Windows 10 software

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startup > Software > Windows >

was mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

View/control startup applications.

Small, concise, full-featured and overall incredible. This is an essential part of my toolkit.

Services are not supported.

  • aka StartupCPL
  • Abandoned

    • Not mentioned in his list of programs (though linked-to in the Wayback Machine), and not hosted on the author’s GitHub account.

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Saints Row 2 cover

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/saints-row-2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024918/
saintsrow.com

Be a gang member, run around in a sandbox world and shoot stuff, I guess.

It’s alright.

  • Note that the original Saints Row – (2006 game) was only released for the Xbox 360.



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geneshift image

Entertainment > Games >

https://store.steampowered.com/app/308600/
https://geneshift.net/

A top-down shooter with superpowers.

An awkward and unforgiving game that’s zoomed in too far to be fun.

  • 2020-06-30 — The forum seems to have been dead since 2017-08 or later.

    • No announcement was archived, and no replacement was found on a cursory look.



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Sanctum 2 - (2013 game) art

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/210770/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200110212906/https://www.coffeestainstudios.com/games/sanctum-2

A combined first-person shooter and tower-defense game.

Seems pretty cute, but I hate tower defense games which have multiple entrances.



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Stealth Bastard - (2011 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/209190
https://web.archive.org/web/20190907045712/https://www.stealthbastard.com/

A side-scroller puzzle game.

I played around with it a bit. It’s fair. It’s overwhelmingly unforgiving and gets complicated.

Stellaris - (2016 game) cover

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/stellaris/STST01G-MASTER.html

Build and expand a space-faring race who learns they are not alone in the universe.

Master of Orion – (1993 game) but with updated graphics and a confusing interface. I expect would have loved this in the past, but now it’s just awkward. I’ll still tag this as ‘liked’, as it’s pretty good. It’s very hard in the eyes. Take a lot of breaks.

Extremely stupidly hard.. and confusing. I’m shelving it. I only paid $12 USD for it, so it’s not a big loss.. still, I wish the UI was better and the tutorial was better and the gameplay was better..



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Tiny and Big Grandpa's Leftovers image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/205910/
https://www.blackpants.de/project-tiny-big/ [ 1 ] was http://tinyandbig.com/

Laser things, move things, push things and find your way through semi-puzzle stuff.

With an art style (and opening sequences) reminiscent of Borderlands – (2009 game) and gameplay reminiscent of Okami – (2006 game), this game has a very strong initial impression on me.

Not open-world, and definitely “on rails”, but it does give a lot of power to the user as to how to fart around to progress.

While overall good, the controls are wonky and cliffs are obnoxious. There should be no falling off mechanic and the game should instead dangle the player for a moment and never let them fall.

  • Properly titled Tiny & Big: Grandpa’s Leftovers



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