It kind of works in Elder Scrolls games. You’re typically just some random dude getting roped into stuff you barely understand so it makes sense that you don’t have much of a sense of urgency. And the main quest usually has parts where you’re encouraged to go do other stuff to build up skills and join factions.

Yup, either through Termux or Round Sync

Rclone makes Cryptomator redundant since it has built in encryption, if you want it simple.

I really hate the Xbox system names.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was an awesome game.

Basically when Windows became pay-per-install. PCs stopped coming with an install CD so if you needed to reset from scratch you couldn’t. I first tried Linux out of necessity because that was all I had to put on the machine in the house, and ended up never looking back.

Vagrant Story had a really cool swordfighting system.

There are a lot of “I like this in theory but nobody else I know uses it” social things like Matrix 😑

It does everything through clever game design, nothing takes you out of the game. No cut scenes or text popping up or freezing everything while dialogue is going on. You’re just in that world.

Its just like with idealizing music eras. People remember the stand outs and forget the bad and mediocre stuff so it seems like everything was better in whatever time.

Duckduckgo has an email redirect thing where you can make temporary addresses that forward to your normal one.

SNES does have a lot of the better games in lots of great series. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy etc etc etc.

Though the cheat answer is probably PC since its been around for decades can just evolve with whatever is going on.

I do it the old school way and just use stopwatches. Especially with running, it’s easy to just go by time and record it manually.

Some of them are free.

Its basically a perfect game. It never feels dated and has one of the most horribly catchy songs ever created by man. Its weird that it’s so fun, its like as simple as you can really boil down a game, its literally just arranging blocks into lines. But it just clicks with the human brain on some deep level.

I use Iris, its very simple.

I’ve been saying this forever too! Boomers were the ones complaining about thier kids playing them back in the day because of the violence and demonic imagery.

In the 90s people called them "Doom-like"s. I usually just say “90s FPS games”. Which I guess could be confusing and make people think I’m talking about framerate, but eh.

1 and 2 are some of my favorite games ever. They’re sort of like Pac-Man or Tetris, they just nailed such a basic, fun gameplay experience that you can always go back to it and get sucked in.

Also props for GZDoom and Brutal Doom updating them for modern hardware.

I’m like that with OG Doom. Its half nostalgia and half it just being a fun game to play.

Old school FPS games. Doom, Quake, Unreal, etc. They’re just simple, cathartic stress relief.