profgrumpypants

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Roki is such a beautiful game. The controls I feel might have been planned with mobile up-front. It was really an awful system if I remember, which involved clicking, dragging, and then moving to highlight the item you want to use while clicking on it. But it has a wonderful sountrack to match it's fantastic and whimsical design. I liked it, but the controls were still so trash.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I was wondering this very thing. As some fossils were preserved whole, as others were not. I believe though, the whole ones, or even the ones that captured large contiguous chunks of tail could disprove this. Not sure, just was having a guess.

*Not due to soft tissue being found but more so signs of trapped decay of some sort.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I did some hoping, and some seriously long looks at the list. Thank you for these! I was gunna toss you some back if you don't mind. I realized none of them are JP, but they are all vis-novels.

Mediterranea Inferno Giallo, Homo, Death Game Pumpkin Eater Kinetic, Vomit Fest, Trauma Grotesque Beauty Ito, Dream Realm, Monster We Know the Devil Counter-Culture, Queer, Great OST

Idk if you would like any of these, but they've all been nice games to "play." Some are less interactive than others.

Of course, I completely understand. Mourn well, take care of yourself and remember they always live on in our hearts and our stories!

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Retrievers are god's gift to this world. They're just some kind of love, and I am sorry you lost yours tonight. Sounds like she loved you so much, she wanted to stay with you as long as she could. I bet you she was a sweet bug the whole way through. It's really special you got to spend all the time with her. Got me tearing up over here. I hope you've got someone/thing/folks to look out for you. I hope you get a chance to mourn like the dead deserve. I hope you find happiness in the little things you loved the most about her. Allow yourself space to honor your emotions. My gal likes to think they're just waiting for us, and I can tell you I've had moments where I've felt like the little buggers are still around.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's kind of funny, at least in my own experience. Which I believe I read somewhere was quite common. The friends that I have made and kept around, tend to be neurodivergent as well. I am not saying it has to be exclusively neurodivergent folks. I am saying I know a lotta silly, loveable weirdos. I've got nothing on the last part.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my god, you guys are killing me.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 4 points 15 hours ago

I don't think it was social media. To be honest with you, this is the worst thing I have ever said. Seriously! I swear to god, it was once the "normies" got on the internet. I think "normies" are socialized to be cruel, and they took that cruelty to the internet. I loved it when it was for the freaks and the geeks. It was the best of the best!

It took my favorite activity (reading) and turned it into a social one. An educational one too! It was amazing. There's still bits out here. I mean look at us. But there's a lot of trash on these sites too. Just filter, enjoy your echo chamber, and be open to people entering it with opposite opinions. In fact, be open to opinions all over the place, even in person. Just saying, I use this as reprieve. I don't need to work myself up, I want to chill and cool down with it.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I wish I knew it ever stopped. You can put some space between you and your pain, but I think once in love always in love. Best I can say is that love isn't finite, and you can always go and find some more to share.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Oh, that's really cute! I never thought about it, but it'd be a really fun game to play in Japanese. I have met my fair share of games East/West that load up on Proton and then close. I tend to return them, unless I know someone in my family wants to play them as well. I am the only one on Linux, tbh.

*No worries! I play pretty much exclusively pixel/text based games. I am not hurting. I can also emulate consoles, so I figure I am winning. I love desktops though. They're just hard to move, and I like to travel light nowadays.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 1 points 15 hours ago

Idk, because there are games that were Western ports without any Japanese in them. But also I don't really care, because what I want to play are now probably all considered "retro" games and I just emulate them instead. That works fine.

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 4 points 15 hours ago

I am not a major gamer anymore. I play whatever I want to, when it catches my interest. But I pretty much play simple stuff. When I want to play games with "fancy graphics" it tends to be Japanese based. I like the stylized higher-end graphics of Japanese games over other countries. Even Chinese based ones. There is just a nice beauty to them. I don't know studios like that anymore, which is why I didn't go through the list. But equally, it really isn't important to me personally - so I don't have recall on them. I just know I tried a series of different Japanese games that I had both in my library already, as well as have purchased over the past couple of years. I have had consistent crash issues. I don't think Japanese studios care that much about computer ports. I can't even run Elin on my damn computer. I don't care, because there are many games out there. I can also emulate many of the games I am interested in. The money doesn't go to the developer, but I can't help that if it is impossible for me to play it.

The biggest intention I had in saying what I said - is that I wanted people to know it's not all roses. Even using Wine to emulate wonderful programs that I loved on Windows, Black Ink for example (my most used Steam product) is absolutely abysmal on Linux. I gave up, and switched to Krita. 10/10 would rather use Black Ink. I can dual boot, but Windows is a CREEP. I would rather lose accessibility to items, than continue to work in the Microsoft environment. I just hate when people show only the good sides of things, especially social media content/influencers, when in actuality there are issues which must be addressed and in turn stop the casual user from utilizing something they want to. I am sure there are hoops someone can jump to gain whatever they want. I will jump those hoops for exceptional things. Most things, I will lay to rest. This, I laid to rest. I have had issues with Square Enix games. I do not play their new stuff, so that could be it. Also, just because something is Deck Verified doesn't mean it'll work outside of there. Even when checking Proton.db.

This isn't some "Wuhan flu" stuff. This is me bringing my valid experience while using one of the most commonly sold graphics cards. Just to let others know that while things are great, they're not perfect.

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