1: An open world exploration game that doesn’t have combat … like Breath of the Wild but without all the fighting and with lots of short stories and puzzles.

Basically I want to be able to go wandering off and uncover ancient ruins etc without having to fight for my life.

2: Snowrunner, but with a good narrative story mode and gearboxes that actually work.

There’s so much potential to have engaging stories in that game, which could be tied into improved game structure (namely restricting truck / tire choice to make some tasks challenging in an interesting way).

So, Tux Kart?

Edit: or more old school, Wacky Wheels (I think I still have a copy somewhere)

I don’t think Farm Simulator has any combat

Hi, just wanted to say I think you’re really cool and keep up the good work :-)

Yeah, I’m old so I tend to gravitate towards forums by nature, lol … it’s a mature and proven way of working, though harder to maintain momentum on compared to an aggregator like this

What we move to could still have an app … I’m using Liftoff and Connect, they both do ok, and I’m guessing adapting to another app (or good mobile web frontend) wouldn’t be as painful as you think!

That seems like a big ask given that the admins mentioned they don’t have the resources to start from scratch and a Lemmy fork wouldn’t fix the issues. There is almost no possibility of this happening, my friend

My understanding is that kbin is even less mature than Lemmy.

Also, OP stated that they’ve weighed up all available options (which would obviously include kbin) and to please not suggest things in this thread, I guess because of getting bogged down in semantic arguments rather than discussing the community aspect.

Linux Mint is easier to use than Windows

This is great, because it located me about a full day’s drive from where I live, so I’m still pretty anonymous :-)

Ah, it’s the phones, I thought it was 12 year olds and was a commentary on the GOP or something

Yeah, the descriptions and lack of curation is really weird … browse games and oh look here’s 27 varieties of reversi and a driving game that crashes on launch.

If it were a curated list with enthusiastic and helpful descriptions it would make it more accessible to use. Get the mature and professional looking programs front and center.

Much as I hate to say it, it could do with a makeover from someone with a sense of marketing. (Excuse me for a second, I felt a little nauseous saying that).

sigh yes I remember 1.0 taking up a lot of my 160mb hard disk.

Things I remember: changing the command line font was mindblowing. I managed to get xeyes to run, but not a window manager, so I just had massive eyes following the cursor around. I compiled a lot of my really shoddy C code but had no idea what I was doing. The number of disks that Emacs needed felt disproportionate at 5 when MS Word 2.0 fitted on 3, and Doom fitted on 3 and a half.

It was all very exciting, and felt like you were “sticking it to the man” by not using ms-dos :-)

These days I just use computers as a tool, and as such I have Linux Mint on my home machine.

Not OP but, personally not having a modem at that time, I convinced a well-off friend that he should try it. Then I copied his disks.