Kovukono

This ain't about him.

I mean, I get that, but why? I didn't ask out of an intent to name and shame, I just don't have any clue why someone would go to these lengths to make a couple new communities and astroturf them here. Lemmy doesn't have advertising, or any other kind of incentive to promote a community other than it being active. It's not every post from those communities they picked either, just ones that, at a glance, have passed a certain threshold of upvotes. So why would they be doing this? If you wanted to copy over a community entirely from Reddit, lemmit.online is a thing still. This took some work, and given the bursts of posts they're probably doing it manually.

It turns out that it's actually kind of well-intentioned. Granted, they asked a bunch of other subreddits as well, but they just look like someone excited about growing the fediverse. The only real issue I had was using a non-bot account for self-posts, since it made it seem like they were passing off all these experiences as their own. A note in the sidebar that these are intended to be Reddit backups and that posts are copied over probably would go a long way to preventing the confusion in the future.

And thanks to @[email protected] for looking this up and putting in the work.

Blue Period is mine. I can't quite name why, but it just resonates with me every time. I'd love a second season, but the anime nearly caught up to the manga when it was released.

I played a ton of it, and it basically consumed everything I did, but after a while I just dropped it. I technically beat the game, but I think it's probably the worst-kept spoiler that finding the 46th room isn't finding more than a fraction of the puzzles the game has to offer.

At this point, it's less of a fun payoff and more of just a feeling of "finally" for the puzzles. There's a room that allows multiples of another room whose puzzle I never managed to figure out after multiple tries, even with heavy RNG manipulation. I have another puzzle that I have to have specific rooms to place as well, which means more RNG. When it's giving good puzzles, the game is a wonderful onion. When you're stuck on a bad one, you're either cursing the RNG required for it, or wondering how the hell the devs could ever have expected that to be solved (looking at you, Room 8's predecessor).

I've got what feels like a ton left to find, but it kind of feels like I'm at the point where the satisfaction is outweighed by the tedium or the sheer confusion the puzzles have. All that to say that this game has totally been worth it, even if I couldn't find myself finishing it.

I don't think it is. I looked it up and couldn't find anything further in the thread from them. Their account has been deactivated, so (I think) the original is gone and we just have reblogs. Wayback Machine doesn't have it either.

There's a version that has a bit more.

The images that are hosted on quokk.au for the old community don't appear to be available. Getting a 404 for all of those. Images posted from other instances are fine, but all images hosted on the new site seem to be broken. I know there's federation issues with the new community, but the migration appears to have broken about half the posts in the original community.

I can't find a source for this now, but this is the last part of the intro sequence of Doom 2016 (NSFW due to a dead guy, some blood, and earlier in the clip a lot more gore). After they got the sequence audio perfectly synced up for the console platforms and (I believe) the more popular graphics configurations at the time, the director said no one was to touch that part of the code at all, under any circumstances. It's not that they didn't have version control, it was just that it was so finicky that they didn't want to have to go through that trouble again. For reference, this is what it's like off-sync, with the shotgun lagging a bit behind the end.

Monster Train 2. The first scratched the itch I had when I had run out of steam with Slay the Spire, and the second has built on top of the first with some new card classes, giving you different abilities for your engine, and five new races with new mechanics for each. It's fantastic, and really feels like everything you'd want out of a sequel. And as a nice bonus, it's not too hard on the Deck's battery.

I got informed there's a follow-up.

If you enjoy games like Outer Wilds or Return of the Obra Dinn, where you basically can only play it through once to figure out the secrets, it feels like this is going to be something you'd love. The downside is the roguelite element can be really punishing and make you feel like you've wasted a day, especially if you've found the secrets in those rooms. The good news is that there's been at least a couple times where I found out items were puzzles days after I saw them, so it might not entirely be a waste.