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Cake day: March 9th, 2025

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  • Nice post!

    Fan-made big box with a Civvie quote on the back… that’s the dream as an aspiring boomer shooter dev!

    I’ve been playing Nine Sols on Steam Deck this week… getting my arse kicked and it’s making me kinda sad. I used to love difficult reflex challenge games like the From Software games, etc. But last year I was destroyed by a mystery virus and it did something to my brain. I’ve been feeling a lot better for the last few months and thought maybe I’ve finally recovered enough to play some hard games so I grabbed Nine Sols and yeah, I’m not quite there. But it seems like a really cool game! Urgh!

    I’ve also been playing Medal of Honor Allied Assault which I grabbed in the GOG sale. Playing through on hard has been a blast (except the snipers, fuck those guys), and the early 2000s aesthetics are really nice… didn’t realise how much I missed this style as I usually go for 90s games when I’m feeling retro.







  • I love what Nightdive does but I’m a little disappointed that they are doubling down on remasters. The System Shock remake was so amazing…. I was really hoping they would remake some other crusty old imsims since we get so few new ones.

    I’ve been recovering from a surgery so done nothing but play games for the last couple of weeks:

    • I finished Drova. What a badass game! I want more anti-power-fantasy RPGs like this!
    • I got about 30 hours into Death Stranding after being inspired by PerfectDark’s comments. Got a bit tired of it and put it down, but I would like to come back to it. I got stuck on my bad checklist grinding habit and sucked out all the fun for myself… don’t progress until everybody has 5 stars, all roads are built, etc. Don’t know why I do this.
    • Played Blue Prince for 17 hours and bounced off it hard. This game wastes so much of your time for tiny payoffs. The puzzles don’t really give you any revelatory excitement because the pieces for them are so unhidden… and the ultra simplistic roguelike mechanics were such a chore!
    • I got retrodeck running and wow… it’s slick! Already gathered a bunch of roms for some of my childhood games. I beat Perfect Dark (coincidence) on Gameboy Color… fun but brutally difficult, thankfully it was pretty short. Started Metal Gear Solid on Gameboy Color but put it down with intention to come back to it. Gave Terranigma a go on SNES because of nostalgia but it doesn’t really hold up compared to similar Zelda games. Last night I started .hack//INFECTION on PS2 also because of nostalgia and it’s pretty bad… very simplistic. Gonna find something else to play tonight.







  • No haven’t seen GBOperator before… that’s really cool! Perhaps a bit redundant for LSDj but very cool for gaming.

    I like this whole idea of hardware attachments for the Steamdeck. Hopefully Valve will add some sort of standardised mounting points on future iterations so we don’t have to rely on flimsy printed clip-on bits so much… I reckon a VESA mount could be good!


  • Nice post!

    I’ve been messing around with a “headless” Dirtywave M8 on my Steamdeck… best bit of money I’ve spent in a long time. Even had a buddy print me a Gameboy cartridge case for it with a clip-on cartridge slot for the deck. Did my first ever jungle noodlings with the Amen break… having a great time!

    I’ve actually got a trio of DMG-01s that I grabbed in Japan a few years back… slapped in some RCA and backlight mods in and then quickly lost interest because my eyes just aren’t good enough to deal with those screens. I thought LSDj and the crusty old Gameboy sound chips were really freaking cool… but I’m happy to say the M8 blows LSDj out of the water on features and QoL, and I can stare at my Steamdeck screen all night!