Quetzalcutlass

@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than “unpleasantly gritty”. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as “chocolate” today wasn’t invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like you’re calling them intelligent when you’re really saying they’re nothing special.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait until you hear about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make chocolate or coffee palatable, especially compared to hot leaf juice tea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No One Likes Superman Anymore - I Fight Dragons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The highest-rated games and what the people say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hideo Kojima changed parts of Death Stranding 2 late in development because the beta testers were unanimous in praising it. He said something along the lines of if nobody hated it, he was playing things too safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Have you ever seen the film ‘The Prestige’?”

  (Side note: this is my single favorite comedy sketch of all time.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  THERE’S NO JUSTICE. THERE’S JUST US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The good ol’ zero finger discount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This was great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Little Drummer Boy, a Christmas song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Media consumption" ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you have the time, you don’t have the motivation.

  When you have the motivation, you don’t have the time.

  When you have both, you don’t have the energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attitudes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better: they’re used as ad-hoc databases. Mission critical ones!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found the combat frustratingly bland, and Hello Games don’t seem interested in improving it. The first time I played was several years after release, and I was surprised to learn the only two enemy encounters that were at all fun or interesting (the sentinel mech and capital ships) were only recently added. That was years ago, and I don’t think they’ve added any new major enemies since. Last I checked there were less than twenty enemy types in the entire galaxy and most are braindead “approach and shoot at the player until you die” types.

  The on-foot weapons also feel anemic and sluggish - even your heavy weapons feel like shooting someone with a Nerf gun while whispering pew pew under your breath until they explode, and your actions will often be delayed waiting for an animation to complete (unstowing your weapon every few seconds being the main offender). Ship weapons are better by virtue of not having animations and being the same as every space game ever.

  I hope Light No Fire has more enemy variety and a better-designed combat loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC you can get them through the derelict freighter missions (which take forever and are kind of boring after the first one), or by blasting NPC freighters if you don’t care about reputation.

  For the latter I’ve heard (but wasn’t willing to try myself to confirm) that you can just shoot the external cargo modules off of friendly freighters without them becoming mad and summoning sentinels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just released the trailer for my solo horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! It's coming out 2, Feb 2026! Let me know your feedback on the trailer :)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your autocorrupt really likes automobiles, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Re: 3, I hate to say it, but pirating the game won’t let you avoid supporting TERFs. The person who cracked the game is even worse than Rowling - as in, “makes Rowling look like a paragon of progressiveness in comparison” worse - and uses the download numbers for her cracks (and the fact she’s usually the only one willing to crack Denuvo) to justify asking for donations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d recommend emulating some nostalgic games from your childhood, ones you’ve played to death and wouldn’t mind any sudden interruptions of since you’ve seen everything a hundred times.

  Basically, the video game equivalent of putting on old sitcoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Terraria has an option to pause while in menus, which is useful when you’re sick and could suddenly need to run to the bathroom at any time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This time again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d set up near a hole in the ice where seals pop up to take a breath, but the polar bear took an interest in him instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be careful with this information⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It some kind ov exploded!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how many systems NMS has and how disconnected they often feel from one another, taking a more focused approach might work out better for the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They also snatched up HiFi Rush after Microsoft’s idiocy. They’d better not screw over the sequel!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “That’s not flying, that’s falling with style!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the same thing the studios they acquired said? And we all know how that inevitably turned out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Vein lately and it’s great. It’s basically a 3D version of Project Zomboid, openly taking a ton of direct inspiration from that game.

  It has a lot of rough edges due to how early in development it is, but it’s improving rapidly with each update. The skeleton of systems already in place are genuinely impressive, and if it continues on its current trajectory it might one day rival PZ as the definitive realistic zombie survival game.

  The one thing I hate is its current zombie spawning model, with new ones appearing too fast and too close to the player or in empty rooms they couldn’t possibly get into. You can be exploring a medium sized building and by the time you’re in the second half, zombies will already be banging on the doors of rooms you just cleared in the first.

  It’s also way too easy on the default difficulty right now, but that’s mostly due to how much more control you have in combat compared to Project Zomboid. It’s trivial to go for the head with every attack, for example.

  I highly recommend checking it out. The demo is the same as the full game, just with a limit on the area of the map you can explore and the maximum skill level you can achieve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He would probably approve of their crimes against children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boasting about not putting multiplayer behind a paywall, like they weren’t the ones to introduce that idea in the first place.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always played Lawful Neutral mages in Baldur’s Gate 2 because which familiar you summoned depended on alignment, and LN got a snarky ferret companion.

  I wish the feature was more fleshed out - familiars didn’t react to narrative events and you could run through his entire dialog tree in about two minutes. There are thousands of mods for BG2; surely one of them expands the familiar system?

  And Divinity: Original Sin 2 had a squirrel riding a skeletal cat that was pretty awesome, though I think it was a preorder bonus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gargamel would be patient zero of The Last of Us: Blue Edition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t he want to eat them or something? That sounds like a one-way ticket to a body horror ending…