Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 1 week ago:
I’ve never asked, but I believe medical issues cropped up and their reduced retirement funds wouldn’t have been enough, forcing them to keep working, and the situation spiraled from there.
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I remember my parents talking about how badly they were hit in the late 00s. They were considering retirement just as the recession struck, and they lost a huge chunk of what they’d hoped to retire on.
They still haven’t retired fifteen years later despite declining health.
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 5 weeks ago:
Is that why the feet are cropped out too?
- Comment on Camera reels 1 month ago:
I will never not laugh at this. Every moment is so perfectly timed.
- Comment on Why do I need to update my graphics drivers? 1 month ago:
On Windows you can use NVCleanstall, which will notify you when there’s a driver update, download the installer for you, and even strip out Nvidia’s telemetry and bloatware from the installer before running it.
The bloatware and telemetry removal is the best part. There’s like twenty components in a default Nvidia driver installation and you only really need maybe three to run games.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 1 month ago:
Also she’s swimming with real bodies because it was cheaper.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 1 month ago:
Jealousy is just envious because it didn’t make it onto the Seven Deadly Sins.
- Comment on Mystery Men was the flop superhero comedy that deserved better 1 month ago:
“Fell down an elevator shaft and landed on some bullets” has lived in my head rent-free since I saw this movie 25 years ago. I don’t know why - it’s not particularly funny or clever, but the stuck with me.
- Comment on Stretching 1 month ago:
- Comment on Shouldn't name the cables after him if they're not for him. 1 month ago:
Catpuchin.
- Comment on Reject reality 2 months ago:
How old do you think Dunmer are before they get the face wrinkles? Do you think they hide their infants because they all look like charcoal raisins?
- Comment on Civilization's been nice, but I think it's high time we admit we're long past its peak. 2 months ago:
By the same creator, “this ham gum is mostly bones!”
- Comment on Reject reality 2 months ago:
Basically the original Cave Story fan translation versus the official one done for Cave Story+.
- Comment on No matter what I do before I die, I will not have a gravestone this cool. 2 months ago:
In a similar vein:
“A silvery thing in another cabinet, like a three-pointed star inside a circle, was made of no substance she knew; it was softer than metal, scratched and gouged, yet even older than any of the ancient bones. From ten paces she could sense pride and vanity.”
From the Wheel of Time.
- Comment on Funny bad games reviews 2 months ago:
He’s excellent, but I’ll stress the “not a review” part. He’s hilarious but you won’t get a good look at the games from watching his videos. He’ll often take a single mechanic and spend the entire video breaking the game in half using it, which means he won’t show 90% of the game’s content or how it normally plays.
- Comment on I'm bringing chili 2 months ago:
If they refuse to believe it’s a wrong number there would be a tiny voice in the back of my head telling me to make life as surreal as possible for the person they think I am. Make false but harmless promises, spread absurd rumors, that sort of thing.
- Comment on The 50 Most Disappointing Movie Sequels of All Time 2 months ago:
Does he actually have the humility to Adam West himself?
- Comment on I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. 2 months ago:
Prey drive is no joke. My sister has a heeler/corgi mix, and taking her for a walk is an exercise in not dislocating your arm whenever she spots a small animal. She’s adorabloodthirsty.
Oddly her other dog, a heeler/pit mix, is super chill with no apparent prey drive whatsoever (at least not towards animals).
- Comment on I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. 2 months ago:
Having owned a beagle, its brain looked more like the cat image but with “murder” replaced with an additional food.
- Comment on I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. 2 months ago:
Dogs think about food when they’re hungry, or when food is present. Cats will stand on you and complain for hours because their food bowl is only 90% full and they’d really prefer it to be 100% full at all times, please and thank you.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 3 months ago:
At least they all appear to be cosmetics like pet skins, furniture, and outfits. I didn’t see any gameplay locked behind a paywall.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 3 months ago:
I’ve had Sun Haven in my library for a while, but I’ve been holding off on playing it due to reviews calling out bugs at launch. Is it in good shape now that it’s had a few major updates? And how does it compare to the other juggernauts in the genre (old Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, and Stardew Valley)?
Also, it looks like the game is being review-bombed on Steam right now. Is that just due to the deluge of DLC with the latest update, or is there something bigger wrong with the game?
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 3 months ago:
Spec Ops actually did have choices where you could be good, but ironically people missed them because they didn’t think it’d work.
For example, at one point you’re being harassed by an angry mob of locals. A lot of players simply shot them because a lifetime of experience with shooters told them that no other input would be recognized. But in actuality, if you fired warning shots at the ground or over their heads, the civilians would flee without incident.
- Comment on Shooting Something Into the Sun is HARD 4 months ago:
You occasionally hear of houses being hit by fragments of deorbited space stations or things like that. I’m wondering how much of our trash would survive a gentle reentry.
And also how bad spreading its aerosolized forms across hundreds of miles would be in the long run.
- Comment on They're not even good jackets anyway. 4 months ago:
Did you look them up just because of their username?
- Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 4 months ago:
You may enjoy Dungeon Keeper.
- Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 4 months ago:
I liked how SimCopter actually used the same systems as SimCity 2000, with cop cars coming from police stations and fire trucks from the firefighters. Well thought out SimCity maps actually made your live easier, rather than being window dressing.
I wish someone would bring back the concept. There was a SimCopter mod for Cities: Skylines back when it first released, though I think it was abandoned. That would be the perfect game for it, since half of SimCopter was dealing with traffic and Skylines had an amazing traffic simulation.
Mostly, I just liked the Apache helicopter you could use to blow everything up
Until you hit a nuclear power plant and it wiped out half the city (and probably fried your copter too) once it burned down.
- Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 4 months ago:
Both can be played on modern Windows with Krimsky’s patches. They’d probably work in Wine, but I’ve never tested them.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio 4 months ago:
I believe the last pre-Paradox build is still available under Steam Betas.
It’s a damn shame what Paradox did to the game. It turned from a near-perfect sim into a buggy mess with loads of DLCs that both fixed and introduced more bugs. So the usual Paradox product, where stability is completely random based on which DLCs you own.
- Comment on Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel 4 months ago:
Hey, I just wanted to say I bought Lunacid right after your comment and finally got around to playing it. I’m only at the Catacombs, but so far it’s excellent and a great throwback to Kings Field (though I miss having armor; with only weapons and rings there’s far less exciting loot).
Thanks for the recommendation, my friend!