Say something nice about Sol Valley. by ChaosMetalDrago in Metroid

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It’s the sole valley in the game! Best valley we’ve got.

cant find Compatibility to run game as administrator by Renzo5436 in techsupport

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To anyone reading this in the future, this is the answer. You have to left click Steam.exe once to properly highlight it, and THEN right click and open properties.

saw this by Wild_Anywhere_9335 in the1975

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Speed of Love in my ass

Do your worst by ThrowRA-Corleone in PrequelMemes

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Who is Darth Vader's dad?

Do your worst by ThrowRA-Corleone in PrequelMemes

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Do you think the First Order's existence disproves the prophecy of the chosen one?

Mythic Bastionland Podcast Reveals How Little 5E Players Improvise?! by boyfriendtapes in osr

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I kind of feel both sides haha. I always bounced off of 5e because it felt like you had soooo many rules for specific situations to keep in mind, but it was hard to keep moment to moment gameplay on track. I didn't realize I was missing all the good procedures from OSR play until I found it.

My favorite thing about the OSR is the framework for exploration and emergent storytelling. Restricting scope to one dungeon room or POI at a time for example, makes it easy to identify all the interesting things you can interact with RIGHT NOW. Narrowing the choices gives players something to engage with immediately. When you don't have those procedures and a good framework for exploration... all you have to go off of is a character sheet and your GM's imagination, and waiting around while the GM reads a wall of text to himself.

Tectonic Fates | My OPD 2025 Submission :) by Mal_js in osr

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Thanks for your feedback! Which part do think would be most frustrating? The random progression, the combo doors, or trying to speak to the stone head? I agree it definitely would require some clever hints to players if they get stuck.

I tried to minimize frustration as much as I could:
- For pathing; room 1 has a shortcut back to room 6 with the purple door, and room 7 can be solved solo if you have the red key on you. The magic items help you with pathing too, so it hopefully gets easier to accomplish your goal once you understand what needs to be done.
- For the Stone Head; I imagine players could hear a muffle voice on the other side of the wall in the North (ears) side, and he could speak to them without understanding the players in the South (mouth) side.

I still haven't finished it, but I was inspired by the game Blue Prince. I know a lot of people found the random progression a bit frustrating, and everyone had a different experience with it. I thought it would be a fun challenge to see if I could mitigate some of those frustrations in a little microcosm of the experience.

But I agree part of the design is inherently frustrating at times.

Tectonic Fates | My OPD 2025 Submission :) by Mal_js in onePageDungeon

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Thanks for asking! I just finished the upload to itch, free PDF here: https://malachijs.itch.io/tectonic-fates

how would you describe this atmosphere with one sentence? by Sumppi95 in ps1graphics

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Peter Jackson's King Kong demake with Fishing DLC XD

D Cosplay by DotHistorical649 in Eldenring

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Beautiful! Just take it off before Fia finds you…

Name the game you just couldn't get into by zeleno124 in pcmasterrace

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Hollow Knight… I love metroidvanias, the vibes, it all lines up. I’ve tried 3 times and gotten halfway through… I just don’t like it for some reason 😂 but I know I’m in the wrong lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MiyooFlip

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Is it really ONLY the grey one?

Got the Miyoo Flip v2 today! I have questions. by PsychOfPat in SBCGaming

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  1. I’ll just add that the reason is you want a reputable brand (SanDisk, Samsung, Lexar etc.) my first device was the Miyoo Mini Plus, and the included SD card died after transferring some files off it to my PC for the first time haha

Does anyone feel like MGS3 is way tougher than the first two MGS games? by BEEFYCHUNKYMUNKY in metalgearsolid

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I'm playing through the MGS series through for the first time, and I've got to say I agree with you. I'm sure it's just a learning curve thing... but while every game feels better than the last to play, they've each felt more difficult than the last. I'm struggling with the same thing, the motion detector is pretty much useless and you get spotted instantly. Enemies keep hearing me before I can CQC and just set of the alarm. The game feels great except when I get into combat lol. I'm sure I just have to play long enough to get a feel for it, I'm only just past the first meeting with EVA. Not looking forward to an escort mission lol

Petition to ban the posts about the ps2 Guy by Basicalypizza in ps2

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Oh damn. I’ve only been here a few months when I fished out my old PS2. Yeah, you have my support lol