VerilyFemme
@VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 13 hours ago:
Even if your goal is to hit it and quit it like dating apps encourage, it’s still not a good time.
- Comment on Need those unit conversions 4 days ago:
I had to look at the community name before I realized this was about unit conversions and not that alien sticky.
- Comment on What is your favorite vehicle in GTA:SA? 3 weeks ago:
Comet! I’d hunt for those in San Ferro for races all day…
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is out now and buggy as hell but the developers are already planning fixes 4 weeks ago:
The developers are Ukrainian, and Russia invaded Ukraine in the middle of development.
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- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
Bonanza Bros, Blast Corps, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Vampire: The Masquerade -Bloodlines, Cruisn World, LEGO Battles, NBA Jam
Bonanza Bros would be a great couch co-op multiplayer game in a world where we need more. It would benefit from some gameplay tweaks, and adding online play and 4 players would be big.
Blast Corps was awesome, I found it to be an extremely underrated Rare game. This game in an engine with simulated rubble and crazy explosions would be a gem. I also think changing the camera to first person should be an option at the very least.
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days got its cutscenes remastered. I want the full game. It was dripping in atmosphere, and I loved the premise of scouting the new worlds. The graphics could use an upgrade, and the combat could be brought up to par with KH2. But, I love the leveling system and think it would barely need touching.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is awesome and not super long. It’s extremely buggy, but luckily there’s a modder named Wesp5 who has spend YEARS creating an Unofficial Patch, to a point where all the cut content is restored and it’s essentially feature-complete. There’s a version that just patches the game, and a restored content version. I think he should be given a team and be allowed to curate content and rebalance cut mechanics for a remake. It would be magical.
Cruisn World is one of my favorite arcade racers ever. It has untouchable vibes, and I’d just like to see that with a nice sheen over it, maybe more levels and vehicles?
LEGO Battles is an RTS for the Nintendo DS. Put it on PC, nuff said.
NBA Jam is not very niche. I want a remake, and I don’t care if it’s up-to-date. It’s the best sports game period.
- Comment on Only clean cars are target 1 month ago:
If they could control it, I believe they would choose to shit on people. This makes me feel safer due to random chance.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
To use a quote from the later part of the 1900s:
Time keeps on slippin’ into the future.
- Comment on Don't Do Drugs 2 months ago:
Oh Jack T. Chick will never stop, even after death. I wonder if they still sell the AIDS and homosexual ones from the 80s.
- Comment on Don't Do Drugs 2 months ago:
Anyone looking for more of this, check out Boolean Union
I found this site years ago, but I haven’t visited it in forever. They dissect Chick Tracts, and the site is a great way to read the full source material. From a cursory look, it seems they’re still going strong to this day, up to Tract #285 now (there are still new ones being published). It’s not just Chick Tracts, they’ve covered a lot of other evangelical fundamentalist pieces.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 2 months ago:
Asking questions is how most people show interest. That doesn’t mean it’s disingenuous. Conversations are not events where people take turns talking at each other, they’re back-and-forths.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 2 months ago:
This is probably the most concise and practical answer in this thread.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 2 months ago:
I just use the golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated. I’m autistic, diagnosed in 2016. One thing I’ve noticed when hanging out with other autistics: they all want to talk about their special interest, and will go on for hours unhindered, but you can try to make conversation about something they don’t care about for 5 minutes and they don’t even pay attention. I’m definitely guilty of this, to a degree. I think that’s part of having autism. But the next time someone is telling you about something and you find you don’t care, consider what it would feel like if you were discussing your special interest with someone and they just acted disinterested the whole time. Doesn’t feel good, does it?
It’s important to realize that in conversations, most people don’t care about topics, they care about the person to whom they’re speaking. When you speak to someone, you’re signing up to have a conversation with them, not necessarily about something. For example, my fiancee is really into musical theatre, and I’m not. I don’t understand any of the terminology, or what even goes into a stage show. But I love her, and if she wants to talk about it, you bet your ass I’m sitting and asking questions because I know I’m going to end up telling her about Black Ops II Zombies lore for like 2 hours straight later. It’s not necessarily transactional, it just would be a terrible relationship if I only talked to her about my interests.
There is no social game. Well, probably to some psychopaths somewhere there is. But people ask you questions about things in your life because that is one of the ways people show interest in others. It’s nothing to do with gaming the social system - they are interested in talking to you, so they give you opportunities to talk about yourself, your interests, and what you’ve been doing. Sure, they probably don’t “care” about what they’re asking about the same way you do, but they’re not asking out of some cold, machine like formula that lets them climb up the social ladder - it’s just how being social works.
I’ll leave you with this thought: being able to listen to and understand the feelings of someone else in a situation you have no attachment to is empathy. Studies on empathy have shown that it is a skill that can be improved, not a static thing that’s rationed out to you in a certain amount at birth. One good way to work on empathy is to imagine yourself as the other person. So, the next time someone’s telling you about something you don’t care about, you could imagine being in their shoes. You may realize that they have something worth caring about after all, and though you may not care as much as they do, you may appreciate what they have to say just a bit more.
- Comment on Asian Beauty 2 months ago:
TTattooing yourself for the bit is next-level.
- Comment on Got any pollen?? 2 months ago:
The person that named bumblebees was spot-on. Those guys bumble.
- Comment on Sad and Lonely 2 months ago:
Well, you certainly seem like you don’t care. Bravo!
- Comment on Sad and Lonely 2 months ago:
History is red dude, wtf.
- Comment on Little Big Planet 3 and all LBP series DLC will be removed from the PlayStation Store October 31st 2 months ago:
I hope this is good, because those photos on the store page are sending me straight back to LBP on the PSP. I’m extremely excited.
- Comment on Thanks, Logan. 2 months ago:
I’d believe that. I tried Prime once and it tastes like the fumes from spray paint.
- Comment on #STOPIT 2 months ago:
Came here to ask this. Why will Big Soil not give us any answers?
- Comment on Kitty. 2 months ago:
“I just noticed he’s a little guy.” ~Me, on the subject of my cat, daily
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed that J.D. Vance looks like a Temu version of Norm Macdonald? 2 months ago:
He fucked with Uncle Terry after he’s been drinkin’
- Comment on The Science of Storytelling 3 months ago:
I’m sitting here looking for Saddam Hussein
- Comment on What's your favorite controller? 3 months ago:
I really love the current gen controllers. I was using a Series X controller, which has a fantastic weight and feel, but I started experiencing drift. I decided to get a PS5 controller after that, and it’s even better! I use it with my PC, and the touchpad works as a mousepad, which has allowed me to play a LOT of games comfortably on the couch, when I’d normally have to fumble with my mouse and keyboard.
- Comment on How did Call of Duty get to this point? 3 months ago:
Oh okay! I missed out on Advanced Warfare’s online, going straight from Black Ops II to Black Ops III. I remembered people not liking the boost jumping in Advanced Warfare, but I didn’t realize that’s where all the loot box stuff started. To its credit, I remember playing some splitscreen AW with my brothers, and I believe it had all weapons unlocked offline at least. BO3 didn’t have that, which was a disappointment for me in a rural area without internet.
- Comment on How did Call of Duty get to this point? 3 months ago:
FWIW the open beta will be open, but people who prepurchase get extra skins and early beta access. Activision has been putting anti-consumer features in CoD since Black Ops 3, to my knowledge. That was the first one where you had to roll loot boxes to unlock all the weapons as opposed to just playing MP matches.
- Comment on Reverse image search failed. No pixels, sorry 3 months ago:
The crust on this one is immaculately seasoned
- Comment on Curse of Knowledge 3 months ago:
- Comment on Curse of Knowledge 3 months ago:
You need these now on account of wine bottles evolvong that maze-like cork.
- Comment on Beastie Boys dismantled their gold record plaque,it didn't contain their music 3 months ago:
I always assumed that gold records didn’t have any data on them at all and were just all the same due to being a trophy. Is the award advertised as/supposed to be a recreation of the actual album?