Bigfishbest

@Bigfishbest@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, the original from the 90s is a more solid game. The game is good is some ways, but flawed in many. First of all the dumbing down. In 90s version you recruit soldiers for money, then check their stats and make them snipers, grenadiers, shock troops or even suicide bombers depending on their skills. 2012 version, you get a bunch of gamified units that have set upgrade paths.

  90s version you build and attack multiple bases, administrate a world wide war with great wins and painful losses. In 2012, you pretty much have to win each scenario or the game becomes unwinnable.

  Old version, more units, lose one or two, the fight goes on. New version, two dead soldiers will make many fights unwinnable. Old, all aliens are on map at start. New, aliens spawn suddenly in illogical positions and often put your troops in impossible situations that you would never have wandered into if the enemy was on the field and not suddenly appeared out of thin air.

  Old, no limits to equipment, give every man 2 grenades and 2 smoke grenades, no worries. New, only Carl can carry smoke grenades, because the game wants to force strategic choices.

  I could go on, but long story short, yes new xcom was good, but it really was a dumber version of the original, which had small flaws, but is still an amazing game. New xcom I would just not want to play again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Skatusen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  -Free Stars on steam, used to be called Star Control 2. Old school space adventure. And it is literally free as well. -Imperialism 2 on GOG, 4x game set in the age of exploration and industrialization. -Civilization 4, the best of the series in my opinion, I’ve played them since the 90s. -Beyond Good and Evil, comes to mind, don’t remember much about it, except that it’s good. -To the Moon, indie adventure / puzzle game. Has great reviews by the developers aunt, among other things. -Banner Saga 1-3, holy Nordic inspired epic tactical strategy, batman. -Jagged Alliance 2, another tactical combat game, modern time, funny, realistic and really difficult.

  Eh, realized that only the first one is free to play. But the other ones are old (or very old), so you can snatch them on sale on steam, GOG or Epic for less than a chocolate bar and get dozens of hours of enjoyment from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on the side of the Vietnamese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Men Who Stare at Goats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a Russian would misspell ‘bed’ as ‘bad’. Nice try kaputchnik.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is not that we don’t know yet, my point is that we can’t know. All our knowledge is based on studying the natural universe, if something is beyond it, then by definition it would not be knowable by studying our universe. Perhaps at some stage we could reach a way of examining and understanding the supernatural, but for our intents and purposes it’s outside the box, while we are inside, and our only way to relate to it is to choose whether we believe in there being something outside the box or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer that any person who has thought about it and not rejected the idea is: If a being that has created and shaped our universe exists, it exists (at least partly) outside of our universe. Like a programmer doesn’t have to follow in his life the limitations of his code in programming, such an entity’s existence would be so far outside our modes of thinking that “who created him?” would simply fall flat as a question.

  To begin to answer such a question one would have to have some knowledge of the plane of existence where the divine resides, and as that is outside the realm of what we can understand through physics and the natural world we live in, the question becomes unanswerable.

  The question then becomes, can something exist on another plane of existence? The answer is of course, we can’t examine anything outside our universe, so, the answer must be, we don’t or can’t know.

  I suppose then, the next question becomes, do you want to believe that there is something /someone outside the natural universe that gives meaning to our existence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New infostealer malware snaps webcam photos when you watch porn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get off on people watching me wank. Joke’s on you camera virus dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applies to many things. Not just religion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the catholic church encouraged the study of the heliocentric idea, right about until Galileo used his scientific papers to directly criticize and mock the pope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cause stupid people buy games on pre release and there’s apparently a lot of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half your age +7 is the formula. Anything within that is fine. Of course, that’s a guideline, not a law. Or let me put it like this, do you believe a woman of 30 to be capable of making her own choices? If so, go on the date and see if there’s anything there. If not, slap yourself and rethink your answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, people in Soviet breadlines had money, but supply was limited and prices not allowed to follow demand. Money to spend, but nothing to buy.