leftzero
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- Comment on German Dinosaurs 10 hours ago:
We don’t even know what dinosaurs sound like
Yes we do. They generally sound obnoxious as fuck.
The ones from ~243 to 65 million years ago probably were just as annoying.
- Comment on Anon has a typical everyday average British morning 1 week ago:
Not all of France is like Paris, and the Seine is not a pool. (Plus, battery acid would probably count as a good attempt to clean it up, not as contamination.)
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 2 weeks ago:
The Bethesda that made Morrowind. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Anon turns on the charm 2 weeks ago:
Call me basic, but of all the dinosaurs I’ve tasted chicken’s probably my favourite. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Futuristic movies timeline 2 weeks ago:
Hm, I need to get some furniture…
- Comment on This creature might try to drink my bones, but I will always cherish them. 3 weeks ago:
I will always cherish my bones, too. They give me support.
- Comment on Burrito 3 weeks ago:
No, Mr. Hamster, I expect you to die.
- Comment on Stare at it. 3 weeks ago:
I often cackle maniacally when I solve something in a particularly effective way.
- Comment on Anthropomorphic 3 weeks ago:
Those who saw tigers where there were none were more likely to pass on their genes than those that didn’t see the tiger hiding in the foliage.
And now their descendants see tigers in the stars.
- Comment on Blackholes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on We are the stories we tell ourselves 4 weeks ago:
The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.
— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002
- Comment on Hades 2 will likely be in early access until 2025, with first big update to add new enemies, maps and features 5 weeks ago:
Several characters, all keepsakes, all fish except, I think, one, at least one background element…
The voice acting is all there
I’d be very surprised if the number of voiced characters isn’t significantly higher in the finished game. And, of course, we’re missing the top end of the relationship interactions with all characters, which will definitely be voice acted.
the mechanics are all there
I wouldn’t be surprised if we get some new mini games in certain parts of the map we can’t access yet.
Apart from these minor nitpickings, however, I completely agree (well, except that I haven’t had any crashes or significant bugs); I’m already enjoying the game as much as the first one, and I definitely feel I got my money’s worth, which is sadly quite unusual for too many supposedly complete games these days.
- Comment on Hades 2 will likely be in early access until 2025, with first big update to add new enemies, maps and features 5 weeks ago:
There are parts of the story and maps we simply can’t get to because they aren’t there yet (I imagine about 30 to 50%), and there’s a limit to how much we can improve our relationship with the various characters (which means that there’s probably a significant amount of voice acting we can’t hear yet), all of this clearly indicated as provisionally cut content (“you might be able to do this in the future”, “can’t go there yet”, “what happened after this is, for now, literally indescribable”, that kind of thing).
There’s also what’s clearly provisional concept art from time to time, and plenty of placeholder character models and art (plus keepsakes, and fish, the later even having generic descriptions), and there’s almost certainly missing gods and characters (though there’s no indication of which those might be and in which number).
So, yeah, it’s not complete, by a long shot.
That said, I’m fairly certain that there’s already as much content and story as in the complete first game, if not more, or at least it feels like it. And it’s just as fun.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fear 1 month ago:
Being able to fly greatly reduces the amount of predators that can eat you (as does being big, like elephants or whales, being generally out of sight and looking inedible, like naked mole rats, or being a walking extinction event that eradicates any predator stupid enough to mess with them, like humans, as long as we aren’t alone).
Most animals, especially small ones, generally will get eaten long before senescence becomes a problem, so they have no evolutionary pressure to select longer lived individuals.
Flying small animals, however, can escape predation often enough that that enough individuals die of natural causes that longer lived ones might have a sufficiently better chance of passing on their genes to be significant from an evolutionary standpoint.
So that’s probably why larger animals tend to live longer, and birds and bats (and naked mole rats and humans) live much longer than other animals of the same size. (Bats have similar lifespans to birds, some reaching 30 years.)
- Comment on Is there a movie with a significant portion of it shot through a telescope? 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s a good example, though there are several other candlelit scenes in the film.
- Comment on Is there a movie with a significant portion of it shot through a telescope? 1 month ago:
Not a telescope, but Barry Lyndon was shot using lenses designed specifically for the Apollo program to capture the dark side of the moon.
The large aperture of these lenses allowed Kubrick to shoot scenes lit only by candlelight, and helped make every frame look like a painting.
- Comment on Ripperonis 1 month ago:
That explains why this just looked like it instantly teleported…
- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
Seriously, though, when those blue-green fuckers came up with oxygenic photosynthesis and started shitting oxygen all over the place they killed practically everything else on the planet, the bastards. Paleontologists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe or Oxygen Holocaust.
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 1 month ago:
Dinosaur fossils with signs of cancer have been found.
And birds can get cancer too, of course.
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 1 month ago:
Stegron is, somehow, a whole other (yet remarkably similar) character, with practically the same goals, so it’s easy to confuse them.
(Frankly, sounds like Len Wein and Gil Kane might have forgotten Sauron existed and independently reinvented him, from how similar they are; there must’ve been something about turning people into dinosaurs in the early Marvel zeitgeist, I suppose, since they’re both quite ancient characters, Sauron having been created in 1969 and Stegron in 1974…)
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 1 month ago:
more dinosaurs
We’ve got more than twenty-six billion (and growing) just in chickens alone; I’d say that’s more than enough when it comes to dinosaurs.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 month ago:
Thank you, now I can’t stop hearing them in Alan Tudyk’s Clayface voice from the Harley Quinn series…
- Comment on Experiments 1 month ago:
These seem to be illustrations of Burgess Shale organisms, Burgess Shale being renowned for the excellent preservation of soft tissues in its fossils, so the bubbly bits were actually quite well preserved, if maybe a bit squished and deflated.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 month ago:
Everyone knows magnesium is the superior metal.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 2 months ago:
- Comment on CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games" 2 months ago:
Paradox, then.
- Comment on "Guess the animal I'm thinking of! Clue: it's a type of bat" 3 months ago:
Wait, does that mean that we evolved our scrotums independently from other mammals…?
- Comment on "Guess the animal I'm thinking of! Clue: it's a type of bat" 3 months ago: