Love that eyes panel!

Serpentine Path - Crotalus Horridus Horridus is another good one!

Cannibal Corpse - Scourge of Iron

A definition I saw many years ago was something like a troll tricks you into feeling a certain way or doing a specific thing. Could be positive, mostly done for humour, but the ones we hear most about in the media or whatever are the upsetting ones.

Thanks! I’m mostly recovered now anyway.

I briefly had a go with EmuDeck a while ago and everything was so fiddly that I lost interest almost immediately. RetroDECK is the champ!

My favourite game on 3DS was Monster Hunter 4U. I really loved the Majora’s Mask port too but 2ship2harkinian is probably the better way to play that now.

I love what Nightdive does but I’m a little disappointed that they are doubling down on remasters. The System Shock remake was so amazing…. I was really hoping they would remake some other crusty old imsims since we get so few new ones.

I’ve been recovering from a surgery so done nothing but play games for the last couple of weeks:

• I finished Drova. What a badass game! I want more anti-power-fantasy RPGs like this!
• I got about 30 hours into Death Stranding after being inspired by PerfectDark’s comments. Got a bit tired of it and put it down, but I would like to come back to it. I got stuck on my bad checklist grinding habit and sucked out all the fun for myself… don’t progress until everybody has 5 stars, all roads are built, etc. Don’t know why I do this.
• Played Blue Prince for 17 hours and bounced off it hard. This game wastes so much of your time for tiny payoffs. The puzzles don’t really give you any revelatory excitement because the pieces for them are so unhidden… and the ultra simplistic roguelike mechanics were such a chore!
• I got retrodeck running and wow… it’s slick! Already gathered a bunch of roms for some of my childhood games. I beat Perfect Dark (coincidence) on Gameboy Color… fun but brutally difficult, thankfully it was pretty short. Started Metal Gear Solid on Gameboy Color but put it down with intention to come back to it. Gave Terranigma a go on SNES because of nostalgia but it doesn’t really hold up compared to similar Zelda games. Last night I started .hack//INFECTION on PS2 also because of nostalgia and it’s pretty bad… very simplistic. Gonna find something else to play tonight.

Woohoo!

Red chilli and bean soup!

• 1 red capsicum
• 1 medium onion
• 1 celery stick
• 1 medium carrot
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• 400g can tomatoes
• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 700ml vegetable stock
• 1 can mixed beans
• 25g kale leaves, shredded

1. Chop capsicum, celery, carrot, and onion. Crush garlic.
2. Heat oil in large pan, add chopped vegetables, saute for 5 minutes but don’t colour the vegetables.
3. Add chilli powder and cook for a minute.
4. Blend the tomatoes and add to the pan with puree and stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
5. Drain and rinse the beans, stir into the soup with kale. Cook for a few minutes until the beans have warmed and the kale wilted.
6. Season with pepper and serve.

Love this soup! Usually swap the kale for spinach though.

This game is really fun. Reminds me a bit of childhood Goldeneye/Perfect Dark battles I had with a friend to decide who was actually the best.

I licensed some music to my biological brother’s company. After years of enduring abuse to protect what was my main source of income, he terminated the contract and ghosted me right before a major milestone for the business so he got to keep my windfall despite him already being a multimillionaire in his early 30s. Great guy.

I love that movie! IMO the practical effects make it more unsettling. It feels more real than CGI even if some of those effects look pretty fake.

I’ve had 2 sleep paralysis episodes in my life and both of them were themed around The Grudge. I’ve never really been scared by horror movies before or since I saw that at the cinema as a teenager, but for some reason that movie rocked me. It also started my lifelong obsession with Ju-On (though I have never rewatched The Grudge) and Asian horror in general.

Kayako is the ultimate ghost villain; once you are cursed, you are fucked. There is no protection ritual, no solving of unfinished business, no escaping a haunted location. She can get to you anywhere, any time of day. She can distort reality to trap you and even time travel. I have goosebumps while writing this comment!

Yeah it’s the classic problem… quality goes down as population goes up. Never mind whatever dumb shit the company does.

It’s like a better version of Reddit in 2025, but what I really want is Ye Olde Reddit of 2010. I keep seeing comments about how Reddit turned to shit with the API changes, but IMO it’s been garbage for more than a decade. I haven’t been on Lemmy for long but so far I’ve mostly seen the same posts as on Reddit with mostly the same types of comment, just at smaller scale.

Thanks for that link to The Gaming Emporium… so many projects to try out!

No haven’t seen GBOperator before… that’s really cool! Perhaps a bit redundant for LSDj but very cool for gaming.

I like this whole idea of hardware attachments for the Steamdeck. Hopefully Valve will add some sort of standardised mounting points on future iterations so we don’t have to rely on flimsy printed clip-on bits so much… I reckon a VESA mount could be good!

Nice post!

I’ve been messing around with a “headless” Dirtywave M8 on my Steamdeck… best bit of money I’ve spent in a long time. Even had a buddy print me a Gameboy cartridge case for it with a clip-on cartridge slot for the deck. Did my first ever jungle noodlings with the Amen break… having a great time!

I’ve actually got a trio of DMG-01s that I grabbed in Japan a few years back… slapped in some RCA and backlight mods in and then quickly lost interest because my eyes just aren’t good enough to deal with those screens. I thought LSDj and the crusty old Gameboy sound chips were really freaking cool… but I’m happy to say the M8 blows LSDj out of the water on features and QoL, and I can stare at my Steamdeck screen all night!

Huh… from the way people talk about gen AI coding, I figured it was much further along than this. Imagine being asked to work in that cpp dumpster fire!