Brok The Investigator. There are multiple endings, but each different ending has a linear enough progression, even if the first time you have no clue as to what ending you’ll get. The only thing you need to do for different endings is making different choices.

Simple enough game set in a world where the poor, slummers, live in the polluted, rundown slums while the rich, drummers, live under the high quality dome. You play as a crocodile (alligator?) who is a detective, a slummer named Brok who lives with his teenage cat son Graff. Not saying much more because spoilers, even though the drummer and slummer and the polluted world thing are kinda minor spoilers despite learning about them real quick in chapter 1.

The occasional puzzles aren’t too hard to figure out, at least I thought so for all but one. And if you don’t like the combat mode, I’m pretty sure there is a way to turn it off, though I’m not sure how it affects gameplay/choices. Though, the upcoming DLC (whenever it releases) doesn’t look like it’s gonna be linear since it’s all about the games combat system and adding bonus challenges to fights. So I’d probably avoid that if you aren’t playing the game for the combat.

Metronome. The chaos of not knowing what attack is gonna happen is great.

It’s why for a fan game I’m still in the planning phases of I plan on having a better version of metronome (name still undecided) that adds all attacking moves, but removes OHKO moves like sheer cold and removes all non-attacking moves. I have plans on making a special option in the intro to make every single pokemon only know this 30PP move.

Last January I got a new laptop that blows my desktop out of the water in terms of specs. I was dumb and decided to get a budget desktop because of all the USB ports and the disk drive it has. It was something like $300-400USD. My current laptop was roughly $1000USD before tax.

Had to remove the complete spyware win11, but otherwise it’s been a great laptop (minus the few times I’ve either somehow broken MXLinux or broke KDE Plasma). Totally better than my old laptop as well considering I don’t need to constantly charge my new one to keep the battery from dying and it doesn’t have a lot of damage.

I have a copy of the full Steins;Gate manga that I admit to not having read yet. I’ve seen the anime (movies(OVAs?) not included), alongside Zero. And I found something a long time ago that would allow me to download the app on my android device and play in English (not sure there was an official option for that back then or even now). Now I am absolutely thinking of getting back into visual novels of that style (the left click only gameplay style) and Steins;Gate is on my list. This also reminds me I need to finish Saya no Uta.

I swear that’s half of my comments.

On a Boy Scout camping trip someone brought in a wolf in a cage, so maybe that. Otherwise it’d have to be the day last spring that a few turkeys decided to show up at the college I go to and peck at one of the doors in the building I was in.

Even though I am an arachnophobe, I also just can’t stand insects in general. They’re unholy creatures that I wouldn’t mind if we removed without destroying the world. The worst part is I’m pretty sure my fear of insects comes from an early childhood cub scouts(?) day camp(?) trip where I opened a tarp on a wooden tent frame and saw a bunch of ants, so it’s an early, somehow traumatic, childhood experience.

Usually 100% all since I don’t ever really go to individual communities besides these AskLemmy communities when I don’t have anything else to look at on All.

I wish that would work.

Couldn’t tell you why, but my mind went straight to Wonder Woman.

I swear there is rarely ever a time when Wikipedia isn’t the best source to at least start looking into something. Definitely a modern wonder, assuming what you’re looking for is on there.

Looked through all of my games on Steam Deck and forgot I had a few. None of them I can’t say I’m really interested in right now, but I’m somewhat excited about Psychonauts because I’ve heard good things about it.

So far I have yet to have many problems with the cheapest ProtonVPN plan, which I think it roughly $9.99USD a month. Their Linux application is nowhere near as nice looking as the winblows application, but at least it works.

In other words, twatter is probably gonna pull the bullshit where they do business as usual and do nothing until police or any government goes after them.

Not quite a pet peeve, but close. The whole “We’re not in a (movie/show/game/whatever)!” type of dialogue.

That, or cliffhangers that will never be resolved due to the show/movie either being cancelled, discontinued, whatever. Looking at you, Sliders season 5 ending!

For poor/botched translation

For AI localization

These were the best I can find right now on short notice.

When they get pissed off because the publishers/authors decide not to work with them because they want their works to be translated as close to the original while still making sense, so they decide to rant about how it’s unfair for themselves to be laid off for ruining works and calling people Nazi’s on extwitter for criticizing their bad translations.

And then getting mad if the publishers of a book/comic/whatever get fed up with it that they decide to replace you for poor quality translations, with human reviewed AI translations no less.

Pretty sure they said conspiracy theory, not fact. At this point it’s so believable if a theory it might as well be fact, in my opinion.

Would absolutely love to see a mod that creates a deep south Fallout experience. I imagine you could have a lot of cool things, like a whole quest line where you travel to a settlement of people who are obsessed with barbeque and are a huge supplier to one of the factions, but you learn they are actually cannibals after falling asleep and being drugged and dragged off to be chopped up, leading to a sneak escape sequence.