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Re: LCD, Please

#91

Post by sph »

globular-toast wrote: post #88
appplication wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to like it, but it just felt too close to an authentic paperwork simulator for me or get into. Maybe if there wasn’t a timed element to it, that just stressed me out.

Same. I couldn't get into it. I've heard a lot of good things about it but I think I was expecting more like an interactive story (which I think is an actual genre of "game" now). Instead it's actually hard and I only play games to relax.

It is not hard but requires you to use the brain a bit. An interactive game should not be like watching Netflix.

I don't play games if I'm tired, but maybe because I do not like games with no challenge whatsoever.

If you like a story, then this has been approved by Pope himself: https://youtu.be/YFHHGETsxkE

Re: LCD, Please

#92

Post by sph »

JeremyBarbosa wrote: post #14

If anyone has been putting off playing Papers, Please, it is an amazing game and currently on sale for its anniversary for only $1.99: https://www.gog.com/en/game/papers_please https://store.steampowered.com/app/239030/Papers_Please/

And for those who have played, or just are intrigued by it, let me also recommend the official short film PAPERS PLEASE (major spoilers alert):

https://youtu.be/YFHHGETsxkE

Made by fans of the game, and later accepted as official canon by Lucas Pope himself.

Re: LCD, Please

#93

Post by sph »

jonny_eh wrote: post #84
butz wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still 5 years to go.

I'm hoping he shadow drops a new game any day now.

He recently made one for that weird console with the crank, so we might have to wait a few more years I'm afraid.

Re: LCD, Please

#94

Post by globular-toast »

sph wrote: post #91
globular-toast wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. I couldn't get into it. I've heard a lot of good things about it but I think I was expecting more like an interactive story (which I think is an actual genre of "game" now). Instead it's actually hard and I only play games to relax.

It is not hard but requires you to use the brain a bit. An interactive game should not be like watching Netflix. I don't play games if I'm tired, but maybe because I do not like games with no challenge whatsoever. If you like a story, then this has been approved by Pope himself: https://youtu.be/YFHHGETsxkE

I guess the thing is it's not fun either. I like games like Half-life 2, on easy mode. It's fun and a challenge, but doesn't become annoying such that I can't enjoy the story.

Re: LCD, Please

#95

Post by jhbruhn »

nom wrote: post #25

I've heard that custom LCDs are relatively cheap to order in low volumes. This one has quite a lot of segments, but feels doable. If we can find some premade game-and-watch style cases with buttons and battery compartment.. this could be made into a product or a hobby kit, without too much expertise or upfront cash. Hmmm.

Can we get this to teenage engineering?

Re: LCD, Please

#96

Post by 113 »

jhbruhn wrote: post #95
nom wrote: post #25

I've heard that custom LCDs are relatively cheap to order in low volumes. This one has quite a lot of segments, but feels doable. If we can find some premade game-and-watch style cases with buttons and battery compartment.. this could be made into a product or a hobby kit, without too much expertise or upfront cash. Hmmm.

Can we get this to teenage engineering?

Get your orders in early.

Re: LCD, Please

#97

Post by jempo »

llui85 wrote: post #75
capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

Tip: In Firefox you can use Ctrl-Shift click to bypass context menu blocking.

Woah, thank you. I have always set dom.event.contextmenu.enabled to False, which does the job permanently and for every website. But some websites require you to en-/disable it again and this shortcut is a nice little QoL improvement. I wish there was a complete list of "hidden" features like that.

Re: LCD, Please

#98

Post by vmfunction »

capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

>Oh, you can also allow canvas fingerprinting, but that seems like a bad idea - maybe in a separate firefox profile just for sites like this one..

No it won't help. That is big problem with finger printing. It basically logs your computer hardward with the profile.

So no matter how many times you make new profiles. This can be mitigated via VM. However with bugs such as zenbleed, VM may not be enough.

Nothing is private has a good demo. https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private That is reason why we need to not allow WEI or anything like that on massive scale.

Re: LCD, Please

#99

Post by germinalphrase »

jonny_eh wrote: post #85
wombat-man wrote: post #29

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Got mine recently. Nearly an entire year after ordering. It's alright.

It sucks. Have mine for about a year, barely touch it.

It’s a novelty. If it’s just sitting in a drawer, would you want to pass it along? Could get a testing chain going… kick it along to the next person after two weeks.

Re: LCD, Please

#100

Post by hbn »

jonny_eh wrote: post #83
hbn wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I already own it on Steam but I pulled the trigger on the iOS version, if not only to support Lucas Pope. I still haven't played it, but I played through Revenge of the Obra Dinn a few years ago and read a lot of his blog posts from the development of the game, and I think the guy's an absolute genius.

"Return of the Obra Dinn": https://obradinn.com/

Oops, yes "Return"
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