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Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform?
  • I'm the same way but I bought one of those mini pcs that has a laptop cpu/gpu in it, installed ChimeraOS on it which essentially turned it into a steamdeck.

    I have that hooked up to my living room tv and it's my main gaming device. It's essentially a console. I never upgrade anything. It runs what I play at 1080p with med or high settings.

    Suits me just fine. I mainly just want to sit on my couch and game on the TV instead of being at a desk like I did years ago.

  • Other Patient Gamers Communities
  • Ah OK. Every time someone asks how to find other communities, I see that Lemmy Explorer site linked, which is why I searched there and was confused why this community wasn't on there.

    Nice to know it's showing up in other indexers though.

  • Other Patient Gamers Communities

    I checked that Lemmy Explorer site and searched for "patientgamers" and this community don't show up.

    Just the ones on lemmy.world and sh.itjustworks

    I was just wondering how you all found this place. Are you all on lemmy.ml?

    Does this community show up on any lemmy indexer?

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    How to revitalize this sub?
  • Like others have mentioned, I am in the same boat of having multiple communities to follow with the same name but on different instances and I forget about others or (more likely) don't even know that others exist.

    It does bug me that I can't group communities that exist on different instances together. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to a collection of communities that I can give a label to.

    A way to group all patientgamers communities together would be a huge help.

    It's just the way the whole federation stuff works I guess. And I like it...Except for when I don't 😂

  • One Year Anniversary Giveaway! - WINNERS CHOSEN!
  • That would be really awesome of you!

    After I've picked two winners, we can have you pick two more and you can send them the codes directly as well.

    We can make it the giveaway part 2.

    When we get to announcing winners I'll message you!

  • One Year Anniversary Giveaway! - WINNERS CHOSEN!

    Hey everyone,

    We're coming up on a year anniversary (I think) of this community and I thought I'd do some giveaways to celebrate that.

    It's semi-annoying that not all game stores have digital gift cards you can purchase so there are a few options here.

    1. Amazon digital gift card: for those of you who buy physical games
    2. Physical Steam gift card: the slowest option, as it requires me to leave my house and buy a stamp and mail something (the horror).
    3. Gifted game directly in Steam / GOG.com

    For the gifted games / gift cards it'll be capped at $30 -- after all, we're talking about old games here right? If you want a few games that total up to $30, that's cool too.

    I'm going to pick two members at random from those who reply here as the winners.

    Just comment with what option you prefer, and ideally tell us about what game you'd like to get (I'd prefer to limit the low-effort comments if we can. I like the discussions people have here so please do try to comment more than just "#1" ).

    I'll sticky this post and will leave it open for 2 weeks (end of April is the deadline)

    Thanks for keeping this community a cool place with good discussions!

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    UPDATE 4/30/24:

    This contest is officially over!

    The 2 randomly chosen winnders are:

    @Klanky@sopuli.xyz

    @Dymonika@beehaw.org

    Congrats!

    I will be messaging you both individually to get your email addresses or steam/gog usernames so I can gift you your games!

    Thanks again to everyone again for keeping this place going!

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    Games with Stories
  • This has definitely been the case with me as well. Especially as I got older and had less time to play anything.

    I've always been partial to story over mechanics though. I just think the preference has tilted much further in favor of story games now.

  • I completely forgot I got Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion for Free on Epic Games. I played and beat it today!
  • Trying to figure out why this post is so down voted.

    I looked up the game and it was released 3 yrs ago.

    It's recent but it's not new so it's not really incorrectly posted here vs a normal games community, right?

    Is there some other info about this I don't know about?

    Trying not to moderate too much here. And I haven't needed to really. Everyone's been great with posting great stuff here overall.

    Just was curious.

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    Lemmy API - getComments -How do replies work?

    I can fetch the comments for a post using the API using:

    comment/list?post_id=

    and that works fine but I have a question about how to determine what comment is a reply to another/ determining the comment nesting/threading.

    From what I can tell the only thing tying any two comments together is the comment.path prop.

    Is that correct?

    That prop seems to be in a format where each nested comment has the root parent path number followed by . then their unique number. And each subsequent comment is another number sequence after that and so on.

    Example:

    root comment:

    json { "comment": { "path": 12345 } }

    child comment 1:

    json { "comment": { "path": 12345.327928 } }

    Is this correct?

    Can someone who has used this API explain how this works? There are no doc comments in the docs for the http client so I'm just winging it here.

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    Thanks everyone! (appreciation post)

    It's only been 2 weeks since starting this community up but I do love how active it has been.

    Lemmy was very much a ghost town for me when I first signed up and couldn't find any communities to match the ones that filled my feed on reddit.

    Now I see a healthy amount of activity in this and other communities that have sprung up recently.

    Really cool to see people starting threads and offering the nuanced discussions on games here--which is really the stuff I was hoping would happen.

    Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has posted and commented and contributed to making this community alive.

    Keep it up!

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    Sticking with my “old” theme, here’s one from Peter Jackson’s King Kong. I did love that T-Rex fight.

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    nzpetesmatteshot.blogspot.com MATTE PAINTING REVIEW: A Selection Of Overlooked Films - Part Sixteen

    ***This post, and all 169 previous blogs known as 'Matte Shot', were originally created by Peter Cook for nzpetesmatteshot with  all  cont...

    MATTE PAINTING REVIEW:  A Selection Of Overlooked Films - Part Sixteen

    This is old but I do love matte paintings.

    Nice collection of some great ones here.

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    Bug: Inbox unread count does not update when you switch accounts

    Reproduction steps:

    1. Add a profile from some instance that has unread replies
    2. Verify that the inbox icon shows the badge with the count of unread items.
    3. Add a 2nd account to the app from a different instance. Be sure this account either has a different number of unread messages or has none at all

    Expected Behavior:

    The badge on the inbox tab should change to reflect the inbox unread number for each respective account

    Actual Behavior:

    The badge on the inbox tab shows the number for whatever account has unread messages. Changing to an account with zero unread messages will not clear out that badge when using that account.

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    FX used in The Joker

    Not a recent movie but still a good video that covers the type of cg/composting I always find fascinating.

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    What are you playing this week?

    Anything good?

    I'm hoping to get some time to play Return of the Obra Dinn if I could get any significant amount of time blocked off to game.

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    Hello Ex-Reddit people!

    I saw the recent API charge news with Reddit and saw that people were discussing alternatives to Reddit in the event we all have to abandon it.

    Joined Lemmy here and noticed one of my favorite subreddits had no Lemmy equivalent — so I created it.

    I have no desire to be a mod, so if anyone wants to take on that role just let me know.

    I’m just hoping people do post here if they’re checking Lemmy out and seeing what’s available community-wise.

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