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me_irl

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Bonus: Also supports multiplayer:
- Hey I love Balatro too!
- Oh solitaire? You see what you can do with that 10 right?
  throws deck of cards in the fire
- See this: Ultimate Book of Card Games
  Saw it on a friends shelf, read it, bought it for my kid and me.
  Solid book for 1 deck of cards. This book has so many card games that can be played with a single deck, some of these I grew up knowing, but most I’d never heard of. There’s one solitaire game me and my kid love playing from this. Don’t recall the game, only you set out cards one by one in a 4x5 grid making poker hands trying to get the highest score. Pretty fun tbh.

As a new dad, single player games with anytime saving have been a life saver
- Here's some dad advice for you:
  Handhelds are there only way to get some gaming time in most of the time (Steam Deck, Retroid Pocket console, Switch, etc).
  Roguelites are there best type of game. Single player. Can put down easily. Short bursts of play with progress in each run (not a 90 hour saga that takes a year to complete).
  
  Slay The Spire and Hades have been huge timesinks for me when I can't commit time to sitting at the computer for a huge JRPG. Anything you recommend?
  
  Agree on handhelds. Disagree with roguelites and roguelikes, though I guess that depends on the person. I personally like to learn the map and the lay of the land.
  
  I'd imagine turn based rpgs would be the best
- Here's sone new dad advice for you: The baby needs good soil and plenty of water
  
  Don't forget to regularly turn it over so both sides bake equally

There's a real important question here: do you have solar panels?
Otherwise I think it's gonna be board games...
- Solitaire it is!
  And 'Mansions of Madness: 2E', I guess
- Dynamo-bike!
  
  Pedal faster, kid! I nearly beat the boss!
- Hell yeah, board games! And no single use board games either - I'm looking at you, Pandemic Legacy.
  
  You can keep playing legacy games afterwards, the legacy part is about developing a somewhat one of a kind variation of the game by the end of it.
- I just connect my home trainer 🌚

If there’s an apocalypse that doesn’t just wipe us all out, people who are capable of collaborating and forming communities will do much better than people who think they’re going to hunt and scavenge and play games on their own.
- I think he means games that requires constant Internet connection straight up won't work.
  
  If the entire Internet is down then so too is power.
  Ain't nobody playing video games after the lights go out.

multiplayer games that can run p2p on intranet will be even more valuable
- "You wanna piece of me, boi??"
- Older games were awesome for this. It was a given on PC, but on consoles, Halo was really special here. You could have 16 player matches with 4 consoles doing 4 way split screen connected to the same local network.
- As long as they're cooperative, sure.

Metro but the russians are still playing CS professionally

Yes. Because you’ll have food, water, electricity to run a computer, and leisure gaming time during such a time.
- Solar panels are a great investment for the apocalypse.
  
  They probably are. Along with the skill to wire them properly.
- I suppose it depends which type of apocalypse we are talking about. A zombie outbreak would, at least theoretically, leave infrastructure mostly intact. Nuclear war wouldn't.
  
  Out of those two which would be most likely?

You'll have better things to do with your time in an apocalyptic than playing video games.
- Meh
- Like what?
  
  Like not die, unless your into that, in which case, you won't play video games for long.

When I was a kid, pre-internet, there was a "computer club" that was basically a massive pirating event held once a month.
TV and Amiga in the car, large room in a hotel in Dublin city. You set up and swapped cracked games with all the other people there, copying floppies. It was so exciting to little me.
- Best game ever!
  
  Wow. Cool picture. Instant transportation to kid me.
  The latest versions of it were the hottest thing doing the rounds at those meet ups.

I don't plan on surviving any apocalypse. Also, the electrical grid will probably be one of the first things to go.
- But not electricity itself.
  I plan to relocate near a hydro dam, Take a laptop, charger, and offline portable wiki on a flash drive.

My Famicom is ready!

Even worse than that. A lot of single player ones have to check in with the Internet eventually. This will restrict the set even further. PlayStation will become useless after a couple years.
- PlayStation 1?

I think its fresh water, food and than maybe way down the list, its single player games.
- Agree, multiplayer games over LAN > singleplayer
  Just find 9 other people (zombie or otherwise) and get a local CS match going.
  Or find 99 people and get a tournament going and forget about this cruel and dying world for a few Hs.
  
  You might be a bit facetious, but unironically multiplayer games would be important for community building. Morale is one of the most important parts of survival

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

That also means that Steam won't work.
- STEAM OFFLINE MODE!?!?!?
  That werks rite? Or have we been (not bean) lied to??
  
  You still need to connect once a month.

DnD and WoD are gonna be fire if you are not alone
- WoD?
  
  World of Darkness. Pretty sick ttrpg

The updoot farming here makes me hesitant, but it’s still true.
- Lemmy, updoots don't mean the same thing.
  
  They don't mean anything in the bad place either.
- People agreeing and enjoying themselves makes you hesitant?
  
  I think it's more the 'karma farming' aspect that the commenter is referring to. Which is a bad thing, because karma farming can be used to make bot accounts look like real accounts.
  Luckily for us, this is Lemmy so the advertisers and DIsruptor Nation-States don't really see a good ROI on their time over here. Yay?

Ghost of Tsushima will be sold at fine art rates

I recently set up a raspberry pi with retropie so i have 1000s of games that dont require internet connections now :) fun project and tonight once my new ssd arrives im setting up linux mint on my desktop (dual boot) and am going to try to transition away from windows. Because its fucking shit.
The pi sparked the drive i needed to make it happen. Really enjoyed my intro to linux.

What do you think the apocalypse is? Ammunition and cans of beans are going to be valuable. Video games, not so much
- It depends on the apocalypse.
  If it's a mostly everyone dies quick apocalypse due to sickness or a "rapture" type event then "ammunition and beans" are not gonna be as high a commodity.
  Hell even in a "I am legend" type apocalypse where beans and ammo are a high commodity so would entertainment be. (and I'd rather play video games than watch movies.)
- Collapse is a process. There will probably be an extended period where we still have electricity, but lots of social unrest, food scarcity, etc.
- He means post apocalypse is after the collapse when society starts to rebuild
- Who pooped in your soup?

Solo D&D even moreso
- Is that a thing for real?
  ..asking for a friend, because I obviously have loads of those.
  
  sure is! There aren't any official rules for solo d&d specifically but the mythic GM emulator works just fine with 5e :) Lots of solo supported ttrpgs though! Free League has lots of games with solo support

cs.rin.ru
You're welcome.

Nah, imma head out, yall have fun during the apocalypse or whatever.
- When you're in a game and get cornered and you wanna deny your opponent the satisfaction of getting the kill. lol

All the more reason to hoard your plunder from the high seas.

"lol this motherfucker is waiting for marks and spencer to reopen"

My wii, 3ds and wiiU are ready 😂✌🏻
( have about 3Tb of wiiU install files and filled the SD of my 3ds with games )

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