Remove them!

Seems to me that Steam is embracing it rather than working on it. None of their discovery tools will ever be effective as long as they are built on the hopelessly flawed tag system.

They’ll just put aircon in their bunkers.

Preaching to the choir… I’ve always been an album listener. Playlists (and the associated loudness war) are a crime!

And I can relate… I’ve only managed to find 2 of my 50 or so CD collection. I know most of them are long gone but I could’ve sworn I’d kept more than 2!

I bought a CD player and some CDs and it’s got me right back into treating music as an activity rather than background noise. No streaming service is ever going to get my money again!

I’m just about to finish season 2. I’m enjoying it enough to keep going but it does feel somewhat jarring coming into this from DS9. I definitely prefer 90s TV show style.

The next show on the list will be Babylon 5 though because I could use a Star Trek break!

Recently finished Deep Space 9. It took me almost a year to get to the end and it was awesome. Highly recommend. Now watching Strange New Worlds and it’s… okay. The seasons are too short for any interesting character development and the dialogue has a lot of streaming-era quipping which makes me stop listening.

Imagine trying to fill out a leave request on that!

It’s one of the big contradictions of Star Trek… they somehow achieved utopian society while running everything on fucking touch screens.

I spend enough time playing whack-a-mole on my various platforms now that I might as well call it a hobby.

I don’t want to see any Reddit communities. Anything worth emulating there died 10 or more years ago. I’d rather we came up with our own original communities with actual standards.

IMO the worst Reddit communities are the ones themed around other Reddit communities and posts. Best of XYZ, XYZ updates, XYZ drama, etc. They are designed to generate shit-tier rage commentary and they get reposted relentlessly. I miss the days when reposters would get attacked in the comments and mass downvoted.

I would like them to separate genre out of the tag system and curate the list of genres themselves, create strict guidelines for devs to select genres for their games, and let customers discover games via genre instead of tags. IMO the tag system is the worst thing they’ve ever added to the store.

Let me guess… it’s going to rely on the tags system. And another guess… they aren’t going to do anything to stop devs and consumers putting tags I like on shovelware that I would never buy in a million years.

You can’t get ye flask.

It’s so janky… I’m sick of getting shot through walls and doors. But it’s also pretty fun and it’s interesting to see a different an alternative take on the half-like formula before from Half Life took a wrecking ball to the boomer shooters design philosophy.

Part of the issue IMO is that so many of our Lemmy communities are just copies of subreddits. The bot creators see a subreddit shaped hole so of course they want to fuck it. Having communities with new original themes might help deter the bots, and the natural content might be more interesting too!

That was a fun read! RE2 was my first exposure to the concept of zombies when I was a child and it scared the crap out of me… good times!

I can live without it.

I’m on a roguelike buzz again.

Played a bit of Rangedrifter. It’s maybe got the best atmosphere of any roguelike I’ve ever played, but it’s pretty early in development so not enough content to be satisfying yet.

Now I’m onto Lost Flame which is kind of like a roguelike demake of Dark Souls… the combat is amazing and I can’t stop playing even though it’s kicking my arse. So far I’ve had the most success with dex/spear builds but I’m starting to get into scroll and potion shenanigans and it’s kind of blowing my mind trying to comprehend the possibilities!

Live and drink!