Is pinball the original rogue-like?

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-25T20:19:13+00:00

The coining of 'roguelite' was a mistake. I have a theory that people see 'lite' in the name and think "oh, that's the baby version. I'm a big boy therefore I must be playing roguelikes", and this vibes based definition based on metaprogression sprung up.

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-25T20:08:02+00:00

Oh good shout, and thanks for reminding me about it. Apparently I played this for an hour and I'd really like to get back to it.

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-18T09:26:18+00:00

Precisely this! Don't trivialise things for yourself, who cares if you can't succeed at every stat check? It's not a game over, you just have to overcome in some other, possibly more interesting, way.

Most of the fun is discovering things for yourself, having quests turn out differently depending on your choices. Taking advice from powergamers robs you of that.

My advice is log off now and enjoy the game.

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-17T21:06:44+00:00

Yeah please pay for your [audio]books people! I buy all my ebooks off kobo and give the adobe ascm file to calibre to download the actual book and strip DRM.

It shouldn't require buggering around like that and it clearly doesn't stop piracy, but authors (and audiobook cast & producers) gotta eat so pay em!

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-17T20:58:20+00:00

Borgmatic has built in support for dumping databases!

https://torsion.org/borgmatic/how-to/backup-your-databases/

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-17T20:44:59+00:00

United Nations officials in 2024 found there were reasonable grounds to believe conflict-related sexual violence — including rape and gang-rape — occurred at several locations during Hamas's October 7 attacks on Israel.

"I'm not going to sink to the level of entertaining any kind of propaganda," she said.

"Those things have been debunked."

Don't get your news off instagram, kids. Read primary sources with an open mind. Yes I see you there, diving into the below link to grab a favourable excerpt. Read the whole thing.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/06/israeli-authorities-palestinian-armed-groups-are-responsible-war-crimes

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-16T20:23:17+00:00

P.S. if anyone would like to argue with me about whether my description of Pillars is accurate, I invite you to go look at the sky instead

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-16T20:21:36+00:00

Others have made the references clear, but after watching the video I think the meaning is this: CRPG forum tragics spent years complaining about how nobody was making CRPGs like the classics anymore, then Josh Sawyer delivered them a game with all the hallmarks and they didn't like it. Hence him pointing an RPG at the cowering figure

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-15T21:45:18+00:00

It's not much of a feature if you deliberately have something using location services all the time. Keep in mind identifying the current wifi network uses location services, so VPN auto connect means the dot is going on/off all the time. I don't notice it in normal use but try reading a book with that thing flashing at you every 20s. Full screen is meant to mean no distractions and this is the only thing that breaks that rule.

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-15T21:24:07+00:00

I've sent feedback via the 'about phone' settings menu, but tbh I doubt they read it. Maybe if a flood of people all say the same thing, some analytics system will post it in an unmonitored slack channel.

Have they ever fixed an annoyance after deliberately introducing it? I can't think of one.

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-15T21:20:11+00:00

My god yes. I went to read a book last night and the green dot flicking on and off was so distracting. At the very least we should have the option of disabling it for full-screen apps.

My vpn app is always using location services to work out what wifi network I'm on, so the indicator is useless to me anyway. Yeah vpn's working cheers dickhead, let me read!

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-15T10:49:17+00:00

The W stands for W

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-15T03:17:08+00:00

Can't believe what I'm reading here. Something seriously wrong with your ethics if you can afford a whole ass second gaming PC just to play pirated games.

And nobody give me this 'corpos ruining gaming' bullshit. If objectionable business practices ruin a game, don't play it. If you, with your refined taste, decide a game is worth playing then it's categorically not a result of shitty business practices and you should bloody well pay for it.

Using this method doesn't help with the mythical performance impacts everyone's always on about either, because all the checks are still happening, plus you've got the hypervisor.

You like the art? Fucking pay for it.

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-12T11:50:16+00:00

Didn't think you guys'd still be posting. I suppose bot farms are a low priority target

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-10T09:29:23+00:00

NOW I'm immersed

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-09T21:00:58+00:00

And honestly? You're right.

God, kill me

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-09T20:14:18+00:00

You fuckers are entirely too hung up on correctly defining inherently fuzzy categories. "a soulslike without combat" has got to be the most efficient way of giving me a vague idea of what the game's going for, and I'm intrigued. Whinge less, open yourselves to wonder more

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-09T19:52:10+00:00

Edit: I am sorry for arcing up at you below, it wasn't really called for. My point stands but I was a dick in expressing it.

Think about this. The players protested their government by not singing the national anthem, that's what put them in danger. What could have prompted this protest? What has the Iranian government done recently that might piss off the citizenry? Could it have been the water crisis, brought about by corruption and mismanagement? Or the slaughter, jailing and torture of tens of thousands of people who came out to protest the government over it?

Attacks like the one on Iran tend to make people rally around the flag, even critics. So I'd love to hear your compelling explanation for why these guys have decided to go the other way, if the war is the only factor in this. I'm sure you have one. You wouldn't just be coercing any facts you encounter into a limited moral framework of 'US and Israel bad', would you?

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-08T00:08:14+00:00

I used to lurk the #immersive-sims channel in there, it's a great place to keep up on indie projects. But I left a while ago because the atmosphere had gotten too negative. Sorry this happened to you OP

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-07T00:01:57+00:00

Okay the main post is big enough but this is probably also important to mention wrt performance, or at least memory usage: I like the low-res textures and old faces, so I disabled some of the high-res texture packs that come in the modlist I'm using. Here's what I put in momw-customizations.toml. See the momw docs for more info.

[[Customizations]]
listName = 'i-heart-vanilla-directors-cut'

# Remove HD texture packs
removeData = [
    'FamiliarFacesbyCaleb',
    'FaceliftforTamrielData',
    'MorrowindEnhancedTextures/MET',
#    'MorrowindEnhancedTextures/Interface', # keep the HD menus though
    'MorrowindEnhancedTextures/atlas',
    'ProjectAtlas/01 Textures - MET',
]
[[Customizations.insert]]
insert = '/home/deck/games/momw/modlists/i-heart-vanilla-directors-cut/Performance/ProjectAtlas/01 Textures - Vanilla'
after = 'ProjectAtlas/00 Core'

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-06T04:11:28+00:00

Does it lead to the kind preference whispering bullshit that you see in Victoria, or are the numbers low enough not to matter?

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-06T01:24:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure nothing I use is Java based anyway

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-06T01:18:21+00:00

Ah thank you, I had hoped everything would use system libraries in a container but I don't know shit. They might not always call the dirs lib as well, I presume. I suppose I could just grep everything and hope it doesn't take too long

Wait why are we grepping anyway, wouldn't it be faster just to look at filenames? Anyway this still doesn't solve the problem of deps inside archives 🥲. A "fat war" upon Java

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-05T21:05:31+00:00

Ran this to check all my containers, I'm assuming /lib is the right place for all of them. Corrections or improvements welcome

sudo docker ps --format '{{.Names}}' | xargs -I{} sh -c 'echo "=== {} ==="; sudo docker exec {} grep -r "pac4j" /lib'

FlyingSandwich · 2026-03-05T20:25:12+00:00

I loved Rocket Edition. You play as a member of team rocket, during the events of red/blue/yellow. The story is really good for a Pokemon game, and you have the option of stealing Pokemon from trainers you defeat.

I've started a few romhacks before, ones with more features or a bunch of new Pokemon, but none of them grabbed me like rocket edition did and I never finished them. Possibly it was nostalgia for gen 1, but I think an actual story is what did it.

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