JustARaccoon

@JustARaccoon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  playing Souls games has taught me failure is a part of the process, so I enjoy hitting that wall and overcoming it with the tools the game provides. I do still use cheats sometimes in case of a game bug, but largely I treat gaming as an escape, and that includes an escape from people cheating systems so having it all be fair is within that escapism fantasy lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tomb Raider’s creators on how the game changed their lives: ‘Skint staff were suddenly pulling up in sports cars’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  as funny as the other replies are, it’s just a way to say you’re dirt poor, often used to describe a temporary personal financial state, rather than used when talking about groups of people or the like. it’s British lingo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a normal person without any "connections" anymore go about getting a law passed? How do you grassroot it or whatever? What is the whole process?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  good marketing. people getting paid to specifically set these expectations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is reportedly set to officially name The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as soon as next month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry to be the bearer of bad news but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  mate, don’t be disingenuous, fireworks have a distinct noise pattern; while they are mechanically explosions calling them that instills the image of cannon fire, tank missiles, or pipe bombs, and yeah I wouldn’t want to be woken up by that either, but fireworks are fireworks.

  then again you sound like the type of person to hate kids playing football in front of your building, cause “random shouting isn’t fun for anyone except individual self centred etc etc”. The world is bigger than you, if anything you dictating how others should have their harmless fun looks like being self centred to me, and that’s fine, we all push for policies that benefit us, but don’t take the moral high ground as if you’re being selfless when you’re just interested in getting less noise in your neighbourhood for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  no fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  XBOX shuttered Arkane and other studios already. they’re in cost cutting mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  um Microsoft owns XBOX which owns Bethesda?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they are owned by XBOX tho, sure internally it’s the same but externally it needs to make them money, and even Arkane wasn’t safe from getting axed in spite of the good games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  financially not a loss but how many years can a studio coast on that money and glory before someone asks them to do their job and make more money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the writing was poor, and for a space sandbox it was really missing a lot of the space navigation and sandbox. they recently increased the number of POIs (points of interest) on maps, but I’m not sure that’s enough to salvage it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a normal person without any "connections" anymore go about getting a law passed? How do you grassroot it or whatever? What is the whole process?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one of the issues there is Kratom is not really seen as a drug the same way others would be seen. A good first step would be forcing it to go through at least the same amount of warnings and labelling as tobacco companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is reportedly set to officially name The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as soon as next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s giving Veilguard yes

• Anyone else reckon Bethesda will go the way of Bioware?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but they already work, I don’t see the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what are you even asking? what would such “reverse engineered EA games” look like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you still have tactical mode tho and it works the same as in origins, I think the AI ruleset stuff you could set before is missing in 2 iirc, but when I played them back to back it didn’t feel like I needed to relearn how stuff works.

  I do think it helps playing da2 with all the included dlcs, it helps add variety to areas you visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  upvoted only to retract it for the da2 comment lol. Dragon Age 2 is a great game swamped by tight deadlines, but what’s there is fun and it still has the feel of origin where the world feels dangerous. it is so much better than its successors, and honestly if it had the right budget I’d even say it could’ve been as good as origins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on "power scaling"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it sticks within the same show, that’s fine, that’s showing internal (in)consistency and as much as people say “they have breathing dragons, what does it matter” arguing for internal consistency is not the same thing as arguing suspension of disbelief.

  Comparing between shows though often ends as a dick measuring contest so not a fan, it all ends up as “Can this person beat Goku?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hotter summers are making British potatoes smaller⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  karma, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The original Stargate movie did that, though I don’t think it’s a majority of the dialogue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “unprompted”, really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Me? I didn’t even make the original comment. On one hand you dismiss the historical status of pubs as community places by isolating me enjoying it as an individually me thing (I guess I’m single handedly keeping all the pubs in the UK in business; also nice job cutting out me saying I’m seeing a lot of younger people at pubs too to make your argument sound better), then you say you are not doing that exact thing? Make it make sense, without the preachy “ah I’ve read you like a book” attitude.

  Also, rude. I think we’re done here, not sure what got your ego all hurt but we were just having a discussion here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do most of my social hangouts at pubs, be it to have a nice indoors place to chat (esp when it gets late) or to play Magic. Same with most of my friends.

  Even if I go outside of my friend group, pubs are usually full, of young people too, and there’s a reason their name is a shortened version of “public house”. Sure you could argue younger generations are going to the pub less and less, but to say that historically it has not been the social centre of UK towns is false.

  Also for your last bit, if at least some at the group buys something it should be fine, obv don’t go to a pub and take up space without giving them any money. It doesn’t even have to be alcoholic drinks either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the cornerstone of interacting with your local community in the UK. You don’t even have to drink, it’s a cozy, generally quiet place to socialise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m envious of your energy if you’re willing to spend it to set up a self hosted thing to batch process 5 images when there’s an off the shelf solution that works just fine but has ads. Sometimes the job is big enough to be annoying to do it one way but not too big to be worth the trouble of setting up an entire GitHub repo locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would I sound taller if I gave my height as 6'-4"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d sound insecure and edgy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they’re the decision makers, why would they remove themselves from that position? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How are people meant to have a good view of the political landscape and show intent to vote for a different party when said parties don’t get any coverage? Lol what a joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well most review sites give it high scores with the negatives being primarily the performance so at least this time there might be a good game in there somewhere underneath all those shader compilation stutters