Cethin
@Cethin@lemmy.zip
- Comment on 12 years later, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth hits new steam peak player count 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Pro-indie, pro-union, and anti-union-buster.
- Comment on 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on Dunkle 2 weeks ago:
I assumed that there must have been, but I didn’t look it up. Thanks!
- Comment on Dunkle 2 weeks ago:
I guess the equivalent would be to make a really hairy rhino and elephant.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I agree. The game themes are about making money through doing crimes. If the gameplay doesn’t match that then they fucked up. It’s one of the most trivial things to do with the design of the game, but they think telling players no ever is bad, so they hand everything to you. What’s the point of the game then? I’m assuming the only reason this isn’t the same for multiplayer is because then they couldn’t sell you the solution.
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
That’s also assuming a data breach is required for it to be bad. What’s to stop them from using this to tie a person to activity? Then it makes it really hard to view things your country/employer/etc might not want you to see, for fear that there will be consequences for it.
If it was just a magical switch, to ban people under a certain age from social media, I’d be for that probably. It isn’t though. At best, there are consequences that effect everyone. At worst, this is a backdoor to push through internet tracking legislation.
- Comment on Happy birds 2 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s messed up. I don’t know if there’s an authority they could be reported to, but that sounds abusive.
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 3 weeks ago:
Based on my experience, a long time ago, no. Even if they self-diagnose as autistic, they also say hateful things about them, and anyone else for that matter.
- Comment on Happy birds 3 weeks ago:
This picture looks like it isn’t in a harsh climate. We generally think of penguins living in the polar ice caps, but there are several species that live in warmer climates. Based on the sandy beach here, I’m guessing this is one of those.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t actually say that it isn’t the closest to a classical British accent. It only says it’s diverged from the modern one. Yeah, it isn’t the same as the classical British accent, but I believe it preserves more of the characteristics than other English accents have. They’ve all diverged, but some less than others.
IIRC, there’s an island that’s very isolated in the US who’s accent is as close as possible to a classic British accent, but it’s a population of maybe a few dozen people, if that even at this point.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: southern Americans speak English more traditionally than anyone else. The British have fucked up the pronunciation so hard at this point. Their spelling is typically more traditional though, yeah.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 4 weeks ago:
I agree that we’ve lost some “education” in conflict handling. For example, I think people should get their asses kicked for doing things society doesn’t agree with, like neo-Nazis. That can’t really happen anymore because there’s too much surveillance, and it’s technically illegal. Things like the “no tolerance policy” have made this worse too, where defending yourself is the same as attacking someone.
On you’re question of learning to deal with ignorant assholes, no, I think I’d rather have parents that support me, because there’s already far too many ignorant assholes who will treat them poorly. There’s no need for a parent to add to that. They’ll learn that lesson soon enough, if they haven’t already. If they could choose one or the other, then sure, your option is better. They don’t though. They will be bullied and mistreated for it outside of the home. The least that could happen is for them to be able to come home and be welcomed for who they are without judgement.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 4 weeks ago:
I think you’re missing the point though. If you actually don’t give a fuck, and it would be something that they appreciate, why not change what you call them? Isn’t that the right thing to do? If it actually cost you something then fine, there’d be an argument to not do it. Also, if you cared about it then there’d be an argument to not do it. Since you’ve said you don’t care, why not just do it? If you can make your kid just a little happier, at no cost to yourself, why wouldn’t you take that opportunity?
I wish I could say you’re being selfish, but you aren’t even doing that. It doesn’t benefit you to not change. It’s just spite I guess. You think it effects who you are to be nice to your child in a way that doesn’t effect anything else.
Yeah, we don’t know what the reality of the situation is. We only know what you’ve said. What you’ve said though is uncomfortable to hear. I don’t like hearing about parents choosing to not do things that make their kid’s life a little easier for absolutely no reason. If you actually don’t care about what your child is called, and if you care about doing what’s right for your child, then change. It’s free, and I’m reasonable sure your child will appreciate it, probably more than you could realize. They obviously still want to be around you and don’t want to make you uncomfortable, so return the favor.
- Comment on Anon's dad tries to bond 4 weeks ago:
How can you be sure they don’t care? Could it be, instead, that they know it’ll just be a pain in the ass to get you to do what they want, so they don’t bother even if it’d make them happier? They’re appeasing you so they can still have a relationship with you. You are refusing to appease them. Your child sounds more mature than you do.
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 4 weeks ago:
One setting I recommend, though maybe not for the first time, is turning the infection timer, or whatever it’s called, to 0. In vanilla default settings you may be infected when bitten, but not always. There’s no cure, so you’re just waiting to find out if you’re infected, and it takes a while. At first it just looks like it could be a normal infected wound, but things keep getting worse. The standard “solution” at this point is to drink some bleach to die and start over. I prefer to skip all the waiting and have it instantly kill me if I get infected.
- Comment on Any other games that have a similar vibe to My Summer Car? 4 weeks ago:
Stationeers. It’s a game about building and maintaining a station on another planet, with complex and realistic gas/liquid mechanics, properly recreating the refrigeration cycle and everything. You have to grow food and create oxygen and water, and manage the temperature of your station. It has one of the steepest learning cliffs ever, but there are guides for everything online.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 4 weeks ago:
It’s worth a shot. You can get it pretty cheap sometimes. Honestly though, yeah, I think it’s probably better for people who haven’t played many souls-likes. For me, it feels clunky and super easy to cheese because I’m used to what it’s trying to do, and I know to use the mechanics to my advantage. I spent a good few hours with it, but eventually stopped playing. I didn’t dislike it, but I put it down one day and then never had the interest of coming back.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 4 weeks ago:
Protondb.com is your friend, but also essentially everything can that isn’t multiplayer, and most of that can as long as it isn’t from EA or China.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 4 weeks ago:
It’s very Souls-inspired, but (as someone who has played a good number of souls games) it’s done fairly poorly. It’s still far more interactive than TES games, but it’s clunky. It’s not bad, just bad compared to the Souls games, which are particularly good, but the rest of the game is quite different from a souls game. It’s basically if you take the bonfires and combat system from a souls game and stick it in a narrative focused RPG.