I'm a serial hobbyist, trying to have as much fun as I can, Some things I find stupid, and I probably will tell you, but I try not to be a dick about it, mostly I do manage that. Anything I say is just my personal opinion or if it sounds really stupid, probably a joke. Yes I might have opinions that you don't like, and if you don't I'm willing to talk about it, just be honest and decent and I will strive to do the same. Anything I post on here is under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 If you want to use my posts for something commercial (LLM training, ad testiment etc) just contact me and I'm sure we could make something out. Some things I do like: - Programming - Shorthand - Retrogames - Indiegames - Pen and paper puzzles - Reading
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Last Notes npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I'm starting to feel a bit better again, after having been a bit out of mood for a couple of weeks, it feels nice :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I like to signal that my code is hand written when I can: if art_nr.startswith(naughty_prefix) and art_nr not in exceptions: continue npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr Really nice photos this week :) One thing I wonder though, what exactly do you feel had a nice closure, what about the new alien race just randomly brought in in the last chapter, random back history to them that has no real implication for the rest of the story, it's a deus ex machina, just slap some random shit on the wall and call the story finished, which irks me even more since I really enjoyed the whole series up until then :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr Hello, just for your info (and to prove that I'm reading your blog :p ) one of your headings did not turn out quite okay, and at least in miniflux is shown as this: #$# Completed https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01KZ5ZYKW4A2W1D7TFKCQY7ENB.png npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr Funny how everyone is doing that, while I have gone full on abandoning stuff when it doesn't spark joy mode :p Also playing 5 things at once because chaos monkey mode :p Went in to a search for novelty want to buy something loop on this weekend though, thinking, time to buy new switch game, looking through dekudeals, seeing that there is nothing I want, repeat 2 hours later, for two whole days. I guess my brain just wanted some kind of novelty, ended up going through my rom list, finding dragon quest monters, finding out why I kind of dropped it the last time, and went to siralim, then following the same road as last year :p Brains are weird. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr Looks cool yeah, I don't know why but I kind of feel too self conscious to track gaming more than writing a summary of it on my blog every week :p I'm way too bad at games to spend as much time as I do on them :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr A bit annoying that you have to go to a second device and both having net to do it, but well, I guess it's how it is, and you're probably having it open anyway since you're typing into backloggd npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr It's kind of amazing in general how great the 3DS OS is and how anemic and lackluster the switch ones are, the 3DS had whimsical sounds, a nice working interface, full theming capabilities, which could do a lot of fun stuff, and then you have the switch one.. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…6e53 Well if you feel threatened for someone willing to punch nazis, that gives me reason to think... npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf There is no issue with shunning and ridiculing people who use LLMs, just like there is no issue punching a person who decides to get a swastika tattoo. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr You have to share the share link up top left, not the link you use to get there yourself, as with that one I just get my own list again ;) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr Here is a list over the games I own, most of them bought on offers, but it has become a bit through time ;) https://www.dekudeals.com/collection/mpnjqj3fkx npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr I own only five physicals: Borderlands 1 Sea of stars Bravely Default 2 Dragon Quest Builders 2 The witcher 3 commons - mine not physical: Balatro Castlevania Advanced Collection Castlevania Dominus Collection Celeste Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Dragon Quest XI I played on the 3ds, but the version I had was japanese only, it had the whole pixel thing in it, but the fidelity of the graphics was a bit lower, really fun game to play in japanese though :) FF IV-V-VI Pixel edition Final Fantasy VII Hades Hollow Knight Octopath Traveler II ( This is the game I'm currently playing and I Looove it, absolutely one that you should try out 30 hr+ in now and in love) Persona 5 Royal (only have started this one, from the first couple of hours I really prefer p3p, didn't really enjoy p4G that much) The Messenger (fun game, one of the few I've played through twice) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr You got me with the car! :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr It's always fun when one gets really into a game, seems like we both are lately, and I am really for it :D npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr I thought you had finished this one earlier to be honest, I thought you had before I finished it in winter some time :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…52tz That's good :) I left the official youtube stuff, and now use Newpipe for everything, but there are a ton of things that makes that something that most people wouldn't enjoy using, it has no recommendations, only a linear time ordered list of videos from people you're subscribed to, and you can't comment or anything, and it some times break when google is changing things around a lot again. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…52tz Does that button even do anything, I swear it didn't when I tried using it back in the day. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…y4qv I never got around to getting the demo, I wasn't quite sure about it, but then the mad people decided to take only 10€ for it, so of course I had to get it. I really love the DRPG Aesthetics, and I find it really clear and readable, it probably also helps that they have a lot of the graphic stuff from Vampires Survivors, so it's pretty easy to intuit what the different cards are going to do. It's nice how the different characters also feel quite different with the skill things, and I've only done 4 levels or so so far, haven't gotten onto the bridge yet, so I'm sure they will put on some more mechanics and stuff, but it feels really fun at least :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…y4qv I did at least, and I'm having a lot of fun with it so far :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I've been having quite a good time playing under the island the difficulty feels right where it's fun for me, it's a lot of fun exploring around, finding new things, and just running around in the world, really enjoying this one so far. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr I really enjoyed this post :) It was a good one :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Oh no, Mozilla made a new account posting stuff about AI, Hilarity ensues :p https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866 npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr @nprofile…pat4 It looks really nice, a real pocketable one :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf A little rant about game difficulty, and why I don't really think difficulty is something that is really needed to make a fun game. https://sotolf.codeberg.page/posts/games-difficulty/ @nprofile…4uxh @nprofile…khjw npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…88v8 That's the most sense I've seen any AI make so far ;) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf This writeup by @nprofile…c2nm about actually measuring "time saving" by using AI is great, it's so nice to see some actually numbers put to some of the vibes at least, turns out there is a reason these numbers aren't shared widely. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/13/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-performance-numbers/ npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…t0hh looking foreward to reading them tomorrow :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…59g0 Okay, I tried being serious, now I'll be straight, fuck you, I'm out, I have enough of this farce. I gave you a chance.. @nprofile…xc4v npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…59g0 To be serious for a moment, take a break, maybe talk with a professional, it's not shameful to need some help with some issues that you're struggle with. I'm not a psychologist, so I won't be able to help, but please get some help if you feel like you need it. @nprofile…xc4v npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…59g0 Reading your other posts in this threads makes it obvious you are doing some very obvious childish trolling, not interrested. I don't care if you're "famous" you're behaving less mature than my 3 year old niece. Get a grip man.. @nprofile…xc4v npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…xc4v Yeah, I am really confused about this whole thing, I am concluding that it's some really childish "trolling" on his part.. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…t0hh Not sure if I should be feeling bad that you forgot me and put me in a post all alone :P npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf There is something about the fediverse that I really enjoy, and that is that it's so easy to get included into a conversation in a way that is nice to deal with, I make an off hand comment, and I get included into the conversation, so often it leads somewhere I didn't expect and I get to see some heart warming and nice exchanges, or learn something crazy, or see a perspective I never experienced before :) Thank you all for being fun and interesting people :D npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…t0hh I was going to call you a freak, then I saw mine for the year... https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01KC4G5XYWJJA4D530SAS1AW7M.jpeg https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01KC4G63W3WSYJGJ4NXTTCV7QC.jpeg npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…8ffl @nprofile…89nd I saw a message from codeberg, it's a ddos again. Here the direct link https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…8eua @nprofile…rprf @nprofile…ytw6 yeah, "Jeg satset alt på den blakke hesten, og endte opp blakk" (I bet it all on the blonde horse and ended up broke) If we drag up really old words you could add another blakk there, because it can also mean to hit, but it's a meaning that I wouldn't even come up with if I hadn't looked it up in the dictionairy :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…rprf @nprofile…8eua @nprofile…ytw6 Yeah, the blonde-ish colour is something I only connect with horses 99% of the time that blakk is used it would be used for being broke now a days. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I'm such a sucker for stories about people that have had it hard and now are with a found family of loving people, I think most of my most favourite books I read the last couple of years is exactly that trope, something about it just does it for me it seems. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…t0hh That was quite normal when I grew up, I also see it pretty often, almost every time I go to a park or something, there is at least one person reading. Now I don't understand this hangup about "classics" and "the big greats" though, I see nothing that makes them any better for us than books that people read, there is no better way to get people off of reading than demanding they are reading the "right" books. Have you even read any of the "romance YA" books? I have and they are pretty good actually. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Win11 is the best operating system, it helps me restart my PC twice a week, by giving me a blue-screen and no choice. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…t0hh I think I did reasonably well, took me about a minute before I realised I could rotate the pieces, :p https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01K83E8AX0DHYJ2B4C470ASKJG.png npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…qc9u I mean when you see how afraid the democrats are of slightly left of center Mamdani.. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p The two red drills fight is really cool :) I'm still working on the last judge, he's not that bad, but I keep on messing up, maybe I'll be better tomorrow, I usually get frustrated with bosses, but this game seems to do something good in showing it well enough that I know what's going on, and it makes it so that I can keep on plugging away without getting frustrated, I guess they (at least mostly) feel fair. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…htaz We had these at my last work place 18 m in diameter, huge bois indeed, used to control sattelites and so on, huge heating elements inside to keep them free from snow as well https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01K4QDGVWQVHV0RW0SS6S5AEDP.jpeg npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…atnr I miss talking with you, hope you're coming back in not too long. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cee8 Why does your vacuum have a pig's face? :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I already miss @nprofile…twp5 npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Yeah, I hope I won't grow frustrated with it too fast, having beat shovel knight yesterday kind of got my motivation up a bit again :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf So... I guess I was shopping some games again today, got the new islanders, a really chill city builder, a kind of mindless mining game for when my motivation isn't quite there, and the remake of persona 3 portable, I didn't quite get in to the fourth game, I'll probably try again some time, but I played pretty far on the p3p on the psp back in the day, I usually like the menu based stuff more than the 3d environments, but that's for later I think tomorrow I'll start Final Fantasy VII for real :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p It does sound like a fun game, I just really don't vibe with tactics games, so it's something I will only watch from a distance ;) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Some times you just need a second try at a game, I had that with the messenger, I played it last two years ago when I stopped it, but this year I finished it, and had a lot of fun. It doesn't always have to only be the right game, but the right game at the right time. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Seems like you had an eventful week, and don't feel bad for reading little this week, it will wait for you, some times parts just gets a bit on the side line, and you will catch up on it later :) Great to hear that you're enjoying Zelda, I never really managed to enjoy 3D action games, I'm just not good at controlling them, but it seems like you're having the same fun with it that I have with octopath, and that feeling is just great, when you just really click with a game. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Hmm, can't find post, did you hide it? I'll edit in a link :) at least I linked you ;) Can't find the new post after I read it though, only one I found on your blog is this old one from 2022 https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/ricing-dwm-2022/ npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Saw @nprofile…pp8p s post about ricing, and thought I'd share some rices that I did back some years ago, most of them are very simple though. The last one and the simplest of them all is my current setup https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01JZJRM0HXYFR0QJA71YPHRSWR.png https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01JZJRPK5WTP7PVMX7X8TQBMAT.png https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01JZJRS8M0FXCGQH51S9511VG7.png https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01JZJRV09QH0XV0KVZYP16WRKT.png https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01JZJRVM1PN9GDFEJBFP7MRZAS.png npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p That does seem to be a great one as well, and really pretty with the new graphics as well :) So I will think that you're going to enjoy it :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf so, well, I ended up buying octopath 2.. Probably going to be a bit before I start itt though, as I'm still enjoying Mary Skelter 2, but it's good to have as a reserve I think. But then it's way to warm now to really think well anyway. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cee8 For us normal people yeah, but nobody can ever fill the greed of the oligarchs. The really annoying thing is that the people on the floor at least mostly are humans they see what happens and wants to do something we've seen demonstrations in Israel Russia and the US against the stuff that happens. It's so frustrating, because you want to do something, but what should we in Europe do? What should the people who get their rights trampled on anyway do. I've had to just shut it all out and take some long walks just from getting the onslaught of it through external channels, but that's me as a privileged guy far away that isn't directly hit, I'm getting frustrated and burned by it, I just keep thinking about those who can't escape it, who lives with all of it without being able to just ignore it and escape, and then go to a safe place to sleep. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cee8 Not only in the US, look at Israel and Russia, all these more powerful countries ensuring that they can inflict as much suffering as possible on people they don't deem worthy. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf hey @nprofile…pp8p Seems like you can be happy again, Into the Aether seems to have already dropped pickaxe, and don't have ads anymore, I never got the inserted ads, I don't know why, maybe just from living in a not english speaking country :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Rolled credits on the messenger today, and I really enjoyed the whole thing, it was really fun, and movement just felt great all in all. I enjoged it quite a lot more than the last time I tried, so I might go through and play some others that I haven`t finished :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Read your weekly roundup and really enjoyed it congrat's with the birthday :D But I have to quibble about one thing, arrival is far from hard science, it has a magical language that when you learn it lets you see the future, there is hard to get anything less hard sci-fi than that ;) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…gnyg @nprofile…fkj4 I think I played the first one on the (3?)ds from what I remember at least I found the battle system to be a bit too random with the rock paper scissors thing, and I kind of stopped it early because it felt so unsatisfactory. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…gnyg @nprofile…fkj4 I'm just not a big fan of 3d games where you control a detailed character, for some reason it just doesn't work for me, I'm struggling enough with atelier ryza which needs almost no dexterity, I'm just too in love with my chunk to chunk moving drpgs :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…gnyg Read it already, I'm surveilling you through my rss reader, (technically @nprofile…fkj4 s rss reader :p) It seems like all the cool kids are doing Trails lately, at least all the podcast people, Monster Hunter is not mine, I played the first one on my PSP when I was living in japan, but all the things you mentioned from it are very close to Etrian Odyssey actually, which is kind of funny :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Hah! Gotcha! npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p I really enjoyed that game, until it became open world, then I just lost all my will to go on :/ npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p I have, both on the psp and switch :) I even sent you a picture of my score once ;) It's a good game, not as great as tetris though :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I was playing some tetris effect again today, and I love tetris, but I'm still not quite convinced it's a really good one. Sure the visuals are fancy, but that's almost more getting in the way than being nice, I've heard many praise the music, but it just feels atonal and strangely in rhythm to me, and it also feels like the game is encouraging to play in not a great way to get the best visuals. Playing apotris on a gba emulator just is a better experience in my opinion. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cl5w I heard good things about "Mullet mad Jack" as a boomer shooter, so that might be worth a look? npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf so, I got a new sd card for my switch, and that really makes a difference feels like I almost got a new console for 17€ that's really a nice little bonus :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…0j4z @nprofile…6wcr oh no, I have some bad news for you. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…r0jh Ah yeah, there it's probably the nostalgia that really hits for me, the sounds of the diskette drive, the clicking and whirring of the stepper motors, it makes me feel good. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…w22j miiiiiiiiiiiiiyoooouu :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…r0jh I was starting out vehemently disagreeing, but in the end I think I agree with your take, it's okay to stay on the surface, I mean take the enjoyment from something that you can find. I really enjoy things like old dos machines and so, but when you compare our ages I'm probably quite a lot older, and for me that was standard things back in the day, so I probably have a different tolerance for old systems like that as it was what I grew up with :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…4d9x @nprofile…ftf4 While I really enjoyed the interview and also really appreciate grueproof this: We really do try to extend every chance to meet us halfway on things, Is plainly not true in my experience, I was thrown out of fosstodon with no chance to appeal, getting three strikes on one weekend that I was not online, had no chances to speak with people, no warnings. The only thing was the moderators calling me a "difficult person". Weirdly enough I've been just as active if not more now on two other instances and haven't had any warnings really.. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Yey, defeated the second boss of etrian odyssey II And got to the 3rd stratum with a beautiful snowy tileset, I just rally enjoy how this game looks, it's so beautiful. Still having a lot of fun with it, still slowly making my way forewards :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cl5w I've been just trying to get my feet wet, so I experimented a bit around, I have the 3 first ones emulated on the miyoo mini, and it's decent to play on it, mapping is a bit cumbersome, but I found it almost more comfortable than the solution they used for the Switch remakes. I got the second remake for the switch first since it was on a sale, and it's the one I decided to focus on first, really fun. Funnily enough I looked through my 3DS on a hunch and saw that I had IV on there, and just played a bit of the start, I probably will look into it later, but I'm not quite sure I enjoy the 3D renders of enemies, I kind of like the sprites of the first 3 a lot more, my 3DS also have a couple of issues, the shoulder buttons don't work anymore, and the touch screen is a bit weird with hit detection :p But I think I will give it a try eventually :) I picked up Labyrinth of Galleria and Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi (unrelated to each other) Cool, yeah, I looked into them the last time you posted and the environments and everything looks really cool, it's kind of a new world to me, as I've always been afraid from hearing that the difficulty is brutal in these games, but at least so far it seems like it's mostly okay as long as I keep on going at a slow pace and slowly get my team better. So the Labirynth games would be the ones to go for later after EO? They even seem to be on a sale right now, so I might get one of them even though I probably should wait until I've at least gotten a bit further in EO :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf slowly inching my way forward in etrian odyssey, lost 2 hours of progress on 3 on my miyoo since I didn't save early enough when the battery warning came, which made me sad, so I got 2 on a sale for the swithch to do while I forget the pain :p still enjoyable, even though progress is rather slow, it's the thing that is so fun with these games, slow steady progress and exploration :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…ca53 @nprofile…0zny @nprofile…pp8p $_ is a perl thing at least where I think it just resolve to the last set variable, or something like that, you often use it in for loops and stuff. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cee8 For me personally I use my brain, and a search engine. I haven't had an LLM give me much usable anyway, it's garbage at code, it's garbage at translation, and is built on theft wasted resources and is basically a hype, I work way better without one. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…gnyg I don't really know where to go after them is the problem 0:p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p @nprofile…gnyg I have started that one 4 times now, always get stuck at the same place not knowing where to go, maybe I should finally look up a walkthrough for it, (The detatched garden things and the big bird that that turns you into stone) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cl5w but but but.. you have a penis! :p npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cl5w Yeah, that was back in 2009, so a while ago, and since I was living in Japan at the time I was only able to get the japanese version :) It seems like it was later released in the western part of the world as well :) https://polymaths.social/fileserver/018QQY80W1F6TV9BGX4X1M78P3/attachment/original/01JR7NPT7NF0A1DQYX3G73CVK4.jpeg npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…cl5w Ooh that brings back memories of sitting out on the porch on my first year in Japan playing Phantasy Star portable with some friends, I think that was the first one and in Japanese so I wasn't quite getting everything that happened, but they are some good memories still hanging on 10 years later :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p That's when I pack out my ebook :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…ca53 @nprofile…pp8p Watermelon with salt and a bit of vinegar is wonderful :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Quite a lot has happened in afterimage today got onto a manta ray, and now I got to a second collection of maps, and it's huge as well, so there are so many more places to explore, also got wall climbing :) so now I have a lot of the abilities, and I'm still having a lot of fun with this game :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf I've been playing some more afterimage, and this game is huuuge, there are just so many maps, and they are huge with so many nooks and crannies, it's still really fun though movement feels good, weirdly bosses just feels easier than the earlier ones though, not that I'm complaining. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…rddr I think I might have found a bug, or at least some unexpected behaviour in gotosocial regarding edits. If a post is posted with markdown formatting, and then edited the post will revert to being a text post with the raw markdown being in the post. Here an example https://polymaths.social/@sotolf/statuses/01JN3FJ1JBC3T6DSWVPMZXXQJ4 That post was originally posted with the markdown bold emphasis, and when I edited it it lost the markdown-ness :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Saw someone using the hashtag #MakeAmericaGoAway for MAGA, and that's now my favourite way of reading that initialism :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf All in all I had a nice day today slept in, listened to a lot of podcasts, cleaned over my floors, played a bit of chasm, an old metroidvania that I got a long time ago, and a bit of spiritfarer, which I got on a really cheap sale on friday :) Now I've read a bit, and it's time to go to bed and see how the week will fare, most of the stressful stuff is done, I don't deal to well with stress, but now there is some complex and hopefully interesting stuff that has to be done :) I hope it will bie a good week for us all :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf It's quite revealing how much the general situation and the complaining of people has brought me down the last month +, when the stres at work has been dropping down a bit, and I have been better at keeping myself from diving into the complaints of my coworker on his situation, I have managed to not focus on the things I can't do anything about, and I've been feeling so much happier :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p Hasn't DQ always had that british flair? It's really a cool way of localising the Japanese dialects from the original, I played this in japanese, and without a voicetrack, since it was on the 3DS :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Almost 11 hours at work today, and I'm pretty broken. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf Played through evoland today fun little game, not fantastic, but it's decent fun for 3 hours or so, got it and the second one for sale for 3,99€ and it's worth that for sure :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…pp8p sylvando is great :) npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…axxs Yeah, it's annoying, ublock and noscript keeps me sane, maybe some time move over to libreolf, I don't know to be honest. npub16f7pz35en0lyw559v86t9nvc5udvaade2m5ckjvs9f824uwx3svsm5w577 sotolf @nprofile…axxs chromium isn't the issue, blink the rendering engine is, 90% of alternative browsers uses it, it gives google even more of a monopoly on the net than they had, I miss opera from the presto times, It still is something I wish I could have again.