Rather, why are you unable to define it for yourself? It’s not that hard. Helping things towards balance (like helping any angry, sad, or greedy person to be less so, etc., or trying to heal a physical or emotional wound as appropriate) is a fine start.

Nice username lol. Anyway, if you’re in the US, you could technically just stop paying… I think this January or so was when medical debt was restricted from affecting Americans’ credit scores, so it’d just fall off after 7 years if you can withstand the collectors’ attempts.

It’s vital to get enough rest in to avoid burnout. Productivity benefits from and even requires times of avoiding the project at hand. We’re not robots, as much as capitalist society would love us to be.

FYI, the “O” in “GOG” is capitalized; it stands for “Good Old Games” as they originally made their claim to fame by modernizing access to literally old DOS, etc. games that are hard to run on modern PCs. It doesn’t stand for “of.”

With that said, yes, GOG should absolutely be prioritized, as well as itch.io.

I tried a bit of Aquaria but couldn’t get into it… Thanks for the Gato recommendation. I didn’t know it was CS-like.

Oh. It’s been literal years so I totally forgot that initialism, but while we’re at it, the second “C” in “CrossCode” is also capital.

It’s smooth as butter, yeah, but I think I would prefer a game focused on a different character class/weapon. I remember some progression of concepts but I guess didn’t really connect the dots (even though I don’t think I looked up a guide more than once or twice briefly).

If OoT could be made to look as good as TotK, that’d be something!

Not sure what “VRP” is unless you just mean ricochet puzzles, but mind you, I did play 95% of the game. It felt just too same-y after long enough (it was the plot and environment that had kept me going), and then I just gave up and finished through some YouTuber’s play-through and I confirmed that I had apparently quit at the start of the final dungeon, because it just felt like… more of the same timing-&-angling annoyances with no more originality. Zelda was far, far more creative and I think the game just could have done more with items or different weapons, or something, though I know much of it is based on your character being a specific class that was fixed pre-game… It just ultimately wore me down, sadly.

Right: *successor, not “sequel.”

Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed.

The quick fix: stick to open-source like Jan.ai.

Long-term solution: make profiting AI companies pay for UBI. How to actually calculate that, though, is anyone’s guess…

Hmm… May I watch you stream Vagante sometime? I’ve been iffy over it for a year or more now because of those reviews. Let me see how you die LOL jk. This is also coming from a SoR fan, too!

Cave Story is undoubtedly the greatest Metroidvania made to date of which I know.

Too bad the developer duo basically disappeared… I had an idea for a 2-player sequel but they never responded.

I really hope the sequel does more with dungeons than just ricochet/geometry puzzles. CrossCode’s incessant use of those in dungeon after dungeon was what made me stop playing.

Slice & Dice is the best dice-building roguelite ever and has a free demo that is only content-limited and allows you to already play an infinite amount of runs. I literally played the demo as much as a paid game for a month until I bit down—so hard that, once, when I had my phone in hand and intended to take a shower, I ended up crouching on the bathroom floor furthering a run for an hour before finally pausing to return to the real world.

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone offers awesome online co-op. Noita’s world is just endless (people are still discovering new spell permutations years later). I will never turn down someone’s offer or request to watch a run of FTL: Faster Than Light.

The AAA world is not impressive to me at all, and if anything gets deprioritized in my book; graphics or a third-person view do not a fantastic game make.

free in the browser without IAPs

Like what else?

FTL!!! And yeah, PP is awesome and so unique!

Vagante’s negative reviews criticize its too-numerous insta-death traps. What would your reply be to that?

I think you might love Noita!

Well, I suppose anything can happen but they’ve stayed consistent since pretty much their inception… Also, Reddit used to be called a content aggregator, not social media, which was coined as such due to its non-anonymous accounts, although these boundaries have reduced over time.

Anyway, I think we can all agree that we hope Lemmy/FOSS could one day be a major contender in this playing field.

Yeah, the current recovery is fake and will collapse soon. It’s time for the Greater Depression. Hope you all have your lentils and chickpeas.

I’m not joking, by the way (sadly).

What I learned about Germany most recently is that it’s super-mega FOSS-prioritizing, which is awesome!