Rai
@Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 22 hours ago:
Thank you for your thoughtful perspective! I didn’t mean to be so harsh on the game—it just really didn’t hit for me. I think honestly the “adult versions of characters imagining themselves but younger” wasn’t something I even thought of; I took the dialogue as if it was just coming straight from the writers. That’s an interesting way to frame it, and I should take another look with that in mind.
I’m also about the right age bracket, maybe a tad older? My childhood and teen years generally ranged from boring to “pretty alright” with a little bad sprinkled in though; very little gives me nostalgia for that time of my life. I suppose that’s a good thing? Kinda? I dunno. But thank you again! :3 I have not played any DA games but I do have some, and I’ve heard they’re great. The beginning of DA2 you describe sounds great, hahaha
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I don’t even mind what happens in Bloom and Rage, both my partner and I were in psychic pain listening to the horrible, unnatural dialogue from all of the extremely unlikable characters the whole time.
Haven’t heard of Vampyr or Banishers—I’ll look into those!
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I really enjoyed the first game, but the rest of them got progressively worse from me. Out of curiosity, what stuck out about Bloom and Rage? I found it to be the worst of all of them; the characters were written in an insanely out-of-touch way, the dialogue was sooo painful to me.
I gotta go through Before the Storm, though!
- Comment on Bluetooth earphones won't connect and need manual connection again 🤬 2 days ago:
I still have my first pair of AirPods I got 13 years ago. Used them for 40+ hours a week when I’d be in an office doing nothing all day. Never had any issues with them, and I still use them occasionally (although rarely, after getting a pair of pros.) The batteries are pretty sad after all these years—I get about two or three hours of charge before they have to go in the case.
But they still work, and that’s pretty old!
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 3 days ago:
I’m curious how they’d respond to this… as far as I know, there were a handful of mods for other games that kinda did the concept but no actual games, certainly not the way any games do BR after PUBG’s release. H1Z1? But not really, as PUBG’s creator did a lot of that…
the closest things would probably be last-man-standing shooters but those aren’t BR games.
- Comment on You need to think long term 4 days ago:
I worked with a Barb Adcock! Her E-mail was indeed [firstinitial][lastname]@school, which must’ve been a hoot with students.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 5 days ago:
I had a friend with rich parents who had one and it diiiiiid have some burn-in. Old rear-projection and early plasma TVs were verrry susceptible to that hahaha
As a kid, I would have been CRUSHED if we had one of these and I couldn’t play SNES on it…
- Comment on The 1996 experience 5 days ago:
If only… our 27” family CRT was like a thousand dollars. A nobody had rear projection TVs until like the 2000s!
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 6 days ago:
Thank yoooou! <3 It was very interesting!
Never tried an opiate before (by choice—I’ve tried everything else!) but they asked me if I wanted something for pain, and after my partner chastising me a lil bit about me minimizing my pain (“oh, I’m at a six or so” “RAI, you’ve been curled into a ball crying for two days. YOU’RE IN HOSPITAL!” “…okay, maybe a nine. I’m still conscious so it’s probably fine”) I said I’d love that. They injected me with morphene which was neat, then a later nurse was like “oh strange, they marked you down to get (other type of thing with morphene in the name but more words before it), do you want to change or stay with what you’ve got? It’s quite a bit stronger.” I figured I’ll proooobably (and very hopefully) never have that chance/option again, so I happily agreed. That was a very floaty week.
- Comment on Nice 1 week ago:
ehehehe that’s a good one
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Oh man, have you heard of Dragonborn Speaks Naturally? You can scream the shouts, for sure, but you actually say the lines of dialogue your character speaks to NPCs to select them! Paired with VR (and a hundred other mods) it’s one of the craziest game experiences I’ve ever played!
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
Enshrouded and Palworld feel a lot like BotW/TotK to me, but better overall gameplay and worse dungeon puzzles!
I went straight from BotW to Elden Ring and ER was like exploring BotW but every part of the map had interesting things everywhere, made BotW feel really empty in comparison.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
Ugh I got to the last biome and loved it sooo much, then got HEAVY (like 80+ hours a week, recovering from almost dying irl lul) into modding Valheim after playing 200 hours of vanilla. I’m now almost 1000 into Valheim and taking a lil break.
Waiting now for Enshrounded to go 1.0, and starting over. Sooooo psyched!
- Comment on stroke confirmed 1 week ago:
I am wayyy too lazy today but I desperately want to edit that to Yaranaika
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 1 week ago:
Outdoors takes that long?! Wild! Teachers were flushin’ in like a month or two. Good luck on your outdoor grow! :3
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 1 week ago:
Thank you, I’ll look into that! I’d love more stuff at home that I can make vegan meals with for friends who don’t eat animal products (and I just love eating mushrooms!)
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 1 week ago:
Oh yah, all it takes is a plastic tub with a latching lid and a fine mist spritzer! The first time I did super poorly but had pins in a couple weeks, and got a couple flushes (which I harvested way too late.)
Another try and the first flush was WAY more thicc, got about seven flushes over the course of two or three months before I stopped them. Just threw em in a room with no special light or anything, just spritzed twice a day or so. Barely touched them or did anything, just went in to wet em a little and admire them occasionally. They were extremely self-sufficient!
Took ages to dry, but once completely dried out, easily 120+g total from the second batch!
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 1 week ago:
Are oysters and shiitakes easy? I did Teachers and they were soooooo simple, it was fascinating! It’d be nice to have some just to eat for yum and not expedience.
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 2 weeks ago:
Dawg my whole ass comment was just for that last line tbh I was tired as shit but still giggled writing it
- Comment on Anon does some genealogy 2 weeks ago:
If you’re talking about the US, you are incredibly misinformed. Selling slaves for money was an insanely lucrative business. It’s not called “The Transatlantic Slave Here You Can Just Have Some”
- Comment on Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28 2 weeks ago:
My favorite “Diablo II” runeword!
- Comment on Elden Ring Tarnished Edition launches August 28 2 weeks ago:
H O R S E
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- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you, and I felt Ragnarok (and to a lesser extent, the original God Of War PS…4?) were also Marvel-style slop. Ragnarok was paaaainful.
Love hearing SungWon Cho anywhere and everywhere, though.
- Comment on It's called swordfighting and it's a respectable sport. 2 weeks ago:
Blast from the past!
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! Xbox and PS3 games hold up, sometimes… sometimes not, for me. Most GC/DC/PS2 games hold up great for me. Most stuff before that looks excellent still (sometimes requiring a CRT.)
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 2 weeks ago:
What does 6th and 7th gen mean?
I want games with 90s to mid 2000s graphics. FMV was the height of graphics hahaha
- Comment on Life Is Strange 3 weeks ago:
That’s unnecessarily condescending, they weren’t shitting on the first game.
The rest of their games ranged from “meh” to “holy fuck this is terrible” (bloom and rage) but the first game was genuinely fun and enjoyable.
- Comment on Life Is Strange 3 weeks ago:
The writing is by far the best, too. It’s a bit cringe in a clever, “yeah, I was definitely cringe in high school too” kinda way. No super painful moments, just fun/funny and sometimes mega dark. The games get more and more painful as they go on… the second game was blah, true colors was mostly pretty painful dialogue- and story-wise, and Bloom and Rage was hilariously bad, like comically horribly bad. All of the characters were horribly written and had insanely bad dialogue.
I really need to play Before the Storm! I’d also happily replay the first game… I played it near when it came out, with my partner. We both really enjoyed it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh that’s amazing hahaha. I downloaded it without reading more than your description, then played it with my partner without saying anything about it. About 2/3s of the way through the cans… top score so far is a B.
I wonder what it was that made me tag you with a green tag that says “I like this person”…?
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
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