Allero
@Allero@lemmy.today
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Perfection
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 days ago:
To be completely honest, any OS change does come with some friction, and Linux is certainly no exception. Should you ever try this again. give it two weeks, and you’ll learn the best practices.
Until then, good luck with your existing setup!
- Comment on battlecheat 3 days ago:
You’re either serious about it and trying to turn a friendly game meme discussion into some kind of battle, or you’re trolling and doing so with 0 finesse. Keep your game a little higher.
Either way, since you love being contested, here are pre-1963 ship figures for Battleship, dated early XX century:
Hasbro hasn’t been first in that, either. They are just large enough to dictate what is considered to be “official”. And this is far from isolated case.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 days ago:
Certainly not just a house rule, I’ve met it everywhere.
And, as it seems from further down the thread, it seems to be the difference because large parts of the world rely on Hasbro’s Battleship as the rule source, while the other seems to play by older rules (by the time Hasbro/Milton Bradley released the game, it was already almost a century old).
Others from Spain and Germany also seem to know that rule, but it was not in the official Hasbro version of the game. This is what appears to make that difference.
- Comment on battlecheat 3 days ago:
Soviet, in fact. We also don’t typically use a board, we just use a white checkered sheet of paper.
- Comment on battlecheat 4 days ago:
Huh, I dug down and apparently it’s a regional quirk?
Even the Wikipedia article about the game doesn’t mention it in English, but does mention it in Russian.
English:
Before play begins, each player secretly arranges their ships on their primary grid. Each ship occupies a number of consecutive squares on the grid, arranged either horizontally or vertically. The number of squares for each ship is determined by the type of ship. The ships cannot overlap (i.e., only one ship can occupy any given square in the grid) or be placed diagonally.
Russian (translated by yours truly):
The playing field is typically a 10x10 square, on which the fleet is placed. <…> When placed, ships should not touch each other by sides or corners. Some variations may lack this rule.
Also, apparently it is common for the game to have 5-long ships, which don’t appear in the Russian versions.
- Comment on *Honk honk* 4 days ago:
Kinda weird to put it on a car, though
- Comment on battlecheat 4 days ago:
Most iterations of the game assume you cannot place ships right next to each other. So, when you down a ship in a normal configuration, you immediately know the surroundings are free of ships.
In this placement, all but these 4 cells will not give you such an advantage. Therefore, the tactic is advantageous as it keeps the opponent with less intel.
- Comment on WOMEN. 5 days ago:
Honestly, yes.
The culture always tell you to work harder and demand less. This is simply to make it easier to exploit you. Just work harder, and everything will be amazing and we won’t just tighten it even more, we promise
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 5 days ago:
Amazing
- Comment on It's a very satisfyingly clicky button, that's why. 5 days ago:
Ghandi rage reversed?
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 5 days ago:
That’s one of the few things where the US actually follows most of the world!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Congrats!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
As male cheating became seen as problematic, though, marriage topics suddenly became pushed more by women rather than men.
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 6 days ago:
Luckily, thoughts and actions are two different things.
- Comment on back on Lemmy after a month away, it feels like coming home🫶 6 days ago:
Fixed at last
- Comment on back on Lemmy after a month away, it feels like coming home🫶 6 days ago:
Welcome back, sweetheart!
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 6 days ago:
I actually enjoyed not having quest markers! That gives a sense of discovery that felt fresh and new despite the old roots, and I hope Skywind won’t force quest markers on the user (although I also hope they will be added as an optional feature).
I just want to see things looking and moving more naturally, along with sensible keybinds and more.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
The “race war” was actually one of the most entertaining parts to me - that’s an entire new dimension of struggle besides the main dragon story! Honestly, I think they could handle it better, adding more details, as it’s one of the major things we’re introduced to early on in the story.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
I see the point!
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
As someone who started with Skyrim, I still wait for Skywind to release. I honestly tried Morrowind, but for a modern generation of gamers, it’s simply unbearable as far as game mechanics, controls, animations etc. go. And OpenMW can’t fix all that.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
My dude, I did a no fast travel run of Skyrim, so Cyrodiil won’t scare me :D
As per quests - yes, they don’t really adapt to your current progress, and that might be a problem for some. It makes sense to complete all sorts of side quests alongside the main one. But still, I kinda like the feeling I can go somewhere and be pretty much no one even though I’m about to slay Alduin. Feels like a breath of fresh air.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Oh wow
- Comment on ngl kinda hoping people start arguing over this 1 week ago:
Asuuming you’ll be able to unroll it. Unless you have cats, do right
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Love the idea that you can actually scream the shouts :D
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
The Witcher series is probably the closest one
Also, World of Warcraft. Sure, it’s an MMO, not a regular RPG, but you can complete it entirely on your own, and you’ll get a rich and vibrant world full of enough stories to keep you there for thousands of hours. In fact, I would advise you to start with the Classic version - a remake of 2004 World of Warcraft - so as not to get overwhelmed with content, before heading into newer ones.
Also, if you truly insist on solo/coop play, things like AzerothCore allow you to host a private World of Warcraft server for yourself and/or friends.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Eh, I tried Oblivion, the Cyrodiil seemed to be quite small.
- Comment on "Farms use more water than Al data centers" OK, I'll go without Al and you can go without food and we'll see who lasts longer 1 week ago:
Lol
- Comment on "Farms use more water than Al data centers" OK, I'll go without Al and you can go without food and we'll see who lasts longer 1 week ago:
Several reasons.
- It’s not even AI. It’s machine-learning based word predictor. Which gets us to:
- It’s an absolute example of corporate bullshit made to:
- Throw money back and forth in an economy, making it look like it’s healthy and booming, while:
- Actually tanking the economy,
- Making governments sacrifice everything for “AI dominance”,
- Making management lay off thousands of people under the premise of “automatization”, while really it just increases the workload on the rest, all while:
- Guzzling tons of water,
- Electricity,
- Raw materials,
- Producing never-before-seen amounts of e-waste,
- And leaving residents endangered
- All to generate unreliable results
- That take tons of human labor to correct
- While making others believe the batshit output
- And destroying critical and independent thinking.
But yes, you can get some text output or a quick image draft.
- Comment on I will... 1 week ago:
Curious. Will take a closer look, thanks.
