skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [meme request] Dinosaur or frog memes for a sad friend 2 days ago:
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 2 days ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on magic recovery 5 days ago:
Quantum physics tells us that nothing is actually chock full of little somethings
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 days ago:
Man I really want to get into Mechwarrior but I’m just so ridiculously bad at the game and I have no idea how to get better.
I’ve tried to begin the MW5 campaign three times now and I’ve been priced out of existing every time, I take way too much damage and my repair bills vastly outstrip my income. Combine with having to spend hundreds of thousands of credits in travel fees to get anywhere and I’m very quickly even more broke than I started.
Just for kicks the other day I set up an Instant Action for testing purposes and I brought two Atlases, a Highlander and an Archer to some random backwater mid-difficulty mission and still barely limped out of there alive, with the Highlander and one of the Atlases downed. That’s just shameful.
- Comment on Only a few years left 1 week ago:
I’ve dark souls dodge rolled an entire series of physical and mental maladies from both sides of my family and I’m afraid they’re all going to hit me like a sack of bricks when I turn 40
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
What I don’t get, personally, is how this one scratched-in groove wave can contain a bassline, a melody and a singing voice and they all can be differentiated coming out of the speaker.
How speakers work in general is just black magic to me, actually.
- Comment on Euler's Meme 1 week ago:
I like your funny words, magic man
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 2 weeks ago:
Fuck that, when I bought Chrono Trigger for the SNES, I owned that game. I still own that game. Nintendo has not broken into my home to rescind my license to a physical cartridge that I purchased.
- Comment on to whom it may concern: 2 weeks ago:
Never said they had to be the same person.
Many folks would consider it right kind of you to put a bullet in a Klansman.
- Comment on do no harm 2 weeks ago:
There’s some attempt to try and make it genuine, and there are guidelines around it to support that (e.g. 1 = barely noticeable, 3,4 = distracting, 5,6 = unignorable, 7,8 = prevents normal activities, 9 = prevents conversation)
But in practice you’re going to get about one in every dozen patients who engages with this scale in good faith and you’re going to get a number between 8-11 from everyone else.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 3 weeks ago:
Hey I was that weirdo that down voted this, and I assure you it was by accident and I changed it now. I actually never got the chance to play Apocalypse and hot damn, I had no idea it was a whole sequel, I thought it was an expanded release in the same vein as a bunch of the Persona games have (P3->FES, P4->Golden, P5->Royal).
So, amending my statement, play SMTIV and then play Apoc.
Also, excuse me, I have some shopping I need to do.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 3 weeks ago:
Leave Pokémon behind, play some Shin Megami Tensei, thank me later.
There’s a pipeline of former Pokémon fans thinking “Huh, these games have kind of gone to crap, I wish I had this same monster-collector style game but with a real plot and interesting characters” and then SMTIV falls from the sky like manna from heaven unto them.
I don’t think IV is actually the best SMT game, I think that honor goes to Nocturne - which is available on the Switch - but SMTIV is a good showing of the series that is available for 3DS. If you have the option, pick up SMTIV-Apocalypse, it’s an expanded “GOTY-style” re-release of IV, but the base game is also fine.
- Comment on When they told me to invest in bitcoin, I bought all this at $20 dollars an ounce 100 years ago. 4 weeks ago:
Very carefully
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly I’m cool with fucking up my body to have a good time, I just wish it didn’t cost me $200 for the privelege.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Repacks are sourced from the scene, and the scene cracks video games. The fact that you get free video games out of it is a side effect.
Could you explain what you mean by this? Are the cracks just done for fun / for clout? I do admit I have wondered what keeps people so reliably cracking new games. Seems like a thankless job.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 month ago:
All armed forces members are required by oath, and therefore by law, to refuse unlawful orders.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 month ago:
You run into a subtext problem here though.
Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits
Making this argument to shareholders means you’re telling them “I wish to shrink your profits”, no matter what else comes after that comma that’s a non-starter for a CEO. 99% of shareholders don’t give one Kentucky fried fuck about the company, they just want free money. You get between them and their free money and you’re gone, replaced by the next failing-upward ghoul in line on LinkedIn.
The idea of having a well established, respected and non-abusive company is no longer a reality in America. The stock market is a vehicle for gambling on shareholder feelings. It’s no longer about the company at all, just about how much you can hype up the company to then pass the bag along to someone else.
Wal-Mart shareholders don’t care if Wal-Mart craters into Hell tomorrow, so long as they get paid dividends and are able to offload their shares at a profit before it dies.
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 1 month ago:
Shitty reward??
Excuse me, Dawnbreaker is the coolest looking useless sword in the game. That’s not shitty, that’s home decor.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 1 month ago:
My Steam Deck doesn’t serve me ads. Not even the on-boot sale pop up that desktop Steam gives.
- Comment on Anon buys a game for the switch 2 1 month ago:
Samus as an exterminator?
I prefer my home free of missile damage thanks
- Comment on You gotta rizz 'em 2 months ago:
She in awe of my 'tism
- Comment on sticker 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 months ago:
That already happened and they already C&D’d it according to someone else in this thread
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Sting Shard trap also works great, I just threw one of those at every minion spawn and then they die in one Needle hit after. If you stack poison on it then you probably don’t even need the follow up hit but I don’t remember if you can have the Pollip Pouch before this fight or not.
Sting Shard is great in general though. Does 2x Needle damage in a trap you can place in midair, can be poisoned with Pollip Pouch for even more extended DPS, is AoE-capable and can hit multiple enemies, and is cheap enough to refill at 7 shell shards. It’s been my primary red tool so far all game, though I just got to Act 2 recently and I’m hoping to find something better here.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Go west and south when you find the rain
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Last Judge was the only boss so far that almost completely filtered me from the game and I think the reason why was because of how very little warning you get before the big spin. I think like an extra quarter of a second on that startup animation would go a huge way toward making her way less annoying. Took me two days to complete the fight because I kept getting so tilted by getting hit with the spin.
The runback wasn’t difficult at all but it was very annoying. You can avoid all enemies on the route except for a single drill fly, but it takes a whole 30 seconds or more to make the run back to the boss fight. Don’t fuck up your platforming though, the sand worms do two damage, so missing a landing means you’re stuck spending the first 10 seconds of the fight trying to Bind with your cocoon silk if you want to survive more than one single hit (two, if you found all the act 1 mask shards).
To be honest I ended up finally defeating Judge by strapping on the Pollip Pouch and sticking her full of poison straight pins. I regret nothing and I do not consider this to be dishonorable.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 2 months ago:
Go set up a trail cam out there before the event
- Comment on Thanks satan 2 months ago:
It’s provocative, it gets the people going
- Comment on US panel releases over 33,000 pages of Epstein files 2 months ago:
There’s a super easy way to solve this. Especially for corporations.
“The company’s operations will be suspended during the suit, until such time as the court can determine whether the company is operating illegally.”
You want to flood the zone with shit to draw out your court case for 18 months until everyone loses interest? You can still do that. But you won’t be making any money while you do, and I expect your employees still need paychecks if you want them to still be there when this wraps up.
This isn’t a silver bullet for every sort of court case, but I think this is a very sensible and obvious solution to corporate crimes.
