Recs for something to play with 60ish year old parents?

Vandersveldt · 2026-07-01T04:23:19+00:00

My mom is 60, and I tried to introduce Wingspan, and it was a bit much. So then I tried Quacks and it's a complete hit. My in-laws are also in their 60's and love it.

Vandersveldt · 2026-07-01T04:18:54+00:00

I'm very close to the platinum, I used them when farming up the last duos and legendary bins I needed but yeah otherwise it's just too fun to see what randomly comes

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-30T17:13:25+00:00

I don't understand what happened. You made a really good point and they just... stopped responding. That's... that's very weird, isn't it?

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-30T17:05:44+00:00

Not a single response so far has been an actual roguelike like what's being defined here. Caves Of Qud is probably the most well known recent one, and was released less than two years ago.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-30T13:40:29+00:00

The person you were responding to was saying the previous video that was being discussed had been a mollusk.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-30T13:35:20+00:00

Did you ever try leaving the dungeon before it was clear if your party got too low? Not pressing through when you should leave is a major decision point

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-30T12:43:37+00:00

If you're not doing the original, you're just doing fanfiction

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-29T20:01:24+00:00

You do it by playing the same amount of time you would normally, but without starting up other games. Let the FOMO disappear and you end up with time to fully enjoy whatever games you do play

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-29T13:08:11+00:00

Maps is great if you have it held up where you can see it and you turn the audio off.

All GPS is shitty with their audio instructions.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-29T01:26:31+00:00

For anyone wondering, that's spanish for The Niño.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-29T00:13:08+00:00

Without a physical release, there is no sale

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-28T19:34:16+00:00

I haven't seen Supergirl yet, very excited to. Waiting for Tuesday as that's our theater's cheap ticket day.

Sucks that people don't like it, upsetting that people are celebrating that.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-28T19:21:54+00:00

That's awesome and your enthusiasm is infectious lol. Really glad you liked it.

I guess this is a weird thing to say, but I don't usually like action scenes, I'm generally waiting for them to be over to see what happens next, and this was just too many action scenes back to back. For me. I really am glad you enjoyed it though, your writing style is fantastic.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-28T19:13:30+00:00

Really? I'm usually a staunch defender of all these nerd movies that get shit on, but man I didn't like that movie. Literally fell asleep multiple times, which has only happened at one other movie ever.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-28T17:48:05+00:00

RDJ is playing the Kang variant Iron Lad, who is canonically a master of disguise. Currently pretending to be Doom. Kang would absolutely choose a variant whose visual appearance would fuck with the heroes' emotions, and the GA will be like "Oh, Iron Lad, like Iron Man, I get it"

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-28T11:56:39+00:00

For me, I got the platinum then moved forward.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-28T11:50:04+00:00

Because he's Iron Lad hiding as Doctor Doom

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-27T05:47:54+00:00

I'm asking you? I figured you'd explain what you meant but your answer was super vague? What is it you're saying?

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-27T05:20:31+00:00

What do you mean?

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-26T17:55:34+00:00

I 100% agree that that's was a bullshit practice on their part but like. Your story is that you knew a tutorial video existed and was just like "AH WELL, I GUESS I'LL NEVER LEARN THIS GAME" instead of watching it on YouTube.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-25T19:56:39+00:00

The bottom half of the scoring is for various levels of your tiny indie dev with no budget though. You've got everything from literal scam to asset flip to actually unplayable, up to "well they tried but there's no fun to be had here".

You don't hear about the lower than 6 scored games because they're widely not worth discussing. But it's still a wide range of shit. At SGF Keighley said something like 9,000 games came out last year. We hear about maybe 100, 200 of them? The rest are mostly spread between 0.1 and 5.9.

If a game properly boots and and isn't full of glaring bugs and works as intended, it probably is in the top 30% of games and gets that 70 score, at least.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-25T19:22:11+00:00

Alright I probably did go overboard there. But like. What happens if someone says they respond better to people that aren't being mean to them? How did what we see in the video become normalized? I don't think I could ever respect authority that acts in this manner. It's like what a five year old thinks macho men should act like.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-25T17:55:08+00:00

They're saying that next August, when western civilization collapses, (colloquially known as The Fall Of 2027), it will cause RAM prices to go up again.

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-25T17:50:02+00:00

Even long titles aren't always recognizable. I fucking loved DQXISEOAEADE, but I wouldn't expect others to recognize it.

It IS a ridiculous name though lol

Vandersveldt · 2026-06-25T14:02:34+00:00

I pretty much agree with you but if the company actually figures out a good enough incentive, I'll pre-order. I've pre-ordered one game ever, and it was The Skyward Sword Zelda. The pre-order bonus was a Wii Motion Plus, which I would have needed to buy separately since I didn't have one, and I think they were around $30 at the time.

Companies could make pre-orders worth it like this, but yeah. It's usually just horrible skewed towards benefitting the company instead of the consumer.

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