It’s math like this that convinces me that you can contribute more to the ecosystem by paying even a single dollar to a creator’s Patreon (even when Patreon takes 30% off the top) and watching w/ adblock than paying a monthly subscription to YT.

Hot take: visually this looks awful in comparison to the original.

I think you shouldn’t discount the immense amount of cultural pride that many people put in their region’s cuisine – not even just national pride, even, as many groups will look down on each other despite being from the same country and eating the same foods just because they see the other as preparing it “the wrong way”.

Didn’t even know proton had a chatbot, tho offhand I can’t remember if I’ve set up a paid account yet. Been too busy and mentally strained the last couple of years to even keep up with all my emails, I’ve still got >100 unreads (not the important ones).

Also I appreciate the bit of self-awareness in your rant. People have become so dogmatic nowadays there’s not a lot of that going around. Also glad to see someone else pumping DDG.

Tho I myself have just made the jump to Lemmy specifically because old.reddit has become locked to lurkers. I even still have a reddit account (which admittedly I hadn’t really used to do more than vote and search for subreddits since the API changes) but I’ve never wanted to use it on my phone so now the mobile reddit experience for me is completely blocked off. Just kinda feels like invoking old.reddit now after they locked it behind an account is a bit off the mark.

Well, played, my friend, well played.

Seconding this suggestion as I’ve actually played it. The scares are really low-key, too (more on the psychological side) so even my little baby ass was able to get through it alright.

Considering you’re specifically asking for horror games, I would suggest clarifying what you mean by “no nsfw” – because there’s going to be a lot of horror games that don’t contain any nudity/sexual elements that would still qualify as NSFW due to gore, body horror, and other disturbing imagery.

That actually sounds fantastic for me right now. I made a resolution this year not to buy any more games^† when I have so many unplayed games in my library plus all the retro/hacks/fangames/etcetera that I’ve been playing. I’ll admit most of the time I fall back to Pokémon ROM hacks on my retromajigger, but I’d love getting to see more varied and interesting projects to try out. So many of these are just pure passion projects, too, which warms my heart a little. Thanks for the link.

^† Which I did fail, but rather than completely give up I moved the goalpost to be kinder to myself and actually work towards accomplishing something: this year I’ve only spent ~$5 on games for myself, $10 if I count the copy I gifted to a friend (Dome Keeper, btw, while it was on sale, very fun roguelike would recommend)

I’ve only really been tangentially aware of these for the past few years – I think I may have been recommended one of the first when it was Nintendo Fangames Direct in like 2020 – but these showcases fill me with so much joy. Someone else put together a sort-of response video to showcase a few more outside of the heavy Nintendo focus, but either way I am loving that mods, ROM hacks, and fan games are starting to see more love these days.

There was one (1) spot that got me seriously stuck in Portal 2, I think about halfway thru? Here’s hoping you can work through it better than I did (I had to look up the solution).