Doc_Crankenstein
@Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 6 days ago:
*cries in PS Plus Game Catalog*
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Saw a couple streamers show off an hour of gameplay.
looks that they took fan criticism to heart. The night is back, it’s deadlier and darker than ever.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 1 week ago:
I see the appeal but that appeal doesn’t apply to me.
They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.
I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don’t like souls design creeping into my other genres that don’t need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 1 week ago:
It’s also plays very differently even if both are still Metroidvanias. Axiom is more of traditional Metroidvania while Hollow Knight/Silk Song are modern “Soulsvanias” that include Souls-like mechanics, such as precision combat with a high skill ceiling and corpse runs. I also prefer Axiom over Hollow Knight as well and wish more retro styled games were more popular.
Hollow Knight gained popularity so rapidly and widely explicitly because of it kinda, and I mean no offense by this, riding the coattails of the Souls genre and doing a better job of it than Salt and Sanctuary, which is also a great game, with great art, runs on a potato, and is also in the “Soulsvania” genre yet didn’t receive nearly the same level of recognition.
Hollow Knight just got lucky going viral. That’s just how markets be sometimes.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 1 week ago:
Shaka literally tells you they will go back to town if you talk to them I think two or three times. That’s just a Soulslike thing ya gotta get in the habit of. Exhaust that dialogue, always.
But Corpse Runs are just a dumb mechanic for a Metroidvania. Those platforming challenges wouldn’t feel so bad if not for them. Losing 200 rosary hurts. That’s a lot of time grinding that back.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
Called it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 1 week ago:
RIP Steam download servers.
- Comment on Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me 1 week ago:
Good work, bad choice of pose though.
Idk what you were going for but it really looks like she’s just lifting her leg to show off her butt and nothing else.
- Comment on Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The game has periodic expeditions that have some story to them, and there is the main overarching story plus the “Journey to the Center” bit
But yea, it’s mostly a sandbox where you make cool bases (and now cool space ships) or try to make number go up and grow an intergalactic trading empire.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
How has no one mentioned Happy Wheels yet?
- Comment on Centipede Simulator Steam Page is now live 2 weeks ago:
Why does the game footage look like one of those cheap, mobile “game”, scam ads?
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
Economics also plays a huge role in conservation as well.
Sadly the focus is put on making the conservation work for the economic interests rather than the economy working for conservation efforts.
My econ professors did not like me that much when I had to take their classes for my conservation degree.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
Just want to chime in and say that Karl Marx was also an econ major.
Yet, being an economist, he also neglected to base his theories in any real science, only in “business science”, which is why I’m a proponent of Kropotkin instead.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 2 weeks ago:
Yes. The addiction isn’t usually the problem itself but rather an unhealthy coping mechanism for some deeper issue that the body/mind is trying to get relief from.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 2 weeks ago:
This is such a toxic mentality. If you can’t get emotional intimacy in a romantic relationship without sex then you have problems you need to work on.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 month ago:
I never said science can’t be bad, Again, your myopic take is so fucking simplistic and surface level. You even admit to intentionally ignoring systemic reality as if it is inconsequential, which is fucking stupidity at its finest. Like, congratulations for stating the obvious: you need people to perform labor for something to happen. No fucking shit, Sherlock. Now that we have the obvious out of the way, maybe ask yourself why they are performing that labor and what are the system forces that drive their actions?
It isn’t about could the park be built, but would it have been built. The answer to that is no, it wouldn’t have been built in the first place if not for the driving forces of capitalism (represented by Hammond, the capitalist owner who had controlling authority over the park’s production) dictating the actions of those who actually labored in the production of the park. The park also couldn’t have been built without the engineers who constructed the subpar infrastructure or an IT tech to create and install the park’s faulty security system.
Those engineers built the park the way they did because Hammond didn’t want to pay extra for fail-safes as noted in the book (i.e. the capitalist owner was driven by the profit incentive to neglect material conditions of the park) And the IT systems failed because Hammond decided to neglect staff pay, specifically Nedry, in favor of chasing the capitalist profit incentive. This same logic applies to the scientists who only conducted the research they were conducting because they were hired by Hammond to specifically do so.
Again, please fucking learn to look beyond the surface and critically examine things. I know it’s difficult but you can do it if you actually try.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 1 month ago:
It is 100% capitalism’s fault. Those scientists are doing a job because we live in a society that necessitates having one to meet our basic needs.
We don’t know their individual lives or circumstances that could be forcing them to take on a position, but we do know that those circumstances only exist due to the overarching system they live under.
Your take is simplistic and just assumes that they simply have to be bad people instead of understanding the complexities of systemic forces that dictate our society.
Please, for the love of God, learn to look beyond the surface of something.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 months ago:
None of it was because the scientists thought that dinosaurs were amphibians. In the lore of the books, DNA from reptiles, avians, and amphibians were used to fill in gaps in the dino DNA.
The book explains that the DNA used to fill those gap was chosen specifically for certain traits that would make for more attractive or durable creatures for the theme park, highlighting how what was being done “in the name of science” actually had nothing to do with any real scientific progress or discovery.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 months ago:
Sam Neill, the actor who did the scene, has been asked about the scene before and confirmed it is 100% unintentionally foreshadowing.
It was just supposed to confirm that Grant is in fact a Luddite who struggles with tech of all sorts.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 months ago:
It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all
This just rounds itself back to capitalism being the problem because the science was being done for a reason: to generate profit for Hammond.
Bad science is usually always conducted to suit the ends of someone trying to use the results for manipulative/exploitative purposes.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 months ago:
Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think “well, that’s just people being people” and fail to see the social commentary.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 2 months ago:
In the books, and movie iirc, they used DNA from all three, not just frogs, to replace missing segments of the dino DNA.
It was just that DNA used from a specific species of frog had the unintentional side effect of allowing some of the dinos to change sex (which is a thing called sequential hermaphroditism)
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
Sounds like an intrinsic flaw of monetary based economics then.
Maybe we should do something about it? It isn’t like alternatives don’t exist.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 months ago:
Someone seems to have upset a couple people with the truth.
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 months ago:
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 months ago:
People really be arguing in favor of bread and circuses without understanding it is the very thing that is keeping them from engaging in political action for change.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 months ago:
Western neoliberal democracy isn’t the only option and, depending on perspective, was part of the problem by systemically enabling the rise of fascism.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 months ago:
While at the same time allowing people to be systemically murdered through lack of access to necessities because someone wasn’t able to make a profit off of them.
Or are you trying to say those deaths are justified just because the state doesn’t label it as “murder”?
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 months ago:
Making people angry enough to get up and do something about it, angry enough to disregard the system and start breaking it. Angry enough to disobey.
Instead people are all too happy to remain obedient to the very system that oppresses them as long as they continue to be provided their bread and circuses.
