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- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 5 hours ago:
They are for marketing but not in the obvious way. Achievements really exist to tell game developers what parts of their game people are actually playing. Sure, some obscure achievements may be very hard to get and thus not tell them anything useful, but a lot of games have support basic checkpoint “achievements” like “start the game for the first time” or “play through the first level.”
With enough of these, a game developer can tell what parts of their game were entertaining and engaging and what parts were not. Sometimes this information can be used to decide how to improve the game. Other times it may only be useful as a lesson for future games (by that developer) to learn from.
- Comment on I just want juice, is that so much to ask? 4 days ago:
Mango is delicious but where I live the fresh stuff is never ripe. I have much better luck with frozen mango chunks!
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 1 week ago:
Didn’t you know? Billionaires eat hundreds of millions of steaks a year!
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 1 week ago:
Far from it dude! I’m in Canada.
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 1 week ago:
Really surprised to hear they have sales tax on ALL food, not just packaged stuff or restaurant food! Not sure what the rationale is for that.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 2 weeks ago:
I don’t play AAA games anymore (haven’t in years) but I still feel somewhat sympathetic to their plight. What has happened to them is the same thing that happened in the music industry and the film industry and a long time ago in the book publishing industry.
The marketplace is too crowded with quality stuff and so it’s extremely difficult to compete with what’s already out there. The only real answer is to take massive risks and hope you can hit a home run. Unfortunately, AAA studios just like big movie studios aren’t set up to take risks anymore. They’re set up to spend a huge amount of money on a project that’s supposed to be guaranteed to succeed. Indies can survive more easily in this space because they’re small so they can take more risks.
It’s like the dinosaurs after the asteroid impact. The big ones are dying off and the tiny ones are surviving and will eventually become birds. Or something I dunno!
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 2 weeks ago:
Onions, garlic, chili powder, cayenne powder, smoked paprika, cumin powder, coriander powder, oregano, salt, and black pepper.
Sauté the onions, add the garlic, then add fresh peppers, add all the spices, add tomatoes, add the browned meat.
Chili is pretty simple. The key thing to get right is the spices and salt. If the flavour is weak then add more. Keep tasting and adjusting until it’s good.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
If by peppers you mean black pepper, sure. But sweet bell peppers are the same species as jalapeños: Capsicum annuum.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 weeks ago:
The problem with these games is ranked online multiplayer. Back in the arcade days no one knew the damn frame timings. People just played and had a good time with each other in person. Console ports brought that experience home so you could enjoy it with friends and family, without needing a roll of quarters. No one had any issues with anxiety over these games because you were just hanging out with friends playing a game together. Sometimes you won, sometimes you lost. If your brother’s Ryu was too good, you just challenged him to beat you with a different character.
Online ranked play takes all that away. It makes the competition serious even if you don’t want it to be. Now you’re always being matched up against an equally skilled opponent playing their best character. You never feel like you’re making progress because every match is tough as nails. For people who thrive on competition, that’s great. For everyone else it really sucks!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
Nice! I’ve been gradually playing through a bunch of NES classics: Faxanadu, Dragon Warrior, Blaster Master, Fire Emblem. The next game I want to go through is Castlevania 1 and then Ultima IV after that!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
The only problem is too much choice!
Seriously, when you’ve got thousands of ROMs and vintage PC games to choose from, it’s really difficult to land on one to play right now!
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
It’s really critical for me, to have it feel good.
Daggerfall also had this issue with missing but you could get your accuracy up a lot more easily and then you’d hit pretty much every time. The graphics of Daggerfall are of course much less advanced than Morrowind but the “thwack” sounds in DF feel chunkier and heavier, and the simple animations have an abruptness to them that really works for the game. It’s quite strange but combat just feels better to me in Daggerfall than Morrowind.
Of course Morrowind has the far better atmosphere, music, worldbuilding, exploration and all that. DF has the truly gargantuan dungeons though!
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I just didn’t like hit chance being a thing in a first person melee game. At all. If my sword connects with the enemy then it should be a hit. When the game decides to roll a miss it makes the game feel broken. It’s like clicking an icon on your computer and it not opening up. Then you click again and it opens. If it’s just randomly not opening it feels broken and unreliable!
- Comment on sigh 4 weeks ago:
Yes! Go Bills!
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Well for him, thousands of people is basically nothing. Skyrim has sold over 60 million copies.
One of the problems with growth in popularity is a growth in expectations. A Morrowind remaster that sold even 1 million copies would be considered a failure.
If they revisit Morrowind, they need to go ALL IN on it. Keep the setting and themes but redo everything else. I love Morrowind as a world to get lost in but the combat gameplay in particular is quite bad, possibly the low point of the entire Elder Scrolls franchise.
I enjoy the combat in Oblivion, Skyrim, AND Daggerfall more than Morrowind, simply due to the feel of weapons connecting with enemies. Daggerfall probably feels the best, due to the crunchiness of it and the way you can do different types of swings in rapid succession.
The exploration stuff in Morrowind is just amazing though. Some of the dungeons are like Russian dolls of awesomeness! Also just love the music. So relaxing!
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 month ago:
That’s a really good point too. Belief in conspiracies and other junk beliefs can be a surrogate for agency.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 month ago:
For some reason thats always how it is.
I think it’s because the obvious answers aren’t interesting. A big thing for conspiracy theorists is that they are part of a group who knows the real story. It’s as much about feeling like they belong to something important and exciting as anything else.
It’s like the people who believe the apocalypse is coming soon. Well if the apocalypse happened 1000 years from now that would be pretty soon (a geological blink of an eye) but it wouldn’t be anywhere near to falling within the lifespan of the believers. That doesn’t work! These people need to feel special, to feel important, to believe their life is meaningful for no other reason than to be alive when an important event happens.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 months ago:
There are varieties of rice that don’t require flooded fields. They’re called upland rice. They have issues with weeds and pest control that regular rice doesn’t have, but these varieties still manage to feed about a hundred million people.
- Comment on Evidence 2 months ago:
For being a science meme group, I’m seeing a distinct lack of understanding of how psychology, especially cognitive bias, works.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 2 months ago:
Those kinds of arguments fail if someone believes that God created logic as well.
- Comment on I hacked mars! 2 months ago:
Ahhh. I thought that was just the haze of the red planet!
- Comment on I hacked mars! 2 months ago:
There isn’t enough CO2 for that either. Mars’s total atmospheric pressure is like 1% of Earth’s. Mars is closer to the Moon in terms of atmosphere than it is to Earth!
- Comment on You nomster! 2 months ago:
Jokes on you! I cracked open the keyboard and rewired the circuit so the scancodes are swapped!
- Comment on Birbs & Dinos 2 months ago:
Which is especially weird if you’ve ever held a bird in your hands and looked at its feet up close: birds are scaly!
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 months ago:
Right but part of identity is our relationships to other people. If I get Alzheimer’s disease and forget who my mother is, she’s still my mother even though I no longer remember her.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 months ago:
What happens when a person has a brain injury causing retrograde amnesia, or dementia, or Alzheimer’s disease and forget the details of their lives? Are those forgotten aspects of their identity just gone? Or can they live on through their loved ones? What happens when we die and lose all possible sense of self? Is it like we never existed in the first place?
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 months ago:
Every person who knows you has a concept of you in their minds. This is a part of your identity which you don’t have direct control over, you can only negotiate with them over that.
This concept is intuitively known by everyone. It’s why people are negatively affected when others misgender them.
It’s also true in a formal sense. Part of your identity exists in the formal documents and information about you. This is the part that is vulnerable to identity theft which is painful in ways beyond the financial losses people incur as victims of this crime. Having to prove you are who you say you are is extremely exhausting and traumatizing to deal with despite essentially consisting of a bunch of paperwork and phone calls.
- Comment on Chop 💥 Chop 2 months ago:
I must be out of the loop. What’s going to cause all plants to go extinct?
- Comment on YOLO 2 months ago:
Surprised he didn’t win a Darwin Award for this one!
- Comment on How i meet your mother 2 months ago:
Brutal? The male bites her in order to merge with her! He connects to her circulatory system and takes all his sustenance from her.
He has found his sugar momma and he’s never gonna give her up!
