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  • Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)

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  • The Witness just starts right back off at the beginning unless you figure out the secret ending.

    Returnal does this with several of its "endings", but I haven't been spoiled on all endings so I can't say if it strictly fits.

    One of Bastion's two endings is a global reset.

    I Was a Teenage Exocolonist plays with this in some interesting ways.

    Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 both have maintain the status quo endings.

  • Why do some people hate drinking water?

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  • I don't like the taste of pure water. Filtered, bottled, doesn't matter. It tastes bitter and metallic and it always takes effort to choke down.

    I keep a bottle of unsweetened juice and use a splash of that to add the bare minimum of flavor I need to be able to enjoy drinking it at home, and when I'm out and about I just drink it and suffer.

  • What is your favorite anti-nazi media?

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  • Porco Rosso is an excellent Ghibli film with anti-fascist themes.

  • What is the unhealthiest habit you have?

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  • Tossup between how much caffeine I drink and not working out.

  • What is the longest you've been awake without sleep? When and why did you do it?

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  • About 42 hours. I start getting hallucinatory sparkles at roughly 40 hours and usually go to bed then.

    Only done it a few times in my life, but the most memorable one was while in the middle of a 5-day LARP. We were going hard, I was NPCing, and I started seeing shadows in the middle of a fight. I took that as my cue to dip out and crash.

  • It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking

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  • There's a moose loose in the hoose.

  • Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?

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  • I've been playing Hollow Knight this week. Working on Pantheon 5 for the last achievement. Made it to Traitor Lord last night. Best run yet!

  • Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-reckoning, do you remember the original one?

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  • I played it on 360 and again on the Steam release.

    It's a better Skyrim, and shares a lot of Skyrim's flaws. Good combat, fun builds, and way too much to do. It was supposed to be an MMO but got cut down to a single player game, so there's boatloads of content stretched over a massive map.

    I still go back and play it every now and then. It's fun.

    I have the remaster, but haven't touched it yet.

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  • Also playing Factorio.

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    What beliefs or hypotheses do you hold strongly despite not feeling confident that you can necessarily prove or evince it?

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  • "Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.

    That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies.

    You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not.

    You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."

    • Hub, Secondhand Lions (2003)

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • The ball was a colorless wireframe. Color wasn't necessary for the scenario.

    The person was genderless. Gender wasn't necessary for the scenario. They looked like a wire frame skeleton of a person.

    The ball was roughly the size and density of the smallest size bowling ball.

    Table surface was circular wireframe with four legs. Material wasn't filled in as I wasn't trying to model for friction.

    My imagination doesn't tend to fill in unnecessary details. Too much wasted processing power. I also don't really envision things. Like, I don't "see" them in my head. I feel out the shapes and weights and other physical properties relevant to the scenario and let my intuitive understanding of physics roll the scenario forward.

    Like, I know the ball rolled until it fell off the table, it fell some distance, then bounced off the floor three or four times with a sharp crack, as I filled in that the floor was concrete as soon as I needed to know how it would bounce, and the sound it would make filled in naturally from there.

    I genuinely don't know whether how I think qualifies as aphantasia. I don't really imagine visual stimuli, but my imagination is very thorough for sound and feel.

  • So what did it take for you to go to Linux?

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  • Lots of little things, but the straw that broke the camel's back was the constant pop-ups asking me to try out Copilot in Win10, harassing me daily on both on my personal PC and my work laptop.

    Windows has been on thin ice since the trash fire that was Win8, and I'd only stuck with it for Nvidia driver support for gaming. I've been watching Proton development for years now, and putting it through its paces on my older PCs every few months, so I knew I was ready to make the switch for about a year before I finally pulled the trigger. I justified putting it off with the thought that "I can build my next PC around an AMD graphics card amd make the switch then."

    Then Win11 and all its garbage was announced, AI took off, and Microsoft started pushing their slop on my machine harder than ever. It was too much. I switched to Mint DE on my current machine and haven't looked back.

  • For the taste sensitive

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  • It took me a long time to appreciate eggs growing up, too. Used to only be able to eat them scrambled. Fried eggs and boiled eggs would make me nauseous. I hated the taste and texture of a runny yolk.

    It wasn't until my mid 20s that someone finally made me eggs over easy and taught me that you're not supposed to just eat the yolk straight, but treat it as a sauce to complement the flavor of the other food on your plate. It was a revelation.

    I still don't like sunny side up or boiled eggs, and I still don't like the texture of runny yolk on its own, but I love me some over-easy or over-medium eggs on a burger or over bacon, sausage, hash browns, waffles, or pancakes. Let that shit spread everywhere to mask the texture and maximize the flavor.

    Never would have thought of that on my own. I wouldn't mix foods growing up, and I still don't when left to my own devices.

  • For the taste sensitive

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  • I'm not a super picky eater, but there are some foods I won't touch.

    Pickles, kimchi, and beets taste awful. Cottage cheese is a sensory nightmare. I don't think I'll ever attempt oysters again.

    I hate how prevalent pickles are in American restaurants. Seems like I have to ask for no pickles in every new place, and half the time they'll have pickles anyway, or they'll include pickles in dishes that have no business including pickles and I wouldn't think to ask for them to be excluded. If I pick them off I can still taste the pickle juices, and it ruins the food. The sandwich and burger places think they're so fancy for including a pickle spear in the plating, and it's a crapshoot whether they keep it isolated off to the side or drape it across the food where it can contaminate everything. Miserable.

    Pickled jalapeños, lettuce, and mustard are on thin ice.

    I don't like ranch dressing or ketchup, but I'll only grumble a bit if I find them in my food.

    I'll try anything once, and I do go back to foods I hate every now and then to see if my tastes change. I used to have a hard aversion to seltzer water, sour cream, and hoppy beers like IPAs, but I've come around on them. I have a much better appreciation now for bitter and sour flavors than I did as a kid.

    Still. Fuck pickles.

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    Making Lemmy usable - filtering out unwanted political / memes / controversial content

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  • I default to my subscribed feed, which only shows the communities I'm interested in, and when I finish browsing that for the day I switch over to the All feed so I can find new communities to subscribe to and block communities to filter out the ones I'll never be interested in.

  • Do you still play couch coop nowadays? Which games do you recommend?

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  • Super Smash Bro's Ultimate is still the premier Couch ~Co-Op~ game for my circle of friends. We also play the JackBox party games and occasionally Mario Party.

    I genuinely don't know what options are even available outside of Nintendo's fence anymore.

    Edit: My reading comprehension is in the garbage today. Baldurs Gate 3 and It Takes Two.

  • Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure

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  • I specifically mentioned both Spyro and Ty because both series have remasters available on Steam. The Spyro: Reignited Trilogy in particular is phenomenal. They did a really good job making the updated graphics look just like my nostalgic memories of the game.

  • Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure

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  • Psychonauts (the original, not the sequel, though the sequel is also good) is a Summer Camp themed 3D platformer. It doesn't quite meet your "low stakes/chill gameplay" criteria as it does have combat and mildly challenging boss fights and platforming, but it nails the rest. It's easier than Tunic. Maybe worth checking out.

    Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons strictly meets all the criteria listed, but it's ultimately a tragic story. If "some kind of impact" includes leaving you in tears, check it out.

    Okami is a Zelda style adventure set in feudal Japan with immaculate vibes. You play as the sun goddess Amaterasu in the form of a wolf bringing light and life to a land ravaged by demons. The world is cold and dark at first, but you bring spring and summer on your heels.

    Finally, two favorites from my childhood are the Spyro series and the Ty the Tasmanian Tiger series. These are 3D Platformer collectathons and neither of these series are even close to any of the examples you provided, but they are bright and colorful and in my heart they have feelings of Summer Vacation and staying home all day to play video games.

  • If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes?

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  • I would flip my gender to female and ensure that my hair would match my Dad's hair color. Fix my chronic pain and IBS if I can, assuming those are genetic. Fix my singing voice. I ended up the shortest of my siblings, so double down on that and drop a few more inches off my height. I'm 5'8" now, so 5' even to 5'4" seem nice. My grandma's that height, so the code is in there somewhere.

  • Do you follow any special diet rules?

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  • Edit: I completely missed the latter half of the OP.

    I haven't done much experimentation. I know caffeine calms me down and helps "grease the wheels" in getting my brain to function. Alcohol helps ease my social anxiety and helps me relax and unmask around my close friends.

    I haven't found any diet that specifically eases autism symptoms, but meal-prepping when I do have energy does help for the times when I don't.

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    When I'm not trying to lose weight I just cut sugary drinks out of my diet. My biggest rule is that if I go to the fridge for any reason I must pour myself a tall glass of water and drink that before I get to enjoy whatever snack/drink/meal I went to the fridge for. I don't drink enough water of my own accord, and this helps offset that.

    I live alone, so I don't buy any food I don't have a plan to eat. I can't stand food just sitting uneaten. The recipes I've come up with for meals require simple fractions of products I know I can get at the store, so I can, for example, buy exactly enough ingredients to make my favorite stir fry recipe four times and have nothing left over.

    When I do try to lose weight, I've found the keto diet has been most effective for me to actually stick to it and enjoy it. Even when I'm not strictly keto, I still stick to keto snacks and drinks, and just let carbs be in my meals. I have very little self-control around snacks that are in my house, but I have plenty of self-control at the store, so I just don't buy unhealthy snacks to have at home. Left to my own devices I can and will eat Girl Scout cookies by the sleeve and drink a 2-Liter of soda in one sitting. When my friends visit for board games and leave their snacks here they will be gone within 24 hours. The recent popularity of seltzer waters like La Croix have been a godsend for sating my soda addiction, since I can get the mouthfeel of soda without the carbs or the carcinogens in "diet" soda.

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