SNES:

Sunset Riders and Wild Guns are fun little western shooters.

Genesis:

Rock’n’roll Racing is a fantastic racer.

GBA:

The Wario games are pretty superb for quick sessions

Just want to mention DavinciBox, which makes installing Davinci on any distro a pretty seamless and hands-off affair.

When I played the first game, I eventually become a bit annoyed at how some systems worked, such as how frequently henry became hungry, so I downloaded a mod that extended the time between meals, which made the experience a bit more realistic and less annoying.

Though on the topic of degrading equipment, I kinda like shoes wearing out of it’s not too frequent, because for some odd reason I find it enjoyable to have to plan trips around such limitations 😄

Also new for me. Looks interesting though.

Edit:

From reviews at its release, it looks like it wasn’t all that good, which explains why it flopped and slipped into obscurity.

While Rausch and Scorpia agreed on the game’s high difficulty and reliance on trial and error gameplay, she considered both the result of poor puzzle design.[6][15] She also criticized the time limit and lack of traditional detective gameplay, and called The Space Bar’s comedy strained and inferior to that of Superhero League of Hoboken, despite “some genuinely humorous touches”.

In the past, consoles had the limitation of not being able to easily provide fixes to a game post release, which incentivized publishers to only release games that were thoroughly tested and relatively bug free.

Consoles also for a time had the advantage of physical media that you could share with your friends, and never have to worry about accounts or a game becoming unplayable.

They no longer have those advantages after hard drives and internet access became the norm, effectively putting them on a level playing field with PC’s, but now with the inherent disadvantage of being a locked down weak PC that can only play expensive games with a paid subscription to play them online.

I went outside of my usual wheelhouse and tried playing some of the Wario games for the gameboy advance. Finished Warioware in one afternoon (very fun short little collection of mini games) and currently on Wario Land 4. It’s a platformer with light puzzle elements, and I’m quite surprised at how much I’ve been enjoying it, as I usually don’t mesh with platformers.

In a way, it reminds me of one of the later Commander Keen games, but with much better level design and variety in gameplay.

It’s a polished and quirky little game, and its handheld roots lend itself to short sessions, which has been all I have time for.

I think I’ll be investigating the earlier entries after I complete it. Certainly recommend it if you have access to a handheld emulator!

Yes.

This requires people willing and able to do so. Considering most Americans live paycheck to paycheck I don’t see this as real and viable currently.

I can’t dispute that. More of the US workforce would need to unionize for it to be possible.

This issue i see with this approach is that some people will always try to be the opposite and we end up in a stalemate. Also, people can be ignorant and not even understand that there is something that needs to be done. There’s so much misinformation in the world today.

I think if it reached a certain point of popularity, it would become so self evident of its benefits for the working class that it would snowball. But it would take a lot of education and time.

If we look at how Spain was able to have a libertarian socialist revolution, it apparently took 75 years of steady education (some through independent ferrer schools) and organizing before the populace as a whole was educated enough on the concepts and practiced enough through militant unionization to finally attempt a mass resistance movement.

I suspect the U.S. higher literacy rate combined with the internet may reduce the time needed.

also @inv3r510n@lemmy.world

If a significant portion the US population went on general strike, things would change quickly.

The other option, which is slower, is to build up alternative systems in a network of mutual aid, like cooperatively owned insurance, businesses, housing, energy systems, etc. Essentially slowly replace the state with hundreds of interconnected coops.

also @Kbobabob@lemmy.world

XMPP has quite good encryption nowadays, and at least according to our sysadmin, it’s quite a bit lighter on system requirements. I think there was also some concerns about the matrix foundation being pretty corporate oriented.

My instance uses a self hosted XMPP for mods/Admins to communicate quickly, which works quite well.

May I ask why?

If you’re an EU citizen, you can massively help by joining the petition over at https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Ross Scott (of Freeman’s Mind & Game Dungeon fame) makes a compelling argument for game preservation here: https://youtu.be/tUAX0gnZ3Nw?t=2548

Hmm… That could be an issue, you’re right.

If it does get that bad, we’d gave to act more defensively by only federating with instances that have reviewed sign-ups and have received an endorsement on fediseer.

That would result in a more isolated experience, but if that’s the only way to combat it, then we’ll have to shift with the needs of the moment to keep it mostly humans we’re interacting with, and to make the moderation workload manageable.

The Fediseer project from @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com helps prevent bot farms from proliferating, as new servers require an endorsement from an already trusted instance to become ‘legit’. And they can be marked as untrustworthy as well, causing them to be defederated fairly quickly, limiting its reach.

We also have a MUCH higher moderator to user ratio compared to corpo sites, with a range between 100 to 2,500 users per mod depending on instance, Vs. 250,000 users per mod on sites like twitter, so we can more adequately spot and deal with spam on the network.

Absolutely incredible breakdown of the problem. In addition to twitter, I strongly suspect Reddit is infested with a similar increase in bot accounts, which would explain how a sub I used to moderate there has some of the highest page visits its ever had, yet its actual user engagement hasn’t changed at all, or even gone down.

Corporate websites, who have a financial incentive to allow the bots, have become completely unusable. The difference in interaction on Lemmy is incredibly stark, which goes to show that the fediverse seems to be far more resilient against bots since we can defederate from an instance that gets taken over, like cutting off an infected limb to stop the spread.

You’re welcome! :D

Reminder to sign Ross Scott’s StopKillingGames EU Citizens Intitiative (which carries legal weight if it reaches 1 million) if you’re an EU Citizen! Ubisoft killing The Crew is what kicked the whole thing off.

Reminder to sign Ross Scott’s StopKillingGames EU Citizens Intitiative (which carries legal weight if it reaches 1 million) if you’re an EU Citizen! Ubisoft killing The Crew is what kicked the whole thing off.