taladar
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- Comment on Anon has a busy day 1 week ago:
And it is not even like grinding in a game like, say, Minecraft, where you work on getting some resource and then get to look at something nice you built with them afterwards, it is often literally just some checkbox or counter.
- Comment on Anon has a busy day 1 week ago:
Funnily enough I don’t watch movies very often for similar reasons. They feel so shallow compared to a good series due to the limited time the creators have to tell any stories.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 1 week ago:
Making friends online who don’t live anywhere near you is probably another thing more common among science fiction and fantasy readers than in other genre target audiences.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 1 week ago:
Books so large they literally fuck up your wrists from holding them for too long are certainly part of the reason physical books are on the decline in some fields.
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 1 week ago:
Presumably science fiction and fantasy readers are more likely to use e-books and audio-books over paper books and more likely to use online stores over brick and mortar than some other demographics.
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 3 weeks ago:
a gun show is like comic con, only for guns.
So people dress up as sexy guns?
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 weeks ago:
why would I want fake pictures of something that never happened?
Seems to be a popular part of tourism in the age of Instagram.
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 weeks ago:
Plus they are so generic that 99% of people you show them to will have forgotten them a second after the photo leaves their field of vision.
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 weeks ago:
Personally I would be more disturbed if he offered and delivered real photos but never had showed up at the wedding (to my knowledge as the client).
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 3 weeks ago:
Could certainly do it with something like InvokeAI.
- Comment on It's a good group! 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I know, I was more thinking that the film makers might have thought that they could add some stuff from his later works since they basically completely changed the movie script from his book.
- Comment on It's a good group! 4 weeks ago:
Potentially some leakage from Heinlein’s later works?
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 weeks ago:
Oh, there are certainly some that are worth watching but overall as I said it is more hit&miss than other types of shows (and it is not as if e.g. live action shows or western animation is always great, far from it).
One thing I forgot that only affects some shows too is that anime sometimes seems to have multiple sub-series for a given series with names and no clear indication for the intended order of watching or if one is a remake of another or a prequel or sequel. They might be great but it is a pain to figure out and if you get it wrong you might spoil earlier shows since you started in the middle.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 weeks ago:
Not OP but the subtitles are only part of the reason why anime is a bit hit&miss for me.
Another is the tone, a lot of the emotions are extremely over-exaggerated and in some shows it goes so far as having the characters almost constantly shout. This makes it hard for me to form an emotional bond with the characters, e.g. I aborted my attempt to watch Attack on Titan after about two episodes when I realized that I didn’t care if any of the characters lived or died with a slight preference towards them dying because they were annoying to watch in some cases.
Not sure if it is quite the right term for drawn content but the cinematography conventions in anime can also be annoying with e.g. zooms from extremely wide shots to extreme close-ups. Kill La Kill was a particular negative example among the anime I tried watching that I can remember.
That said, some anime is perfectly fine but it is usually more the kind that is closer to western animation in style and character behaviors (leaning more towards realistic character looks and camera angles and lighting you would see in reality).
- Comment on Anon tries to solve his problems 1 month ago:
Depends on what you count as casual sex. People grow emotionally more attached to friends with benefits than to strangers too and might help them in a tough situation over a stranger or mere acquaintance.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 1 month ago:
Even just blowing out all the dust from a passive cooler (under the CPU fan) can make your system run a good 10°C cooler.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
I got the idea from Ark.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
The stacking debuff of course does have a timer that doesn’t continue running while you are not playing.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Don’t forget to never fix game breaking bugs.
Combined with a single save only mechanic so if you encounter the bug even if it doesn’t lead to a crash there is a good chance you have to start over from scratch because your last save game before the bug has been overwritten.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
And then they just drop on the ground in front of you and are immediately picked up again as you move the slightest bit.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Speaking of Stardew Valley, game dev tells you you can do anything, adds energy system that makes you pass out if you aren’t home and in bed by 5PM, immediately adds quest that tells you to talk to literally every NPC in the whole game on day 1.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
You mean erratically fluctuating 3-30FPS just as the game wants you to go through a jump puzzle that requires precise timing and of course physics calculations are based on display FPS.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
The save point is obviously not even directly before the cut scene but before some slow moving platform/elevator jump puzzle you need to navigate by waiting for each of them to be in place that comes before the cut scene.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
With buttons on screen that change position based on the length of the dialog line
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
And of course you need to be always online with that account even though it is single player and all game data is already available locally.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Inventory expansions of the extremely tiny default inventory cost premium currency per month.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 month ago:
Some items also rot, the rot timer doesn’t stop in the unskippable cutscenes and maybe even continues ticking down while you are not playing.
- Comment on Anon reaches encopenment. 2 months ago:
You mean it is a kink so annoying that it will put you off porn for a while because of how often it is mentioned around that time of year?
- Comment on Anon is a math prodigy 2 months ago:
For the same reason our OS memory management class was in Java, a language without pointers, because some idiot decided all courses had to be standardized on the same language because the industry says they need people who know that language now.
- Comment on Anon is a math prodigy 2 months ago:
Couldn’t be a compiled language, those wouldn’t even get to the point where you send a request.