matt 🏴 @matt@cybre.space

I guess technically there's nothing stopping me from jumping back in. It's only been a couple weeks, it's not like I've forgotten what I'm doing. Maybe I'll do that tonight. Don't have anything else going on.

I put 30 hours into Zelda 9 and got halfway through it and loved almost every minute of it, then I just kinda stopped playing, and I'm not sure why. I do this a lot with long games. I don't think I'm cut out for them.

Having a baby on a TV show is an easy way to show that time is passing. If you want to show that a year has passed, just replace it with a slightly older baby, then have the parents say "Our baby's been missing for a year. I hope we can find it and get rid of this substitute baby."

I guess I should say my post-high school, living on my own, "adult" life

I don't want to remember anything before then

Frequently finding "was my screen a CRT or an LCD?" is the main reference point I use to try to remember when something in my life happened.

Just crossed into LCD year 10 in May.

I've put off downloading the android update so long it doesn't even give me the option to say no anymore. I tap the home or back button and this message pops back up every 10 minutes.

Anyone know if there's a (non-rooting) way to disable the message altogether? Or should I just accept this is my future now?

@hellojed Yeah, it makes me wonder if there's a problem with the map randomizer. The game acts like certain items are everywhere but I'm having a lot of trouble. I've been stuck on a "find 10 watermelons" quest forever, I've seen exactly one watermelon the entire time I've been playing and it was in a prop hunt map.

I looked it up and apparently a popular GM mode is "melon racing", which I assume is what the game's referencing, but if there are any MR maps out there I haven't seen them.

@emi That's a good idea! Maybe one of the cats can pop up on a communicator and say "Our sensors are detecting that this node has an abundance of X, please bring us 10 of them" or something

So I end up going to the most boring HL2 maps (and usually getting frustrated because I can't find what I'm looking for anyway.)

I don't know if there's a solution to this. Maybe it would be better if they got rid of the scavenger hunts altogether and just revealed the cutscenes after you get a certain number of shards. But maybe it would take some of the excitement away if it doesn't matter what maps you go to and progress is inevitable.

Gotta be a good middle ground somewhere.

One problem is that the game discourages you from going to the most interesting maps.

By far the maps that are the most fun to explore are the ones where someone painstakingly recreates their house, or neighborhood, or uses a bunch of custom assets to make a unique space, but I avoid those because I know they're never going to have anything I need to collect for the scavenger hunts, and all of the wonderful story/character moments with the cats are locked behind those quests.

@valrus Same

There but on the shoulders of giants stand I

Here's a 1-1

@virtual Ah my favorite video game, the adventures of red and green in blue world

This is the smallest mario I could make. I'm sorry. I'll try to do better.

I want to say I'm glad I haven't seen a certain genre of joke around here, but I would have to make the joke myself in order to do so, so let's just say I'm really glad people I follow aren't inclined to make the kind of lazy, easy jokes that aren't necessarily punching down but are at the expense of people going through a rough patch and maybe don't need to hear the same joke 5000 times

Y'all are my people

My grandparents' tax dollars didn't pay for this logo so some hoity-toity government astro-bureaucrats could push me around, by god