Sunsofold
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- Comment on Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown 3 hours ago:
3 seems fine. The balancing was tied into the number of deaths so more players will have more power to do things but fewer retries and, while 1 would be brutal or impossible, 2 would make it harder to complete certain actions but you’d have the revives to make a few mistakes and still come back as long as you have good teamwork.
If only flamethrowers could be used to defeat the monster that is ‘scheduling difficulties…’
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 4 hours ago:
Ha! Tricks on you. There was only ever one electron in the universe anyway. Now they can split the work and get twice as much universe done.
- Comment on Day 6 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Species: Unknown 4 hours ago:
Absolutely better than Phasmophobia. Phasmo is terribly designed. S:U is nicely paced, doesn’t have a system of in-game information with gaping holes and outright lies, does have nice pacing, legible design, and has the potential to become even better. It’s definitely a good group game if you have the right number of players.
- Comment on Tennessee sheriff defends jailing activist for posting Trump meme 5 hours ago:
Trump can’t even get love from a Tennessee cop. How many Trump supporters (citizens, not corporations) are left in the US?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 hours ago:
We have built systems that have detected:
- Black holes which collided 2000000000 lightyears away
- single photons
- neutrinos, particles that can pass through lightyears of lead
- concentrations of chemicals rated in picograms (0.000000000001g) per litre
- vibrations rated at 1/1000000 of a g
We have come into a world where people carry around, nearly 24/7, devices capable of recording high definition video, measuring variances in light, magnetism, vibration, storing time correlated data and even processing over it with enough proficiency to put digital bunny ears or makeup on you in real time.
Despite all this, we have no evidence and no mechanism by which we even might expect ghosts could exist. It’s reasonable to say you can’t be 100% certain they don’t exist, but it is also wildly unreasonable to say they do.
- Comment on Anon spends time with his dad 1 day ago:
We get it. You’re a denizen of the internet. There’s no badge, so don’t wait by the mailbox. Now, can we get past repeating the same joke you and everyone else has read 1000 times?
- Comment on Is thus true? 2 days ago:
I love the idea of someone expecting to be booped with a camera so they insert a thin glass vial filled with fake blood in their suit nose, so when someone boops them, they can grab their suit nose and go, ‘Aaagh! My node! You broge by node!’ as they seemingly get a bloody nose.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 3 days ago:
Good. Fuck IP. Make new things, not nostalgia bait.
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 3 days ago:
What did you do to make them curl up into a ball, David?
David? What did you do?
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 3 days ago:
Fun fact, that behaviour, which becomes more common among people living in areas with higher crime rates as a self-preservation technique, is viewed as suspicious behaviour by police, and is likely to get you tracked by security if you do it in a store.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 days ago:
Usual reminder:
If you know a parent who is not an active gamer, remind them to never buy games for their kids that have microtransactions, passes, or any form of post-purchase payment. They often will have no idea what they are contributing to as it is not part of their ‘bubble’ to be aware of what these things do to their kids, their kids’ friends, and the industry and society as wholes.
- Comment on Is it possible that none of this is real? 1 week ago:
Let me guess. You game.
Everything in life is training for the next day. Spending so much time training yourself to expect things to follow the common logic of games leads to that expectation ‘leaking’ out of its context. If you spent all day watching porn, eventually, you’d expect life to follow porn rules. If you spent all day on 4chan, you’d expect people to act like meme-brained incels. Even something like doing sudoku teaches you to see numbers in boxes and look for the pattern to fill in other boxes. Where someone who spent their life immersed in religion might see spiritual possession, you see NPC behaviours. This is conceptual framing, a.k.a. ideology.
As for that particular guy, based just on the info given here, I’m guessing drugs. Work sucks. Some people do drugs about it.
- Comment on Anon has a question 1 week ago:
People shouldn’t need context to get the basic gist of what you are saying. These sentences you are reading, right now, provide a fully defined meaning with little consideration of context. One could even use these sentences to infer context if the above elements were not available. That’s communication. And it is understandable to be casual to a certain degree, but the moment one decides not simply to be unmotivated to explain the meaning of their overly casual utterances, but actively choose to pretend that the failure is entirely that of the receiver, the person is going to effort to be insulting. They could have stayed silent. They are actively choosing harm. Why is that so hard to understand?
- Comment on Anon acts like a jerk 1 week ago:
Have to wonder what ‘acting like a jerk’ even means in this context.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 1 week ago:
Pity the poor souls who don’t like onions. No place is safe for them. The foods of all lands are just too delicious for them to handle.
- Comment on Anon has a question 1 week ago:
So, when I’m driving, it’s fine to drive wherever I want? I can just expect others to accommodate my disregard for established norms and rules of the road? I mean, people have legs and cars of their own so they can expend the effort to predict my movements and drive/walk accordingly, right? And then if any of them complain because they don’t want me to dump that extra effort on them, that makes THEM the self-important assholes, right? And if I call them stupid for complaining and asking me to drive within the limits of the broadly accepted rules of the road, especially given the readily available modern tools that could help me do that, I’m not being an asshole, right? I’m totally in the moral right then, aren’t I?
If you are speaking, it is reasonable to assume you want to be understood, (otherwise why say anything?) but if you choose to ignore basic rules of communication, and then refuse to clarify when someone asks, you don’t want to be understood, or to communicate; you’re just making noise. The person I originally responded to was just making noise, as useful in a comments section as someone walking into an in-person conversation and speaking in a language they made up at home. I read what they wrote. Then I read it again. Then I opened the comment thread and post to see if it made more sense in context. I could see a vague form of meaning to which they might be alluding, but not a definite concept, and one of the most basic rules in life is ‘the one who dumps work on others simply for the sake of avoiding work for themselves is the asshole.’ If you do it out of carelessness, you can try to compensate by taking the work back (explaining what you meant) but they chose to double down. And now, for some reason, you’ve taken up their defense? Are you failing in critical thinking or/and are you a troll?
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
Saying ‘it’s a you problem’ when someone doesn’t understand just means ‘I am a self-important asshole who wants people to take my half-assed mumblings as important because they come from me, not because of their content.’ Being an asshole is definitely a you problem. Have a nice time talking to yourself as well.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
Okay. I’ll just block you then. Have a nice life,
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
You want to run that past some sort of basic grammar check? I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
- Comment on Ghoulish Jurassic Park Super Bowl ad. 2 weeks ago:
Do not watch ads.
Do not read ads.
Do not share ads.
Do not discuss ads.
Do not laugh at ads.
Do not take ads seriously.
Do not follow ads.
Just ban them.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
Because the billionaires are upstream of Lemmy. No one on here is posting their original research and first hand journalism.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
Wait, it’s not because they want to slather us in vinegar and oil and then eat us?
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
“The save icon. The same icon that’s used in every damned piece of software you used in the hopefully better part of two decades of education you got before they slapped a scalpel in your hand. If you can’t recognise it, you probably used chatGPT to fake your way through school and shouldn’t be a surgeon.” - patients of the world
- Comment on Bonobos can "play pretend" 2 weeks ago:
The researchers, desperate for a cleric to support their party, then attempted to teach Kanzi how to play DnD.
Kanzi, being a bonobo, then humped the imaginary object and asked for more snacks.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 2 weeks ago:
If you are a surgeon but, in the year 2026, haven’t learned ‘File>Save As…’ or ‘click the little disk icon’ I doubt your competence to have learned anything else. Saving a file requires far less education and adaptability. I mean, it’s not exactly brain surgery.
- Comment on What powers does the Secret Service have and exhibit to protect the POTUS? 3 weeks ago:
So, not so much ‘powers’ as technologies and strategies. ‘Powers’ in this space would suggest things like ‘power to arrest’ or ‘jurisdiction’ rather than the physical systems and strategies.
- Comment on Everyone Hates Windows Right Now 3 weeks ago:
There’s no symmetry there. Windows users don’t hate Linux. They hate Windows, and are mostly unaware of Linux. Linux users hate Windows, but also hate Linux, and are usually fully aware of the shortcomings of both.If
If you hate Linux, it’s not a matter of ignorance. It’s because you also love Linux, and use it all the time.
- Comment on What games similar to hardspace shipbreaker can you recommend? 3 weeks ago:
I love Shipbreaker, so I’m interested in others’ replies as well. It’s the only game I might actually consider breaking my ‘no paid DLC’ rule for if they ever put out more ships.
Some ‘immersive sim’ games have a similar impression of segmented, defined processing tasks:
- Mech Mechanic Simulator (more relaxed)
- Space Mechanic Simulator (more detailed)
- Ship Graveyard Sim (a bit silly)
- Mess Sim (2D Viscera Cleanup)
- Train Station Renovation (not so puzzle-y)
- Leaf It Alone (more linear, not so puzzle-y)
But there are also other games that can have the same ‘little puzzles’ impression.
- Mars First Logistics (build modular bots to deliver stuff over rough martian terrain)
- maybe Quarantine Zone, Contraband Police, and other Papers-Please-likes (non-horror anomaly spotting)
- Tunnet (build a simplified computer network in underground tunnels with just a hint of Lovecraftian horror)
- abstract programming games like Autonauts, Molek Syntez, or Infinite Turtles (You get As. Cut them into /s, \s, and -s, and then make Ws.)
- Comment on Everyone Hates Windows Right Now 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone who isn’t a dedicated Linux user hates Linux. You have to be familiar with something to hate it, and it has taken a very long time for Linux to even breach into non-computer-nerd consciousness. Linux is probably more hated today than it ever has been previously and, in a way, that’s a good thing.