Everyone who called Firefish stupid needs to come see this and reconsider.

@netsec007 Oooo. Open-source?

@TORFdot0 Thanks. I’ll look into both of those.

Alan Wake is pretty interesting from a female perspective, because it’s a male hero but it’s good a pretty good female supporting character in the Sheriff and the plot with Alice is really interesting in light of the idea of fridging. Also, the sequel will have a second playable protagonist that’s a woman.

Maybe try a different genre, or even a different format. Instead of multiplayer fighting games, try a social deduction game.

I’m not sure if Stray counts as Cyberpunk, but it has most of the trappings and is a great game. A bit short. It’s kind of like the futuristic part of Cyberpunk taken beyond the extinction of the humans.

I use DuckDuckGo on my personal stuff, but my office has the work browser set to Google and Bing still.

Seconding Control. One of my favorites.

These things scare the hell out of me still.

It would be nice if language worked like that, where the term remains precise as it propagates. But that’s not the case. Boomer Shooter is being used to refer to the old games, and that is how many of us were introduced to the term, as a reference to the OG games.

Did you tell this to the kids who coined the term?

I think maybe the irksome thing is this is a retroactive label for older games. It’s not how we got to know those games, and it sounds pretty dismissive of something we enjoyed and loved. smart_boy below has the right idea, reclaim the term, realign the meaning.

You have redeemed the term.

If you’re depressed, sometimes you lose interest in your hobbies. You might want to look into seeing someone.

I will say, you seem a bit worried about no longer considering yourself a gamer, like this burnout has led to a crisis of identity. You are MORE than your hobbies. Gamer is a temporary state based on what you are doing. It is okay not to be one. You’re still you.

Gaming vs dementia isn’t new. I started gaming on my greatgrandmother’s atari system in the 80s, which was doctor recommended for her Alzheimers.

41 year old woman who games Playstation and PC. There is no age cutoff.

That said, it wasn’t all that common to have a game system when I grew up. My grandmother had an Atari because of her Alzheimers and that’s what made my family nerds but people from Gen X are a lot less likely to have gotten the habit young.

Maybe a younger woman will be more likelyto be into it. But you both don’t have to like all the same things. Ask the women you date about their hobbies instead of talking about yours, maybe? There must be some common ground interests, or at least something on their side that could be considered a bit offbeat, geeky, or childish and you can bond over being on the receiving end of judgment. Maybe she’s into Renfaire or Star Trek.

I’d add “Update your resume” and start looking because if Reddit holds to the pattern of enschittification, then layoffs are coming. Pointless, stupid layoffs that don’t care how important your job is.

I was thinking keyboard and mouse.

HAS a game. In addition to the other comments, there’s an MMO. Star Trek Online’s been going for like, 11 or 12 years now. It’s actually pretty neat because the missions are “Episode” format and they go by “seasons” for content. They have a LOT of Trek actors for voice acting. Like, they did have a lot of content voiced by Rene Auberjonois and Aron Eisenberg before they passed. They had some sequences with Leonard Nimoy voicing too.

They had one season that had most of the Voyager cast, except for Janeway and Chakotay, and then they got Kate Mulgrew for the current storyline. They had another season that was a DS9 reunion with a whole storyline set from the DS9 hub.

Right now I’m a bit checked out because it’s a HUGE mirrorverse storyline, but they got Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, and Kate Mulgrew doing voiceover so I’m almost certainly going back to play through.

It is, however, a free to play model with lockboxes. If you’re competitive you end up spending money or a lot of time, but if you just want a story you can ignore all that.

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/ – You can play PC or there’s a version on Playstation or XBox. The communities and accounts don’t link up, though, so I never tried the console version. All my stuff is on the PC account.

Sadly, the STO subreddit did not move to lemmy with the major Star Trek subreddits.

I never needed to get all those extras to play an MMO or most indie games. Not every game is a system hog.