Land_Strider
@Land_Strider@lemmy.world
- Comment on Later, losers 2 days ago:
For all of our sakes, I, too, hope he doesn’t.
- Comment on Country music 2 days ago:
- Comment on YOU. 4 days ago:
If you are into emoticons, you can use custom emoticons of one server on another. If you share files, such as clips, until recently discord allowed only 8mb on free tier. Now it is 25mb, but can get up to 500mb with nitro. Video streaming is limited to 1080p at 30fps, nitro unlocks up to 4k with 60fps.
Basically allows more bandwidth and storage on their servers, which is understandable I think.
- Comment on Anon shows off Linux in class 2 weeks ago:
Not even closely. At least getting it not bitch about not being “genuine” after a few minutes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
7h past or not, you can still edit the post to better convey the frustration part.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
Hey, speak for yourself. Some of us did get increasing fun with every pixel loaded, as the same image kept its novelty for like 5 minutes.
- Comment on POTUS posting 3 weeks ago:
Can anyone remind me what Obama’s last name was? I can’t make it out of the prism.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
You fool, you fell for me genjutsu.
-Not Itachi, probably.
- Comment on Vive la révolution 1 month ago:
It definitely is a fun one!
- Comment on Nepal tells Everest tourists to take their shit with them 1 month ago:
Eve Online players like this!
- Comment on Is this a family reunion? 1 month ago:
Every time Harry du Bois finds an abusable substance, that’s what the Electrochemistry interjects with.
- Comment on Load Screen Tips 1 month ago:
Loving the Oblivion loading screen tips! Keep moving, citizens.
- Comment on legs to die for 1 month ago:
I’ve encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.
They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn’t know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:
House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.
- Comment on Someone call the PETA folk 2 months ago:
Diamond Dogs? Not my Metal Gear merc company! (May have introduced some weaponry to dogs tho)
- Comment on Anon enjoys seasonal content 4 months ago:
The equivalent in TRY wasn’t even $1 at the time. It was more like 30cents. Although the topic I was replying to isn’t about the prices but about the camouflage values and immersiveness.
If you intend to hang on the topic, let me add this: The game has a lot of good player skins included for free. Most of them are cool characters skins, even with having visual progression as you level them up without losing them. In comparison, dlc skins have static character skins that don’t progress visually, but they also include a couple relevant weapon skins.
I’m not sure if I’d pay 5-10 dollars even with the equivalent income difference between Turkish Lira’s and USD’s purchasing power accounted for. Price impact on income-expense balance was probably somewhere close back in a year or two, probably. I could probably buy 4 Undertales, or 2 more Hunt: Showdown copies with what I’ve paid for around 10 character and 25 weapon skins.
Each one of these skins are fundamentally very different from the others, while all having the same visual quality and consistency with the game world, while also not affecting related gameplay mechanics i.e. camouflage worth (I keep mentioning this but it occured to me just now to inform that camouflage is not an actual overt or hidden value in the game, just simply how visually blending the character is for naked human eye).
Most of the skins are obtainable via regular gameplay anyway. The game offer various methods do earn the premium ingame currency, or offer the skins on respecs, which is not a huge deal since all weapons, even weapons that are available to everyone right off the very start, are balanced and have valuable gameplay.
I believe the sheer quality, immersiveness value (and not fan service value), the fact being they are just thematically different from base skins that also bear the same quality and immersiveness, make the skins in this game worth their money as cosmetic packs for supporting developers, whether at the dirt cheap value they had in TRY or at some indie game prices.
This comes from a connoisseur high seas for a long time and high zealotry. I would very much prefer paying for these kind of skins instead of free, softporn-imitating, “sex sells” principled anime girl skins that have no connection to the game they are in.
- Comment on Nic Cage through the years 4 months ago:
- Comment on Anon enjoys seasonal content 4 months ago:
This will be like a product placement, but I think it is very much on topic:
Hunt: Showdown is a great multiplayer game in that regard. It pushes a lot of skins, and skin sells are probably has high percentage of otherwise relatively cheap one-time purchase game.
Character or weapon skins had been also dirt cheap in TRY. USD costs are around 5-10 dollars without regular sales, so can be kinda pricey when you think about indie game prices, but probably in line with other micro-transaction multiplayer games. The skins themselves are totally immersive for the late 1800s Bayou shrouded in mystic, curse-riddled plot. All characters are either serious hunters, bounty hunters, farm hands, cowboy types, mystic shamans with job-related gear, female or male, with mostly good colour palette that makes them pretty close in camouflage quality.
Weapons have more of a flair to them, but still in accord with the world theme. Wood carves, metal engravings, sometimes cursed aberrations, in brown-black-faded white-faded yellow colors. Very unlike most other shooters, especially modern ones, that keep applying street graffiti art and neon lights to weapons.
Also no jump-spamming with zero recoil weapons. You jump to take small peaks to get info, or to try getting over some object that is not reasonable to climb or vault.
- Comment on Male Loneliness 4 months ago:
Whenever I hear about “but we have such and such technologies that we didn’t have in the olden times you so fondly mention” as if we deride the technological marvels as the cause of current worse times. We could simply had most, if not all, of these technological improvements on top of 90s movie styles, games quality, face to face conversations, outside activities, etc. had we not taken to radicalization of every thought via mass media plus manipulated social media. One major tenable improvement besides the mostly-unrelated technological improvements that we have over 90s is the more equal rights for a lot of gender varieties and equal rights for women, and that is just about it. We have almost regressed on a lot more societal aspects all over the word, including, and sometimes more prominently, in the first world countries.
These kind of takes can be on the extreme so as to attribute all these technological improvements to a person/party. In Turkey, we have these old conservatives that attribute smartphones, relative food abundance, computers, car abundance, restaurants to Erdoğan’s reign, and arguing we wouldn’t be having these otherwise. I feel the same energy from these types of comments.
- Comment on makes sense 5 months ago:
Isn’t Factorio very optimized, not in the sense that it uses all system resources completely, but in the sense that it has very efficient code enabling millions of operations and increasing without needing much more system resources to scale it?
I would definitely go with Arma in this case. Although it has very heavy calculations for a lot of things to start with, it can’t scale well and cause CPU bottleneck very soon.
- Comment on Who here wants radiation? 5 months ago:
Furiously smokes 42 cigarettes and drink 12 bottles of vodka, makes happy S.T.A.L.K.E.R. noises to accompany campfire guitar sounds.
- Comment on It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway. 5 months ago:
As a non-native yet quite fluent speaker of English, I was wondering where the letter s was supposed to be in the example above. Thanks for pointing out the very obvious thing anyway, brains can fart at times.
- Comment on tired of everything being about america 6 months ago:
Yeah, win: Image
- Comment on Redditor when women 6 months ago:
Excellent gif from and excellent animated movie.
- Comment on Democracy basically means 6 months ago:
Are you a cult leader, by chance?
- Comment on Is there an alternative to "motherfucker" that people would actually use? 6 months ago:
I think the more “valued” or preferred part of an insult is rather its phonetic or expressive aspect rather than the semantic one. Of course the semantic parts plays a role, as well, but the need to use stressed syllables to express oneself, or simply vent out the emotion, far surpasses the need to utter a semantically-accurate syllable or word to badmouth someone or something.
See here from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It is a beautiful insult that can vent out the emotions, or can be used for fun among friends etc. that uses no semantics to insult people, but uses very mouthful words to stress and some unfocused (as in not targeting any types of people) pragmatics, like insulting someone by insulting their parents, and insulting them as such making them out to be not something they are (was an x, smelt).
So, whatever semantically gender-neutral alternative you are looking for, consider to have a very strong expressive aspect to it that sticks to tongue.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 6 months ago:
I’d say the browncoat (along with rest of the clothes and the body) are the centerpiece, so yeah, Captain Reynolds finding himself in weird places again.