thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Me want cookie 3 weeks ago:
is corpses and the diseased. something that looks almost human but not quite is likely going to get you sick.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 3 weeks ago:
redux is a synonym of remake and remaster.
- Comment on Hotel prices 4 weeks ago:
maybe in urban areas, but rural hotels cab easily will be $90 for a cheap one.
source: i drive cross country a lot.
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 5 weeks ago:
that’s fair, but all the equipment and scales in their gym will be labeled in pounds.
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 5 weeks ago:
i could see it in a dosage situation. like grams of steroids per pound of user. sure, it’s goofy to mix metric and imperial, but that’s just what those two things are commonly measured with in America. time spent doing unit conversations is time spent not lifting.
- Comment on Anon has a close encounter 2 months ago:
yeah, that was around the time that dji released its first commercial cargo drone…
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 2 months ago:
there’s always handheld gaming pcs bring released and going nowhere. the current generation includes the rog Ally and the Lenovo legion.
if you don’t follow this stuff religiously you’ve probably never heard of them, but they are out there. it’s just that no one really buys them.
the steam deck is the first successful one, but companies have been trying to make something like this for years.
- Comment on place yer bets 2 months ago:
haha, that’s why I’ve put almost 10 hours into it.
i suspect most mini games start to show their problems and biases when you spend 10 hours playing then lol. like, gwent was sick, but it really was just about stacking the most strong cards intoa single deck as you could.
caravan though… that was a great damn mini game. the interactive and believable element of needing to go around and collect old world playing cards to build out your deck did a lot to extend the game into the broader world. more than that though, it’s a genuinely playable and relatively balanced game. i happened to have a lot of incomplete card decks lying around when i grew up. eventually i repurposed those into one big deck that would get split in half to play with people irl and a randomized deck. only fantasy card game I’ve ever been able to recreate and play at home without buying anything. and it even played pretty well.
- Comment on place yer bets 2 months ago:
it’s definitely balanced towards giving you better hands.
I’ve pulled like 8 royal flushes out of it with less than 10 hours spent playing poker in there. I’ve never even seen a royal flush in other contexts.
- Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering? 3 months ago:
more like how many animals eat then and get poisoned.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 3 months ago:
oh, i guess you’re right. they’re just a privately owned corporation. regardless of specific terminology the point stands. they aren’t publicly traded and certainly aren’t a megacorp. and i also don’t agree with evening they do. i generally like gog better.
people are just always painting things like this with way too broad of a stroke. there’s a serious problem with conglomeration. Sony is a megacorp in the gaming space. a true megacorp that makes and has a gigantic hand in almost everything. from tvs to music to books to weapons of war. they exist solely to absorb wealth from any and all spaces they can. I’m real bummed about them acquiring kadokawa recently… it will not be good for games, anime, manga, or light novels.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 3 months ago:
like… company or business. they’re not actually very big compared to true megacorporations. like Amazon and ge are megacorps. they make many many things across thousands of facilities with millions of employees. you cannot live in modern society without encountering them. be it amazon Web services or the light bulbs in the street lights outside. valve is just a company. they do one thing and do it well. there are alternatives that you can easily use. it is not hard to avoid them as a company and most people don’t actually use steam. sure, most Western pc gamers do, but that’s a small percentage of the global population.
valve is just a company. not even an especially large one.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 3 months ago:
that’s probably because it’s not a megacorp, but a private company owned by a single person. not a corporation at all.
there’s a big difference. a corporation is owned by a board of investors. those companies are legally obligated to provide maximum return for their investors. corporations have been sued for being “too charitable to their customers” rather than maximize profits. a private company can do whatever it wants at the whims of it’s owner. in this case Gabe Newell actually kind of wants to create a decent experience because that’s what he believes has created their market dominance. he’s right.
corporations like Ubisoft and ea are legally obligated to squeeze you for every penny in their platforms.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
this is why left vs. right isn’t nuanced enough for real political discussion outside of a two party system
- Comment on I wouldn't stand for it 3 months ago:
fate was originally a vn. which part do you know?
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 3 months ago:
oh Christ, please. it really is just the lack of spaces that make them a nightmare.
- Comment on After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages 4 months ago:
sure, but that’s not his fault.
- Comment on 'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 5 months ago:
yeah, there’s a disappointingly small number of effects, and that generally aren’t that crazy.
- Comment on And I will have my vengeance, in this file host or the next. 5 months ago:
hmm, feels less significant when the title is just the name of a place or character. or just a common noun. of course they say gladiator at least once in “gladiator” a movie about gladiators.
do they really say “saving private Ryan” in that movie though? it’s been a minute.
- Comment on I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content” 5 months ago:
yeah, different games for different folk. i find this headline promising. it makes me more interested in the game.
for some small context my favorite games include baldur’s gate and other games like it, red dead redemption, path of exile, and civilization. games with either infinite variety in playstyle, or incredibly rich worlds to explore. ideally both.
what are some of yours?
- Comment on I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content” 5 months ago:
damn, i just have a totally different midset about games. i don’t give a shit about achievements, i want to take time to explore and be rewarded for doing so with interesting extra content that you have to look for.
- Comment on Soup help needed 5 months ago:
shit, the number’s right there. could ask.
- Comment on 2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games 5 months ago:
yeah, plus there’s only one launcher, and possibly thousands of games.
- Comment on Thanks for the warning I guess?? 5 months ago:
yeah lol, I’m often plugging in slightly high impedance headphones that it just can’t drive very well. it’s never seemed worth it run run a dac or get a special pair of phone headphones. i rarely use it that way anyway.
but yeah, pretty much every time i plug them in i have to confirm i want to hurt myself before it will allow them to be set to a useable volume.
and yes, i do still have a headphone jack, they are still out there if you’re willing to not get a super expensive phone.
- Comment on From moms pov 5 months ago:
yeah this is a mfw format. mfw my mom is watching something Lowkey interesting and i have to pretend I’m not watching.
- Comment on Time to go to the Soup Store 5 months ago:
I interpreted this as implying that the bits of food hiding in the water are small or pulverized.
I understand stew to just be less watery. barely enough liquid to cover the chunks.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 5 months ago:
you could repurpose this headline to literally any creative or journalistic industry these days. “x industry is being propped up by underpaid freelancers” is just a fact of life now. it’s just so much cheaper when you don’t owe them any benefits or dignity or anything at all in fact.
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 5 months ago:
it would be more like if someone intentionally painted that bottle to attract them then irritated that design using an the money in the world to perfect it. it’s almost electric horror shit if it wasn’t just another person trying to make money.
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 5 months ago:
always more complicated than the headlines would have you believe.
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 5 months ago:
because that’s actually not in the books lol.
i honestly hate the show because it’s not at all accurate to the books either in spite of that being the bulk of their marketing. that said, the two swords things comes entirely from the games. in the books he makes comments a few times about the fancy metals in his swords helping kill monsters, but he only has one at a time.