Sunsofold
@Sunsofold@lemmings.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Modded MC, specifically TFC packs
It hits almost all the right points to lock me in.
- Comment on Blackbird Interactive acquires full ownership of Hardspace: Shipbreaker IP 2 weeks ago:
Worried Blackbird was a publisher for a moment. Shipbreaker is great. I beat it twice (normally and no clones) and still play for relaxation. Captain Shack mentioned it during a stream a few days back and I was just thinking how it’s probably the only game where i’d actually willingly buy a DLC for a new set of ships or a sequel with the ability to add ships as workshop mods.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 2 weeks ago:
Instead, investors did the fucking, and now here we are.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 weeks ago:
patiently waits for paper to publish
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 weeks ago:
You could also just not play games that think they are allowed to access the kernel at all. Seems safer, more affordable, and basically without downside. They aren’t even that good of games.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How much do you trust your father? This could go great or terrible. She could be a friend’s daughter who he genuinely thought would be a catch, or she could be a prostitute he’s trying to use to manipulate you. You’d be in a better place to know.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 weeks ago:
Correct, for killer functionality to work you have to connect the camera to an automated turret system.
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 2 weeks ago:
‘It says… no tresspassing?’
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 2 weeks ago:
There are no runes on the clam. The runes are in your eyes.
- Comment on Anon goes home 2 weeks ago:
The most pernicious self-deception is that things are as they appear to be. The second is that they should be.
- Comment on Anon goes home 2 weeks ago:
Then let me take a crack at it. You are subtly moralizing against their lives as going ‘nowhere,’ suggesting that there is a ‘somewhere’ to go, that would be better than having remained. The reality is you are also on the treadmill, and cannot leave it. You have run faster than it has turned under you, and feel like moving closer to the front of the belt has given your life meaning, just as they have continued to run with their family and friends in a familiar constellation around them and taken meaning from that, but your fate, just like theirs, is to fall and be thrown off the back of the treadmill with everyone else.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Quite abnormal. Not bad, though.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 4 weeks 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。 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 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] 5 weeks ago:
Less of a complaint and more of an experience of vicarious embarrassment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Or both?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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" 1 month 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.