Eyedust

@Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨70% of games that require internet get destroyed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhhh, no no. The raids and dungeons are challenging and ridiculously hard. I get what you’re saying now. It hasn’t been like that since I started up again, which was right when Gundabad released. It’s very easy to solo, and now there’s an NPC that lets you change world difficulty if you want to opt for it, making it so that the hardcore players and the casual players both get what they want.

  I hear you. I haven’t touched it in a while because I will literally lose months of my life to it. Its harder for me because its one of my gf’s favorite games and when she plays I can’t help but play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨70% of games that require internet get destroyed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love LOTRO, too. I understand what you mean. The endgame content is pretty advanced, but I had this conversation with someone on Reddit years ago.

  It doesn’t have to be hard. There is so much content in LOTRO to last you years of playing new classes and enjoying the world. Throw out all of your max level up items, they’re going to ruin the game for you. Just go out adventuring. I’ve had a good time during anniversary helping people through old dungeons (I hate you, Saruman).

  The endgame is hard, because half the community beats endgame and complains that there’s no content, and half the community just plays casually. They don’t really have the power to keep pushing out quantity in content, so they have to make ridiculously hard and rewarding content to make up for it. It’s really a lose-lose either way, and they chose to keep the community that has been faithful for years over trying to pull in new players.

  It sucks, I agree, but I think I would have made the same choice. I still love playing and wandering around; leveling new classes, and you can now get new titles for playing new difficulty modes they made. You can change the world difficulty starting at level 10, I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨70% of games that require internet get destroyed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still love Lord of the Rings Online. It still has enough people to feel alive, to the point where they even upgraded their servers recently, and still keeps that old school feel. You can even earn LOTRO points through hunting monsters and quests, so if you put the work in you don’t even need to buy anything.

  Do I miss the days before MTX? Yeah, but I feel like they are fairly less greedy about it than other games. Fairly. There’s still the VIP subscription while double-dipping into MTX that rubs me the wrong way a bit, but they still actively try to listen to the players. I’ll be sad when its gone…

  Its mostly much older generations that play, though, but that really cuts down on a lot of the toxicity. I’ve had so many polite conversations in world chat with programmers and sysadmins offering advice. One of the most helpful players I met was a 72 year old vietnam veteran. He helped me get started and gave me a ton of gear just for having a nice talk with him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generational differences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds great and I’ll have to look into it. I have nice glassware pieces for home, I rarely like to take glass out in my pocket. I remember this gaming convention I went out to, there was a field in the back. We went back there to smoke and there was already circle.

  In this circle, they were passing around chocolate Godiva vodka and this really REALLY cool piece. It was a large bowl, fat and completely see through. Inside was this massive plastic replica of a HUGE joint, rolling around free. On the side of it, it said “The Labrador”. It was an old first production Tommy Chong piece. Felt honored to smoke from it.

  My step-dad is a straight laced guy; ex-manager higher up in the mill business. He bought a lathe. For Christmas he gave my gf a really nice pipe from a kit he bought, which surprised us all, lol. The kit comes with a cone pieces, metal tubing, a mouthpiece, and even a screw on cap with a small hole in it, too keep your herb inside when it’s tumbling around in your pocket. He buys acrylic blocks and lathes them to make different colors.

  He’s been making a decent side business selling them to local headshops for $25 apiece and buys the kits for $15. I’ve told him he could charge more, but its just a hobby and he doesn’t want to get greedy with it. He can make tiny short ones, or double pipe long ones. The cones even have a shelf to set screens on. I’ve always just flattened a piece of sticky bud to make a screen and keep the ground material out of the works, but the little screen shelf is great for that. I bought one and that’s what I use to carry around. Its an all metal-acrylic construction.

  Here’s a pic of one (not the best quality camera, lol): Image

  He gets all kinds of cool acrylics and the metal can be silver, gold, or black. My gf loves halloween, so she has a black one with a bright orange mica design acrylic. It completely screws down to the base components, so it’s super easy to clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generational differences⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My gf still uses the toilet paper roll/dryer sheet trick. The whole apartment smokes, but she likes to be discreet and respectful. She used to also burn incense, but I think the massive amount of incense she’s burned during our time together has made me allergic. Every time I’m near one my throat gets narrow, my eyes water, and I can’t stop coughing.

  About a week ago I forgot my pipe so I took my brother-in-law’s knife, dented a beer can, and stuck holes in it. Gen Z can hit that pen all they want, but I’ll be the one still getting high when the apocalypse hits. These are not tricks. These are key survival tactics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet: A yeti youth, not quite of age to be a full yeti.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sigma… ligma…

  …but no sugma yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got big into pens for a bit before settling on my edc one-size-fits-most pen. During my travels, I saw that the Fisher Space pens are still highly regarded as great writers even for us grounded folk. Yeah, there’s better, but for the size and build quality they’re great options. I went with the Ti Arto by Big Idea Design instead. Just so I could use basically any pen cartridges (except cheap bic roller ball).

  Huh, the Arto used to be 70usd. I’d say not worth anymore. I got the black one and the paint has already chipped plus the clip is not titanium unless you buy an expensive “premium” clip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ain't your buddy, pal!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget “guy” and “chief”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, strange. I guess you could try ProtonUp-Qt and inject GE’s newest Proton in and see if that works. Also, there are some games that wouldn’t run for me until I installed the Steamworks Common Redistributables from the tools page in my library. Threw me off recently because I swear that the last time I was on Arch those autoinstalled after switching my compatibility over to Proton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It'll happen to you!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran DVI for quite a while until my friend’s BenQ was weirdly green over HDMI and no amount of monitor menu would fix it. So we traded cords and I never went back to DVI. I ran DisplayPort for a while when I got my 2080ti, but for some reason the proprietary Nvidia drivers (I think around v540) on Linux would cause weird diagonal lines across my monitor while on certain colors/windows.

  However, the previous version drivers didn’t do this, so I downgraded the driver on Pop!_OS which was easy because it keeps both the newest and previous drivers on hand. I distrohopped to a distro that didn’t have an easy way to rollback drivers, so my friend suggested HDMI and it worked.

  I do miss my HDMI to DVI though. I was weirdly attached to that cord, but it’d probably just sit in my big box of computer parts that I may need… someday. I still have my 10+ VGA cords though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ringing the devil's doorbell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did I start reading this to the tune of YMCA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a new way to get protein⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbor has an indoor cat that spends all day getting into the highest spots he can find. This is his hobby. I’ve watched him get down from on top of the high-hung cupboards and the way he did it… it was like the whole apartment was his planet fitness. They all called him fat, because at first glance, sure you could say that.

  He got down to come see me when I first visited and I was 100% sure that I never wanted to mess with this cat. I was like patting a fuzzy wall. He is not fat. Bro is built like a tank. He’s literally V shaped. He’s survived years with three pitbull dogs that like to chase him and try to use him as a toy. Out of all the animals there, that is the scariest one. That’s what happens when your cat uses ALL the protein in that food for gainz.

  I pointed this out to one of the neighbors and the look on their faces as they realized I was right.