CrabAndBroom
@CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
- Comment on 16 hours ago:
Yeah I’m a very patient gamer, I’m perfectly happy to just play games on my Steam Deck years after they come out. If there’s something I want, I’ll usually just wishlist it and let it sit there until it goes down to a price that seems reasonable. Much better to get it for $15-20 with all the DLC and bug fixes than paying $80+ for an unfinished buggy mess IMO.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 1 week ago:
It really does feel like we’re in the final season of a TV show and the writers have just given up.
- Comment on How to find 1 week ago:
The other day I experimented using an AI to troubleshoot a laptop issue I was having. It produced a detailed step-by-step guide which essentially boiled down to: install this software from the AUR and then make this edit to a config file. Being healthily skeptical of AI, I first searched the AUR for the software, which didn’t exist. I then went back to the AI and said “this doesn’t exist.” It then replied “You’re absolutely right, that’s not a real thing and editing the config file would do nothing.”
The experiment has concluded.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 week ago:
Food is literally free, it just grows out of the ground. If we weren’t such dickheads we could just take it in turns picking potatoes or whatever and spend the rest of our time fucking about doing whatever we want. Probably
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Not a thing yet AFAIK, but Trump proposed the idea this week. You can get 30-year ones here in Canada too, but I’m not sure what the lowest fixed interest rate is currently.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 weeks ago:
As a Gen X person, this is kind of my response to any sort of right-wing nonsense now. Especially that thing where you say something that’s obviously true and they ask what your source is for that so they can nit-pick it and exhaust you with irrelevant bickering until you give up.
“Society seems to be degenerating into fascism again”
“oH yEaH wHaT iS uR sOuRcE”
“Outside.”
Or I’ll just be like “no” if I even bother responding at all. You’re probably just arguing with a bot to drive up engagement that benefits some rich dickhead somehow anyway. 100% not worth it IMO.
- Comment on But why 4 weeks ago:
According to King, at the height of his cocaine use he wrote the entire novel Cujo and doesn’t remember writing it at all.
You could also make a strong case that the director credit for the movie Maximum Overdrive should go to cocaine rather than King lol.
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 4 weeks ago:
Yup, it has a dark mode! And in the settings it lets you set the background and text colour to whatever you like, they’re just hex codes.
- Comment on Anon uses the internet like a normie 4 weeks ago:
I have a Firefox extension called Tranquility Reader that does that, it’s like my favourite bit of software. Just the article on a white background, with a button to save it as a PDF. Perfect!
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 4 weeks ago:
Here ya go: healthline.com/…/can-pregnant-women-eat-sushi
tl;dr:
“Undercooked or raw fish increases the risks of exposure to certain types of bacteria during pregnancy and is more likely to contain bacteria and parasites,” says Dr. Lisa Valle, DO, OB-GYN at Providence Saint John’s Health Center.
Listeria, a bacteria that causes listeriosis, is a type of food poisoning that can pose a serious health risk for you and your baby. And pregnant women are at a higher risk of getting listeriosis.
In addition to vomiting and diarrhea, it can cause preterm labor, stillbirth, and miscarriage. Additionally, if a baby is born with listeriosis, there can be problems with their kidneys and heart, as well as infections of the blood or brain.
I guess you could probably have like vegetable tempura or avacado rolls or something, but depending on how it’s prepared it might still be around the raw fish.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 4 weeks ago:
It’s odd that she would avoid alcohol while pregnant but not sushi.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 month ago:
I would also assume that over time, a lot of the idiotic day-to-day shit probably gets forgotten about and as successive historians retell the events they naturally focus on the bigger, more important sounding stuff because it makes for a better read, so things probably get puffed up to sound loftier than they actually were.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 month ago:
Yeah BioWare has felt like a kind of zombie studio to me for a while. They managed to coast along on Mass Effect/Dragon Age momentum for like a decade or so, but I can’t remember the last time they had a big hit game.
Plus those type of games are the ones that take quite a lot of time and resources to do well, so I can’t see that fitting in well with EA’s new “generate endless AI slop until we pay off our debts” business model.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 2 months ago:
I played through exactly one full game, and it just felt… pointless, I guess? Like I was just clicking through turns to get to the end and none of it mattered. Then it told me I’d lost and was like “K” and then played Civ VI for a bit.
- Comment on Ubisoft's annual report dictates that the consumers are the problem 3 months ago:
On the plus side, I have removed myself as a problem for them. You’re welcome, Ubisoft!
- Comment on Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
I had an experience with Zomboid a while ago that I’ve never had with any other game. I’d had my character going for a while, had my base set up, all was going good and I was looting random houses. I came up to this one house that was completely ordinary but something in the back of my brain just went NOPE. There were no signs of anything sketchy from the outside but some sort of survival switch went off in my brain and was like “if you go in there you’re fucked” and I just walked away and left it.
Of course I’ll never know now if that was accurate or not, but I’ve never had that weird instinct go off from a game before lol.
- Comment on Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
Yeah that’s pretty much the vibe for Zomboid, the opening text crawl literally says “This is how you died.” It’s not a matter of whether you make it or not, just how long you last and what happens before they inevitably get you lol.
Also if you die from a zombie bite, you can respawn as a new person and track down the zombie of your previous character to loot your stuff back which is fun.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 4 months ago:
Not as far as I know. I haven’t played the latest update but I did a full playthrough on the last one and I finished it but it was such a slog. It’s like the opposite of the other Civ games, where you sit down for 5 minutes and lose an hour, with 7 you sit down and go “right, I’ll play for an hour” and then you check the time and it’s only been 10 minutes lol.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 4 months ago:
I did the same thing with Surviving Mars lol. Played it on Epic, liked it, bought the whole thing and all the DLC on Steam. Actually I did that with Dredge too now that I think about it.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 5 months ago:
I’m currently playing:
- Star Citizen (I know I know. I paid like $40 into the Kickstarter years ago and I dip in about once a year or so.)
- Last of Us 2 (again)
- Schedule I on Steam Deck is pretty fun.
I’m also currently gearing up to get horrendously addicted to Rimworld again since there’s apparently a new DLC on the way.
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 5 months ago:
Yeah it’s pretty much the same whenever the Money People get involved in anything. It inevitably stops being about making something really cool, or even just making a living from making something, and becomes all about shipping the absolute minimum viable product and then strip-mining as much cash as you can out of it at all costs, and then dumping it when people stop buying it.
And the thing that gets me is that this makes nobody happy. The creators hate it because they’re making trash, consumers hate it because they’re being ripped off, and the Money People aren’t even happy because they never are. They always want more.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 6 months ago:
Yeah anything I put in /home has always stayed there, and things like customizations to KDE and whatnot always persist. I’m sure it changes a bunch of system files being an immutable OS, but I really don’t think it’d be anything a layperson coming fresh from Windows would ever really notice.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 7 months ago:
Yeah I used to be super addicted to Overwatch 1, but I bailed as soon as 2 came out. I can honestly say I’ve never played it since.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 7 months ago:
Also even “Today” is not a happy song lol. From Wikipedia:
After the release and minor success of the band’s debut album, Gish, the Smashing Pumpkins were being hyped as “the next Nirvana”. However, the band was experiencing several difficulties at the time. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was undergoing an increasingly severe addiction to heroin; James Iha and D’arcy Wretzky had recently broken up their romantic relationship; and Billy Corgan had become depressed to the point of contemplating suicide and plagued by writer’s block. Corgan recalled that “after the first album, I became completely suicidal. It was an eight-month depression, give or take a month, and I was pretty suicidal for about two or three months.” … The dark, ironic lyrics of “Today”, describing a day when Corgan was feeling depressed and suicidal, contrast with the instrumentation. Michael Snyder of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the song is “downright pretty as rock ballads go” but that “Corgan manages to convey the exhilaration and tragic release he seeks.” Corgan told Rolling Stone that “I was really suicidal … I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can’t get any worse.” Corgan later compared writing the lyrics of “Today” and “Disarm” to “ripping [his] guts out”.
- Comment on HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks 7 months ago:
There is not a force on Earth that could compel me to ever buy hardware from HP again. I’d rather not have a computer than have an HP computer.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 8 months ago:
Yeah that’s honestly the main thing for me too. It’s $120 Canadian for the Deluxe version. My price point is like… $30, especially since by all accounts it’s not even finished.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's dedication to letting me be a drunk, boorish oaf is so committed, it honestly left me astounded - preview 10 months ago:
My main issue with the first game was that I felt like it didn’t respect my time. There were some missions where the game would send you miles away to get something or find a person, only for you to arrive there and have an NPC go “Nah it’s not here” and send you miles in the other direction and do the same thing, and sometimes arbitrarily dump like 6 bandits on you along the way that you had no hope of defeating, so you’d die and go all the way back to square one again. I had to bail on eventually because of that.
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 11 months ago:
I searched “Peter Molyneux NFT” because my first thought was, if any of them are on the NFT grift it’ll be him.
- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 11 months ago:
Me: I wonder what Will Wright is up to these days?
Wikipedia:
At GalaVerse on December 11, 2021, Wright announced a new project, in partnership with Gala Games, called VoxVerse. Wright said VoxVerse will be a blockchain game, where players will be able to create areas to explore and interact with and share these with other players of the game, incentivizing creators through the ability to trade or sell their works as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using cryptocurrency. Wright stated that the use of blockchain and NFTs are mechanisms needed to support the vision he has, but has no interest in selling NFTs directly to players as other blockchain games or NFT schemes have had done in the past.
Me: oh.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 11 months ago:
I’m not saying NDT isn’t a smart guy, but yeah he does tend to do that thing a lot where you describe a normal concept in a sort of detached anthropological way so it sounds profound even if it isn’t.