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    15 days ago

    Solitaire these days has Xbox integration, XP, levels, achievements, collectibles, events, ads, payment system, subscriptions for making it ad free, cheats behind a paywall, … It’s a bit silly.

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    15 days ago

    Wait until you see the solitaire game I’ll definitely 100% make after I finish this class on C I’m taking this quarter!

    /s

    Yeah, I would never want to make a game in C when things like Python or Godot exist.

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      15 days ago

      I suppose not a problem if you don’t want any innovation in the engine of the game and just want to re-skin something someone else made.

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        15 days ago

        I don’t see how if I were to make a basic solitaire game why I’d want to innovate in the game engine, personally.

        Maybe for a different game, but why would I put in that much effort in a game you can probably download thousands of different versions/reskins of on your smart fridge?

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    15 days ago

    What the heck is the thing on the right side of the picture? There’s a horse on the left and a what? A robot?

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    14 days ago

    Youngins. They’re talking about the entirety of Windows and calling it all a solitaire game. EG - Windows 98’s minimum requirement was 16 MB, and 95’s was 4 MB.

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      15 days ago

      I like it, but kept running into weird bugs (and I think dependency issues) with different versions of python.

      Kpatience for me.

      • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        15 days ago

        gonna try kpatience; i need a good one for my mum who plays microsoft solitaire all the time (i want to switch her since windows is losing security updates)

        have you tried the flatpak pysol? that’s what i have; installed through linux mint software manager and it works great.

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          14 days ago

          Yeah (on the flatpak) although I still had a problem, and don’t remember what/why.

          Kpatience is nice.

          Also I have a fundamental problem with pysol wins being just “you did it. Click OK”.

          Those bouncing cards in Windows sol.exe were early computer dopamine addiction that sold millions of computers.

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            14 days ago

            i just got kpatience too since i hadn’t heard about it before and i agree, i love it more. i’m still getting used to it though. i love the downloadable packs though!

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    13 days ago

    There are good open source puzzle and solitaire games that are not resource hogs.

    No solitaire but I strongly recommend Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection.