Agreed on the first half, it’s unfair to expect someone to continue volunteering their time to work on something if they don’t enjoy it. I don’t understand what you mean by “vague entitlement to a fork of their work” though? It’s not like stenzek has to do any work if someone else forked DuckStation to continue supporting Linux on their own. What people want is the freedom to use, modify, and distribute code for the benefit of everyone. Presumably as a member of this website’s community you are opposed to private property, how is restricting people’s freedom with proprietary code any different?

Unfortunately I’m not sure forking is an option. After the SwanStation thing, DuckStation switched to a more restrictive source-available license, and if I’m reading it right I believe that forking would be in violation of the license. This section specifically is what I’m looking at:

1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:

a. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, for NonCommercial purposes only; and

b. produce and reproduce, but not Share, Adapted Material for NonCommercial purposes only.

I am not a lawyer though so I could be misunderstanding. I do wonder if someone won’t just try forking it anyways regardless of legality.

ah shit i’m late

I finished Dragon Quest the other day and Castlevania last night. Castlevania was amazing but also extremely difficult, I was fully abusing save states by the end lol. I wanna try Castlevania II and III at some point but idk when I’ll be ready for that.

Now I’m on to JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User. It’s a turn based RPG adaptation of Stardust Crusaders made in RPG Maker where you get to self insert and join them on their mission to defeat DIO. I played a few hours last night and so far it’s really charming, there’s all sorts of winks and nods to fans of the series, and it’s fun seeing the manga scenes adapted into game cutscenes. The game gives you a personality test at the start to determine your Stand and mine is a close range support type. I definitely recommend checking it out if it sounds interesting to you, it’s free and can be downloaded here.

I remember Shin Megami Tensei V also used this plugin for animating the Nahobino’s hair

That was Smash 4, I remember my friend playing Little Mac and I would always annoy him with Villager and Mega Man

I love Melee! I used to enter locals but the TOs in my region have only gotten less and less responsible regarding Covid safety over the years and I can’t afford to take that kind of risk. Sure miss it though, hopefully one day it’ll be accessible to me again. At least there’s Slippi netplay for when I feel like playing, and hopefully Brawlback sometime soon too.

I main Peach but lately I’ve been playing a lot of Luigi and Yoshi as well. Haven’t played enough P+ to really have a main there but I think Snake and Wario are my most played.

They’ve convinced themselves that anyone who disagrees with them is a secret tankie alt hellbent on sowing disunity across the fediverse. It’s really convenient since they can avoid ever having to admit they were in the wrong about something. In reality I would be shocked if even a tenth of the regular posters here made alts to post on those instances. Only the most masochistic users and the most determined lib converters could tolerate reading the awful things these people post every day.

follow your leader you trash

Still on Dragon Quest. I haven’t been too motivated to play games recently, but when I am I just pop into that and spend like half an hour making progress. I’m getting close to the end now I think.

We actually did manage to remove some of the screws but were unable to remove the last one because we didn’t have the tools for it at the moment lol. I brought my own drill in this morning to take them out but they also got ahold of our spare key so we have no way to get in now even without the screws. I should have gone and made a bunch of copies of the key while I still had the chance…

by the way if anyone has advice on how to tackle this situation you are welcome to share it. my plan is to just stick to my guns and try and find alternative work as soon as possible

it would be so cool if the down with cis bus showed up outside my workplace and [@&$!#]

That’s what I mean, I remember both of the Octopath Travelers having really intense lighting effects that I thought were pretty unpleasant to look at. But for some reason it doesn’t bother me in DQ3 HD as much even though it’s in the same style. I looked it up and Live A Live got the same treatment and looks fine as well so maybe they’ve been adjusting the style recently.

DQ Monsters is definitely one I want to try at some point too. I never got into any of the monster collecting games besides Pokemon and it feels like I missed out on a lot of good games.

Yeah I think playing 1 through 3 is my plan. I’ve seen a little bit of footage of the DQ3 Remaster, it looks pretty nice! I haven’t really liked the visual style of the HD-2D games but I like the look of DQ3 for some reason. I think it’s that the way they handle the lighting and shaders looks more appealing to me. I know DQ1 and 2 are getting the same treatment soon as well so that’s pretty cool.

I started Dragon Quest 1 on the NES the other day, it’s the first Dragon Quest I’ve played. I picked it because I was curious about it since it’s a game that had such a massive impact on console RPGs, and also because redditors said it was a bad choice to start with it and I will always do the opposite of what redditor gamers say. It’s pretty cool, doesn’t feel too crusty for being such an old game. Pretty basic but that’s what I was expecting and not bad. I was surprised the game has a built in turbo, why isn’t every game doing that?? Fucked up that modern RPGs are making me mash A through text boxes when this game from 1986 doesn’t.

I’m also playing around in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 a little bit because they butchered it in the 3 + 4 remake and it annoyed me enough to go download the original and set it up lol. I’m not gonna do another full playthrough but it’s nice to scratch the itch a little.

2nd Edgeworth game is definitely worth a play IMO, same with The Great Ace Attorney 1 and 2. All 3 are pretty great and are at least as good as the original trilogy. I also thought Dual Destinies was pretty meh and felt the same way about Spirit of Justice. Both just kinda feel unfocused and I found the shift to 3D really killed a lot of the charm in regards to the art and animation. TGAA does much better visually I think, it feels more like they were willing to take steps away from the iconic style the DS Games had in a way that Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice isn’t willing to do, and looks much better for it. Similarly, having a fresh setting and cast of characters lets the writing in TGAA shine, whereas DD/SoJ feels bogged down by neither being willing to move away from the Phoenix Wright cast, nor willing to commit to a story that actually builds off of the previous games in a meaningful way. I ended up just not caring by the end and honestly, it kinda felt like Capcom didn’t care about the overall plot either. DD/SoJ aren’t terrible games by any means, but I don’t feel like they hold up to the rest of the series. I personally think you can skip SoJ, at least until you are out of other AA games to play and are hungry for more, and if you are willing to overlook its flaws.

Moralism dressed up in marxist language. Shut up, you fraud

Thanks, I couldn’t remember how to do it the right way and the lemmy markdown guide is kinda vague so I didn’t get it at the time. I think it should be good now!