Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on need advice, how to get good at monster hunter 3 weeks ago:
Not the person you asked, and I’m speaking from World experience, but my favorite weapon is the Gunlance. A good mix of defense, slashing, and concussion, so you can break pretty much whatever you want. All around fun, since it felt like I could really push the monsters, rather than feeling like I was constantly on defense.
Sword and Shield was also really fun. Good combos and a decent all-rounder. I also enjoyed Bow.
Try out several on the same monster (one whose moveset you’ve memorized), and see what feels nicest. I actually played all weapons, because certain monsters were easier to fight with particular weapons.
Lastly, find YouTube videos that explain how to use the weapons and suggest common or useful combos. Good luck!
- Comment on Me want cookie 3 weeks ago:
Duh. He literally lives in the void below the scene. He would have to have eyes like that.
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the part where it’s constantly expanding. So it’s 96B ly so far.
- Comment on A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data 3 weeks ago:
Real auditors who are doing their jobs don’t need to hide their tracks. They can operate transparently and in the open. And here we have DOGE; the foxes are in the henhouse.
I wonder how all those blue collar IBEW and P&P members are feeling these days. Gotta be loving the idea of a fascist with zero oversight secretly taking their personal info for who knows what nefarious purpose.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a blast! The devs listen to and are involved in the community, you can go back and play earlier season content at your discretion, and all the paid content is optional cosmetics that exist primarily as an additional revenue stream for the devs, so no pay to win or praying to RNGesus to get that one ultra rare drop everyone needs.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 4 weeks ago:
Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming?
Yes, but not if you don’t convince others to join you.
How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?
Educate people on the dangers. Show them why it’s gambling, because there’s a lot of apologetics out there to trick people into thinking it’s not. Point out the same slot-machine-tactics they use to get people hooked.
And then convince them to boycott. The CEOs that put this shit in games know how to read sales numbers, and if sales start dropping (or player counts), they’ll soon figure out that it’s because of their lootbox/gacha systems.
Lastly, give people alternatives. I usually point people to Deep Rock Galactic, but there may be others that are better suited to people’s tastes. “Just leave” isn’t really effective if they don’t know where to go.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 6th 4 weeks ago:
I started Remember Me, but the camera is complete ass. I played it at 240Hz, but it bounced around so much, I got motion sickness.
I’m going to give it another try with a controller and at 60Hz, but if it’s still sickness-inducing, I’ma have to drop it.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 4 weeks ago:
That’s called Survivorship Bias, and it’s a fallacy! I would expect nothing less than irrationality from a billionaire that got lucky and thinks his hard work in particular was what got him where he is.
- Comment on Facebook shut down in PNG in 'test' to stop 'pornography, misinformation' 1 month ago:
Damn, aren’t they lucky?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th 1 month ago:
Just 100%'d MiSide. A really great horror experience without being overly gory or using a bunch of cheap jumpscares, and there’s some fun and silly elements, too.
- Comment on ‘Little House On the Prairie’ Reboot For Netflix Begins Search For Ingalls Family Members 1 month ago:
There’s a whole host of tradwives to choose from.
- Comment on DOGE axes CISA ‘red team’ staffers amid ongoing federal cuts | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Why have a team that constantly tests your Opsec when you plan to just let the KGB in through the front door?
- Comment on Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters 1 month ago:
Easy way to tell if you’re talking to an AI: “Are you sentient?”
A human might say “no,” but most of these companies are using models that are preprogrammed to say “no” by default and resist any attempts to get it to agree that it is.
If this is the future of online gaming from AAA studios, then I’ll stick to indie games, thanks.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 2 months ago:
I’m an ex-fundigelical, and while I understand the desire to keep old friendships, the reality is that people can change; even worse, it can be due to getting caught up in weird cults that demand loyalty above reason and sense.
Whether it will end up bad for you isn’t something anybody can predict, but it sounds like she’s not someone who will be supportive of who you are (or at the very least, other queer people like you). Most fundies think you can “pray the gay away,” so I would suspect it’s only a matter of time until she starts treating you like a religious project and not like a respected friend.
Only you can decide if you think it’s worth continuing to invest in the relationship. If it’s something you truly value, and you think she’d listen, it might be worth having a talk with your friend and telling them that the things they say and do are hurtful. If she doesn’t care, then that kind of tells you where her loyalties lie.
- Comment on How can we stop bots from dominating lemmy? 2 months ago:
It will vary. You’d have to ask each instance admin, but some will take steps to check each signup or follow up with questions. They control their server, so I should think that if they bother to limit signups like that, they’re checking each one to some degree.
Otherwise, what’s the point if you’re just going to blindly approve everything anyway?
- Comment on How can we stop bots from dominating lemmy? 2 months ago:
It’s pretty easy to handle. Lemmy instances already have the option to close or limit signups to “by approval.”
Some bots are allowed, and you can block them if you don’t like them, but I find the best way is to report the other ones that generate spam. There’s lots of instance admins and community mods who care about genuine user interaction, so letting them keep Lemmy clean (and helping your admin with server costs) is still the best and most effective method.
- Comment on Friday is a boycot day of online retailers. I saw this from CPUSA. 2 months ago:
It worked for Conservatives when they boycotted Target and whatever dumb beer company over support of Pride. We ridiculed them for it, and look where they are now.
I think it’s fair to say that there’s better ways to protest, but getting people off their asses in any way could be a gateway for some to realize that a little discomfort is worth the outcome.
- Comment on Bluesky 2 months ago:
Don’t hurt the poor fascists’ feewings, y’all!
- Comment on Stars Reach Kickstarter Launched (and already funded) 2 months ago:
Cool. I’ll certainly keep my eyes on this. I’ve loved NMS, but I’ve basically done everything there is to do, minus a handful of community expeditions.
A new challenge in the same genre would be welcome!
- Comment on Stars Reach Kickstarter Launched (and already funded) 2 months ago:
I’m all for another sci-fi NMS-like, but the moment he said that you can map a planet, and other players would/could buy a map from you, I mentally checked out. If there’s lots of planets to explore, why would I buy a map when I can strike out on my own? And if there’s limited worlds, mapping is going to become saturated really quickly.
But maybe I’m missing some important aspect. I sincerely hope they do well, and I hope they bring some truly unique ideas to the table.
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 2 months ago:
I think they make a valid point that there’s a difference between critique and criticism.
$70 is a lot to spend on a game for most people, so people want to feel they got their money’s worth, but you have to admit that the internet does have a bad habit of turning everything into hyperbole.
Still, a company with a multiple million dollar budget should be able to produce something truly amazing, especially when there’s indie devs and publishers that make truly memorable gems for what’s a comparatively shoestring budget.
If the big companies want to have more critiques and less criticism, perhaps they should start listening to players instead of producers.
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
We’re cool. Some people come here with that old Reddit mindset, ready to pick a flight (not saying that’s you), so just want to continue to cultivate a culture of good faith and charitability.
Yeah, I also watch a lot of the YouTube stuff, and with the way the world is these days, a cheap laugh is sometimes good enough!
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
I’m not trying to bust your chops or anything. I’m just trying to hear your perspective, and I can see what you’re saying. It’s kinda like how the “woo, 'murica” stuff gets old after a while for me.
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
I mean, if you’re Finnish, and I have no reason to think you’re not, then that’s fair.
So now I’m curious: why do you think it’s weird?
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Is it weird, or are you applying familiar cultural norms to as unfamiliar culture?
- Comment on New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct Swirls Around CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp 2 months ago:
If he’s not involved in some awful and morally repugnant shit, that would be a shocking revelation.
- Comment on All Work and No Play (how video games imitate labor) 2 months ago:
No, that’s not a short read for what amounts to “work conditions bad, art imitates life.” What they said could have been said with a lot less.
Perhaps I just don’t like their writing style, but it reads more like a high school book report to me than a succinct article.
- Comment on All Work and No Play (how video games imitate labor) 2 months ago:
What the heck is that article? It’s a glorified book report, and it just rambles on and on, presenting points from a book the article author presumably read. Why would I read the article author’s (very lengthy) opinions about a book, when I can just read the original source?
No wonder it’s so long, since he’s just summarizing the points from the book. This article needed an editor.
- Comment on I Spent 1 YEAR Remaking Super Mario World In 3D! by Bobby Ivar (YouTube: 18:25 min) [Jan 30, 2025] 2 months ago:
Honestly if he tried to publish it as is with Nintendo assets, he’d get sued into oblivion. Hopefully, he either puts up the basic framework sans the assets or perhaps it gets “stolen by hackers and put up as a torrent.”
- Comment on CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software. 2 months ago:
Malicious cyber actors
That’s a weird way to spell DOGE employees, but whatever.
(It’s just a blurb about a report they release annually, not some new threat as the article title implies.)