DrSteveBrule
@DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 week ago:
Where I live all the grass in peoples yards are not native and would absolutely die without constant upkeep by humans. I really don’t understand the point. I get that it looks neat and upholds the aesthetic of luxury yards, but I’ve never thought natural foilage was ugly and never understood why it was unwanted by people. The picture perfect at grass lawns are very uninviting for people to actually walk around on. At that point it’s basically the equivalent of putting plastic on all your furniture and telling guests not to sit on it
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
I think there is a difference between what the developers expect and what characters expect. In Fallout3 a settlement builds their town around a deactivated nuclear bomb. There is an opportunity very early in the game to detonate it, which most characters understandably react poorly to. But I wouldn’t rate the game poorly because the surviving NPCs of that settlement become hostile to the player afterwards. The developers don’t really expect anything from the players as there is the choice to do either thing. I thought Dishonored did that as well. NPCs who cause havoc to the city by killing people and spreading disease will hear complaints from the surviving citizens. Also the story of the game sets up the player to be framed for murdering the empress so most NPCs by default already hate the player character. I liked that the game gave players the choice to remain noble and try to actively prevent further chaos or say fuck it and slaughter everyone who stands against you even if you are technically in the right.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
Appreciate the response. I feel that I’m in the minority when it comes to caring much about good or bad endings. Usually if a game has several endings I’ll replay it to get the other endings. I’ve never really felt that a “bad ending” was a punishment though. Even if I get immersed in the character I’m playing, I never felt as though I experienced the negative outcomes. I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with a friend and he was getting mad at me because I wasn’t playing lawfully good lol. That game was designed to keep progressing no matter what choices you make. You can kill the most important characters but the game keeps going. Yet he felt as though we would have to reload a previous save if I did something too “wrong”. Anyway, I just find the difference of opinion on the topic interesting lol sorry for the wall of text.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
That’s true, it is a game where each choice has a direct consequence. Going along that train of thought, do you see the “star system” in GTA as the game scolding you for your choices? If you’ve never played it, in GTA you are a criminal and as you commit crimes you get a star rating. The more stars means the more law enforcement that attempts to subdue or kill you. There really isn’t a way to complete the game in a non-violent manner though.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
In what way do you think the game scolded you for killing enemies?
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
Can you explain why you think the game punishes the player for engaging in combat and killing enemies? I get that the events in the game may change but I’m not getting how that’s a punishment to the player.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 weeks ago:
No doubt. I wasn’t trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don’t learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn’t learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn’t been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it’s a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It’s not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 weeks ago:
One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren’t learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don’t want some old geezer giving me shit because I don’t want to learn to use an abacus. I also don’t want to be that old geezer.
- Comment on Share your poops! 5 weeks ago:
You mean writing on paper? Like cave people?
- Comment on Organization. 1 month ago:
Its a movie. Wanted.
- Comment on They deported my Chihuahua 1 month ago:
I’m not saying you’re wrong but I think it is interesting that your interpretation of the meme is that it is a joke against the people being targeted by ICE while I immediately thought the meme was about how brain dead ICE officers are that they would target a dog simply because it had a sombrero on. I have no idea what the OP’s intention was when making the meme. Maybe I just made my assumption based on the fact that this was shared on Lemmy which is overwhelmingly against ICE. If I saw this shared by a conservative person I would more than likely share you sentiment though.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 1 month ago:
I pirated the RDR remaster and felt very entitled to because I bought it way back on xbox360 with the Undead Nightmare mode, but that whole DLC is broken even though they still sold it to me on the Xbox store. So I pirated to new remaster and when I went to play Undead Nightmare, it’s still broken lol
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 2 months ago:
5 different websites telling me this doesn’t seem like good cybersecurity either.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 months ago:
I also work in an OR and Spotify does the same thing. We will just leave on something like 80s rock radio playing over night and when we come back the next morning we hear Snoop Dogg blasting from the same playlist lol
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 2 months ago:
Where did you hear that from?
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
I can’t think of one thing he’s done that looks good given his current job title.
- Comment on Like a heart 2 months ago:
She maybe looked offended or confused for about two seconds before she realized I just had no idea what I was doing lol. She told her mom and two sisters who all got a good laugh over it too. She was also rather busty but otherwise short and and kind of petite. I got her a T-shirt as a gift early in our relationship. I’m about 5" 11 and she was about 5" 3. I wear large or medium shirts. So I figured she must wear small to medium. I think I picked a small for her. As soon as she saw it she just started laughing and asked how she was supposed to get her boobs in there. I was hopeless in my teens haha.
- Comment on Like a heart 2 months ago:
The first time I bought tampons and pads for a girlfriend I was about 19 and didn’t know there were different sizes so I just grabbed the first package I saw. I don’t recall what it was labeled but it was the kind that women typically get right after giving birth haha.
- Comment on Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!! 2 months ago:
In this house Donald J Trump is a hero!
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the vaults in Fallout. A sign reading “Hard work is happy work!” Right next to the overseer observation window lol.
- Comment on hey wallmart, this milk went bad 3 months ago:
There is a grocery chain in southeast US called Publix that will absolutely refund expired milk and other items. They have a weekly rotation of BOGO free items. If you return those items after they aren’t on sale anymore you will recieve a refund for each item. They’ve had this policy for decades aa far as I’m aware so it must not be abused too badly. They are also often twice as expensive as other grocery stores so maybe that justifies it.
- Comment on Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil 3 months ago:
I thought BioShock Infinite felt like something new compared to the first two.
- Comment on Pure Shame 3 months ago:
I work weekends at my job and there are a few departments that don’t work weekends. I’ve walked past people I work with going to and from their bathrooms lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It is public, youre right. That’s why anyone can post to it. The rule is if you admit to not being a woman, you get banned.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 3 months ago:
There’s more people on the internet than ever but they are mostly all on one central part of it being manipulated by ads and algorithms designed to drain them of money and data.
- Comment on The struggle 3 months ago:
I knew there had to be a better way to shit without pulling my pants down! Ordering mine now 👍
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 3 months ago:
They recently released an installer for Linux. It’s an ISO which I did not have much luck running on Linux Mint. Before that was released, they released TurtleWoW as a portable zip file. They still update the game with that release. I use Proton on Steam to run it on Mint with no issues.
No legal issues for players to worry about. My understanding is that since it is a version of WoW that doesn’t exist anywhere else at this point, it’s ok to run severs for it as long as money isn’t being charged for it. TurtleWoW devs do accept “donations” which will reward players with in game cosmetics, but as far as I know, no pay to win items. Unless you count a pet that acts as a portable bank. Using it let’s you interact with your bank that can otherwise only be accessed from various cities in game. I don’t have that pet myself, but I have been able to use other players’ when I come across them in the world.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 4 months ago:
I’ve enjoyed OSRS on and off since about 2004, but if you’re wanting to avoid walking simulators, it is the worst offender. A big part of the game is calculating the best possible path to follow. You are making trips to the bank in between every activity and multiple times per quest. Many skills exist just to ease to burden of traveling around the world.
My personal favorite MMO is vanilla WoW. I’m obviously biased but it is just what I had the most fun with back when it came out and I think it still holds up incredibly well today. I play on a private server called TurtleWoW and it is 100% free. They have continuously added their own expansions over time and are currently working on a client that runs the game in Unreal Engine if you desire more modern graphics.
If it seems to old school, Guild Wars 2 is a really good choice as well. I played through the base game and first expansion of FF14 and ultimately wasn’t impressed. It’s great if you like to role play with other players, but everyone is so focused on playing the meta that it took all of the fun out of the game for me. People would kick me out of groups for trying to play with my own personalized set up.
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 4 months ago:
Lol great clip. I totally get what’s he’s saying. We don’t necessarily need to ask him for his views, but he has 100% offered them himself.
- Comment on Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16] 4 months ago:
I don’t really understand this sentiment. No one is asking him to run for office. He’s an American citizen and he has a huge platform to speak on. Of course his political views have merit. You don’t have to be a political science major to talk politics. This comment section is proof of that. Obviously he is only one person and no one should be informing theirselves soley in what he has to say, but like anyone else his words aren’t meaningless.