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that fucking sucks, I really like roguelites as a genre
but I also really hate existing on reddit, so I might give this a try later since I don’t care what happens to my account
also, you’ve made me want to try CDDA
Well it doesn't matter that much as I'm not banned from r/roguelikes and there is no chance he can take over that community (esp as it already exists, which seems to be the main way he 'takes over' reddit communties, make new ones and pretend that is the real place to be, for example see the creative use of the word official on this 'Official (*) CDDA!' community (170 users 3 active (even r/sneerclub hits around 10 active)) splitting off from the legacy reddit page (39k users 100+ active users), in various places there. It is amusing just how little draw the person has when he does something himself.
* 'largest fan group'
And CDDA is fun if you like those kinds of simulationist roguelikes, at least it was the last time I played it has been a while. If you play it and get killed by a shoggoth you have been murdered by a monster I added. (I don't think they really kill people, as their combat abilities are not that great, they are tough as shit however), the other stuff I added has mostly been changed (for the better btw, I had a different vision for the broken cyborg but what they did with it is super) ow was reasonably minor stuff. CDDA still has the best lighting system of any game (this is both a joke and not a joke, it will become clear if you ever look into or out from light/dark areas in the game).
Don't worry about my reddit account, I also don't really use reddit anymore and if it seems like im obsessing over this today and posting about it here now it is only because I was away from my pc for a few days and only log in here on my pc. So I wanted to share the story yday but was not able. It all just is amazingly silly, and also a good example on why you should not allow people to be edgy and racist just as jokes (that is how he got a foothold in the cdda discord, one of the mods who made him a mod (or so I understood the situation) was one of those edgelords and so is he).
oh fuck yes. since this is a roguelike I’m assuming I’ll need a keyboard? cause otherwise I’d already be installing it on my steam deck
fucking exactly. a couple of the open source retrogaming hardware communities I’ve joined recently (because they habitually don’t update their fucking docs, most likely so you have to beg answers out of the assholes on their toxic discord) have that exact problem. I’ve seen so many communities get destroyed or made utterly inhospitable by “you can’t restrict my free speech to say these things, can’t you take a joke” bullshit. I might have a MoreWrite draft in me analyzing some of these communities since I’ve been interacting altogether far too much with them, but I need to come up with a conclusion that isn’t just “don’t these fuckers suck and isn’t it a shame that they’re gatekeeping a fun hobby?”
I ahve not kept up with nonkeyboard ways of playing, but I know people play it on their phones. I also have not kept up with development lately (sadly you can look at my updates history on the wiki for the last time I really played, at that time I also got mentally overwhelmed by all the changes I wanted to make to the wiki and things I had to check and the relentless advance of development that I basically stopped working on it (I wonder if I could have started a patreon to ask people to pay me to update it but otoh I was not sure if I would get anything for that, then it would feel like work and it also seemed like a really weird thing to do, even if it would have fixed some of my financial issues (and I also didn't think people used it that much)) so that period is the last period I have solidly played, and so much has changed since then. So you could try the free version first if you can get that onto your steam deck, or ask on the subreddit/discourse/discord how well it works for a steamdeck.