Thanks for the recommendation Fictorum looks awesome!

Yeah lots of recommendations here but let me give you some that I think answer your request more specifically.

Wizard Of Legend is a top down roguelite where you play a wizard that can equip different spells and upgrades. The combat and strategy is very focused on spells and how good you are at slinging them between dodging enemy attacks.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/445980/?snr=1_5_9__412

Margoq’s Lair is a top down roguelike where spells are cast by composing them from elements, for example fire + shield casts the spell fireshield. It makes for a much more satisfying experience than pressing a button to cast a spell.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2516550/Margoqs_Lair/

Bluesky is a corporate hedge to delay the social network business from becoming not a business, it is headed by variously naive or disengenous tech people who believe they are creating the future when they are mercenaries for the past.

You know when you see oil company commercials and they have lots of footage of wind turbines, solar panels and other ecofriendly crap? That is bluesky.

Yeah I think a lot of “gamers”/programming type people actually would look down on most of what farming really is and it is the reason there are so few genuine farming games.

Stardew valley is actually a farming game in both mechanics and spirit. If you think the puzzle of growing your factorio farming machine bigger and bigger is the only interesting or desirable experience of running a farm you categorically don’t understand.

Personally I haven’t managed to get into stardew valley myself but I respect the hell out of it.

Make it on the same engine as the mad max game

It is rational to feel that, you are grieving for the future denied to you and everyone else.

Our language around grief is distorted into toxic positivity except when we talk about losing loved ones, it is ok and natural right now to feel horrible, your job is to grieve well and to give those emotions space.

People are so quick to say don’t focus on the past, you can’t change it, but fascism rises when a society no longer can earnestly look to the past and must blindly and numbly charge on to block it out.

It is going to get worse but we can still make it a better worse so long as we hold space for the parts of us that have been irrevocably crushed. To do that we must grieve, not adopt an unfallibly positive perspective.

It won’t work but that isn’t the point, the point is to dehumanize game development. Failure is just a chance to consolidate and to normalize treating game development as a low quality of life “low skilled” job.

Wish they put all this money into funding indie game devs and connected small game studios with the professional film and live action apparatus netfix has access to.

I haven’t played it but Hellbade Senua’s Sacrifice seems like it categorically demolishes whatever netflix execs thought they accomplished from burning all that money.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/414340/Hellblade_Senuas_Sacrifice/

lasers are way slower than bullets they are super easy to dodge, have you never even seen star wars?

People aren’t monolithic, you get different versions of people depending on how you invite people into a community (and reinvite in every interaction).

Corporations are only interested in inviting in versions of you that will make them a profit, which warps the whole experience and inveitably emphasizes shallow interaction. Profit also requires chokepoints and the algorithm will always tend towards making the popular more popular and the obscure more obscure to create influencers who can be used as vehicles of advertisement and influence.

It isn’t the amount of people that is the issue with reddit!

It is the choices made about the structure of interactions in a community and the fundamental motivations behind them that defines the span of possible communities that can exist within.

Is a social network a physical asset of a community or a business that exists solely to create profit for investors? The answer to that question pretty much tells you everything you need to know.

What an epic game, I haven’t really gotten into it beyond the initial zone but even the world building of the default starter zone is fantastic. I feel like this game transports me to a different place more than any AAA game with gorgeous graphics.

Subspace Continuum

Yeah it is a blast splitscreen and I could care less about (american) football honestly, it is just good arcade fun.

Not Mutant Football League!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/529520/Mutant_Football_League/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

lol ok Reddit is a ghost town of bots now.

The interactions and posts I encounter on the fediverse are so much higher quality than Reddit, it is like drinking fake ass tropicana orange juice after having hand squeezed orange juice whenever I go back on Reddit.

It is why I stopped caring as much about how fast the fediverse was growing or how large it is, any worry with that is eclipsed by the visceral feeling that this is a place for humans. The conversations in general here, even when they are about silly shit, are so much higher it is kind of shocking going back to reddit sometimes.

Reddit becoming profitable now only shows that corporate social media companies are incapable of making massive profits off of social media without ruining the experience of using it.

Just remember you might prefer some grit to your dx7 patches, especially to make them sit in the mix. Idk personal taste but remember that modern DAWs and home recording devices are massively higher fidelity than they used to be, and the dx7 wasn’t necessarily designed for a super clean signal chain. I recommend loading up a saturator, or characterful compressor onto your dex vsti track before you even start browsing patches and judge them with a touch of dirt added in. Or whatever, it is music do whatever you want!

you have probably heard of this one but dexed is available for linux and is meant as a dx series synth, you can find huge libraries of iconic sounds that will load right into dexed and dexed is of course very efficient so you can load a billion instances of it in a daw.

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/dexed-by-digital-suburban

also if you are interested in the audio equivalent of dynamite there is always supercollider!

https://supercollider.github.io/

Right, they see the business of car sales as like horses for the rich and more crucially they see themselves as a luxury brand that associates itself with wealth via the inherent difficulty of owning and maintaining a large luxury car that excludes all but the rich. It is the same with Ralph Lauren and horses, polo in this case being analagous to the ridiculous high stakes driving fantasies luxury car commercials evoke.

I think the delusion that fuels this insanity is western car companies understand the future is no longer defined by visions of the car but they can’t admit it. They can’t make cheap, reliable ev commuter cars because from their perspective that would be admitting the truth they can not accept to themselves.

I don’t even think this has to do with money, surely there will be big markets in ev vehicles long into the future, rather it is about something deeper, it is about refusing to participate in any future that doesn’t unquestionably place cars at the center of it.

To western car execs a simple, reliable compact electric commuter car isn’t a car, zero percent of them drive anything other than sports cars and massive trucks/suvs and they see one of the fundamental utilities of a car is to seperate oneself from the city of dirty working class people between your mansion and executive suite office (who would actually benefit most from said practical small electric commuter cars).