Been kind of inactive here lately so new user applications have been waiting a bit longer than usual, so my apologies about that

I’m on summer break and I’m having an exciting, fulfilling time not staring at the internet, it’s great

This is what a real loungerat looks like

Yeah, the idea of a “backlog” just sounds like a chore to me. I just try to not buy as many games anymore - I think Steam sales and similar events got people in the habit of buying dozens of games at a time, and then your library fills up with games you’ve never touched.

I don’t really buy games anymore unless I’m going to start them within the next week or so.

I played Tetote X Connect at the arcade today

Very bold of the developers to put the worst jiggle physics you’ve seen in your life into a game that can only be played on a giant screen in a public setting

what a pirate is after they drink too much

Certainly a surprise, but I’m interested to see how it turns out. I appreciate that there’s a sort of sincerity to it - they nailed the style of those old games but it doesn’t seem too tongue-in-cheek or reliant on references/memes.

wtf that’s illegal

Played it a long time ago on the original hardware, such a bonkers game. Wish the series would’ve had a full comeback.

I’ve tried to get into Oblivion a few times and never stuck with it. Skyrim was my first Elder Scrolls game and it’s hard to go back.

Also open world games are kind of daunting these days… I like the idea of spending hundreds of hours exploring a game but I don’t actually have the hours to do so.

I picked up Diablo 4, and also had to sign up for Playstation Plus since it’s always online… Ended up spending more time playing the games from the Plus catalog. The story is surprisingly good - I always though D3’s story was kind of dumb, but the atmosphere in this one is great, to the point where I’m often not listening to a podcast when I play (at least until I finish the campaign)

I played through Stray in a few days - incredibly charming game. In a way it almost reminded me of Chibi Robo, since you’re a little guy exploring a human-sized environment. Definitely recommend it.

I also did a run of Until Dawn, which I played years ago. I always intended to replay it but it’s hard to motivate myself to redo a story-heavy game like this where it’s going to be a few hours before things really start branching off in interesting ways. I really like how they play with different flavors of horror, from slasher to paranormal, to play with your expectations if you’re a genre-savvy horror fan. Going to check out The Quarry sometime.

And I’m playing Alan Wake, for another TV-show-esque horror experience. The Stephen King and Twin Peaks inspiration is pretty obvious but I like both of those things. Combat is a little frustrating, though, it’s easy to lose track of enemies if you’re fighting a group, and the cinematic slow-mo sometimes gets annoying.

The best one I ever had was an Apple Pie flavor that was purple for some reason. I think it’s available in the fall, around Halloween.

What the fuck did you just say?

I haven’t been following the Threads stuff too closely so I didn’t realize they were planning to federate it. Interesting that one of the big social media companies is trying to get into this and I’m curious what that’s going to look like.

Already considering just adding Threads to the blocklist but we’ll see how it goes.

Some of these are fucking wild

Killed over 1 year ago, Cameos on Google allowed celebrities and other public figures to record video responses to the most common questions asked about them which would be shown to users in Google Search results. It was over 3 years old.

Imagine googling “does Bruno Mars is gay?” and Bruno Mars himself shows up to tell you if he is or doesn’t

I heard about this, this is that new Baldur’s Gate game

For those of you using multiple ShittyGaming Lounges: how do you decide which hot takes to drop in the subreddit, Discord, or Lemmy?

I like to post some exclusive content to Lemmy just to attract more people over here

The 69th of July would be September 7th