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davetansley

@davetansley@kbin.social

Dice maker, gamer nerd, developer, Dolphins fan. Reddit refugee (maybe).

Still fighting the 80s 8-bit wars, one port comparison at a time.

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Anything Dark Souls... I already own them on other platforms, but wanted to own them on Steam for longevity. Haven't seem them on offer at all though - guess Bandai Namco are just farming the Elden Ring momentum.

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About 13 years ago, I made this fella.

https://i.imgur.com/hZYFEmC.jpg

It was a huge amount of fun to build and I was very happy with the result. I hardly play it, but sometimes just put it on and let it cycle through games to fill the house with an arcade-y ambiance.

It started off life with an old PC in it, but currently runs a Raspberry Pi 3.

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This!

Coding isn't for everyone, but sometimes you can get involved in a coding project just by contributing good suggestions/bug reports to github.

Be thoughtful about how you report things - if you're reporting a bug, add as much detail as you can to help the devs recreate it; if you're suggesting a feature, make a solid case for why the application might benefit from it, think about potential issues it might solve (or cause), consider how you might address users who don't want that feature (make optional).

It is extremely satisfying to see an issue you've reported get fixed or a feature you've suggested get implemented. It gives you a stake in the project, something you won't often get on the corporate-owned platforms.

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Iceland. One of the most beautiful, weird, friendly places I've ever visited.

I’ve fallen into a deep gaming rut lately. What helped “get you back into” gaming and rediscover the magic of video games?

I, like many gamers, grew up playing Pokémon Red and Nintendo 64 and was obsessed with Nintendo products. I graduated to a PS2 and PS3 and became super into Metal Gear Solid and Call of Duty and Fallout. Also spent a ton of time with the Guitar Hero series. I loved the escape gaming brought me and it genuinely helped me relax....

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Honestly, don't try to force it. I've been gaming for 40 years, and I've been through more ruts than I can count. And you know what? I've always come back...

But I've never been able to force myself to come back. I've never been able to engineer a new interest, it always has to happen organically. Some new game will pique my interest out of the blue, or I'll get see a new piece of hardware I suddenly want, or I'll wake up one morning and really want to get into speed running Dark Souls. And then, just like that, I'm back in it and as enthusiastic as ever.

Interests come and go. It's probably more a product of everything else in your life than the games themselves. So just let it ride, find something else to do with your time, and you'll be back gaming before you know it.

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Outrun, the correct answer is Outrun :)

Final Fantasy VII a close second, though.

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Oh, I love the soundtrack to Final Fantasy XII! The Rabanastre theme always seemed like the perfect non-Christmas Christmas music to me.

I should probably replay Final Fantasy XII...

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Like everyone else, I mostly remember being amazed by both the graphics and the price. Nobody I knew had one, except one guy who acquired it using money he'd raised through, shall we say, illicit means. As such, he kept it under his bed all the time in case his parents ever found out and nobody saw it. Come to think of it, he may have been making the whole thing up...

As mentioned elsewhere, this was the first system I was enthusiastic about emulating.

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It's almost like they want me to buy all the colours! :)

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I'm equally intrigued by the idea of not experiencing nostalgia... :)

I guess the root of it is yearning for a time when things were simpler, but also it's an associative thing - you remember being happy/content, and you associate the context you were in with that feeling. I had a happy childhood, and I played a lot of games, so my mind links the two together.

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Do you have "Show top bar" enabled in settings? If I enable this, Magazines disappears from the navbar.

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"All magazines" to the right of the top bar goes to the same place.

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Great! I'm keeping yours installed for now since it pulls in the paginated subscriptions pages (and I love the grouping!)

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This is amazing! It basically recreates my reddit browsing experience and makes the whole site so much easier to navigate!

I can see references in the code to "sort alphabetically" (which would be very welcome!)... but I can't see the button. Did that function not make it into this version of the script?

Thanks again!

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Ah! It looks like I wasn't on the latest version... updated and it works perfectly now! Thanks!

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I think the problem is that the subscription page (that the script gets its items from) is paginated, and the script will only get the items on the first page.

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Thanks!

No extra steps required really... the tricky part when doing these is finding a way to grip the dice in such a way that you don't mess up the pattern. I've found the best way to do this is to drill a small hole in one face and push a cocktail stick into it. You can leave this in while the die dries (pushed into some plasticine). When you remould the dice, the hole goes under the logo, so it won't be seen.

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I tried Memori, a Celeste-style platformer with some cool puzzle mechanics. Some of the rooms were super-hard, which made completing them feel very satisfying. It has a chunky-pixel look and controls really well. The front-end UI needs a tiny bit of polish, but other than that I really enjoyed it. Can imagine it'll be popular with speedrunners.

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Sure. We're Luck Bringers Dice on Etsy.

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In terms of actual age, I have a light-sixer Atari 2600.

In terms of the oldest thing that I bought originally, it's a lot more recent - probably Tomb Raider on the Playstation from 1997. I sold so much of my original 80s and 90s stuff, or traded, or just plain lost it. I regret this massively.

If I could offer one piece of advice to people growing up, I'd probably steer clear of stuff like "don't do drugs" or "stay in school" (they can get all that from Grange Hill). Instead, I'd say - don't part with your most cherished memories. You might think you need that fifty quid now, but they'll be worth so much more to you later on.

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