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This 100% would get me back into playing games. I miss like small games that I can just play casually for a few hours. I do not like that it feels my only options today are 90+ hour games or attention sucking mini games.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Obviously a Humble Bundle-type solution with your sub comes to mind, but there are even weirder ways to do it. Maybe it is a printed pub with QR codes to free downloads. Maybe it’s (*gasp*) a thumb drive filled with indie games and demos shipped each month. That fills a nostalgia quotient, too.

Jacob Aronoff

@jaronoff.com

And I know these types of games exist but it’s a curation problem, I don’t know they exist and would love for someone who is obsessed with these things to share their monthly deep dives. I’m pretty sure reading Macworld was how I learned about emacs Tetris which got me into little game programming

9/5/25, 4:47 pm0 reposts1 like

Jacob Aronoff

@jaronoff.com

9 May 2025

“But baldurs gate is so good!” “How many hours have you been playing?” “about 60 hours and I’m not even halfway!” Is a real conversation I had last week! I don’t want to play a game that takes this long