If you like the older Pokemon games and can get the ROMs on your phone, PokeMMO is really cool. It’s an emulator that turns the first 5 generations of games into an MMO where you can take the same character across each region.

There’s a handful of changes to the base game, but most are small: Berry farming is changed, there’s an Exp Share for EVs now, Sweet Scent is used to summon a 1v5 against wild Pokemon… There’s character customization… There’s some QoL stuff like shiny encounters having a sound effect and adding a confirmation box so you don’t accidentally flee, and the stats page for your Pokemon is way more detailed.

You’re a god amongst men around these parts.

I feel like it’d probably be better to group based on performance. I don’t see why this wouldn’t work for pretty much all 1v1/FFA/small-team sports/games.

It’s like how there’s loads of different email providers but they can all still email each other.

Just like Gmail can send mail to Outlook and any other @EmailProvider.com, lemmy.world can populate it’s feed/comments from lemm.ee and any other @LemmyInstance.com

It’s an unpopular opinion but I do agree with this. Google deserves to get a lot of shit for a lot of things, but even after how far downhill YouTube has gone it’s still the best hosting/streaming service out there.

Between podcasts at work and normal videos at home I probably watch more than 8hrs of YouTube a day with no issues. I may as well pay for it like I would Netflix, considering I get, like, 20x more out of it in comparison.

If there was a non-enshittified alternative, though, I’d gladly pay for it.

IMO the graphics look great, it’s just that it’s so clearly built on the creation engine. Like, the models and textures and lighting are great, but the animation is just so…creation engine

I have infinite respect for anyone that professionally works with assembly. That shit is wizardry compared to today’s higher level languages.

I actually never knew this lol. Thanks for the PSA, because I was one of those people

Fifi La Queso lmao

CS is a lot simpler to learn, I think, despite the similarly high skill ceiling. Getting good at CS involves a lot of the same skills as boomer shooters, just without the bhopping, rocket-jumping, memorizing/tracking respawn times for items, and stuff like that.

That, and in boomer shooters (at least in 1v1s / 2v2s) there’s the issue of your opponent gaining so much momentum that it can be hard to get the items/resources you need to turn the tide back on them. But in CS it’s relatively easy to turn the tide the next round with pistols or cheap SMGs.

It’s pretty sad. I’m pretty sure it’s because of the crazy high skill-cieling. New players come in, get their cheeks pounded, then leave because getting good at the game is a lot of work. The number of skilled players grow and the number of lower-skilled players shrinks until the game is all but dead.

I still play Half-Life’s multiplayer occasionally. Quake 1 was always my favorite, but now the closest games we have that aren’t dead are Quake Live and TF2 :/

Round ALL OF THE CORNERS. Is there a button in the corner of you game that you’ve always loved to play in multi-window? How about fuck you?

Frequent user of YouTube picture-in-picture? You don’t need those corners, and also you don’t need the window to be ANYWHERE except the edge of the screen and if you’re using landscape you can just get fucked.

I drag my feet with my cats for a similar reason. They’re both black so collisions are inevitable at night, but by keeping my feet <1 inch off the ground I avoid stepping on their tail or anything but they still learn that sometimes I can’t see and they should be careful.

Not over nothing, just for no results and under false pretenses

It’s more like “etiquette.” The downvote button serves to bury a comment or post, so it’s arguably best to use it as a “this isn’t relevant or is hateful/unproductive” button.

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I can vouch for this one. I use it at work to play Pokemon on my phone without having to hold my phone. I just keep the controller in my jacket pocket lol

Thank God it wasn’t PokeMMO. I feel like they don’t have long, though…

The problem is that without that rule, you can just buy a game, go offline and play the entire game, then return it. You could essentially play any game you wanted to for free

Ehh… Idk if that’s really on them. You can get around the playtime restriction by just playing offline, so there has to be an alternative restriction that doesn’t have that same vulnerability.

Three weeks is more than enough time to figure out something you own doesn’t even work.

I have issues with this even with 3rd party applications. Wanna play PokeMMO, an emulator that doesn’t even exist on Steam, on your Steam Deck while you’re waiting to respawn in Trouble in Terrorist Town? Fuck you, you’re disconnected from that server now.

Guess I’ll just use my phone then, jfc