whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 day ago:
It was toys r us for me too, I was able to get a copy a week later but there’s no point to preordering if they don’t honor the reservation & when you’re a kid that week feels like forever so it sticks pretty brightly in memory
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 day ago:
I pre-ordered ff8, they ran out anyways. Lesson learned.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 day ago:
Pokemon x Luigi crossover?
- Comment on Beans aswell 5 days ago:
Corn pie‽
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 6 days ago:
The gamer motivation categories they are selling are not exhaustive categories, and while they publish some graphs and excerpts I don’t see any link to their full survey data or methodology.
My intuition is they are not against AI, they’re against trashy corporate LLMs filling their games with boring, uninteresting, slop instead of a well made directed experience (narrative games, rollercoaster type experience), an engaging open world simulation, or competitive round based games like king of the hill or arena shooter. AI dungeon was fun six years ago, if there’s nothing more advanced than that then the gimmick is already spent.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
I think even that’s getting cheaper over the last couple years. Mid range guitars are getting premium features & qc out of Philippines and Indonesia is pretty solid, modelers are making a big collection of amps and pedals unnecessary for chasing tones. As long as you’re not a collector gathering signature serieses or looking at all the new releases giving yourself fomo it’s not too bad.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 2 weeks ago:
Turn based jrpgs like Final fantasy series games, octopath traveller, dragon warrior
Sam and max beyond space and time, comedy point and click adventure style game
DOOM
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 weeks ago:
Looks mostly grey to me
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 2 weeks ago:
All of the old scummVM adventure games; Sam and max hit the road, monkey island, day of the tentacle, etc
For something more cinematic I’d look at platinum games like Bayonetta, god of wars, mass effects, gears, half-lifes, dark souls
I would avoid something really puzzle heavy like professor Layton or tactical like civ or Stellaris I enjoy watching/listening to people play games but those usually can’t hold my interest unless I’m playing
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 weeks ago:
Is this the one where devolver digital does something goofy? That’s usually pretty fun
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 2 weeks ago:
Celebrities drum up drama about themselves to try to stay relevant when they shill whatever product they work on. He was talking shit about a couple actors in an interview or whatever and people defended the other person which just proliferated the fake drama further, he’s probably got something coming out in 2026.
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 weeks ago:
There are no registration or registry with individuals’ information if guardians use parental controls and adult sites and apps identify themselves as adult for those controls, check what their kids are doing online, and talk with them about dangerous people or content they might see to teach them how to stay safe.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 weeks ago:
I can’t think of a setting that would university apply to all games, like I’d be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 4 weeks ago:
“Economy” is almost always corpo newspeak for wealthy people’s money. If they actually meant the economy as in everyone’s stake in the economic system the phrase “cost the economy” would be meaningless.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
I find it gets better with practice to some degree, if I go for a long stretch reading more or less fiction I find it affects my imagination and ability to visualize with more or less detail and memorability. I don’t think it’ll bridge the gap to 5 necessarily, but it might bump a 4 to a 3 or a 2 to a 1.
- Comment on We have one at home 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead
- Comment on We have one at home 5 weeks ago:
Wow, replied before I saw this. 2 on live references in a single thread, feel like I just spotted a bigfoot or something
- Comment on We have one at home 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on me_irl_conflict 1 month ago:
Einstein died in 1955. Redshift observations started in 1912 but weren’t clear on what was happening or why, Friedmann etc al’s calculations in 1922 probably raised the question in a serious context, and Hubble’s law was published in 1929. He knew about it, probably at least from the early '20s.
- Comment on 0^n+0^n=0^n 1 month ago:
I like how it kinda looks like ‘oh no no n-’
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 1 month ago:
2d/3d: I want to keep both thumbs on the sticks for 3d so I prefer a controller like this 3rd party Xbox with back buttons and extra shoulder buttons
Xbox style controller with 4 back buttons and 3 buttons per shoulder
Fighting: leverless is a lot of fun, I have a slab mini and a junk food micro lite I prefer the micro it’s way lighter
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 1 month ago:
Dwarf fortress, chess, crosswords, Nonograms, sudoku
Check out scummVM and ROMs for old point and click adventure games like grim fandango, monkey island, Sam & max, etc
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 1 month ago:
I don’t think there’s a too big for a simulation type game world, go all the way. But for more directed game styles that are narrative driven or more carnival ride than simulation don’t make it boring use techniques from past games; the keeping distant landmarks in view outside like in New Vegas, or hilly landscapes to obscure stuff to discover like in Zelda or Skyrim. Bad examples would be like traveling between towns in daggerfall or those monuments in the middle of nowhere in starfield.
- Comment on Check your candy 1 month ago:
Golden Corral’s new slogan
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 1 month ago:
The secret of Monkey island games have a tropical Halloween feel with ghost pirates and root beer
Kentucky route zero for a slower ghost story, dear Esther for a walking sim ghost story both with great soundtracks
- Comment on Progress 2 months ago:
Someone is getting serious about their chess game
- Comment on for future fireflies 2 months ago:
Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys
- Comment on concert 2 months ago:
It’s about $42 just from inflation not accounting for decreased spending power with many prices increasing faster than inflation itself.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
Special interest journalism is usually overrun by corporate interests and inflated reviews. Find someone who was fired or left an organization for something like reporting a low review to search out integrity for individuals.
