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  • Personally, I feel like most games that have a grind are kryptonite to me. Like, unless I really, really, really like the game loop to an obsessive degree - which is rare - I quickly get to a point where I’m like “I get it, now show me something new for crying out loud”.

    This ropes in a vast number of games, alas. Occasionally, sure, I’ll find a grindy game is suddenly palatable to my brain. Like, there was a month or two I went gonzo for Warframe and played the same 3 maps repeatedly. But then I swore off the game for a year. Same for Diablo and any number of gacha games.

    Some of my favorites are indie games that have a good fun loop and progression that doesn’t overstay its welcome.

    A roguelike / roguelite like Hades drew me in for longer than expected, if only because I could shuffle up weapons and modifiers. Still kind of a repetition thing after awhile, but it had enough variety and novelty with each run to keep me engaged for good while.

















  • Been playing Honkai: Star Rail and Tears of the Kingdom at the same time like a maniac. I’ll probably burn out on both and wander off.

    The fun part is Star Rail almost becomes an idle game, eventually, because you can just set up auto battles to grind resources and set it off to the side to do its thing. Is this real gaming? I dunno, but it has pretty graphics.


  • I’ve not quite been running mine for a day, so far. So, I’m not a great authority. But, so far, all the docker containers together are taking less than 500MB RAM and barely any CPU. And this is on a repurposed old gaming PC in my basement that’s also hosting Mastodon, Calckey, and a bunch of other ill-advised crap. I’ve been using tailscale and a super cheap linux cloud host with some reverse proxies to expose the services to the internet