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- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Oni - a certified classic/hidden gem. Bungie cooked there. Just not with the level design and plot of the game.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
I had a beta. And all I remember is that on easy game is truly easy. But once you up difficulty by 1, game becomes terribly difficult. Makes it impossible to play with bots and even with real people and voice chat it was quite a challenge.
Card system should be better and they shouldn’t nerf all the fun cards. They shoul’ve taken inspiration from Dead by Daylight. But again, for a PvE game, nerfing fun stuff to the ground is dumb and a way to distance from the community.
As a 1k hours L4D2 veteran, I really wanted to like B4B. Not sure how could they fumble the formula that they participated in creation of. Sad to see it fail.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Worms 3D sits at 70 score on metacritic. I see lots of people mention that this is the worst Worms title.
I still have original double-cd game and it holds a special corner in my nostalgia box.
- Comment on 💤 😴 💤 2 days ago:
I will try to be as short as possible.
I had this situation where I would struggle to fall asleep, then fall asleep after like 40 mins just to wake up 15 mins later with a feeling that I can run a marathon. Constant fear of checking time and realizing that I barely slept would add to the experience.
7 years ago I had this job where it is pretty loud all the time. Loud as in static white noise from compressed air. 8 hours in a row, non-stop. After I have left the job and moved to another country, I have found out that extensive exposure to a constant noise levels above 45+db (I do not remember exact numbers, but it was around 45db) would raise anxiety in humans. Turns out that was it. But the damage was done and I couldn’t sleep even after leaving this job.
I am trying to find an article from WHO about noise influence on the human body that I read 6 years ago. Only found this.
During my study I did fall asleep with phone playing some long and boring things. But then I got my girlfriend, and when she would be at my place, I did not play anything on my phone falling asleep. I did notice that if the thing is at bare minimum requires some attention, it would keep me awake for longer. So I have stopped doing this even when she was not around. It had an effect and I began to fall asleep naturally, albeit not in an instant.
My girlfriend also complained that she has troubles falling asleep. She did use melatonin pills and melatonin spray when we met. But since she also would not use phone in bed, she quickly began to fall asleep in under 5 minutes. When she was at her place, she would scroll insta and tiktok and would not get a good night sleep. So I began tell her to drop her phone before bed. Now since we are married, she does not scroll though the night and falls asleep much faster than me.
Today I sleep way better. I do most of the things I have mentioned in my comment. No coffee, no scrolling, reduced blue light on PC and phone, no bright light from ceiling lamps, more water during the day, seeing sun set. The only thing I am struggling with is food before bed. But it is night and day to how my sleep used to be.
Sidenote: maybe, instead of an engaging content, streams or any video where human voice is audible, smooth jazz, lo-fi or a rain noise track would work better. Basically, you need your brain to wind down naturally. It won’t happen if it would keep accepting information from sound and/or screen
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 days ago:
It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.
- Comment on Funni video 2 days ago:
Not sure why, but I did watch though this without even blinking. Maybe it is a really good ad against gambling. Also, sad that guy got into a spiral due to some people liking to watch people destroy themselves. He has great parents and a good brother. He deserves much more than this.
Also, this vid is incredible and I couldn’t stop watching. Maybe long content is really that good, or maybe my attention span is in a good shape (for something interesting. I am easily bored if it is not interesting to me)
- Comment on I can't use heated seats on my BMW unless I pay a monthly subscription 3 days ago:
Tough to do for hardcore B~roken~M~oney~W~aster~ fans.
- Comment on Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind 3 days ago:
Double fine? So no more Stacking 2 and Psychonauts 3? Dangit!
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Applies to EA, ActiBlizz too. So many beloved titles and developer studios were destroyed by greedy corpo fucks.
- Comment on 💤 😴 💤 3 days ago:
Spoken by someone who had terrible insomnia with occasional panic attacks and an average actual sleep time per night of 2 hours that lasted over 1.5 years. I did fix it.
- Comment on 💤 😴 💤 4 days ago:
It is like a drug in a sense that you will have to put effort in withdrawal. You have successfully trained your brain to fall asleep only if you are listening to things, but by listening you’d be occupying your brain and it has to do work while at it. Removing phone from before and in bed would lead your brain to naturally shut down.
I used to do the same. Streams or long and boring YT videos to fall asleep to. My sleep was terrible and inconsistent. Once I have stopped doing this, it has improved drastically.
I am not telling you to read a book before falling asleep. Just do not do anything. Get in bed. Put your phone on charge. Turn lights off and fall asleep. It will take time to get accustomed to do it this way, but it will be worth it.
- Comment on 💤 😴 💤 4 days ago:
Start with your sleep schedule (approx same time to bed, approx same time getting out of bed)
Do not eat 2h (3h is better) before bed
Drink more water (not juice, not milk, not tea or coffee. water!)
Enable “reduce blue light” on your phone and computer
Do not scroll phone before bed, DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING on your phone before falling asleep (extremely important)
Try to watch sun sets (it is baked in our nature to feel tired once we witness sun to set)
Try not to use bright ceiling light in the evening (this is connected previous point. It is weird but it works)
Lower down or remove caffeine from your daily liquid intake. ABSOLUTELY NO caffeine before bed. If you are addicted to caffeine, try to limit intake to only before noon.
Magnesium helps to get better sleep for some. Try that.
You cant avoid skipping a few of these. The absolutely must ones are no scrolling/watching phone, no caffeine and no food before bed. These 3 are the worst ones at screwing your sleep.
- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 1 week ago:
Bunch of mental gymnastics medalists put here.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Court case with undeniable and sufficient evidence also doesnt last long. There is more to the story than “they do it/they dont do it”
But claiming they do before it has been proven is dumb.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
One of them is over two years old
Which only proves my point. They allegedly do, and we yet to discover if they actually do it or Epic, Ubisoft and whatever another publisher are lying. 2 years to prove if Valve was abusing the system and still nothing out there to confirm this suspicion.
I suspect that is really tough to prove and that is why eventually case will be dropped due to lack of evidence.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
But multiple game companies have found that trying to list their games on non-steam key selling websites, for less money (because they don’t have to make up for as big a cut) are getting threatened to have their games removed from Steam for doing so.
Has any of these claims been proven yet?
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 1 week ago:
I had a stupid technical issue back in the day so I made a post on reddit in hopes that someone figures it out. No solution was found though the comments but I did found out how to fix it and posted an extensive edit and a comment for people to find when searching the same issue.
It has been 5 years since and I still sometimes get comments on that post thanking me for the solution.
Can’t imagine people just saying “I figured it out, thanks!” and never posting their solution…
- Comment on I hate obscure tech issues! 1 week ago:
There used to be tools to see removed comments before API policy changes. Do we really think Reddit doesn’t have this built in their database?
I am heavily speculating here of course. But I really think that Reddit has this figured out before exodus occurred and the damage community thought it had done is in vain.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
That is what everyone takes wrong about the case. Two points I want to mention
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allegedly, they force other storefronts to match the price on steam or their storefront regardless of what type of key it is (Valve claims it is only for Steam keys)
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Nobody stops Ubisoft or EGS or whatever to sell their games on their storefront. OR even 3rd party publishers can avoid selling on Steam (look up EGS and Borderlands 4/Metro Exodus case). Literally nobody says they should sell on Steam.
What annoys me that everyone took “they force them even with own keys to match the price” as a factual truth just because of EGS, Ubi and some other company claimed so. The case is not closed yet. There is no verdict. Nothing is ruled out. And somehow tons of people are angry at Valve?!
Who do we trust more out of the box? Valve or EGS/Ubi? Sharpen your pitchforks only after the fact are known, people…
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- Comment on [Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast 1 week ago:
Dafuq people be defending a guy who forces his dog to sit on hours in one place and then shocks it when dog wants to strech it’s bones.
Fuck Elon and the Hasan ban is unfair. But seeing people saying that shock collar is a ruse - that is an incredible mental gymnastics to achieve. Props to yall ig.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Same, brother. After working at a job that really doesn’t want you to randomly be absent by any reason to a job where you can come and leave any time as long as you got 40h a week - that is life changing.
Unfortunately, not all jobs can be like this. My previous job, just because of it’s nature, would never allow this freedom.
- Comment on Explain! 1 week ago:
YOU’RE NOT EVEN LOUD ENOUGH
- Comment on Email came out of nowhere 1 week ago:
What exactly happened? Newsletter email name had some nazi symbols as far as I can see. But why? Did they stated something for nazi? Or was it just a hacker prank? Any statements like at all?
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 2 weeks ago:
Even hotter tip: on a highway, if the line on your right is free, switch to it. Left line(s) is only for overtaking.
Once drivers learn this simple rule, speed limits can be lifted on certain highway parts so whoever wants to go faster now can fulfill their desire.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 2 weeks ago:
It sure does smell here like an american driving culture.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
Many things killed it off. I’d add external databases and addons.
It is not that I hate external databases and addons. They are great and help a ton. But they also did remove the “exploration” part of the game. If you know exactly where to go and addon also plans out the optimal route +if you do not know what to do, external database will tell you in details - this kills exploration and player interactions on top of dungeon-finder and auction damage.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 2 weeks ago:
It was never about quests. It was always about player interactions.
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I believe in a “legally obtained” digital media stored on my own hardware.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 weeks ago:
A year ago I got 2x SATA cheapo SSDs - 1TB at $56 and 2TB at $106. Today the same listings are over double that price.
Even HDDs are expensiver now. 2.5" 1TB is $60. In January I got 12TB WD HDD for $220. Today it is $460.
FUCK AI!
