It's not a dedicated game and idk if servers even run these anymore, but the original popular "battle royal" was minecraft hunger games servers and they did kinda run like that - no stats obviously, but throwing you empty into a bounded world where you'd have to survive and craft and kill monsters and each other. I think some of them might've even had like your sponsor drops where you'd get potions or enchanted stuff
I want a modern difficult farming Sim with an in depth relationship mechanic and no fucking combat. The old harvest moon games are good, but I've kinda played them to death and for some idiotic reason they removed stuff like rival marriages from the remakes. Rune factory has combat, and so does stardew valley (in addition to having a relationship mechanic that's just, really shallow), and it seems like all the farming Sim games that don't have combat are like baby's first farm Sim and are all cutesy and aren't very difficult
Like it feels like this would be an easy thing to do, right?
There's the sonic racing series which has a few ports on PC. I haven't played them on PC, but I've played them on the switch and they're pretty Mario kart-ish both in playstyle and mascot racer charm.
Also you can play as The Heavy.
…you do know this sort of thing has existed on Linux for years right? If anything windows is actually late to the party as this is a relatively recent add on
…yes? The spotlight/quick search tool is stupid useful. Everything is just a quick alt-space and a type away
I’ve been using Synapse on Linux for years and Windows powertoys is way better than this nonsense (which is super confusing because that’s also an official Microsoft programme. Why do they have a superior version of their search that you have to seperately download?)
Obviously doesn’t work everywhere but a lot of cities with rivers or canals have boat pubs that go up and down and around the place
They’re pretty fun
Stardew valley - it sells itself as a harvest moon inspired farming Sim but as someone who grew up playing a lot of harvest moon, I really can’t help but be super disappointed in it. Harvest moon games have a complex and more importantly moving relationship system - you start to go after one marriage candidate, the others will pair themselves up and have kids alongside you. People move in and out and you need to really get to know people in order to progress the game and unlock things. Stardew valley? Super flat in comparison. All the candidates you don’t marry feel super flat once you lock yourself out of them. There’s not much locked behind friendship so there’s less reason to get out there and really work on befriending everyone.
Also fucking combat - it’s a supposedly nice and peaceful farming Sim, yet combat is an unavoidable part of the game. I didn’t sign up for combat! It’s not fun it’s just annoying.
On one hand, yeah
On the other hand, I’m scared about the day when someone who is tech literate gets into government and tries to push stuff like this
I think there might also be an element of “Heathcliff (the comic) just isn’t as recognisable and well known”? Like you see a Garfield without Garfield and you know what’s wrong, even if you’ve never actually seen that specific comic. Can’t really be said about these
Like maybe it’s because I’m not American, but whenever I see these titles I always have a moment of “what, wuthering Heights guy?”. Actually there’s an idea “Heathcliff but the wrong one”. We’ve replaced the cat with a very angry guy from Regency era Yorkshire.
Also idk about the newer ones but the old ones last forever. You might need to change their battery but that’s not too hard. I got a kindle keyboard that’s been going strong for over a decade now.
Also kindles work fine with calibre, you just need a different file format. Mine can read PDFs! (I do not reccomend reading PDF scans on a kindle)
Here’s a fun one - you know the concept of regular polyhedra/platonic solids right? 3d shapes where every edge, angle, and face is the same? How many of them are there?
Did you guess 48?
There’s way more regular solids out there than the bog standard set of DnD dice! Some of them are easy to understand, like the Kepler-poisont solids which basically use a pentagramme in various orientations for the face shape (hey the rules don’t say the edges can’t intersect!) To uh…This thing. And more! This video is a fun breakdown (both mathematically and mentally) of all of them.
Unfortunately they only add like 4 new potential dice to your collection and all of them are very painful.
Wordpress even has activitypub integration now! Hooray! Here's hoping automattic do good on their word and bring it to their other projects like Tumblr
Also as much as I like gimp, it is unfortunately not that widely used due to super specialised and hard to use compared to the industry standard juggernaut that is adobe's creative suite. You're probably going to get laughed at in any professional industry if you suggest seriously using it.