That’s another great example.

The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.

It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.

A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.

Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.

The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.

Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.

Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.

I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.

It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.

You can us ssh to open up a vscode instance that is pointed at/running on another machine. But I don’t know if that works with the Web version.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

There is also a tunnels extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.remote-server

Not actual cash, but they require in game currency.

Given that baltoro, monster train, and now silk song have been my most played games recently, you might be on to something.

I thought most equivelant gpus to the ps5 start around $200 on their own.

Later versions of the xb1 controllers should have Bluetooth support, so you wouldn’t need the dongle.

If you look online there should be guides to check if your controller supports Bluetooth and how to connect it.

Yeah, but I hate android and want to run steam natively so I can play indie games.

Where is my small Linux handheld for steam. Something not targeting the AAA games?

Thanks for the info. I assume when you say that they dropped support for some libraries, you mean those libraries are no longer being maintained for the new Mac arm processors?

I’m not super familiar with how portable different libraries are against similar architectures, but assume the major issue is Mac arm chips differ enough from the mass market that progress on Linux arm won’t directly correlate to any progress with macs?

I assume the gpu translation issues are Mac specific and not all arm processors?

I didn’t think Translation layers were nearly good enough for that, otherwise why wouldnt more people use macs for gaming?

Yeah, I made a separate comment, but AudioBookshelf can play nicely with ebooks and comics. It’s not super smooth, but provides the most features in a self hosted solution from what I’ve tried.

I just use AudioBookshelf for books. It’s a little annoying, but basically just requires an extra nested folder structure.

The best part is offline reading seems to resync back to the server, so you can download books for local reading or read through an internet connection.

Baba is you is one of the best puzzle games I’ve ever played

Shapez is a great factory/automation game. Maybe better on a computer, but still good on the phone.

There are also a lot of good boardgames with android apps: Star Realms, Dominon (expensive), Splendor, etc.

Just to add, it’s definitely more character driven than plot driven. I really enjoyed it, but not everyone is big on character driven stories.

Additionally, I think in a post GPT world it’ll hit different, but at the time it brought up interesting concepts that weren’t mainstream yet.

While it got a lot of flack, I thought the smaller contained worlds of Outer Worlds can be a better in between. Open spaces to explore and run into things accidentally, but constrained enough that the world and plot can still flourish.

I thought the world and travel mechanics were fun, and the leveling system was cool (basically get better skills by using other skills).

Overall though, it falls into the trap of most open world games. Big, beautiful, and boring.

But I also don’t care for BOTW and TOTK over more traditional Zeldas, so maybe I’m just anti open world games.