My bank is continuously surprised that I understand this. It’s probably a bad sign.

And you can do a lot of that with good IDEs.

That would theoretically help, but do you suppose the people who make them use floppies would be magnanimously generous enough to offer two drives?

Right, here’s my rough process:

1. Content in question
2. Adjacent content
3. Profile
4. Recent history on subreddit
5. Mod logs, notes, discussions
6. Recent history elsewhere
7. Check other websites and tools that already provide summaries on Reddit users
8. Back to 3 with authors of adjacent content

Along the line, discuss with other mods in real time, off platform because Reddit is still not properly accessible.

Anywhere along the way I may feel confident to make a call and skip the rest.

And I only deal with a 30k sub…

That said, Reddit’s already filtering things for likely spam that just aren’t. I don’t have huge confidence in them and I don’t have any confidence in LLMs for this.

I basically played good guy, reloaded a save to try a couple of alternatives near the end (including turning bad) then played full bad guy on New Game + which, let me tell you, was a wild ride, still reloading towards the end for a few more options.

All in all, something like 6 or 7 different endings. I love that the bad guy route doesn’t eliminate some sections but gives you alternative challenges instead.

It’s so good! The story cop-out also adds to replayability. I played it twice over with minor reloads for about 4 or 5 different endings.

In general, yes, but like the original list, the name of the game is the spoiler. I’ll add some more info though.

I’m playing The Outer Worlds. Pretty cool so far!

Lots of dialog options for stuff, as I’d expect from Obsidian, interesting lore, hard choices. I wish the slow motion mode also highlighted enemies with V.A.T.S. That would make it much easier for me to play.

Right, as an instance admin, I’m very confident I can avoid Facebook’s mistakes. I don’t have the same motivations.

I’ll play it with an Xbox controller on PC, but what I mean is the thematic impact of playing it while so much of the world is also isolated isn’t - hopefully won’t be - repeatable.

It’ll always feel like a relic of that time, won’t it? I wonder how we’ll talk about it in 20 years…

I played a chunk of it then on PS4, but found the text exhausting and put it down. One of these days I’ll have to play it on PC, but it just won’t feel the same.

Yeah, the vehicles and battlefield chaos are really well executed. It feels genuinely grandiose today, so it must have been mind blowing at the time. I can also tell the campaign is meant to teach you how to play multiplayer, which other games would go on to do in the years to come.

There’s a lot of Battlefield 3 in there. Or the other way around, more appropriately.

I played a bit of Infinite coop - that game is super faithful, by way - and that was a lot of fun. Playing this in 2001 with a friend must have been fantastic fun.

You know, having just played the Library level, I get the feeling that it was thematically necessary to drive home the scale of the cosmic horror you’re facing. It needs to be exhausting, overwhelming, unending…

I tried it on PC in 2004 and all I got was a slide show.

Incredible, I’m sure. Especially for people who weren’t playing on PC before - it generally stands up to Half-Life in a lot of ways, including the enemy movement and maybe even AI, but the cutscenes have that more traditional cinematic look. I love the constant immersion of Half-Life, but this feels like watching an awesome sci-fi action movie, like Aliens. There’s enough survival horror and cosmic horror vibes as well to keep you going.

[crosses legs and hums]

Halo: Combat Evolved. I get what all the hype was about. This is a good game!

You can add captions to images inside text posts - those are used for alt text. You can’t add alt text to image posts though.

Trust me, I would know.

Incidentally, they’re automatically adding the subreddit and post title together for the image’s alt text, which still doesn’t include OP’s name.

Who’s blind now!? Hehehe.

I personally don’t, because I still play mainstream games and have been lucky with accessibility improvements to a lot of the ones I’m interested in. The Last of Us parts I and II are incredibly accessible, for example.

Then again… I think A Hero’s Call is relatively well regarded, as something that’s also on Steam.

You could check out audiogames.net to get a broader selection, but be mindful that a lot of the discussions get quite unsavory. I don’t frequent it.