• melooone@feddit.de
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m also slowly getting into it. Just got a run yesterday where I got a super good wand in the hisi base. I was shooting these blue bubbles at high speed with homing. It had so much knockback that I could use only that to fly. It was the first time where I got to level 5,6 and even 7 and I was still breezing through. But I still died. I used a wand with lots of slots as storage for spells and it killed me immediately. Can’t describe how terrible I felt after that…

      • Discoslugs@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yeah once I randomly got a wand with lightening bolt.

        Holy shit that spell is awesome, and also very dangerous.

        Took me to the end of level 3 before, i killed myself with it. Lmao.

      • PainInTheAES@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        DunkOrSlam is awesome! I’ve learned so much. Now I die slightly later lol. But seriously, very nice community. Long live the moist mob! (!uguu)

  • trslim@pawb.social
    28·
    1 year ago

    Fear and Hunger man… that game is like a playable version of Berserk as a random person, rather than Guts.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    26·
    1 year ago

    I do recall a joke about something similar.

    “LSD and Unix both came out of UC Berkeley, I do not believe that this is a coincidence.”

  • Cylusthevirus@kbin.social
    26·
    1 year ago

    Noita is really interesting, but I feel like the base game’s balance is janky. You can play really well and just get utterly fucked on wands. They have this amazingly nuanced magic system but it feels like you rarely get the chance to harness it or experiment and death is very easy.

    Don’t get me wrong, I highly recommend it if you like side scrolling rogue-lites. Plus the game’s a LOT bigger than it first appears.

    • zzzzz@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      1 year ago

      After playing for hundreds of hours, I decided that being fucked so often and so arbitrarily is the secret sauce that makes god-runs the fantastic dopamine rush that they are. Eventually, you attain equanimity with death; only then are you ready to ascend.

      • Nailbar@sopuli.xyz
        11·
        1 year ago

        I played a lot and once had a really good run and got really far. After that I didn’t want to play any more because it felt it would take too long to ever get beyond that run.

        Some kind of checkpoint from which you could start when you die would probably work better for me.

  • MooseBoys@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 year ago

    My friend’s theory was that a lot of it is because of how long and dark the winters are in northern europe.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.net
      10·
      1 year ago

      That same lots of free time for many and early projects by universities to connect to the internet, and there’s a whole lot of us Nordic nerds around

    • Herbie@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      Maybe this is how they balance their lives? “I’m too happy, I need to create evil in some way”

      • 520@kbin.social
        27·
        1 year ago

        Are you not a Linux fan, or is it just cropping up a bit too much for you?

        I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver for over half my life, so seeing Linux everywhere is just normal to me. I can understand how it must feel weird to someone who hasn’t or doesn’t want to get involved with it though.

        • Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social
          25·
          1 year ago

          Personally it’s the degree of fanaticism around Linux here. I use Linux on most of my machines but I’ve seen so much weird gatekeeping and elitism around Linux here. You’ve gotta use Linux but don’t use Ubuntu or Fedora because of what Canonical or Red Hat are doing. Oh but don’t use Arch because you’ll be required to tell everyone that you use it, btw. Oh, you chose a distro that uses systemd? Why do you hate the unix philosophy? It’s just exhausting.

          • pimento64@sopuli.xyz
            6·
            1 year ago

            I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

            Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

            There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

          • 520@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, I get that. The tribalism can be a bit of fun sometimes but there are too many people who take it way too far. I don’t understand using it as a means of division.

            At the end of the day, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We seek to empower ourselves and reject the ever increasing corporate control of our computing and digital lives. For some that means self-hosting their own cloud stuff and for others it is simply being able to boot into the OS and edit an Office document without needing ridiculous fucking subscriptions.

            • bastion@feddit.nl
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah… I think I just figure everyone everywhere does that kind of stupid ‘in group’ bs. But overall, they’re pretty niche, useless, and not too intrusive.

              Oh, this thread isn’t just an evaluation, this is from a [windows/mac/linux/amd/nvidia/republican/democrat/socialist/capitalist/lemmy/reddit/etc/etc/etc] fanboi.

              Downvote and continue.

        • Fubar91@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          Not the dude that you replied to, but heres my view.

          There’s alot of linux based memes present on lemmy, and lots of “Linux btw” posters. It’s pretty disproportionate compared to other online locations of discussion. Im guessing the fediverse in general draws more of this crowd due to the nuances of it and similarly to how linux operates openly, etc, etc.

          As a sysadmin whos focus is on all types of systems, it definitely doesn’t bother or stick out much for me personally either, but there’s for sure a higher content % about linux compared to other places. Which might get anoying to some people.

        • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
          5·
          1 year ago

          I tried to switch to linux like 6 or so years ago and kinda gave up because most games i played back then weren’t compatible, or you had to jump through too many hoops. One day i’ll try again

          • grte@lemmy.ca
            10·
            1 year ago

            Proton has changed things pretty significantly over the last few years in this regard. Gaming should be a much more pleasant experience when you do decide you want to give it another go.

          • csfirecracker@lemmyf.uk
            4·
            1 year ago

            The advent of proton on steam and all the stuff developed for the steamdeck has made gaming on Linux (at least in my experience) nearly indistinguishable from Windows. Very hapy I made the switch

            • bastion@feddit.nl
              3·
              1 year ago

              This. Linux is just solid now. There are tradeoffs, but fewer than going, say, Mac.

              Some games won’t work. Most will, or will work after some light tweaking.

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      Haven’t played Baba is You, but ULTRAKILL is 10/10. I love it, I just can’t play it. There’s a certain boss fight I’ve gotten stuck on and can’t get past because the game’s pacing and music sends my heart rate through the roof and my ability to control my fine motor functions and ability to be patient and wait for attack patterns just kinda regresses to that of a 5yr old (music can have a very strong affect on me, Ultrakill’s music is extremely fast).