caseyweederman
@caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Heroes of the Seven Islands is a hand-drawn fantasy rpg with anthropomorphic characters DEMO is OUT on Steam - I would be glad to have your feedback! 51 minutes ago:
Oh neat, Kingdom of Loathing is in color now!
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 days ago:
First Albatross, First Out
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Like something about cutlery
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 2 weeks ago:
And absolutely shredded cuffs.
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 2 weeks ago:
It would be accurate for me if it was fifteen John Darnielles.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. I’m not sure these count.
A) they’re supposed to be mysterious
B) the progression makes sense, even if the key is in one of several burned books on a bookshelf among many other similar keys, or given to you in one of the bad endings.The information is there, you just have to work for it.
I haven’t played Myst III, that was by a different company, right?
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a secret to everyone!
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
I’m playing Oracle of Ages for the first time in a while, and it is not great! The level design is flawed. The eighth dungeon is a a dark room, some ghosts, and a hint owl that tells you to “attune your ears to the sound of sword on stone” which, right, standard Zelda fare, good of them to make explicit the reminder. But none of the walls clank! You need to push one of the non-pushable statues out of the way, in the dark, to even expose the bombable wall. I went over the whole place twice, and then thought “oh maybe they’re doing a cool metapuzzle thing and I’ve got to leave the dungeon and bomb a new entrance” so I went out and tested the whole area with my sword and then bombed everything in case I was just misinterpreting the clank sound.
The underwater dungeon had the interesting raise/lower water level mechanic, but I explored in loops for an hour before looking up where to go next. I’m not saying it’s supposed to be easy, I like a challenge, but it felt like the layout was deliberately withholding information, which is bad design.
The Long Hook is an upgrade for the Switch Hook. The improvment is marginal and the puzzles that require it feel confusing (I finally have the tool for this but it’s not working (before you know about the L2 version)), forced (this is the same puzzle but the anchor object is two tiles further away) or frustrating (oh of course I was supposed to know about the offscreen anchor).
The Long Hook has an entire dungeon dedicated to it.It seems all my fond memories are actually from Oracle of Seasons. I wonder if they had parallel teams working on them.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 4 weeks ago:
The law of the prophets was a costly covenant between old-testament god and humanity. Or, you know, whatever subgroup was in charge of translations at the time.
The “fulfillment” mentioned is a single lump sum of holy lamb blood in place of the never-actually-complete exchange of not wearing blended fabrics, not getting tattoos, and sacrificing your firstborn on a rock in the mountains. And slaughtering prisoners of war who you tricked into getting circumcised as a condition of their surrender so that they would be vulnerable. - Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 4 weeks ago:
Jesus was in fact the one to say “yeah all this old rules don’t matter, just focus on these two: don’t be a dick and don’t be a fucking dick, god damn”
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
I was going to say “2 but with 5’s handle and if you say 1 I am going to” but I couldn’t think of a silly threat that would be absurd but in a funny way
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 weeks ago:
You mean Gehenna, the literal place that was just a garbage dump around the corner? “Don’t go to that place, man, it sucks. Somebody lit a trash pile on fire two weeks ago and it’s still burning now. It’s gross.”
Or did you mean Hades, the place John (no, not that John (probably)) wrote about many years after Jesus’s death? In the book of Revelation, the whole of which is full of obvious symbolic imagery? A) not Jesus and B) still not “hell”.
Ohhhhh you were talking about Dante Alighieri, the guy born twelve hundred years later, who invented our modern concept of hell whole cloth.
“Hell”, a translation of any of the three words Gehenna, Hades, and Tartarus, show up anywhere between 13 and 23 times in the entire new testament. That wide range is due to differences in translations and source texts.
Nobody talks about Jesus talking about hell more than modern preachers who profit off of making people fearful. You know, the exact people Jesus would have thrashed out of the temple with a whip.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 weeks ago:
There is a story in the Apocrypha (decanonized Bible books) where childhood Jesus turns another kid into a tree. I like to think it’s the same tree.
- Comment on We sure do like our Fungi 4 weeks ago:
What.
I assumed the same thing. - Comment on Favorite B-Movies? 5 weeks ago:
Star Wars
- Comment on Switch-2 1 month ago:
It was a perfect storm of unpatchable hardware exploit and games releasing in parallel on hardware that was already solved. We might be waiting a while on the Switch 2.
- Comment on Switch-2 1 month ago:
I’m about 50/50 on this being sarcasm. I’ll risk ruining the joke by saying:
It’s simulated 3D sound, meaning no special hardware is required. Youtube plus headphones would be a good demonstration. - Comment on I may have too many computers 1 month ago:
That thumbnail
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
Sorry! Sorry. Miss bro.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 month ago:
Ah yes, “co-op mode”
- Comment on Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to 2 months ago:
Alright, that’s really cool.
If you use the gravity reverse ability when people don’t have a ceiling above them, do they fall up into the sky and die? - Comment on rule 2 months ago:
Bowling alley animations
- Comment on Sci-fi and fantasy are at odds in Split Fiction, which makes no sense 2 months ago:
Check out Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.
Ender’s Game was my favorite book for many years but I can’t recommend Card’s books any more.
Luckily, Some Desperate Glory ticks all the boxes and then some. - Comment on Anon needs help to solve the mystery 2 months ago:
Better get an MRI to look for it
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 2 months ago:
One of my biggest pet peeves. Anything that I write that outputs words is gonna have a little pluralization function.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
I get what you’re saying.
But the last half of that last sentence reads “poor people are poor because they deserve to be poor”. - Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 2 months ago:
“I bought a lot of pudding”
I tried to get a gif of Adam Sandler saying that in Punch Drunk Love but I couldn’t find the exact scene I wanted so you get this explanation instead - Comment on Is this green or blue? 2 months ago:
Ao
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 2 months ago:
Hey! You leave Barclay alone!
- Comment on tetrapods 2 months ago:
Hast thou considered the tetrapod cheese?