Mid-ass vampire

Okay I’ll be honest I have no idea if this is gonna do anything, but I gotta try to pay rent.

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IN HINDSIGHT, it would definitely have been the right call to listen to that voice and invest in more peripherals for my laptop. It'd be like 1/10 the investment at the cost of not seeing ray tracing for myself anytime soon, and that sounds like a pretty good deal now.

Starting to really feel like overhauling my desktop was a fool's errand. Hindsight what with my failing to find a stable job and then becoming unemployable in short order alongside the hardware crisis, but still. There was that voice in the back of my head telling me not to bother.

Realising I have to seriously consider my approach to the ascendant gaming hardware crisis now that long covid has forced gaming to be my overwhelming main pastime again.

Annoying also because I was most of the way to overhauling my desktop when it really started hitting.

I can believe the offline US transfem world was like that, yeah, but the current stereotype of online transfem culture comes from what it actually looked like circa 2018.

As to the offline experience of my generation where I live... another world entirely from north america until covid, I think.

Interesting! It's kind of the other way around for me? Online, at least, trans culture was so joyful in the late 2010s, and during covid it somehow morphed into like 60% telling each other what we can and can't do.

anyway @nintendo it’s time for 3DS 2.

double the screen resolution to 480p. switch out the nipple for a second circle pad. chuck in any old recent ARM SoC. you can even keep the 3D if you want.

play the whole pre-Switch catalogue! play new portable-first games created by small teams! print money!

Maybe I'm just being a boomer but now I'm feeling the same about Justice's latest that apparently came out last year? Is their style just out of the zeitgeist enough that nobody cares now?

For how basic and overdone the concept feels at a glance, I can't name many games that do delving into the earth in the same style as Dwarf Fortress. The several layers of "Oh shit I should not have gone that deep" as hostile subterranean ecosystems are breached and come to threaten you.

NEStroid is part heroic adventure, part mystery scavenger hunt, part super dense ordeal. Barbuta, in its basic form, sacrifices a bit much of the heroic adventure to cut down on the dense ordeal.

Ok honestly, after how cool Barbuta was in general, the ending feels... really underwhelming.

I once praised it in terms of "Original Metroid but better", and depending on how real the optional content is, that may still hold, but the basic route is so short? And the ending is so abrupt.

“Please enjoy the museum”:

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Genuinely unfair nowadays because keeping busy isn't really an option 😭

Alright, taking notes!

Almost like keeping busy is good for your mental health. Fucked up and unfair.

me at 14 me at 27
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"Clearly the reason I'm feeling like shit is I have too much time to introspect"

With nostalgia out of the equation, it is, of course, a problem that solves itself. Nintendo is currently Pretty Bad and thus not worth supporting even if you ignored their business practices.

The problem is I fondly remember a time when they were largely unproblematic and had good products...

Craving pokemon out of the blue, I open my 3DS and am once again hit with a longing for a time when nintendo wasn't so unambiguously bad as it is now.

It would be FUNNY if this makes people actually migrate their comms to steam, further solidifying its near-monopoly on PC gaming and surrounding infrastructure.

Not good, not likely, but funny.

Time to RETVRN to vent/teamspeak I guess?

This will be a test of if discord truly is too big to fail, and if it (hopefully) does, maybe it'll be a wakeup call to stop storing such huge amounts of data on such an unstable platform fundamentally not built for it.

I want to believe there's a game worth playing behind the rough first few hours of 3 similarly to NV, but NV at least always showed glimpses of the great game it becomes. There are like... two things I kinda like about 3, but I happen to know both of those are going to be ruined at some point.

I picked it up because I want a little more of New Vegas, knowing how I struggle to properly replay that game, but at this rate I'm starting to feel like getting back into NV is going to be easier after all just because 3 is SO hard to latch on to in the first place.

Starting to wonder if there even is a point where Fallout 3 stops being infuriating and gets kinda good. Hbomb made it sound half good half shit, but now I'm starting to believe in his intended verdict of Mostly Shit

Circa midnight on a saturday in february - the worst time to be in the mood to idly watch a horror game stream, apparently.

Blonde white woman in glasses poses for mirror selfie, wearing black dress, black belt with gold chains, and makeup

Don't be frightened dear, you can come closer, I don't bite....too hard

Yeah! Even as I was taking them, the moving picture looked much better than the freeze frames I ended up with. Given how many of them looked the same, I suspect I have some subconscious habit of settling into a bad expression when I actually take the picture.

At least nowadays I look at the results and go "Come on now... I look better than THAT."

My selfie skills have really regressed in this half-year of utter inactivity. I was determined to get at least one decent one this week, but they all come out annoyingly mid at best.

Lucky indeed 😍

Is it weird that I'm starting to feel like my half-litre cup is much too small for my hot drink needs?

Somehow it feels better to have a much bigger cup than to have multiple cups, y'know?