Cethin

@Cethin@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great resource, but I don’t recommend doing that. Their operations cost is already high. If everyone started using it to bypass not checks then it’d break down. That’s not what it’s there for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was frustrating to start. I agree. It requires such a different skill set than the Souls games but it feels like you should be good at it already, but you won’t be.

  One key to the game is in a quote a character says fairly early on: “Hesitation is defeat.” The way to play is to put constant pressure on the enemy. In the Souls games you’re encouraged to back off and take time to recover when you need to. In Sekiro, you need to keep the pressure up to break their posture. If you back off then they recover and progress is reset. It’s tough, but it’s one of the best combat games once it clicks. It’s why almost every game since has added a posture bar, but they don’t go all the way to the logical end that Sekiro did. Even ER took the posture mechanic, but watered it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They definitely turned up the dial on combat challenges for bosses, but I agree, it’s more accessible. There are so many ways to trivialize the combats, and you can even skip a lot of the bosses. It’s so much easier than ever before to come back later with a significant power increase and easily defeat any boss.

  Probably the thing that helps accessibility the most though is making it clear there are other paths, and you can come back to a boss later. That was always the intention of the Souls games, but people often slam their head against a wall until it breaks, and they think the games are (too) hard. The tools were always there to make the game easier, but a lot of people didn’t take advantage of them in the older games. ER makes the alternatives so much more obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly recommend spending some time with Sekiro. It is arguably their best game. It learns most of the lessons from the Souls series, innovates on that, but also doesn’t lose anything, in my opinion.

  Elden Ring is good, but I honestly think it’s a worse experience than the older games. Yeah, the combat has been perfected, but that’s a relatively minor part of the gameplay, all things considered. DS1 has the perfect world to explore, with corridors that are crafted to perfection. It’s open enough to feel like you’re choosing where to explore while being closed enough to have good encounters. Elden Ring is so open that it loses a lot of control, which essentially means the only encounters that matter are in the dungeons. Those are a small fraction of the game, so it feels like a lot of time and effort spent to make something that’s experientially worse than the simpler older style. It’s still a master class in open world design, but I feel the game would be stronger if they focused on the classic design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be such an easy PR win to do this, but of course they aren’t. I guess for things they don’t have the rights to they probably couldn’t easily, but they could for older things. They could also create a database of it and release it when they become public domain too, which wouldn’t be that hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t a request and I don’t care if you believe me. It’s your loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the history. I owned a SNES and enjoyed it. I don’t care about what they did in the past. I’m talking about now.

  I don’t care to spend a ton of time proving that indies innovate far more than Nintendo. If you don’t believe that then you never will. What innovation do they do with their new consoles? The majority are just played with traditional controls, and their games are maybe polished, but they are copying things other games have done in the past. For example, LoZ TotK building is pretty much the same thing Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts did in 2008. Indies have done it significantly better (an example; Space Engineers). Just look up vehicle building games. If you want to find a game innovating on a mechanic, you can search for it and probably find one. I’m not spending my time proving this for every example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, they do, except usually not selling by the millions, which has nothing to do with quality but marketing. There are indies that do some crazy, amazing, and interesting things. You have to find them though. Nintendo gets shoved in your face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is everyone else thinks they can game it too, so price predictions are built into the cost, meaning you’ll probably lose. There will be others who can trade faster and have more information who will beat you 99.99% of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To expand on your edited bit, use those words exactly. Don’t use slang or anything else. Explicitly invoke your right to remain silent and leave it at that. The supreme court rules that police “misinterpreting” when a guy asked “for my lawyer, dawg” as “for my lawyer dog” (which you don’t have a right to) as reasonable. They will attempt to ignore your rights if they can. Also, IIRC, speaking after invoking your right to remain silent means you are no longer invoking your right to remain silent, so if you speak then you should invoke it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know they make some great IP…

  Do they really though? Sure, it’s usually polished, but is anything they do more innovative, interesting, or good than what indies are doing (and at a small fraction of the cost to users)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  #1 in uneducation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That example costs them nothing, assuming it was digital. Nintendo may do something good when the price is $0, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them do something good for an actual cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The price parity is the big one for me. They have almost total market control, and they use this to prevent competition. We all know no other marketplace can compete on utility, because Steam has a massive head start. Their other option is to compete on price, and Valve has forced this to not be allowed. Somehow some people still defend them for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On console, digital only means the only market is them. That’s why this is happening, and it’s the real issue. The ownership thing is an issue too, but that’s been dead for a while, even with physical disks. Very few games worked with only the disk install and no internet, so the disk doesn’t let you play without their support anyway.

  I’ve been PC only for a long time now, so I’m fine with digital only. On PC we have some choice of marketplace. Sure, (I’m probably going to get flammed for pointing this out) Valve has used their market dominance to force price parity, but it’s still better than consoles. Console players are about to get fucked, and they’re probably going to turn around and thank them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries something new⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was so hard to parse, especially since it’s led by another negative! I knew what it must be saying, but it took so many reads over to actually know it said that thing.

  For other readers, assuming I got it right (pretty sure I did), they’re fine with consensual non-consent (CNC). AKA, they’re against the non-consent that’s not CNC, if you want to word it like a crazy person. Lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember checking and being incredibly disappointed by the lack of Oblivion mods a while after it released. It really informed me on not purchasing it. I would assume the same will be true for these l. They’ll technically support mods, but realistically the people who would be interested in making them aren’t interested in making them for the remake. I’d love to be mistaken though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 years later, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth hits new steam peak player count⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely supposed to be humorous too, but a kind of gross out humor. It’s the same with his new game, Mewgenics. Just the name alone tells you it’s supposed to be humorous, but also repulsive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 years later, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth hits new steam peak player count⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this and decided to grab it. I haven’t played it since the original game came out!

  I have to say, I enjoyed the humor a lot more as a teenager. It doesn’t ruin the game or anything, but it’s very young Reddit humor, which didn’t age great for me. It’s fine though. The game is still fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in both camps, but also I think there should be a “Arrr” option. I’m also in that camp, mostly out of curiosity. I want to see what compromises they make on this game, and how they choose to accomplish certain tasks. It’s going to be a massive game culturally, and I want to be aware of what they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say there’s a 99.99% chance singleplayer works on Linux. Everything does now, unless they choose to not support it. The big question is if online does. It looks like maybe GTA5 Online works, but may require some work. Some things say it has kernel level AC, but some things say they’ve gotten it working. I’d say there’s probably a 70% chance online works.

  I’m not purchasing it regardless though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro-indie, pro-union, and anti-union-buster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the clear cups are becoming more common in the US. They are far flmisier though. This isn’t a huge deal, but I guess it makes sense why solo cups are preferred for beer pong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they aren’t good because they’re some specific unit of measure. They’re good because they’re consistent and fit the need. That’s how measures are crested in the first place. They aren’t magical things that exist in nature that we found. We just needed to measure something, so we used something convenient on hand that fit the task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to lose weight⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always collect the juice, or just buy it. Pomegranate is great, but it’s mostly just juice with seeds. Orange is very different than orange juice, for example, but pomegranate isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idols of Ash is great! We need more grappling hooks in games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I purchased this game so long ago, when it was fresh. I’m pretty confident I remember them talking about adding scripting, which seemed really obvious, but I’m pretty sure that never came.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s crazy, having played SMNC, how much of it has shown up in recent years. They were way ahead of the curve with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great game, and sold well below what it should have. Still, it’s published by Bethesda and made by Arkane. It didn’t do as well as it needed to, but everyone who’s remotely interested in the ImSim genre knows about it.

  If you want more ImSims though, check out Charlatan Wonder on YouTube. That’s his big thing. He recently did a video on Retro Space, and their demo is great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stationeers. It’s a game about managing a station on another planet. You have to manage things like the atmosphere composition and pressure, as well as temperature, while growing plants and mining/smelting metal. It’s a really cool game, with the refrigeration cycle actually functioning so you can build your own heatpumps.

  It’s made by the team making Kitten Space Agency, which they want to give away for free. Last I heard, they’re losing money developing Stationeers too, but they’re fine with that and continuing anyway. The owner of the studio is the person who made the DayZ mod, and I guess he’s got plenty of money now and just likes making games they’re passionate about.