Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Huh, they're retrying several of the ideas that went into the Wii lineup of games like game-integrated chat, and camera features brought over from their arcade lineup.

Cannot wait to figure out how to set up a Vtuber for these tbh.

Also, that DF and "cozy" can now feature in the same sentence demonstrates just how far it's come. I'm proud of them.

Found design porn on the Dwarf Fortress wiki: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/7/7f/Dwarf_Fortress_material_cheatsheet_by_DeXoteric.jpg

Between this and playing Vintage Story, it's been a really good time for cozy block building games.

@Soreth Same!

Anyway, this is why we need more romance folks and fewer "hard scifi" writers in space fiction. They know the dish, and they know how to serve it.

And I suppose I get the appeal of "yeah, that but hundreds of planets and millions of generic people".

But my dude, if I wanted that, I could play an Elder Scrolls game.

We've seen that, it's a mile wide and an inch deep. I don't need generic dialog to make me feel like an always-needed, nigh-unstoppable superhero.

I want the dish on what the space bartender thinks about the locals. Why the drapes are red. And who got slipped a cup of piss instead of their gargle blaster for being a jerk.

@Leviamicky Yeah. YEAH. Ostranauts kind of has this vibe too, and it's something I've been trying to get into.

I used to be a huge Star Wars nerd, and the parts that stuck the most with me weren't the movies, or the important books like Shadows of the Empire, X-Wing, or (what I read of both versions of) Thrawn.

It was a humble set of volumes that told us about who the background characters were. Like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Mos_Eisley_Cantina

I think I got it then, then somehow forgot. The people are what make those worlds, and so many folks forget that.

@roguecnidarian Like, I think that we kind of peaked at that idea that portable devices could be allowed to be offline some or most of the time. And so much of the software-as-a-service-but-AI-to-sell-your-data-back-to-you brainrot comes from giving that up.

@roguecnidarian I mentioned this somewhere before, but this is kinda what led to me dusting off my (homebrewed, well-cared-for) 3DS (pedantic: New 2DS XL).

Especially compared to the whole always-on, your-console-is-a-cloud-client model of newer tech, having stuff be fully offline, having full confidence in my data, and having it just work is... fucking liberating right now.