SimplyTadpole

@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, given how Trump’s been even more incoherent and irrational in this election compared to 2016’s, I’d be surprised if he’s still grounded enough in reality (or even alive) to seek more terms in 2028 - he’s already in his 80s and doesn’t live a healthy lifestyle; he has supercharged billionaire-only medicine, but there’s only so many miracles that medicine can do.

  I guess maybe the Republicans would try to keep him as a front for PR (like a puppet president) while hiding the fact that he’s senile from the population, and governing from the shadows. Which I suppose is barely better than direct rule from Trump himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m curious: if Person A serves two full terms as US president, then Person B (from the same party) runs and chooses A as their vice-president, and then steps down, what would happen? Would A be unable to be picked as B’s Vice President in first place, or would A simply be legally unable to be sworn in as President after B stepped down and the Speaker of the House gets the position instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #45 - Subnautica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the same way. I love Subnautica*'s underwater gameplay and alien moon aesthetic, but I can only really play it in Creative Mode since I really like building bases and exploring without worrying about resources and dying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cassette Beasts | The Gauntlet Update Launches Nov 20⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cassette Beasts is so good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Uplifting Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I pretty much have to play it with mods that double/triple the daytime length, or I just feel perpetual anxiety over not being able to get anything done in a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 86 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never heard of it, I’m intrigued now. Do you remember what it was called?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 86 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in the Workshop! Here you go: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=32…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 86 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really need to get more into Project Zomboid, I really love its Sims-like aesthetic and early 90s setting. But the whole zombie apocalypse thing quite scares me since I’m pretty terrified of the idea of being eaten alive by a zombie horde and then becoming a zombie @_@ (the end of the tutorial shook me to my core, lol)

  I actually made a little “modpack” collection and sandbox game mode that turns it from a zombie apocalypse game to something more like Silent Hill (replacing zombies with eldritch entities, and making them spawn less frequently and move slower, but be far more resistant to damage), since that ironically makes the game less terrifying for me and more manageable to play 😅 (plus I quite like liminal spaces in general, which is something I wanted to replicate with the mod collection)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout London - I just can't anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m honestly kind of glad that I’ve been too lazy/depressed to figure out how to get FOLON to run on Linux. I really hope they fix all this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite racing games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 is my childhood game and I will always love it. I also like various other games from the NFS series, from the first one up to Carbon.

  Not many newer racing games I like, but I do enjoy occasionally playing art of rally, Inertial Drift, Forza Horizon 4 and Wreckfest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dealt with that too, sadly. Thankfully there is a mod that can alleviate it. (I’d link it but it’d also reveal spoilers…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I beat it last week. Amazing game.

  Can’t wait to get the DLC and play it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes me really sad that the space station is going to be destroyed since I always really liked it, but the sheer amount of fuel needed to move it to a stable position makes me (begrudgingly) understand why they’re going to do it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 2nd⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door quite a lot. Also getting back into Minecraft and Euro Truck SImulator 2. And of course, Cassette Beasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is skibidi toilet? [Serious]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’ve been thinking, too. As a zoomer/zillennial who doesn’t follow it, from what I’ve gathered Skibidi Toilet seems to be just Gen Alpha’s equivalent of YouTube Poops that Milllennials loved and GMod animation shitposts Zoomers enjoyed.

  Considering I loved both of these while growing up, and still like rewatching them from time to time for nostalgia’s sake, it’d be hypocritical of me to hate skibidi toilet 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gourdlets is a chilled sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks really cozy and fun, definitely wishlisting c:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨modern gamer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play Need for Speed: World back in the day, and it had a daily of its own where you’d get to collect some treasures scattered around a random district in the city; doing so would give you a random reward, and the longer you kept up a streak, the better said rewards would get.

  I was a broke teenager at the time, and it was the only way I could get remotely good drops at the time, but it was really annoying to do so every day and eventually it made me feel like a slave to the game. I actually kinda felt liberated when the game shut down since it meant no longer having that responsibility, and I don’t think I ever want to get into dailies again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’m very much a hermit plus I play the game very heavily modded, so I’m indifferent about the update if not worried it might break my mods lol

  I think it’s absolutely amazing and I don’t regret spending money on it at all! Maybe it might be worth seeing if it’ll go on sale when the update releases just in case, but if not then I think it’s worth a full-price buy imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting back into Cassette Beasts and still am playing my comfort game, NFS Hot Pursuit 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can try to help. Are you using Linux or Windows? (I admittedly don’t have much experience using git on Windows)

  Assuming you use Linux: usually, what I do is create a folder in my Documents directory specifically for handling Git projects (mostly because I like being organized), then open a terminal window there (right-click and press “Open Terminal Here”) or CD to its directory (for example, if it’s in home/<your username>/Documents/Git, run cd ~/Documents/Git).

  Then, go to the github page, click the green Code button, and copy the URL there, which you will use to pull its git repository. Normally, you would then do git clone <git URL>, but the instructions say this uses submodules, so you should instead use git clone --recursive-submodules https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp.git. Don’t bother making a specific folder for this project because git automatically does that.

  Then, make a folder inside the cloned git folder for containing the compiled build of the project (name it, say, “build”), and run cmake … (you may have to install this package first depending on if your distribution includes it or not) and then cmake --build. I think it then should be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PlayStation 2⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played with my PS2 quite a lot when I was young, particularly because it had a much better version of a game I grew up with (NFS Hot Pursuit 2); it then introduced me to other games I quite liked, such as Test Drive Unlimited.

  It sadly broke sometime around early 2018 because I didn’t take good care of it. Now I emulate it but still wish my console worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon revisits early youtube⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never forget Scatman John due to how prevalent his songs were on SM64 bloopers from the old days of Youtube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games | Accursed Farms⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a pretty big fan of an online-only game that was killed while I was still in diapers and which I can only play a limited debug build of it that was leaked by a disgruntled developer who was mad the game was shut down, and I often wish I had been able to experience it the way it was originally intended to.

  I don’t have The Crew, but what I’m seeing lines up very closely to my situation, so I relate to it. And this is a cause I most definitely support, so I really hope this works out. I hate when games end up as permanently lost media…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… I largely live under a rock and vastly prefer indie games (and older/abandoned big-name games) to most of the usual AAA games and live-service games.

  Which makes it quite funny when I see so many Gamers complaining about how “gaming is dying” due to the enshittification of mainstream games, when I’m quite happy under my rock and sheltered from all that 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. My country used to be a capitalist dictatorship in the 60s-80s and it very, very much kept people who disliked it from escaping it, and then tortured them for being “unpatriotic”. And as ICastFist mentioned, there are several other capitalist and even “democratic” countries out there that very much build walls to keep people from leaving, too.

  I initially assumed this meme was criticizing capitalism due to pointing out how the rich plunder and oppress the poor (i.e. the US with Latin America, and Europe with Africa and the Middle East), then hoard the profits for themselves while propping up walls to prevent anyone from the places they exploited from getting to also share and experience their wealth and safety nets (i.e. America’s border wall with Mexico, and Europe sinking refugee boats while fanning fascism to pin economic issues on the migrants rather than the capitalists themselves), but reading the OP’s replies it seems the meme was actually made in defense of capitalism…?

  Honestly, between this and the “you’d be morally obligated to vote for 99% Hitler” nonsense, neoliberals seem to be really, really bad at defending their own ideology, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 17th⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing a lot of Broken Reality to get my fix of “retro-style internet simulator” after finishing Hypnospace Outlaw. I’m also getting back into Cassette Beasts, especially after a cool new mod (Living Wirral) released for it.

  Besides that, I’ve been enjoying Forza Horizon 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christ, Gamergate is still around? :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m VERY tempted to buy Fallout 4: Game of the Year edition due to my hype for Fallout: London (which releases in April of this year), but I’m worried of getting burned if it turns out to be a bad/disappointing mod. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve seen, it’s moreso that Boomer Shooters were often developed by Gen Xers and played by Millennials, and both of them despise being lumped with the boomers - hence why they dislike the term. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers. I wasn’t very thrilled about the change…