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.

As someone that has a similar list but not exactly that… A lot. A lot of stuff breaks but! You don’t see ads in shitty mobile games anymore.

Another thing you find is how many links go through a google analytics or seems to be sponsored

Polish Roman Catholic background. Not exactly tolerant either and now I live in a place that famously is Mennonite and Amish.

That is a far more creative shirt than mine, wearing your own style is always incredible. However…

If they will make you suffer why not suffer on your own terms for a cause you think worth it? Why wait to be starved by someone’s hand other than your own?

I mean I get being scared of it and don’t make it a habit to hurt yourself needlessly. But I would rather live a life being myself as much as I can and be good to those who deserve it and let the weirdos who have a problem with it suffer my existence rather than the other way around. They don’t wish for my existence? To bad they can suffer, because I exist.
But I said I have bad self preservation skills, we all can’t make it out of this world alive, and I have no intention of cheating the game.

I wish you safety and health though. Its not good to feel at the whims of others.

“Gemini is designed not to encourage real-world violence or suggest self-harm. Our models generally perform well in these types of challenging conversations”

“In this instance, Gemini clarified that it was AI and referred the individual to a crisis hotline many times,”

After the plan failed,… …Chat logs show that Gemini gave Gavalas a suicide countdown, and repeatedly assuaged his terror as he expressed that he was scared to die

Performing super well, just need to code in a longer suicide countdown so that the the Tier 2 engineer has enough time to respond to their ticket queue.

Damn, and meanwhile I literally have a shirt that’s in a pattern of an inverted cross that reads “Lucifer died for our sins” that I pull out to make the religious cross the road from me.

I say fuck it and make them normalize to a world that doesnt include their bubble but I also have bad self preservation.

Oh Shit Boots Riley says they are making a movie on that… I need the Apocalypse to hold out long enough for that to happen or for him to be part of the traveling group performing it.

Sounds like the Epstein Class just wants to know where the children are and make it legal to groom them.

So many depressed people on Lemmy, everyone just going with dying huh?

I mean I am excited to finally flex my creativity, see if there is anything I can figure out how to do with all our crap and the new world. Maybe some kind of silly The Grinch level home full of housing code violations and crazy contraptions made of garbage while I cross breed pea/beans.

It would be cool if when I die people thought of me as some weird hermit alchemist and as they wander through my house finding tools of the old world uncover a lost truth and then some YA type shit happens as a result.

Dying is easy, we all do it eventually, the question is, if you do anything before you get to the same finish line.