zod000

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boop Boop bee bee boop boop⁩ ⁨⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  He does have a certain “should have been dead decades ago” look to him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨national anthem⁩ ⁨⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the second episode "Fifteen Million Merits was the most soul crushing thing I had ever watched, the first episode paled in comparison. Then again, I’m not a pig so clearly Peppa would be a little more traumatized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50,424 AD⁩ ⁨⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I both love and hate this image. I hope the arthropods remember us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll go one step further and hope their both sides of their pillow are warm from fresh piss. What a totally asshole decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Standard Bomb Pops didn’t have gum inside, though some varieties probably did. The Bomb Pops is constantly making little variations on their popsicles, probably too many IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  <insert YouDontSay.jpg here>

  For a man I always believed to be extremely intelligent, that was a moronic thing to say at the time and sounds even more stupid now. I am sure the large amount of money he received for that deal made him did a lot of encouraging him to be optimistic. I mean I get it, people that pay me millions of dollars would likely seem pretty good to me in the moment, but come the fuck on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i wonder what goes through men's minds in this situation⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Never go full Kuato! Seriously though, that’s hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially life saver flavored (each color one similar to the standard life saver color flavors) and a crappy frozen gumball on top. The bomb pops were larger for the same price, so I always felt they were superior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I rarely saw a Slimer option after the 80s, but the lack of Choco Taco option feels criminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I always got the bomb pops too, or “rocket pops” which were generic versions they sometimes had and which were actually superior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  6 is definitely real, but most ice cream trucks didn’t offer it in my experience. You’d find them in convenient stores though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Those character ones were always malformed mutants never meant to see the light of day. I got my daughter a Sonic ice cream bar and she said it gave her nightmares. I am being serious, and I find it as funny now as I did back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had it happen with standard release games as well, it is just more common.

  Really short games are an interesting edge case for Valve’s policy for sure. I don’t personally buy games that are that short, but as long as they are priced accordingly, it feels awfully petty to refund a game that is a few bucks. I just don’t see how much less time you can have to actually try a game and see if it isn’t total garbage. I’ve had plenty of games that didn’t reveal themselves to be completely broken until I was further along (time wise) than that and I was unable to get a refund.

  Now with this specific game, I’m not sure it’s an ideal poster child for changes in policy. The game clearly states that it was made in a month and is intentionally “rage inducing”. Maybe the game absolutely sucks, is buggy, or maybe people though “rage inducing” just meant difficult, but in fact, it makes you angry because it is terrible in some other way. This isn’t a shot at the dev, we simply have no way of knowing. All we know is that the dev says he received a review that said they beat it in under two hours and they refunded it after “beating” it. That would indeed sting to read and it seems needlessly petty to even post such a review. The dev himself said that he isn’t necessarily asking for Valve to change the policy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At a high level it is reasonable, but I have been in a situation where I spent over an hour trying to get some buggy early access game to work and was forced to refund it because according to Steam I was running out of “played time” to be entitled to a refund. If I had been assured that I would have still been eligible for a refund I’d have tried some more and maybe not needed said refund. This was especially common when I used an Nvidia GPU in Linux as even being playable on the Steam Deck didn’t mean that my GPU drivers wouldn’t be an issue.

  If a short game only had a 30 minute or less refund window, I may avoid buying them at all as it is too high of a risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tim Sweeney can get fucked. Every time he opens his mouth, a bunch of vile bullshit spews out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem really intent on inventing scenarios to dispute me. I own a RIDICULOUS amount of games. Games that I purchased directly, usually at launch. My friends do as well, we simply share or give each other some of the games. Or sometimes we lend them and that ends up convincing the other person to buy it. Sony and Nintendo have indeed gotten a boatload of my money over the years and that boat is sailing elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been one to sell games, but I give, lend, and borrow games frequently with my friends. This (and some locked away exclusives) are the only reason I still even own consoles. Sony et al have decided they don’t want my money anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a while that was practically true. Solo dominated the market (i worked a crappy retail job where I stocked them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why this keeps getting asked, but yes. Solo cups (the original red cup) were incredibly cheap, held up decently, and were sold in large packs everywhere. They were so cheap that for a long time I don’t think there were even generic options. Now days most places have their own brand and they frequently make them red just because that is what people expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, Aldi has to cut corners to keep prices low. I bet removing that line from the instructions saved… something!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before the revolution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially in the White House and Congress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that explains the crazy phenomenon I saw the other day. A BMW driver near me actually used their turn signal and I was super impressed. They they cut off another driver and almost caused a huge accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation sales just had its worst May in 25 years, and Xbox's was the worst ever—Meanwhile, the Nintendo Switch 2 just became the second-fastest-selling console in US history; and other insights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The PS5 and Xbox are six years old, the Switch 2 is fairly new and cheaper. And all the consoles have increased their price due to memory shortages. This news isn’t shocking in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshrouded - Official Version 1.0 Release Date Trailer [October 15]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy these types of games with friends far more, but I always end up playing most of them solo because it can be hard to wrangle friends together at the same time when you’re all adults with busy lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably either the NES or the SNES. The NES felt the most “magical” at the time. Before the NES, consoles had games that were general clunky and not particularly fun and controllers that were all over the place. There was a good reason that the NES revived the console industry. The SNES just happens to be the home of many of my favorite games of all time. If we’re going newer, then I suppose the PS1 or PS3 (before Sony ruined it) would be my choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshrouded - Official Version 1.0 Release Date Trailer [October 15]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be tempted to if I could get my friends to give it a proper shot. They all really didn’t click with the game like they did with many of the others in the genre. Also, I’d be sad to give up my gigantic castle that I carved into the side of a mountain :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshrouded - Official Version 1.0 Release Date Trailer [October 15]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the game is pretty great though I really disliked the last boss fight (or at least it was the “last boss” last time I played through, big flying dragon). It was entirely unfun and brutal solo. Maybe they have tweaked it by now, and I thoroughly enjoyed most of the game so don’t let this dissuade anyone from giving it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FO4 just really didn’t click for me. Maybe it was too over shadowed by FO3 and FO:NV, but the writing/story was bad, the dark humor didn’t land, and the choices you were given didn’t seem have any real consequence. I guess mechanically it was OK, but I think it just didn’t live up to the expectations I had from Bethesda. In fact, I am not sure I have truly enjoyed a game they released since then.

  FO4 was also up again a massive list of great games that came out around the same time. Just from memory I know that the Witcher 3, GTA V, Metal Gear Solid V, Bloodborne, and Shovel Knight came out around the same time. I am not sure which exact game it was, I am positive that I blew off FO4 once one of the others came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did play it, but it didn’t “do it” for me the same way the sequel did. It could still be worth a shot. If you do end up playing Sacred 2, make sure you do the quest chain involving the “concert”. I won’t say more so you can experience the wackiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare you!

  Xenogears is a flawed masterpiece. Even disc 2 wasn’t “bad” so much as they pushed about three discs of story into it as they were not given the time and resources to do it right. From what I read, It was supposed to be a seven game series/story, but they knew they were only given a shot for one game so they picked one of the better chapter in the middle and got a bit overly ambitious.

  As far as Xenosaga is considered, I am really surprised you called out episode 2 as I consider that the best one. If any could be called out, it would be ep 3 because it was supposed to be a longer series and they have to change it up to have it make any sense whatsoever. I really enjoyed episode 2, though the censorship issues you mention were hilariously bad.