Tattorack

@Tattorack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no open world that is too big. They can only be too small.

  However, the quality of an open world is not predicated on the size of the open world, but rather what is actually in it.

  And this doesn’t mean that open worlds must be drowning in content, as the quality of the content itself also matters, and certain worlds that are large and empty can still be interesting due to its traversal being good, or the sandbox nature of a large empty world.

  Some of the worst examples of open worlds are the kind that are just filled with isolated little fetch quests; busywork that’s all marked on the map with no element of organic exploration. Or the kinds of open worlds where nothing actually happens “organically” without the player starting it.

  The best kinds of open worlds are the ones that emphasise exploration and/or have background systems governing the world in some way (i.e. factions that interact with each other without the explicit involvement of the player).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, but birth control is not just a pill, it’s the entire process that includes putting on a condom. And it’s expected of guys to use condoms.

  Besides that, there are pills and procedures a guy can do as birth control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any LEGO game can be good if it’s your first LEGO game. None of them are badly made, with the exception of a few, but they’re all made the same way.

  If you’ve played one…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t put the LEGO games on that list. Traveller’s Tales just basically copy-pasted most games, to the point 3 were releasing within the same year.

  It made them horribly bland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  *Most licensed games suck. There are some good ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Hideo Kojima tells stories that are a little convoluted and has layers of metaphor in them… Kinda like The Matrix, so he’d have been a perfect fit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't try to stop me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apples and oranges are often used as two things that cannot be compared, but there is so much that can be compared between the two. They’re both sweet tasting fruits toy can make juice from. They both have tang, at different levels and depending on which strain or what ripeness. The trees they grow on both have leaves, roots, bark…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just FYI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Because if I use “if I remember correctly” I mean I’m not 100% sure of I do and am completely open for someone else to come along and show me the correct answer.

  There are a few times I mean it cynically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, such a terrible thing. Let’s remove it! :D

  Don’t mind the Aztec decorations in my clinic. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t compare all of Europe to France! The French love their despresso, that’s on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it doesn’t anymore.

  You can install Proton by other means. It doesn’t have to be through Steam. And by now, since Valve made so much of the groundwork already, the development of Proton can be done by the community, like so many other FOSS projects.

  So we’re not dependent on Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you’ve not been paying attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not very smart are you?

  What makes you think that the kind of people that sign this European action don’t also sign other actions?

  What makes you think that the shit corpos get away with in the videogame industry will stay in the videogame industry? Have you not been paying attention to other areas of industry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … … Wat? Is this based on Star Trek fans despising NuTrek? Because that has to do with shit writing and shitting on continuity…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can say with 100% certainty that those exist here in Europe made with less junk ingredients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not propaganda, your food is just shit. Worse than even some third world countries I’ve visited.

  Oh sure, I could walk into a privately owned restaurant and get a well cooked meal, like anywhere else in the world. But I’m not talking about exceptional restaurant food. I’m talking about regular food a regular person can buy from a regular supermarket.

  A lot of your food is straight up illegal here in Europe because your FDA thinks it’s just fine to have potentially cancer-causing ingredients in food. The FDA is only just now considering banning an ingredient you use in sliced bread that yoga mats are made of. If there is a version of an American product here in Europe, then it’s always a version that contains a fraction of the filler ingredients you have over there, usually significantly reduced sugar (or no sugar at all, because apparently your country just loves adding sugar to things where it doesn’t belong) and is always superior for it.

  Hell, even junk food like McDonald’s and Burger King is forced to be reasonable with their ingredients or they will literally be banned from doing business in the EU. Oh no! tHe wHOle WorLD BeLIEVes 'mURica is Shit! Cry me a fucking river.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mayonnaise must have mustard in it.

  There are various kinds of “traditional” mayonnaises you can buy in France, and each and every single one of them is made with egg, oil, vinegar, and mustard, because those are the four ingredients required inside of mayonnaise for it to be mayonnaise.

  Hellmann’s doesn’t have mustard, so it’s not mayonnaise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then die lonely.

  It’s not worth fighting someone over fake garbage. At least you’re on a hill, away from where I’m enjoying real cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But American food is bad. It’s very low hanging fruit, but American food can barely be called food at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mayo doesn’t make food taste good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guy hadn’t had real aioli. Doesn’t even know what aioli is.

  Name literally means “garlic and oil” because those are the only two ingredients you need for it.

  It’s very easy to make at home; start with a few toes of garlic and a table spoon on olive oil. Crush and mush them together till it seems like the oil disappeared. Then add another tablespoon of olive oil and repeat till you have this nice, white looking condiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer other things than mayonnaise because I just quite like mayonnaise. It’s kinda just this oily thing with a few hints of flavour.

  And no, I’ve not been eating “the wrong mayonnaise” or “not good mayonnaise” or anything similar to that, because I know people will come out the woodworks saying such things. I’ve lived all over Europe and tried all sorts of mayonnaise and it’s still has the sane problem with being mayonnaise.

  If I have the choice between ketchup and mayonnaise I’d choose ketchup. But typically I’d pick something like aioli. REAL aioli, not the crap that’s just mayonnaise with garlic flavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No port for anything Mario related at all, so that comes with the territory.

  But we have the N’Sane Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4 on PC… Why not also the kart racing game they made around the same time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe. If I could actually play it. But still no PC port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? This fits under the pineapple on pizza category. It’s exactly the same concept. At least now you get to feel how everyone feels about pineapple on pizza. :V

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a you problem. Most gamers and developers do want those things and every thriving game I can think of has a very active Discord community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is if you want to use it for that.

  If everyone that cares about your game is already there, it’s much simpler to use Discord to drop an announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only trapped on Discord if one refuses to ever join Discord. Most people playing games use Discord, so that’s not a real issue for them.

  Making things searchable, such as problems and solutions, is dependent on how well managed a community is; over the years I’ve had plenty of issues trying to find something on a forum simply because something like keywords, and tagging didn’t exist or wasn’t enforced, or bug reports were regelated to a single forum thread.

  The same it is with Discord. If you’re smart you’ll create a “forum” channel for bug and issue reports and force users to use tags as a rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord isn’t friction as most developers and gamers use Discord regularly. You refusing to use Discord makes you a tiny minority. So it’s friction for you, and you personally.

  These same people want an online live discussion about the issues in the game. This again makes you part of a tiny minority that doesn’t want that.

  Since you’re part of a minority, developers lose nothing by your lack of interest in the Discord community they’ve created. A game certainly won’t fail if you choose to ignore Discord. Rather, a game is likely to fail if there doesn’t exist any Discord community for it.