wizardbeard
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- Comment on Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page 2 days ago:
At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 days ago:
The term Ante in the game is used instead of “round” or “level”. It’s a measure of how far you’ve gotten. Each “ante” is made up of three “stakes”, point totals you need to beat in a set number of hands played and cards discarded.
There’s no aspect of choosing how much you risk, or how much you “ante up”. You either beat the points goal (called “chips”) or you lose. There’s no playing of your hand against other hands, bluffing about how good your hand may be to convince others to fold, etc. It’s just you against the score goal.
The game has no elements where you stake chips for rewards or anything like that. It borrows basic elements of scoring mechanics from poker, and uses a lot of poker terms for other purposes, but the closest part to gambling is the ability to buy random card packs between rounds (to customize your deck instead of just having the standard 52 card deck).
You can learn most of this in about 5 minutes with the demo, or by taking some time to watch someone else play on youtube.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 days ago:
And people pretend that only American ratings systems pull this kind of bullshit.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 1 week ago:
“Cranking your hog” could be used as euphemism for male masturbation, but the “joke” is that it’s probably the most ridiculous way you could refer to jerking off.
It also could be used to mean cranking the throttle on a motorcycle.
So THE PACK is kind of a mix of taking the piss out of: edgy/hardcore biker t-shirts/culture, ridiculously over the top support groups, occasional “wife bad” boomer humor, and the fact that a lot of “strong male” branded stuff is just a hair away from being extremely homoerotic.
I DON’T MIND DOING THE DISHES BUT I’D RATHER BE CRANKIN MY HOG WITH MY BROS
- Comment on okay.. 1 week ago:
There’s a difference between tempering, and making sure the artillery is aimed at the most valuable targets.
We need this energy to stay pointed at the 1%, and to not get mixed up in the weeds. The last time we had energy like this was Occupy Wall Street, and the momentum was killed by attempting to expand the scope from the initial target of the 1%.
- Comment on okay.. 1 week ago:
It is. But if the world and life were so simple we wouldn’t have anywhere close to the amount of problems that exist.
Houses require maintenance over time, and there are people who need a place to live but can’t afford sudden repair costs, which can be absorbed by a landlord. There are people who prefer not to own for a variety of reasons. Maybe they like being able to make repairs someone else’s problem, or they like the freedom of being able to uproot and move easier.
I have an Uncle that makes bank doing contract work all over the place who falls into that last example.
I agree that everyone who wants a home should be able to have and keep one, but there are bigger fish to fry (CEOs to shoot?) before it’s worthwhile to start in on smaller scale landlords etc.
The rich want us squabbling over differences of wealth at these lower levels. It helps distract people from the biggest offenders.
- Comment on okay.. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t waste your effort. You see similar in every discussion on this site about landlords too. No nuance allowed.
The local guy renting out his late parents’ home at below market rate is just as despicable as the slumlord lackeys of the investment companies that don’t do any upkeep.
- Comment on There's a storm hitting us in about 6 hours. We're going to find out who's who. 2 weeks ago:
There’s an official The Thing game that has gotten a remaster that will be releasing soon. If it hasn’t already come out and I just missed it.
- Comment on Make sure your priorities are straight 2 weeks ago:
Anal penetration and assplay sure, but specifically analingus? Not so much.
I’ve consumed a concernigly unhealthy amount of pornography since roughly 2006. Analingus being featured in porn, which is usually more extreme/deviant than reality, wasn’t a widespread outside of specific fetish content until maybe the mid 2010s.
The internet sure didn’t invent analingus, but it has only become widespread and supposedly normal more recently.
- Comment on Let's discuss: UFO 50 3 weeks ago:
Something I haven’t seen talked about too much is that there is a hidden meta-puzzle involving a hidden 51st game, and one of the fictional in-universe devs trying to catalog what happened to/at the company.
It’s not relevant to enjoying the game as a whole, but it’s interesting how deeply some of it is hidden. The official discord has folks running it all down, and FuryForged on youtube has made a 48 minute video walking through everything that’s been discovered so far.
- Comment on You can get a free copy of both Breathedge and Dark Sector right now 3 weeks ago:
Dark Sector (Steam): store.steampowered.com/app/29900/Dark_Sector/
- Comment on What are you doing step email 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on It was rigged? 4 weeks ago:
Apparently the match was also delayed due to some medical issue Tyson had recently where he was seen coughing up blood during a plane flight.
And I’ve heard that his knee was in a brace pre-fight.
- Comment on Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have featured an ice gun and blob monsters, as seen in new documentary footage 4 weeks ago:
Oh neat! I seem to remember some of the blob monster tech being found a long time ago, I think it was datamined from another Valve game or something.
Nice to see it officially aknowledged and some real footage.
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Most people on Lemmy prefer Mastodon, as it’s not run by a corporation, and is federated like Lemmy. It’s also built off the same underlying protocol, meaning it’s interoperable with lemmy.
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Since OP was too lazy to take the 5 seconds to crop:
- Comment on The Walking Dead, The Expanse and more in the Telltale Collection Humble Bundle 5 weeks ago:
You should definitely check out the original Monkey Island games when you have a chance! 1 and 2 got well done remasters, and 3 onward don’t really need any remastering.
- Comment on Hidden razor blades 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 1 month ago:
No, we don’t see how well voting works. Trump got less votes this run than he did in the last election where he fucking lost.
- Comment on Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit 1 month ago:
No way that wasn’t absolutely intentional.
- Comment on Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit 1 month ago:
Small caveat:
The first switch emulator that was taken down (I think yuzu), was justified by Nintendo as copyright infringement because people (including moderators) were sharing copyrighted material openly on their public discord. BIOS files, links to games, and early leaks.
The more recent one (Ryujinx I think) was the one that did things right, so Nintendo didn’t have that copyright leg to stand on. So instead (according to the maintainer of the Mac fork) they sent goons to the house of the head dev in Brazil… to “talk” him into taking it down.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
Only thing that stands out to me is the percentages you’ve listed. I was always taught (and most of my peers seem to have been as well) that the normal tip for average service was 15%. Poor service (that is in the waiter’s control) gets 10%, and good/great is 18-22% (but usually 20%).
I was born in the early 90s if it makes a difference.
- Comment on Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them 1 month ago:
There are mods for it to restore the soundtrack and other little tweaks.
- Comment on True Story 1 month ago:
It wasn’t the time before we lost either.
Saying you understand why something happened isn’t being smug or in any way happy about the outcome.
Stop externalizing your poor mental state and take a break from the internet or something.
- Comment on Horrible news 1 month ago:
At least it’s a good NES game.
- Comment on So begins the great smart bulb saga! 1 month ago:
There are a bunch of “gimmick” alarm clocks that might help.
I had this one for a little while that sounded like R2D2 being kept alive while it’s brain was being scrambled. If you didn’t get to it in 10 seconds or so, it would roll off the table and start scurrying around the room. It was annoying enough that my parents returned it, after it was their idea in the first place.
There was also one where the alarm could only be turned off by a “key” that would take off like one of those pull cord helicopter blade toys when the alarm went off.
I think there’s also things like big vibrating bass speakers you can strap to a bed frame to try and “shake” someone awake.
In the end what worked for me was just setting a ton of alarms. Like every 15-30 minutes starting an hour before I actually had to get moving.
Good luck.
- Comment on Standard Time 1 month ago:
Man, 8 Bit Theater. Talk about a blast from the past.
- Comment on In case you haven't figured your Halloween costume yet 1 month ago:
Apology starting with “per my last email”? Nah, that’s the “I’ve officially stopped caring and I’m highlighting your failure to read for all to see.”
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 1 month ago:
Man, I want one of those living lounge chairs to ride around on.
- Comment on My little buddy (pack of 12) 1 month ago:
Yo, could you flag this NSFW? Don’t think most people would be fine if their boss saw this wonderful pod of dicklets on their screen.