MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on Good morning and happy Halloween 1 hour ago:
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- Comment on Please no, just stop 15 hours ago:
They’re literally using ranbow coloring and sparklies to try and catch your attention.
That you should tell you everything you need to know.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 20 hours ago:
ratchet mechanism of enshittification clicks
- Comment on "Still Waiting" (Cyberpunk 2077) 1 day ago:
!gameart@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Eggs 1 day ago:
SL IFE
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 4 days ago:
No you aren’t.
There is absolutely nothing here indicating the people who care about this, don’t care about other issues.
If anything, this was so successful because it might actually work.
A bunch of EU citizen signatures wishing a war to end wouldn’t do shit.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 4 days ago:
And your solution is put down the one that did?
The EU citizens initiative objectively improves our chances of having a slightly better society in the future.
And that does not happen at the expense of some other arbitrary more important potential improvement.
So you are literally just complaining about something getting better.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 5 days ago:
It’d be enough even if they just contributed to Heroic, the way Valve started contributing to wine/proton.
It’s mind boggling to me that they remained completely silent on linux, even as SteamDeck took off.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 week ago:
Good news everyone (bad news for most of you)! In order to meet production targets (satisfy investors), we are optimizing workflows and cutting unneeded redundancies (firing most of you).
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
It’s just that most of the time they aren’t feasible for export.
I didn’t know that.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say we won’t have an edible banana that is suitable for large-scale industrial production.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
Well.
We wont have bananas that taste any good. The ones we eat are selectively bred to become seedless, and are thereby infertile, and must be cloned to be propagated.
The species would still exist, but we’d have to start over with developing a plant that produces something edible.
- Comment on Banana 1 week ago:
Being monocultures, (genetic clones) commercially grown edible bananas are extremely vulnerable to disease.
The currently most popular variant is the Cavendish, replacing the earlier and now extinct Gros Michel, wiped out by the Panama Disease (a fungus).
While the Gros Michel isn’t coming back, people are apparently trying to create and grow new variants, as what happened before can happen again.
- Comment on Holy moly 1 week ago:
Neat. But can you steal the cars?
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 week ago:
Also we’re making more than ever and projects are launching with thundering success.
Unfortunately we’ve hit on some hard times and are going to have to let some of you go.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 1 week ago:
Helicopter parenting?
More like geostationary orbit parenting.
- Comment on tiny tot engineering 1 week ago:
Learn CAD.Build CNC.
- Comment on Saw this on a hike and immediately thought "Morning Wood?" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on In everyway 2 weeks ago:
The dreamworks Puss in Boots voice actor played Zorro in a live action movie (The Mask of Zorro).
They made Puss in Boots a parody of Zorro, as an elaborate joke.
It’s already funny, and gets even funnier as you realize it’s an actual Zorro actor playing a cat, doing a parody, of himself, as Zorro.
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 3 weeks ago:
and if I got into this situation two-times in a row what’s guaranteeing that it won’t happen again
Absolutely nothing.
The way I like to put it, is that most people are nice, but there are assholes everywhere.
It’s not that everyone is a douche, just that there is nowhere you can go, where there won’t already be some, or where they won’t suddenly show up later.
As such, it’s good to try and learn to deal with them, avoid them, or outlast them.
At my last job, my two first bosses were great, then the third was a nightmare. But he got fired two years in and then the fourth was good again. That job lasted me seven years. 5 out of 7 is not bad.
Overlay that with all your colleagues, and yeah, you’re almost bound to have at least some of them be bad… It’s a numbers game. If most of your colleagues are reasonable, then you’re probably in one the better places to be.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah. It was being developed by Rocksteady, beloved for the Arkham games.
But interest, despite the marketing, dropped off a cliff the second people smelled live service elements.
The game came out a died a quick death even more quietly than Concord.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
while turning a blind eye to the mountains of other people who don’t care
People, fundamentally, care.
That’s like the whole point of having a hobby.
No-one games because they don’t care.
You won’t find anything people are more passionate about, than something they do for fun.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter if they’re okay with it or not, as long as they tolerate it and don’t do anything about it.
Not being happy about it is the first step on the road to doing something about it. How does that not matter?
Sure but many many more have accepted it. Otherwise they never would have done it again.
Who is doing it again? I’m not.
I remember Overwatch still being a wild success regardless.
Is it?
We are on like 2905295734th now.
And? It takes as many times as it takes.
Indie game studios could only ever dream of achieving the heights of revenue of games like Fortnite, that survives entirely on microtransactions.
Why? There are absolutely indies who’ve made millions. Why is there zero chance that one day, the next Fortnite or Roblox comes from an indie?
It already happened at least once. Minecraft.
They are doing everything they can to screw their own customers and yet they pile in by the millions every time they have something new.
Yes. But again. It takes as many times as it takes.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
Remember when gamers found out Suicide Squad, which at time had real hype behind it, would be live service BS…
And people literally just didn’t play it.
People. Even entire demigraphics, can a do learn.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
And there’s always new marks.
If your market is small enough.
You bring up gambling. It’s de-regulation and consequent proliferation via online gambling has made the problems it causes more likely to be addressed than ever.
The bigger your market grows, the more aware the cultural zeitgeist becomes, the more likely you are be ousted entirely.
A bookie in Vegas could keep running their casino forever, because there didn’t use to be a casino in every persons pocket, that might’ve already taught every new mark to be wary.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
It will work. Even if they get 10 new subscribers, it probably took them 20 minutes to whip up this splash screen. They’re wasting much more of your time. And people have proven time and time again that they will get outraged but they’ll never actually do anything about it.
For now. But eventually they do. That’s how entire governments have fallen time and time again.
They won’t stop playing Xbox. They won’t stop buying games. People grow increasingly accepting of advertising and invasive business practices every day.
Indeed. People can get used to a lot. But being used to something isn’t the same as being ok with it. No-one I know is ok with there being ads on their tvs, phones and laptops. Living with something isn’t the same as accepting it. People are tolerating more BS than ever, but that doesn’t mean they wont rally the second there’s a way out of it.
Remember how angry everyone was at horse armor? Most people wouldn’t think twice about it these days. It’s so much worse now.
I still am. So are many others. Remember when people thought NMS would be a good game on day one? Remember when Fallout 76 was going to be bigger and better than 4? Remember Concord? Remember when Overwatch was going to have a story?
Every fuckup, is another portion of the masses getting the memo. And the fuckups aren’t stopping. If anything there’s more of them than ever.
These corporations used to be afraid of looking bad, but mistakes happen. Except when they did, and stocks didn’t suddenly implode, their takeaway was they could horrible, and still make a profit. Because yeah, most people don’t learn the first time. But what about the second? Or the third? Or the tenth?
If you ask me, given time, the one thing every person on this planet can do, is learn. Eventually.
The only reason Roblox and Fortnite keep growing is that there are markets they haven’t penetrated. Finding new customers faster than the old ones leave doesn’t work forever. There are only so many humans on this planet.
Meanwhile, indie games with actual passion behind them and fair business practices that still feed the mouths of the devs, without private equity firms in the middle sucking up all the value, are absolutely exploding.
XBOX is dying. MS won’t say it, but they are less involved in the game-industry than ever. This price hike is a death-throw. Not the next step in their master plan to dominate the market forever.
IMO, the only gaming mega-corporation with the goodwill to exist 20 years from now is Nintendo, and even they are burning through the nostalgia people have for them faster than ever before in their insanely long history.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
Ok?
It’s not sustainable. Tricking people faster than they wise up to your BS is not a business model that leads to a healthy content, customer base. And if it’s what EVERYONE does, you get an unhappy SOCIETY.
No-one will enjoy where that leads, and is already leading.
It’s a ratcheting mechanism. Unless something about capitalism changes SIGNIFICANTLY the masses will simple become angrier and angrier.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
Yes. And that shit is a one-way door.
Every customer you piss off the way you are pissed off, is A LOT less likely to be a return customer.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 weeks ago:
Oh that is gonna piss people off.
Your ads ar not gonna work the way you think they’ll work, when every person who sees them is gonna feel like it’s a middle finger.
- Comment on Day 437 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
That was a fun one! I don’t think fully utilized Aeriths kit until that fight, either.
Intergrade still has some of my favorite fights.
I really wish Rebirth was more difficult right off the bat. When you go into it having played Intergrade, you already know to min-max character usage, and the fights are a little too easy.
The gameplay does improve massively. The addition of party abilities, powerful mini-limit breaks which you can use if two compatible party members both have the relevant bars filled, are an amazing addition to the combat system.
The combo moves are also a huge qol improvement. In intergrade flying enemies are kind of a pain when playing melee characters like Tifa, but in Rebirth you can have Cloud (if he’s in the party) launch you at flying enemies by jumping off his sword at any time.
- Comment on Day 437 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
You absolutely need to be switching characters.
The ATB bars fill very slowly when you aren’t playing as a party member, meaning that if you need to use certain abilites or spells, you should focus on playing as the character’s that can use them.
Same goes for limit breaks. On harder bosses you may need to build up a stagger, and then pull off a triple limit break during the stun. But you won’t have all three limit breaks ready if you didn’t evenly play as all three.
Also pay attention to ability effects. Some cause stagger instead of damage, some are single target vs AOE. The game doesn’t do a super good job of telling you what to use when, but read the descriptions and remember to check for weaknesses with assess.