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- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 days 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? 3 days 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? 3 days ago:
I leaned the other way, but both were good.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
There’s the twist M Night Shyamalan wishes he could still pull off.
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what’s more alarming here: the bat bugs or the people willing to steal fingers out of spite.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 3 weeks ago:
I learned to drive on two cars because my parents were divorced: my Dad’s Ford Ranger (manual) and my Mom’s silly “talking” Chrysler Laser (it literally talked to you, felt weirdly futuristic see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_alert ). I never really had a problem with using a clutch, it was the last of power steering on that truck that sucked. I made sure that I never bought a car without power steering after learning on that truck.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 4 weeks ago:
Ok, here is my tl;dr of the last part of the story from the comics. The gist is that after the snap, every remaining hero + Dr Doom do an all out attack on Thanos along with all the “cosmic” super bosses (Galactus, Chaos, Order, all sorta wacky beings) and they were going to win until Doom tried to steal the gauntlet and fucked it up. Thanos kills every hero and traps the all cosmic weirdos and then becomes the new “God” of the universe. When he does that and leaves the gauntlet sitting there, Nebula (that he had been torturing) grabs the gauntlet and tears the whole universe up and takes over. In the end, Dr Strange saves Thanos and convinces him to help fight/trick Nebula and restore the universe. I am sure I missed stuff, but it was pretty crazy. One of the more fun things I remember was Wolverine sticking his claws right into Thanos through the neck and for a sec Thanos thought he was dying until he remembered he could essentially just make himself “not dead” and then he turned Wolverines claws/bones into Play Doh.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 4 weeks ago:
In the comics all the snapped people were contained within the soul stone. They never mention anything like that in the MCU, so it’s just that way “because”.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 4 weeks ago:
Hah, came to comment this. Honestly, the comic got pretty wild, especially once Nebula got a hold of the gauntlet.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it sucks. I was not relying on that pension as it was never going to be huge, but it was a big part of why I stayed at that company for over a decade.
- Comment on Soon... 4 weeks ago:
I love your optimism. Keep up the good fight. FOR THE MOON!
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 4 weeks ago:
I had a pension at my last job about 11 years ago. Then not long after I left with it fully vested congress passed a law allowing companies to creatively value pensions far lower than they should have been able to and most companies “bought out” the pensions for a fraction of their value. My pension got turned to mush, then a few month later congress passed a law “fixing the glitch” after most large corps had done their dirty work. My pension would have paid out about $800/month on retirement (likely not great depending on inflation), but their reassessment made it more like $150/month which probably won’t cover a phone bill when I am retired.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 5 weeks ago:
This doesn’t have the wacky openness or difficulty of Rimworld as much as the idea of having semi-random villagers that you can either recruit (in the wild) or that periodically come by and you can acquire. In the early game, it mostly feels like top down Terraria, but the village aspect with semi-autonomous members comes together pretty quick and there are raids that happen. It’s honestly pretty great. I have never managed to get anyone to play co-op and stick with it. To be fair, this feels like an issue I find with nearly all co-op games as my friends and family either aren’t nearly as into it as me or just never have their schedules line up.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 5 weeks ago:
It’s like a mix of Terraria and Rimworld. You get villagers of various types that join and can automate tasks. The work assignment view is straight out of Rimworld and I think the game is super fun. The end game has been redone a few times and it was kinda wacky and ultra hard. I am curious to see how different it is now in 1.0.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I played through it multiple times (basically replayed when major content was added) and I think it’s great. The changes from 1.0 are significant, so I’ll be down for a replay in a bit after I finish the mulitple games I am already playing.
- Comment on Red balloon 5 weeks ago:
Clown of the North Star