zod000
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- Comment on The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026 3 days ago:
Wow, not one of these looks worth my time. Maybe it’s the year of the Steam backlog.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
Makes sense, I like vinyls for the deliberate retro experience of putting on the record and listening, but I have never agreed that they actually sound better. When CDs became mainstream I was personally thrilled.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
I am sure it was no coincidence that those were the two options. I fell into that trap when I was a teen and had my first stereo. I had to buy some cables I couldn’t really afford because they literally didn’t offer RCA cables longer than 6’ in the other brand.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
Classic issue and I am a bit shocked they hadn’t run into it before, I had figured that out when i was a teen with my first stereo setup. I am also not surprised at all that they were recommended to fully rebuild lmao
- Comment on A belated Christmas gift to R6 Siege! 1 week ago:
That shocking news! Almost as shocking as hearing that there are still Rainbow Six games being made and played.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
That’s a classic and I am glad it see it passed around again. The best part is the people that start delving into the snake oil absurdity that is “audiophile cables” before, you know, getting better actual speakers/headphones. Like for fucks sake, your $200 fancy cable isn’t going to make your bullshit bargain bookshelf speaker into the voice of god. Just get some half way decent equipment and listen to your actual music.
- Comment on It comes with an add on countdown timer. 3 weeks ago:
Something something, “it’s the moops!”
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 4 weeks ago:
They’ll probably have to claim to be working on AI to get someone to sell them new ram.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 5 weeks ago:
The grappling hook was a common mod in the original QuakeWorld scene and was included in the official Quake II CTF game mod. I’m surprised it didn’t become a mainstay in games afterwards, it was so fun to use. Shogo: Mobile Armor Division had it built in and was one of the most fun FPS games I had ever played until cheaters took over.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the final release was “shit” per se, but I was super confused when I played it and expected cool features from the beta. The beta was also very beta and not all of the features were actually good, but I feel like they ran out of time/money/patience and just cut down a ton of stuff to ship it.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
A classic. I loved how in the last phase you could make the right combination of nonsensical choices and end up with human and do really well. Not as well as my hyper-evolved Rhino-montser, but really well.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
Yeah, the continued support and extra modes made me so happy to be an early supporter. I also like the more original NES style games of the series and I am very excited for the sequel.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
The DS is quite literally the only system that I ever sold going as far back as the Atari 2600. I hate, hate , hate how they forced the touch screen gimmicks for it in games that it didn’t belong. It was the only blemish on an otherwise outstanding game in Dawn of Sorrow. It ruined all of the Zelda games made directly for the system IMO.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
I leaned the other way, but both were good.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
A bunch of good ones have already been mentioned (SOTN, Nine Sols, Super Metroid), so I’ll just mention some that were missed.
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (sequel to SOTN, just as good if you can get past the DS touchscreen BS. The new remaster might get rid of it)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (made by Iga, creator of Castlevania: SOTN, Dawn of Sorrow, and others)
Salt and Sanctuary
The Messenger
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
You can refer to my comment to a different reply for more details, but this has nothing to do with “keeping up with the Joneses”, it has everything to do with keeping away mice, rate, cockroaches, and the like away from my vehicle and home.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
You’re making a whole lot of assumptions about me here, which I’ll ignore.
Here are some reasons why I think this is a bad idea for many people. My good friend and neighbor just has rodents (mice in this case) do $7000 in damage to his car by chewing holes in his wiring harness. Also depending on your climate, said leaves are wonderful homes for cockroaches to breed, which I assume you don’t want unless you are insane. This was a major issue in Florida if I didn’t immediately rake of the vast bed of oak leaves. I have no problem with “good” rodents. Rabbits, squirrels, chipmonks, headehogs (are these even in the US? I’ve never see one of these anywhere I’ve live), etc. It’s is the mice and rats that can and will ruin your stuff and can majorly screw up your life. Good luck with your leaves.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
Sure, if by “wild life” you mean insects and rodents that you probably don’t want in your yard. Also, your grass will be dead if you have a good amount of trees.
- Comment on GTA IV Is A Snapshot of the World Before It Changed 1 month ago:
I don’t really even recall the “web” being one of the rougher places. It was Usenet and IRC, aka places where you could actually deal with other people directly, that were the livelier area. They were also more fun for that exact reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Even with a 40 hour work week, this can be how it ends up. With a 60 hour work week, I’m surprised you can even fit in the cleaning. It’s rough. I don’t many recommendations anyone else hasn’t already mentioned (try to work less hours, which may not be possible). I think you need to, somehow, try to fit in a small window of time that is just for you. Even if it means giving up a small amount of sleep. I had to do this to retain some sanity. I found that trying to prep my meals in batches saved me some time as well. I used to work 40 hours a week on paper, but there was also an hour unpaid lunch and 2-3 hours of daily commute, so I was gone from home 12 hours a day. I’ve been doing this for 20 years, and the only thing I can say that as the kids get older it gets easier. When they can feed, dress, and entertain themselves, it makes it much easier. Also once they eat adult meals so you aren’t making several different things at once. Hang in there man.
- Comment on The end of merch culture is upon us with an official Death Stranding exoskeleton 1 month ago:
This is so fucking crazy, I love it. The fact that they already have a previous model on the market you can buy is so surreal.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 1 month ago:
I have been using my Sony DS4 gamepad (wired) with no issues, requires no setup. DS5 gamepads also work well, but I had extra DS4 controllers just sitting around. I greatly prefer them to any of the Xbox gamepad personally.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
I feel both of these strongly for the same reasons, also GoW had all the sluggishness of a Souls-like which immediately made it not fun to play.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
I felt that way for the first couple of hours and then the parrying “clicked” with me. Also you get some items/skills that make parrying easier/stronger.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 1 month ago:
There is no limit, but I am also a big fan of Daggerfall and thus clearly insane.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 1 month ago:
The books are good-ish, but are wildly different from the show and I am not sure I can wholeheartedly recommend them to people just because they like the show. IMO the books, as written, wouldn’t not be able to be made into a show that most people would want to watch. And yet, I only tried watching the show because of the books and didn’t stick with it because of how different it was. It could be worth your time, but it’s not a slam dunk.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There’s the twist M Night Shyamalan wishes he could still pull off.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 2 months ago:
I had a coworker that had bats take up residence in his attic and he wasn’t allow to remove them. That was all fine and well (not really because of the horrific noises) until they gnawed through the drywall and started pouring into his house. I can’t get the image out of my head of him swinging a tennis racket at them as they flew around his living room. It was right out of an 80s comedy except he had to live with the results. In the end, he just moved because he couldn’t do anything else. From that point forward, I decided that I would tell no one about bats if they wormed into my home and would make sure they wanted to leave.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 2 months ago:
I’ve often wondered about what a person can legally do if bats have moved into their home. My initial crazy thought was to get some new “pets” that are bat predators. Who wouldn’t want a house filled with racoons, snakes, and venomous spiders?
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what’s more alarming here: the bat bugs or the people willing to steal fingers out of spite.