skulblaka
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- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 10 hours ago:
Fusion has always been my favorite. I “want” to not like how linear it is compared to the rest of the series, but when I get started playing it again that never seems to matter to me anymore. And because of that game structure, the game is very well broken up into chunks of 20-30 minutes of gameplay at a time which makes it excellent for playing on a portable console. I played it on a borrowed GBA-SP for the first time back in the day, a few more times after that emulated, and most recently I’ve been playing it again on my Steam Deck within the past week, I’m like 2/3 of the way back through it again, just took down Yakuza for the Space Jump last night before bed.
Fusion is also a huge story point for the series as a whole. It introduces the X and by doing so gives context to the existence of the metroids. And seeing that referenced again later in Dread was maybe one of the coolest moments I’ve experienced in the Metroid series.
Speaking of Dread, that one is a very close follow up though. I was super hype for Dread when it released and it is one of few games in recent memory that completely lived up to that hype. I was a big fan.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 day ago:
Gold will not hold value if the market crashes like that. Food, water, and land will be what holds value.
- Comment on Manifolds 5 days ago:
I definitely cannot do that
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 5 days ago:
Does the track have random ramps on it as well to complete the F-Zero experience?
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 6 days ago:
All major US news outlets are in the pockets of the oligarchs. The revolution will not be televised.
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 1 week ago:
Nearly an entire generation lacks the wisdom that comes with struggle and now we’re reaping the effects of that.
- Comment on Should I be Concerned? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 2 weeks ago:
Right, you’ll remain “blissfully unaware”, how very convenient of you to not be brown, female, or LGBT. Those people and the people who care about them cannot afford to be “blissfully unaware”. Once they’re out of the way and things start impacting you personally then you’ll start to care. By then it will be so far past too late that “too late” isn’t even visible over the horizon anymore.
These things are already impacting you now, you’re just refusing to see it. We are at a point where we cannot progress without collective action. We cannot achieve collective action without a modicum of people looking out their window and seeing what’s going on outside. That’s all I ask of anyone.
This isn’t out of my system, it isn’t going to be out of my system until my nation and preferably the rest of the world is no longer being overrun with fascists. I obviously care about this a lot more than you do and that’s fine. I’m not asking you to get out and march in the streets. I’m asking you (and not necessarily you in particular, I’m asking everyone) to please lose this flippant “I don’t care about politics” attitude because it is getting our nation ruined and it is going to get your neighbors killed. I have family and friends and coworkers that are afraid for their lives and livelihoods right now. This isn’t something I’m just going to “get out of my system” by being condescended to.
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 2 weeks ago:
Probably because it concerns the literal fate of the fucking world and is something that people have a responsibility to give a shit about. People refusing to pay attention to politics is how we got in this mess in the first place. It is more important now than maybe ever before.
Or, well, it was, round a year or so ago. These days, yeah, might as well just check out, it’s probably not getting any better from here. You missed the boat for that.
People can’t help but weigh in with their opinions because you’re loud and proud about shirking your responsibility as a citizen while the rest of us watch our nation collapse around our ears primarily because of uninformed or apathetic voters just like you.
I don’t want to have to care about politics any more than you do but in our current times we all must care about politics. You don’t have to get so riled up about it that you agitate your heart problems, but you do have a responsibility to fill out a ballot as well as to be informed before you mark that ballot.
I don’t think that you are a bad person, but I do think your demographic is as much to blame as the actual fascists for the problems we face today. I’m sorry to break that to you in such a fashion. If we are allowed another free election in our lifetime, because that is now in question, please pay attention to it.
- Comment on Seasonal depression 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m just a pessimist these days but all I could think about the whole time was, it’s 72F in fucking February, I might legitimately die working out here when June or July roll around. Summer is going to be real bad here.
- Comment on womp womp 2 weeks ago:
19,802 eggs calculated using the price of a dozen eggs at my closest supermarket ($7.69).
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 2 weeks ago:
You’ve got more faith in the purchasing public than I do, then. I’ve been watching them buy a new copy of the same COD slop every year for a fresh $60 basically since I’ve been old enough to buy my own video games.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 2 weeks ago:
Because Rockstar is going to do it and sell a gorillion copies, so it’s basically a guarantee that everyone else will jump on the opportunity. And once every game is $100, what are people going to do, stop buying video games? I find that unlikely anymore. They’ll bitch and complain about it and sales might drop a little on average but studios will survive. And now we have a new price floor set forever.
- Comment on Creator of Bloodborne 60fps Patch Says Sony Has Sent Him a DMCA Takedown — but Why Now? 3 weeks ago:
This also may explain why Nintendo can’t implement competent networking features to save their lives.
- Comment on im soooo normal 3 weeks ago:
I so wish I could get all my friends off discord into a private IRC server.
- Comment on Darkest Dungeon: We at Red Hook are heartbroken to confirm the passing of our beloved voice actor, Wayne June. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Darkest Dungeon: We at Red Hook are heartbroken to confirm the passing of our beloved voice actor, Wayne June. 3 weeks ago:
How does one get into that?
People have been telling me that I have “a voice for radio” ever since I was a teenager, but I’ve never really been into show biz, I’ve been fixing computers and cars my whole life. I’ve been considering just recording a long portfolio of a bunch of different voices and start sending it off to random companies but I can’t help feeling like that’s not my best move.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
Sure did yeah, Republicans blocked closing it.
Isn’t it fun to find out that you’re on the wrong side of history every single time without fail?
- Comment on HEEEEEEEEELP 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Baboons got 99 problems and bitches are most of them 3 weeks ago:
Okay, so it’s generally accepted etiquette to copy the article title exactly into the post title, but considering we’re in the shitpost community and that’s a banger of a title I gotta give you props for this one.
- Comment on Feelin free 3 weeks ago:
If you’re in danger until I offer to rescue you only if you comply with my demands, your options are the same (either harm or compliance) but the two situations don’t intuitively feel morally equivalent to me.
“Wow, your house is on fire! Shame, that.
…Would you like to be rescued, for only three easy payments of $99.99 USD?”
Also, I originally set the fire in the first place, but you don’t know that. Six months after your last payment clears I’m going to do it again and the price will increase.
- Comment on Feelin free 3 weeks ago:
Because we had the technology and the money to create that world back in the 90’s. Now we’ve got twice as much money and twice as good tech in the world and yet 95% of people still have to fight for their survival. This could be a reality if it weren’t for hoarders.
- Comment on This one is going to be controversial 4 weeks ago:
In this case I’d be willing to try it. I like weird pizzas, my favorite from my local joint is a Philly cheesesteak style. Hawaiian style pizza is a travesty but this could be tasty.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Gameplay Sizzle | Coming May 15, 2025 4 weeks ago:
Hulshult is an Old God of the gaming industry at this point and I expect he will never perform work that is unsatisfactory.
But the whole situation with Mick Gordon still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I’d have liked if they reconciled and brought him back, but that may not be possible for any number of reasons, not least of which is Mick himself telling them he’s lost trust.
But lacking Gordon, Hulshult is still an excellent choice.
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 4 weeks ago:
2016 in the mountains of North Carolina a girl was taken out of my high school because some of the kids were bullying her so bad for being a “n****r-lover” cause she dated one of the few black guys in the area
They had to learn that from somewhere and enough of the school was doing it that she and her mom felt she was unsafe there
Overt racism is still alive and real in more places in America than people want to admit
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
It definitely still caught me by surprise. Not like it might have in 1996 - I just played Baldur’s Gate 3 within the past year, after all - but the first time I played I definitely managed to get almost every single piece of bad evidence against me that I could rack up without even meaning to.
- Comment on Totally forgot there were subreddits that did this lol 5 weeks ago:
The nature of federation means that even if you never post anything to my instance, your garbage may still be visible to my people via tangential interactions on shared linked instances. Bans solve this on the local instance level and are by far the easiest way to accomplish this.
(To be clear, the “you” in this is not referring to you specifically OP, it’s a general term)
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
Hollow Knight gives a pretty fucking solid try, to be fair. But yeah, I do agree.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
Third for Chrono Trigger. I didn’t get to play that one when I was a kid so I played it for the first time in 2020. Holy shit what a game. The original definitely still holds up today.
- Comment on It’s that time of year. 5 weeks ago:
Linking to discord media seems unsupported in a lot of Lemmy apps, I’m getting a failure to retrieve content error as well on Sync.
