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- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Okay, but… that’s kind of on you for not paying attention, right? You could lose anything by dropping and missing it somewhere, not just money. This isn’t a reason specifically against cash, more against the physical world.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Are you implying that that’d somehow be bad? Actually, that metric already exists: installation size!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Oh. Well, then he’s half-wrong!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
lol oops, thought I was in the actual place!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
It was never stated as jogging, though; it was walking long distances which humans were touted as superior at. We were basically mindful zombies, I suppose.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Wait, why are video games problematic and why are you mentioning addiction when @andros_rex@lemmy.world never mentioned addiction as a factor in why porn is problematic? There are many gamers like me who don’t pirate/stopped pirating games.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
It depends on how deep you go, though… Also, we’re supposed to upvote unpopular opinions, right?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
That’s an unpopular opinion? That’s a fact!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
You’d love Japan, then! They’re big on privacy and, as a result, cash.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
burns much more electricity
There are always FTL, Noita, Slay the Spire, Hellcard, (the original) Cave Story, etc.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 3 weeks ago:
Sickening. I had no idea she was being attacked in this way.
- Comment on RAM crisis averted 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, wow, that’s quite the ecchi title: myanimelist.net/anime/458/Buttobi_CPU
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 3 weeks ago:
Tesseract seems to be some kind of platform for Lemmy; I’m not sure if it’s an Android app or just a web app. The dev has enacted a shadowban list to try to reduce calls for violence, homophobia, xenophobia, etc. I don’t worry seem to be on the most, and I had either way never heard of Tesseract before. I personally use Blorp to surf Lemmy.
- Comment on The Head 4 weeks ago:
What collection are these animations from? I have seen this around, but have never seen a name said to them.
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 1 month ago:
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 1 month ago:
My problem is that I rarely ever know if the “random junk” that I look up may be useful to return to later.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
But what’s on top of the white cooler?
- Comment on Rare 2 months ago:
Touché!
- Comment on If someone wants to be a mod of our community do they need to post something? Or can we do it another way? 2 months ago:
Oh, nice, I didn’t know that they have their own domain. Great, thanks.
- Comment on If someone wants to be a mod of our community do they need to post something? Or can we do it another way? 2 months ago:
Does every single instance have this Photon alt UI, out of curiosity?
- Comment on If someone wants to be a mod of our community do they need to post something? Or can we do it another way? 2 months ago:
There is apparently an alternate web interface that is a bit more sophisticated called “Photon.” For example, the Photon version of https://programming.dev/ is simply https://p.programming.dev/. In Photon, it is easier to perform mod actions with users who have never interacted with the community in question. I have no idea if every community has this or how it works. It seems to be a wholly different way of interacting with the same instance since not even one’s user credentials carry over from the non-Photon subdomain.
- Comment on Stress checkpoint 2 months ago:
Please don’t waste my data when I can rotate it in my mind.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 2 months ago:
Gotcha, fair. I just think that maybe the point-and-click crowd in particular is used to this kind of particular pain, haha.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 2 months ago:
I’m not trying to avoid frustration itself, of which there are many subtypes; you’re talking to someone who loves FTL and Noita, which are among the most brutally tough roguelites in existence, haha.
There’s a tremendous difference between the challenges posed in those games versus pixel-hunting in point-&-click games; while this game doesn’t seem to impose literal pixel-hunting, the numerous soft locks sound certainly more aggravating, especially due to RNG (in a point-&-click?!).
The point-&-click Technobabylon—which mostly comprises a series of self-contained escape rooms(/buildings) to avoid sprawling misses of key, tiny items—is a great example of how to naturally solve this problem. I wished more point-&-click games followed its style.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 2 months ago:
This kind of review is what turns me off to the risk of buying and trying:
Blade Runner is one of those adventure games that I somehow missed when it originally came out, and I’ve been hearing for years how good it is, but in reality… it’s not. It’s got all the stuff people hated about adventure games back in the day - events that can result in insta-death, “puzzles” that don’t make sense in the narrative, countless ways to soft-lock your game…
It’s so infuriating to just be getting into the vibe of the game, only to loop back round every location, speak to every person, examine every clue, finally turn to a walkthrough, realize you did everything right but for whatever random bugged reason the characters who are supposed to spawn just sometimes don’t spawn and there is nothing you can do. Searching online you can find message board posts going back almost 30 years complaining that they got stuck in some place or another and the only solution is to restart the game from the beginning and hope the random number generator doesn’t mess up your playthrough again. Epic waste of time.
I can totally see how you might get lucky and have a playthrough where there is no soft-lock, and have an awesome time. The graphics are excellent and the cyberpunk aesthetic is spot-on. But making an adventure game with random bugged elements is such a self-own, and the age of this one is no excuse - by 1997 LucasArts had already been putting out modern adventures for 5+ years! I can’t really recommend this unless you are a massive Blade Runner fan, it’s just too frustrating by today’s standards.
… versus just watching someone who has already perfectly figured out the game play through it on YouTube.
- Comment on Day 683 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Dang, I have no idea of what this is… I wonder if a speed runner may have been able to find a glitch to escape had you contacted the community about it… That must’ve sucked so badly. I could only imagine.
- Comment on Day 683 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Budgets and lack of time can unfortunately harm quality a fair bit. It makes me think of the anime movie Your Name, which would have had a way better ending if his studio wasn’t strapped, Makoto Shinkai said; it wasn’t what he had wanted.
Well, at least it made a reappearance of need in Ganondorf’s castle, I suppose…
- Comment on Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’ 2 months ago:
Oh no, it’s absolutely not done anywhere near as much as it should be. What I mean is that I think this is still the easier route than just continually destroying robots because they’ll simply beef up security more and more until we can no longer overcome it.
- Comment on Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’ 2 months ago:
This is easily solved by heavily taxing the rich instead of banning innovation.
- Comment on What is wrong with Pop OS? 3 months ago:
I dislike Pop!_OS because it just didn’t seem keyboard-friendly to navigate. I like enviros that at least try to cater somewhat to mouse-averse people like me who aren’t capable of jumping to 100% Terminal action.