$884.31 for 162 games in 10 years. Saw lowest prices value is $583, should probably use isthereanydeal way more often. But hey, it’s $2,591 in today’s prices, so I’m not doing too bad? Also a patient gamer checking in.

I still feel like I ought to step it back, but hey, my discretionary media spending is very low everywhere else (thank you local library, thank you PDFs and articles online and even the occasional video, I also have a bunch of other quirks that just help end up pushing my demand for a lot of media way down even if money was no object… although clearly not for video games) so I’m probably not doing too bad. I know that video games are my biggest discretionary spend category nowadays and seeing this number, I feel way less bad than I did before checking these numbers.

Eh, to each their own, to me it wasn’t funny at all. Not in a this is offensive way, I can appreciate dark humor, but the impression I personally came away with was “annoying snarky comment” and less “incisive, witty, funny and topical joke”. Of course, my impression is probably extremely colored by my feeling it was just barely on-topic and a conversation hijack away from American Truck Simulator to American Politics, but I also have seen American politics comments that I found funny and this wasn’t one of them. Glad you enjoyed at least, as well as the other people who upvoted, nice to see people getting value out of it where I couldn’t.

If you like this genre come visit us at !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works!

Watch Lemmy turn one of the few apolitical posts about something American into something political in 3… 2… 1…

Politics is important but sometimes I just want to play a video game without someone turning the conversation to politics when that wasn’t the topic at hand at all. I’m super angry about all the things my country is doing now too, but I also sometimes want to enjoy what I have left instead of being constantly stressed about it and bringing up the horrors happening at every opportunity—especially with just a comment about if a truck driving sim that seems to be mostly just about driving will suddenly implement something political and unpleasant (when we know they probably will not, that’s not the vibe they are going for) and no links to taking action. (Here are a few, albeit aimed at Americans.

• https://indivisible.org/ for finding a local group to get organized with
• https://5calls.org/ for calling your local representatives
• https://www.mobilize.us/ for events in general
• https://action.aclu.org/give/now for donating to a group suing illegal things the current admin is doing
• https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ also for finding events and groups)

On the other hand, people have to vent sometimes and I guess I need to build up tolerance and a thicker skin to that, even when it shows up in a place marked Games and not US Politics.

Will always cheer for more native Linux support.

For curious onlookers like myself out of the loop, this is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Best wishes OP

Rift Wizard!

Part of me is so pulled by games with customizable characters and good magic systems, but roguelike… oof. But it calls to my childhood self. Maybe I’ll watch a playthrough to try to see if it’s for me.

Props to your friend for making and finishing a game at all, let alone the reviews said one lots of people enjoy!

Nice to see devs on the Fediverse. Best wishes!

The only AAA games I’m looking at are ones released 5+ years in the past. Grabbed a lot more indies closer to launch. So glad Timberborn and shapez 2 made it here.

You did say “just right hand,” there was a thread before asking for one-handed games in general

!visualnovels@ani.social can help you out with way more visual novels. Including ones that do not have sex scenes or romance, counter to the stereotype of all VNs as sex games.

(and if you do want romance in your VNs, but from a female perspective, !otomegames@ani.social has you)

If you end up liking Crusader Kings 3 you might also like Crusader Kings 2

Big fan of idles and incrementals, you have inadvertently advertised PoE2 to me haha. Thanks for your thoughts and explanation!

Not a big ARPG person, just an onlooker. I searched “idol game mechanics” and “idol game mechanics ARPG” and got nothing, what is that?

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I game on a former Windows 11 laptop that now runs Linux. I have never owned a “real” gaming PC in my entire life and do not intend to drop any money on one. However, not having enough money to drop on a new laptop to run Linux because you have a more pressing need than gaming to have to still use Windows is still understandable. It’s less than the full-blown fancy gaming PC with its GPUs, but it’s still money.

Not really facing any jank myself thanks to the whole Steam Deck compatibility thing, but I also did have to tinker with one game a bit to make it work. I have had one game demo for a small indie not run so far. Other than that, very smooth experience.

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No, I mean a single game that is intended to be run while cycling, not the game + a separate cycling app. Think Pokémon GO but with this game and cycling instead of walking.

Clicked hoping for train game, instead found horror biking game.

Pedal through the fog, but never look back.Trapped in a constantly shifting horror, you must ride, conserve your phone’s battery, and decode cryptic messages to escape. Explore, survive, uncover the truth.

—Steam description, link here.

I remember there being some game on iPhone with a title like “Zombies, run!” where they somehow locked progress behind real-life running—that was the whole point of the game, to get you to work out in real life. I think it’d be cool if: if this game succeeds, if a spinoff or adaptation where your progress is locked behind real-world biking was released.

I love when game developers think of unintended things players might do and implement responses accordingly. Warning for TVTropes link.

then explode a series of bombs across them

Have not played The Sims in a hot minute, is this a mod? I don’t remember being able to do this.