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The bug where after being on for 24-36 hours, the second hard drive on my #framework 16 laptop just...disappears...is getting really, really old. I thought it was temperature, so I started logging that. But nope. It's not an issue with the flash, because the data always comes back just fine, and there are no read errors or anything. It just gets tired after a day and decides to go for a nap. This is the problem with a fully repairable laptop: I installed it, so whatever's wrong, it's now my problem. I can't just go bother Del or whomever. It's running #Windows 11 because screen readers on Linux are still terrible, so anyone suggesting "install Linux" as the answer gets blocked. But I really don't think it's a Windows thing; it's not in device manager, or anywhere. Only fully powering down the machine and turning it back on again helps. A restart isn't enough. So it has to be a hardware thing!
I also don't love that I had to install two firmware updates on my #framework 16: one for the number pad, and one for the keyboard. But I was able to do so without an admin prompt! What firmware does this thing run? What can it do? How does it communicate with the system? Can someone just install a keylogger directly into my keyboard firmware without me even having to grant any kind of permission or be admin? This is...worrying. github.com/FrameworkComputer/qmk_firmware/releases/tag/v0.3.1
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@mcourcel Yup. I thought that might be the issue, so I set it to always on for the hard discs. But there was no change. I also turned off sleep and hibernate, in case those were causing problems.
Okay, I'm not going to suggest anything, because I know your level of knowlege and I'm sure you made the same searches that I did. There was a patch done back in August that broke a bunch of stuff for hard drives, but I'm sure you saw that.
@mcourcel I did! I'm on the latest Windows update available, and my understanding is that this was fixed at some point? I installed the second drive back in January, and this only started at the beginning of October. So...I'm baffled. I'm also bothered, bewildered, bamboozled, and buffaloed.
You should switch to Linux. *ducks* But on a more serious note, you're not gonna like it but it sounds like a drive issue. If you go get yourself a USB enclosure and slap that drive in there, do you still have that problem after 24 hours? If yes, definitely drive. If not, connection issue internally.
@quanin@mcourcel Yeah, that's the next step. I got myself the upgraded motherboard and graphics module, so once they arrive I'll be opening up the machine again anyway, so I'll do more drive testing at that point. I intend to reuse the old motherboard to build a little media PC, so I might just put a new drive in the laptop, and put this drive in there and see what it does. That way if it is the drive it'll be easier for me to access, and I need a drive for the media PC anyway.
@quanin@mcourcel The Framework is...not bad to work on, for a laptop. So still bad and horrible obviously. But it's worth it to have a laptop I can actually upgrade; I'm sick and tired of a new laptop every three years. And I wanted a media PC anyway, so reusing the old parts fits perfectly into my life.
So I shouldn't tell you I bought my current laptop 5 years ago and it still works flawlessly then, right? LOL Even runs Windows 11 if I feel like brain damage.
@quanin@mcourcel See, I have that with my macs. But every Windows laptop I've ever had, even though the CPU etc are still fine, something always goes wrong by between three and five years. Sometimes it's the fans, or the keyboard, or the screen hinge, or the USB plugs get wonky, or the headphone jack stops working, or...something. And then it's out of warranty so it'd cost so much to fix it I might as well just get a new one. I've tossed so many perfectly good components for that reason over the years that it makes me cry.
How long have you had your current laptop? To be clear I'm not knocking the strategy at all but it sounds like you just shortened the timeline on that pattern. Also you just explained why I tend to lean toward Dell over places like HP. They're the only one with a 4-year warranty. It's not perfect but if the motherboard goes in year 3 I'm still covered. That's never happened.
@quanin@mcourcel I've had the laptop for a year. I don't actually need to upgrade the motherboard; I'm only doing it because I was otherwise going to build a media PC anyway, and this way I get two for the price of one. I wouldn't recommend any other blind Framework 16 owner to upgrade unless they have some use for the old motherboard. The second hard drive that is having issues is one I installed in January myself. So if I wasn't upgrading the laptop, I would just replace it and things would be fine. Nothing else is wrong with the machine. And if it was, all of the ports are expansion cards that I can replace for between $5 and $15 depending on the port in question.
You're jumping ahead a little. IF the drive is fine then it's a problem with where it's connected to the laptop internally. That's why I suggested a USB enclosure as a step. If the problem is internal, you might be transferring that problem to your media PC.
@quanin@mcourcel Yup, and that would be annoying. But the motherboard has two drive slots, so it wouldn't be the end of the world. Somehow, though, I doubt it. I installed the drive in January and it worked perfectly until October. That kind of connection doesn't usually just die. Or if it does, other things on the board usually die alongside it.
@quanin@mcourcel I'm also starting to wonder about something being underpowered. The USBC adapter is 180w, but at full load the machine pulls 240w. In theory, it should pull from the battery to make up the difference until the load goes back down. But, well, you know. Theory. I'm also grabbing myself a 240w USBC adapter, and I'm interested to see if that changes anything.
@quanin@mcourcel I don't even have another 180w USBC adapter to test with. And these things run super hot! So...I'm also giving this adapter a side-eye. I don't have a meter handy. But if I did...I wonder...
I mean, anything's possible (see my comment about hardware being weird, bro), but presumably you've been pulling 240 at full load since January. If that's your issue, you should have seen it before now. Also why does it specifically become underpowered after 24 hours? Yeah, that's *a* problem and you should definitely replace that adaptor, but I don't think that's *the* problem.
@quanin@mcourcel Well, why would a connection on the board die after 24 hours? And then be fine the minute I shut down the machine and power it back on? Neither make sense to me. But if I run Forza at the max settings, I can watch the battery discharge even while the laptop is plugged in. It's fun! It makes me wonder about some kind of power management thing in the BIOS? Framework did release a BIOS update recently, that lets the laptop charge to a max of 80 percent for battery protection if it hasn't been unplugged in over a week.
When did you install that bios update? Before, or after your hard drive started taking its daily naps? If before, that's definitely a factor and you should probably yell at Framework. If after, I'm still leaning hardware issue.
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@quanin@mcourcel The problem is...I...don't know? I don't always leave the laptop on all the time, obviously. And sometimes, of course, Windows just crashes for one reason or another. Or it installs an update overnight or whatever. And then the first few times I noticed it I went "Huh." and rebooted before I noticed the pattern. And of course it's my secondary drive, so I only notice it's gone when I go to play a game (it's where Steam installs all the games); if I'm just browsing the web or whatever it could be gone without me even noticing. October is when I noticed the pattern, started leaving the laptop on 24/7, and checking the drive frequently.
You wouldn't happen to be able to get your hands on the bios you were previously using, would you? If you could, that'd rule that out quick, fast and in a hurry.
@quanin@mcourcel I could, but Framework doesn't allow downgrading to older BIOS versions because they changed the CA and key for secure boot and code signing.
Welp, if it were me, I'd be on the phone or email or whatever with Framework. "This is my problem, these are my symptoms, I installed this bios version and can't be sure it's not my cause." I mean, it might not be, but if it is that's a manufacturer issue.
@quanin@mcourcel If it wasn't a third party drive that I'd installed myself, I would be. But I hate to be "that guy": I opened the laptop and did things to it and now I want you to fix my problems!
I mean, the entire point of Framework is the opening it up and doing things to it. What did they expect you were gonna do? And honestly, I mean, when you upgrade your motherboard you're basically replacing your bios anyway, so if it's a bios issue you've just solved it. What you want to make sure is you're not transferring a failing motherboard to your media PC.
I'm also keeping a close eye on the Framework Community forums, and I haven't seen anyone else reporting this type of issue. So...yeah. Once I get the new motherboard I'll have a lot more testing options, and almost none of them will involve opening the laptop multiple times. And if the motherboard is failing, it's still under warranty, so I can go through the replacement process on the media PC while still having a working laptop. If the drive is failing, it's mine and I'll be sad and replace it. If the BIOS is failing, I'll at least have more proof of that.
That's a valid approach, absolutely. Do you have somewhere you can stash that data temporarily on the off chance it's the drive? The thing is right now it's just annoying. I don't want you waking up next week and it's a disaster.
@quanin@mcourcel The only things on the drive are steam games, and files synced to it from iCloud and Dropbox. So it's pretty much impossible for me to lose any data. Downloading almost 1 TB of steam games and another TB of synced files would be annoying, but not the end of the world.
@quanin@mcourcel Just the two The Last of Us Games are close to 500 gigs all by themselves. Then Forza is like another hundred, AS Dusk Falls is multiple gigs, etc. A terabyte of games is surprisingly few games, these days.
@quanin@mcourcel Heck, even hearthstone, a turn based card game, is five gigs! Stuff like The Last of Us is a 100 gig download, but then it decompresses itself and caches all of its shaders and so on and so on.
@quanin@mcourcel The nice thing about Steam is your saves are stored to the cloud. So assuming you have lots of Internet, you could get away with a 500 gig drive and only install the game you're currently playing. If you uninstall it, you can generally just reinstall and pick back up again and all your saves will be there. Also there are smaller games like Stardew Valley that's only like 500 megs or slay the spire that I think is under a gig. It's just the AAA titles that are huge.
Has Steam gotten around to indicating on its platform which games are actually accessible for us or are we still left with trolling places like Audiogames?
@quanin@mcourcel They...uh...sort of have? But a game can have all of the accessibility features and still not be fully playable without vision. But if you've played a game for less than two hours, Steam will issue an automatic refund, no questions asked. partner.steamgames.com/doc/accessibility_features
@quanin@mcourcel You can also find other completely blind folks on steam, and follow them. Someone's steam profile shows every game they've played, how long they've played it, and the achievements they have (if the game supports achievements). However, some games may have accessibility mods, so once you find a blind person who plays something, you then need to do a quick internet search for game+accessible mod or whatever.
@quanin@mcourcel Okay, here's a list of the games I have: * Alcyone: The Last City: fully playable, but only with annoying SAPI text to speech * Alt-Frequencies: fully playable * Arcade Spirits: fully playable, outputs text to the clipboard, so you need autoclip * Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers: same * As Dusk Falls: fully playable * Balatro: you need a mod but installation is easy * BROK the InvestiGator: fully playable * Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant: fully playable * Conjury: fully playable * cyberpunkdreams: fully playable * Dark Passenger: fully playable * Diablo: mostly playable * Doki Doki Literature Club: you need a mod and installing it is irritating * Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!: this is a remastered version of the above game and the mod is much easier to install and better in every way * Escape from Norwood: fully playable * Factorio: fully playable with mods * Firebird: fully playable * Forza Motorsport: fully playable * Hearthstone: fully playable with mods * Heroes Rise: The Prodigy: fully playable * Kilta: fully playable * The Last of Us™ Part I: fully playable * The Last of Us™ Part II: fully playable * Lost and Hound: fully playable * Luck be a Landlord: fully playable * Magic Research: fully playable * Magic Research 2: fully playable * Microsoft Flight Simulator: only playable if you devote your entire life to it and pay a monthly subscription for the mod and make the correct pagan sacrifices * Night of the Full Moon: fully playable * Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain: fully playable * Periphery Synthetic: fully playable * Pizza Game: fully playable * Sanctuary in Time: fully playable * The Secret of Darkwoods: fully playable * SEQUENCE STORM: fully playable * Shining Song Starnova: fully playable with autoclip * Skullgirls: fully playable if you own a controller * Slay the Spire: fully playable with a mod called say the spire * Smugglers 5: Invasion: playable if you like using object navigation and OCR * soundStrider: fully playable * Stardew Valley: playable with mods * Thaumistry: In Charm's Way: fully playable * Trawel: fully playable * Warsim: The Realm of Aslona: fully playable * World Empire 2027: fully playable
I would recommend sequence storm as your first place to start. Good fun, finishable in a few days, requires no modding. Then maybe move on to Slay The Spire and Balatro to get used to modding stuff and how that feels. Both excellent games that take months to master. There are many more mainstream accessible games, these are just the ones I've personally played.
1. Doesn't Kilta have long delays between it reading various menus, making it a chore to navigate the UI. 2. How strategic is Night of the Full Moon? I love the difficulty of Dawncaster and Slay The Spire. How accurate is its description of "Mild strategic turn-based card battle"? 3. How do you get past the huge list of countries to select from in World Empire 2027? I couldn't get past that in the demo.
One day I might encounter a Framework owner whose laptop isn't broken in at least one way. Or then again maybe not given that people are angry at them for giving money to fascists.
@jscholes I mean I was one of those people until the start of October! I got the Framework 16 the day it came out, and installed the hard drive a couple months later. So I had a long time of perfect service.
I feel like websites/apps that don't list password requirements right off the bat are disrespectful to users. Nobody has time or patients to play guessing games with the submit button until they squeeze all your password requirements out of you, one error at a time.
The government of the wealthiest nation on earth shut down over whether people should be able to eat AND get affordable healthcare but the media says a few "moderates" might reopen the government by deciding that it's okay for some people to have to go without one or both.
Mastodon folks, stay tuned because our micronews are back after a brief outage! And BTW did we mention there will a trixie point release next weekend?! #debian #trixie #11
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Plant Sticker. Come on guys, this is a family friendly platform. Either keep it in your pots or get a field already. collabs.shop/eco6yk
Reads: "Cactus in the Streets Tender Succulent in the Streets". Theme: pun, punny quotes, plant lovers Our glossy finish protects stickers from harmful UV rays, so they will stay vibrant on laptops, water bottles, bikes, and more.
Eminem sorta-discovering Ez Mil and bringin him on a track to drop this ridiculous tongue twister in tagalog is nuts
Rookie Gs actin' thuggish, you pawns to me, shut the fuck up Annihilation's what we love, steady hittin', gettin' dubs Just wait 'til we get the guns out Kwarenta-singko na kalibre o nuwebe, 'kaw na bahala Sa dinami-rami mong mali, utak mo lang may tama Sa kitid mo mag-isip, pare, 'la ka man lang nabanat Naglalim-laliman, ang sarap mong ilublob sa dagat 'Di kailangang magpatunay sa sinuman ang nakikinig 'Di masasalag ng sintido o ng iyong bibig Picture this, I might be a hero to your little kid Or a villain, either way, I'm the fuckin' head honcho
"45 caliber or 9, your choice You have made a lot of mistakes (Out of all your misses) (You have lots of defects) Your brain will take the hit (Only your brain took the hit) (Only your brain was correct - It's sarcastic because it also implies that even your brain has its flaws) With your narrow thinking, you couldn’t even respond Delving Depths/Feigning depth, I'd love to submerge you in the ocean No need to prove anything to those who are listening Won't be deflected by reason or your words (Your temple or mouth will not stop this)"
This is just a general reminder as a rule of thumb: in general, please be extremely nice to IT support. It is actually astonishing to me how often people in a variety of different environments will just constantly be mean, abusive and uncooperative with people in support roles even when they're the ones asking for help. Someone has to keep things running, and they are probably dramatically underfunded (with management constantly considering contracting out and layoffs)
Warum nochmal kann Thunderbird keine VJOURNALs anzeigen, bitte? Wieviel Arbeit wäre es denn, dafür ein PlugIn / einen Konnektor zu schreiben (auch einfach interim)? @thunderbird #thunderbird #mozilla
Wir waren noch nicht in der Lage, diese und andere Funktionen zu erforschen, da wir mit Projekten wie dem Hinzufügen von Exchange-Unterstützung, der Arbeit an der Kalender-Benutzeroberfläche und unserer neuen Datenbank beschäftigt waren. Aber der beste Ort, um Unterstützung für die Entwicklung dieser Funktion zu zeigen (und alle Updates zu verfolgen), ist dieser Vorschlag auf Mozilla Connect: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/s…
# already has a great support for VTODO VCALENDAR and contacts. What is missing though is support for VJOURNAL entries. Journals are close to calendar entries.
At the top of the hour, @Liz will be live with FullCircle. So tune in, interact with the show, and see who is in tonight's playlist of good and bad covers. HKCRadio.com
Microsoft announces a new marketing strategy for the Year of the Linux Desktop 😉 Thank you for doing this. 😂 Nobody asked for this kind of product that breaks all privacy and safety standards. So choose wisely
@datajake1999 @TheQuinbox @BTyson @samtupy @Tamasg @AlexSpectrum93 anyone know the email address for rommix0? rommix0 used to be on mastodon and he made the bestSpeech speak window but I forget his real name. Kevin something?
Yo man, so I am aware of your attempts to get Bestspeech SAPI5 working and that you'd like a c++ dev to help you fix it. I can certainly help you at some point, but at the moment my plate is full. Because so few people have responded in a good way I don't entirely blame you for continuing to try to reach out? But at this point I just kindly ask/suggest that you patiently wait for one of us to reach back out to you with a solution, or we'll ask you for your code if we need it as we are fully aware of it's existence, etc. At this point bro your attempts to reach out are starting to get near to breaching certain forms of etiquette that are observed either socially or in development, mostly I question your decision to name drop the dude who found the bestspeech dll for us, publicly, maybe without knowing how public he wants his real name to be? If you know he doesn't mind please feel free to correct me. I can just forgive the following because it's my repo, but you then opened an issue on the b32_wrapper github tracker with this, even though at present that repo has nothing to do with a SAPI5 wrapper specifically. Again I don't blame you for that because it's my fault for not properly reaching out earlier just to say I was aware of your attempt and would help when I could. Now I've done that though, so I kindly suggest that it might be for the best if you wait for the interest/availability of me or Jake regarding SAPI5 bestspeech to develop naturally where we'll then reach out to you if we determine that the AI code would be helpful (it very well may be and I applaud you for trying)! Feel free to post cool status updates like a few messages ago, I'm glad you're making progress! But unless you are sure, I'd think it might be best to be careful how you are reaching out to try to get help on this matter, because I think you are trying so hard to get help that you are beginning to make a few social mistakes when doing so. I don't write this for you to feel bad or shamed (please don't), but just as a friendly reminder that you are indeed asking for one of us to spend hours of time getting some code working that you didn't even write, something which a message or 2 ago you admitted yourself was frustrating to the point of you considering giving up, and that possibly name dropping someone who may have very well chosen a pseudonym specifically to keep their real name private is potentially not the best way to make them want to help you. No hard feelings man and again I don't mind helping you when I've got more room on my plate. But please if you don't mind try to be careful how you ask for uncompensated help with this so that you don't accidentally do it a bit recklessly. Thanks, and here's to an epic bestspeech SAPI5 interface some time in the future!
I am frustrated that my attempts keep ending up in failure and I don't know enough to get a simple cpp file compiled correctly. I'm sure claude wrote propper code and it most likely fixed the bugs that were in version 1. someone on audio games forum compiled the first version. it had bugs. I'm guessing claude fixed them. but I have no way of verifying this because the thing won't compile!! so frustrating!!
I shared the claude chat for you all. but is claude wrong? did it really mess up when writing this sapi5 bestSpeech tts implementation? oh maybe it's just bad code and I should quit, just give up and stop trying.
in mhy opinion, this stuff is so complex that developers should get paid ten million or more dollars just to make a cpp file into a dll. yes, it is that complex in my opinion. sorry alex, no sapi5 bestspeech and no sapi5 cyberTalk. I gave it my best shot, and failed.
turns out I was following a guide that was making me do things the hard way, claude saved me again. I don't need to touch the IDE after all. following claude's guide, lets see if it works and it builds the dll with bugs fixed.
I got quite far, built the dll, registered voices into 32-bit sapi in registry, voices won't speak. needs debugging beyond what I can do. maybe whoever made the decTalk4.99New-sapi5 program could help with this. I got quite far but I think my limit is reached. latest attempt is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-BJCq…
I'm definitely sorry for all your struggles, and really empathize with the feeling. Dev work is never easy, but man is it rewarding when you get it right, and that's probably why I spring for it. I have very little C++ knowledge, get me into Mutexes and race conditions and I get lost quite easily. I can read the code and know what it does, but for sure my stomping ground is Python and JS / web. I'm also super busy work to the extent that, quite frankly, I just don't want to touch a computer once I'm done or look at code in my spare time, because all day every day I'm asked to do that for audits, customer tickets, pull requests, ETC, and I have zero motivation for code at the end of my day or weekends. That's just the truth, man. Full-time work will suck the soul out of you like that. Hopefully over time someone else will jump along, but until then, you've got two very powerful things on your side: Patience, and tools. The first will help you use the second, and for tools, I encourage trying others, even free tears of Gemini or GPT 5 can be good. It does limit how much you can send it, but for these critical questions, jumping out to another AI for clarification is not a bad idea. I know with your determination we'll get there, afterall, your decades-push helped us get here today, too.
So, what are the mandatory art things to visit in #Milano tomorrow? Have been to the Pinacoteca di Brera 2023 or 2024, so not necessarily that. The Triennale has interesting temporary exhibitions, no? And the Fondazione Prada. Any less obvious ones?
(Not interested in that Last Supper thing. Sure, it is famous, but yeah.)
thinking about other locations: the Sforza castle is pretty big, and takes a few hours by itself, but it has a nice section on applied arts, furniture, and musical instruments. The biblioteca Ambrosiana has the pages of Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus
I start going through my to-do list, find an old pyatspi2 merge request that I forgot about, find that I can't merge it because of an unrelated test failure that the CI is catching, although the tests pass on my system, so now I have to somehow figure out what is different about the GnomeOS set-up that the CI is running.
So about the #Mona app. Given that version 7 is going to be a massive app rewrite and refactoring, I have many issues. The first is the paying. This app is a huge rewrite. All that time and effort? That deserves money. Where I put my foot down is you making a whole new app to get around all of the people, including me, that paid for lifetime subscription. That seems wildly underhanded to me. And you’re releasing it as a new app? Rather than a app upgrade? To make sure that we’re kind of forced to pay for the new app? Hard no from me. I read every single reply in that thread. There is a test flight link. Even though it is in beta, it is relying way too heavily on LLM’s for me to want to try it. I read in the thread that choosing a post language is no longer an option, and that the app relies on an LLM to guess what that language is. Even in a beta, that clearly signals what you started developing direction wise and I’m just not interested. I keep thinking about the question I asked the developer long before Mastodon had it’s moment. The developer told me no Mastodon app would be made. Fine. But this looks like cash cow development to fund whatever LLM you stuck in the app. I’m not happy. The accessibility of the app is unmatched, especially for VoiceOver users, but I fund honest, even agressive, donation requests. I will happily pay a subscription to support development but not like this. Is there another app with as much care and VoiceOver love? #Fediverse #Mastodon #Accessibility #A11y
The point of Santé Québec is to privatize almost ALL healthcare. It's doing so, right now, w/ the COVID-19 vaccines.
Santé Québec oversees the ordering process for the COVID-19 vaccines given to at-risk groups, which are sent to wholesalers and then distributed to pharmacies.
For the paid vaccines, Santé Québec is not involved. Pharmacies place their orders directly with wholesalers, who order the vaccines from manufacturers.
The point of Santé Québec is to privatize almost ALL healthcare. It's doing so, right now, w/ the COVID-19 vaccines.
Santé Québec oversees the ordering process for the COVID-19 vaccines given to at-risk groups, which are sent to wholesalers and then distributed to pharmacies.
For the paid vaccines, Santé Québec is not involved. Pharmacies place their orders directly with wholesalers, who order the vaccines from manufacturers.
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in reply to James H • • •@quanin@mcourcel Okay, here's a list of the games I have:
* Alcyone: The Last City: fully playable, but only with annoying SAPI text to speech
* Alt-Frequencies: fully playable
* Arcade Spirits: fully playable, outputs text to the clipboard, so you need autoclip
* Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers: same
* As Dusk Falls: fully playable
* Balatro: you need a mod but installation is easy
* BROK the InvestiGator: fully playable
* Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant: fully playable
* Conjury: fully playable
* cyberpunkdreams: fully playable
* Dark Passenger: fully playable
* Diablo: mostly playable
* Doki Doki Literature Club: you need a mod and installing it is irritating
* Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!: this is a remastered version of the above game and the mod is much easier to install and better in every way
* Escape from Norwood: fully playable
* Factorio: fully playable with mods
* Firebird: fully playable
* Forza Motorsport: fully playable
* Hearthstone: fully playable with mods
* Heroes Rise: The Prodigy: fully playable
* Kilta: fully playable
* The Last of Us™ Part I: fully playable
* The Last of Us™ Part II: fully playable
* Lost and Hound: fully playable
* Luck be a Landlord: fully playable
* Magic Research: fully playable
* Magic Research 2: fully playable
* Microsoft Flight Simulator: only playable if you devote your entire life to it and pay a monthly subscription for the mod and make the correct pagan sacrifices
* Night of the Full Moon: fully playable
* Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain: fully playable
* Periphery Synthetic: fully playable
* Pizza Game: fully playable
* Sanctuary in Time: fully playable
* The Secret of Darkwoods: fully playable
* SEQUENCE STORM: fully playable
* Shining Song Starnova: fully playable with autoclip
* Skullgirls: fully playable if you own a controller
* Slay the Spire: fully playable with a mod called say the spire
* Smugglers 5: Invasion: playable if you like using object navigation and OCR
* soundStrider: fully playable
* Stardew Valley: playable with mods
* Thaumistry: In Charm's Way: fully playable
* Trawel: fully playable
* Warsim: The Realm of Aslona: fully playable
* World Empire 2027: fully playable
I would recommend sequence storm as your first place to start. Good fun, finishable in a few days, requires no modding. Then maybe move on to Slay The Spire and Balatro to get used to modding stuff and how that feels. Both excellent games that take months to master. There are many more mainstream accessible games, these are just the ones I've personally played.
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •Nice list, some questions if you don't mind
1. Doesn't Kilta have long delays between it reading various menus, making it a chore to navigate the UI.
2. How strategic is Night of the Full Moon? I love the difficulty of Dawncaster and Slay The Spire. How accurate is its description of "Mild strategic turn-based card battle"?
3. How do you get past the huge list of countries to select from in World Empire 2027? I couldn't get past that in the demo.
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