I remember it pretty much that way too, but not recently and not at a department store. Heck, I just browsed through commemorative euro coins (no dice) because I felt it was somehow connected to Europe in the nineties…

Then I am happy for you

“Victim” is an interesting term, but quite accurate. There’s such a an effort and investment into converting people to that cult. I wish you the best with your mother, hopefully the other half of your conversations is more pleasant and eventually overtakes the conspiracy theories.

I don’t. We don’t talk. Relatives of mine, including one of my parents, sank into vaccine conspiracies, then followed that pipeline to Qanon, and then explained to me how they were waiting for Trump to lead his secret army to take down the government of my non-english-speaking, european country.

I gave them their keys back, I got my keys backs, I blocked them everywhere, I nuked my accounts on the social media they use (and where their posts steadily got worse). It’s a hard decision, I still think about it often still (it’s been nearly two years), but I will never talk to them again.

Hollow knight. The gameplay, the smoothness of the controls, but also the universe, the atmosphere, the fantastic music. Absolutely wonderful game.

I get my hosting for free from my workplace, which is cool but doesn’t give me much leeway on what I can install. It’s a plain PHP/MySQL system. Docker is out, and a lot of stuff with it. I’d run a server from apartment if I could, since I’m sitting on piles of old hardware, but I’ve yet to figure a way around my ever-changing IP address.

Right now, I have FreshRSS and my own websites, and Rss Bridge

I’d love to run more “Old School Tools”, I just need to find them :)

I’m a heartless monster who forgot about my brother so I could sit in my boat and gawk at my surroundings at sunset. Mileage may vary.

It does have moments that stressed me out, but since I spent so much time exploring and taking screenshots, they’re not what left the strongest memory.

Not yet! I just grabbed the second one, actually, can’t wait to play it!

I fell in love with Submerged when I played it. It’s an exploration game set in a flooded city, where you play a young girl looking for supplies for her injured brother. Lots of navigating between buildings in a little boat, climbing around, and taking in the scenery. Incredibly relaxing to play.

Chrono Trigger is a must-play. Stellar game. I don’t know how the PC port fares, though.

Summer in Mara was so cute!

Have you tried Ankora: Lost Days and Stories of Mara, too? They’re on my list and I’m curious about other people’s opinions!

Duly noted! Thanks for the advice!

Honest questions: What worthwhile alternatives exist already? If there are none, what can be done? What can be built to improve discoverability of authors while moderating what is visible?

With my track record at killing even cacti, I am going to suck at this game. It does sound interesting, though (and “great story” is enough to make me face the rice farming).

It definitely sounds unique, which is exactly was I was hoping for when I made the post! Thank you!

Oh gosh, it’s so cute. I’ll keep an eye out for it when rummaging for used 3DS games.

Graveyard Keeper is a really good game (the DLCs vary in quality, but still worth playing imho). I liked the dark humor and err, questionable morality. The NPCs are terrible people and I loved it. It was quite refreshing after playing mostly wholesome games!

I’m with you on the time investment. Getting started in it is brutal, with most of what you can sell being near worthless at first (and, if I remember well, prices drop when you sell too much of something? It’s been a while). It takes time and effort to get yourself established, which makes it very satisfying!

(I also ended up drowning in stuff. Once you get the collection of resources going, it doesn’t stop.)

more like a Final Fantasy game with farming elements inside it

To be honest, sitting here with 2500h logged on FFXIV and 250+ on every FF I played… It’s not a downside to me at all.

Rune Factory 4 is on my list of things to buy. Your rec echoes what I heard from a friend who loves it as much as you do, and someone else on lemmy reminded me of it just last week. I’ll probably grab it during the next steam sale if the price drops. Any tips for a newbie?

I’m so glad for the comeback of the company, it’s great when that happens!

Podcast addict is both incredibly customizable and feature rich. Absolutely worth trying.

I just spent ten minutes attempting to remember. I did not remember but, whatever it was, it was “meh”.

Or it becomes mostly unmoderated, near a major election, at the same time as twitter turns into disinfo central.