wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What are you doing step email 19 hours ago:
- Comment on It was rigged? 4 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 1 week ago:
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- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
There are mods for it to restore the soundtrack and other little tweaks.
- Comment on True Story 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
At least it’s a good NES game.
- Comment on So begins the great smart bulb saga! 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Man, 8 Bit Theater. Talk about a blast from the past.
- Comment on In case you haven't figured your Halloween costume yet 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
Man, I want one of those living lounge chairs to ride around on.
- Comment on My little buddy (pack of 12) 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 3 weeks ago:
How could I ever forget
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 3 weeks ago:
When you show it they stop and stare
- Comment on STEINS;GATE REBOOT Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Money
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 3 weeks ago:
Protip: don’t scribble shit out in screenshots. Too easy for people to figure out what’s underneath. Put filled in rectangles over whatever you don’t want people to see so there’s nothing that shows through. Most built in photo editors on phones have this functionality.
- Comment on You'd better 4 weeks ago:
This is more of a Don’t Dead Open Inside, no aneurysm here.
“Fuck you City of Elyria (FAFO), It’s my property not yours”
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 4 weeks ago:
If you like hacknet, you should give Uplink a try sometime. It’s the inspiration for the series, and a wonderfully immersive hacking game.
There’s also a modern UI mod for it.
- Comment on Don't Engage with Trolls 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t this literally the shady research that Facebook got caught doing with Cambridge Analytica? Specifically tweaking a user’s feed to be more negative resulted in that user posting more negative things themselves and more engagement overall.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 4 weeks ago:
Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme…
- Comment on What character that was meant to be portrayed as "cool" by the actor came across as the exact opposite? 4 weeks ago:
More of an intentional choice they made, but Michael Cera’s portrayal of Scott Pilgrim in the movie.
In the comics, Scott was a nerd, but was more of a jerk than awkward. There were a decent amount of flashbacks about Scott being the best brawler in Toronto and beating up entire school’s worth of “bullies”. Effectively a nerd that got tired of being bullied and started beating up people in response.
The comics don’t skim over Scott’s shitty behavior, and he gets called out on it far more frequently, keeping that aspect of his character fresh.
They also don’t skim over Ramona being a mess either.
In the movie, Scott is awkward and nerdy (Cera’s typecast at the time), and it’s played like he doesn’t know what he’s doing is wrong (dating a highschooler as an adult, cheating on her with Ramona, beating up the person she leaves him for, etc).
Ramona’s issues are skimmed over for the sake of her being a stereotype “manic pixie dreamgirl” rather than a deeply insecure woman running from each and every mistake she’s made over the years.
So it’s more of a case of “intentional streamlining and dumbing down character traits to fit into the expected romcom roles” than cool character being ruined by the actor, but at first watch it felt like the changes were all from Cera’s performance.
- Comment on It's never too early to train 5 weeks ago:
That is not how your initial comment is worded, hence the downvotes. It has no consideration for those who can’t, and your immediate response doesn’t have that consideration either.
- Comment on 700 Ubisoft staff in France hold strikes in response to worldwide return to office mandate from Assassin’s Creed publisher 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s the first one (I never played it) or Black Flag. Black Flag has intermissions in a game development office.
