[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago

I recommend that you do not touch the diaper.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 12 hours ago

I had a play on the demo this evening, probably about 1hr 30 for the full match. I enjoyed playing it, and I think you've got the base gameplay loop working nicely.

There were a few quirks with the AI opponent getting its soldiers stuck in furniture, and repeatedly trying to reposition them until out of energy, and a few times where I struggled with positioning on top of something (instead of inside/under), but essentially no game-stopping bugs.

I was playing on Linux Mint - I didn't look whether it's Linux native or running through Proton, but it runs nicely regardless.

Without a campaign, it likely limits the replayability a bit - but the general gameplay itself is fun, and a great position to be in for developing things further, in whatever direction you want to go.

Also, just to note a campaign doesn't need to be all cutscenes and gripping plot and voice acting and drama - a set of different maps that follow in an order, starting easier and getting harder (or introducing new units or map features on each level) would do the job just fine. Also, some people won't care about single player campaign things at all - so please don't take my personal opinion as the opinion of everyone :)

Anyway, it was good fun to play. I'll put it on my wishlist, and I wish you good luck with the launch and ongoing development :)

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Big congratulations for getting this far! Well done! There's some novel ideas in this, which must be quite hard to do in a genre like RTS which leans heavily on familiarity.

Is it currently just single isolated random battles, or is there some sort of linked-mission pre-scripted campaign to take over the house or anything like that?

[Edit] After playing the demo, I realise it's turn-based strategy rather than real-time strategy, but still the point stands.

I have to admit I love these ladder related jokes - they work on so many different levels :D

Britons of a certain age refer to this as the "Trigger's Broom Paradox", after a character from a comedy TV Series "Only Fools and Horses".

Trigger, who worked as a street sweeper, got an award from the City Council for maintaining the same sweeping brush for twenty years (though the broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles).

Trigger's Broom (Youtube Link)

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Perhaps they all eat Plumber's Tape (aka Thread Seal Tape)?

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

May his handful of Revels exclusively contain his least favourite flavour.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago

May his shopping trolley (shopping cart) always have a wheel which keeps sticking and steering him off to the side when he tries to go forwards.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah, they need to go back to having bald faces and side-parted hair, so we can shun them at long distance.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

I never interacted with Pokemon (i think I was a few years too old for it) - but I used to have to write a lot of international names down for work related reasons, and therefore eventually had all the accented letter win-alt-key codes memorised - though I can't really remember them all now (I've used Linux only for about 15 years).

I don't think I'd remember many now - for example, I was convinced é was ALT+0233, but I could easily be mixing it up with one of the others.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago

Black cats of all nationalities are welcome :) The charity that declared the day is from the UK, but the idea that "black cats are beautiful and shouldn't be overlooked" is worldwide :)

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"National Black Cat Day was created by Cats Protection on 27 October 2011 to help celebrate the majesty of monochrome moggies and beautiful black cats. When the campaign was launched, statistics revealed that black and black-and-white cats took, on average, seven days longer to find a home compared to cats of other colours."

Cats Protection - National Black Cat Day

Picture: Two of the semi-feral black kittens that were born in our garden, who were neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and re-homed.

Let's see your black cats 🐈‍⬛️

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

According to the best school playground scientists of the time, opening a packet of crisps upside down (i.e. so the branding/writing is upside down, and you open the bottom of the packet, at the top) actually "made you gay".

It wasn't just gay if you did it, but it would literally cause a spontaneous eruption of gayness in whoever did it - who would be permanently gay from that point onwards.

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"If Michael Gove really wants to root out the forces threatening British society, perhaps his party should look in the mirror"

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My son says it means taking out the player without getting the ball, all while shouting ‘Brexit means Brexit’. Sound familiar?

For the umpteenth time, my son, with an Ikea stuffed ball he has had since infancy, is playing football in the living room. He is joined by one of his best friends, an equally football-obsessed 10-year-old who, before slide-tackling in what can only be described as a deliberate attempt to knock my son’s legs off, shouts: “Brexit means Brexit!” Confused, I pass it off as an example of tweenage precocity: which 10-year-old is happy to quote Theresa May while playing football?

I must admit, this gives me some hope for the future.

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Cats Protection UK Website - National Black Cat Day

I include a complementary picture of a black cat in a carrier bag.

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Three cats spread over the stairs, staring at the camera person, blocking access to the upstairs. (Actually they're just waiting for someone to throw the fuzzy ball for them to chase).

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Photo is from about a year ago, when the cats learnt that as well as "on the bed" and "under the duvet", if you explored the area where the buttons were, there was also "inside the duvet cover".

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Three cat brothers, sat neatly on a staircase, Jan 2023. This is probably my favourite photo of the three of them together.

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