zikzak025
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- Comment on Draw! 2 days ago:
Before anyone actually updates their resume to look better based on a meme:
Sabbatical is just a long vacation. It’s not that you stop being employed, you just take an extended leave and almost always have an agreed-upon return date.
- 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 4 days ago:
I think if they did a ground-up remake/reimagining of Arena or Daggerfall, it could still be compelling. Not a simple remaster, though.
That being said, there is apparently a Unity port of Daggerfall that appears quite decent, and goes a long way towards modernizing an otherwise ancient game.
- Comment on Adopt **this** 5 days ago:
The funny part about this is that Stuart Little is already canonically a human child. He just happens to look like a mouse.
Anyone who objects can take it up with E.B. White, I don’t make the rules.
- Comment on R.B. Hoadley 1 week ago:
Aww, that context gives this whole meme a lot more depth to me. I can’t entirely articulate why, but I guess it’s just nice to know that he was actually wholesome and loved.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 1 week ago:
Not that Haiti was necessarily at fault for that, though. It was either brace for further conquest, or submit to incredibly harsh terms of peace that would still see the country stripped of all its wealth.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 1 week ago:
I’m not the previous poster, but the French Revolution > Reign of Terror > Napoleonic Era > etc. comes to mind. A cycle of despots one after another.
- Comment on Life is Strange: Reunion officially announced, will conclude the Max and Chloe saga | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I thought True Colors was decent enough, but by all accounts Double Exposure was nothing special.
I really liked the anthology thing the series was going with, where every game was telling a different story with a different cast. Maybe eventually getting to the core of answering why these random kids have strange abilities.
But the last thing I wanted was them to try to continue from (what I thought was) a perfect ending. Just seems like they’ve lost the point.
- Comment on The original was better 2 weeks ago:
I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.
How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.
Probably likely for a lot of folks. It took so. damn. long. for divorce to be made legal across the western world, and even longer than that to get to the point where the burden of an unhappy marriage was no longer outweighed by the scandal of divorce.
Before no-fault divorces became common, unhappy couples would sometimes even voluntarily fake an affair just to act as “proof” of adultery for a divorce.
- Comment on The original was better 2 weeks ago:
You gotta throw me a bone here Mickey, what am I even looking at?
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to build a computer a couple years ago, but the prices they were charging for individual components even then just didn’t make sense compared to buying a more affordable pre-built.
I can’t imagine trying to build one now with these RAM prices, it’s insane.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 weeks ago:
Did the GPU shortages ever really end, though? We just have more shortages on top of it.
- Comment on Day 548 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The updated Forerunner architecture designs seem directly lifted out of Tron. I can’t imagine it’s a coincidence that Halo 4 released just 2 years after Tron Legacy.
- Comment on Bounce 2 weeks ago:
Maybe Christ is just a euphemism for cock
- Comment on Day 547 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Woden resembling Odin (along with the name)
Just some additional context, Woden is the Anglo-Saxon name for the same god, worshipped in England prior to the arrival of Christianity. Not too different from how the Roman version of Zeus is Jupiter.
The English word “Wednesday” also etymologically derives from “Woden’s Day,” like how Thursday is also “Thor’s Day”
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 2 weeks ago:
There’s an Xbox Developer Direct next week that will feature Forza, I’m assuming they would have announced it then.
- Comment on Annual merit increase 2 weeks ago:
It never hurts just to start tossing out applications and see what you get. The best way to get better at interviewing is to do more interviews. Even if you think your odds of landing something are low, just go into it with the mentality of getting more practice until it feels comfortable. And who knows, you might be surprised by a good offer.
But I would also recommend being selective with where you apply, too. Basically don’t sell your skillset too low, and don’t apply for the types of open-ended jobs that will attract thousands of applicants and only waste your time. It can be absolutely soul crushing to send out 100 applications and never even get a response from 90 of them, but a good opportunity will come along eventually and you can develop a sense of which listings aren’t worth your time.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
I just assumed they were the weird emphasis quotes people do for some reason
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
I had to look up his bio (where I learned that he had just died, this post makes more sense now) and found that he actually had no biological children, so he would actually be eligible for a Darwin Award.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 3 weeks ago:
Why did this immediately start playing in my head as soon as I saw this picture?
- Comment on Xbox Developer_Direct Returns January 22: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation to be shown 3 weeks ago:
Playground is planning to fill their games with AI slop, so I can’t say I’m overly interested in anything they have to say or show off.
That just leaves Gamefreak, which simply cannot make a good game if a gun was held to their head, so I don’t have much interest in them either.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
I count it as a handheld because every switch can be used as a handheld, while not every switch can be used as a home console.
It’s like calling a phone that you can plug into a monitor with peripherals a “desktop”
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
Plus the Switch is a handheld, which makes it a weird distinction to make.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
Switch has a good chance of overtaking PS2 before the end of its lifespan. The Switch is still selling and still getting game releases.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I wish my wife could play subnautica with me
Well she’s too busy taking care of young Molly to be able to make the time. Maybe have Worf babysit?
- Comment on I added new config options called "outline" and "Shadows" for my action roguelite game 4 weeks ago:
Jisho.org is a fairly helpful site for finding words like that. Sometimes you have to scroll a bit to find the “loanword” version of a term, but it helps with showing different nuances of translated words when looking them up.
Unfortunately I think it’s EN-JP only, but helpful if you know the English word you want.
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 5 weeks ago:
The less colorful tufted variety common around here are actually my favorites.
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 5 weeks ago:
Honestly one of my favorite birds, though. They’re just adorable.
- Comment on Welcome to the thunderdome? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a linguistics expert and this is just me offering an unsolicited layman’s opinion, but perhaps the nuance comes from whether or not one might still conceive of the words being related despite the acknowledged difference in definition?
For example, “bat” (the animal) and “bat” (the implement) are homonyms that are used to describe two clearly different things. But maybe one might think of “scale” being connected between its various uses when it is not. “Scale” (the measuring tool) uses plates which are similar to the flat plates of fish scales. Or that to “scale” a distance is like measuring a “scale” of height. Something like that.
- Comment on The feed is about to get much crustier 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Sometimes it do be like that 5 weeks ago:
I think if you surgically remove a rib, yeah
