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oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Games@lemmy.world•What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?English
231·1 year agoThis is pretty obscure, but the Game Boy Advance remake of Mario Bros. (Not Super Mario Bros.) is more fun than the original.
You can run, for one thing, and the controls are more responsive in general.
It’s one of the games on Super Mario Advance, and one of the main reasons I originally wanted a GBA when it came out! I had the original Mario Bros. for the NES and thought it would be fun to have a portable version. I was right.
They did a great job updating the game!
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Games@lemmy.world•Schedule I, a first person drug empire management game, released in early access on Steam (demo available)English
4·1 year agoThe character art at the top of the Steam page is the right kind of unhinged for me!
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What peripheral do you think should make a comeback?English
6·1 year agoI was playing a lot of Final Fantasy VII when it first came out around 1996, and used a paper strategy guide.
I got a one-handed controller (an ASCII Grip that was amazing for old JRPGs. I still miss having it for those kinds of chill games where I don’t feel like I need to be hunching over a controller.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What peripheral do you think should make a comeback?English
2·1 year agoI was always super jealous of this controller but I couldn’t afford it when it first came out!
I love ridiculous controllers.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years?English
5·1 year agoI happened upon the original for $20 in Wal Mart in 1995 and I’ve been playing it on and off ever since!
One of the best games ever made.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years?English
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oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Any recommendations from the Steam Spring Sale?
19·1 year agoSounds like they should have called it Underscale
I’ll see myself out
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Games@lemmy.world•What are your favorite Switch exclusives?English
101·1 year agoI don’t know how popular it was overall but I really enjoyed Super Mario Wonder!
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Games@lemmy.world•Fast-paced turn-based tactics game Warside for fans of Advance Wars launches April 14English
2·1 year agoI even remember buying a nice glacier blue rechargeable battery pack and never using it!
I wish I could buy everything in glacier blue now.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Games@lemmy.world•Fast-paced turn-based tactics game Warside for fans of Advance Wars launches April 14English
3·1 year agoSome Game Boy Advance games actually had a software-based sleep mode!
You pressed L+R and Select.
On top of that, I was always really impressed by the GBA’s battery life but maybe I’m just old.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•[Daily thread] How are you doing today?
4·3 years agoSometimes I feel like it’s nice to know that you got there. Even for a minute! I’ll take it. Haha
I think I have hope, too, that I’ll get back there.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•[Daily thread] How are you doing today?
4·3 years agoI know that mango sticky rice is a popular Thai dessert, but I’m curious about other ways people eat it too!
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•Do you think good zombie fiction requires the lack of zombie fiction in that universe?
3·3 years agoOh hey, this was essentially my experience too, but with the Walking Dead comic! The TV series used plot points from the comic book and I think you can kinda tell where the TV series’ success started affecting the comic and the whole thing turned into an ouroboros of trying to maintain the success of a flashy zombie TV show.
I think maybe it was inevitable. Robert Kirkman’s original idea of a never-ending human drama surrounded by the pressures of zombies doesn’t seem profitable long-term without insane character deaths and (more) deliberate gore porn.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•Do you think good zombie fiction requires the lack of zombie fiction in that universe?
1·3 years agoI don’t know if it matters that the characters inherently understand how to kill zombies. Shaun of the Dead does this well, where they hear it on the news in five seconds and they’re like “oh that makes sense.”
The original Dawn of the Dead I think they say it on the radio or TV too, I believe. There isn’t really a spot where they don’t know and it matters. The thing that forces drama in zombie movies to me isn’t aiming for the head, it’s being overrun.
But I also mostly just like the old Romero ones so I may be wrong!
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•Do you think good zombie fiction requires the lack of zombie fiction in that universe?
4·3 years agoWhen the original Walking Dead comic books came out around 2003 I was just getting back into comics and I remember reading Robert Kirkman’s ideas about what he wanted it to be.
This is exactly what he said. That the original classic zombie movies that he liked — mostly the Romero Living Dead ones — were stories about the people trying to survive. The zombies are secondary and, sometimes, even kind of ridiculous (see Dawn of the Dead, one of my favorite movies).
I thought the Walking Dead TV show and the comics after a certain point went into more gore porn, so I tuned out.
But you’re 100% right for me. George Romero made zombie movies to look at people. Not the zombies.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
News@lemmy.world•Arkansas lawmakers OK plan to audit purchase of $19,000 lectern for Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
5·3 years agoAccording to the Associated Press, the company that sold the lectern is Beckett Events, LLC. It’s an event planning company in Virginia founded by a former lobbyist.
I love little Etsy sellers like this! We have several puzzle boards made by a kind hobbyist grandfather.
oddspinnaker@lemm.eeto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Celeste: GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
3·3 years agorClone is so awesome! It does so much that I wanted for so long.
Oh the OP repo is based on rClone, I didn’t realize. Even better!

This was actually my assumption for the mouse controller Nintendo showed.
The real feature is full pointer support! The built in mouse is a gimmick to introduce full pointer support.