Quetzalcutlass

@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say no to BAYES⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the other 50% smugness and delusions of grandeur?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smoooooth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientists be like “ow, how?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The “support” was clearly a hallucinating AI agent, and Ubisoft has already clarified that the game is still supported and should get a patch in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to go back to Avorion after they ruined subordinate auto-trading. You used to be able to tell your traders to make money and they’d figure out trade routes and grant you a decent passive income. Now they can only trade within a few sectors (prices vary in a gradient spanning the entire galactic map, so trading with a neighboring sector is barely worth it due to prices being nearly identical), and you need to invest heavily in both the captain and trading hardware upgrades for their ship to make it even remotely usable.

  I know I shouldn’t expect an X4 level economic simulation, but they straight up ripped out an already working system and the replacement is barely functional. At least someone wrote a mod allowing you to set up manual trade routes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bethesda has a tendency to take features from popular mods for their previous games to improve future titles. Skyrim’s combat, for example, is heavily inspired by the Deadly Reflex mod for Oblivion. I wouldn’t be surprised if TES 6 cribs the Souls-like combat formula due to those mods’ popularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or philanthropic Nigerian royalty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a very tasty snack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly the nearest L&L location looks to be multiple states away. I’d love a quality Hawaiian place. The place I was talking about is alright, but their entrées aren’t anywhere near as good as their sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s actually part one of a trilogy and there’s no publisher in place for the sequels? It’s like Molyneux gets off on disappointing players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a very tasty snack⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A Hawaiian fast food place opened near me last year, and teriyaki spam musubi is one of the most addicting things I’ve ever tried. I’d eat there all the time if they didn’t charge nearly four bucks per tiny sushi roll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA#26⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  [“This is my whole thing!”

  “Sorry boss, but I thought maybe your ‘thing’ could be getting away with it this time.”](youtu.be/lTauwPVETKs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the moon is hollow and rings like a bell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Due to inflation, the job title is now hundredbuccaneer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨halal paintball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Painball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you beat them easily, only for a cutscene to play where they’re kicking your ass and you barely escape with your life.

  Kai Leng pulling this on Thessia killed my Mass Effect playthrough. I was one-shotting you five seconds ago; stop smugging at me like you’re anything other than an author fiat wankfest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the whale game devs never expected or wanted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The best is when the game isn’t programmed to stop their dialog when they die, so you get a dramatic soliloquy delivered by a ragdolled corpse on the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Luke, I am your *second* father"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He knew his father was Anakin Skywalker. He didn’t know that Anakin was a Jedi until Obi Wan told him in A New Hope (his uncle lied and said he was a freighter pilot or something), and didn’t know Anakin and Darth Vader were the same person until the end of The Empire Strikes Back (because they weren’t the same person until the writers decided on that twist while making that movie).

  Leia being his sister was a similar twist pulled out of their asses while writing the third movie, in the hopes of recreating the “I am your father” hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just launch Walter Dornez at them. At some point it becomes basically the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I could never get the timing down on the dueling minigame. Chain shot is risk-free (and cost-free since dueling risks your crew), plus the dueling minigame gets harder as your character gets older but your sailing muscle memory is always reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sid Meier’s Pirates! it was the objectivity correct choice 99% of the time. Even a tiny ship could take out a ship of the line with a few well-placed chain shot barrages, and ships would pretty much always surrender the instant they lost their mast.

  I think the story battles were an exception to the instant surrender rule, but without their sails you could switch to grape shot and pepper their helpless vessel until they had no crew left, then board for an instant victory.

  I miss that game. I should load it up and see how it holds up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no universal frame of reference. Any theoretical time travel would likely need a beacon of some sort to calibrate their arrival point, meaning you could only travel back to the point time travel was established.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sleipnir, is that you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad! Every time I think about replaying Dark Forces I remember the sewer level with the dianogas and change my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only seventy pounds of cheese to go! That last fight was rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that every single edition changed the cheat codes. Titanium Edition was my favorite as a kid for making them all short and easy to remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would, but someone stole my sweetroll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One way to guarantee your paper blows people away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Real heroes wear green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say it’s hard to go back to games with random encounters after the genre moved away from the system, but their rereleases usually let you disable them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still? I haven’t played OpenRA in several years and assumed they would have fixed it by now.

  Then again Red Alert 2 is even less supported than it was the last time I checked, so I’m guessing their focus is mostly on the multiplayer side of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a host of open source remakes of old game engines that fix bugs and update them for modern systems, resolutions, and aspect ratios. Here’s a few off the top of my head:

  • OpenMW for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (probably the most famous one)
  • Daggerfall Unity for The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
  • OpenRA for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Dune 2000, and (in pre-alpha form) Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 (the latter requiring extra fiddling with Github repositories)
  • KeeperFX for Dungeon Keeper
  • OpenRCT2 for Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
  • OpenTTD for Transport Tycoon Deluxe
  • OpenJKDF2 for Dark Forces 2 and its standalone Mysteries of the Sith expansion
  • TRX for Tomb Raider I and II

  These are just the ones I know of. There are probably loads more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum ball pit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Game devs forgetting to set up collision layers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has there ever been an celeb, athlete or "wrestler" who got his or her commupance out in society?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if he qualifies as a celebrity, but Andy Dick has - deservedly - had the crap beaten out of him several times, been arrested, and (after way too many incidents to count) was finally registered as a sex offender.