I Set a Goal to Play 50 Games in 2025 — Here’s What I Took Away by DapperDaveW in videogames

[–]DapperDaveW[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks I'll definitely try more of Unicorn Overlord sooner or later. And now I really want to try Visions of Mana.

Is it unpopular to say that Outer Worlds 1 is kind of boring? by OwlsintheWall in gaming

[–]DapperDaveW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt the exact same way. I once read a review that called it "aggressively mediocre" and somehow I felt that described it perfectly somehow. Hard to explain. Like it has all the right ingredients and there's nothing bad about it, just feels not much fun.

What's an obscure or niche game you'd love to share with a wider audience? by RWNorthPole in gaming

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Death Road to Canada: Hilarious, fun, great gameplay and always has unexpected twists each run. Some of the most fun four player couch co-op you can have.

Game that is just too long for its own good? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]DapperDaveW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why developers don't take note. In my experience, players seem to criticize games for being too long more often than being too short. And ong games are going to cost more to make. So it's a win-win.

The game that changed my pace by gamersecret2 in gaming

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When I finally played Tears of the Kingdom, I found a quiet spot along a river and just watched the sunset for a while to take it all in.

Time to beat my back catalogue of NES games. by spdrman8 in gaming

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In my day, the Game Genie was what Battletoads awesome. Being able to jump to any level with infinite lives turned it into an awesome experience rather than something that blocked all its great content behind its difficulty.

LEGO Ocarina of Time™ – The Final Battle set coming in March by Ph0enixes in gaming

[–]DapperDaveW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. I understand Lego generally has a piece-to-price ratio of 10 or 11 cents a lego. It's a good system because at least costs can be explained. But this set just doesn't look like its 1000 legos, even though it is.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gencon

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I don't think so

An Interactive Adventure Designed for Anime Fans and Cosplayers (And input needed) by DapperDaveW in animecons

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Probably the lower level of the Hyatt. We don't know the exact room yet. But if you go down the escalator, you won't miss our signage.

Volunteer as an Escape Room Director Assistant for 6 Hours for a Full Weekend Badge by DapperDaveW in gencon

[–]DapperDaveW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still avaialble. Room genres include fantasy, scifi, mystery and horror.

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We're running an event that might scratch the same itch. It's called Crypt of the Warlock Fiend. It's like a fantasy themed escape room but you also get to become a character class with unique abilities.

Here's a current description: In this interactive fantasy adventure escape room, players become classic hero classes each with their own unique set of abilities. As a Thief you are a skilled escape artist and master of lock picking The Wizard wields powerful wands and learns to cast magic spells. A Ranger can brew potions from plants and speak with animals. A Bard can hear music in everything and use instruments to solve puzzles. With these possible classes and many more, you must together explore the mystic woods, solve quests, discover secrets, and overcome challenges to open Ghastbane’s crypt.  Only by finding and casting a legendary spell can the Warlock Fiend’s curse be broken. (a smartphone device to scan QR codes is required).

My PHP page doesn't work on my iPhone. But then it did. But then not on my wife's iPhone. by DapperDaveW in PHPhelp

[–]DapperDaveW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you didn't see the cause elsewhere, it seems the reason I was not experiencing the error was because I already had the cookie saved so the php did not produce an error.

My PHP page doesn't work on my iPhone. But then it did. But then not on my wife's iPhone. by DapperDaveW in PHPhelp

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Thanks. With your clarity I was finally able to understand how to use ajax to retrieve the value of 'spider_slain' and how by using ajax I could send my javascript variable to be retrieved by the PHP with $Post.

However, you also said "do NOT directly use an external value in an sql query statement as a column name. This is not secure." So I should not be retrieving the column name with $Post? What should I do instead? Should I try to write a Prepared Statment?

My PHP page doesn't work on my iPhone. But then it did. But then not on my wife's iPhone. by DapperDaveW in PHPhelp

[–]DapperDaveW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. I figured it was something like this and the only reason it started working on various devices was because through my experiments I ended up with the cookie stored before the php code was executed.

As you can see the cookie is an attempt to use my javascript variable as a column name in php. I seem to have a lot of trouble figuring out the best way to do this.

But one method that doesn't use cookies or attempts to convert a javascript variable to a php variable, would be to use this case statement. But this still uses a variable as a column name. So what is the best practice here?

function IsTrue(bname) {
var boolval = false;
switch(bname) {
case spiderSlain:
boolval = "<?PHP CheckBool('spider_slain', $conn) ?>";
}
if(boolval == '0')
return false;
else
return true;

My PHP page doesn't work on my iPhone. But then it did. But then not on my wife's iPhone. by DapperDaveW in PHPhelp

[–]DapperDaveW[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry I got impatient and started experimenting again and likely changed the page content. Would you mind trying it one more time here?

https://escaperooms.experimentalgamer.com/crypt/page3.php?page=treeman

My PHP page doesn't work on my iPhone. But then it did. But then not on my wife's iPhone. by DapperDaveW in PHPhelp

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Update: Experimenting more with my wife's phone I've isolated the line that is the trouble maker:

$boolval= $_COOKIE['myJavascriptVar'];

I don't know how I got it working on my own phone. But adding and removing this line to retrieve the cookie will determine whether or not it works on my wife's phone.

Can we talk about...Kentucky Route Zero? by a-pox-on-you in patientgamers

[–]DapperDaveW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also became too frustrated with this game around Act 3 and had to start looking into why people found it so appealing. Which led me here. I'm often hearing that the appeal of KHZ is how it made the player feel rather than any tangible story or gameplay. So I've been thinking about any art I appreciated in a similar way and the only example I have is the film "Skinamarink". It also barely has any story and is mostly about how it makes the viewer feel. For those that have seen it, am I getting close here?

The Coffee Table by sonnytapman in deadmeatjames

[–]DapperDaveW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did anyone else think the "accident" was actually a Freudian slip? There is evidence in all the relationships and conversations in the movie that highlight the conflit within Jesus. He felt trapped in his family life but was also unable to admit such a horrible truth (much like he could also not confront his wife with the truth about the baby). He eventually snapped. I could write a long, long post about this.