages ago.

well, they’re up for now. The games aren’t too expensive either, so get on it if you’re at all interested. :)

The gog version might come prepackaged with an older version of scummvm (basically an app to run older adventure games), you might want to get the latest version from https://scummvm.org/ and add the game manually into it, there’s been some advancement with graphics scaling etc.

But, yea, I’d say the LSL7 is the best of the older games, doesn’t have any player deaths / gameover -nonsense, but there’s a casino section (staple of the series, kinda) where you have to win in gambling to proceed - but you can savescumm through it if you can’t be bothered to play it for realsies (essentially just save every time you win, check what opponent has and then reload & play accordingly. slam dunk).

Other than the forced “gambling minigame” the puzzles aren’t “moon logic” per se, but do involve some creative/jokes thinkywork.

Along with the regular point&click verb-menu, there’s a free text-input for some dialogue/item manipulation/etc. IIRC there’s like 2-3 things you need to do with it to beat the game (they’re fairly obvious), otherwise it’s for eastereggs.

Huh, end of an era for Larry -games? Some of the games are pretty good and goofy adventure games.

Haven’t really played the text-parser ones, they were a bit before my gaming era, and I really don’t enjoy the brutal difficulty of older adventure games - they went out of their way to kill or softlock the player character if you didn’t know exactly what to do.

I do like Larry 6 and 7 quite a bit, they’re later games of the Sierra -catalogue and have evolved past the “hehe, lets kill the player on every possible situation because fuck you”.

While conservation of games is important, it’s not like the games are going to vanish even if they’re not actively sold (on steam) anymore. Archive.org and abandonware sites have carried them for ages anyway.

edit: oh, apparently the rights to Leisure Suit Larry are owned by Codemasters - and they’re owned by EA now, afaik. Might have something to do with the delisting.

What do you mean, you don’t use string parsing method to round to integers? /s

cozy environment

Not sure FC and Warframe qualify for that 😉

but Dredge does? :D

But yea, those games probs won’t do if cozy stuff is the thing here.

edit: Though, Dave the Diver? Not really fishing with a fishing pole or anything, more like, harpoon gun and diving.

since you brought up stardew and ac, fishing doesn’t need to be the main focus/gameplay of the game?

Far Cry 5 has fishing, can’t remember if there’s different fishing gear really.

Warframe has fishing, but it can take quite some time for a new player to get there. The “openworld” areas on planets have spear fishing you can do for faction rep. etc.

I only longingly looked at the screenshots of Sam&Max in some gaming magazine at the time, managed to get the game waaayyy later. But man was it worth the wait :)

You’re welcome! Also, there are still some more-or-less indie devs who keep the point&click adventures alive, afaik most, if not all from Wadjet Eye’s catalog are great, eg: The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, Strangeland, Primordia… worth checking out!

point & click adventure games? Some older ones can be aquired for cheap, or even free as some of them have been released as freeware.

some suggestions in no particular order, some are older (like, DOS old, but still good today, imo), some are 2010’s or so:

• TellTale Sam & Max -episodic games (3d, cartoony, comedy)
• Monkey Island -series, parts 1-3. (2d, cartoony, comedy, pirates, yarharhar) (Later games in the series are pretty finicky to get running/stay running.)
• Sam & Max: Hit the road (2d, cartoony, comedy)
• The Dig (2d, scifi)
• Full Throttle (has a modernized remaster) (2d, “scifi”, biker-theme)
• Flight of the Amazon Queen (freeware) (2d, ~40’s vibe, “retro-scifi”)
• Beneath a steel sky (freeware) (2d, scifi, comedy, some gore)

Ones that have some keyboard usage, but are mainly mouse driven (or can be mouse driven)

• Grim Fandango (modernised remaster, original doesn’t do mouse) (3d, latin-american land of the dead, comedy)
• Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis (some occasional fights where keyboard would be preferred, most of these can be circumvented though) (2d, some comedy, ww2, I mean, it’s indiana jones)

The older ones can be played via Scummvm (https://scummvm.org/) - it’s basically a simplified launcher/runner just for adventure games.

I’m a bit two minds about Content Warning - on one hand, it’s simple to pick up and it’s definitely goofy and, fun? But lack of meaningful permanent progress kinda brings it down for me.

Essentially, you can do “fine” with the basic gear (camera, flashlights), but you get more views (ie. money) with better gear - assuming you actually can capture some footage the game-logic deems worthy. Lost items can occasionally be found in the spoopy-place later on, but not guaranteed. Also replacing/buying new gear is kinda expensive, and dead teammates cost money to bring back (but you can’t go to debt because of it, iirc, so that’s nice).

The runs, at least for us, are usually VERY short, like few minutes in and out. Your runs are limited by oxygen, health and amount of footage you can record - which is 30s. so make it count. So basically how the runs go:

1. find the first monster
2. goof with it and try not to die
3. okay steve died while goofing with the monster, but I got it on film!
4. RUN AWAAAY with camera set in selfie-mode and try not to die

Usually monsters can be found very quickly, sometimes it takes a while. But usually run is over in few minutes, the prepwork before taking a dive tends to take longer :D

AFAIK There are some “hidden puzzles”, like combine some bones or whatever to summon a spoopy secret monster or such, but I haven’t seen them myself, just seen some mentions about them occasionally.

Also, It has mod support too. We tried a few:

• longer/infinite film - initially we thought this would be great, but that just defeated the whole point, recorded footage started to drag on and on and on… Short film forces you to really asses the situation and only record peak footage, instead of meandering nonsense.
• More/infinite money - While it was dope to finally test the equipment we were usually too stupid drunk bad to be able to afford them, the items range from useless single use toy to needlessly expensive for what they are.
• More days - same, kinda defeats the point.
• free hospital bills - a good one, imo. The game is punishing enough as is.

Maybe a bit more durable dudes or longer/infinite oxygen tanks would do, dunno.

Doesn’t sound like a glowing recommendation, but in general I’ve never had bad time in the game. The runs are just over bit too quickly, but then again starting a new doesn’t take long either. It’s decent at minimum.

are you using some app to use fsr in older games, or is that just baked into the amd drivers/software now?