JigglySackles
@JigglySackles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 3 days ago:
He didn’t say anything different from what “gamers” have been accusing the tech of…
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 days ago:
That’s a weird assumption.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 5 days ago:
Absolutely obligatory lol
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 6 days ago:
Damage is done from my perspective. I won’t buy a game where they think they can do use AI in place of people. Or that they can “fix it in post.”
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
Add melanin to that list
- Comment on SBA I can count to schifty shvive 1 week ago:
My IQ. Schfifty five.
- Comment on Is spreading. 3 weeks ago:
It’s more work than the people saying that give thought to. I’m I’m the process of switching but finding replacements for the apps I rely on is no easy task.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 3 weeks ago:
And I’m with you. I think learning languages and other cultures is essential to a well rounded individual. I think more languages should be taught. I was just offering up a possible explanation as to why it may not be emphasized here in the US.
A lot of the bullshit here stems from a capitalist utilitarian mindset (ignoring the “fear of melanin” bullshit). If it doesn’t observably generate profit it’s looked down on. It’s why many of the good things we had are being systemically torn down by rich fucks.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
LOL perfect. The thunderstorms were the only thing I missed when I lived in other places too. Love a good thunderstorm.
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 3 weeks ago:
The problem in the US is that besides English, you might be exposed to some Spanish. And not much else unless you seek it out. Or have immigrant friends. Without consistent practice, and some more native speakers, any learned language just rots away.
I learned German for several years in college. It was fun. Went to a local brewhouse with my classmates and talked in simple german while we had dinner, it was a good time. Now, other than my own attempts at saving my whithered skill, and a couple bedtime songs for my kids, I don’t use it.
And even when I was better at it, using it as a tourist in germany was moderately helpful, but it wouldn’t have been nearly enough skill to pass any kind of immigration language proficiency exams.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
I figure if some place is selling Jesus merch to amass wealth, it’s not intended as a holy item and shouldn’t be treated as one. Stomp away. Lol
That said though, the company demanding damaging product before chucking it is just shit tier behavior.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO…IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 months ago:
I see about 3 I’m either interested in or played. CP2077 is definitely worth getting into. As is Baldurs Gate 3 from what I know of it.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
I can definitely understand that. It’s especially bad coming back to an old save. Feels like Gandalf in Moria “I have no memory of this place…”
Also…
Fuck you Shoresy!
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Oooooo ship ship.
- Comment on Had enough of having to change it every 3 months 3 months ago:
And this is one of a few reasons that frequent password changes aren’t very helpful in increasing security over the difficulty it adds to the end users.
- Comment on ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted 3 months ago:
Lol perfect, I like that.
- Comment on ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted 3 months ago:
I will never be surprised by insecure IoT devices.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 months ago:
This was always the goal when they started adding screens. Screens should always be viewed as ad delivery mechanisms especially if internet connected. That goes triple for devices that absolutely don’t need a screen. Like a fucking fridge. They will slow boil the process at first. But they’ll do it.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
For sure. I don’t care to get in on early access too often.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
Really? Were they the later games? I grew up with the NES ones.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
I get it. I’ve seen some on here that make no sense to me as metroidvanias. But I think it might be generational. To me a metroidvania has to be 2D, because those are the kinds of metroid and castlevania games I grew up on.
Seeing suggestions for Batman Arkham games or Supraland (love both series) is a weird suggestion to me because I see those as action and puzzle platformer respectively. But for people growing up with 3D Metroid etc. I can see why they’d classify it that way, even though I think the series changed away from the classic metroidvania genre at that point and into more action or action platformer.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
I was scrolling looking for this one too! Really excellent game. I’ve been enjoying it and it scratches my metroid itch better than what most people are listing off.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
Ayyyy plus one on both Carrion and Supraland! Loved both of those. I can’t wait to get the latest Surpaland game (Supraworld iirc?). Such a fun puzzle platformer.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 4 months ago:
I think that all comes down to how the travel, visual appeal, and POIs are handled. As well as a personal interest in the gameplay loop. The following are my general opinions on a few games for why I think they do or do not work.
Daggerfall would be way too big, because the POIs are few and far between and there is no visual interest between, but it worked because it had fast travel.
Each of the successive TES games had more visual interest to them and wel spaced POIs and I spent a lot of time walking on first playthroughs without fast traveling anywhere.
Similarly No Man’s Sky could seem too big at first blush, but if you like the gameplay loop it’s infinitely fascinating. For anyone wanting to move further in it’s also helpful that there are gates to help make large jumps, without them being a requirement to enjoy things.
Cyberpunk 2077 was very visually interesting and had a ton of POIs and was fun to traverse on foot and in a vehicle. I thought the size was fantastic on my first two playthroughs. The third time the badlands areas got a little frustrating though.
Stalker and Stalker 2, are very fun to traverse by foot for me despite being very large. They are visually very interesting, especially 2. There are plenty of things you can stumble on and explore. In fact on my first playthrough of Stalker 2, I didn’t even realize it had a fast travel option for over 60 hours because I didn’t feel the need to look for one to use. Loved the huge size of those.
WoW was horribly oversized, as are many MMOs. WoW was(and imo still is despite many upgrades since I played, just not a fan of toony looking games) completely uninteresting visually, had no “on the way” POIs and had no motivation to look around. Long travel was a chore on top of a burdensome gameplay loop. I hated WoWs size. It felt big just because it would take people longer to play. I can’t express how fucking boring it was to me. And exploring had zero reward. I remember wandering into the water and swimming for like 30 minites to get behind some massive tree or something (all I remember was it was a brown gradient that’s how dull the visuals were) and I get behind it and there was fuckall. That was the last time I played I think. More brown gradient and uninteresting light blue water gradient stretched off into a foggy white gradient. Fucking hated WoW but especially its size. MMOs like that are the equivalent of having a rail shooter that’s more train ride simulator than shooter. It works for other people, I just couldn’t stand it.
Outward is a fantastic game but it’s world feels a little too big sometimes. I don’t really enjoy wandering it that much even though I enjoyed the game on the whole. Just felt I got to the point of sprinting from one objective to the next because I was tired of traversing the map.
So it’s really game dependant imo. If they nail some key aspects, size doesn’t seem to matter.
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 4 months ago:
Fuckin hell, thought this shit had finally gone away in the 00s. It’s the 90s all over again. 🙄
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 months ago:
I used some software they gave out, but otherwise I sit on the horde like a digital dragon.
- Comment on thats all 4 months ago:
Seriously. People are in the sub if they want to be pedanticly PC.
- Comment on If only we knew... 4 months ago:
Because they thought you wouldn’t call them out.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 4 months ago:
When it’s 100F or higher, there is no such thing as AC too cold.