davemeech

Hollow Knight for me fits this scenario to a t. I got it as part of a humble bundle, but couldn’t get into it for at least a year as the initial part felt really depressing, and didn’t at all grab me.

But once I managed to tough it through to greenpath, and started to get some power ups, it finally sunk it’s claws into me. I proceeded to nearly 100% the game.

I play through this one at least once a year. Timeless.

I agree with your sentiment, I love it because it was my favourite game growing up, but I feel like it would be hit or miss for someone playing for the first time.

I’m playing it this weekend as well, STILL trying to hit 100+ super jumps.

This is a daunting proposition, I’m admittedly massively invested in Google’s ecosystem. Gmail and Google calendar, I have a pixel phone, watch and buds and have YouTube premium. I feel like the time I switch is when I have a homelab and am able to find open source alternatives to everything heavily use and be able to do so with all devices I use.

I hummed hawed on this over the past few years to finally end up in the pixel watch 2, being sold on getting workout, sleep and general heartrate metrics.

I’m about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I’m admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it’s interface isn’t intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I’ll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

This is good information.

Yeah I imagine the struggles I had with Debian had something to do with enabling proprietary drivers and firmware and leveraging those. Before getting those drivers, the default nouveau drivers were awful, the performance was comically bad.

I’m also not a Linux power user though, so for sure any or all of the above could be meatware issues.

Play whatever you want, I doubt you’re getting weird looks for playing anything in public.

I personally despise the mobile gaming industry as a whole for its propensity for going live service or shovelware in the vast majority of instances. Of course I can think of gems in the rough but in many cases it went for a business model I ended being disappointed in.

At the end of the day, the switch and steam deck are far preferable on the go gaming platforms that suit me much better.

Yeah beyond tower defence games I agree.

Preach, they haven’t been the same since.