Hey, ThatDave,
I shouldn't welcome you to Sg, you are way older than me here!
But it's good to see open minded people, so welcome anyway just for that :D
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I only started actually using the site a month or so ago.
Frankly I don't remember even joining five years ago lol.
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Hello(o'Θ'o)ﾉ))✋
Guidelines
https://www.steamgifts.com/about/guidelines
Military conflicts. Military conflicts that are causing a hostile and divisive environment throughout our community at a scale that makes other methods of moderation ineffective or infeasible. At the moment we will be closing discussions and potentially removing comments pertaining to...
Israel-Hamas war
Russia-Ukraine war😷
Favorite of all time? Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) Play for FREE here It is open source and still in very active
Steam：Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2330750/Cataclysm_Dark_Days_Ahead/
https://cataclysmdda.org/
🙄Okay, the developer also has a Steam version, but that is for people who like it, and the Steam version has fewer new elements instead of running more stable. So it's for people who want to donate to the developer.
If necessary, the tileset seems to make it easier for modern users to enjoy the game.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing the info.
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Crap. My bad. I'll fix immediately.
CDDA, the free version, has more and better tile sets available from the community. Especially the Japanese community. (The best community IMHO)
The Steam version mainly exists to give KG, the lead dev, some income and to promote the game.
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Also, thanks for taking the time to point that error out to me. I appreciate it.
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Personally,I do not like guidelines that do not allow free speech. (I understand that this was an emergency response, so we'll see how it goes. (But I think it is a paved road to hell).
It is also true that the main axis of this community is the topic of games. I'm glad that you guys are willing to cover topics about games that people don't know much about.🤝Thx fix. :)
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Often the responsibility of management is choosing the best of several bad options. It's a thankless job.
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Welcome Dave! I picture you as Dave the Diver for some reason (probably because I played that recently)
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I saw that in the Theater lol.
The scene before that, when he's outside.. It was so silent you could hear a pin drop. I think everyone in the theater was holding their breath. And that is a great line. But before that the line "I'm sorry, Frank. I think you missed it." during the chess game is almost as important.
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Oh, welcome (though it seems you have been around for a while), Dave! As a fellow Gen-Xer, I am glad that you can...
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Wait, THATDave? Woah Dave!!!! EVERYBODY, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!
;D ;D
Cheers!
P.S.: Please do not disconnect me. Beep!
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You seem like a guy I could get along with :) Welcome and enjoy this community!
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Hi, I am ThatDave
Sorry I don't know any Dave. Hi tho!
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Where is ThatOtherDave, though?
Welcome, fellow "Gen-X not a right-wing crazy boomer". :)
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I make all sorts of arcade cabinets (with emulators).That's super cool, It's a project I always had on my mind but never had the time (nor the space) to do so
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Woodworking is very rewarding. But you will hit hard price limits when collecting tools. A lot of Gen-X and boomers are dying out and those tools are showing up at yard sales/eBay.
I have never been to one, but a lot of people visit Hackerspaces or Makerspaces to do the work. Cabinets are a generationally unifying project, it gets a lot of attention. (and help)
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I am a very patient gamer. I have waited over ten+ years for some games to come down in price. My thinking is that every day I wait, I have better hardware, the mods are better, and the game is more patched
Hi, Dave! Just popping in to say that I relate to this part a lot. I rarely ever play games on release, last game I bought the day it came out was more than 10 years ago, and I think being a patient gamer has had a lot of perks.
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Hi Dave. Welcome. Who is that on the balcony with you?
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Heh, what a lovely introduction, Dave. I'd chill in your corner. Welcome!
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This was a pleasant read.
Welcome to New York SG. It's been waiting for you. 🥳
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Hah. I saw Escape from New York in the theater too. That movie is great.
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Hi, ThatDave. I actually introduced myself just now in the "Get in my List!" thread going around, but I'll take a minute to mention that I started playing Nethack somewhere in the mid-'80s myself. I still take a poke at it from time to time, but I've never won the damn thing and these days often I won't make it past Minetown (which didn't exist when I started playing the game). I never went on to Angband and Moria and the like for more than a play or two, but I did start a life-long tradition of losing quickly and often shamefully in ADOM (Ancient Domains of Mystery), which is where I migrated when Nethack was too frustrating.
My very first time playing Nethack, which was at the time just called Hack, was in the MIT dorms with a friend in about 1981 (I didn't go to MIT, he did). The computer majors were given PCs with then-magical color monitors. I remember being amazed and excited when the game had my character pick up a cyan potion, and the ! <-- ASCII symbol for Hack potions) WAS ALSO CYAN. I had never seen such a casual and effective non-scripted interaction between game content and screen display. I couldn't get over it. I wouldn't share a computer with a roommate for another couple of years, and ours had an amber monitor with a mono Hercules graphics adapter, so that magic wouldn't be standard in our house for years yet to come.
Welcome to Steamgifts!
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Actually, seeing your post prompted me to write this one!
I was always a Moria/Angband/Zangband/Umoria person, I never beat Hack or Nethack.
DCSS is cool to. You should give it a try. It's free and the online version is legit. it's a bit more like chess in the hard areas. And the automation is good. Can beat, if not clear, it in a long day or two evenings. (The winning conditions are a spectrum in that game.) Give it a try.
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By the way, I've also really enjoyed Dungeons of Dredmor - I'm not very good at it, but that doesn't really matter with these games, often. I love the humor of it. Another treat, less funny but intricate and dangerous and fun to play, is Sword of the Stars: The Pit, which is a sci-fi traditional rogue-like set in the Sword of the Stars universe. It has a really good feel to it, for me at least.
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DOD It's very alien in it's weirdness right? I love it.
Some starter advice (spoiled in case you prefer to go in blind) Going melee(any weapon) with armor/shield is a good start. The armor skills is pretty good. But dual weapon is also valid. Also look for an escape skill. Something to get out of trouble. And when you bump into a Monster Zoo (You will know) don't wade in there swinging. get strategic. Use items
Another hint, the end boss is kind of like in UMoria/Rogue, if you are not ready.... you will die.
The ways that different skill trees combo is my favorite part of that game.
let me know if you want more, I love that game.
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I just bought sword of stars. $2.50 with some expansions? deal.
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Hello nice to meet you. I used to play long time ago "Moria" and "Angband" but not finished them.
"I like games where I can stop and think" - me too, more complex the game then i usually like it more.
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Those games can turn into full time jobs for sure.
I like games where I have to break out a spreadsheet or takes multiple pages of notes.
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Hello Dave, nice introduction, welcome to SG :)
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Hey, fellow GenX-ish gamer here. Too old to be a millennial, to young to technically be GenX...
Love your vibe and will check out your recommendations. Cool bonus that they're free and a game i already own but have yet to try.
I grew up on the amiga, trs-80, atari, and og NES. Today's gamers are truly spoiled with the tons of free games mods, bundles, and cheap deals thanks to digital distribution. SO i too will happily wait at leas a year for a game to go on sale, patched, and bundled with several of it's DLC. Although it has become a sad trend for games to be regularly released broken. But I blame that more on the c-suite marketers, then the actual dev's.
Last games i let me burn me this way was Diablo 2 and waiting 2 years past the original release date... also Fallout 2, and aching each week for a new patch that would let us progress, until finally 3 months later it was finally mostly patched :/
Welcome to the community, and hope to hear more from ya!
Blessings! o/
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Oh yea. I remember paying sixty bucks for NES games. Of course console games are sixty bucks now lol.
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PC Gaming FTW!
Nintendo used to be my fave, but then they released the virtual-boy with it's ridiculous black/red monochrome, and i've been PC only ever since. 3DS was tempting, but then we had mobile games and emulators of the classics, so i've always been "me" about nintendo mobile platforms.
When it comes to console games, i'm willing to wait several years for a PC port.
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Hi Dave, nice to see someone who enjoys actual roguelikes and not just the popular favor of roguelite of the month. I got in that genre in the late 2000s with Pokemon Dungeon, Izuna and other Shiren-likes (well technically I played Nethack before, but didn't like it), then I started playing some classics like a port of the OG Rogue or DCSS (usually during class lol). Some day I'll get around to playing Cataclysm, kinda afraid to get lost into it for hundreds of hours though :x
You already mentioned Dredmor (a pretty good game) but I think it's criminal not to mention the excellent Tales of Maj'Eyal, probably the best roguelike available on Steam right now (also playable for free on the dev's website, although the paid version has a few extra features obviously).
Sharing pics of your arcade cabinets would also be appreciated :)
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Tales of Maj'Eyal is a good game. I like the unique dungeons. Reminds me of DCSS in that way. I am am just waiting on the DLC to get cheaper.
I'm afraid that if I posted anything I would be "doxing" myself. I have always taken advantage of anominity of the internet. There are enough people out there that might recognize one. But I'm happy to talk shop if anybody wants to make one or has any broken electronics they want to try to repair. I could brain dump on that for a long time.
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I think if it's fun for you, any game is fine. But it's hard to beat the high difficulty of absolute unforgiving nature of a Rogue game.
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Just marking to learn more about rogue-like games...
どうぞよろしく
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You might enjoy Moonring if you haven't already tried it.
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That looks cool as hell. And it's free?
I am playing this.
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Hey ThatDave, it's been cool seeing you pop up here and there in discussions but I'm glad you decided to introduce yourself.
Don't worry too much about being political, to some people other people breathing is "political" (as it the weather, science and education) so you can never please everyone.
Just feel free to be yourself, as you have been, and see you around (•‿•)
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I really like this community and I think I'll be staying around for a while. I thought I would say hello.
if I screw up please semi-politely explain and I will correct my behavior. I appreciate your time, if you take the time to educate me, I'll thank you.
I like Rogue type games, Strategy, and Team FPSs. I beat Rogue for BSD in the 1980s, I beat Moria and Angband in the 90s. No savescumming because I didn't know what that was at the time lol. I like games where I can stop and think, slower paced FPS, or a team FPS where I can play a support role and enable the younger people with better reflexes do the fast twitchy parts my old hands and brain can't do anymore. (It will happen to you! Get those frags while you can!)
Favorite of all time? Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead (CDDA) Play for FREE here It is open source and still in very active development. Second favorite is Team Fortress 2. When I was somewhat younger is was a real Force-A-Nature... Also played a LOT of Duke Nukem 3D in the 1990s and also the OG Team Fortress. I play a bit of OverWatch now and then but OverWatch "2" is really in a sad state these days, so I am looking for another squad/team shooter with support roles.
Want to get into roguelikes?
Me? not much to say really. I'm an old Gen-Xer. I'm about taking care of my family, fixing things, carpentry, and playing games.
I am a very patient gamer. I have waited over ten+ years for some games to come down in price. My thinking is that every day I wait, I have better hardware, the mods are better, and the game is more patched I like loud mechanical keyboards, I repair them and other (low voltage) electronics as a side gig. I also do a bit of carpentry, I make all sorts of arcade cabinets (with emulators). I also use vintage tools because they are much cheaper (and usually much better).
And No, I'm not a right-wing crazy. That is my Boomer Dad, I cut him off a long while ago.
My mom was a moon-bat and she raised me right.
🏴,✊, Trans Rights are human rights, Abolish Slavery, BLM, ACAB, Democratic are centrists they are not "The Left".
I don't plan on getting political here so if that offends you, let's call a truce. I definitely can keep my politics under my hat. But hey if you start it.. I might drop in.
I don't know any of you, but I want all of you to know that you are valid and should experience love.
Also:
ちょっと日本語ができる。( ｀・∀・´)ﾉﾖﾛｼｸ
Ich kann etwas Deutsch sprechen.
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