Notices by :meru_B: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club), page 36

@ninja8tyu when i was in preschool i wet my pants and my teacher flushed my underwear down the toilet then blamed it on me

just in case any of you are still using project64 1.6 for some godforsaken reason, PLEASE SWITCH TO SOMETHING NEWER AND BETTER. there has been a vulnerability found that will let people inject viruses into your system through roms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqUYNYWPlpQ

@ArdainianRight @xianc78 yeah there was a time when everyone was like "ocarina of time is the best game ever" but then it started shifting to "actually ocarina of time isn't that good and here's why" and now we're back to "ocarina of time is a masterpiece."

people complaining about the water temple probably haven't played the game in a very long time. it's not that difficult. as someone who didn't play water temple until i was an adult, i didn't really have any issues with it. it was on master quest though so maybe it makes it easier in a roundabout way somehow idk.

i will say though that a lot of people do think majora's mask is better for one reason or another. i personally haven't ever been able to get into it because i don't like the time mechanic.

as far as navi goes, she's a bit annoying, but i think hating her and also hating the water temple are a bit of a meme at this point and not really a big deal in the game itself. relatively, the low health beeping sound is far more annoying lol.

@xianc78 the same thing also comes with hating something. i see people do that with NGS all the time, or at least from my perspective it seems like that's the case.

i also did my fair share of hating on games like Ocarina of Time and Mario 64 because that seemed like the popular opinion at the time. i didn't really think about it much, i just parroted what i heard other people say who had opinions that i agreed on very often so i had no reason to doubt this opinion.

then i actually played those games again and was like... you know what? these are actually still great. and i used to say i loved banjo and kazooie, and conker, and dk64, but going back to play those games was certainly an eye-opening experience on just how bad they have aged, especially in comparison to the aforementioned OoT and SM64.

@xianc78 yeah, it's really weird when everyone is into something but you're not, and there's actually nobody that is into what you are around. or, they might be, but just not as much as whatever the "current thing" is.

i think a small issue is that a lot of people want to be enveloped in the social zeitgeist of it all, and this is something my brother actually brought up with me as a reason to why he watched all the marvel movies up to endgame despite them being kind of mediocre. not a lot of people think "oh, i can just play this game later since it's always gonna' be around." they want to do it NOW so that they can be a part of a cultural happening. i really don't get that way, and i realized that pretty fast in high school when i had my own money and i made lots of poor purchases because everyone else was doing it. i just go for things i like these days, more or less, and that tends to not align so closely with whatever is popping off at the current moment.

daryl in this video talks about how he literally never played among us. i haven't either lol, not once. never played fall guys. never played palworld. and i likely never will play any of these games. for me it's not because they're popular, it's because i know i won't enjoy them for very long. but at least i'll still pop into one of these every now and then to play something with my friends.... which is a courtesy i can't say they have given me for years now, even with a game they don't have to buy. they just have to play it for a bit with me but that's too much i guess, because they'd rather play the finals or lethal company or palworld or helldivers with their work buddies than spend a few hours on the weekend playing rock band or smash with me.

I almost feel like this has actually been eroding my friendships over the last 4 or 5 years. Everyone always wants to play the new hot game that is out, I'll try it and not really be into it too much and they'll keep playing it with people from work or whatever. I keep trying to ask if they want to play games with me that I enjoy, even ones we used to play together, but it never happens :P It's more or less gotten to the point where I don't even try out most new games anymore since I know I'll probably play them twice, think they're just okay, and then within the next month something else new comes out that everyone switches to anyway. My friends I've had for over a decade are now better friends with people they've known for like 3 or 4 years than they are with me. I know people change and friend groups change and stuff, it's part of life, but having nobody IRL that enjoys the same stuff as you kinda sucks. I don't even try to be a hipster or anything. I'm not trying to be actively against popular stuff. I don't even think things being popular is why I stay away from them. I think my tastes just often REALLY don't align with any larger community.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPO1Bkj2LzM

@xianc78 @graf hmm, I can't help but think they all just sound exactly like other sites but sightly tweaked, which makes sense because it's chat gpt. It'd be better to have something more unique if possible. Then again, all of my creativity is going towards other things right now lmao. I might think up something good.

@xianc78 @graf damn dude you're making very quick work of this

@matrix @ShtPoastAnon huh, it is available for PC, but it's a whopping $35 and $28 for me because i own BF2. that's a steep price considering it doesn't add much. the servers are probably gonna' be split, too. the only reason i was thinking of getting it was to play on some nice populated servers but uhhhhh idk about paying $28 for that chief. i already own the damn game.

@matrix @ShtPoastAnon you know what else comes out in march on switch? the classic star wars battlefront collection. seems really cool! i wish we could get a similar thing on PC because i do NOT want to play that on a switch with my shitty joycons lol.

@matrix just watched the direct, man even grounded looks and plays like shit. because of all the temporal AA and nobody scaling models, multiplatform games always end up looking like sludge on the console. even ones that came out years ago.

@ArdainianRight @xianc78 yeah when i hear "leeching" i think of yanderedev lol

@xianc78 i wouldn't say he leeched off of her. she was incredibly supportive of him and only had to be for a few years. she's not being "leeched off of" much now, is she? stardew valley is incredibly successful and the man put in the hours to make it happen.

@xianc78 @gabriel mastodon lets you schedule posts, but we don't technically use mastodon, we use a fork of it. one that's quite outdated for the most part, but matrix keeps up with security and that's more or less it.

the original repo for mastodo even says "this is outdated, use pleroma instead" :meru_lul:

watching this video atm. finding out that scott cawthon worked at dollar general up until FNAF is insane. i work at dollar tree, currently building my game. not that it's going to be as big as FNAF, no way. but it's just interesting to see that similarity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdbkxZ5NUg

@xianc78 @graf @crunklord420 For their genres, they are more specifically defined, which is good imo. There are only like 15 or so of them, plus "no genre" and "other."

Then they have tags, which can be anything you want although it will pop up with suggestions (probably based on what other people have put in there).

Itch.io actually only has 4 selectable platforms, being Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Android. That's for each download. You can also just select no platform for your download at all, in which case you'd probably just want to specify in the file name itself. Or, somewhere in the tags/description if it is integral to your game. So I think an "Other" option would likely be totally fine.

@xianc78 @graf you're the man, i don't know shit about this stuff lol

@matrix mmmm it's gonna look deep fried isn't it

@xianc78 @graf dope, dope x)

tags would work for it yeah, just as long as the stuff like loli or whatever is opt-in instead of opt-out. Whitelist instead of blacklist, kind of thing :)

@xianc78 @graf just noticed your login name lol
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