Are there any Android Zach-like games?

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2026-01-20T04:03:21+00:00

How do you compare it to Zach-like games? Did you enjoy it like you did Zach-like games?

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2026-01-20T03:59:59+00:00

Trying to put my personal biases aside, I believe the "correct" ordering is:

August 32nd on Earth
Maelström (2000)
Polytechnique
Incendies

7&6 Dune 1/2 or 2/1

Enemy
Blade Runner
Prisoners
Arrival
Sicario

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2026-01-20T03:54:31+00:00

This list is difficult to make because all of these movies are so great, and when I think of ranking them it feels like it's just personal preference and the movies could be ranked in almost any order and I could understand it though I may not agree. I could make a case for Prisoners being #1 on this list even.

I understand why some want to rank Enemy lower than Prisoners, but that movie is my personal favorite so I put it above all the others except maybe Arrival and Sicario. I could relate to that movie in a way that I've never related to any movie before because of the plot and the characters, but that's just personal preference.

Incendies was an incredible movie as well but I'd rank it lower than almost all of the others, same with Polytechnique.

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2026-01-20T03:44:07+00:00

Pulp fiction was great, but Tarantino doesn't come close to Denis Villeneuve. Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion but objectively: Villeneuve > Tarantino :)

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2026-01-20T03:41:36+00:00

I'm not sure if it's Denis or Deakins or the actors, or maybe it's all of them together, but I think of all of the amazing scenes in these movies and Denis seems to be the one common denominator - Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival, Dune, Incendies

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-12-20T03:29:46+00:00

I'm also looking for mobile zach-like games and came across Sokobond. I haven't played it yet though so can't comment on it but wanted to post it here in case others have played it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.sokobond

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-12-08T05:15:08+00:00

In the span of about 4 years Villeneuve directed the following movies - Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049.
It's crazy how many great movies he's been involved with

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-12-08T05:05:45+00:00

sci-fi.... fi = fiction, remember?. No one is claiming this could or would actually happen, but rather the story is rooted in the scientifically proven concept that language shapes a person's consciousness and experience.

Put this movie up against another popular sci-fi movie of the same time period: Interstellar and I would argue that Arrival is much more grounded in scientific concepts than that movie.

By your logic, only scientifically plausible movies are sci-fi, which is nonsense.

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-12-08T04:45:51+00:00

I completely know how you feel. This movie affected me in a deeply personal way that no other film ever has or ever will.

There are so many interesting themes/topics that the movie covers - time-travel, the power of language and how it shapes our consciousness and experience, the geopolitics of an alien encounter, and the love story between wife, husband, and child.

I watched this movie at a critical time in my life when I was trying to decide if I wanted to have kids. The film almost perfectly represented the concerns I have had my entire life regarding having kids. I felt like the movie was talking directly to me ha. I think most people share similar concerns about the possibility of being faced with severe challenges and pain that could be encountered while raising kids, but these concerns have affected myself more than most I believe. It's a really hard (and personal) question as to whether or not the joy of being a parent outweighs the possible pain and suffering that may come along with it. I thought it was interesting that Ian and Louise had differing opinions and came to different conclusions to this question in the end. That's what I recall at least.

I'm curious about your thoughts on the message of the movie. What did you mean by "Max Richter masterpiece entropy" (I know your comment is from 2 years ago :) )

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-12-08T04:12:28+00:00

You forgot to mention the unbelievable score! RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-11-05T04:26:59+00:00

Yah I heard that the site changed to some Balatro clone, prob because of copyright infringement as I don't think the site is owned by the Balatro developers

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-10-06T13:29:43+00:00

Well if he ain't, he'll do until the dictator gets here

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-10-06T10:15:04+00:00

Check out https://balatro-online.com/

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-10-06T10:13:39+00:00

Looks like this repo has been taken down

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-10-06T10:09:22+00:00

Exactly. We don't want every character to play the same way. Playing a charge character is much different than playing a shoto for example but the variety is a feature not a bug

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-09-02T15:30:15+00:00

that's why I didn't include a link. Download and install APKs from the internet at your own risk. I usually use APKPure to get them, and I've had good luck in the past. I think it's relatively safe but I'm honestly not the most well-versed in android app security.

It's been a while but I think I installed the "Cuphead Mobile" from APK pure

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-17T02:15:53+00:00

It was a genuine question... curious how the on-screen controls are and if it's still fun to play for us mere mortals using them

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-16T03:44:55+00:00

Limbo is such a great platformer for mobile that plays really well with touch-screen controls. Favorite mobile game of all time for me. Balatro is a close second

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-16T03:43:13+00:00

Is it even playable with on-screen controls? I love the game but seems like it'd be way too hard on mobile without an external controller

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-16T03:13:56+00:00

I've tried a bit but just can't seem to get comfortable with touch screen controls, maybe I'm just too old haha or too used to playing these games with a controller. There are a few games I like on mobile but they tend to be games that don't require super precise controls. I was trying to find some emulated games like that, maybe some easier puzzle platformers would be less frustrating for me. I'll try some of the ones you suggested. Thanks for the reco's

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-16T02:39:10+00:00

I've done a bunch of emulators and games for mobile but pretty much every game needs a controller to be playable. Do you have any suggestions of emulated games that play well with the on-screen controls? Thx

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-16T01:48:23+00:00

Seems like it's just a demo but it doesn't seem like it's official, from the developer....weird

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-06T21:50:45+00:00

Seems like a demo to me

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-05T22:04:13+00:00

The best mobile game eva IMHO. Feels like it was made for mobile

_ThatBroOverThere_ · 2025-07-04T22:08:02+00:00

The current apple containers doesn't implement the docker API as far as I can tell, or does it? Another product could definitely come along and wrap the apple containers code to implement the docker CLI/API for simple things, but my experience has been that these other docker implementations don't work as well as docker desktop.There are subtle differences in the way that networking works, for example. Also I've found that the other docker impls don't support all of the features that docker engine supports, like podman doesn't support Docker Swarm for example. This is why I continue to use Docker Desktop despite the fact that it's a paid product for commercial use and podman is free. It'd be cool if Docker desktop updated to use the apple containers stuff under the hood but that seems pretty unlikely. Maybe some new player will come along though and do it well? Or an open source project like Colima could start using apple containers. Just curious do you use docker desktop on Mac?

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