justdaveisfine
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- Comment on Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune? 2 weeks ago:
I’d actually not assume the joint failure was his mistake. It could be something else unrelated or the customer doing something funky.
If you did bring it up, I wouldn’t assign blame and more assess the situation for other possibilities.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I feel like I’m missing some context here. There’s a new Gen 10 Pokémon game that’s got AI slop?
- Comment on Post your collection of fell for it again award memes here 4 weeks ago:
Its supposed to be a take on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)
That’s as far as I got though.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
I agree - An engine at the end of the day is just a tool.
This isn’t intended to be a bash a specific engine thing. I recently had a discussion with a friend who noted they very specifically avoided specific engines and I was wondering if that was a common sentiment or if he’s just odd.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 86 comments
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 1 month ago:
I hate to wear some tinfoil but I’d 100% be unsurprised if Bungie or Sony were doing ‘marketing campaigns’ using stuff like astroturfing to promote their game. Its not really uncommon on Reddit and I have seen small/medium sized companies attempt stuff like this in an attempt to go viral.
All that being said, there’s absolutely no way bigger companies like that would 1.) be using Discord to conduct this and 2.) paying randoms to do so. There are much easier ways to go about doing this.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I got to admit - I only played Firewatch briefly (~20 minutes). I just remember walking around and replying to a lady on the radio before stepping away and never jumping back in.
It seems I missed what the reactive storytelling was supposed to be about.
- Comment on Anybody else do this today? 1 month ago:
Not today, but yeah I’ve been there.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 96 comments
- Comment on Missing Letter 2 months ago:
It says “reviewed in the United Kingdom”.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 2 months ago:
In my own experience, if you pick up another language but don’t use it on an at least a semi-regular basis, your skills in it get real rusty real fast.
- Comment on Why Star Trek Resurgence and Across the unknown has bad graphics? 2 months ago:
In this particular screenshot, it looks like its an unfortunate case of lighting.
- Comment on How do I make a dog mean? Not that I want that but would kind of like for him to also be our protector much as his. I don't want to hit him or deprive him though he is just sometimes tooo nice. 2 months ago:
Dogs generally have a good sense if something is wrong or if someone is being aggressive towards you. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) make a dog “mean”, he’s perfectly capable of it if he feels something is up.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 months ago:
I was specifically thinking of books with sexual violence, suicide, or promoting toxic behavior, and even then it does go down to the book’s context.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 months ago:
It sounds kind of ridiculous but this is actually pretty smart. I’d prefer to know what my kids are diving into and maybe set up guardrails or at least warnings if something they were interested in was funky.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 months ago:
I’d probably argue games that ‘can’ do this well is JRPGs because they tend to be a slow burn and have a lot of small side conversations that are not directly plot related, which allows the characters and relationships to get fleshed out.
The ones that immediately come to mind are FF 8/9/10 but I’m certain there are others.
In games where the romance is like a mechanic and not a part of the story? Hmm that’s a tougher question because I think mechanics/gameification tend to ruin the human part of relationship building.
- Comment on I'm Cooked, Right? (FTL) 2 months ago:
Yeah probably. You may be able to get two crew on oxygen and two on the pilot seat for repairs, then jump out of there first chance you get and hope you’re in range of a shop to buy some repairs since you got 150 scrap.
You’re just going to have to cross your fingers that the shield hold long enough and that no missiles hit the engine.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 2 months ago:
I’ve found store bought ones are usually bigger but blander. Wild or home grown blueberry is quite a bit better.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Cowards.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 2 months ago:
I’m uncertain on this as its being made without Larian and likely has more involvement from Hasbro, now that the latter is realizing BG has turned out to be a golden goose despite their attempts to wring it for cash.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 2 months ago:
Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m going to wait for Steam reviews to see how crunchy the performance is on PC.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 3 months ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 months ago:
Most anything PvP.
I just can’t do anything with games that don’t allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.
It doesn’t help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you’re not reading up on forums or discussions.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 3 months ago:
I somewhat agree. I think Morrowind would need a proper remake (not just graphics remaster) to iron out some mechanics but also expand on some of the content/areas where stuff got a little thin.
Even so, there’s a 95% chance they’ll face a lot of disappointment unless they nail it perfectly, and I don’t know if they can capture that lightning in a bottle again.
- Comment on there i fixed it 3 months ago:
Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!
- Comment on Gail the snail? 3 months ago:
I suspect if you were the equivalent of crumbs in the bed, you would not stop and consider if you were the crumbs in the bed.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 3 months ago:
Immersion for me is when you can interact with the world in a realistic or internally consistent way.
This sounds dumb, but if you can walk into a bar and order a drink, that’s a level of immersion. If you can steal the beer off the shelf so ths bartender can’t serve you, that’s even more immersive because even the NPCs are bound to world logic.
That’s great immersion to me.
- Submitted 3 months ago to [deleted] | 7 comments
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 3 months ago:
Playing Factorio co-op was one of the games that got my wife into gaming. She couldn’t do quick reaction time shooters, but Factorio at its most basic is essentially a ‘puzzle’ game.
… But yeah we lost a few weekends or weeks or months to it. The factory must grow.
