Berttheduck
@Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
- Comment on The Message from Deep Space 6 days ago:
This looks fascinating. It also has a demo. I’ll be giving it a go.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I can touch type pretty well. Dyslexia not withstanding. I learned during the MSN messenger years.
I can also blind swipe text on my phone with not totally atrocious accuracy. Still need to proof read them before sending though.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 6 days ago:
What system is that? That’s a lot of d10s.
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 6 days ago:
Gotta love the shiny click clack rocks. Such an easy rabbit hole to fall into.
- Comment on Before/beforer 2 months ago:
Yeah this is often advice given for any love changes (weight loss, stopping smoking etc) as getting support from others is usually really helpful plus it gives more accountability.
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 2 months ago:
This is the shitpost community.
- Comment on Is The Last of Us just The Walking Dead with but with mushrooms? 2 months ago:
On a larger scale yes very much so. It’s mushroom zombies which gives them some cool variants and interesting ways to have threat rather than just the shambling hoard.
On a small scale is about a journey made cross country in the apocalypse by two people and their relationship.
I’d recommend both the games, though the first is better, and the TV series as very enjoyable and worthwhile.
- Comment on Why are prop, non functioning guns way more expensive than airsoft guns? 3 months ago:
My guess is detail and economy of scale. Airsoft guns commonly use the design of a really world gun either licensed or legally distanced so can be very close to reality in looks. Airsoft is also quite a popular hobby so many manufacturers are involved. You are also looking at an M4 variant which is the single most popular Airsoft gun in the world. There are literally hundreds of variants running from cheap manual springs to high pressure air tanks and costing thousands. Prop guns are more niche, they are detail orientated and don’t need to function the same way. Maybe they make a pop and eject a case from the side of the gun which is more complex to do mechanically than send a little plastic bb out the barrel. There are less people buying each type of prop gun though so it will cost comparably more per item even if it technically doesn’t do as much.
- Comment on The Case Against Gameplay Loops 3 months ago:
I think your comment is more well thought out than the article. Very nicely written.
- Comment on Thanks to Artemis II mission, Kerbal Space Program records a highest concurrent player count since 1.0 release 3 months ago:
I had so much fun with the first Kerbal game. One of my big achievements in gaming is an orbital docking. Nothing like doing actual rocket science to make you feel good. I hope NASA doesn’t get a rocket into orbit and realise they forgot their solar panels, battery or parachutes. Thank god for save files.
- Comment on Interrogation or proposition? 3 months ago:
Technical definition Drug- a substance which has an effect on the body. Ie literally everything you ingest.
Common parlance - a thing you take which has a medical or recreational effect. Ie paracetamol or weed.
Smoking (a drug) and alcohol (a drug) are common enough that they don’t count as drugs to most people so medics will usually ask smoking alcohol and drugs as 3 separate questions to cover all bases.
- Comment on Interrogation or proposition? 3 months ago:
Socially acceptable drugs that are very common (tobacco and alcohol) Vs illicit drugs is usually the distinction being made, at least in the UK.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 3 months ago:
Does it get better? I watched the first 1 or two episodes but stopped because the first real decision the young black female hero makes for herself is to join up with a gang of criminals which felt really problematic to me.
- Comment on Deathloop 5 months ago:
I enjoyed my time with it. Working out the correct path was fun though I was really disappointed that there was only 1 path and to finish the game you just followed the objective marker. There were some fun moments though and I enjoyed the powers and the repeating elements. The endings were pretty poor I agree. I think it really depends how much the core gameplay appeals to you as to how much you’d enjoy it.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 5 months ago:
I’m using boost, you can add filters to everything you’ve subscribed to.
- Comment on 2026 savings distribution feedback 5 months ago:
I suspect you’re getting downvoted because the guy in your picture is a tool.
Unfortunately I don’t know enough about US based finances to have any useful advice for you.
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 5 months ago:
We use the CAGE questions in the UK as a quick screening tool.
Have you ever felt the need to Cut down on your alcohol intake? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking? Have you ever felt Guilty about drinking? Have you ever needed an Eye opener (drink first thing in the morning)?
Yes to two or more indicates problem drinking and probably alcoholism.
Other factors are drinking every day, drinking more than a few units in one go regularly, drinking to black out drunk, causing damage to yourself or others.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th 6 months ago:
I really enjoyed it, have you started getting the upgrade paths for the pistol yet? Love that feature, it kept the iconic pistol relevant for the whole game.
- Comment on a sight to behold 9 months ago:
An important lesson was learned that day. Never stand on the receiving end of an enema, incision and drainage, manual disempaction, decompression or in front of someone who says “I feel sick”.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 9 months ago:
Most universities in the UK have a careers officer where you can talk to people with lots of experience helping students with these types of questions. If your institute has the same then my advice would be to talk to them about your options, what you could use your degree for or how to look at other non related options.
- Comment on After current events I'm now replaying this gem. Forgot how fun killing Nazis actually is 10 months ago:
I can see a pic of Wolfenstein the new order.
Excellent game. I love dual wielding the automatic shotguns. Soo satisfying.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 10 months ago:
I get mine done about every 1-2 months. Usually when it starts poking me in the ears and getting annoying.
My mate at work who’s very fashion conscious gets his done every 3 weeks or so.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
You know you can block users right? If you don’t like someone’s content just block them and move on rather than complain on their post.
Or make another post to ask the community and involve the mods.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 10 months ago:
I’m really bad at twister but I’d still like to play.
- Comment on How to Decide what an Appropriate Medical Response is for Loved Ones 10 months ago:
Sign up for a first aid for children course. The best way to manage these feelings and fears is to be prepared to manage them directly. If you learn some first aid then you’ll be able to manage a lot of problems yourself and know when you can’t and need help.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
No but that’s what anxiety makes you think.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
That one is social anxiety and is because in the past if you got excluded from your group of humans you’d starve or freeze to death. We aren’t evolved to deal with the hundreds and hundreds of people that the modern world requires. More used to like extended family groups and small communities.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
It depends what your anxiety is driven by. Social anxiety is mostly the fear of being driven out of the group, which would evolutionarily lead to death. You’d be better with social interaction games or multiplayer ones to connect with more people in a safe environment.
Generalised anxiety where you’re hyper aware of every risk and on edge all the time expecting something bad to happen, horror games might work with desensitisation though often in horror the bad things do happen and you just happen to survive by running away or fighting back which is probably not the most helpful thing for anxiety.
Specific fears around ghosts - play FEAR and shoot ghosts. Specific fears around zombies play resident evil, probably the remake of 4, and shoot zombies. Existential dread about what makes you human and the existence of consciousness and souls, play SOMA (has a mode where the enemies don’t insta death you now so you can experience the story and the incredible locations), probably won’t make it less scary but is a great game.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 11 months ago:
Eugenics?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 11 months ago:
The problem with this point relating to dementia is that dementia specifically makes forming new memories harder. So they are unlikely to remember any specifics including their diagnosis. Also for the patient saying dementia or memory problems will be more than enough to tell everyone who’s not a doctor.
The frontotemporal bit won’t mean anything to the general public unless they remember more human anatomy than most, but everyone has heard of dementia that one is in common parlance anyway I think.