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For solo play this week it’s been an Ace Combat-like in Project Wingman. This is my second playthrough and I’m now on the hardest difficulty which is infuriating but it sure gets the blood pumping. Awesome game with incredible visuals.

I’ve been playing the various Zelda multiplayer games with my friends recently. We started with Triforce Heroes emulated on Azahar which is a 3-player dungeon-looter. After we beat it and all its bonus content (there is a lot) we’re headed to Four Swords on the GBA (VisualBoyAdvance-M has netplay) and then Four Swords Adventure on GC (via dolphin netplay).

Other than that I’ve been playing a bunch of Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour on dolphin netplay which has a controlled host-migration feature which means 0-input latency for the player whose turn it is. If you aren’t familiar with dolphin netplay it rules and feel free to ask if you get confused setting it up.

I also randomly returned to this recently and have been having a good time. I’m trying to get 100 kills on every weapon and the ASVAL has been a nightmare. At least I’m on to Support class weaponry after I’m done with it.

Skyblivion is one of if not the most impressive videogame passion projects of all time and I can’t wait as it nears its release. It’s an entirely fan-driven remake of Oblivion in the Skyrim engine for those unaware. All assets have been made from scratch and the variety of skills, talent, and coordination required to pull this off is inspiring. Seeing examples of passionate people working on something collectively at a massive scale, not for profit, is surprisingly critical to retaining my sanity right now.

Here’s to a 2025 release, but I hope that team feels no pressure to crunch and lets their projection slip to 2026 if need be.

If anyone else is aware of other large collective creative projects and is willing to write a short blurb about them I’d love to read it.

Got to play beach volleyball for the first time in years today. What an incredible sport. Wish I could play every day.

One of my favorite games of all time. If you have generic questions feel free to ask and if you want more structured tutorials I can point you that way too. Good luck on your journey to the Mun!

Fun NBA story. Hansen Yang, a Chinese Basketball Association player, was drafted about 40-50 spots above his draft projection by the Portland Trailblazers and everyone was doing some major headscratching about how much ofba stretch the pick was.

Fast forward to today and he’s tearing it up in his 2nd summer league game after an incredible opener a day ago with court vision way, way beyond his age.

He has a few things to figure out (primarily defensive intensity and also needs to put more muscle on like most players as they transition to the pros), but he’s been incredibly fun to watch and I can’t wait to see him develop more. Incredibly exciting player and a joy to watch in his early, early NBA career.

You hit the nail on the head. It’s a fundamentally flawed game as a result of its original pay-to-win design that was merely band-aided over by converting it to a progression system.

The only way to assess it from a balance perspective is in a lobby where everyone has everything unlocked, and that’s infeasible because of player retention being so bad.

I’m hoping Kyber (private servers) take the structural bones of the game (technical performance and aesthetic) and allow modding to fundamentally mechanically change the game to the same extent that modding has for skyrim because I don’t believe a better base for community improvement will ever exist.

That game specifically has proved to me that people want more absurdist early 2000s PS2 era oddball type games from Sony Japan studios.

Let a million katamaris flourish

Copyleft licenses help without mitigating the full extent through other means.

Telling angry libertarian tech bros that you believe freedom for the Commons is more important than freedom for the individual is always fun though as they scream at you about your licenses for whatever application you’ve made that they want to parasitically extend without sharing code and selling to others as a service.

One of my favorite things.

One of the silliest things I’m semi-proud/ashamed of is my typing skills. Years of playing old early 90s MMOs where you had to actually type out spells led to this mostly useless talent.

Playing a game with active moderation where toxic players get quickly dealt with is euphoric.

There will be a cascading effect of rural healthcare providers folding due to lack of medicaid funding causing overstrain on suburban and urban health systems. This will further increase care costs and wait time while simultaneously decreasing the quality of care throughout the entire system which was already cratering prior to this proverbial gunshot wound.

Many more extremely vulnerable people will die as a result.

ICE funding was massively increased (I think on the scale of 17-20x yearly) which will further enable the Trump admin’s war on specifically Democratic-led cities. It seems pro farm-indentured servitude capital has convinced Trump of the necessary of undocumented migrant works to keep the profits high against Stephen Miller’s (probably the largest and most powerful Nazi ideologue I’m the administration) wishes. The hospitality service will probably end up striking a similar deal giving them absolute economic power via threat of selective deportation over their undocumented workers.

I’m sure there are many other facets of BBB that are additionally horrendous but at this point spending my time on “here are the specifics of domestic American horror” just feels like a waste. It’s going to be terrible and I hope my American comrades are able to find at least some sense of unrelated personal peace in the novel depravity that awaits us.

Some of the thronebreaker puzzle levels are my all time favorite card game content. Fantastic game

Technofeudalism is when people who like dancing have a tendency to have beef with other people dancing.

I am very smart

Have you converted all Dreamcast and PSP roms to chd files? That should be decent storage savings. GC roms should also be rvzs to save more space.

Feel free to ask if you don’t know how

These are mostly assumptions based on games previously releasing on Wii U/3DS and games that I feel are probably less intensive

• Captain Toad (Switch edition + DLC)
• New Super Mario Bros Deluxe
• Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
• Metroid Dread (based on its PC emulation performance being incredible)
• Diablo 3

Let me know how it goes based on these and I can try to recommend more later if its feasible

I played like 3 hours of Mario Kart 8D with the person next to me on a plane ride when I noticed them watching and it was the best flight I’ve ever had

What are the implications of something like this? I have no idea how succession works in this scenario

Rest in piss to the coward 19 year old Israeli brigadier generals who died in the arrow self-suck incident