Becky

So I got into Vanquish recently. It is I think one of the strangest blends of genres I've seen. On one hand it's an early 2010s shooter with cover mechanics, regenerating health and military blah blah dialogue, on the other ... you can just zoom around and shoot in slow motion and generally feels like a kind of spiritual predecessor to Metal Gear Rising. It's a game that I would love to see revisited in the modern day, mostly to strip the weird cover mechanic out and make it even more crazy mobile haha.

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It's been 4 years since the last time, but I've been replaying A Hat in Time! It helped me through a rough patch back then, and I was getting a LOT of mileage out of the photo mode haha. This playthrough isn't any different really, there is just so much cool stuff to take pictures of!

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This is just straight up bullying.

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This one was fun to perform. I feel like I am picking up an entirely new skill set in this game, that I didn't even realize was there all this time haha.

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So I've been playing a lot of games in Proton outside of steam and wrote my own script to make launching them easier. It does the bare minimum of launching both the Steam Linux Runtime and ProtonGE, but it does so in one easily invokable command. Makes it very uncomplicated to make desktop shortcuts for. All games use the same proton prefix (which resides in ~/.launch_proton)

One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to pass commandline arguments to the windows app, but maybe in the future haha.

https://github.com/MerelyMezz/launch_proton

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So a funny thing I learned about this cutscene today: When Havelock shoots his pistol, the bottles he aims at do actually explode, even when they are not on camera! However, you can move them before the cutscene starts and they will still break haha. I tried using that to blow up a whale oil barrel, but unfortunately that didn't work out, the springrazor traps don't trigger in cutscenes it would seem. Damn those developers and their failsafes .

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Now that I've gotten my first few magic abilities, new murder opportunities are opening up haha. Still gotta practise my slide kick some more, this took me about an hour to get right.

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So yesterday she beat the game. It was mostly just finishing up some leftover bosses, the hardest of which was Sif. Not because she died a lot though.

She knew from the start, that she would have to kill Sif at some point and was not looking forward to it at all, because she loves dogs a LOT. She avoided that fight for as long as possible.

After going through the Artorias DLC and rescuing a young wolf from the Abyss, seeing Sif recognize her, yet still fight her made what was about to come weigh so much heavier. By the time Sif was limping and weakly falling over, she was full on breaking out crying and feeling so sorry for what she had to do to Artorias's loyal companion. She needed to put down the game for a while after that.

She told me after, that the worst thing was, that it wasn't even much of a fight at all, she didn't need to use Estus even once. It was not a boss fight, it was a tragedy.

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Happy Pride Month!

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So Raphael Colantonio and some other Arkane devs have been playing through Dishonored and just chatting about the game and its development, and it was enough to give me an itch for the game again haha. I think my goal for this playthrough is to be silly and creative with killing guards. We'll see how it goes. I doubt I'll get anywhere near as crazy as StealthGamerBR but I'll try to have some fun haha.

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I am so annoyed, not a single day goes by on fedi anymore, that I don't end up having to block some AI shill. It's getting fucking tiring.

How to debate religious zealots:

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