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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was actually going to suggest Red Dead Redemption 2. The English you learn may be a little bit dated (and have a heavy southern drawl) but you’ll learn a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real af⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Psh, that’s a problem for future-me. The only problem is that future-me quickly becomes current-me… And current-me is continually reminded that past-me is a prick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is in her 30’s, and she sleeps with a pillow and stuffed animal that she has had since she was 3 or 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And inversely, games like RuneScape that changed to be more casual, which pissed off all of the tryhard players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The parkour handled slightly differently, and that angered a lot of the fans from the first game. They also drastically changed the way the grapple worked. The combat was also slightly different, (critics would say simplified) so it tended to be more straightforward. The first game had you doing a lot of jumping and diving just to survive, whereas the second game gave you some more survival options to avoid getting trapped by mobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hated the game at first too. But I actually gave it a replay a while back and ended up loving it. Ironically, my love of FFX was holding me back from enjoying XII. Once I replayed it with a more open mind, I thoroughly enjoyed it. There are certain things I dislike about it, sure. But that’s true for any Final Fantasy game.

  I think replaying it when I was older also helped. I didn’t have the patience for the politicking when I played it the first time. And the game’s story is _very _ political.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dying Light 2. It was definitely different than the first game, but I enjoyed many of the changes. My buddies and I spent a lot of time just running around killing Volatiles, and having a blast while doing so. But apparently a lot of the changes were deeply unpopular with fans of the first game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is white light "white" because that's what our start emits?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the issue that infrared and UV light is extremely damaging in some cases. Our retina actually can see well into the ultraviolet spectrum, but the lens has a UV filter that blocks anything above violet from passing through. People who have aphakia (missing the lens in their eye) can see into the UV spectrum.

  That UV filter in your lens exists because seeing into the UV spectrum doesn’t offer a large reproductive benefit when compared to its drawbacks. Ultraviolet light is extremely damaging to cells. Especially when those cells are designed specifically to be sensitive to light. Developing retinoblastoma when you’re 8 years old (because the cells in your eyes have been repeatedly damaged by the UV light, and have turned cancerous) means you don’t survive long enough to pass on your genes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it's necessary to ask the question...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The easiest pot roast recipe:

  • One chuck roast
  • Carrots
  • Potatoes
  • 1 head of garlic
  • Two packets of brown gravy mix.
  • Two packets of ranch dressing mix (yes, really).
  • Two packets of Italian dressing mix (yes, really).
  • Browning & seasoning sauce.
  • Beef stock

  1. Combine packets in a bowl, and stir to evenly combine.
  2. Rub pot roast with a few dashes of browning sauce, until evenly covered.
  3. Chop carrots and potatoes into large chunks.
  4. Peel garlic cloves.
  5. Fuckin throw everything into a slow cooker.
  6. Sprinkle seasoning mix over everything.
  7. Add about an inch of beef stock to the bottom of the pot.
  8. Set slow cooker to low, and fuck off for like 8-10 hours. Or if you’re using a leaner cut of meat, set to high and fuck off for 5’ish hours instead.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self insert power fantasy recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the best answer tbh. You’re either playing as a girl or as an egg a future femboy a twink programmer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. It’d be cool to have in a few months/years when the exploits inevitably get patched. But there’s no way for me to justify the purchase at that price point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They also don’t give a fuck about actually catching who did it. They just want someone to pin the crime on, so they can get the case off their desk. They don’t care if you’re innocent, as long as pinning it on you allows them to close the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess I'm on the right track 😌⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instances are more like servers or domains. Your instance is lemmy.world. We can see votes from individual users because in order for votes to federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0) they must be public. So anyone with the know-how can inspect who has voted on posts, and how they have voted.

  Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts, just to mass downvote. It’s just blatant vote manipulation, and is why the admin stepped in to defederate (stop sending info back and forth) from the rogue instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Your mom is hurt, and probably feeling betrayed from multiple fronts. First from her husband having the affair, and now from you choosing to stay with him. But that doesn’t make her words accurate, nor does it make them acceptable.

  She actually needs to be really careful in how she brooches the subject going forward, because this is a clear cut attempt at parental alienation. It’s a big issue in divorce proceedings; If one parent tries to alienate the child(ren) from the other, then the courts can step in and use that against the offending parent in the divorce.

  Basically, courts recognize that divorce brings out the worst in people, and they don’t want children being caught in the middle or used as weapons/leverage. If it gets too bad, the court will even appoint a lawyer specifically for you/any siblings, whose entire focus is on your wellbeing. Because the court basically recognizes that during divorce, chances are very good that the parents will act out of spite instead of the child(ren)’s best interest. So to protect the kids, the court essentially appoints a lawyer to represent the kids.

  That lawyer isn’t focused on which parent gets the bigger slice of the assets, or who pays alimony, except to determine how that would affect your living conditions. All that lawyer does is fight for your best interest. And when it comes time to decide who you stay with, your opinion does factor into it. They’ll weigh your opinion more heavily if you’re older, but it does play a large part in who ends up being your primary guardian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet every single apartment complex has paper-thin walls, because landlords want to maximize floor space instead of eating up square footage with thicker walls. Also, proper sound insulation costs big money. Like thousands of dollars per wall. Landlords building shitholes to rent don’t care if the tenants can hear each other fuck through the walls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, keep calling so you can make a paper trail. Cops don’t know it’s an issue unless you tell them, so keep calling and keep making reports. Once enough stack up, they’ll be able to take action. But you need to prove a pattern of behavior, and that takes more than a single call. Take video too, if you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but mostly because I dislike roguelikes. They get too repetitive and turn into a slog, and the success of your runs is often entirely dependent on which items you find.

  I’d much rather have a tight, concise game with handmade maps. IME, roguelikes just pull the old NES/SNES trick of “well we can’t fit more data on the game cart, so just make the game harder to force players to replay it over and over again. That will artificially inflate the game length.”

  Bastion and Transistor don’t need sequels, but I do wish they’d stop with the roguelikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm something of an expert myself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re using air compressors, you should consider adding a moisture filter on your air gun. When the air gets compressed, humidity tends to get increased. Then when you spray it, that moisture re-condenses as it leaves the system. You can very easily fuck up electronics because you blew a bunch of water mist into the connections at 60 PSI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also the difference between active and passive voice. Passive voice tends to take a more roundabout way to say the same thing. Active would be something like “the man smashed his cup when his temper flared.” It’s very direct and to the point. “Man>Smash>Cup.” The man is directly acting upon the cup. In contrast, the passive form would be more along the lines of “the cup was smashed during the man’s outburst.” It removes a lot of the action. It’s more like “Cup>was smashed” and everything after that is just additional context; We could even remove the context that the man was the one who smashed it, because it isn’t needed for the sentence to still be complete.

  You see it a lot when cops fuck someone up, then have to release a public statement about it. They never say something active and straightforward like “our officers beat the man to death.” That puts the blame squarely on the cops who killed the dude. Instead, they always say something more passive, like “the man succumbed to injuries he sustained while resisting arrest.” Notice that the former has “officers” doing the action of beating, while the latter removes officers entirely and has “man” doing all of the action. It is used to shift blame away from officers and onto victims. The former is a direct “the man died because of our officers’ actions” statement. But the latter is more like “the man failed to stay alive, and the failure is entirely on him.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad to see Okami mentioned here. It was poorly marketed, which basically killed the development company… But it was so good.

  Some people have called it the best Zelda game never made, and I believe the description is accurate. It has all of the mechanics of Zelda’s puzzlebox dungeons. It’s just a different setting, and the “tools” to solve the puzzles are your brush abilities.

  My only real complaint about the game is that it was long. Like every time I expected the game to be wrapping up, it would introduce an entirely new region. But that length also meant it was able to deliver a fully self-contained story that didn’t rely on cliffhangers (sequels) to finish. Sure there were some sequels, but the original story stands on its own without them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by a friends current vacation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about campfire smoke just makes stew taste better. I swear I’ve made the same recipes at home, and it just never hits the same as when I’m camping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Flat colors, thick ink lines, and very little detail. The goal is for animators to be able to reproduce the art quickly and reliably, to be able to churn out dozens of seasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an episode in season 10 where Meg turns 18, and Quagmire ends up taking her to his remote sex cabin. Peter and Lois end up breaking in and threatening Quagmire to stay away from her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by a friends current vacation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stealth camping is a real thing, where people try to scout spots to stay overnight without getting caught.

  But unless it’s coming from a specific part of France, it’s just sparkling homelessness. It’s really just a bunch of rich dudes who like to cosplay as homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by a friends current vacation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re in a hammock, a tarp overhead (and maybe a bug net around the hammock) is often all you need. You’re off the ground, so you don’t need to worry about water runoff. And sleeping in the open means there’s always a breeze to keep you cool, even on a warm rainy night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by a friends current vacation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not hang your pack to keep it off the ground? I’m assuming you have the ability to do so, since you’re already setting up a hanging hammock. Paracord is cheap and easy to stow in your pack, and you can just tie it around a rock to toss over a tree branch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by a friends current vacation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have a wonderful time camping, but it’s because I’m experienced enough to know what to pack. If it’s cold, a small cot (to get you off of the cold hard ground) and foam sleeping pad (to insulate your underside) will do wonders. Or if it’s hot, just string a bug net over a hammock, and you’ll sleep cool and breezy.

  Also, don’t underestimate the value of a good solid meal. Some of my best meals have been made in the middle of fucking nowhere, with nothing but a Dutch oven, my pocket knife, and a campfire. It’s hard to feel upset about camping when you’re noshing on the best bowl of soup you’ve ever had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, that game is still playable online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My buddy still regularly plays EverQuest Online. These days, it’s sort of expected that you multibox and run an entire party, instead of just one character. He usually has his bots pulling mobs in the background of whatever other game we happen to be playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fix two things:

  1. The weird loot range issue, where if you’re not standing in juuuuust the right angle, you won’t be able to loot certain corpses or containers.
  2. The fact that, outside of combat, controlling Geralt feels like driving a boat. Weird large turn radiuses, slow start and stop, etc… The devs did this to make his movement look more natural, but it feels like the game is constantly fighting against or trying to correct your inputs.

  Combine those two things together, and you get a consistently frustrating experience outside of combat. Installing a ranged loot mod was one of the biggest quality of life upgrades. You walk near a corpse or container, and it automatically gets looted.

  The combat can also get repetitive at times, and the difficulty scaling is weird too. But as long as those two things and still deliver a good story, I think players will ultimately walk away happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the real appeal of the Borderlands series is multiplayer. The games are alright in single player mode, but multiplayer is where it really shines.