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- Comment on USA President term limits 1 day ago:
A rare palace coup, perhaps?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 days ago:
Playing the original Half-Life is like a formative gaming memory for me… It had been such a massive leap from your DOOM 2s and Dukes Nukem. I was super young though, so I don’t know how much I cared about the narrative.
HL2, on the other hand… I remember having to use five CDs to install it because Steam had literally just been invented (for HL2). Having to create a Steam account and log into a service to play a game was so foreign at the time lol…
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 days ago:
This might only be true for people who played the original when it first came out (or at least, were playing video games at that time, and are used to the dated graphics).
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 days ago:
Also, to add to this: if you haven’t played Portal and Portal 2, then you need to do that now. Like possibly even before HL
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 days ago:
If you’re gonna start with 1, I recommend playing Black Mesa as the updated graphics and qol stuff make it easier to tolerate in modern times.
But that’s just me. There is probably some crucial reason why Black Mesa is not the definitive version, and I’m about to hear why
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 days ago:
Hmmm… I guess it has been over a decade. Maybe it’s time to play HL2 again.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 days ago:
Read somewhere that catching is actually dead simple, just “move towards the image of the incoming target”
I mean… there is nothing simple about the calculations involved in something like that lol
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 days ago:
Pretty impressive, but I can’t help but think that they gave Ronaldo an extra split second than the first dude. Regardless.
Also, I think they’re underestimating/ignoring the input from hearing, especially with the second one where he probably heard the ball bounce hear his foot (subconsciously, of course).
Cool video, thanks.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 days ago:
This is how I was taught as a kid.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 days ago:
Leave it up to a civil engineer to ruin your day.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 days ago:
Plus they have hollow bones and weigh almost nothing
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 days ago:
Then you’re getting into things like muscle memory. I’m not a neuroscientist, but I imagine that could also be boiled down to math being done subconsciously and instantaneously in your brain.
Almost like if you do a thing enough times, you just look it up in a chart instead of deriving it from the equation every time…
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 3 days ago:
Side note, we should bring back the traditional practice of banishment as a punishment for people who society has agreed are too insufferable to be around ever again
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
I can even stream my PS5 to it if I want to watch TV and play Bloodborne.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
I’m literally using Bazzite right now as a daily driver on my laptop, and it’s amazing.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
As someone who regularly connects their laptop to their OLED TV, I just can’t agree.
Ill watch movies, or youtube videos, or whatever… But word processing, or even web browsing on a TV? Fuck that… Kills my eyes.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
Uh, Switch has D-Pad…
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
I came to PS4 late (was PC gamer for years prior and hadn’t had a console since PS2), and I got it for I think 399? Maybe 299? It was definitely not a rip off and I played the shit out of it. I enjoyed it, and the PS exclusives enough, that I got a PS5.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
It’s pretty close to the console experience, I would say… Though it definitely is not as powerful as PS5 (and possibly PS4 Pro)
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 5 days ago:
Depends on the game.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 5 days ago:
Yes they do.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
Yea, and I hear children’s tiny hands are perfect for picking it.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 6 days ago:
We already use HFCS in everything, it will just get even more extreme.
Gonna have to put a spoonful of HFCS into your ersatz coffee.
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 week ago:
Pan-sexual then, perhaps?
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Hadn’t heard of this one, thanks. Americans are pros at not learning from history.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
Also, the costs would still be passed on to consumers even if the production was moved back home, because it will cost more in general.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 week ago:
You’ve got a couple months…
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
What?
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
There’s a good chance he dies.
- Comment on What are the next steps for Americans to help prevent the worsening of genocide in Palestine? 1 week ago:
Yeah better do what you can within the next two months.