Retro games from my formative years:
Newer games:
I realize those are divisive entries in each of their franchises, but they’re the ones that hit for me and just let me wander off and do whatever I feel like.
Funny, I was just going to say that these characters should look foolish, but instead they look cool as hell.
Gamecube. Player and disc run about $230 now.
So you’re saying maybe it’s time for me to re-evaluate just keeping my GC collection in storage.
I read that as the man had gone missing and all they found was the Oscar on the plane.
Right, so they’ll just do it without Congress.
Offline Games from JindoBlu.
A variety of timewasters with more added pretty regularly.
Like others, I run both. Jellyfin for music was alright, but I didn’t love how it handled some metadata and my collection now is around 28,000 songs (without bootlegs) and I wanted something dedicated to music.
Absolutely love Navidrome. When I’m at my PC, I’ll open it, hit the “Random” option under Albums and select something from the first page. This way I’m always surfacing things I would normally ignore and engaging more with my collection.
Then, again as others have mentioned, I have Symfonium on Android. There’s a “Track Mix” option that shuffles your entire library, or you can create dynamic playlists. The one I use gives me 50 random tracks, but filters out classical and tracks shorter than 45 seconds. Same idea though, listening to parts of my collection that would never be my first choice.
Oh, for sure. I’m not offended by it, just stating fact.
It’s amazing that Irfanview is still around 30 years later and doing it’s ONE THING so well still. Sure, it looks a little dated these days and can feel a bit obtuse, but it’s an invaluable piece of software.
30-some years ago while driving around town, one of my buddies sees a car wash sign and completely seriously is like “What the hell is a car Polish?” We all just about died from laughter and still bring it up regularly.
You say that like anyone considering stealing it would be a rational and semi-intelligent person. But this is America.
Yeah, I didn’t need anything more than the Docker features, so I didn’t bother with Zima. Like with Yuno, Zima is a whole distro on its own instead of an app that can be easily uninstalled.
Was it issues with installing apps or something else?
I will suggest CasaOS. It installs easily, then essentially has an app store (you can add other store sources too). For me it was a gentle way of getting used to the ideas around Docker and how to work with containers. After a bit, you’ll get to where you can set up containers for apps not in the store. Then you might create a whole stack for your Arrs suite. And then maybe you outgrow it entirely. It’s just an app, unlike Yuno, which is a whole distro if I recall correctly.
For public exposure, I use Cloudflare tunnels. Pretty easy to set up (there is a CasaOS package for cloudflared), though the Cloudflare side can get confusing depending on what you want to do.
Google would never just give up on a product that people love!
Yeah, I’m not worried about how it plays so much as how it feels. I’m old and I don’t want to strain to read tiny text.
I’ll tell you which games I’m most looking forward to revisiting:
And then a couple that I don’t think I ever played:
This is pretty much the same setup I have. 2 bay Synology NAS for storage, mini PC (8gb ram, currently at 48% usage) for applications. Also added an external SSD that I had kicking around.
I’m running:
And then using Synology packages for Drive and Photos.
I’m waiting (and waiting and waiting) on mine. I got it mostly for GameCube, but looking forward to some PSP and PS2 as well.
I went with the orange because I always wanted a Spice colored GC. This is as close as I will ever get.
In the late 80s/early 90s, my parents wouldn’t let us have a game console, but somehow trying to bed hookers in Leisure Suit Larry was okay for their pre-teen. IDK.
If it’s the humor that made LSL good for you, the Space Quest series is an easy leap. Or Freddy Pharkas. Plus lots of Lucasarts games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Maniac Mansion…
The Police Quest series is my favorite. PQ1 is easily in my top games of all time. Followed very closely by the first Gabriel Knight game. I went to New Orleans years back for work and the best thing I got to do was look out over Lafayette Park and St Louis Cathedral from the same vantage point as in the game. Maybe silly, but it was a really fulfilling moment.
Oh, I always really liked the Quest for Glory games too, though I don’t think I ever finished any of them. Maybe I should work on that this year.