Just finished American McGee’s Alice. I have not played this since I first played it the year it came out (2000). I have not had this much fun with a game in a while. Also, have not experienced the drive to finish a game like I did this one in a good long while.
The game is janky and difficult to control but I just found it so much fun and the atmosphere of the game is fantastic.
I cannot wait to replay the sequel.
Unfortunately, it does not work. Bonemealing grass blocks just creates foliage (short grass, flowers, etc.) around the block. Moss blocks on the other hand convert natural blocks around them to moss when bonemealing them.
Best thing to do is, if you have silk touch, get a couple of grass blocks and dot them around the dirt to encourage spread from multiple locations.
Odin is quite a fun new language I just started learning. It is meant as a C replacement and comes with a decent standard library and third party library so there is a lot already built that you can use. It also is fully compatible with C and can use C libraries.
Just be warned that documentation is lacking and you will have to read the source code of the standard library from time to time or seek help from their discord.
I self host a searxng instance and I find the combination of bing, duckduckgo and qwant as the source engines to return decent results. You can use a public instance and choose those engines in settings.
I discovered Father Christmas by The Kinks this year and I got to say that it has become my favorite Christmas song.
The best VR experience I had was with Here They Lie. It is a very… unique game. But I think it is PSVR only.
The title is a bit wrong. It is a top down RPG not side scrolling.