Ah, see I am interested in a lot of variety but these days I don’t really have the time for extremely involved stuff. I enjoy games that you can spend small clips of time on, rather than having to devote a lot at once. I like cool visuals and gizmos - that’s why Torchlight appealed to me so much. Upgrading and advancing. I loved all the Angband clones I played over the years. I love lots of the BigFish style games like where there’s a cool story, hidden object puzzles, other types of puzzles, click / find stuff, and problem solving. Also I enjoy really good musical score. Ever play Drawn the Painted Tower and its sequels? Absolutely mesmerizing game of artistic beauty. I liked games like Sword of Fargoal, as well - also a sort of fancier Angband. Dungeon crawlers, adventure stories, cool gadget type equipment / magic spells etc.

I think it would be easier to specify the things I definitely won’t devote a single second to: sports, racing, RTS, hugely long-term upgrade stuff à la Sim City (though I used to love it). Roads of Rome is an exception. God I love that. And I also loved loved loved Magesty. Nothing where reflexes are needed. Again, used to be great in my youth but it’s not my thing anymore.

I loved the Krondor series by Raymond Feist. I enjoyed every Zork incarnation, especially Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Zork Grand Inquisitor. Might & Magic I loved, as well as Wizardry. Kings Quest series and of course Hero’s Quest. I liked the Diablo editions that were very like Torchlight.

Most of all is that I prefer it be on Android or Linux.

Wow did I just write ALLLL of that? Meh. Just sharing my game tastes.

P.S. oooh I LOVED the Samorost series. Amazing style, beautiful gameplay simulation and just plain fun and moderately challenging.

Nice! Thanks.

Anything else out there these days worth putting time into?

I’d love to see Torchlight ported to Android.

No, I was joking.

Link please? (New game)

Well this is not a tech issue at all, it’s the fact that global economics have become a dumpster fire - particularly, in America. I can’t say I’m certain there are no other factors, but economically everything has gotten out of hand.

So you want to be a hero!!! I only ever played the first one but fell in love with it.

Erana’s Peace. hidengoseke. Meep’s Peep, my friend.

Well, retro etc. but I wouldn’t consider this to be that. There’s no inherent value of a run-of-the-mill drive with merely lower storage capacity. And certainly not worth a premium.

”although inevitably not until after they go whining to all the world’s governments about wanting a bailout”.

Ahem… Whining? Wanting? Try instructing. They own the governments so they will just tell them to do it, and it will be done.

I think ten years from now you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone even wasting their time on something so small.

8TB? That’s my ideal RAM configuration lol. ;-)

Agree 100%! People have been indoctrinated to see things in absolutes, and in fully opposing forms. This is why so many think that if someone is <insert label> then they definitely think all the things on a list alike. Few people can comprehend that people’s actual views are almost never partisan and binary. But they feel necessary to fit in with their tribe; to conform, so they seldom speak out about a single specific issue with which they disagree. And always purely out of fear of social friction. People need to learn to feel safe not being exactly alike! The USA was founded on the idea that we can be different and still work together for the common good. Hence, United.
But nowadays it’s the Divided Corporation of America.

lol funny how I just noticed that too.

But I do want to say that as with many many radical movements and ideologies, the best solution is usually somewhere between their proposed tenets, and the behaviors of those they oppose. Usually around halfway between, but slightly closer to the protesting ideology.

So while I would not agree that shunning all progress is a good idea just to make sure all the workers continue to have a status quo they’re used to - I think that’s just stunting the betterment of society. But when progress enables the kind of employment elimination like we see in the 21st century, which also contributes to an accelerated imbalance of wealth that very quickly turns into a freakin global oligarchy and serfdom of 99% of the population, you can’t allow progress to run untempered.

The best solution is that any advancement of technology that can replace human employees, must be implemented with an accompanying program that provides laterally equivalent employment roles.

So like, replacing workers with machines - well okay, then do it in a way that the workers can be trained to participate in the maintenance of said machines, to perhaps fill roles in safety and quality assurance, and even some could perhaps become part of the labor force involved in new innovation.

But all this ideology is moot as long as the wealthiest people aren’t satisfied with just being filthy rich and living lavishly. They want to control the fucking world. And ultimately, they are gonna, unless there’s a massive event to take them all down.

Everyone does well when everyone does well. Everyone prospers when everyone is prosperous. But when wealth can get to such levels of imbalance that individuals can literally buy governments, you have a system that is inherently bad for almost everyone.

But I’m not saying anything that anyone doesn’t know. It’s all a matter of making it happen by merely not being apathetic and complacent, not just accepting things. Knowledge and ideas need to be shared and ideologies shared and refined for the better.

So much really good change took place because of the internet and how it facilitated a vast ocean of idea exchange. Why do you think the 1% have been working tirelessly to poison it and encapsulate it for their own use. Good thing it’s nearly impossible. They have had some good success with social media, but more and more people are aware of having been used and abused by it, and they’re growing intolerant of that.

Sorry ranting more. I just really like sharing my thoughts. If you’ve gotten this far, thanks so much for your patience, and I welcome any constructive responses. Bear in mind that I’ve been extremely abbreviated and nutshell-ish. Nuances of course exist in multitudes.

Ubuntu Touch is still in the stages of “Wouldn’t this be nice?” Nevertheless, it would be nice to see it get some dedicated work.

Ahhhh okay. Cool.

Personally, I don’t see the appeal though. I am really happy to have left Windows in the trash.

I miss Win 3.11 using Dashboard. That app was the tits! Goodbye Program Manager always obstructing up the wallpaper.

Is there not already ReactOS? Or has that been abandoned?

Hah I literally did the exact same thing. When I bought my current laptop it came with Windows 11. When I powered it on while I was looking for my USB stick it started loading Windows, I restarted into the USB and installed my Linux distro. I mean, literally I have no use whatsoever for Windows even for a moment.

I wanted to go with raw Debian but at the time the audio device was very new on the market I think, or whatever the reason, I had to put Kubuntu which had all the necessary drivers to fully support all the hardware on the system. I’m very happy with it. It’s a kick ass laptop. Why would I want to infect a superb computer with Windows!

Don’t have to dump Windows 11, never had it to begin with. I been all Linux minus one special services machine Win 7 for years already.

You really can’t run it in Bottles, or a VM of Windows? I’ve managed the occasional peripheral using a VM.

I used to love making text adventure with AGT the Adventure Game Toolkit. I’ve wanted for some time already to learn to make stuff with still images and click zones which is essentially the evolution of the text adventure. The audience for this stuff is tiny, but I’d still love to get back into making text adventure. If there’s an easy to learn equivalent of AGT that can be made either web-hosted or somehow platform-independent I’d love to do that. AGT was a real breeze to learn and it’s a terrific creative outlet.

Anything more sophisticated is out of my league as I’m not a pro coder; my development experience is limited to an array of projects in VB6, the biggest of which was a companion software for Team Fortress Classic to customize scripts and per-class macros. It was called TFCompanion. Got 1,000 downloads roughly. But I digress.