I must be on a kick for hyper action roguelike shooters rn.

I just got Sektori and it's giving me locked-in syndrome in the best way. I can just play one run after another indefinitely. It's so immersive and satisfying like the best Housemarque games like Resogun and Returnal.

Also playing a lot of RoboQuest. That's another one that I can just turn on and make two hours disappear. The pacing never lets up while the huge selection of fun weapons keeps me experimenting constantly.

I'm still grinding away on Nuclear Throne too. There's something about the game loop that feels just right to pick up a quick game. I keep getting a little further each time.

I picked back up with Cult of the Lamb. I'm playing it on extreme accessibility settings because I don't want to hassle too much with the cult management stuff or the combat -- I just want to see where the story goes.

I just got Sektori and it's gripped my mind completely. It's developed by a former Housemarque dev and it shows -- balls to the wall action, kaleidoscopic visuals, and excellent roguelike mechanics. Lots of play modes to choose from, lots of run variety.

I also gotta plug Denshattack for those who don't know. The concept is crazy - Tony Hawk style skateboard tricks with railway trains on roller coaster tracks across Japan - but it's absolute frenzied fun. I can't describe it but if you watch a video of it you'll know if it's for you. It's constantly full of surprises and the mechanical fundamentals of the game are just so refined and perfect.

Both of these games make me feel like they're tuning my nervous system, sharpening my reflexes, and challenging me to make sense of a chaotic visual field. It turns out I really like that feeling, and it's what made Returnal my #1 favorite game of all time.

Another like this that I'm getting into is RoboQuest. Fast fun fps roguelite with lots of guns, lots of action, and great comic book inspired graphics. This one is a bit older and can usually be found on sale but it's a lot of fun.

A quieter, slower one (for after the three above have wrung out my brain) is Klei's phenomenal Mark of the Ninja. It's a tactical stealth game where you're a ninja methodically clearing rooms of bad guys. Each room is a thinky puzzle of how to use your limited tools and abilities creatively to neutralize all the enemies and progress. Excellent art style and animation. Expect to try, fail, and try again - the game will patiently wait with you as you figure out how to gracefully ascend each level.

I recently discovered Shape Of Dreams and it's a lot of fun solo, might be fun for you in co-op. Others you might look at:

• Sulfur
• Sworn
• Abyssus

I'm psyched for Monster Train 2! The first one is great and I've heard great things about the second. I mainly play roguelikes these days so the other two don't grab me much, but even so, this is a good haul.

I went up from the 9 pro to the 11 pro this year. It feels like an incremental upgrade. It's newer and faster but it's not wildly different from my last phone. I probably could've held out another year but with RAM prices affecting phones I wanted to upgrade before AI gets even crazier.

Services like eBay are part platform, part people. eBay's people do a lot behind the scenes to ensure it runs smoothly and ethically... AND they take a significant chunk of the proceeds. You could put up some free software that does auctions but you wouldn't have all those high paid security and trust workers working for you.

That's was all to say that just any video editing software will get you there. Pick one and try cutting where it makes sense. Look up how to crossfade in the software you choose.

This is a core capability for anyone who calls themselves a video editor, and all video editing software can support this easily.

I just started Have a Nice Death and it's so instantly appealing! I love the action, the art, the story. It stands besides the best action roguelite platformers I've ever played like Dead Cells, Blazblue Entropy Effect X, Rogue Prince of Persia, and Astral Ascent.

Yeah I got my young son and all his friends onto SimpleX because you don't need a phone number to use it. Works great except they don't use it, they still default to fucking Facebook messenger.

Neat. But it's not pre social media. Social media has been around since the 1980s.

That's why I alternately call it the "platform web" in which social media stopped running on open and interoperable protocols and started being walled gardens on commercial platforms.

And to your other point - it shouldn't be solely up to forum admins to opt-in to the Fediverse, end users should be able to subscribe to the forums they belong to with Fedi-powered tools.

The Fediverse could and should be the place where all those things can converge but I'm pointing out that it currently is failing to be that.

Not a stupid question, but I should clarify that I'm approaching this as a reader, not an admin. I'm trying to find a reading solution that encompasses forums running on Discourse, NodeBB, and whatever else older platforms might still have thriving communities around topics I'm interested in.

I found the DiscourseHub app that lets you browse and subscribe to a wide cross section of communities powered by Discourse, but no NodeBB or others. The solution I'm envisioning would be like that but agnostic of platforms.