Thanks I had literally no idea what I wasn’t looking at in OP’s post.

Fair points.

I didn’t finish my thought. My bad. I meant in cases like this, not in general.

If you want to hide something it implies that there is shame in it.

Edit: I didn’t finish my thought. My bad. I meant in cases like this, not in general. There are multiple exclusions to my above statement. It’s what I get for being half asleep and on the internet.

Thanks!

Anyone have an alternative link for this? My ad block apparently mangled the format so bad I can’t read it.

Most of it boils down to death as a core mechanic. I’m also a pretty casual game player and most of the games I like are fairly laid back, so the difficulty is also a factor. Although I do like difficult games sometimes, I don’t like games designed to kill you easily, if that makes sense. I dislike grinding and most leveling systems, so making a game have grinding as a necessity for someone like me who’s going to need it is frustrating. I feel like I’m just dying a bunch to get “level ups” so that I can actually play the game. Feel free to ask clarifying questions on this. It’s a bit difficult for me to explain, I’m finding.

For the record and to hopefully explain with an example, I do like that they exist for people that like them and some games are fairly clever with it. Hades, for instance, makes a lot of sense to have a death mechanic because you’re trying to escape the underworld. It’s also a really clever game in general and I wish I could get over the difficulty and meta progression thing to play it. If it was a less difficult ARPG I’d personally like it more, but it wouldn’t contain the thing that makes it what it is and I think I’d rather it exist as it does for people who like that. I also love the idea of descendants being your respawn that they used in Rogue Legacy.

One of my least favorite genres.

Can confirm. I offer it to most of my friends who are switching and have Nvidia cards.

Nvidia drivers aren’t nearly as bad as most make them out to be. If you already have one, I’d say give it a try anyway with a distro that offers good support for them.

I did as well. Time to find some mind bleach.

There are a few creators who I can’t watch anywhere else, but as soon as Invidious stops working I’m out.

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)

The list of deviations from Chrome are much more extensive than I thought.

Tisith what tisith.

My credit union already uses Zelle. I wonder what this might mean for that. Sadly the article didn’t have a comment on it.

Yet another reason I won’t buy their games. Hurray.

Interesting. I’ve been spending more time on Lemmy since the Reddit flood. I ever stopped being a lurker.

I find that Lemmy users are more likely to engage in earnest and once it started getting a flood of new users from Reddit it didn’t change. This combined with the fact that it suddenly had more content I was interested in convinced me to stop being a lurker and try to add something to the whole.

Sadly for them, I stopped caring about their games quite awhile ago.

I wish some of the apps I use were feasible on a Linux phone. I would love to switch.