It’s a fantastic documentary; as an LA native, I recommend playing through the story to better understand our diverse culture of shallow rich folks, inner city gents, and meth-addled drug countrymen.

In fact, pirate it to truly honor my culture. Lol

Laptop is a misnomer, especially gaming ones, because they get too hot to be in your lap. Workstations, notebooks, Ultrabooks, etc, all different classifications.

Upside, if you do use it on your lap, it doubles as birth control. (Joke, please do not do this).

Oh no, that’s literally today’s lecture on ADHD and strengths based pedagogy, haha.

Real talk tho, best strategy is to pair up with your compliment. Plus, one persons “impulsive” is another person’s “initiative” so if you’re blessed with that flavor of ADHD, you might actually be a good leader someday.

Given their lawsuits, emulation is 100% the right way to piss them off. Lol

So… Indie scene saw how shit 2025, so we got E33 and Silksong, we’re even getting Hades 2? What a year.

I think what I’m getting is there more than one way to skin the bark of that boss. There’s a lot of ways to play the game, even as early as Splinter, but I stay a Hunter with the starting pins (admittedly with poison). My friend loves his needle traps, though. There is better, I think, though all tools remain viable for a long time. I wonder if anyone is going full beast mode, that looks fun.

Lol, of course this is after I did the parts they nerfed but honestly nbd. Splinter was only a problem until you realize you can nuke both adds and damage the boss with you special circular AOE move. I actually took no damage on my win.

I also got Moorwing late, cause of fleas. Those 2 damage environmental hazards did seem pretty awful though. I’m great at platforming so it wasn’t much of an issue but I imagine it giving some people a lot of grief. I didn’t even know the gears caused 2 points it damage until my friend told me, lol.

Funny, a decade ago I would have suggested an AI do exactly this as impartial, but we don’t have that kind of AI, we have LLMs. Ugh, clearly they just want more corruption.

Also… why now? BL games always get 90% off eventually, lol.

Can confirm, DQ5 (1992) had monster catching. Not sure if I’d call it summoning, but Pokemon took clear inspiration from that game in particular.

It’s been a while since I used their app but I vaguely remember some support (?). Although at that point you’re basically using GoG as DRM, but I appreciate the attempt to give Steam competition in that space. The whole concept of meta gaming in general is kind of monopolized.

Yes, can confirm that a major aspect of the genre is total exploration and collection of items. Hollow Knight, due to it’s difficulty and attraction to the “dark souls” adrenaline junkies, has added importance of achievements for things like Steel Soul mode (aka ironman, i.e. no deaths).

Also the genre has a long history of rewarding speed running. Metroid’s secret endings were hidden behind fairly strict time limits, for instance.

Well, yes, enough that gamification snuck into other sectors. That said, implementation isn’t always great, but at least in HK/SS (games focused on exploration and collection of upgrades) achievements are a popular acknowledgement of that collectathon.

I get too much anxiety to chase after speed run achievements, though. It’s really meant to be up to the users if they care or not.

It’s what happens when you copy someone else’s homework; the formula they tried to emulate with VII is Humankind, which actually is a good game, but they didn’t really understand the secret sauce that made it good. They just stole mechanics and called it a day.

I don’t mind Steam for my copy, but if you’re worried about achievements I can say they have in game ones to scratch that itch if you’re considering GoG for drm free experience.

I might just get two copies, depending how I feel after beating it. $20 USD is a bit of a steal.

Yeah, I’m glad most indie games don’t do that. My wife was surprised I wanted to preorder a game with no bonuses, I think she has worked for corporate a little too long.

Oh. So this might actually be a legit reason to do preorders, lol. I too got caught in payment progressing hell but I finally got it.

Ohhh. Great PSA to some of us who start out.

Ahh, ok that makes sense. Reading other posts, pretty sure my wifi chip is the same as OP.

This was also my first issue in Linux but it turned out my duel boot was somehow screwing things up. Windows broke WiFi for Linux, then when I booted into Windows it was broken there too. I blame Windows because it was right after a series of updates, but I have no idea why it’d impact other independent OS on other drives.

Unfortunately I forgot the solution. It was probably since bios impacting thing, like how they often say to disable fast boot and junk.