Well, there’s always lemmy.ml ;p

Oh man, that’s awesome. It made me sad that the old version didn’t work through WINE. It ran, but at like double speed, which made the game too twitchy to play. I’ll have to bookmark that for when I’m at the library (my internet service at home is garbage right now).

Yep! My favorite so far was the scifi-themed golf game, can’t remember the name. I haven’t touched it in awhile since I’ve been busy.

The game that gets most of my attention these days is Shiren the Wanderer The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on PSP (through an emulator on Android). I just beat the DS version of Shiren weeks ago for the first time after playing off and on for about twenty years (I never really got serious about completing it until now, it was always a casual timewasting roguelike for me) and moved onto the PSP fan translation of Devil’s Navel.

They have a browser version? Or do you just mean free download version? I run Linux and when I tried the old version it didn’t play well with WINE sadly.

Derek is a workhorse for sure. Have you seen his new project: UFO50? I’ve played a few of the 50(!) different games, all good stuff so far. A nice little homage to old retro computer games all ZX Spectrum late 80s era stuff.

I’ll check it out. A surprising amount can be found through the library inter-loan service.

My man, Spelunky was a whole era for me. I actually used to hang around the Independent Game Forums (TIGS) in 2008-2010ish and played the original version before Derek made the commercial version. To this day I prefer the old version, but the commercial one is a great game too (it has good bones lol). My then girlfriend and I would spend hours on that game. Side note too: Notch of Minecraft fame was also a forum member then and released the first initial alpha builds of Minecraft, so I played Minecraft before it’s meteoric rise when it was just a hobbyist project based off of an old digging game we played on the forums called Infinimer. There were a lot of early indie ‘stars’ on the forums, Phil Fish that created Fez and Edward Mullen of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Issac fame. It was an interesting and exciting time. It’s still crazy to me to see Minecraft blow up like it did from this little project on the forums to this video game giant.

That’s a fantastic list of recommendations. I have only encountered Tardi briefly, but I can’t remember the work. I do remember liking his style though. Didn’t he do Adele Blanc-Sac (I think it’s called).

Woodring’s stuff is generally pretty fantastic and wildly weird. Been awhile since I had anything by him. His work reminds me of what would happen if you took old 20s-30s cartoons and had the animators drop a few hits of acid.

Rich Corben’s horror work in the 70s/80s was phenomenal, truly one of the greats.

The rest I’m not entirely familiar with, but you’ve given me some stuff to keep and eye out for. Thanks!

Ah, nice. Yeah, I just looked on Synaptic and there’s no package for i2p.

Ah, so for in-house networks to remain secure from others on their network?

Hey, it’s my house! How’d you get a picture of it?!

So, it sounds like you’d be better off just running Tor or a vpn unless you have a specific use-case for i2p. I looked briefly at the install instructions, but it seemed to be like it would be a hassle to initially setup on my linux build.

Ah, is it considered more secure, or is it just different?

It’s easy, just don’t have any friends or family! /sad panda

I myself use a password manager protected by a pin, and the password itself is ridiculously complex. Not everyone will do that, but that seems to be the best solution for using a password manager. Hell, even though it’s a complicated password I’ve ended up memorizing it (I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not lol).

The last level is living in a cabin in the woods and writing manifestos about industrial society and the ills of technology O_o

So what’s the deal with i2p? I heard it was a more secure alternative to vpns, I downloaded it but I haven’t been motivated to figure out how to set it up on Linux.

Well, in these parts we ride bears to and from places. They’re like big, furry tractors :D

I live about 15 miles outside of a small town (~20k) in a trailer park on the side of a mountain. Been here 6 months and it is AMAZING. Super quiet at night, can see the stars and it has a great view of the adjacent mountains nearby.

It’ll most likely be awhile, but the plan is to save for a small piece of property with a similar rural location. In my teens and twenties, I used to think that I’d live in the big city, but as I got into my late 30s I couldn’t stand being in the city much. I don’t mind being able to visit occasionally, but city life just isn’t for me anymore. Too big, busy and noisy. Give me a nice, peaceful spot where I can read and enjoy nature quietly.

lemmy.world is basically the fediverse version of Reddit from what I’ve experienced in terms of overall culture.

No worries! I’m right there with you. I’ve been juggling a lot lately.

Pico-8 is fantastic! One of my favorite projects on itch. I just beat the Pico-8 version of Celeste, and Celeste 2 as well. There’s so many great hidden gems on Pico. My favs are Celeste (of course) Pinballvania, Stabbycrabby, Driplogic and Puzzles of the Paladin. I’m always finding interesting stuff through the random section with splore. I’m thinking about learning lua and fiddling around with making a game on Pico someday.

Definitely! It’s always nice to meet like-minded folks, especially across a range of interests. I’m also into tabletop roleplaying (actually created a new community for one shot rpgs here: https://lemmy.ml/c/Every_Post_Is_An_RPG) and love reading (literary stuff, but also genre stuff at times, reading a Discoworld novel by Pratchett currently called The Truth).

Maybe you can sticky a general discussion thread, even if it’s seldom used, at least it can facilitate some discussion, especially if there is bandes dessinees chat that isn’t thread worthy.

Haha, right?