They don’t taste like penicillin!

Oh dang, I didn’t know that, thanks.

I guess there aren’t any Metroid movies.
…yet

Seconding Animal Well. I should go back and collect a few more achievements.

Third. I swear by them (and got their keyboard too, in Family Basic colors, and mouse in NES colors).
The moment they put out a keyboard in Atomic Purple, I’m throwing a bunch more money at them.

A lot of people did, it’s a pretty important work culturally

toothpas

This isn’t quite in line with your question but it’s adjacently meta:
the first time you fall to your death in Bastion the (amazing) narrator says “…and then he fell to his death. … Ahh, I’m just foolin’.” and then you respawn on the platform because videogame.

Proton: hold my electron

Yes but you don’t need it. WSL2 comes with WSLg these days, and can draw to your Windows desktop without an external graphical server.

I’m on Android. You’ve motivated me to dig up that setting and change it. I had assumed that each application handled that individually.
Mm. Looks like Android also has that locked down these days. We need a viable Linux phone.

I’ve got it, it seems to not engage when I follow links from other apps on mobile.

That site is terrible. It popped up a modal begging for my email address just from scrolling, and it did the back-button hijack via hidden redirection on initial page load, which then redirected my back button to a different page which tried to beg me to stay on their domain.
In case any future web designers are reading this: trying to trick me into spending more time on your website is the fastest way to make me want to burn your website to the ground and dance in its ashes.

Not a real green dress, that’s cruel

Sideloading is a perfectly good word for a legitimate act.
It’s not “just installing software on a computer”. It’s installing software on a tethered device.
Don’t let them twist the word’s meaning in order to demonize people.

(another company that was bought by a massive company for fuck-all dollars just to harvest its user database): First time?

3-5 weren’t made by Cyan, just published by them. They only got the rights back relatively recently.

Excuse me, MagusFungus actually wrote the book on Vanilla_PuddinFudge, and can be considered the authority on the subject.

My work buddies and I started replaying Pokémon Black and White together. It’s a lot of fun, and it has been long enough that it’s like experiencing it for the first time. There are private servers now that enable the online content (since the official ones were taken down).
I did not realize the first time around just how much the plot was a takedown of fascism, but given recent political events, it is a little on the nose. But they did an impressive job of exploring the reasons people might be radicalized and truly believe that they’re in the right just because they’re following a charismatic leader (even one who very obviously doesn’t have their best interests in mind), and in a way that kids could understand.

Apparently some of them are very good in their own right, telling a compelling and interesting story and not just being horny cash-grabs so I’m tempted to give them a shot.
I played the original Yu-No because of how it is the foundation upon which all modern visual novel games are built. That was a difficult experience and I do not recommend it to anyone not already very interested in the history of the genre, there is a lot of content there that is not for me.
But that was the game that made the industry say “oh shit, these things can be good, too”.

Side-note: the modern rerelease of Yu-No has the more objectionable stuff stripped out, but then we’ve got to have the censorship discussion all over again.

Anyway. My point is this: I have also overlooked these games but might have to rethink that.

Not the only one, in this thread

Oh shoot, wasn’t Asmongold censored out of the new bbno$ music video? There was some text at the start that said “I’m sorry, I didn’t know about redacted’s shitty views” and one of the people has a raptor image digitally inserted over his face for the whole video.

Right. The question behind the question: so what’s the problem?

Hmm.
Is there much risk, if the source is open, and we build and self-host?
If the maintainers use the codebase for evil, can we fork it and make a librelnlyoffice 2wo?

Make your game as a total conversion mod for Unciv, then we all get TWO cakes.

Yu-No was a porn game that legitimized the visual novel genre back in 1996. It’s still a porn game (and with some pretty heinous content), but it made the industry wake up to what games could be.

Oh. I thought you were saying From Soft made the Star Wars games.

It is very good. Nails the style.

what

Ooh, thank you. It looks cool.

What’s the one in the picture? Also, how do I read alt text on Summit?

“UGH why do people write haikus when you could use the whole page, it’s not 1913 any more”

Ocarina of Ages but demade for the NES

Oh and if you haven’t already, go play Master Key by Achromi on whatever platform suits you best.

Why? It was great.

Oh neat, Kingdom of Loathing is in color now!

Hmm. I’m not sure these count.
A) they’re supposed to be mysterious
B) the progression makes sense, even if the key is in one of several burned books on a bookshelf among many other similar keys, or given to you in one of the bad endings.

The information is there, you just have to work for it.

I haven’t played Myst III, that was by a different company, right?

It’s a secret to everyone!

I’m playing Oracle of Ages for the first time in a while, and it is not great! The level design is flawed. The eighth dungeon is a a dark room, some ghosts, and a hint owl that tells you to “attune your ears to the sound of sword on stone” which, right, standard Zelda fare, good of them to make explicit the reminder. But none of the walls clank! You need to push one of the non-pushable statues out of the way, in the dark, to even expose the bombable wall. I went over the whole place twice, and then thought “oh maybe they’re doing a cool metapuzzle thing and I’ve got to leave the dungeon and bomb a new entrance” so I went out and tested the whole area with my sword and then bombed everything in case I was just misinterpreting the clank sound.

The underwater dungeon had the interesting raise/lower water level mechanic, but I explored in loops for an hour before looking up where to go next. I’m not saying it’s supposed to be easy, I like a challenge, but it felt like the layout was deliberately withholding information, which is bad design.

The Long Hook is an upgrade for the Switch Hook. The improvment is marginal and the puzzles that require it feel confusing (I finally have the tool for this but it’s not working (before you know about the L2 version)), forced (this is the same puzzle but the anchor object is two tiles further away) or frustrating (oh of course I was supposed to know about the offscreen anchor).
The Long Hook has an entire dungeon dedicated to it.

It seems all my fond memories are actually from Oracle of Seasons. I wonder if they had parallel teams working on them.

I’m leaving this with no edit so you can screenshot it later when they announce Mario Paint 3.

Oh. I think you’re wrong on that last point.
You can now (on June 5th) very easily play most PC games on the Switch 2.
Do you remember Halo Wars?
Do you remember Starcraft 64?
This was a clever cash grab, an attempt to tap into entire genres that just would not have translated otherwise.

OH SHIT I JUST REALIZED MARIO PAINT IS COMING BACK