The Sega Channel was amazing and completely ahead of it’s time. My parents got it for us when I was ten. My parents even got in on it when they each got addicted to Shining force to the extent that they’d play for hours and poor ten year old me had to sit and spin until they were done.

Haha, yeah. Same guy. I lost my shit when I disxovered them because it was like finding more Wolf Parade (somewhat, they do have a different, more experimental and sweeping opera-ish sound). Dragonslayer is hands down one of my favorite albums of all time.

One of my favorite bands of all time. I like Expo '86 better but this is still an excellent album. The lead singer’s side project is good too the band is called Sunset Rubdown.

Of course!

It is REALLY good. I mistyped the title it is Once Upon a Time in France, not Paris lol. Here’s a review: https://comicsgrinder.com/2019/10/23/review-once-upon-a-time-in-france-published-by-dead-reckoning/

It was bad for me for a long time. I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but my fiance passed four years ago and I took to the bottle harder than I ever had before in my life. I literally drank everyday for two years. I had to go to the hospital for medical for the first time in my life ever, and after that day two years ago I’ve been steadily chipping away at trying to beat back the damn bottle. I’ve had more sobriety in the past two years than the two previous. I think I am FINALLY done. I have four days sober today ;D

I’d highly recommend trying to quit if you can, especially because of those dark places. Do you have legal pot where you’re at? That might be a good alternative if you’re self-medicating. I’m actually starting a recovery group in town (non-AA because I hate that program for a variety of reasons, ‘higher power’ being especially egregious for me) and am going to start working on making a positive change in the community here where I can, I’ll do what I’m able at least.

Haha, for sure! Sorry I haven’t got a chance to post anything new in the new space. I’ve been busy with life issues (sadly, having to kick drinking again and tappering off for several days so I could start the detox was pita). I’m getting back to normal though and should be able to feel well enough to post soon. Been reading Once Upon a Time in Paris which has been fantastic. Hope you’re doing well lately. I’ll be around ;)

Well, there’s always lemmy.ml ;p

Oh man, that’s awesome. It made me sad that the old version didn’t work through WINE. It ran, but at like double speed, which made the game too twitchy to play. I’ll have to bookmark that for when I’m at the library (my internet service at home is garbage right now).

Yep! My favorite so far was the scifi-themed golf game, can’t remember the name. I haven’t touched it in awhile since I’ve been busy.

The game that gets most of my attention these days is Shiren the Wanderer The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on PSP (through an emulator on Android). I just beat the DS version of Shiren weeks ago for the first time after playing off and on for about twenty years (I never really got serious about completing it until now, it was always a casual timewasting roguelike for me) and moved onto the PSP fan translation of Devil’s Navel.

They have a browser version? Or do you just mean free download version? I run Linux and when I tried the old version it didn’t play well with WINE sadly.

Derek is a workhorse for sure. Have you seen his new project: UFO50? I’ve played a few of the 50(!) different games, all good stuff so far. A nice little homage to old retro computer games all ZX Spectrum late 80s era stuff.

I’ll check it out. A surprising amount can be found through the library inter-loan service.

My man, Spelunky was a whole era for me. I actually used to hang around the Independent Game Forums (TIGS) in 2008-2010ish and played the original version before Derek made the commercial version. To this day I prefer the old version, but the commercial one is a great game too (it has good bones lol). My then girlfriend and I would spend hours on that game. Side note too: Notch of Minecraft fame was also a forum member then and released the first initial alpha builds of Minecraft, so I played Minecraft before it’s meteoric rise when it was just a hobbyist project based off of an old digging game we played on the forums called Infinimer. There were a lot of early indie ‘stars’ on the forums, Phil Fish that created Fez and Edward Mullen of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Issac fame. It was an interesting and exciting time. It’s still crazy to me to see Minecraft blow up like it did from this little project on the forums to this video game giant.

That’s a fantastic list of recommendations. I have only encountered Tardi briefly, but I can’t remember the work. I do remember liking his style though. Didn’t he do Adele Blanc-Sac (I think it’s called).

Woodring’s stuff is generally pretty fantastic and wildly weird. Been awhile since I had anything by him. His work reminds me of what would happen if you took old 20s-30s cartoons and had the animators drop a few hits of acid.

Rich Corben’s horror work in the 70s/80s was phenomenal, truly one of the greats.

The rest I’m not entirely familiar with, but you’ve given me some stuff to keep and eye out for. Thanks!

Well, in these parts we ride bears to and from places. They’re like big, furry tractors :D

I live about 15 miles outside of a small town (~20k) in a trailer park on the side of a mountain. Been here 6 months and it is AMAZING. Super quiet at night, can see the stars and it has a great view of the adjacent mountains nearby.

It’ll most likely be awhile, but the plan is to save for a small piece of property with a similar rural location. In my teens and twenties, I used to think that I’d live in the big city, but as I got into my late 30s I couldn’t stand being in the city much. I don’t mind being able to visit occasionally, but city life just isn’t for me anymore. Too big, busy and noisy. Give me a nice, peaceful spot where I can read and enjoy nature quietly.

It might be different for other distros, but for me on MX Linux, I just click on the .deb and it opens a shell with a root prompt and installs the file automatically. Easy peasy.

lemmy.world is basically the fediverse version of Reddit from what I’ve experienced in terms of overall culture.

including your allegedly heinous example of bonding with a widow because you also lost your SO! Can you imagine?! Humans bonding over a common experience?

I used that example, because I am a widow myself. My fiance passed a few years ago. I don’t mean to imply people do this out of malice, just that they try to “make you feel better” by relating to your grief, but unfortunately grief doesn’t work like that. When I am grieving, more than anything I’m just looking for someone to listen and understand, not try and tell me “it’s normal” or “this happens to everyone, don’t feel so bad”, because as genuine and heartfelt that sentiment is it is not helpful. I’m not immune to it either, I met a man on the bus who’d lost his daughter, and my first reaction was to mention my fiance rather than listen and let him let it out. I realized what I was doing and reflected about it later, I saw how he reacted and how sharing that type of pain doesn’t mitigate it, what you really want is to talk to someone without comparing tragedy. There is a time and place for that, but not in those moments of grief and pain.

Yes, I mentioned that explicitly in my comment, did you read all of it? I never said that it was okay for that type of thing to happen to men, and that we should talk about it. And just like with letting women have the floor, we should allow men to have it when the convo is centered on that issue. I don’t see what the issue with giving each issue their own time and space is, we need to have focus if we’re talking about two very different, yet similar scenarios, in order to have some kind of real way to find a solution proper to both.

Of course everyone has varying experiences, I’m not trying to flatten that fact. When I say “typical” I’m refering to the fact that these types of incidents are more prevailent as an experience by women under the subjegation of a patriarchical culture that gives males a disproportionate amount pf privilege and status in such a society. I myself mentioned in my original post that it isn’t right for this to happen to men any more than women, but I think it’s disingenuous to claim these are equivalent experiences. I mentioned minorities and prejudice, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable to state that racism against white people, while it does exist, is a much different thing then what is experienced by minorities. Trying to create a false dichotomy equating male’s experience of sexual harrassment with women’s undermines the severity of the problem by trying to act like it’s a gender neutral issue, it isn’t. We can address both, but it would be wrong to conflate both as the same, we can draw parallels and definitely see lessons from each’s perspective, but we can’t paint both with a broad brush if we want to address what is the core issue with both.

I’ve seen the worst from both sides. Everyone with either a testicle or an ovary can sit right the fuck down.

But that’s just it, right? Your experience is an outlier in the typical male experience. I myself have never experienced those kinds of things, but I am sorry you have.

The problem is, that women experience these types of things far more than men do. It is wrong that it happens to males as well, but that type of sentiment (hey, guys have it bad too!) is exactly why the slogans “All Lives Matter” versus “Black Lives Matter” is a huge deflection on a problematic issue.

Sure, all lives matter, but when there is a disproportionate amount of black people having actions happen that put their lives in danger, re-framing the argument only serves to obscure that reality even further.

I think it’s important to realize there is a time and place for grievance, and when it is someone trying to relate their struggle, it isn’t helpful to mention “well yeah, I have it bad too”. Imagine saying that to a widower: “you lost your wife? I lost my husband and my son!” Comparing burdens does nothing to address the suffering of another, and it doesn’t bring to light the scope of the issue when it is a group that experiences more adversity than another.

The fact of the matter is, we live in a male-dominated society, and as such we experience a much, much different reality than women do. Same with minority ethnic groups. And to marginalize those already marginalized groups even further by bringing up our (very real at times) struggles feels like a slight to them.

I do believe that there is a very real need to talk about toxic attitudes held towards things that happen towards men, which is important because it is mainly due to our status, these issues are all too often swept under the rug or minimized because those things “don’t happen to men”. That is wrong, and is a very real problem.

Do what? Remind me of the babe

No worries! I’m right there with you. I’ve been juggling a lot lately.

Pico-8 is fantastic! One of my favorite projects on itch. I just beat the Pico-8 version of Celeste, and Celeste 2 as well. There’s so many great hidden gems on Pico. My favs are Celeste (of course) Pinballvania, Stabbycrabby, Driplogic and Puzzles of the Paladin. I’m always finding interesting stuff through the random section with splore. I’m thinking about learning lua and fiddling around with making a game on Pico someday.

Definitely! It’s always nice to meet like-minded folks, especially across a range of interests. I’m also into tabletop roleplaying (actually created a new community for one shot rpgs here: https://lemmy.ml/c/Every_Post_Is_An_RPG) and love reading (literary stuff, but also genre stuff at times, reading a Discoworld novel by Pratchett currently called The Truth).

Maybe you can sticky a general discussion thread, even if it’s seldom used, at least it can facilitate some discussion, especially if there is bandes dessinees chat that isn’t thread worthy.