Sure, but you need someone who is inspired by it to have played it to be so. Dont get me wrong I also agree with things existing for the sake of it but thats also up to someone inspired enough.

I think its on the individual to not be responsible to spread themselves out but to actually interact with their niche and keep it alive, I want the games I engage with to be engaged with so that its felt.

I dont think art needs my support as much as people do.

I just type random words into the search bar and see what comes back, the mystery key bundles gave me frog detective 1 to many times.

But now I’m playing a fun gnome game so I am pretty happy with my method.

So like UFO 50? We just need basically demo jams in a packaged form factor

The problem is “passive”. Its not helpful to a game developer to not play their games cause then no one engages with their art. I wouldnt want to pay for a musician I dont listen to.

We do need a way to discover stuff easier. That was one of the joys of the early internet compared to now. But if you want to support indie devs, follow them or find smaller stuff and support it. Ignore the algorithms, decide what you want and look for it. Life isn’t passive.

We have gotten so bloated and lazy.
Some rich idiot who has never heard of limits buys in and then says who needs optimization, everyone has all the resources they do, dont they? And if thy dont they should buy in so that more money is spent.

Finite is such an impossible thought for some people the same way infinite is.

I noticed this year that none of the VR games were on sale on steam during the Spring sale, like they were just ignored entirely.

I do think VR is back to dead for a while. Hit sweaty goggles that make a third of people sick just aint it.

Meh, I’m poor and have no assets at all. Guess I just die.

Spyro the Dragon:

This is basically the pinnacle of game design to me. It is a collect-a-thon of course, but the gems always sparkle no matter how far you are from them so that if you are in line of sight you will know that they are there making it easy to find them.

Far off sections of the map are basically always reachable and rewards you for trying to get there and utilizing uncommon paths through the map.

When you beat the game to 100% it rewards you with extra stuff and a little more game to show it had fun being made as much as you hopefully did playing it.

All with a fun story that wraps it up and doesnt require anything special to jump in. I want to see games that have thoughtful level design and world building while using the game mechanics in fun ways. The fact that you jump into levels directly and the loading screen is akin to you actually flying to the world is all engrossing to the world.

Yeah that is fair. The most accessible library in the world has basically been burned down so scraps of it can be sold back out.

I’ve noticed a trend that recently it feels like people assume everyone else is getting the answers and instant help whenever they ask and they think just them are being left out. I keep hearing it “other people get whatever they ask for” as if it is true. It seems to be a self excuse to hate everyone prematurely and yet still expect everything from them.

Everyone has gotten to used to seeing the internet as the solution to everyone else’s problem.

They somehow are giving me absolutely garbage search results that only seem to use a single word from my search terms and most of them feels like ad websites and AI generated first.

It’s not great on DuckDuckGo right now for me.

This one uses generative AI to “add details” instead of just adding pixels for more resolution. It can decide what a character “should” look like pushing a more homogeneous design to anyone using this since it will be built in training models of who knows what origin.

Well someone here in Lemmy commented this and so I am here to share it again while working out my feelings through dance.

I’m Pissed - Thumpasaurus

A song built on hooks, those high strings and that pause… Yup truly an all timer for ear worms.

Hahahaha… Oh no… Oh. No. From my younger days? I go back a decade and I’m in high school, and the bands I listened to then were all dead already (Journey, Eagles, Jim Croce)

No I saw Mammoth recently and 3 people were bobbing their head in the front and there were people sitting on the floor in the back.
Basically true for AJR, and others. Only true pit experience I got was The Wrecks who split the audience in 3 groups to make us compete against each other and then ran around trying to find people in the audience to dance with, but even then it was the minority position to dance.

Gardening.

I just liked that I could grow things but now if I have a bad year where something doesnt grow it means more stuff to buy and I don’t feel like I can try planting something that might not grow well just to try it.

Also concerts.
Didnt have the money for them my whole life until recently and now they are overpriced, impossible to figure out logistically with Ticketmaster and when you go its mostly wealthy people sitting and not dancing or seemingly enjoying themselves past the overpriced drinks.

I am excited about new GIMP and somehow still exhausted with current GIMP

Sounds fair, its insane news articles read like Twitter feeds these days.

This rule would be impossible with the BBC articles lately. They keep changing the headlines every like 15 minutes, it’s horrendous.

This is the current headline

Trump says US ‘not finished yet’ in Iran as Israel launches new strikes at Lebanon

I wish I could draw cause I picture Israel as a giant child just playing with missiles like toys to finally strike every country around it it has wanted to for years now and Trump is the neglectful parent just supplying more and not caring that there is very real fire spreading.

Its truly wild how much above us and detached our most influential are these days.