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  • SSTF@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.worldFirst game you played
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    10 months ago

    Probably Duke Nukem 3D, introduced by way of my uncle’s at the time high end computer.

    I’d seen arcade games and things, but an actual interactive 3D world I could walk around in was wild. It was also a much bloodier and more “adult” game than anything I’d seen before.

    Later that year, 1997, I got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas along with Goldeneye and StarFox64. Those two games became mainstays for me at home.




  • SSTF@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldKid Friendly Paints for PLA?
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    10 months ago

    I’d reccomend that as the adult you spray prime the prints first on your own. Hardware store paint is fine for this. I’d suggest white to go along with the following part of the suggestion.

    Craft paints, like Applebarrel or Folk Art are very cheap and found at art stores and WalMarts.

    They have a tendency to be thick and also separate if thinned with a lot of water. The solution is to buy some Flow Aid. Liquitex is a cheap and common brand. You can probably find this at an art store, if not it’s cheap online. Buy some cheap pipettes.

    When you squirt craft paint onto a dry palette, add 1-2 drops of flow aid with the pipette and give it a couple of swirls with the paintbrush. This will make the craft paint run a little more without separating. Depending on how any given paint acts you can add more paint or flow aid to get it to the desired thickness.

    If you’re bold you can experiment with adding flow add little by little directly to the bottles if you want the paint bottles to be ready to use, but you’ll have to experiment to find just the right amount of flow aid to add. I’d say adding too little is better than too much.

    The coverage of this paint is going to be a little transparent which is why the white priming is probably better.

    Obviously the results will not be as fine as dedicated hobby paints, but for a kids first time painting party event, they will work.




  • I’ve found that mods like iHUD, removing the cash register sound for XP, directional pipboy light, flashlights, darker nights, and storms (these can be set to be just visual rather that radiation inducing) all help make the game more immersive without dramatically changing the difficulty.

    I do enjoy the health rebalancer which removes scaling health and instead makes some enemies baseline tougher and some weaker. IIRC it also makes headshots on humans instant death. No more blasting away at some scaled raider as they just keep attacking.

    Recostuming the Minute Men in something closer to surplus military clothes makes them instantly less lame.

    Also replacing all the pipe guns with weapon packs of real world handguns and machinepistols is for me nessesary, as I do not at all enjoy the FO4 pipegun designs.

    Finally, the backyard bunkers mod allows a bomb shelter with a hatch you can place inside a settlement. Going inside moves you to a private space. NPCs won’t barge in and it’s a safe place to store extra gear.






  • I’ve been playing the original Call Of Duty games, starting at the first one. I beat it and United Offensive. I’m working on the second game.

    It’s all in service of a write up about the core identity and the design philosophy of the games. How the original games were fresh for their time, and how COD4 used a lot of the sensibilities of the WW2 games that preceded it. There’s a lot to mine and digest in the old games, COD4, and Modern Warfare 2 as a contrast and turning point. I just don’t know if people care enough to follow it.