i have! completed my steam next fest demo list! which means i now come bearing recommendations and such. i will be blog posting about these soon as well, but i wanted to share at least a few before next fest ends ^^

30 Birds - a sort of adventure/mystery game inspired and based in Persian folklore. incredible artistry going on here, especially the music imo. the story they’re telling seems quite compelling already, and i’m quite fond of the character interactions they showed in the demo. also there’s talking birds that you befriend!

Bugaboo Pocket - raising bugs like they’re Tamagotchis, but with an overarching story about revitalizing a forest that was burned to the ground by human error. extremely charming pixel art: the bugs are both realistic and adorable. 100% was made by entomologists.

Scarlet Deer Inn - a 2d narrative game with some kinds of metroidvania-esque inspirations in places. i adore the artwork of this game. the character art all being embroidered is fantastic. an incredible treat for the eyes. beyond that, it’s got some really good writing going on, the characters feel really well fleshed out.

Mousebusters - i mean, come on. the game starts off with mouse TF, what else do you want. ok but aside from that: really cute presentation and funny idea: what if mice were trying to rid an apartment complex of ghosts? even aside from that, there seems to be bits of plot intrigue that hint to something even deeper going on.

Some Goodbyes We Made - an emotional collection of minigames about saying goodbye. this is exactly the kind of game i love seeing get made. each minigame conveys a different type of goodbye with different, fitting mechanics. just the demo already cut me at my core, delivering a really solid gut punch. very high potential to be a beautiful, short experience.

Urban Myth Dissolution Center - a bizarre, fascinating, creepy combination of ace attorney investigations and the case of the golden idol, but a heavier dose of anime than either. compiling information through scouring rumors on social media, gathering clues at a scene, putting them together to form hypotheses, using those to identify the causes of those initial rumors. all this wrapped up with a very potent and evocative art direction.

Mini Mini Golf Golf - this game is not about mini golf. i can’t say i even know what it’s about, but it’s enthralling. a hypothesized future where climate disaster causes massive shifts, spacetime anomalies detected in an “old” mini golf video game, and theories about memory tunnels piercing through the spacetime continuum to connect people. there were moments in the demo that just kinda left me speechless.

that’s all the recommendations i’ve got!! i’ll definitely go deeper into this soon, i plan on making a blog post going over all of the demos i played and found something interesting to say about. stay tuned for that!

@kuchaibee chrono trigger OST + luminist =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNwSXJOKugw

unfortunately, Fiend Mode has been enabled. i am no longer able to engage in charisma checks and my alignment has changed to Chaotic Evil until Fiend Mode is disabled in 14 days

@tenna oh, I should get ipv6 actually working on my setup too, I do have an ipv6 address for this box, but I still gotta configure some stuff

@kuchaibee Hello. I feel like the skewed submit button is an inspiration for us all. Thank you.

Rechost if #melon is big.

@tenna meanwhile, my GPU (gigabyte rx7600xt) apparently doesn’t care about the vram temps by default, which meant that I had to make some custom fan curves with fancontrol (at least in windows, linux seems to handle things fine) or otherwise it’d get toasty

and sure enough, zero RPM was initially causing some issues with that lmao

wait can I actually at least post short 128 kbps mp3s here

I’ll TAKE IT

last night I was like “I gOTTa make Stepfile Music” and also “I wanna synthesize a decent organ to have on hand” so I googled and saw the scary in the screenshot but then I just traced over the lower harmonics of an ehhh-sounding SpectraVoice “organ” H.type and adjusted them to taste and it sounded good so I layered up some Groovy Tunage and was then like “y’know, this needs some THROAT” and I’m not really a throat user but I’ve been trying to figure something out in that regard so I continued trying to figure something out through this

it might be making me feel a weird impulse to actually continue working on a thing?????

@RebaRabbit tbh public vs unlisted mostly doesn’t matter in terms of spamming up people’s timelines over here, unlisted just removes the post from the local and federated timelines (and the latter is disabled everywhere around here) and from tag timelines (if you’re testing tag stuff, you probably do want the post to be visible there)

(GTS instances also don’t show unlisted posts from the web UI, and it is useful to know, but not rly relevant for timeline spam reduction)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rW4-286wA

@enfaeutchie assuming miles per hour (as bri'ish people are want to use) then 12,242 mph 'winds' are not only hypersonic, but they're fairly close to orbital speed in LEO. at this speed, wind would stop being wind and instead become a blast front as it encountered air around it and formed a shockwave

from a rough calculation based on wind speed, the dynamic pressure of such a 'wind' would be about 18 megapascals. this is likely enough to do some very bad things to the human body, since only 0.5 MPa is generally lethal. 18 MPa is also very close to the compressive strength of low-grade concrete, so brick and mortar construction probably wouldn't stand a snowflake's chance in hell, let alone wooden structures (this is purely on the wind speed alone, rhe overpressure from the rapidly propagating blast front would do even more damage)

hope this helps u prepare for a windy day coming to a soon-to-be-flat-area near you

PSA: nasty vulnerability in firefox found and fixed, update asap (UAF w/ possible code exec in web animations API, for the techies in the crowd). fixed versions include:

• 131.0.2
• ESR 115.16.1
• ESR 128.3.1

to check your currently installed version:

1. open the 3 bars menu in the top right of the firefox window
2. open Help -> About Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/

#VulnPSA #firefox

@KaydeArcane I actually have not done a tunic rando yet, was def going to though

@ticky note to self: don’t do that