Sunsofold
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
The first higher part is basically a whimper but the lower part is more akin to mumbling or muttering.
- Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 5 days ago:
I mean… James Bond is also just a guy who shoots people. Most non-action movies are just a series of conversations. How the story is told is often far more important than the boiled down concept.
- Comment on How do gameplay youtuber develop interesting commentary? 5 days ago:
I heard from one of the old big names of the space, AntVenom, way back when. The most important part is enjoying doing it, and I mean every part of it. You have to enjoy sitting there, talking to yourself while you play. You have to enjoy video editing. You have to enjoy collaborating with other content creators and putting a focus on making it interesting to watch more than interesting to play. If you don’t enjoy the process, you don’t actually want to do it. You want something you think you will get from it, and you won’t last.
Just pretend and give it a try. Use free (as in price) software for the first run. Play a game, something you were already interested in and just spout off to an empty room about whatever comes to mind, because that’s basically the gig. Then edit it down. This might take much, much longer than the recording. Regardless of whether you upload it or not, you get a taste. If you actually enjoy the process (not imagining what it might lead to, but the actual process) do it.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 1 week ago:
Turn-based RPGs generally move at the speed you do, so they aren’t intense in a way you’d have to worry about, and there are a LOT of them. Many Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, etc. games.
What I call ‘procedural’ games would also work, things where it’s less about pushing yourself to have perfect reaction times or compute complex values in your head, and more about just walking through the process in search of the Zen of flow state. Lots of simulator games fit in the category: train station renovator sim, house flipper sim, power wash sim, rover mechanic sim, mech mechanic sim, etc. Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a favorite in this category. There are also games like ‘Papers, Please’, ‘Contraband Police,’ etc. where you run down a checklist and try to spot anomalies.
Life games serve as well. They usually don’t have a hard limit on how you play through them so you can play as you like and progress in whatever way. Stardew Valley, Staxel, the My Time At … series, Farming Sim, etc. all lean toward just being pleasant rather than an intense challenge.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
It’s harder to doctor, but that’s not really the big worry with a contract. Contract disputes are usually more along the lines of ‘he didn’t pay me’ or ‘she didn’t deliver the goods.’ It’s much rarer for it to be an ‘I signed a contract that said BLAH, but they forged a contract to say BLAGH and faked my signature on it.’ As for censorship, I’m not sure what you mean. A government would find it difficult to obscure an on-chain contract but that’s also not really an issue. I don’t want to guess what you mean.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 week ago:
Quite abnormal. Not bad, though.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 1 week ago:
From what I’ve heard, the biggest problem is the inputs. You can write a ‘smart’ contract that says ‘if I get a pizza, user9000005 pays user30000004 XXX bitcoins’ but there’s no direct sensor for ‘user9000005 has a pizza.’ Someone has to manually put it in. At that point, it’s not automated. It’s just a payment processor with way less certainty, so why bother?
- Comment on About the worldview of a magical game。 1 week ago:
The gatekeepers are disintegrating. Now it is up to you to sort through the onslaught of fanfiction to find the originality.)
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 1 week ago:
Insert Invincible ‘you don’t’ meme here
But seriously, you can’t. You either choose to be ignorant of 99.99% of the world or to be ignorant of 99.9% of the world and live in a perpetual scramble to absorb all the disparate information. Most news isn’t worth knowing in and of itself, only serving as data to construct deeper understanding, so unless you are going to actually connect the dots, it’s a better use of your time to let the world act as a filter and only pay attention to what hangs around long enough to get through to you.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 week ago:
I did something similar, but also had mods to change player model and starting scenario, and unscale combat from your level. I started as a young girl who just lucked out of magical enthrallment by a necromancer and aged her a year every time she went up a level. I started in the middle of nowhere with a stolen kitchen knife, some slaves’ rags, the now-dull ring that had once held her in thrall, and no one to help.
It really turned the game grim: little girl stumbles into town, nigh dead from no food and crab attacks in the wilderness, looking for help, and the locals offer to put her to work. But, by the time I’m at level 20, she’s in her 30s, has plenty of food, rich furs, fire magic, and a heartful of revenge plans to keep her warm, and has acquired a circlet that made her fire even hotter. The eventual plan was to complete her schooling and then go on a necromancer roasting hunt, but the game broke. Fun little run. Could almost make a book of it.
- Comment on Anon shoots for two 1 week ago:
Perhaps among those who saw him playing basketball at a top level, there were some who cared anough about the game to take note of his approach, but if you went out and asked 10,000 random humans, ‘do you know who Kobe Bryant is?’ and ‘What is he known for?’ approximately zero who say yes to the first part are going to answer the second part with anything about his personality. Even people who are almost precisely famous because of their outlook, like motivational speakers, are still better known as speakers than for their particular outlook.
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 1 week ago:
No way of knowing. Trailers are absolutely the least informative piece of game media regarding how it feels to play a game.
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 1 week ago:
No reason survival horror has to include fighting back. Plenty of games don’t involve anything more in that area than a distraction to keep you alive a moment longer.
- Comment on Anon shoots for two 1 week ago:
I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone who knew Kobe because he ‘embodied values.’ He played basketball well enough to be one of the top players. No one has ever mentioned him for any other reason.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
Do nothing.
This is not a joke. Sit comfortably, commit to doing nothing for a period of time, and then do nothing. Do not have your phone. Do not prepare by ‘just taking care of these few things’ before doing the nothing. Do not look up the random thing that pops into your head. Do not set up music, a podcast, or some other distraction.
Just. Be.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Less of a complaint and more of an experience of vicarious embarrassment.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Or both?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Looks like someone is pulling reeeeeal hard to try to stretch an already well-established and explained metaphor so they can say ‘No, guys, don’t you see? This huge piece of pop culture I likr is reall ally about meeeeeeeeeeeee.’
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 3 weeks ago:
Classic. It’s only sexist if you are sexist. If you assume dresses are ‘womens’ clothes,’ and that women are inferior, it’s possibly sexist because you are elevating yourself by declaring yourself to not be one of those lowly dress-wearers. If you don’t have that internalized misogyny, it’s just a statement of boring fact.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a balance of probabilities, like everything in security. Which is more likely? A. People are careful, using good, strong passwords, and maintain vigilance, but are targetted by an advanced attacker who will hack the protonpass system to get their database and the necessary keys to open it? Or B. People get lazy, use the same password for everything because remembering stuff is hard, and everything they own ends up protected by the modern equivalent of combo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?
If you are truly capable of generating and memorizing enough good passwords to handle all of your accounts, that is technically more secure, because a password manager can create a single point of failure for all accounts. However, most people aren’t able to do that and will resort to crap passwords or using the same single crap password for every site.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 3 weeks ago:
It’d function the way it does on PC, which is to say, as a product, not a subscription locked service.
- Comment on (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)? 1 month ago:
Farming Simulator 25 - realistic modern farming
Coral island - chill life sim
Graveyard keeper - story with lots of farming and crafting sim elements
some Minecraft modpacks are farming focused
Ranch Sim - farming/hunting/homesteading mix
Farming Dynasty - euro farming sim
Garden Life - chill, grow flowers, decorate your garden, etc.
Hard to say where the line is for ‘looking like anime’ but for things that are a bit stylized but not anime styled exactly, there’s also Staxel, the My Time At __ series, and some others.
- Comment on Is flirting redundant? 1 month ago:
Making intentions known is necessary. Flirting is just one of the preocesses by which intention is established. In that way, it is not strictly necessary, in the same way that cake is not necessary, but food is.
Flirting is a process which intentionally leaves ambiguity because it lets people avoid embarrassment. Being rejected, in many cultures, is embarrassing. By attempting flirting, a person can show interest indirectly, and the other person can show interest in return or show disinterest with quiet cues that let the instigator pull back without having to do something as vulnerable as explicitly stating intentions or experience embarrassment at being directly rejected.
Flirting, like anything else, can also be used as a display of quality, the verbal/intellectual equivalent of peacock feather displays.
How necessary these elements are is entirely contextual. Some partners despise the pretense of it. Others view it as incredibly fun. Some are deeply embarassed by the prospect of rejection. Some are not bothered by it at all.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
It all has meaning. I used high density language because I didn’t want to spend a long time on the response, which I admit does require a certain level of experience with the concepts to be readable. Was there something you’d like me to expand into simpler language to make it clearer for you?
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 1 month ago:
Possibly the same way Fallout Boy and System of a down can be grouped. There is a phenomenon in music ‘similarity’ systems (remember Pandora?) that, because the process of actually analyzing music and classifying it is work, tries to offload the work to elsewhere, and often what really happens is things get grouped not by qualitative similarities like mood, rhythmic complexity, tone etc. but by the quantitative and easy ‘these two were liked by the same group of people, aged X~Y, so they must be similar.’
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
Young men are not some new phenomenon. Their desire, in a word, is agency.
As the world has grown more interconnected, the world has become more visible. This has created a crippling awareness of their place in the grand scheme. Nietzsche’s void has opened beneath them and, in the ignorance expected of youth, they grasp at what is presented to them. Selling hope to the desperate, even false hope, is lucrative, so there is no shortage of hucksters and charlatans offering it to them.
The ultimate problem is that there is no pleasant truth. When faced with the existential horror of being, the truth doesn’t help. You cannot focus on learning to be a better version of yourself when facing raw terror. A comforting lie will get you to tomorrow. Truth will send you to the long, dark night.
So, when offered a pretense of agency, in almost any form, they take it. Some pretend that the problem is simply women. Some say it’s other ‘races.’ Some say it’s this or that ideology, whether economic, social, sexual, psychological, or anything else. They all just want to feel like they can make a difference, just like everyone else.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 month ago:
For some reason I read Tactical Breach Wizards and thought of Sexy Battle Wizards, and I just thought, that’s a cool recommendation but why here?
- Comment on I'd be screaming too lmao 1 month ago:
Death is like chicken pox, right? Deal with it once and you never have to worry about it again?
- Comment on Is it normal that I have this inner conflict of not knowing where I belong? 2 months ago:
That’s fairly common. Everyone wants to feel like they ‘belong.’ The trick is, it’s not a place. It’s people. There is an underlying culture in any place you find that is highly localized, even down to the neighborhood, but there are also always exceptions. You can find the sweet Berliners if you look, and the reserved, non-materialistic Americans, and the sober, minimalist Parisians. First, figure out your values. Then, find the others in your area who share those values. Unless you are living in the middle of nowhere, they’re out there.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 2 months ago:
Allow us to introduce you to… malicious incompetence.
