octobob
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- Comment on Day 316 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 6 days ago:
I could not get fable 2 to launch at all on xenia on Arch. I didn’tolk further into it yet though, honestly I’m not sure if I can get any game to launch
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Two gay men can’t make a da baby, and the gays can be very into their looks and physical attraction.
Speaking from experience as a gay man
- Comment on I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks. 2 weeks ago:
I played the HD version on a PS3 emulator and honestly didn’t notice that much of a difference from the PS2 game with upscaled resolution.
I think the point of this post, which I agree with, is that the PS2 version that is available via emulators or on the PS store currently is good enough as it is and the series doesn’t need revived at all.
Sort of in the same vein is that I tried playing MGS1 twin snakes which is the gamecube remake of the PS1 game. Maybe it’s nostalgia of the original being my favorite game of all time, but it just didn’t hit the same for me as the original. It’s just about the closest thing to what a modern “remake” would look like, except I guess with the graphics of how the new remastered snake eater game looks instead of the GC graphics.
It sucks that people might skip timeless classics like these because they’re not remastered with updated graphics.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 weeks ago:
Factorio, hands down
600 hours and counting. The space age expansion basically quadrupled the content, and is the first time I’ve played the game 100% vanilla with no mods in probably 10 years. Great times.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 4 weeks ago:
Hello fellow pittsburgher. Same thing happened to me. We were only out of power for about a day because we’re in the city limits I guess, by the zoo.
Worst part was showing up and working in the dark because we have a bunch of skylights in our shop.
Some of my coworkers that live more rural were told may 6
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I visited Australia last year. There were surveillance cameras just about everywhere. Even on rural highways to catch speeders
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure “fanboys” is true to some extent but their target audience is children and casual gamers.
There are so many people that don’t play games beyond Mario kart, animal crossing, party games, etc
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
My fiance has more critical thinking and political analysis of world events and history, reads books just about every day, writes and communicates clearly. Just talking to him for a little bit you’ll get the impression that he’s very intelligent.
He’s a highschool dropout.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered - Bugs, Glitches, and Fixes 4 weeks ago:
Brother Jauffre and Martin were following me on horseback to cloud ruler temple.
Jauffre’s head texture stretched about 20 feet out from his body haha
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
I swear to god working in an engineering field for the past 10 years or so has dramatically changed my grammar. Do you know who has the absolute worst grammar and spelling of anyone I’ve ever met? My boss. “First 2 channels shoul dBe woired for 0-10vDC” was a note he left on my desk yesterday. Do you know who’s the smartest person I’ve ever met when it comes to electrical? Also my boss.
It’s never a 1 to 1 comparison of intelligence fwiw. Everyone in this field spits out emails in half-cobbled together sentences and phrases and it just works somehow. When I type out multiple paragraphs and overexplain things, half the time they’ll just come down to the shop to talk instead.
But yeah I have realized that this will bleed out into the rest of my communication haha. I’ll look back at texts I send quickly to my fiance and see that I’m skipping words or saying shit wrong. Oh well, the ideas are communicated just as well most the time.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
Pittsburgh’s great! I’ve lived here my whole life, bought an old home from 1890 here during covid that’s right along the Allegheny River. I can see it from my front stoop. I’m also surrounded by woods and have only one neighbor who’s about a hundred feet away. But I can still walk around the city or bus most places pretty easily.
I’m currently renovating the home slowly as I go, but I love it to death. This is me and my fiance’s forever home for sure.
Pittsburgh is a great mix of Appalachian country, rust belt, and small city all in one. Like I can drive maybe 15 minutes up the road and I’m in the sticks, or I can bop around the city. There’s also the suburbs of course, but I have no reason to go to them unless I’m driving thru them.
I’ve worked in factories for the past 10 years or so in electrical manufacturing of control and power systems for the big steel mills around the country. I love that the industry is still here if you don’t mind driving a bit. Like I get to work in 20 minutes, can’t beat it. Most industry is quite a drive outside other cities.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 month ago:
Yikes. Lane correction legit freaks me out. I thought it could always be turned off long term but I guess not.
It would be a disaster using that in the city I live in (Pittsburgh). Like I’m sorry that our roads are based on deer trails from the 1800s that go through woods and winding up and down hills. With all the city traffic to go with it.
Downtown can be even worse. Like you legit have to break traffic laws to get around, there’s no other way. If one of them cars “corrected” me on a tight narrow street when I go over the double yellow to pass someone on a bicycle, that could end terribly for everyone.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 month ago:
It’s not a new argument. This goes back decades, with actual laws being passed linking homosexuality to pedophilia and making it a crime and/or classified as a mental disorder to be gay.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/…/13218719.2023.2280519#d…
It’s just a sore subject is all.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
I’m a younger person (32) and didn’t know about this norm until I saw an older person doing it. Now I do it as well but make it obvious what the intent is.
For example:
Hello (person),
See responses below in red
Blah blah blah original email text
Red text
Blah blah blah
Red text
Etc.
It works really well. Said person will even respond in green to my red. We do all this in new outlook, which to be fair, is still a mess for other reasons. Don’t even get me started on the search lol
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 month ago:
Why even lump pedos in the same sentence with the gays
This is an age-old hurtful stereotype. I’m hoping you don’t believe there’s any connection, because I have heard that before from bigots in my life and it just makes me see red. Same as the whole “homophobes are just closeted gays let’s point that out as if it’s a sickness”.
I’m just tryin to exist, not be considered “harmful” to anyone
- 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 2 months ago:
At a certain point they’re beating a dead horse. Outside of graphical updates (which I thought the cartoon-y look of the leaders in civ 6 was a huge downgrade), the core gameplay is still mostly the same throughout the series.
I watched a video on civ 7 and it seems like they really tried to shake up a lot in the game, I think for this reason that they needed to try something fresh to stay relevant. But really this is to its detriment rather than benefit.
I’m not sure if the three age thing is to “even the playfield” on those marathon long sessions when one civ runs away with the ball so to speak, but really that’s one of my favorite parts of the series. Like it’s awesome to take out some cavemen with navy seals or launch nukes when everyone is cowering in fear. If everything gets massively reset, then why even try to get ahead? I’ve not played the game so there could be more nuance but that’s my general impression.
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 2 months ago:
Well I’m not sure exactly where this may fall, but I play a very wide library of games over LAN on my KVM. Emulators from the NES era all the way up to PS3 and nintendo switch. I also can play my whole steam library, all from a convenient launcher called EmulationStation (desktop edition)
The KVM is connected to my Linux PC over its own individual Ethernet wire to the living room TV. It works great and can do 4K and has zero latency problems (at least none that I can notice)