This is such a cool idea. Nudging a few things around and trying to see what ripple effects they have…

I always like to see people who go all in on the roleplaying in RPGs.

I do wish people would leave mods that aren’t for them alone. There are a bunch of mods extremely not to my taste that I just scroll past instead of intentionally clicking to tell the mod author just how much it is not to my taste and that they should not have made it because I am uninterested in the content.

There are a few mobile or web idle/incremental games I have used as a substitute for a Pomodoro timer. Oh, I am really into the game and it only progresses if this is the focused tab? I really want to make progress, but I am in a period of the game where active play isn’t that rewarded, and just watching the screen while I wait to earn the upgrade is pretty boring? How about we just leave my phone with that as the active tab, and I check back when the upgrade should be earned? Keeps me off my phone and doing the actual things I should be doing instead. Somehow, “abusing” games like this works better for me than the Forest app which has the explicit intention of making sure you do not touch your screen for a set length of time and instead do something else off your phone.

I also “abuse” Pokémon Masters EX in a similar fashion. You’re expected to level up with some combination of putting them through battles that cost stamina to play through, and some pretty easy-to-obtain level-up items. And although there is an Auto option I have a feeling you are intended to manually do the battles in-game. Instead, I start story mode battles which cost no stamina to play through, that still reward me with XP no matter how many times I repeat it, and have the game fight the battle for me with the Auto setting. I check back when the battle is done and restart it. I have essentially turned this into an idle/incremental game, albeit one with a pretty short time between waiting and checking back in on the game. Free level-ups! Even though it does take much longer than the intended way, which is why I suspect nobody tried to prevent this method from working. I like doing this for some reason, and it’s probably the main reason I still keep this game downloaded despite my usual allergy to gacha games.

It was my favorite for artstyle/graphics, but I was not pleased when I tried to stir up drama by kissing a Sim’s partner in the same room. That would have gotten the partner racing over to slap someone, an argument, and a Furious status in The Sims 2. In The Sims 4, they just didn’t notice, no consequences.

I haven’t even pirated a movie in years. I just don’t have any more than a very mild “well if there’s literally nothing else to do because my arms are strapped to a chair for the next 2.5 hours, I guess I remember this one thing people said was good” (context: platelet donation, so yes this happens in real life and is not an insane hypothetical) interest in watching in the first place. Although I suppose that’s rare too ^^;

I do wish that Average Joe was more like the outraged Lemmy commenters though, to be honest. More change against bad practices would happen faster if he just voted with his wallet instead of grumbling a little online and continuing to do the same thing anyways with a non-necessary purchase that you can eliminate, where there are lots of other gaming alternatives for cheaper too. Not like food where if you are poor you kind of just have to buy cheapest and if that means patronizing Evil Company, well, you still have to eat. But I also sympathize with being a fan of Nintendo IPs, picking your battles, and maybe having other things you care about more than price hikes in video games specifically where you do vote with your wallet by refusing to purchase.

I admit I’m doing my best to not turn into “people who don’t boycott what I boycott are lazy apathetic sheeple who will not lift a finger to improve their conditions, people who boycott more things than me (especially things I like) are crazy crunchy party poopers who’d consign someone to Bad Person Land for not being 100% perfect and pure in every single purchasing habit” because I think I’m noticing that kind of thinking in myself, so I try to sympathize with both people who do more than me and people who do less.

They could release a game that just literally flips you the bird

The last triple A I bought was on a big sale because it’s long past its release date. Mostly ignoring modern ones, the only one I have wanted was BG3 which I am fully happy playing the many years waiting game for because I have so many other games to play first. c/patientgamers

Sorry you are being downvoted for your honest opinion. I’d understand if you had some nasty sentiment about people who find $80 too expensive in there, but you have no ill will or dim views of anyone expressed here… I’d like Lemmy to be a nice place and part of that includes not downvoting views that are unpopular but also not cruel towards anyone. Especially when the popular view is “I’m mad!” Dismissing everyone’s anger without trying to understand why they’re angry or where they are coming from isn’t the move, but this person isn’t doing that. The only “crime” they committed is not sharing in the anger themselves. And in a world full of algorithms pushing outrage, where lots of people on Lemmy came here to flee that very trend, I’d like non-anger to not be disapproved of.

I am honestly curious if them not jumping on the hatewagon and being personally okay with this is being interpreted as them saying “because I’m fine with $80 everyone else has to be too” or whatever. I want to know where the downvoters are coming from. Is it just simple “do not like their take! Downvote!”? Is it “since they are okay with this, they must be well-off and thus an out-of-touch bad person who deserves disapproval for being richer than me?” Is it some honest belief that this person is inadvertently advancing a harmful view to be complacent against ever-increasing prices and companies squeezing average people harder and harder?

I am not fine with the $80 increase, I just also see what seems to be an innocent take getting disapproval and I honestly want to know what they did wrong. Both so I can know for the future so I do not do it myself, and so if they didn’t actually do anything wrong there is something on record speaking up for “hey leave them alone.” Genuine question.

EDIT: Just realized. Is this a place where it is okay (or should be okay) to express dissent, or is this more like a case of entering c/racecarsarecool and posting about why you think racing is stupid? I can tell the latter is a dick move, but I am not sure if this is. It does involve going into a community whose views you can probably predict if you have been on Lemmy for a bit and telling them “yeah I don’t share your anger,” which could be likened to “hey c/knitting! Knitting is kind of boring actually,” but this doesn’t really come off as intentional pot-stirring bait or invading a community clearly intended for enthusiasts to be a hater to me.

I could argue the Ace Attorney series was that for me (played on Nintendo DS, am not purchasing the remakes), something along the lines of playing less than 50 hours for $60 and felt I got my money’s worth anyways. (Okay, the individual price of each game in the series was not $60, but adding them up altogether… I don’t remember their price or my exact playtime, it is entirely possible average playtime is longer and I just totally misremembered—didn’t exactly have playtime stats on the Nintendo DS—but you get the point. Costs more $ per hour of play compared to other games with more replayability.)

You could also argue I got lots more hours of enjoyment from it than those 50 hours of playtime though, because I also spent so many more hours reading free fanfiction and looking at free fanart and reading fan discussions online… I finally stopped hurling myself down the Ace Attorney rabbit hole maybe 2 years ago.

There have to be gamers who are consistent in this—there probably is that potential hypocrisy in some people (at least, “hypocrisy” from the outside, we’re not sure of their actual reasons) but there are also probably people who are consistent in their behavior. I can tell you I’ve never rented a movie ;)

I have a lot I use, but special note to:

• Stardew Modding API and Content Patcher for making so many other mods possible.
• Ornithologist’s Guild, birds!

The rest of these will be quality of life changes/annoyance removals.

• It’s My Farm I’ll Pass Out If I Want To, in which people stop trespassing on your property at night and charging you for it
• Zoom Level to zoom in or out on screen, also lets you change UI size
• Skip Fishing Minigame, I played it so much I got sick of it
• Skip Intro
• Pet Bowl Filler so sprinklers actually feed the pet

I use Zoom Level instead of Infinite Zoom but I think we have the same idea. Seeing further out feels better.

I love having my decision not to buy a Nintendo Switch and stick to PC games validated.

Feel bad for all the Nintendo fans though, I get how you can fall in love with a franchise they make and want their stuff only to have “except it costs a ton” stuck on, so you’ll have to skip for financial reasons and feel unhappy. It’s a lot harder to abstain from something you actually care about and want, than something you are maybe mildly interested in.

Posted here recently, wishlisted, you bet I’ll purchase

I remember wanting to play the first one awhile back, then life happened and I forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder :)

One of my favorite things about Stardew Valley is how moddable it is. Mod where they actually use the community center. I think there are a couple other mods that do this too if you go looking, they’d probably vary in implementation

Thumbnail took a bit to load, for a second I thought this would be about Pierre

Nice to find another woman on the Fediverse. Usually I don’t mind male-dominated environments as long as nobody treats me badly once they know I’m female, but the small amount of participants in [email protected] and [email protected] (both communities for games that are aimed at women) makes me wish for more women here. Meanwhile the gender-neutral [email protected] attracted a lot more attention.

My earlier comment almost had a section that said “and if English is your second language, sorry in advance about all the incorrect assumptions! Learning a second language is difficult.”

Best wishes! I do think you would find better reception if you put more information about what you are posting about in the title and body.

Hey, just clicked on something in this series of posts for the first time. Genuinely, thanks for your effort in writing it. I usually see link posts, and I have missed big original writeups like this. We need more people like you on Lemmy.

Re: slowdown, I use Lemmy exclusively via browser and it’s a very smooth experience for me ;)

]ANYWAY, to the point, I really enjoyed this video from Fastminer07 on YouTube, it was clear and reiterates how important this is. Worth a look if you’re searching for interseting videos for your down-time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Ih__mE05c)

Might want to turn that first bracket to be an opening bracket so the link works.

I’m not a perfect being so I use Steam out of convenience instead of GOG, though I do have a GOG account. I am pleased to see good news from them and that they are maintaining a good library of games. It is nice to see the option that I think people choose in an effort to be anti-DRM and to support games preservation doing well.

I should probably look into the Switch emulator thing more, sounds ripe for an original [email protected] post.

Recently picked up shapez.io again, part of the [email protected] genre. Just started that community. Also currently playing [email protected] (which at least one person on Lemmy mistook for a waifubait anime gacha game with straight male gaze fanservice going off the community icon, which I think earned it a bunch of downvotes when promoted in [email protected]. When to be honest, it is the opposite: still an open world gacha game, but marketed at women. No romance featured, no sexualized fanservice, but a lot of pretty outfits to dress up in with nice hair and dress physics), [email protected], and Antimatter Dimensions which is in the [email protected] genre. I have several [email protected] that I kind of just stopped midway through even though they were enjoyable; likewise with the [email protected] Dragon Age: Origins. I enjoy the above listed genres and games, as well as [email protected], [email protected] or management games, and [email protected] games. There are other games I enjoy too but this is sort of turning into my subscribed communities list, and I’m not currently playing them right now 😅 I game on Linux (PC only, not in the market for a console, however Steam trying to sell the Steam Deck and then doing the whole Proton thing to try to make more games compatible with their Linux-based console means that suddenly a lot more games are playable on Linux so I’m grateful for that), iOS, and MacOS. Lutris has been very helpful for finding different emulators on Linux.

For transparency, I mod [email protected] and [email protected] but not the rest, and I want to help the other Fediverse communities I listed grow. I like those genres but am not super knowledgeable about any of them and like seeing recommendations and discussion about them.