StringPotatoTheory

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Outer Wilds is a gem of a 3D first-person indie game. Other games might have you find required items so you can progress (like Pokemon or Zelda games), but in this game it's all about the knowledge you learn while playing (like Tunic). You explore, learn, and puzzle solve. By looking up anything about the game, or by looking up a solution to a puzzle, you essentially lock yourself out of experiencing that piece of content. It's all about the journey.

It's a game you can only really play once, but it is so worth it. It's my favorite video game and I wish I could forget everything about it so I can play it again for the first time.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've been meaning to change my website from Hugo to Zola. It has a few good themes to choose from and it's easy to set up. Hugo has way more themes though.

You might want to check out a lot of SSGs to see what themes each has, and pick the one you like the most.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

even when binging I watch the voyager intro every few episodes, I love the music too much

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope they don't make that update to windows 10 as well 😭 control panel feels faster to use than windows settings

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure how they implemented it either but it must be tricky (or maybe it's easy to implement but hard to make it fast?) if Hugo still doesn't have support for it. I did a search in the Zola repo on github for "backlink" and these are the files that showed up.

You have to link pages using the Zola way (starting with a @/), and all pages and posts have to live under the /content/ folder. So if you had page1.md and page2.md and wanted to link from one to the other, in page2 you'd have [Page 1](@/page1.md). On page2 you'd see the normal link, and on page1 you'd see that page2 links to it.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does it / will it support internal backlinks? That's the reason why I switched from Hugo to Zola.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I have pihole as well and I find it doesn't block the promoted posts / reddit ads on mobile. But revanced fixes that.

 

I really like the lore behind the vaults in the Fallout games. The only book I know that's somewhat similar is Wool, are there any others?

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I use obsidian and syncthing, although I use it for just myself; as long as you aren't editing the same document at once it should work. If there is a file conflict, nothing will be deleted, just the conflicted file with have the word "conflict" in the name. So you can do a text compare between the original and that file to see what needs to be merged.

Syncthing is self hosted, obsidian has desktop and android apps. You can exclude certain files or folders from being synced on a certain device with syncthing. Obsidian uses markdown so that might take some getting used to, but the plus side being all your notes will be text so you aren't locked in to using obsidian.

You can also use another markdown / text editor as well, maybe one that supports wiki links for obsidian compatibility but obsidian works with the markdown link format as well.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I find I'm mostly okay without a guide in the dungeons, but in the overworld to find the dungeons and items, I need it 😭

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've been playing the first Legend of Zelda game. I'm surprisingly having fun, but I think it's due to save states. The combat in the game is brutal.

It's inspired me to try making a 2D open world game in Godot.

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This looks very promising, I'll check it out!

[–] StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'm bad at zombies but I play with friends that are much better than me and we have fun. I'm still learning how to get a good train of zombies going.

I guess this game is a time loop in the same way Hitman could be considered a time loop.

 

I really enjoy time loop games where the player can explore and there's a story, and isn't just a puzzle game. I played Outer Wilds a few years ago and I loved everything about it, it's my favorite in the genre.

Ones I've played and liked / have on my list to play that look good:

  • Outer Wilds - (I still need to play the DLC)
  • Deathloop
  • Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
  • Undertale?
  • The Sexy Brutale
  • Zero Escape series (on my list to play)

Ones I don't like as much:

  • The Forgotten City - I liked the story (for the most part) but I felt it was spoiled far too early. I think by being a shorter non-linear game that was likely to happen. I got 3/4 endings in 6 hours. It was very hand-holdy which I didn't like. It had quests and quest markers which I felt didn't help the game at all. I wish it went the Outer Wilds approach and instead listed everything you learned, so the player would have to piece together what they needed to do next.
  • Twelve Minutes - I watched a playthrough of this game. The story was very interesting, but I don't think I would have the patience for the puzzles, it's a puzzle heavy game. I would like a game with more exploration.
  • Minit - Played it for ~3 hours, it was interesting but I would like a longer time loop.

These games have a time travel mechanic which I still enjoy but aren't really what I'm looking for:

  • Braid - The story is very interesting but it's a puzzle platformer with levels.
  • Life is Strange - I love this game but it's a time travel game rather than a time loop.
  • Chrono Trigger - I think this game has time travel instead of a time loop, it's still on my list to play.
  • Steins;gate (now on my list to rewatch rather than play, and it's more time travel rather than groundhog day time loop).

Are there any hidden gems I'm missing? Preferably looking for games I can play on PC but I also have a Switch, Wii U, and 3DS.

 

I'm on windows 10.

I occasionally like to play valorant with friends and starting in the middle of this month it's going to require TPM 2.0 to be enabled. I currently can't easily enable it because I'm on legacy BIOS for a reason I can't remember (and when I switch to UEFI, it can't see my windows installation). I have a new SSD that I can format in hopefully the right way to enable UEFI in the BIOS, but before I dive into fixing this mess I have some questions about TPM 2.0.

  1. If I enable TPM 2.0, can windows decide to update to windows 11 without my input?

Edit, I looked into this a bit and windows makes it very very easy to click to install windows 11. It's kind of disguised as a regular windows update notification :/

  1. Are there any downsides to enabling TPM 2.0? Are there any exploits I should be worried about? Will some legally acquired software not run anymore?
  2. Bonus question - why would Riot Vanguard (valorant's anti-cheat software) need TPM 2.0 to be enabled? Would it be a way for them to stop players from playing on a virtual machine? Or is it more so they can stop cheaters?
 

A very niche tv show at this point, but it's very very good /c/personofinterest

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