Increasingly obvious post but on the off chance it saves someone- look up right now, to the extent that you can, where military bases near you are and if one is remotely close, ask friends and family, right now, if you can stay with them. You’d have to feel out how safe/unsafe travel currently is.

Stay safe comrades

No because then the odds of getting more subnautica-like games in the future goes down

The combination of NBA and NHL playoffs is my favorite sports time od the year. So many entertaining games to watch right now

The United States is incapable of doing anything as it relates to infrastructure.

There are 10 different grifts of contractors required for any given job, they source all their shit from China, and they subcontract the labor out later.

The US has hit a critical mass of public-private “partnership” devolution

Do you play games with anticheat (check the website areweanticheat) that would stop you from moving over?

Do you use software (adobe suite) that would stop you from moving over? Come up with any “these must work” applications and check if people have success running them.

If you can get last these two points and were willing to go through all you went through in this post- you can and should switch for your own sanity.

Feel free to ask more probing questions if you have them and I and others would probably be glad to answer.

I keep this updated and it should be stickied in the games com

https://hexbear.net/post/273995

This week it was a whole lot of Star of Providence. This game makes me feel like I did when I played the original Binding of Isaac the first time. It’s great.

Team Fortress 2 as always for my comfort food. No end in sight for this one. Valve recently made TF2 source available which is cool and has led to some community fixes as well as people (hopefully soon) publishing their whole ass mods to steam (Team Fortress 2 Classic being the one I’m most interested in).

I downloaded and setup Horizon XI on linux in anticipation of some users possibly playing from here. I’ve never played before but played other brutally difficult/grindy MMOs in my youth (Tibia) so I’m sure it’ll be up my alley if others do end up playing.

I’ve been wanting to play the Defiance reboot since that game strikes me as an intriguing jankfest, but proton has issues with how winsock is implemented so I can’t actually play yet unfortunately. Maybe that gets resolved soon since it seeks like people have triaged the problem fairly well.

I tried Daemon X Machina which I was hoping might scratch the PSO itch and instead found a game with the campiest and worst writing/VA combo I can remember encountering. It was given away free on EGS a while back so check it out if you want to see something incredible. Actual gameplay is quite fun if not a bit easy currently.

I bought hellochinese premium and it has been worth it FYI. Just the normal tier jit the plus tier. I imagine you’ll run into the pay gate soon and would want input. It seemingly goes on sale every black Friday in the US

It’s obviously horseshit that this is even a thing, but 2.9k endorsements on a game that just came out with basically no mods outside of reshade presets and .ini tweaks means only the most deranged fucking losers are even looking at this right now, and it wouldn’t surprise me if there are organized campaigns of incel reactionaries who organize to always endorse shit like this on nexusmods.

Nexusmods has its issues, but they’re pretty decent about removing anti-lgbtq content historically and don’t really play around with the dumbest of bad-intent abstractions like “it’s actually just restoring the game to its original intention.” It wouldn’t surprise me to see this “mod” get nuked fairly soon and then a 2 day media circus led by the rat lord himself about censorship in media or some bullshit.

In short, I love my trans comrades

Anecdotally I’ve never had libs in my life be more receptive to positive Chinese news coverage and getting them to check out RedNote specifically has shattered their previous thoughts about China.

I cannot overstate how important getting libs into non-hostile media spheres is to breaking US propaganda.

If this isn’t top level post apologies, but what is the chance that the entire purpose of this stunt was to do a massive wealth transfer of non-Trump aligned capital without insider knowledge to directly Trump-aligned capital with insider knowledge of tariff implementation and pause timing?

It’s impossible for me to figure out the balance between the stupidity and corruption of this US administration.

I cannot fathom the amount of money inside traders made today.

Fine I’ll put Red Sun in the Sky on repeat again today

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My escapism is watching Chinese public infrastructure/transit videos

[Engine Reimplementations]

This is a relatively new area that gaining a bunch of steam right now where people re-make the engines (the thing that actually runs a game) for older games in order to support newer hardware and vastly broaden the scope of modding functionality. Essentially what these projects do are take the assets from a game (textures, models, etc) and then load them into a a modernized game client (with all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a modern project in terms of graphics settings and compatibility). Most of these projects require a subset of the original game files to run, so make sure you acquire them prior to running these projects.

Projects

OpenMW - a Morrowind engine re-implementation

TES3MP - an OpenMW fork focused on multiplayer support

OpenRCT2 - a Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 and 2 engine reimplementation that greatly boosts compatibility, removes legacy game restrictions (park size, number of rides in park, number of decoration in park) as well as adding online multiplayer

OpenTTD - A Transport Tycoon Deluxe reimplementation that I’m not especially familiar with but I see get good mentions

[Game Decompilation Projects]

A more recent trend falls under the umbrella of game decompilation. The goals of these projects are to reverse-engineer games in a way that results in source code that when coupled with a games assets will produce a 1:1 exact replica of the ROM it was reverse-engineered from. Once this feat is accomplished (and more complex things like shiftability have been achieved) people can take the functioning source code and build around/on top of it to add new functionality, change existing functionality, and create native ports for various new platforms.

For more information, search around the internet for game decompilation projects and reference this thread as a decent starting point for tracking projects.

Some games with WIP or finished PC ports include:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Super Mario 64

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Sonic Mania

Super Metroid

Super Mario World

[Notable Game Mods and Fan-Remakes]

PrimeHack - native mouse and keyboard controls for the Wii Metroid Prime Trilogy games. This is a Dolphin emulator fork.

AM2R - Another Metroid 2 Remake

DSP Nebula Mod - Multiplayer mod for Dyson Sphere Program

Nehrim - Mod using the Oblivion engine to build a unique fantasy story independent of the elder scrolls universe

Enderal - The sequel to Nehrim using the Skyrim engine to build a unique fantasy story independent of the elder scrolls universe and probably one of the best WRPGs of all time

Nitrox - Subnautica Multiplayer mod

Stardew Valley Expanded - an absurdly impressive mode for Stardew Valley that explodes the amount of content in the game

Space Exploration; Bob’s mods; Angel’s Mods - 3 separate incredible mods for Factorio