zod000
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- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 1 week ago:
Yeah, those wasps are assholes, just not quite as much of assholes as yellow jackets. Weirdly enough, I’ve been stung by everything on this list that is capable of doing so including bumble bees. Bees hate me and I hate them, but I still refrain from killing them because we need them around.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s almost like the meme died and came back to torment the living.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 week ago:
As I said, they sounded decent, very decent for the price, I just found them uncomfortable. Headphones don’t need to be expensive to be good.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 week ago:
There was a string of IEMs, almost all of them Chinese brands like KZT, that were all lauded as “sounds better than $500 IEMs, only cost $10!!!” that were way over hyped for a while. And I bought many/most of them because they were so cheap and then usually gave them away because they were not the magic thing the hype insisted.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 week ago:
In my case, It was the shape of the enclosure that caused me discomfort, not the tips. I have tried pretty much all of the meme IEMs, most of them didn’t work well for me, but I can still say that they sounded quite good for the price. Comfort is king when it comes any sort of headphone for me though. I usually prefer larger over ear headphones except when I am traveling. Right not my Etymotics are my go to IEMs.
- Comment on Crying is a free action 1 week ago:
I have that book on my bookshelf. It didn’t make me cry nearly as much as some C++ books.
- Comment on Double Dragon And River City Creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto Has Passed Away 1 week ago:
River City Ransom is one of my favorite NES games of all time. One of my most complete homebrew games (informally called River City Ripoff) was a persistent multiplayer game that was essentially the same game, but with a bigger world. I even used the sprites. I couldn’t ever release it for obvious legal reasons, but it was run to play with some friends when testing it. I wished they had made something like it when they were doing those Steam sequels.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 week ago:
I didn’t find them comfortable at all, but some people clearly do.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 week ago:
I was really, really unhappy with my KZ ZST. They did sound good for the price, but they did not hold up at all and I found them uncomfortable for extended use.
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 week ago:
I own the er3se and they are my favorite. They have great passive noise isolation and don’t get uncomfortable really quickly like most earbuds/IEMs.
- Comment on Doctors in the 1800s 2 weeks ago:
I imagine your circulatory system would be like a game of Pac-Man and the cocaine would give him the power pill. This seems easy, should I have been a doctor?
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, a single NES game was tough for a kid to save up for. I was usually able to do various chores around the neighborhood and be able to buy a game every few months. I distinctly remember that Zelda II was $52 and Metal Gear was $48 and I earned the money myself as a little kid. Those two games specifically were worth the effort. I’d have been pissed if I spent that hard earned money on Ghostbusters.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
I think you misunderstood the context actually. I was indeed young when I played E.T., but I wasn’t a fan of the game (or movie really) ever. The game was very very frustrating to basically everyone that played it and I hate it so very much. I was actually glad to see that the rest of the human race hated it once the internet became common, it made me feel more in tune with the rest of society. All that being said, I think Superman 64 is a worse game and I consider that almost an accomplishment in itself.
- Comment on po-tay-toes 2 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is that potatoes are a helluva drug.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Not a high bar, but perhaps you’re right. I played a LOT more E.T. so I am for sure biased.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 2 weeks ago:
This is my type of pedantry!
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Good call on this one. Ghostbusters was such a shitty game.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Ah fair enough, I guess that technically disqualifies it from the post. Regardless, I feel it was good to spread awareness of what a piece of shit it was!
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Total Recall was quite bad, as were most NES movie based games. Dark Man and Nightmare on Elm Street were also really bad. I loved the Nightmare on Elm Street movies as a kid, so I really wanted it to not suck.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t played it, but man, that screams “bad game”.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
This sort of question has come up many times, and my knee jerk reaction is to always say E.T. for the Atari 2600, but I have actually played a worse licensed game that could arguably be said was an adaptation of a movie. It was Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64. It is just an utter failure of a game. It is boring, buggy, and frustrating. It looks bad, controls bad, plays bad. At no point does that game approach “fun”.
In the spirit of the post, one could argue that this isn’t specifically about the Superman movie and could be more about the comic books. I never read them, so I can’t say. Honestly, the game was so bad it was hard to tell which inspired it.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
E.T. was such a bad game. I still have my copy. What’s funny is that at one point I ended up with two copies because one of my friends left their copy at my house, but no one would claim it so I have no idea which friend it was (four of us owned a 2600). I can think of nothing more damning of a game than this example.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 weeks ago:
I have had friends and coworkers send this meme to me repeatedly because my WFM setup is closer to this than I’d like to admit. Fuck it though, I find it helpful.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 weeks ago:
Despite the moving itself sucking, that’s a rad looking setup. I mean, it would suck to use for actual work, but its cool as hell.
- Comment on Anon watches Lost 3 weeks ago:
Sadly, it was clear that The Skipper wasn’t cool because he didn’t eat the rich. Source: I was forced to watch this show on re-runs as a kid.
- Comment on Anon watches Lost 3 weeks ago:
Hah, good point.
- Comment on Anon watches Lost 3 weeks ago:
I just assumed The Skipper on Giligan’s Island ate a lot of coconuts.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ll be fine too. I just quite liked many of their games and I thought DQ XI was great. There will be no more of that apparently.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t align with any that I know, but anecdotes are just that I suppose.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 weeks ago:
So they don’t want to me not buy any more DQ games. That’s a bold strategy, let’s see how it plays out.