early_riser
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- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Disney is popular. Final Fantasy is popular. Put them together and apparently you get something that sells, but for me the concept is less like chocolate and peanut butter and more like peanut butter and pickles.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Mario 35 was really fun though. Still mad Nintendo killed it.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I bought this game after playing Tunic because there seems to be a lot of overlap in the fandom, but haven’t gotten around to playing it.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔴
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Not a single title, but any incremental “clicker” game. What’s the point? Seems like “hurr durr number go up”.
I’m pretty sure idle games started out as explicit commentary on this exact idea, distilling the very essence of video game progression into concentrated form.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I love building my own worlds, and sometimes I catch myself building head canon around unexplained or poorly explained aspects of other games, but sometimes I get the sneaking suspicion the fans put way more thought and effort into their fanon than the devs did to the official canon.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
The “You earn every defeat” concept of Soulslikes is part of their appeal. I haven’t beaten many (Hollow Knight, Tunic, and if you care to count it Metroid Dread) but the feeling after fighting a boss, walking away, wondering if I should just quit altogether, then coming back a few days later to beat it is amazing.
The genre could absolutely use a shot in the arm regarding setting and tone. You’re always always wandering around the bleak ruins of a fallen civilization on a possibly hopeless quest. Tunic adds some interesting stuff with its use of knowledge-based progression (I both love and hate that writing system).
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Kingdom Hearts. Goofy and Sephiroth in the same room together breaks my brain, and not in a fun way. I played the first game when it came out on PS2 and decided it wasn’t for me.
I’ve seen story breakdowns of the other games on YouTube and figured I’m not missing anything. Lots of setups and plot hooks that don’t go anywhere or go somewhere stupid.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 1 week ago:
In the case of tools I’ll shop at a hardware store, usually Ace, either in person or on their online store.
- Comment on Can I repurpose my Xbox series X 1 week ago:
addendum: Some casual googling seems to suggest that hacking or jailbreaking it to expand its functionality is, for now at least, out of the question. The only workarounds I’ve seen, as suggested here, are getting a developer account to install unsigned software. I’m not going to do that.
I don’t want to ask permission to make a product I payed for work for me in the way I want. <angry Louis Rossman noses>
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- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
I don’t think the top level domain of the site has much to do with its platform decay, but yeah the ads are beyond obnoxious.
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- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
TV Tropes has an article on this that probably does a better job explaining than I could.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 week ago:
I generally upgrade my PC every five years. This usually means new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and this last time a case as well. The last time I did it was in 2019, not counting the brief window where I was able to purchase an RTX 3080 at or near MSRP in around 2022. Not only am I overdue for an upgrade, my needs have changed pretty drastically since 2019.
Back then I was all about RGB, and sought to create the quintessential unicorn vomit PC. While I still like the aesthetic, I now know that maintenance of all that RGB can be a hassle. You need to manage more cables, and components on LED strips can fail, ruining the look of the case. The case is made of mostly tempered glass, but It’s now on the floor, obviously not ideal. The PC isn’t the only rig on my desk now (ham radios are also called rigs), and the PC has to share space with three or four of them, all with power, coax, grounding wire, and control cables of their own.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 week ago:
Can’t think of one now but I almost bought an OUYA. You know you screwed up when Homestar Runner makes fun of you.
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It’s my longest played game on Steam. I got it in early 2012 just after Redigit said he was ceasing development.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
I’m blind, which I could have mentioned in the OP for extra context but eh. People often greet me without telling me who they are, or even making it clear I’m the one they’re greeting.
Remembering names, as I understand it, is a very visual thing. Humans use visual cues to tell people apart. I don’t have that option, and there’s no polite way for me to say “hi, who are you again?” When I have the chance I’ll tell people to identify themselves when saying hello to me, and ideally also remind me how I know them if they see me out and about as opposed to wherever I first met them.
If I only have to interact with you over a single day, I can pretty easily use things like clothing, hair and skin tone to differentiate people, but one change of clothes later and you’re a stranger. Over time I can match voices to names but it’s not as quick as the visual method. Odor is another big one, if they use perfume or body spray, if they smoke, or if they cook in a way that produces distinct odors.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
lol what training? They just had me shadow someone for a few days while they set up my station.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 weeks ago:
I like to think it’s also the aliens’ first contact too, and they’re really happy to find us after groping around alone in the darkness.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
Spamming my name in conversation is a whole other thing. It feels like they’re trying to sell me something, or otherwise persuade or convince by faking a level of trust they haven’t earned.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
Eye contact is also hard for me.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like people using my full name as nothing good usually follows, but I’m pretty that’s a cultural thing, parents addressing their kids by full name usually means the kid is in trouble.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think it comes down to social deixis. I took Spanish calls as well as English. Spanish has a formal and informal “you” Usted and tú, respectively. I got the same irritated reaction when clients used informal pronoun and verb forms with me.
To be clear this irritation is completely internal. I understand it would be rude to snap at people who I know are just trying to be friendly. My awareness of how inappropriate this reaction is is why I made this post.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a cultural thing for sure. Here in Texas all women are “ma’am” regardless of age.
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- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 3 weeks ago:
Devs are, by and large, computer people, and computer people are, by and large, not people people.
- Comment on StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal 3 weeks ago:
Most of the graphical changes seem… fine I guess. The characters faceplant right into the weird hyperrealistic uncanny valley tho.
Yeah, I’m not thrilled. Anthro animals with hyperrealistic human proportions give me the jibblies.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I wish they had kept the upturned grips. Those felt really comfy.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 3 weeks ago:
The original controller was like a concept car, lots of new ideas but not every one was guaranteed to stick. Plenty of them did stick though, like grip buttons and gyro control. The new controller is a more conservative iteration that takes what worked and drops what didn’t while acknowledging why the industry converged on the standard button layout all the way back in the late 90s. That’s exactly the sort of innovation I want to see.