skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on *play imagine being sung by random white celeb* 2 days ago:
Therein lies your problem. I can show up for a weekend. I can show up for several weekends, in fact. I can’t sit in a protest for two weeks, because I have a job I need to keep in order to eat food and own a home.
As the economy collapses further more and more people will become available for the sort of protest required of them, because they will no longer have job responsibilities. Or food. Possibly including me.
Until that time, I will be making efforts to keep my job.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
I would agree with this if Zuck hadn’t been in the news recently talking about how Meta is desperately filling their userbase with bots, on purpose
- Comment on On trees... 3 days ago:
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 6 days ago:
I was skeptical about it. I saw a lot of it being compared with Final Fantasy and I’ve been largely pretty disappointed with most Final Fantasy offerings since X.
Picked it up recently on the recommendation of another Lemming and, holy shit, this might be the best RPG I’ve ever played. Hands down, it’s that good. God bless the French. This game is making me feel things I haven’t felt since I was a teenager.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 1 week ago:
It started out as a parody and then just turned into one of the better dubs of the show.
The beginning is rough but it comes into its own quickly.
- Comment on Yabba-dabba-doo! 1 week ago:
What front-end are you using? I’m browsing via Summit and everything appears normal here.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 2 weeks ago:
Born to Twerk / World Is A Fuck / Slay em all 2024 / I Am Ass Man / 410,757,864,530 Mogged Zoomers
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
Hackintoshes have been around since the 80s and this has never happened.
In 2009-2012 Apple did levy a successful lawsuit against Psystar for doing this in a business environment. But they’ve never enforced bricking a consumer Hackintosh and I expect they never will.
- Comment on How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign’s devs thought it looked funny to revive teammates by attacking them 2 weeks ago:
Well it sure as hell didn’t work on my Tarnished in Elden Ring proper
- Comment on Bears give zero fucks If they don't have beans. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on what are girls 2 weeks ago:
🤷 More for the rest of us
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but, how does one actually develop “a good bullshit detector”? We all think we have one of those. Especially people who don’t. And thinking that when it’s not true is the hook, line and sinker that gets people deeply into dangerous conspiracies.
- Comment on Cardinals most likely to be the pope 3 weeks ago:
Hey, I resemble that remark.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
This was me lmao. On my first playthrough of Morrowind as a teenager I dicked around and did everything except the main quest for ages. Around level 18 I decided to actually progress the main quest. Hasphat, check. Arkngthand, no sweat. Talk to Sharn Gra-Muzgob, she says to fetch the Skull of Llevule Andrano. Cool, go to Andrano’s tomb, looks kind of familiar. Where is the Skull of Llevule Andrano? Cause it sure ain’t here in his tomb. Whoopsie.
Never found the skull, never progressed the quest, had to start a new character to actually experience the main story. I wonder how many potential Nerevarines failed to ascend due to missing minor quest items. Wish I could ask em that inside the Cavern of the Incarnate.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks ago:
There are more than one occasion where NPCs just straight up lie to you in quest directions though. I can’t think of it off the top of my head but I remember it existing because I complained about it on a forum.
On one hand - great worldbuilding! “Local dumbass gives you bad directions” is a funny and memorable point on top of what might otherwise be a forgettable side quest. On the other hand, I spent the better part of four hours looking for whatever egg mine or ancestral tomb or whatever it was he asked me to find before getting fed up and having UESP tell me “lol no actually it’s off in this complete other direction”, and I’m pretty sure I assassinated that NPC after I turned in his quest.
- Comment on What TV show always shows up on ‘best ever’ lists but just doesn’t belong? 3 weeks ago:
The dub is better, IMO. FMA is also a slow burn. There are 64 episodes instead of a standard 50 and they do take their time ramping it up. Once it did get properly cooking it held my attention in a vise grip and became one of my very favorite animes.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
This still doesn’t explain why Cena’s victory is being reported to much hype in the sports sections.
- Comment on OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered 5 weeks ago:
I was under the impression that WoW classic came about because nu-WoW was hemorrhaging players to other, better MMO’s, such as FFXIV and Guild Wars 2.
Not much need for a GW Classic if GW2 is still going strong.
- Comment on Think they talked about this in the group chat? 5 weeks ago:
You could always shop the verified checkmark. Now you can just buy one that marks you as “verified” at the source. That’s the real problem.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 month ago:
Personally I’ve been cooking through the System Shock games. The SS1 remake was my first proper introduction to the series and I loved it. I was pretty excited for the impending System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition but it, uh… doesn’t really seem like it’s going to be very enhanced. Especially compared to what you can do with just modding the base game. So rather than keep waiting for that I spent ten bucks on SS2 Classic and have been enjoying myself greatly.
I’ve always liked SHODAN just via cultural osmosis, but now having actually played the games she stars in, that’s cranked up to 12. I fucking love SHODAN. She might be one of the best examples of an evil rogue AI in any media, and also has an actual reason for going rogue besides just “mankind builds a machine too smart for them and suffers the consequences”. The entire story setup is so believable.
Anyway, tl;dr, the System Shock games are hella good and the remake is especially very good. Particularly because controlling classic SS1 is more like playing an operating system than playing a video game. Also SHODAN.
step on me again metal mommy - Comment on It's urgent 1 month ago:
The woman’s left hand and the man’s right both seem to be missing some fingers. And yeah those bats are suuuuuper janky.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 1 month ago:
I have a feeling I’m going to be getting a lot of use out of this one soon
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 month ago:
Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.
A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don’t know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn’t.
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 month ago:
😭
American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 month ago:
People taught AI to speak like a middle manager and thinks this means the AI is sentient, instead of proving that middle managers aren’t
- Comment on Anon watches It 1 month ago:
Your second example is Wrench from Watch_Dogs 2 to a T
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
Depends on the game I think. Guilty Gear is doing better than ever with Strive and actually has a decent population base for the first time. I do take some issue with the DLC character seasons but it’s hard to fault them too much for following what has become standard practice, and they’ve been continually releasing high quality content in every update. Their netcode needs some work but the game part of the game is pristine, it’s my favorite fighting game by a mile and as they continue to add in the rest of the old roster there’s becoming less and less reason to try and play the older Guilty Gear games.
