SolarMonkey
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- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 1 week ago:
I think this shift will be the end of me buying games, period.
I am that person who doesn’t ever buy digital. I have not bought a single digital game thus far (I haven’t pirated a game since like 2006, either). I have certainly played some, like with the PS+ subscription I got for a year when it was pretty cheap, but I wouldn’t buy them because I can’t be sure I own them, and there’s really no way to transfer the license to resell them.
If I can’t buy physical media, I simply won’t buy the games. Maybe I’ll use subscription services now and then, but more likely I’ll either find a way to play free or won’t play them at all and find other stuff. I want the physical media because I’m poor, and having the option to sell them in a pinch is important to me if I’m going to shell out a significant amount for something I’ll probably only play once, particularly since there won’t be a used game market to reduce my spend. I haven’t had to sell my games in a very long time, so I have some 400 discs, but it’s something of a savings option that inflates alongside currency, and sometimes much more.
- Comment on Anon learns how to lucid dream 2 weeks ago:
This is a big part of why I don’t nap anymore.
I was napping on the couch one time and I started having this lucid dream about meeting up with someone… idk it’s kinda fuzzy now, it’s been a long time. Anyway it was one of those super emotionally charged dreams, even tho I’m pretty sure I didn’t actually know the person.
So I started trying to wake myself up. What was happening is that I was waking up… only to find I was still asleep and get returned to that same scene. Dozens upon dozens of times. I could feel my actual body uncomfortably on the couch, unable to move, but my mind was stuck in this reoccurring dreamscape… I’d do things like intense exercise to check my pulse, breathe in water to see if I drowned, check clocks and text for consistency… anything to confirm I was still sleeping so I could try to wake up once more.
It gave me weird feelings for a while after, not just about sleep, but it made me feel weirdly about being awake. Being stuck like that, knowing I was asleep and not able to do anything about it… I still lucid dream sometimes, but I haven’t practiced in a while, and never naps.
- Comment on arachnids 2 weeks ago:
Wait, do people legit think these are not real, like birds deftly aren’t?
I’m so confused as to why…? (Seriously, I’ve never seen anything meme-like about brown recluse…?)
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 weeks ago:
You aren’t wrong. I freakin love mobile games, very addictive. I don’t play them anymore… bad habits form for me…
Roguelike games can have a similar appeal tho; turn it on, do a dive or two for 20-40 min, then come back next time.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 weeks ago:
I found so many adorable little short games that are nonetheless amazing fun. Tinykin, cat quest, troll hunters, stray… none of those are over 10 hours, even if you achievement hunt. Maybe stray, since you have to beat it more than once.
Like they don’t have to be super long to be super good. And sometimes you only have the energy to play my little pony (actually fun and super quick because it’s made for small kids, and sometimes you just want something that takes 2 hours to get 100% on because that’s the mood…)
I normally prefer super long exploration games, but those get old. Especially when they are all filler content like run here run there kill 5 things then go back to the same place 6 more times for dumb little quests you could have done all at once if they just gave them to you… I like 100%, but man they often make that so very tedious.
- Comment on Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules 4 weeks ago:
Be interesting to see what scotus does with it, as it will almost certainly end up there, but I don’t really have high hopes of a good outcome…
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess' 4 weeks ago:
Well, see, he heard about subreddit simulator and he thought sure that sounds good, but doesn’t get the difference in platform.
- Comment on LEAVE 👏 CAMBRI 👏 ALONE 4 weeks ago:
Even snakes are bizarre. We have a creature with no limbs, just a very dangerous head and a potentially very dangerous body, and it uses its skin to move. And they can eat things whole which are several times the size of their head. Seriously, wtf.
Oh and even better, they range in size from adorable little worms to big enough to eat a human whole. And what kind of exercise do constrictors even do to get strong enough to suffocate something that outweighs it??
- Comment on Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union 1 month ago:
Here’s the thing though…
I’ve bought now three single-player (with online features) games on console not realizing the servers had already been shut down for whatever reason within a year or two of launch. I can’t play them, and I really wanted to.
Sure they might not have made money off me this time around, but if they put out a game in the future and I’d been able to play these, I’d be more likely to try those and give them my money. Instead, because I wasted money on these year-old games that were already trashed, I just won’t touch anything from those studios ever again, since they clearly don’t believe in their games at all. It makes me look real long and hard into how “online” they are… if I need an internet connection to solo play? Immediately not interested, which is becoming much more limiting as that gets more common.
Meanwhile, if I ever bother setting up my ps2 with an Ethernet cable, I can play with other people who have the same setup with 20+ year old games (like champions of norrath, last I played that “online” was about 10 years ago, but it seems to spin up an on-demand server for whomever is available).
- Comment on Fall In Love With Sexy Household Objects In Date Everything 1 month ago:
I’m not into dating sims but… this looks entertaining all the same.
I probably wouldn’t buy it, but I’d love to play a demo or excerpt. Because maybe I would buy it.
- Comment on Hogs 1 month ago:
Oh, yeah, not at all.
My parents hated them. Long story short they blamed a livestock attack on our dogs getting out, it was the litigious 90s, and while they lost, it led to bad blood forever, stench aside, which they refused to do anything to mitigate.
- Comment on Hogs 1 month ago:
I lived often-downwind from a pig farm growing up, and yeah, you never go nose blind to that smell. You tolerate it better, maybe, but it always stinks.
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 1 month ago:
Pregnancies over age 35 are considered geriatric as well. So maybe they are just confused because of that…? (I’m being generous)
- Comment on Box Office Grosses May Surpass Pre-COVID Levels in 2026. That’s the Good News… 2 months ago:
Isn’t that a big part of how movies/ac became popular in the first place?
History really is cyclical