BertramDitore

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that sounds awesome. Based on all that, the devs seem solid, I think I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the response!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks pretty amazing, but it also looks huge, and for a game this big I would need assurances that I won’t lose my progress if it leaves early access. Have the devs said anything about their completion timeline? I’ve never played anything in early access, because I frankly don’t trust devs to respect my time. Thoughts?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That does help explain the strangeness of the whole thing, thanks for sharing. Sounds like things were pretty tough for you, so I’m sorry for that.

  It sounds like he is a bit oversexualized (not sure if that’s the right term), but it doesn’t seem like it’s anything too out of the ordinary for someone figuring themselves out. Many of us probably pushed things a bit too far when we were little, I certainly didn’t understand how uncomfortable it made people for me to run around the house naked when I was young. But we all test boundaries like that when we’re growing up, and usually the adults around us help us find the right boundaries, not stretch them.

  So yeah, with that new context, giving a fleshlight to her 18 year old son is very odd, and does raise some red flags. Sounds like you made the right call cutting things off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be super curious to hear the context if you’re willing/able to share, but it all depends on the relationship between the mother and son. It strikes me as a bit weird and abnormal, and certainly embarrassing, but if you normally talk about sex in an open and healthy way with her, then this might not be as weird as it seems. Parents know their kids play with themselves, and it’s usually healthier to be open about it than to stigmatize it, but actively buying this kind of thing for her son is a bit much in my opinion…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be valuable to take a step back and look at how you’re thinking about women in general. This isn’t an attack FYI, I’m trying to be constructive because I totally understand your anxiety.

  Firstly, lose the word “female.” Forget it. It won’t help you anywhere except biology class, and it’s a big red flag. In your brief question, your framing makes it sound like women are some mystical object that you can “get” with exactly the right words or the right amount of money. But they’re just people, and many of them are probably having similar issues talking to men. If you start to actively think about women as fully formed, independent, thinking, feeling human beings who have many of the same problems as you, and many that are quite different, then you’ll have a much easier time approaching them.

  All of that is to say, empathy is critical. If you approach an interaction from a place of empathy—where you’re trying to understand the other person by listening to them and expressing interest—then it’ll slowly start to become natural. I realize that’s all easier said than done, but just thinking about women as complete people who aren’t there for you, but for themselves as individuals, would be a massive first step. Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s totally fair (though I haven’t played any recent Zelda games, so I can’t speak to that). I actually think quite a few recent open world games didn’t need to be open world at all and would have been better if they were more of a single player guided narrative.

  One game that did this perfectly IMO was Guardians of the Galaxy. It wasn’t open world, but you could explore each “chapter” or “level” or whatever as much as you wanted and could replay them individually. That made the whole story feel really tight, coherent, and well thought out. I find myself really wanting that format in some of these big beautiful (and yeah, often boring) open world games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty disappointing to me. I know it’s kind of an unpopular opinion these days, but I really enjoyed Outlaws. It was just different enough from other Star Wars properties to be novel, but recognizable enough to be convincingly in the Star Wars universe. Sure some characters were a bit flat, missions were repetitive, and it didn’t invent a new revolutionary mechanic or anything, but does every game have to be groundbreaking? I got solid enjoyment out of it, and was looking forward to how they’d continue the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you intend to profit from the murder of innocent people by helping governments develop weapon systems, then you don’t get to feign innocence and act like a biased dictionary when the world notices the evil you’ve contributed to. As a fellow Jew, I wish he would understand that we don’t have a monopoly on being the victims of genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t care less about what this has to do with “AI,” but e-ink is horrendously underutilized. It should be so much more ubiquitous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you. It’s very expensive to be poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day I thought to myself, “huh I’ve got a few extra bucks, I think I’ll buy a switch 2.” Then I saw that zelda costs $80. So nope, no switch for me.

  I’m someone who has never played a switch, never held one, and I was about to impulse buy it. So I’d be a brand new customer (my last Nintendo product was the NES), and now I won’t be. Their loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Bridgerton’ Star Yerin Ha Reveals She ‘Was Petrified’ to Do Her First Intimacy Scene in Season 4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no interest in this show, but I’ve enjoyed Ha in everything else she’s done, and I appreciate her candor about filming intimate scenes. I’d be straight up terrified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, exactly. It seemed important to them to stress that Ahsoka’s training was different from a normal padawan’s, thanks to Anakin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s “Practice Makes Perfect.” Episode 5 of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. It’s a miniseries that came out a couple years after Clone Wars ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whoever recommended Almost Human (2013) to me, thanks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! I remember really enjoying this, and being super pissed it didn’t get renewed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony will be releasing "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL" on 4K Ultra HD on August 26.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure. I’ve gotta assume they used the master film for scanning Monty Python, and if it was stored properly they probably wouldn’t have to do a ton of restoration and cleaning, but I don’t know the specifics. 4K77’s work is amazing and admirable, but not really watchable to me for exactly the reason you mentioned. I don’t think any amount of cleanup would fix that kind of degradation, though it’s still an incredible representation and artifact of the film’s history. It’s a shame that project was only necessary because of the Lucas’ stubbornness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony will be releasing "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL" on 4K Ultra HD on August 26.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This release is “Native 4K.” As far as I understand it, Native 4K means it was produced from scans of the film negatives, not upscaled. These releases are usually the best possible quality with the crispest and most natural image. They might have needed to do some physical cleaning of the film, and they might have done some touch up’s here and there in post, but Native 4K is ideal, and what you want in a release like this.

  From blu-ray.com:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downhill is a fourth wall breaking action RPG whose protagonist knows you exist, and might not agree with your actions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a cool concept. I could see myself really getting into a game like this.