My previous main instance got a pretty bad case of ded. 🥲

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  • Regarding the message in the title, much like the Reddit downvote mob, after a while, the ones here on the federated platforms seem to get tired of downvoting people that don’t subside to their pressure. And tying back to the tip, while I struggle to think of a specific use case for that, I’ve seen other highly specific ideas before that, for their use cases, were quite good, so I imagine yours can be useful too, specially with the text body’s tone, and thus I don’t think it’s worth stressing over people trying to cause a silence spiral on yet another social media.



















  • At least Sega and Sony mostly dropped their fearmongering/correlation fallacies ship after the Bleem situation, but companies like Nintendo and Irdeto insist on being setbacks to the market. And with devices more and more closing down on what the user can do, despite being glorified computers, a friend of mine would even say that “console modding is an act of self-defense”. Furthermore, if piracy is as rampant as such companies insist on saying, I wonder how much wouldn’t be a “problem of service”, as GabeN once said, and/or if perhaps they’re using correlation to justify limiting what people can do.


  • I’d have 4 main solutions I can think of, and that can be used together if needed:

    • VMs for running Steam and for games that MUST use Steam.
    • Emulators, wrappers and source ports for games that allow that, e.g. BSNES for running River Girls Zero, Joiplay / Artemis / EasyRPG / AquariaOSE for games that use compatible engines, etc.
    • Having a separated computer you can use 100% offline (requires sideloading games)
    • The annoying idea some users give that strays from the original question, but that I think that is valid for once - to get the games from places that openly distribute it DRM free





  • Can’t remember many either, specially when ignoring characters like Alucard, that don’t seem to have the archetype of an older individual, be it emotional or physical, despite the character’s actual age.

    Now, the few cases of older protagonists I can remember:
    One Strike, if you consider games with a simulated old style, has an older playable character among the roster of characters.
    And though also not an old game, but heavily inspired by Castlevania 3, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon has an elderly playable character, and his play style reflects that.
    And one of Gunbird’s playable characters is also an elderly individual, and… (spoiler)

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    in the joke ending, he even wishes to be young again.

    Dunno if that’d be too young, but Gall Gruner from Tales of Heart, which according to the wiki is 45 y.o., does give a strong “older person” impression throughout the game.
    Final Fantasy IV and V have older protagonists too, and in IV specifically, the character’s age plays a role in gameplay.