zikzak025
@zikzak025@lemmy.world
- Comment on My girlfriend found a cool vintage tube of lipstick 18 minutes ago:
Love the radio noise surrounding it in the photograph
- Comment on straight down to business pls 8 hours ago:
:(
- Comment on relatable 21 hours ago:
I’m not sure what it says, but I do know that writing is Greek and not cuneiform, so it’s likely not the complaint about Ea-nasir.
A matching image search says it may be one of the inscryptions around Arsameia, but I don’t know enough about Greek writing or archaeology to say that with any certainty.
- Comment on Can I get one of you to read this to me tonight? 1 day ago:
Sorry, I have none to spare.
- Comment on What do you guys think of Crimson Desert? 3 days ago:
Maybe. Though it might still be difficult with the number of button combos (basically a different function for each pair of face buttons you press at the same time).
Gameplay-wise it feels more like a fighting game than something like Dark Souls, it’s built around combos. I’m sure it’ll be fun for many, and like I said things could even be different than when I tried it a year ago, but for now I’m gonna wait and see what reviews say after launch, maybe wait for a sale if I’m still on the fence.
- Comment on What do you guys think of Crimson Desert? 3 days ago:
I had a chance to play it at an event last year. Maybe things have improved in the interim, but I’ve never played a game with a more obtuse control scheme in my life.
Who puts jump on Square??
- Comment on Day 584 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Might still be worth checking your WiFi access point to see if there’s anything weird going on. The Switches still connect to one another locally using the same WiFi chipset they’d use to connect to your router. Seems odd that one would struggle while the other works without issue in that case.
- Comment on Time for a compromise. 4 days ago:
It does still fit the same meter, at least.
Also “cause you know I’d walk a kilomile if I could just see you tonight”
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 days ago:
To continue the sandwich analogy, it’s also, like…
You eat the sandwich made by your loved one, and not only is it everything you asked for, but they also threw in some good salami and a dash of balsamic vinegar that you never thought to even ask for in the first place, because they know your tastes and thought you’d like it. You now have a new favorite sandwich.
Versus the gas station sandwich, which is fine, but only just meets the bare minimum qualifications to be a sandwich. They used to load it up with cheap cuts of meat, which at least made it good value for the price, but lately they put in maybe a single slice of ham or two, a single sad piece of rubbery cheese, and condiments are all sold extra. And the price of the sandwich itself, smaller and cheaper than ever, has only gone up.
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 6 days ago:
Can even turn Venus into an easier direct sell. It’s a lot bigger than Mars (more land = more money), actually has an atmosphere, is named after a Roman sex goddess, and is 100% free of communism (the USSR’s probes were destroyed).
Sure, the scientists warn that the greenhouse effect causes Venus’s temperature to exceed 400°C on the surface, but they already know those scientists are full of shit and the greenhouse effect is fake news.
- Comment on lol 6 days ago:
I dunno, let me ask ChatGPT.
- Comment on I need one 6 days ago:
Just play any Soulsborne game with player messages enabled.
Message placed at the edge of a bottomless pit.
“Try jumping.”
- Comment on Am I a joke to you? 6 days ago:
Yeah, it’s a texture thing for me, too.
Some people like a good contrast of textures in food. I prefer consistency. So I hate anything in a burger that has any amount of cold or crunch. Mushrooms I can do, but tomatoes make it worse for me.
Especially when you fail to bite all the way through the tomato and end up pulling the whole thing out along with half the other burger toppings.
- Comment on Thanks Alot 6 days ago:
Had me curious so I looked it up. Most recent I could find is that she released a book in 2020, and she appears to be semi-acrive on Instagram, with her most recent post being a few weeks ago, and apparently making an appearance at a premiere for a movie from The Oatmeal as of 5 days ago.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 6 days ago:
Sure, but do we not consider the installments of a trilogy to be complete products in their own right?
Like, I don’t think it would be fair to say a similar product like Dune is a waste of time because they set up for a part 3 that has not yet come out.
- Comment on Yes, thank you. That is the furniture I was looking for. 6 days ago:
It’s a standing mirror stylized as a guillotine.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 6 days ago:
Yeah, I’d describe the Persona games as a nice change of pace, but they’re not particularly deep. Persona divides it’s bandwidth between the JRPG and VN elements but doesn’t go too far in either as to make it overwhelming.
The core Shin Megami Tensei series is probably the better representative for that type of JRPG, but fewer people give a damn about those games because they aren’t cute Japanese high school simulator.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 6 days ago:
I played Remake, then played the original FF7, and then played Rebirth. They’re not very comparable games, but I think I enjoy Remake/Rebirth more than the original.
But I acknowledge that I don’t have the nostalgic attachment to FF7 like others do. To me, I feel like the original game did not age well. I’ve played every other mainline Final Fantasy game (except for 11) and I honestly think 7 is the worst of the PS1 trilogy.
I also wouldn’t treat Remake/Rebirth as separate chapters of an incomplete game. They’re all full-size games. I beat the original FF7 in about 2/3 the time it took me to beat Rebirth.
- Comment on lelz 1 week ago:
It’s always been about keeping guns out of the hands of the undesirables. That’s the only consistent logic we see over the years.
American conservatives endorse stricter gun control every time there are concerns about minorities and/or the left arming themselves.
Meanwhile, they want no regulations to inconvenience the mythical good guy with a gun. As long as that “good guy” is a conservative white Christian.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
Those votes would just get thrown out in that case, so if that’s what they want to do, they are welcome to do so.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
Trump can be long dead and buried, yet I feel like he’s still going to be running in every US election for the next few decades. The majority of his supporters have only doubled down on his brand of politics, so there will always be another Trump.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 1 week ago:
Doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility. There aren’t really any barriers to entry on Lemmy and astroturfing is easy.
- Comment on New York Politician Joann Ariola mocked her own constituents as they marched in single-digit temperatures to protest the decision to allow cars back in Forest Park 1 week ago:
The article could have led with the addition that she is a Republican politician and left readers to fill in the blanks themselves.
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 1 week ago:
I mean there’s a merit to translating names that still keep the original meaning, as with Mexico City/Ciudad de Mexico.
The better question is why is it not called Tenochtitlan.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
But then this quickly spiralled into studios forcing devs to release 1/2 baked games in a horribly broken state.
And the other side of the coin, with the advent of DLC, being able to take a complete game and carve pieces off of it to sell separately for more profit.
- Comment on 007 First Light - Story Trailer | PS5 Games 1 week ago:
The other unfortunate part is that this game was in development long before Amazon obtained the rights to James Bond, which was only a year minus 1 week ago.
Amazon had no part in the development of this game until exactly that point. They’re still nothing more than an IP holder (not publisher), but as a licensed property that they now own, they will get a cut all the same.
- Comment on Saros - Gameplay Overview Trailer | PS5 Games 1 week ago:
Like others have said, it’s Returnal 2 in all but name. Made by the same developers, and it’s a direct followup to Returnal (in gameplay at least, if not plot). I think it’s safe to call it a sequel, even if there’s no direct continuity, though I don’t think that possibility has been ruled out yet.
- Comment on Mods recommendation for elden rings 1 week ago:
If you really want mods, there’s one called Glorious Merchant. It makes the merchant at the beginning of the game (Kalé) sell every obtainable item for free, including runes that you can use to level up.
Helpful if you’re looking to test out a specific build/gear set from the beginning, but if you’re just using it to get as overpowered as possible, it’ll trivialize the game. If you use it, I recommend doing so in moderation.
Before you try mods, I’d recommend learning a bit more about the core of the game and deciding for yourself. A lot of people make the game harder for themselves than they need to because they refuse to make use of spirit ash summons that the game gives you very early on.
My recommendation, at least, if you’re looking for an easy start that does well and doesn’t require much thought: go all in on strength. Find the biggest sword you can get, then find a second big sword and hold it in your other hand. When you have two of the same kind of weapon equipped (2 greatswords/2 colossal swords/etc) you can press LB to attack with both at the same time. Level up your endurance enough to stay in medium load, then throw the rest of your levels into vigor for HP and strength for damage. Use spirit ashes (and NPC summons if available) in any fight you feel like. Don’t worry about shields, just practice dodge rolling to avoid damage.
My first playthrough, I used one colossal sword I got from beating Godrick in Stormveil Castle, and then I used another colossal sword I picked up in the overworld in Caelid. I used those for the rest of the game and all through the DLC, and they can be obtained very early.
- Comment on a very tasty snack 1 week ago:
Sardines do have the same high salt problem. Healthy in moderation but watch your blood pressure.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.