ursakhiin
@ursakhiin@beehaw.org
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 15th 1 week ago:
I love this game. It’s my current Steam Deck title I’m working through on trips. Absolutely gorgeous!
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
Sure. But that’s enough.
Demanding more than that isn’t conducive to anytime but trying to make people feel inadequate for wanting to enjoy their time.
It’s completely fine if you feel like you need to see the end of a story to determine if it was good, but not everybody is like that.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
Incomplete doesn’t mean invalid, though. I can say I didn’t enjoy the first half so much that I didn’t give the second half a chance. I will have enough information to explain why I didn’t enjoy the first half and my opinion of the movie is completely valid.
I don’t have to continue to subject myself to something I don’t enjoy. I can explain what I don’t enjoy. People don’t need more than that to have a valid opinion of something. The only people I’d expect to have done more is somebody professionally critiquing movies.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
Besides, if you haven’t finished a movie, you can’t claim to have a valid opinion of it.
I’m sure you didn’t mean it to sound this way, but this kind of gate keeping sounds very elitist. I can have a valid opinion of a movie I didn’t finish.
Usually, me not finishing it means that through the portion I watched I was disliking it so much I decided finishing it was a waste of my time. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. I don’t need to see the ending to know i didn’t enjoy the journey. The onus is on the creators of the movie to ensure I enjoy or am at least engaged throughout and I don’t, not does anybody else, owe it to them to see though the time I’ve set aside to watch it. Especially if they could be bothered to hold up their side of the bargain.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 2 weeks ago:
This is the last one for me as well. Though, my partner and I didn’t even finish the first episode of Dune: Prophecy if you want to count that.
Dakota Johnson isn’t what ruined Madame Web for me, though. The writing was truly awful from the plot to the dialogue. The costumes were really bad as well and the action was just terrible. It looked like poorly done wire tricks on CGI.
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 3 weeks ago:
A TL;DR could be “time traveling ribbons”
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 weeks ago:
Nothing to worry about. Just body snatcher pods
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 weeks ago:
I believe Dennis is actually a Slipper Crab, though
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 1 month ago:
As much as I would love for Robin Williams to be back and brightening the world again it would be incredibly selfish of us to forget that he was incredibly unhappy in life and killed himself in a very unpleasant way because of it.
So definitely the centipede.
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
You are all mad! The sun is definitely getting oxygen! The giant space bellows hide just out of sight on the precisely opposite side of the sun from earth, so we’ve never been able to observe them.
Gringolth the oxidation wizard had been pumping them for millions of years. The biggest risk is that he dies before being replaced by an offspring!
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 3 months ago:
Postal might be the only one he did well. But I think by the point he made that one he had learned something about his own abilities and even ripped himself a new one in one scene of the movie.
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 3 months ago:
IMHO, the list in the OP are actually fairly decent, with the exception of Warcraft, Need for Speed and Assassin’s Creed. (Not because they are bad but because I never saw them.
- Comment on the secret recipe 3 months ago:
Is it generic? It seems pretty rich in Elden Ring when compared to most games.
- Comment on the secret recipe 3 months ago:
Because he’d say no. Better to ask for forgiveness.
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
Imagine weighing people as big rocks, though.
Until the UK changes that, us Americans and Canadians can rest assured that nothing we are doing is quite that ridiculous.
- Comment on Sony officially teases PlayStation 5 Pro - VideoCardz.com 3 months ago:
The PS5, while bigger than last entries, is hardly the size of a small fridge.
More like a floor air conditioner.
- Comment on Aftermath: Valve’s Baffling Deadlock Decisions Don’t Need Defending 4 months ago:
Eh. Say what you will about Valve, but The Verge knew the risks of publishing. Even if technical issues allowed for legal loopholes, intentionally ignoring the spirit of the agreement is valid grounds for bans.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Super Mario 5 months ago:
Long time fans of the 2d games really enjoy Wonder as the movement mechanics moved back to a faster feel from pre-New Super Mario Bros. My favorite will probably always be Super Mario World because the movement is the most responsive in that game and I also like to play ROM hacks for it and that community is wild.
New Super Mario Bros ended up with a sluggish movement by comparison and dominated 2d Mario for decades.
The big draw for many people in Mario is movement mechanics and that’s why Odyssey is so popular as well. The 3d platforming with Cappy just feels right. Like a missing extension that we never new we didn’t have.
- Comment on Big Science 6 months ago:
as long as you’re not fighting against observations and evidence without additional observations and evidence.
Observations and evidence could be non-maliciously incorrect. New observations could be made that invalidate the old after another change in our perception occurs.
Observations and evidence just show to the best of our abilities at the moment.
- Comment on big geoscience!! 7 months ago:
Don’t forget the part where it’s on two continental plates.
- Comment on kissies 7 months ago:
Are you saying you don’t clean your butthole?
- Comment on Can I lick it? 7 months ago:
My lead sandwich is calling to me
- Comment on Immense pressure 7 months ago:
Drugs bends are worst bends
- Comment on turtles 8 months ago:
Does not compute. Turtle stuck in my bum.
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 8 months ago:
I love Mario Maker, but I would suggest skipping 2 at this point. It’s been out so long that most of the hype has died on it and there is so much garbage content that somebody picking it up right now is likely to get frustrating for new players.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 8 months ago:
Was definitely worth it. My biggest problem with it isn’t even Wabbajack.
The modding community send to have settled on making Skyrim hardcore these days. While I fine games that are meant for that fun, it’s not why I want to play Skyrim. So those mod packs end up ruining the game for me.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 8 months ago:
After my most recent upgrade i loaded up nearly a TB of mods with Wabbajack. It looked gorgeous. It ran smoothly. The gameplay mods made it less fun!
- Comment on Super Mario Maker 1 is now beaten! 8 months ago:
The creator says they didn’t beat it. I’m saying that based on their history, I actually think they are lying right now to get people to stop bothering them
They reportedly were highly addicted to SMM around the time they uploaded this level, having messed up aspects of their lives. They wanted to be left alone about this whole situation but the Internet doesn’t let things like that happen.
Saying it was a TAS is the easiest way to get everybody to stop playing the level and hopefully stop the discussion 2 weeks sooner.
I’m happy Team 0% is satisfied with the conclusion. I’m just skeptical, especially considering nobody knew about TAS’s existing for the game near that window.
- Comment on Super Mario Maker 1 is now beaten! 8 months ago:
I’m happy that the community feels satisfied with this ending. I’m not sure I buy it, though.
I’ve seen every move in this level be completed. I think it’s incredibly difficult but still possible. Based on everything I’ve seen from the creator recently this seems more like an attempt to get people to shut up about it to me.
- Comment on Apex Legends finals got hacked; Star Citizen goes 1.0; Marcus Lehto: nothing positive about EA. 8 months ago:
What, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, the F did I just watch?