Good to know!

I can’t speak to the others, but I have a couple 8bitdo controllers and they’re fantastic. If the aliexpress listing is legit, I’d go with that one, no question.

I’ve never heard of the other two brands, but cursory googling doesn’t sound promising for them.

Fair. I did stray from the “rpg” theme on… Most of my responses.

Will look up Spirit of the North though! It sounds right up my alley

For real. Its high time I replay it, too. Been long enough that I just remember general themes.

You sound a lot like me, and probably get annoyed with a lot of grindy mechanics. Especially when you have limited time to play games.

Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes will really scratch that Chronotrigger itch.

Outer Wilds is also incredible (don’t read spoilers, just go in blind). It’s mini space exploration with cartoon-arcadey newtonian physics.

Sword & Sworcery is also great, and a good point-and-click adventure with an amazing soundtrack. I’d almost argue it’s better on a tablet or largeish phone through. It’s very touch input focused, which is OK with a mouse, but I think is better with a finger (as intended)

Others I enjoy :

• Kentucky Route Zero (point and click with a wild vibe)
• Firewatch (walking Sim with pretty low poly art)
• Dishonored 1 & 2 (gritty fps with stealth and magic)
• Inside (short puzzle platformer)
• Abzu (undersea exploration, relatively chill, but I never completed it)
• The Invincible (more recent than the rest, a very pretty walking sim in a retro-future sci-fi setting (Stanislaw Lem) that kept me pretty engrossed and occasionally worried)
• Horizon: Zero Dawn. (Absolutely adored this world and story. Story mode combat was good, but I just used cheats for a lot of the basic pickup/crafting stuff. Yes, I can take 30 minutes to run around and gather basic materials, but I don’t have that kind of time irl.)

honestly it’s baffling that I’ve spent 30 years on the internet and can understand so little of it

100% agree.

Honestly, I had to google it, too :D

As far as I know, they mean “Personal Video Recorder” in a fashion similar to “DVR”/“Digital Video Recorder” like the one your cable company provides. It’s a little misleading, imo, because it doesn’t do any recording, but I didn’t come up with the name, so who knows.

Sonarr (and the other 'arrs) is just a management tool. From the servarr wiki:

Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

At a high level, you tell it where your current tv show episodes are saved, and add new shows as you want. It then automates the process of searching and downloading. But you still need to have an indexer and download client. If you’re not able to find shows searching your current tracker/indexer, Sonarr won’t have any better luck.

Finding a good source of the media you want is the most important part. If you’re not comfortable with installing and managing your own server applications, the *arr stack could be overwhelming at first. The wiki I linked has a lot of good information to get you started.