A definition I saw many years ago was something like a troll tricks you into feeling a certain way or doing a specific thing. Could be positive, mostly done for humour, but the ones we hear most about in the media or whatever are the upsetting ones.

Thanks! I’m mostly recovered now anyway.

I briefly had a go with EmuDeck a while ago and everything was so fiddly that I lost interest almost immediately. RetroDECK is the champ!

My favourite game on 3DS was Monster Hunter 4U. I really loved the Majora’s Mask port too but 2ship2harkinian is probably the better way to play that now.

I love what Nightdive does but I’m a little disappointed that they are doubling down on remasters. The System Shock remake was so amazing…. I was really hoping they would remake some other crusty old imsims since we get so few new ones.

I’ve been recovering from a surgery so done nothing but play games for the last couple of weeks:

• I finished Drova. What a badass game! I want more anti-power-fantasy RPGs like this!
• I got about 30 hours into Death Stranding after being inspired by PerfectDark’s comments. Got a bit tired of it and put it down, but I would like to come back to it. I got stuck on my bad checklist grinding habit and sucked out all the fun for myself… don’t progress until everybody has 5 stars, all roads are built, etc. Don’t know why I do this.
• Played Blue Prince for 17 hours and bounced off it hard. This game wastes so much of your time for tiny payoffs. The puzzles don’t really give you any revelatory excitement because the pieces for them are so unhidden… and the ultra simplistic roguelike mechanics were such a chore!
• I got retrodeck running and wow… it’s slick! Already gathered a bunch of roms for some of my childhood games. I beat Perfect Dark (coincidence) on Gameboy Color… fun but brutally difficult, thankfully it was pretty short. Started Metal Gear Solid on Gameboy Color but put it down with intention to come back to it. Gave Terranigma a go on SNES because of nostalgia but it doesn’t really hold up compared to similar Zelda games. Last night I started .hack//INFECTION on PS2 also because of nostalgia and it’s pretty bad… very simplistic. Gonna find something else to play tonight.

Woohoo!

This game is really fun. Reminds me a bit of childhood Goldeneye/Perfect Dark battles I had with a friend to decide who was actually the best.

I licensed some music to my biological brother’s company. After years of enduring abuse to protect what was my main source of income, he terminated the contract and ghosted me right before a major milestone for the business so he got to keep my windfall despite him already being a multimillionaire in his early 30s. Great guy.

Yeah it’s the classic problem… quality goes down as population goes up. Never mind whatever dumb shit the company does.

It’s like a better version of Reddit in 2025, but what I really want is Ye Olde Reddit of 2010. I keep seeing comments about how Reddit turned to shit with the API changes, but IMO it’s been garbage for more than a decade. I haven’t been on Lemmy for long but so far I’ve mostly seen the same posts as on Reddit with mostly the same types of comment, just at smaller scale.

Huh… from the way people talk about gen AI coding, I figured it was much further along than this. Imagine being asked to work in that cpp dumpster fire!