SabinStargem
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- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 9 hours ago:
The Magic Tower genre is definitely that way, and Soulestination moreso, because it has a lot to consider from the mechanics. For example, the Soul system.
You have a capacity of Soul, and for each soul you collect, you increase your stats by 1%. When you get to your cap, you enter a state of Rage - doubling your strength, and being forced to attack any adjacent enemy. This can be good for bosses or removing multiple enemies at junctions from play. However, this resets your Soul pool to zero, and increases your capacity by 1. This means it takes longer to become enraged, but your power potential also increases.
In the Magic Tower genre, the timing of your actions is everything, despite being turn based. Changes in stats dictate which kinds of enemies you can afford to encounter. The defeat of enemies is both a price and reward, so you have to engineer bargains. For example, glass cannon enemies are exceedingly deadly, but if you can strike them down in one blow, everything behind them is a deluge of goodness. But emphasizing attack means that sturdy enemies can take their time tearing you apart.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
On my end, I am playing Soulestination on Novice mode to develop my meta. The idea of the Magic Tower puzzle genre, is that there are finite resources. The order in which you use keys, kill enemies, collect resources, and the application of meta knowledge is fundamental to optimal routing. If you like numbers or exploring possibilities, this genre can be pretty neat.
Unfortunately, Soulestination has a trash translation. I recommend DROD RPG, which is also generally better balanced.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 days ago:
As it turns out, Doomguy is a robot clone of BJ Blazkowitz, who was deliberately smuggled onto Mars by scientists who knew about Hell.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 5 days ago:
I bought a twin pack of Nutella from Costco. The unopened one developed mold after awhile, but the opened jar in the fridge was just fine. If anything, I was expecting at least the reverse.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 5 days ago:
Food lasts way longer than what one would expect. I got a bunch of eggs in the fridge from CostCo from about a year ago. They still taste alright, much to my surprise.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 5 days ago:
It should be a rule, that a food executive is required to eat at least seven meals a week from the business they are running. Their attitude about food quality would fundamentally change.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I liked Nexomon Extinction, and am looking forward to Nexomon 3D.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair…and this certainly isn’t. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.
- Comment on Two sides to every story 2 weeks ago:
Therapist: “Another rube to line my pockets…”
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
My guess is that smaller media are investigating, but quietly. As we have seen in the Caribbean, the Regime is happy to sink “enemies” without warning. Investigators have a real chance of being fed to alligators, if they are caught by ICE.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
At the very least, the major news networks are complicit. Social media and small outlets are our most aggressive and honest sources of journalism within the US. If you want major media that isn’t beholden to the Regime, you have to look beyond our borders.
It sucks that we can’t trust our institutions anymore. 🙁
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 3 weeks ago:
This is the TRUE American Nightmare. Rest in peace, Mr. Wake.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
It sucks that many projects that I am interested in, such as Touhoumon Puppet Dance Encore and assorted hentai projects are on the platform. For now, I put up with it - but I am very much hoping alternatives are adopted by creators.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
I will use AI image generation, such as “Thispersondoesnotexist”. They can have an imaginary face for their data brokers.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 4 weeks ago:
It sounds reminiscent of the twist in Wizards.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 4 weeks ago:
Just because America is in a crappy state, is no excuse for Australians or anyone else on a given patch of dirt to allow their nation be enshittified. You should consider America as a warning, of what can happen if your politics become rotten.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 4 weeks ago:
Australia, a prison state created for inmates, and perpetuated as such by their descendants. As a foreigner looking in, I think that Aussies would be best served by ditching the colonial prison mindset. You and the kids are allowed to have fun, if you ignore the specter of the Crown that created your nation.
- Comment on The Nebraska legislature has approved a bill that lowers the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $13.50 an hour for teen workers 4 weeks ago:
Work is work, age shouldn’t have a damn thing to do with it.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
When it comes to teeth, I think 100% taxation should be imposed on people and companies whose wealth exceeds a cap. In the case of companies, their limit on wealth and assets should be based on employees. Someone makes 50k a year? Half of their income’s worth increases the cap for the business. O’course, incomes should be capped, workers voting on leadership, and so forth, to prevent stupid exploits for increasing a business’s wealth cap.
To keep the businesses honest about the book keeping, they don’t handle the accounting and employee records. The state and federal government should have rotations of overseeing them. They can roll a 1d4 dice each year, the first two rolls deciding which quarters of the year that the state government is responsible for. The federal government takes the other two seasons.
This helps prevent corruption, because a company and government observers can’t get too familiar with each other. If a company tries to offer favors to a randomized person, they will eventually be found out by someone honest, who can relate the issue to both the state and federal government. Also, both state and federal governments can compare their fiscal books on a company, to ensure that they match up. Each season a state or government observes, they use a different observer. So a total of four different observers each year to compare records with. Bigger companies, of course, should get more people watching them.
IMO, corruption in general is the biggest reason why America is becoming an awful place. Making it harder to do is crucial, and what I outlined above is just one of many approaches that will be needed.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Considering that some Founding Fathers wanted the Constitution to be a living document, the answer is obvious: Keep the best parts of the original, incorporate the good ideas from the charters of other nations, remove the awful, and try out wild new concepts that may or may not work.
When it comes to ‘weird’ ideas, I would like economic promises and rules to be added. You cannot pursue happiness nor prosperity, if you are impoverished. A renewed American society should adopt UBI, free education (all levels and types), universal healthcare, the rights of workers to vote on their leadership and the pay that leadership earns, absolute wealth and income caps, ect.
Wealth is a Goldilocks problem, where too much makes people like Trump or Epstein a common sight, while too little creates a caste of people who cannot live their best lives. I feel that creating floors and ceilings on wealth would help make the next American democracy much more healthy.
In any case, MAGA will ‘pick’ our ride anyways. As we have seen in Minnepolis, they make their own law. They murdered Pretti and Good, kidnapped children, ignore the 4th Amendment, ect. So we should consider civil war, and the ramifications that come with that, is creating new laws and institutions of our own. An overhauled Constitution is both functional and symbolic - a statement of intent for what we want our nation to become.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
The issue is, do we get a good choice? I suspect that isn’t possible anymore, so we should try to create the least awful one.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I think the Constitution as we know it is starting to resemble the Articles of Confederation: not fit for purpose.
It WAS an useful document, but we don’t have enough people upholding it, and the overall design of the thing is filled with poison pills to democracy. The 13th Amendment’s slave labor exception, electoral college, the lack of ranked-choice voting, not considering one’s body and devices to be ‘effects’ for warrant purposes, and so forth.
That is one of the reasons why I favor preparations for a civil war, because a true successor to America would need a fresh document to light the path towards a better future. It would be a painful thing, but I don’t think we have the luxury of a peaceful reformation anymore.
Of course, I would like to be wrong. But it ain’t prudent to believe that the Donorcrats and Turdpublicans would have a revelation and fix themselves.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
CostCo does? That sucks!
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Yet another thing about the Constitution that needs changing. The state shouldn’t benefit from a prisoner class, otherwise it would be inclined to perpetuate incarceration.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
RFK said that autistic people like me shouldn’t exist, and are useless to society. It was his announcement about making ‘wellness’ camps for my kind, that made me lock into resisting. I don’t want to die a freedom fighter, but the alternative is to die as a slave or to be slaughtered for merely existing.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
From what I heard, we had at least 1,300+ people at Alligator Alcatraz disappear, with lawyers and family unable to contact them. A rumor I heard, claimed that Musk had a Neuro-Link labaratory in Florida. I don’t know if that is true, but that would be…possible. The Trump Regime certainly lacks the ethics, considering that it is covering for rapists, killers, and constantly lying. It isn’t difficult to believe that killing people would be A-OK among MAGA’s ranks.
I think it was Noem who joked about feeding the exact number of Latinos in the USA to the alligators. I am inclined to think it wasn’t a joke.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 5 weeks ago:
I am figuring on playing Terranigma again someday, once the Redux patch has finished cooking. Also will be using MSU, for that CD-grade audio.
IMO, La-Mulana is likely to be among the very best metroidvanias. However, it is very much a love-it-or-hate-it type of thing. All the greatest games tend to be that way, it is just an issue of people discovering their compatibility.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 5 weeks ago:
I have played several hundred games, only really like 80 or so of them. La-Mulana, Lobotomy Corporation, Terranigma, Radiant Historia, and DROD RPG are some of those. I think most people wouldn’t have heard any of them.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much all the games I like are that way. I am hoping AI gets good enough, that I can have a buddy for playing and talking about niche games together.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 5 weeks ago:
Good to know. I don’t want whatever they are letting slip into their food.
