Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Radioactive Steel 14 hours ago:
So this is probably a dumb question, but why would “new” lead be any more radioactive than ancient ingots? Wouldn’t it be the same age (whenever the deposit was formed) and have decayed the same amount while still in the ground?
- Comment on "You Were Supposed to Feel Lost": Metal Gear Solid 2 and the Shock of Playing as Raiden 15 hours ago:
I’m more impressed by his ability to get players to like Raiden later on. He’s still a massive cringy dork in MGS4, but now he’s an edgy Gray Fox expy and that was apparently enough to change player’s minds about him.
Kpjima later did something similar with Otacon using a completely different approach. Otacon was introduced as a coward and a naïve fool, though he improved with every game, and many players didn’t like him due to that poor first impression.
The prequels featured Otacon’s father, who committed suicide years before MGS1 because he found out Otacon was sleeping with his stepmother, and managed to make him a more hateable character than most of the actual villains. He had all the same personality flaws as his son, but they were all turned up to eleven and he lacked any of Otacon’s virtues to counter them.
And his character spiraled downwards from there - it was basically Kojima rubbing into your face how much worse Otacon could have been and shining a spotlight on the importance of character development.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 21 hours ago:
That’s good to hear. I haven’t looked into MicroG in several years since I always root my phone, but in the past I’d always heard it was a nightmare to install alongside Google Play Services and required flashing a zip in recovery mode or using something like the xposed framework that opened up gaping security holes in your system. Glad it’s more user-friendly these days - anything that makes degoogling easier gets my support.
- Comment on 21 hours ago:
Yeah, they’ve been working on a major update/overhaul for like a year or two now. In addition to the metalworking and a few other crafting types, it also properly adds hunting and animal husbandry. Also basements and real 3D lighting (shit’s dark at night, but light sources are way better now since light bounces around corners now), but I think that might have snuck into the main branch since the feature was fully finished ages ago. Either way the game’s future looks amazing.
The one thing I don’t like is how they’re making it even harder for solo players since metalworking, clay, wood working, liquids/chemistry etc are each full-time jobs with many steps and - just like electricity - are a pain to pick up and train if you didn’t start with proficiency in them. Luckily the sandbox settings have us solo players (mostly) covered.
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Don’t forget the current beta build adding crafting and primitive metalwork. Those spikes won’t forge themselves!
- Comment on 1 day ago:
That would be awesome, though on the other hand Zomboid is absolutely the kind of game that would force you to regularly clean and maintain your death contraptions, which kind of sucks the joy out of it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Finally, it’s time for that Project Zomboid x Factorio crossover the fanbase has(n’t) been demanding.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 day ago:
YouTube ReVanced is the official YouTube app, just with some code patches applied. They avoid being taken down by only releasing a patcher app and list of patches. You install the patcher app, a specific version of YouTube (which can be done within said app), select from a looong list of patches (everything from removing ads to integrating SponsorBlock and DeArrow [which changes clickbait titles and thumbnails to something neutral] to restoring the video quality menu to hiding shorts and all those react buttons under vids to blocking videos based on keywords), and the app creates a custom YouTube APK with all those patches applied.
It’s impossible to go back to stock after using ReVanced. I have over fifty patches applied and without them the app is a web of dark patterns and enshittification. With them I have a simple app with a few buttons per page (just the ones I use) that opens directly to a feed of just the videos I want to watch.
The downside is it’s a pain to setup without root since YouTube is usually a system app, but with root you can even mount ReVanced over the base app so it’s completely undetectable by the system (though there’s always a chance Google will add something within the app to catch users that the RV team might not catch due to YouTube’s infamously convoluted design and server-side A/B testing).
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Ah, never mind. I assumed adoptionism was referring to that fringe practice some offshoots do where they “baptize” long-dead people they deem worthy and was comparing it to claiming pre-Christianity figures as Christian, but now I see it means something completely different.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
So Abraham was a Christian, so was Moses, Elijah, etc
the heresy of adoptionism
There seems to be some slight double standards here.
- Comment on Easter diagram 3 days ago:
Most historical figures would be short by our standards. Modern diets and easy availability of cheap nutrition have added multiple inches to the average height - several when compared to civilizations where famines were common (see North Koreans compared to South Koreans).
- Comment on Give me a brake. Two days relaxing in a tomb and you are going to give me BS 3 days ago:
This is a different OP. The user who seems to be having a crashout over attribution and trying to annoy as many others as they can is Beep. Mickey’s more known for posting boomer humor.
- Comment on "The Old Oak Lodge" (Enshrouded) 6 days ago:
What I like about Enshrouded’s world is how every setpiece tells a story. Not just in the omnipresent side quests and lore notes, but in how every ruined house feels authentic. They’ll almost always have a kitchen, cellar, outhouse or latrine, bedrooms, etc, and many of them have tableaus suggesting what happened in their occupants’ final moments.
- Comment on "The Old Oak Lodge" (Enshrouded) 6 days ago:
Enshrouded has such a beautiful and immersive world. It’s a shame they restrict first person mode to building; it’d knock the socks off of every Bethesda game ever in terms of immersion if it wasn’t locked to third person 99% of the time.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
They bought Rocket League and pulled it from the Steam store to make it a retroactive exclusive, then acted confused as to why players were upset.
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 1 week ago:
Genuinely one of the hardest farming game in existence. Even if you keep out the wildlife that are after both your farms and your farmers, a giant squad of bandits is probably on its way to “request” your crops.
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 1 week ago:
I would be so pissed because three titles came to mind before I even finished your first sentence.
(Why do so many farming games start with an S?)
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 1 week ago:
I believe it split off from TipOfMyTongue during the old Reddit days.
And you can probably guess what the porn spinoff was called.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t all but the largest RTGs struggle to power more than a few incandescent light bulbs, though? Their output is usually from a few dozen to a few hundred watts, looking at the table on wikipedia.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 1 week ago:
So was the popular conception back then that power was somehow magically transferred directly from uranium to the power grid?
- Comment on Such strapping young lads 1 week ago:
Steroid use stunted their growth (Rare Candies don’t give EVs).
- Comment on Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEO 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s a joke. The article is referring to the legal team as a bunch of Lionel Hutzes.
- Comment on Am I too late? 2 weeks ago:
Stop, you’re starting to make it sound appealing.
- Comment on Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Franchise rot is real. You’d think they’d learn when their most talked about games are always the early entries in a series, after the devs have hit their stride but before execs have ruined things with dumb ideas and fad chasing.
I haven’t played an Assassins Creed since Black Flag. I remember watching a preview of (I think) Valhalla showcasing the stealth. They snuck up on a boss and “assassinated” him, which… started the normal boss battle with them missing a bit of health. What’s even the point, then?
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 3 weeks ago:
Even if implementing it turns out to be trivial, testing art assets for quality and consistency will be a nightmare. Especially if the underlying generative AI isn’t deterministic.
- Comment on What games are you picking up March 19th? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve stopped buying new games I’ll probably never even launch, and started splurging on DLC for the old games I actually play.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 3 weeks ago:
Remember when sites had webring links at the bottom? Before Google solved it (then destroyed it completely several years later), discoverability used to be a community effort.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rude 3 weeks ago:
Hence the idiom “canary in a coal mine” for early detection of a failure. Miners used to carry a caged bird with them to detect pockets of deadly gasses. If the canary suddenly drops dead, it’s time to get the hell out.
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 4 weeks ago:
“‘Lurch backwards when kicked’. You mean walk like the character Lurch, right?”
