thedirtyknapkin
@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Touch grass. 2 days ago:
yeah, quick psa for passing readers.
never plant bamboo unless you either want to live in a full on bamboo first and drown out every native plant around you or are ok With spending the rest of eternity fighting for you life to stop it from spreading.
- Comment on Toilet Time 3 days ago:
they seem more common in places that are conserned about water usage. they’re basically the norm now in Colorado.
- Comment on they come 5 days ago:
from Wikipedia: “The name “cockchafer”[22] derives from the late-17th-century usage of “cock”[23] (in the sense of expressing size or vigour) + “chafer”[24] which simply means an insect of this type, referring to its propensity for gnawing and damaging plants. The term “chafer” has its root in Old English ceafor or cefer, of Germanic origin and is related to the Dutch kever, all of which mean “gnawer” as it relates to the jaw. As such, the name “cockchafer” can be understood to mean “large plant-gnawing beetle” and is applicable to its history as a pest animal”
- Comment on Common British L 6 days ago:
yeah that’s about it, but they call it as i spelled it.
- Comment on Common British L 6 days ago:
i grew up near a place that had something they called a ponza rotta.
it was the pizza equivalent of a chimichanga. it was a deep fried calzone. my high school had a tradition of trying to run a ponza mile instead of a beer mile. last one to puke after eating a whole ponza and running a mile won. only ever knew one person to actually finish the mile.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
no, but she kind of wanted to… but it’s also way more fucked than that.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
oh yeah, it’s been a while. details at foggy.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
anyone who has read the books was likely surprised that ciri was the math character of any of the games when they first started coming out ::: ending of the books especially since geralt dies at the end of the books :::
ciri was more the main character than geralt for most of the book. she’s the child of destiny. she’s the young character that grows up as we follow their journey. she’s the one that finds herself and shows major character development throughout the books. the only character development geralt goes through is accepting his bond with ciri. the first two games never mentioning ciri was outright bizarre tbh. only even remotely possibly because geralt lost his memory. like, with where geralt as at by the end of the books the only thing you could possibly expect him to do on regaining his memory is frantically search for signs of his adopted daughter
to a longtime book reader my reaction to ciri being the protag of the next game was “FINALLY”
my only curiosity at this point is how much she’ll be like book ciri. does she know magic? in the books ciri goes to sorceress school and then gets trained in primal magic by unicorns and immortal space elves. can you fuck a horse? that was one of the more… questionable scenes in the book.
tangent: sapkowski’s politics occasionally bleed through in weird ways in the books. like three’s a scene where a woman finds out she’s pregnant mid way through a literal war that our band wades through on their journey to save the world. the party basically needs the woman to proceed. she does not want the child. i believe it was the product of rape. yet for some reason geralt and a literal fucking vampire convince her that abortion is wrong and she should keep it instead of drinking a potion about it. it was so randomly out of character for everyone involved. but hey, that’s catholics for you i guess… /tangent
i think they generally said that ciri lost her elder blood powers after the king of the hunt was killed right? otherwise I’m gonna be really curious how handle that as well. she should be sort of the world’s greatest sorceress otherwise. ooh, i wonder if she’ll make quips about cyberpunk and/or other worlds she’s traveled to. like, she spent Decent bit of time in Arthurian legend. she shows up briefly in Victorian London.
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 1 week ago:
hell, the entire anti-fap movement like 5 years ago basically seemed to believe that virginity and never cumming would give guys super powers.
- Comment on Me want cookie 1 month 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 1 month ago:
redux is a synonym of remake and remaster.
- Comment on Hotel prices 1 month 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 1 month ago:
that’s fair, but all the equipment and scales in their gym will be labeled in pounds.
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 1 month 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 4 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] 4 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 4 months ago:
fate was originally a vn. which part do you know?
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 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 5 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.