Semjaza

@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it hurts seeing those 3 or 4 digits numbers.

  But once you’ve finished a run once or twice, you’ll get more options and be able to turn it essentially into Sudoku or some other solitaire puzzle and do most levels perfectly once you know what’s going on and having a few more options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Minimetro and Cultist Simulator are my go to “comfy” games, but cultist simulator really does get you feeling like you’re chasing a mad eldritch horror when playing at times. It’s deliberately obtuse and odd, and then a revelation of the truth takes you over and you push on beyond your wildest expectations.

  Slay the Spire and Hollowknight have both been mentioned enough in other posts in case anyone reading this is somehow unaware of either of them.

  Faster than Light and Into the Breach are both excellent games. FtL is rng mitigation and crisis control par excellence. ItB is basically chess, and you play out the turns as best you can. It’s rewarding, but once you get good you need to ramp up the difficulty somewhat to keep it fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair (v1.1.0)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this for people on a Sudoku level or 3 beyond me.

  The sight of a blank grid with a multitude of arcane extra rules across it is something I just can’t sink my teeth into.

  Also, is one meant to/does one have to put numbers into areas still covered by the fog?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sudokuvania: Digits of Despair (v1.1.0)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, I shall do that then and see if I can get further than the courtyard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's gonna be walking for a little bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, that makes some degree of sense in the abstract. I’ll try to hold on to it.

  Thanks for checking and getting back to me. It helps grok the cardinality a bit more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's gonna be walking for a little bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, thanks for the extra info. When I see that function it kinda makes sense but stops if I think about it too much.

  Would even numbers and prime numbers have different cardinality?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's gonna be walking for a little bit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, some infinities are bigger than others.

  How many numbers are there? An infinite number.

  How many even numbers are there? An infinite amount, but half the size of the first infinity.

  This is how there are empty rooms in the infinitely large hotel with infinite guests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in one city in the world?

  Please don’t let it be in the US, please don’t let it be the US…

  London?! Hot pukka pies, that’s totally hench!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nature is music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I - like you - put a quote from Tolkien and a quote from the Quran on the same level in that situation.

  A related quote from either is as on topic.

  I went back to look at it, and it wasn’t an explicitly linked as I recalled. I’ve been on a couple of Islam related rabbit holes recently, with Sufiism and Alevis, and there’s a strong belief in singing is a praise to Allah/Haq. So I think I just kinda filled some blanks in in my mind.

  I very much get being annoyed by seeing your clearly on topic lit post getting eaten, while not apparently linked religious text gets to say.

  Silly mods. All the best to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nature is music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame that a relevant quote from literature was removed.
  Poor show on the part of the mods.

  Where I disagree is that someone having a quote from a religious thing is invalid, when it’s not actively pushing to convert. Just kinda existing showing religion is there. But I guess we just have different perceptions of what passes for “down-your-throatism”.

  Anyhow, all the best and have a good night (or whatever time of day it is when you (or anyone else) read this).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nature is music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, because the way you replied with that off-topic Quran verse to a Quran verse related to the topic of the post made my think that your point was railing on Islam.

  Not that “slavery is bad”, which I also didn’t think needed to be replied somewhat arcanely to posts.

  Do we need to write a “slavery is bad” reply to any time vikings or Christianity come up in the comments?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nature is music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternate reading: stop running about and breaking the hearts of the unmarried freewomen, if you’re shagging her, do it properly and above board.

  Medieval era was, alas, pretty poor on women’s rights and slavery was taken for granted. I don’t think you’ll find any slavery where rape was in practice forbidden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Simpsons: Hank Azaria on Retiring Apu, How Name Became a Slur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that there were dozens of Indian Subcontinent heritage American comedians saying they’d love the role, but they didn’t even get to audition for it really drives home how much of this was for PR over doing right for the character and the Indian subcontinent heritage American community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was unironically a joke to shout that out in my primary school playground in the UK. =(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The American one, or the BBC one with Stephen Mangan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We Are Lady Parts - a more recent one. Dramady following an all-girl Muslim punk band in London.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you, and raise you:

  • Snuffbox
  • Flowers
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White Lotus Composer Quits Over Creative Differences, Talks Tension With Mike White And Fan Outrage Over New Theme⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chelsea (Amiee Lou Wood) and Victoria (Posey Parker) have been hilarious the whole time.

  And Saxon (Schwartzneggar) is also clearly in comedy mode.

  The situations too. What aren’t you finding funny about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What other “mistakes” did they make?

  A U in “colour”? An S in “realise”?

  …

  If you’re trolling: well done, wanker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox delay Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 yet again because technical quality is "more important" than sticking to a date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

  If it’s not barely stable and without at least one game breaking path that’s not even that rare they’re not living up to the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The cracks were there in the second.

  The goal to string things out with more series just makes things worse. And characters archetypes don’t mesh well with the development as the writers want it all to be archetypal.

  Groff-Eric was the best thing about second series. It made main guy even harder to stand.

  But then I always root for the second girl, so how else could I feel?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the duality of beetle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What does this even mean? I’ve been stumped for the whole day… You’ve brained wormed me with this indescipherable string of words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least extreme biophysics phd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t he only treat one of each set of twins, and used a faulty method that has been supplanted?

  In addition to all the lying and manipulating the parents to get them to agree and not ask many questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨history rhymes, or something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the record Hitler wasn’t vegetarian, he just consumed less mammal flesh than contemporaries of his station.

  He loved devilled pigeon hearts, for instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While Steam isn’t publically traded it’s better than Epic, Microsoft, or whichever other distributor you go through as it isn’t beholden to line goes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll respect the pokémon card game for demolishing reprint equity and making sure the meta cards are easily and cheaply available to players.

  The card game gameplay, and high level competitive battling, while not M:tG good, are still both solid though. Closer to Magic than they are Yu-Gi-Oh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Been clean since Sun/Moon.

  I was disappointed with X/Y and gave them one last chance to change course.

  The disappointing dungeons of X/Y had been replaced by nothing by straight lines with occasional fancy camera angles. The utter disgrace that was Z Cave as a super (only) dungeon was more than anything Sun/Moon offered.

  For a game series meant to be about exploring and discovering monsters to collect, they’ve really let the exploration/discovery side down. Holding my console upside down is cool and all that, but gimmicks to sell strategy guides are no subsidy for actual explorable environments to lead to dynamic, emergent gameplay experiences.

  Really want to make my take on a monster capture world explorer. I think there’s a lot of space for a spiritual successor to Pokémon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither her best film with Ghost in the title, nor the best version of Ghost in the Shell.

  Not that I disagree with your point. She has acting chops wasted in MCU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since it’s not original, but adapted from a book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not start with classic films in your wife’s first or second languages?

  Almost every language has a few films that stand out, and she’d be more engaged this way too.

  And works very well as a good springboard for exploring the world’s cinematic greats.