JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@midwest.social
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 days ago:
Commander Shepard.
- Comment on jsjjsjs 3 days ago:
Dare I ask which one is actually from the game?
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 4 days ago:
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 6 days ago:
God bless ICE
I mean, yeah, they’re gonna need it to stay outta hell.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m well versed in Team Cherry’s habit of hiding stuff behind the edge of a body of water.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week ago:
I’m definitely overstating for effect, but yeah, to me, the game very much feels like they wanted to cater to the inhuman speedrunning and challenge running crowd from Hollow Knight, and made things unreasonable for causal/average gamers.
Maybe my bias is in having played and loved Hollow Knight first, but I NEVER felt like I was being given an unreasonable challenge in Hollow Knight. And Hollow Knight, by the late and post game, is HARD. They just managed to balance the difficulty curve so masterfully, that every escalation felt natural, even exciting.
Silksong, overall, did NOT do this for me. The early game felt obnoxiously punishing, the mid-game completely fell off a cliff into easy, once you get a handful of key upgrades, and the late game just varied all across the spectrum.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week ago:
Last Judge runback didn’t really bother me. Just sprint straight out, with a few properly-timed jumps, and you skip every enemy and reach the boss in about 30 seconds.
Bilewater was nonsense, even after learning how to run it perfectly. And I LIKE Bilewater, as an area.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week ago:
Agreed, the fight itself I didn’t find too difficult. Just the runback. And I got REALLY good at the runback.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week ago:
There’s about 3 different “no double-damage” mods that I’ve tried, for a boss I just couldn’t be assed to try legit, anymore. They all seemed to work, fine.
There was a “respawn outside the boss room, instead of at a bench” mod that I installed for a particular boss (you can probably guess), but I can’t really speak about whether it works, cause I happened to beat it on the next try after installing.
There was an “infinite shards” mod I tried, but it didn’t work at all, and I didn’t see any others, so be wary of that one.
Referring to mods available on Nexus Mods, BTW.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week ago:
To make it playable for normal people.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 week ago:
It’s a parody movie that stands on its own, even if you don’t know anything about what’s being parodied. It has a legit plot and character writing that could hold up decently well, if all the parody were removed.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, cool, another buyout where the buyer doesn’t have to actually pay for it, they just take out a loan and magically make the company pay for it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, the Lugoli bug is still a thing, after the patch. Saw it happen on a stream from before the patch, then got it myself a couple days ago.
FYI, supposedly if it happens, you should close out and reopen the entire game, or it will continue happening.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 3 weeks ago:
Every player I know had a lot of trouble with her, because they didn’t vash their head against the Craw gauntlet first, like I did, and get Silk Storm, which makes her ADDs laughable. And fair enough, I think the Craw gauntlet is supposed to filter you until well after Sister Splinter.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 5 weeks ago:
The highly-anticipated sequel to 2017’s indie hit video game Hollow Knight. 2-time winner of “Most Anticipated Game” at the Unity Awards, and 3-time winner of “Most Wanted Game” at the Golden Joystick Awards. The most-wish-listed game on Steam, up until its release today.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 5 weeks ago:
2.5 hours and counting. 🥲
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN - A high-difficulty Expedition mode, "Deep of Night," has appeared 1 month ago:
Sounds like maybe this is the “ranked mode” that rumors were going around about? Thank god, if so, the last thing this game needs is more incentive for players to be competitive against each other.
Neat concept, it sounds like. They really are just using this game as an excuse to try every new idea they have, aren’t they?
- Comment on Satisfactory to finally come to consoles November 4th! 1 month ago:
I tried it a few weeks ago. Streamed it from my PC to the living room, cause I didn’t feel like getting off the couch.
It was better than I thought it’d be, but I’m not keen on doing it again, when I have KBM available. Tough to to say how much of the discomfort is just fighting my KBM muscle memory, and how much is “game fundamentally too complicated for controller”. I only had one REAL complaint about the way a particular button/input was mapped.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 month ago:
Upvote for the desktop background.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 2 months ago:
They will, on paper.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 months ago:
A) And yet, not long after, Andor blew people’s expectations out of the water.
B) Then stop making games exclusively based off of third party IPs.
- Comment on Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor 2 months ago:
This appears to be a rare proper use of machine-learning tech.
No, they did not ask ChatGPT to whip them up a concrete mix. They (in co-operation with engineers) trained a mathematical model specifically for the task of predicting the performance of concrete mixes, in order to narrow down the number of mixes to do (time-intensive) real-world testing on. With a focus on also predicting the carbon-emission impact of the mixes.
This is the kind of technology we need more of. Not LLM slop.
- Comment on Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop 2 months ago:
Add a submission fee that gets refunded as part of the bounty payout, or if the reviewer otherwise judges the submission as obviously legitimate.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 2 months ago:
I read it to mean that this method has confirmed “almost no real person has spoken to me”.
- Comment on Oatmeal 3 months ago:
Bacon Cheeseburger.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 3 months ago:
Same concept as how Trump gave no written order for the Jan 6 mob to storm the capitol building, therefore he’s totally not responsible for it.
- Comment on Tractor eggs 3 months ago:
Dude, you obviously have never set FOOT on a farm or tractor, in your LIFE. Stop spreading misinformation.
These are raw marshmallows. Yeah, it’s unbelievable how big they are, but that’s just cause they’re fresh and haven’t dried out yet.