HollowNaught
@HollowNaught@lemmy.world
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 3 days ago:
Wait, I thought this game was a depiction of what we subject horses to, using a horror lens to drive home the point? I’ve never heard of something less sexy?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 5 days ago:
I used to be like you. Way back when, I would love to cheat currency into single player games with a little help from cheat engine. The biggest culprits were BTD5 and PvZ1/2, and it’d give me a kick just being able to go through and buy everything before using it all while feeling unstoppable
Since then, I’ve gone back and replayed the games without cheating, and I honestly regret using cheat engine. It felt way more rewarding getting everything at a more sustainable rate, like I really earned the item
You also talk about feeling like you earn the ability to cheat, but, looking back on my own experience, I can safely say that I was terrible at gauging whether or not I should use a hack. Turns out, when you have a shiny item in a shop that you could come back in a few hours for or get instantly now for free, more often than not we’ll choose the latter
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 1 week ago:
I don’t get the obsession with ai upscaling
The lines are particularly weird around bugs and very off-putting
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 1 week ago:
It’s even worse in Australia. A long while back we had a really bad bushfire that result in something like 70 people dying called black Friday. More recently we had a bushfire that resulted in over 150 people dying and 400 injured called black Saturday
It’s honestly insulting to see these corporations come in and have these black Friday sales, showing that they don’t care or respect for the history of Australia or its people, all while they flaunt the masquerade of “It’s for you!!!”
- Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled 1 week ago:
Wait until this guy hears about koalas…
- Comment on Figured I'd join in sharing what I'm playing- my platinum team ☺️ 2 weeks ago:
It’s true that noat of his romhacks are at the very least slightly harder than their original counterparts, but the one I’d still recommend is sacred gold/storm silver
My sense of difficulty is a bit skewed as I tend to mainly do hardcore nuzlockes, but I recently played through storm silver normally and it was a blast. The gym leaders needed a bit more thought when fighting as each of their pokemon were more powerful, but my ragtag group of 6 I ran with only ever failed once in the whole playthrough, and that was against the elite 4 (so somewhat expected)
- Comment on Figured I'd join in sharing what I'm playing- my platinum team ☺️ 2 weeks ago:
Drayano made a series of tom hacks for pokemon that to be frank are better than the originals. Would highly recommend if you’re interested in adding a little spice to your next game
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 2 weeks ago:
…would I be able to get in on the playtest?
- Comment on I used to always insert something inappropriate to the Nativity scene and my parents never noticed 2 weeks ago:
Good meme, but it’d be funnier if the caption was in the image itself, instead of weirdly lying about the joke
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 3 weeks ago:
Almost all liquids are
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 3 weeks ago:
BRB gotta start my daily bleach warerboarding session
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
I’d played through about half of it myself years ago, and again fully with a friend recently
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
For me, it’s borderlands 2
I thought the gameplay was pretty good, in a “turn your brain off and shoot guys with gradually increasing numbers” kind if way, and I absolutely adored whenever Handsome Jack showed up, but that’s pretty much it
I’ve heard from more than a few sources that the shooting on that game’s peak, but it’s just kind of generic. Outside of Jack, I thought the writing was honestly pretty lacklustre as well, even getting annoying in more than one instance (CATCH A RIIIIIDE FUCK OFF DIPSHIT). The cell-shaded artsyle is quite pretty, I will give it that
At its core, I think it’s just… fine.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s really interesting to compare a game like elden ring to something else like BOTW
My first time playing through elden ring I had an amazing time, and thoroughly enjoyed the open world experience. I made sure to explore every crack in every wall, not necessarily for the rewards, but rather for the exploration itself because that exploration felt magnificent
However, I’ve now played through elden ring four times over the years, and I quickly realised I was only playing for the bosses, with the open world merely being a hindrance to my journey. This problem quickly compounds, as the first few hours of a save is usually you running around buck naked looking for your weapons, smithing stones, flasks, etc.
This is opposed to something like dark souls 3, where your journey to get the build you want usually means you can a 30 second detour from your main path.
Compare this with BOTW, which I’ve also played through a fair few times, and it’s easy to understand why these games are different. Unlike ER, I honestly thought of the bosses as more like hindrances to getting the powers, which would help me traverse the open world. To me, that traversal was the most enjoying thing about the game
This might just be a tinfoil hat theory, but I think this is because of the difference in rewards between the two. Unlike ER, which most rewards being clearly defined and memorable, in BOTW the vast majority of rewards are either
a) spirit orbs from shrines
or
b) korok seeds
While the shrines themselves can be memorised, I’d say it’s practically impossible to remember the location of all these things, mainly because there’s no point - there are so many, you’ll run into your fair share anyway. There are exceptions of course, with weapons and shields and the like, but for the most part it holds true
Anyway, this went on way too long lol
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 5 weeks ago:
Is this loss?
- Comment on Eggs 5 weeks ago:
Did they get any flack for this? It sounds honestly abhorrent that they thought it was a good idea to show kids something that hadn’t been ok’d beforehand
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds is getting outsold by its 4-year-old predecessor 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, because it’s shit
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 5 weeks ago:
Omg saaammeeeee
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 5 weeks ago:
Ooooh, what distro did you go with?
- Comment on The scientific method or something idk 1 month ago:
Instructions unclear, Richard is feeling really uncomfortable now
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 1 month ago:
Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee!
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 months ago:
The correct way to stack plates for them is to not stack them at all. Every waiter has their own system, and there’s no way to tell what it is. The most respectable thing to do is to tuck yourself in and make it easy for the waiter to reach your plates. Even handing plates to them can result in them being forced to stack plates in an inefficient manner
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 months ago:
As a waiter, on any given day you want to spend the minimum amount of time doing the “required” things, so you can spend more time on things that dont mediately require your attention. That is to say, clearing a table faster lets you give more wine tastings, or spend more time having a chat with a table when the time comes for it
This, of course, means that a minimum amount of trips to the kitchen with dirty plates is preferred. No matter how much of the “stacking” phase is removed, it will never make up for another trip it may cause
You might see what I’m getting at, but to put it bluntly, I have never had a table stack their plates in a way that actually helps - it’s always caused a second or third trip
What’s more annoying is that the person in the picture has clearly never had the opportunity to ask a waiter (off shift) about what they think (as they would very roughly disagree with them), yet asserts that people who don’t agree with them are in the wrong
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 months ago:
As a waiter, I’ve never had a customer stack their plates correctly for me
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 months ago:
Yes, but most waiters won’t even put the cutlery on top of the stack. They’ll usually have the main stack on their forearm, while having a separate plate held in their hand. This single plate has all the cutlery, and it’s pinned down by their fingers
By putting all the cutlery on top, it’s much more likely for them to fall when walking around
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 months ago:
Haha, no
Sincerely, a waiter
- Comment on Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again! 2 months ago:
This is less a “fuck you ubisoft” moment and more a “we need to appease the fans so they forget about the movement” moment
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 2 months ago:
It’s hifi rush all over again ;_;
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 2 months ago:
Why is it in the borderlands font
- Comment on Awooga 2 months ago:
Pics or it didn’t happen