cerebralhawks
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- Comment on Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE? 17 hours ago:
Think more like… people are getting arrested for simply having/seeing CSAM but the rich people who got exposed actually doing that stuff aren’t getting touched. It’s absolutely about money.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 1 day ago:
Off the topic title alone, I’d say Animal Crossing fits the bill. I mean, it’s Sims but you build up your island. You technically colonise the archipelago in the DLC, and you can put castle walls and turrets around your house.
There are a bunch of games like that. Animal Crossing is just the one I play. It’s made for kids, but it’s secretly (?) post-apocalyptic (I was shocked to find out but apparently it’s kinda common knowledge in the fandom?), but there are others like that.
- Comment on Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself 3 days ago:
Not touching this game with a barge pole until I read ending spoilers.
Death flags all over the kid and frankly, I’m not putting in the time to get steamrolled like that. If I learn she definitively does not die at the end, or can be saved, I may play it. But Crapcom makes some stupid ass control decisions, and if the game’s not comfortable to play, I can’t be arsed.
Another thing that’s just fuckin weird about the trailers… the guy is a human, but you never see his face. He’s always in the robot suit. The little girl, however, is a robot, but you never see her do robot things. Like she doesn’t pull her arm off and put an attachment on or disconnect her head so you can carry “her” more easily through a tough spot… I’m sensing a twist here. I think the whole point of her (why this guy trying to survive is hauling someone else’s child around) is that she’s the magic system, she gives him access to powers (hacking, I guess, but hacking was the magic system of Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex, and others, so it’s fine), but he seems to be the robot between them.
At the same time I want all those preorder bonuses because all of her DLC outfits look better than whatever that thing is she has in the trailer (makes me think of the kid from Final Fantasy 9).
Also thought this was PS5 exclusive for some reason. That it’s gonna run on Switch 2 gives me hope. Maybe they’ll do a Mac release at some point (the newer Macs are more powerful than the Switch 2, and cost about the same — I’d say Switch 2 is somewhere around M2 Pro or M3, and they’re up to M5 now).
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 days ago:
Yay, it’s catching on, I don’t have to type it every time.
- Comment on I just want juice, is that so much to ask? 3 days ago:
Look for 100% juice.
While you’re at it, look for “zero sugar” products. They use sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter (gram for gram) than sugar, so they use way less of it. No aftertaste either, though it doesn’t have that “sugary” flavour, so it does taste differently. After a while I just think it’s better.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
The ability to hide scores and sitter entirely by new
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol 1 week ago:
As someone who liked Discovery and the Abramsverse, I’m wary because I supported Section 31 until I saw it. The Internet was right this time, Section 31 was hot garbage, by far the worst Trek I’ve ever seen. I don’t agree with most of the Internet about a lot of things about Star Trek, but I’m with y’all on that one.
I will still give SFA a 2-3 episode chance, but I’m waiting for it to finish airing, and we’re watching The Expanse first (in the middle of the first season now). Got a show or two on the docket after that, then we might work it in, but I don’t have high hopes. But I’ve been asking for this series to exist for over 20 years, so I want it to succeed. (Not enough to subscribe to Paramount though.)
- Comment on Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"? 1 week ago:
Oh, the off-topic “release the Trump-Epstein files” memes (or tongue-in-cheek references to them)?
I guess it’s to remind those at the top that we still haven’t forgotten.
Like the whole post-9/11 thing, “we will never forget.” Except a bunch of similar things happened around the world, Hollywood started cashing in on 9/11, and bringing it up while worse shit was going on kinda faded, but the “pride” of remembering 9/11 stuck around for about a decade. These things have a long shelf life.
- Comment on Why are Americans so hung up on Epstein and his egg head island and "the files"? 1 week ago:
Because if you look at any local news anywhere, poor people are being jailed for decades for merely looking at CSAM. And I’m not saying that shouldn’t be illegal. But we have proof the rich and powerful are actually doing the things in those photos and videos. It’s shocking, and it’s still shocking, that they’re getting away with it. And that people are still supporting them.
That should bother anyone regardless of what country you’re from.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 1 week ago:
No, because the Republicans are all voting for Trump. And they’re trying to split the Democrat vote so Trump wins. Nobody’s splitting the Republican vote. But Republicans are spending a small fortune to astroturf on social media to try to split the Democrat vote. I’m not saying everyone saying as you are is Republican funded — a lot of people are buying into the idea and reposting it for free.
The problem is twofold: One, they think they’re smarter than you and they think you’re their tool. Two, you totally are. (Unless you’re one of the ones at the top pushing it, in which case it’s a similar twofold problem: One, you think you’re smarter than us and you think we’re your tools. Two, a lot of people are falling for it.) I don’t know which one you fit in and I’m not going to assume. I’m just leaving this to help others make up their minds whether or not they wanna get used by the Republicans.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I like the time travel idea. No one likes “it was all a dream” endings, so the second one’s out. The way the fourth one was, going back into the history of the Saints and all their relationships and problems, might have been better explored in a time-travel story. So it would be hard to do that again. Good points though.
- Comment on Day 587 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Goldfish was a pain in the neck to catch and it’s not even listed as rare.
If you have Switch Online, find a free treasure island and fill your inventory with fish bait. Barring that, dig up a bunch of clams. The 3.0 update lets you craft 10 things at once now, so that makes grinding out fish bait honestly a lot faster. Then just throw bait and if the shadow isn’t the size you want (goldfish is small ~~but not tiny ~~IIRC), throw more bait to roll again. Know the times the goldfish can spawn (all day actually, and it’s 3/5 stars of rarity, and very small/tiny, just looked it up).
Also note that a treasure island with fish won’t contribute to your Critterpedia, but you can fill the museum with “found”/“gifted” fish, bugs, and sea creatures. (If you catch the fish there, it counts, but if you find it in a container on the island proper, it doesn’t. Though note most treasure island don’t have water.)
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the franchise was cooked when
Spoiler
They blew up Earth
I mean where TF do you go from there? And the reboot sucked. So yes. Yes it is.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 2 weeks ago:
I would say this tracks for Saudi Arab-EA, but they did this kind of shit before the Saudis owned them.
Honestly from a business perspective, EA is one if the smartest publishers out there. They made a game and stripped away most of the functionality and then sold it for full price. They then slowly added the content back in content packs and people gladly paid. That was The Sims. And it’s had like three sequels, all monetized the exact same way. And people keep paying them.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 2 weeks ago:
Same logic as “Lottery is a tax on those who didn’t pay attention in math class.” And I agree.
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem's 'Terrifying Nightmare Set' sells out in under 5 hours and includes every gamer's biggest fear: exercise equipment 2 weeks ago:
Exclusive to Japan so does that mean only Japanese gamers fear exercise?
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Good. Phil Spencer may have been a better lead for Xbox during the OG and 360 years, but the XB1 was a joke and the Series X, while pretty good, could have been better. And doubling the price of GamePass Ultimate made it a non-starter for a lot of people. Half the price of a game every month and I don’t get to keep any of them? Huh? At $15 it was a no-brainer; at $30, it’s a non-starter. And they sold the Series S on GamePass.
Sarah Bond always annoyed me. Seemed like she was always badly trying to put out a fire. I don’t know where she was before, I’m sure she earned her spot somehow, but she always seemed like the “bad cop” in most situations.
As for PlayStation, they’re run by bankers and lawyers, not gamers. I liked the first two PlayStations. PS3 was definitely better than XB1 (even though XB1’s contemporary was the PS4… PS3 was still better). I haven’t had a PlayStation since PS3, but I don’t like how Sony does business. That said, they’re Japanese, and they make/own a lot of the anime and music I listen to (I listen to a lot of Japanese music). But, that’s like saying Samsung phones are good because their refrigerators are. It’s a fallacy at best, but it’s mostly bullshit. PlayStation is very much its own thing at Sony. And I don’t agree with most of their decisions.
Steam looks like the least crappy option right now, with the Switch 2 being fully last-generation and costing like $500… and the games being $80 each… Screw that. (Switch 1 is still cool for what it is, the 2.5D Zelda games, and Animal Crossing. If you’re into cosy/chill games.) I kinda want a Steam Machine but I won’t pay $1000 for one. I think people thinking it will be $500-600 are huffing some serious hopium. $700 feels like a compromise between what gamers want it to be ($500) and what it probably will be ($1000). They want Valve to take a loss on each unit because they kiss up to Valve on social media, but Valve has already said they are not going to sell it at a loss. So all I’m saying is… get ready for a four-digit price tag. Especially if it’s gonna run modern games at good framerates and resolutions. The one thing I can say for the “it’ll be $500” guys is, the M4 Mac mini is $500 and that can run Cyberpunk. And it’s a whole Mac, so you know it’s a good computer. Thing is, most game devs aren’t friendly to people who actually put their money where their mouth is and actually kick Microslop to the curb. They’ll support Linux hoping you’ll just go back to Windows on the same machine, but you buy a computer that (AFAIK, until Windows for ARM comes out) can’t run Windows… then it’s FU in particular. (And honestly, no one really buys a Mac for gaming. They’re just cool computers that aren’t PCs.)
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
Mine was an R4, but I’ve heard of the Supercard. I don’t remember the ARM7 patch but I’ve heard of it.
I do remember trimming games. The DS “Nitro” card held 32MB of storage, and every ROM was 32MB, even if the game didn’t take up that much space. A trimmer would remove the junk data. Some games, for anti-piracy purposes, would detect the junk data, so you couldn’t trim them. (If a game was less than 16MB, or 8MB, it would go on a 16MB or 8MB card, respectively; I don’t think there were 64MB cards, but there might have been.)
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
StreetPass, and I think all DSes could do it. Yes, it tracked steps, and it detected other DSes. If you both had the same game (or related games, such as Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl, I think was the twin game — I only had Diamond) and you both had your consoles sleeping (i.e. in low power mode), certain things could happen. If you didn’t have the same game, it still registered the connection.
DS users could also anonymously chat with one another. Having a DS at an airport, hotel, or convention was a lot of fun because you’d have tons of people in the area, and if you were playing something popular like Pokémon or Animal Crossing, you were also getting a lot of contacts.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 weeks ago:
The DS Lite was such a good little handheld. Especially with a flashcart in both ports. The GBA one I had couldn’t hold a ROM, you had to flash it from the DS one every time, but GBA games weren’t big, I didn’t have many, and I had a huge SD card in my flashcart.
Even in pink. (I’d just put stickers all over it, then put a clear clamshell case on it because those stickers would get icky.) (Not that I don’t like the pink DSL. It’s a fine look. I just prefer my electronics to be black.)
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
I think the bias is because it was originally one game, and everything added to pad it out to 3 is mostly filler. The people the game is made for know where the story ends. Ending the first one right after Midgar feels like we played a demo, even if it only took 2-3 hours to do in the original. It’s even kind of the same in the remake. Bomb the first reactor. Get back to Seventh Heaven. Bomb the second reactor. Meet Aerith. Head back to Seventh Heaven. See Tifa being taken to Don Corneo’s place. Follow. Get dolled up and picked. Go through the sewers. Back to Seventh Heaven. [redacted] happens. Go topside and kick some Shinra ass. That all happens in both games, but Remake pads it out, and with almost nothing worth doing. You jump through a lot more hoops. There’s a mission where everyone but you gets to meet Jessie’s parents and you do something else. You meet a new SOLDIER, and you get practice for the bike scene at the end. They expand the trip to the second reactor, they expand the stuff around meeting Aerith (meeting all the other kids), and they expand the climb up. Somehow 2-3 hours becomes 25-30 hours. So yes, especially if you never played the original, it’s a whole game. For $40 (and I get Remake + Intergrade, plus I get the OG FF7) I’m not complaining. If Rebirth is also $40, it’s an insta-buy. More than that, and I’ll consider it. Much more than that, I’ll just wait for a sale but it’s still going on the wishlist. But, for someone who hasn’t played it before? Yeah, it’s absolutely valid as its own game.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
So whereabouts does Rebirth leave off?
And yes, Remake is the length of a full game, but it also leaves the story incomplete. It might be better to think of them as parts of a trilogy.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, making Barret look like a real guy was certainly a choice. I don’t mind it, but yeah, he was always supposed to be larger than life.
I had more beef with the way Cloud looked. He just looks silly. He did look kinda silly in the original, though. Cait Sith probably got it the best, still looking like an animated toy, but at least looking cooler. And Red XIII looked great in the remake. Aerith was on point, but there was something a bit off with Tifa.
The rest, I didn’t know most of that. I knew about the hardware and Nintendo/Sony stuff, but not the back story with the developers and writers.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like Square has been done with turn-based for a while. I think Secret of Mana had the “best of both worlds” in that you could freely move, but you had to wait for your attack gauge to rise before you could hit at full force (and you could charge it for stronger attacks). FF7R kind of does that as well where you can only do your special moves (or even use items) if your ATB has filled at least one space (and some actions require 2). So in a sense it was turn-based, you just didn’t have to sit there and take damage (unless it was an unblockable AOE attack, of course).
I always felt like, with turn-based, if you had the right strategy and stats, you could win any fight. It wasn’t about player skill, it was about player knowledge. Knowing what attacks are more effective, learning the enemies, but if you suck at gaming, you have all the time in the world to enter the commands, the enemy will wait their turn (and then you have to wait your turn, like chess or something). I just don’t like having to take the hits (regardless of Materia like “Cover”). Still, I do agree, it’s another way it feels like Remake has taken the soul out of the original.
- Comment on Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis? 2 weeks ago:
The worst TNG movie by far. It had a couple good lines, and it could have been almost as good as Insurrection if it didn’t magically hand wave Data’s sacrifice away.
I remember leaving the theater annoyed. I saw them all in theaters from Undiscovered Country onward and it was the only one I wasn’t happy with.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a fan of JRPGs. FF7 was kind of the exception. I tried 8 and 9, but couldn’t get into them.
We have Persona 5 on PS3 and Persona 5 Royal on Switch. It’s a cool game, but I can only hear you’ll never see it coming but so many times before I go mad. I’ve met some of the voice actors though, so that’s cool.
I wish I got to play more of Expedition 33. The first part was a blast. Then I got to this fight I thought I had to lose because it was scripted. When it ended and said I died, I’m like “when did this become Dark Souls?”. Took me right out of the immersion. I’ve heard the difficulty has been balanced since then? I ended up reading a summary of what happens in the story, and I am so lost… I imagine if I experienced it in-game as opposed to reading a couple paragraphs on Wikipedia, it would make more sense.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, no one’s saying the original FF7 looks good. The characters were blocky messes. It’s just, I’ve been gaming since the early 80s, and I still think FF7 looks good. But yes, the random battles were problematic, especially when you were lost. Fortunately the new version (of the OG) lets you turn them off, so if I’m lost, I turn off the random battles and I just get my bearings, then turn them right back on again.
One thing about Remake, it wasn’t just that the quests were filler (they were), but the way it would waste your time. Go here, go there, squeeze through this gap, do the animation every time you wanna talk to the moogle cosplayer… it was not great as far as the pacing. And some parts were just too long, like the part leading up to Sector 7, or the climb up to HQ.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny because I liked the combat just fine in Final Fantasy XV. I like the real-time stuff. It’s not what I expect for 7, but it beats when you’re on the open world and you’re trying to figure out where to go and every 3-4 steps it’s a fight. It’s disorienting, and frankly poor game design — one of the few faults I have for a game I love. The turn-based is okay, not my cup of tea, but I don’t mind how FF7 does it.
Another thing I didn’t like about Remake was the music discs. The music’s already not great, why do I have to buy it? Then, I scour every inch of the game and still I miss a few? I didn’t even wanna go back with the chapter select to get the achievement, though I may later.
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- Comment on macOS 26.4 will notify users of Rosetta 2 discontinuation - 9to5Mac 2 weeks ago:
But why would you? Those Intel Macs were terrible. If you’re thinking “cheap Linux box,” IMO the best way to do that is get a used PC from a corporation that is unloading them during an upgrade (like a Dell or HP workstation), like an i5 with 8GB RAM (or 16 if you’re lucky), they pull the hard drive for security (and it’s almost always an HDD), you drop a SATA SSD in it, put Linux on it, and you have a pretty good computer, even (and maybe especially) if you run a headless server and remote into it with your daily driver computer (what you surf the web on, which could even be an Android phone or maybe an iPhone, not sure about that).