Underwaterbob
@Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 1 week ago:
Does that mean I can stop paying taxes?
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 1 week ago:
I played it in my third year of university (it was directly responsible for a few bad grades.) Am I dead already?
- Comment on ESL homework 1 week ago:
Haha! I am an ESL teacher in Korea. One of the funniest things I’ve had a student submit was about their family’s favorite foods. A student somehow managed to translate “chicken” as “cock”. More than one of their family members liked “cock” a whole lot.
- Comment on a very tasty snack 2 weeks ago:
And aspires to be the Dead Sea!
- Comment on a very tasty snack 2 weeks ago:
Oh, only double then. My bad.
- Comment on a very tasty snack 2 weeks ago:
And probably your daily recommended sodium intake X 3.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Smart! I should probably just give up social media on all platforms.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Toilet time is puzzle time!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not always so successful I realize as I read this post on my phone waiting for my take out.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m the opposite. I avoid social media on my phone by reading books or playing Simon Tatham’s puzzles. I get enough on desktop. Probably too much. Pimp’s gotta pimp.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Looking at this stuff on desktop as always really makes realize just how many people access the Internet primarily through mobile now. It’s a weird, and somewhat disturbing thought. You’ll pry my desktops out of my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 3 weeks ago:
Ha! The biggest problem with drivers in my hometown is that they’re too polite. It’s dangerous when people don’t take their right-of-way. It causes confusion in drivers who know whose right-of-way it is. It’s also infuriating being stuck behind someone who thinks they’re doing people a favor by sitting at a four-way stop until all traffic disappears instead of taking their proper turn.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 3 weeks ago:
Huh. Same in Korea. Which was odd to me when I moved here since I’m from Canada and it is not the practice there.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
I’m running a 5600x with a 3080. I might be alright. I’ll have to check it out.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
What kind of specs do you need to run it smoothly? Does any of the online stuff work?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
Bloodborne
The last console I owned was a PS3, and I don’t plan on ever having another. Sony thankfully mostly got with the program and released a bunch of their stuff on PC, but Bloodborne remains a standout.
- Comment on Mafs 1 month ago:
Hmm. Does that mean 2/10, 3/15, 5/25, and 6/30 are also viable?
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
Remember your princiPLEs, he’s your princiPAL.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
Having less fun, though!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
Hmm. I’ll have to check it out. Not sure I’m willing to give up my current workflow.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
I have not tried Bitwig yet. Reaper is my jam.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
Pew pew!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
Haha! I refuse to even look at modular. Well. I did once or twice, and got frightened off pretty quickly. So much coolness. So much money.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 months ago:
Cries in synthesizers.
At least there are a bunch of great budget options these days. Still not cheap though.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 months ago:
AI is trained on the Internet. Look at the bullshit on the Internet. AI will take some random schmoe’s bullshit opinion and present it as hard fact.
That, and it just re-introduced the problem of being able to see search results without visiting any of the resultant websites. The last time, sites ended up burying answers down the page to avoid being able to see results in search previews. Making everything shittier. What kind of response is there going to be to AI summaries? Everything will undoubtedly get even shittier as sites try to get people to visit and not just read the AI summary. Hello even more obfuscation. We’re taking the greatest method of spreading information around the globe ever devised and just absolutely filling it to the brim with bullshit.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 2 months ago:
Always? OK, I guess. It’s probably going to make teaching hard, though.
Oh shit, this is that stupid fucking comic again, isn’t it?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 2 months ago:
Haha! I live in Korea and have a daughter who was not-so-briefly completely obsessed with this movie. I know all of the words at this point. English and Korean. I didn’t mind at first. It’s starting to drive me a bit nuts, now. Also, it is some pretty blatant propaganda for the grist mill that is the Kpop industry. Despite the subtle nods to the contrary.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 months ago:
Lemon Toss?
- Comment on Just in time 4 months ago:
In the first pictures, the knight would clearly be of the “upper” class. Your chances of being some peon in a field are much, much higher.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 months ago:
Final Fantasy isn’t continuous. Aside from races, the occasional character name, and some thematic elements, the games are not connected at all. PS2 has two of the best: 10 and 12.
Of the two, 10 is a more traditional turn-based experience with notoriously awful-in-a-good-way voice acting and a very typical FF plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that you end up killing god. It features some of the most egregiously awful mini games to grace the franchise. And if you want some of the best gear in the game, you will be committing a not -insignificant amount of time to frustrating button mashing.
Square tried a whole bunch of new stuff with 12 including realtime, MMO-like combat and a much smaller and focused narrative that is mostly a side story occurring inside a larger narrative. The voice acting is infinitely better than 10’s, and there are no obnoxious mini games.
They’re both still worth playing. The PC ports don’t add all that much to the games over what you can do with them emulated. In fact, I bet save states make some of the mini game awfulness of 10 better.
I did not intend to write an essay…