garretble
@garretble@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Game Threads] 28 May 2025 Conference Finals 1 hour ago:
Alright, Thunder, time to close this one out so I can have a stress free weekend.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 26 May 2025 Conference Finals 1 day ago:
Phew.
TOUGH game.
I’m the glad the Thunder won, but the Wolves role players could not miss.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 26 May 2025 Conference Finals 1 day ago:
Alright, let’s just scrub Saturday from our collective consciousness.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 24 May 2025 Conference Finals 3 days ago:
It looks like they will get this one. Thunder can’t hit anything.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 24 May 2025 Conference Finals 4 days ago:
Come on Thunder!
- Comment on [Game Threads] 22 May 2025 Conference Finals 5 days ago:
This was a good win. Just two more.
- Comment on Sources: OKC's Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA MVP 6 days ago:
His speech that aired a few minutes ago was good. Just a good dude.
This is the video OKC created for him: youtu.be/6oTd_puzq8I
- Comment on Sources: OKC's Gilgeous-Alexander wins NBA MVP 1 week ago:
Very nice!
- Comment on [Game Threads] 20 May 2025 Playoffs Conference Finals 1 week ago:
Hell to the yeah Thunder W!
- Comment on [Game Threads] 20 May 2025 Playoffs Conference Finals 1 week ago:
Hoping this is the Thunder’s season. Just two more teams to go.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 1 week ago:
I appreciate that they didn’t kill the game. If people are still paying for it, and presumably making even a little profit, it’s probably not that hard to keep it running.
Too, I don’t really know how I’ll feel if/when FFXIV ever shuts down. I have had a character now since 2.0, and I would be very sad to see them go. I imagine it’s the same for some folks who have been playing 11 for 20 years.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 1 week ago:
Yeah, I played it for the first time in the last couple of years, too.
And I enjoyed the game more than I expected to. It’s a lot slower, like you said, than FFXIV for example, but that’s OK.
I agree that I’d love a bit of a remake that just made a few things more streamlined like linking up attacks with my trust party - which I found to be often nearly impossible to do, even with mods.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 1 week ago:
So I was on a personal mission to beat every mainline FF game a couple years ago. For 14 I considered “beat” to mean be up to date with the story (which I was doing anyway), and for 11 I wanted to at least complete the story that the game shipped with simply because I didn’t want to sink TOO much time into it.
Anyway, you are able to get from 1-50 and kill the Shadowlord on your own now. I can attest to that. And after doing that I have now successfully finished FF1-16!
On my server there were still plenty of people. I don’t know how many are gold bot farmers. But there was still lots of characters running around.
- Comment on Thunder bludgeon Nuggets in Game 7 blowout 1 week ago:
I can now rest easy for two nights and return to being stressed for a couple of weeks.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 17 May 2025 Playoffs RD 2 1 week ago:
Thunder need to pull their heads out a little bit and make some shots.
And that’s extremely easy for me to say, I know.
But mostly I hope they take smarter shots, really. Credit to the Nuggets, but it felt like OKC was forced to jack up pretty ugly shots a lot. And then that seemed to snowball as shots weren’t going in.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 14 May 2025 Playoffs RD 2 1 week ago:
Thunder are going to fuck around and lose this series.
They can’t go on any more streaks where they miss 13+ shots.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 11 May 2025 Playoffs RD 2 2 weeks ago:
Uuugly first half.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 09 May 2025 Playoffs RD 2 2 weeks ago:
Thunder really need to win this one. We can’t have a repeat of Monday.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 07 May 2025 Playoffs RD 2 2 weeks ago:
Thunder aren’t that good. They only broke the record for points in a half during the playoffs.
Anyone can do that.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 07 May 2025 Playoffs RD 2 2 weeks ago:
Come on, Thunder!
- Comment on Nuggets stun OKC in unbelievable finish to Game 1 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the fouling situation was insane.
But at the same time, don’t let your opponent score something like 18-6 in the last five minutes.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 05 May 2025 Playoffs 3 weeks ago:
Well, fart on that.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 22 Apr 2025 Playoffs 5 weeks ago:
I was there. I helped win the game for us. You’re welcome.
- Comment on West Playoff Picture with 1 Week Left 1 month ago:
I’m still really surprised that the Rockets are coming in so hot out of left field. Good for them.
And the Luka trade. Man, what a bad trade for the Mavs.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
My Windows 10 PC’s only function at this point is to play FFXIV in my living room, so I’m not super worried about viruses or anything.
But maybe eventually I’ll switch to Linux on that box and do that weird set-up to get FFXIV running there.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds: First Impressions After the Long-Awaited Release 1 month ago:
I think last night I hit HR38 or so, so I have played it about 40 hours.
And I will start by saying this my first Monster Hunter. I have zero old baggage or knowledge coming in (other than trying Rise for maybe an hour because it was free on PSN+ and that not clicking at all).
Performance: I fortunately have a 120hz VRR OLED, so the 40fps mode on my PS5 is pretty solid. It feels good. No, I will not be taking questions from PC zealots at this time - though I do feel bad for you guys that it sounds like there are some issues there they need to resolve. On console it’s pretty solid.
The game: I’m really enjoying it. Like I said, I don’t have any prior experience really coming in, so it’s all new to me. And after what felt like climbing a sheer cliffside of learning curve to understand how to just play the game, I’m vibing with most all of it now. It was really hard to adjust my brain to think that Square is NOT the attack button, but rather Circle and Triangle. But once that clicked finally, I’m Charge Blading and Bug Lancing all over the place. It’s fun.
I’ve read some complaints here and there about the wound system, but I like it. I like doing cool moves in the middle of a fight for big damage.
The worst part of the game is playing with others. Once you get it working it’s fun to play with friends. But just getting to that point is awful. I’m reminded of that meme of the three dragon heads where the two, serious ones on the left are the graphics and gameplay, and the derpy one on the right is multiplayer. I shouldn’t have to look up online how to do what I’d assume is a simple thing: play with my friends. No one knows what a lobby is versus a link party versus an environment link party versus a squad…It’s all too much shit up front to learn and untangle. It took my brothers and I about an hour to set up a game the first time we tried. It’s madness.
But overall, I’m still enjoying this game. I don’t care that it’s “easier” like I hear from some people. It’s fun. My sword and shield turns into a chainsaw. I’m having a good time.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 26 Feb 2025 2 months ago:
Not gonna lie, at half when the Thunder were down I decided to go to the gym instead of sit on the couch.
It was me. My act of watching was making the Thunder play bad. I’m the problem.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 2 months ago:
Now that it has been three years, while I’d like to have one, I feel like I’ll just wait until whatever the next version is - even if that means waiting another year or so.
I don’t need one, particularly, and I don’t want to be caught at the tail end of this hardware.
- Comment on [Game Threads] 24 Feb 2025 2 months ago:
For real. Thunder should have won with the lead they had.
But, in basketball, no 20 point lead is safe.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
I hate this dumbshit as much as trump, but we shouldn’t be sharing fake twitter posts. It doesn’t help anything.