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  • ghostOfRoux();@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m still playing Dyson Sphere Program when I have time but it’s been busy. I got my sphere mostly done in my home planet and have a sphere design in mind for my next but I need to get endgame white science on farm first before that. I think I’m actually starting to lose interest in the game which is fine sing I got a few hundred hours in. That’s rare for my attention span.

    My kid and I finished Mario Odyssey on this playthrough recently. He ended up playing most of the second half and was knocking out levels on his own. Can’t lie I was both impressed and proud of him. He’s actually currently working through postgame stuff now which I didn’t even know existed.

    I’m still not done with Antimatter Dimensions… I’m on the last mechanic and about halfway through it but I think I’m ready to be finished with it.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA@lemmygrad.mlOPM
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      Noice. Dyson Sphere Program sounds 'ight. Right up my alley, even. Tbh, strategy games don’t do it for me, but that one sounds good. Also, damn, Super Mario Odyssey is also a great game! Glad for your kid.

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        I feel like automation games strike a very different itch than traditional strategy games. The goal is (generally) not to build up to defeat some enemy but just to build for the sake of building even more. As a kid I always loved strategy games for the base building, but never liked the fighting my enemy part so much. I think that is why I really enjoy the automation and city builder genres.

        Some have combat, but they are almost always secondary to the core of the game. Dyson has no combat yet, but it is coming in the near future. Still will be totally optional though.

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        I have mentioned DSP in the past on here. Elevator pitch: if you like automation and fine tuning systems and machines and also like space and planets then it’s worth checking out. It’s Factorio… IN SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!

        I’ve have issues with Mario games in the past(looking at you Mario 64) and I also think Nintendo kind of sucks with their more questionable decisions in the industry involving old games and online but I think Odyssey really is something special. The movement is great and the platforming is very approachable. It really does a lot of things right.

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          Nintendo isn’t even the worse in the business; it’s just particularly their stinginess when it comes to their past games that’s more noticable (whereas their anti-union practices go unnoticed). But of course, I don’t care about the “fandom;” I care about the workers. And the workers don’t get it so nice at Nintendo…

          But again: they aren’t the worst game company to grace “consumers.”

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            Tbh I wasn’t even aware of their anti-union practices so you are correct about that going unnoticed.

            And like I have their entire catalog up to N64 downloaded for my emulators so that isn’t even really an issue. I should focus my removed and energy to their approach to unions methinks.

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                  You’re good, I think. I think that they think that you’ve already learned your lesson. You’ve done the time, so to speak. No need to drag it out.

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                    Back from the gulag. I think maybe it’s just filtered as the word can be used as a derogative towards women. Def not my intention at all lol.

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                Wow, that’s a bit sus. I don’t remember what it was since I was pretty chatty today but I don’t think it was anything worth censoring me over? Wasn’t expecting that from this server. Do they have a bot that does that based on a white/blacklist?

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      DSP is my favourite of all the factory games and first one I recommend to people. I like the clean scifi aesthetic, it is probably the best visuals of a game in that genre, just seeing the dyson swarms form into a sphere over the horizon is really pretty. The devs seem like genuinely awesome people who give clear updates, plus I like to support Chinese game devs.

      I am honestly not super interested in the upcoming combat update, because I never like the base defense aspect of those games.

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        The game is absolutely stunning at times. And yes big support for Chinese dev team.

        I’m also not really interested in the combat update but you will be able to just turn it off. I sat on Factorio for the longest time because I didn’t know you can make a seed without biters. I only wanna stress about bottlenecks and not tower defense mechanics that I’m not even good at to begin with lol.