early_riser
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- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 hour ago:
This is why I hate Lemmy sometimes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Also, information hygiene here is terrible. No mods seem to care.
I think a combo of better moderation and a larger and more diverse user base is what Lemmy needs to succeed. The former is hard to achieve because you have to straddle the line between too lax and too strict, and everyone’s going to have a different idea where that line is. I get the feeling people just copy-pasted all the popular subreddits without enforcing the rules that gave each sub its identity. Askreddit was about open-ended questions meant to elicit discussion or shared experiences. Nostupidquestions was about seeking information. Showerthoughts was about quick realizations or observations. Mildlyinteresting was about odd little coincidences or anomalies you run into going about your day. But here on Lemmy there’s no quality control so they’re all filled with varying degrees of ragebait.
Growing the user base is even harder because the “politics is everything” folks repel any normal human being who just wants to talk about Pokemon.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Honestly I don’t think so. I want the fediverse to grow, but the vibe here can be exhausting sometimes. Whenever I say I can’t use Linux because I’m blind I get a bunch of downvotes. Whenever I say I’d love to talk about cats or vintage computers without someone bringing up Trumpa-Lumpa in the comments I get shouted down as well. I can’t imagine Joe Social Media User wanting to be around people like that. I could say a ton more but I’ve rehashed it elsewhere.
And that’s not getting into the (comparatively) high friction nature of first choosing an instance to sign up to. Heck, I didn’t understand how the fediverse worked for a while, and I’m in IT. The world is full of people who don’t have that background that will find the very concept impenetrable.
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 1 week ago:
I’ll second Tunic. It’s RTFM the game.
- Comment on What does the word data mean per se ? 1 week ago:
Data is the plural past participle of the Latin verb do, dare, dedi, datum meaning to give. The singular is datum meaning that which is given. So data means things that are given. Not sure that will help but I gotta use those 3 years of high school Latin somewhere.
- Comment on I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review) 1 week ago:
Haven’t come close to finishing the game but I use the keep bones on death modifier and it makes the game more fun. My one complaint so far is that they could have made some of the modifiers into trinkets so using them feels less like cheating.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
I love Tunic but it’s probably not what OP is looking for. If “Minecraft with a goal” is what you want I’ll recommend Terraria. It’s dirt cheap for the amount of content you get.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure where you are in life, but I think at least some of the “games suck now” (or in this case “trailers suck now”) vibe comes from our lives changing as we get older, and not just the games themselves.
When I play Ocarina of Time, it takes me back to that time in my life when I first played it, when I was in middle school and the heaviest thing on my mind was what I was going to eat for breakfast the next morning. Except for maybe Tunic[^1] modern games, even good ones, don’t evoke those emotions, and as a much older person dealing with the struggles of adulthood I can’t imagine coming back to these newer games in ten years to relive my current situation. For example, Minecraft was released after I was done with college. I was part of the early older player base that existed in Alpha and Beta, I don’t have the nostalgia for the game that a lot of zoomers probably do.
As for game announcements and the hype train, for me at least that’s also a victim of aging. When I was a kid games were a scarce luxury in the sense that I couldn’t just thoughtlessly click a button and play the game aftera ten minute download. I had to save up my allowance and and ask my parents to take me to Funco Land or Toys Я Us, and that’s assuming my mom didn’t decide I had enough games already.
I vividly remember hearing that Nintendo was releasing a Mario fighting game (which turned out to be Smash Bros). I looked forward to the release because there was a real chance I wouldn’t be able to get the game because I didn’t have the money or my parents said no, so that made it feel like something special and helped feed the hype train.
I do think games are measurably worse in some ways now though. You don’t own your games anymore, AAA budgets are skyrocketing while quality is cratering. They’re riddled with microtransactions, and purely single player experiences are rare in the AAA space. A lot of that can be mitigated by focusing on indie games though.
[^1]: I know I talk about this game a lot, but it really is the only game I’ve first played as an adult that evoked something in me other than mild amusement, and honestly it’s because I went in mostly blind and was expecting a completely different game. If I had known what the game’s deal was from the start it probably would have been just another decent game that I put down and rarely if ever play again.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 1 week ago:
9 Oh the 2006 Sony E3 presentation! So many great memes came out of that one. Giant Enemy Crab!
- Comment on What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out? 1 week ago:
I was tired enough that I checked to see if that was an actual quote from the article you linked.
- Comment on What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out? 2 weeks ago:
He has a spinning HDD apparently.
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- Comment on I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review) 2 weeks ago:
If I had a nickel for every indie game inspired by Zelda and Dark Souls where you play as an animal I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s odd it happened twice.
- Comment on I am disgusted by the weakness of my own flesh 2 weeks ago:
Embrace the strength and certainty of steel. Aspire to the purity of the blessed machine
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks ago:
𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔴
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 ? 4 weeks 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.