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- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 3 weeks ago:
The last time I was handing out candy at my old neighborhood, kids would ring the doorbell but then they’d just stand there and stare at me until I handed them candy. You’re supposed to say “trick or treat”!
Now I live in an apartment, so I don’t get trick-or-treaters. (I have candy just in case, but nobody ever knocks.) My roommate went to hang out with his sister and hand out candy at her place, and apparently their neighborhood has decreed that trick-or-treating ends at 7 sharp now so that nobody is out after dark? I don’t get it. I thought staying out late (and, for teens, potentially unsupervised) was part of the fun!
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
Wow knowing the asset reuse was by design makes me feel way less charitable towards DA2. (I don’t know if I’d go as far as the other commenter and say it’s “a bad game,” but I didn’t like it.)
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
Initial reviews seem remarkably positive given what we saw in the first gameplay reveal a few months ago. My impression at the time was that about half the voice actors sounded like they hadn’t been given enough context about the scenario and some of the cutscenes had questionable direction, which were bad signs for a curated ten minute slice. I still think it’s ultimately not for me—I don’t really want action combat in my Dragon Age—but I’m glad people are enjoying it.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
My college workflow was to copy the prompt and then “paste without formatting” in Word and leave that copy of the prompt at the top while I worked, I would absolutely have fallen for this. :P
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 5 weeks ago:
How good of a friend are we talking? I care about my roommate’s nephew. I know his sister, and we’ve played D&D with his brother-in-law. The baby is, like, a relevant part of being friends with them. Similarly, if he went on vacation I’d want to hear about how it went, especially if anything interesting happened.
On the other hand some of my coworkers at my last job liked to talk about this kind of stuff, and I didn’t really care, but it was nice to have something to talk about while I was setting up a new printer for them, or whatever.
- Comment on Lemmy is self sufficient 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 1 month ago:
I knew it was going to be Kotick before I even clicked.
- Comment on The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee' 1 month ago:
“Real world politics”? Did I miss the part where Undead Demon Margaret Thatcher is running in the next UK election?
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 1 month ago:
The Build Mode features in 4 are pretty good if you’re into virtual dollhouse building, and there’s a ton of custom content for it.
Live Mode is not very good, but it’s functional enough to play dolls in the houses you built if you’re willing to do all the story writing to make up for sims not having very interesting personalities/desires/autonomy.
- Comment on Pacific Drive | Drive Your Way Fall 2024 Update 2 months ago:
It is part of the main gameplay loop. In order to keep your car in a state where it protects you and is reasonably driveable, you must gather materials to craft repair items and replacement parts, in order to maintain the car’s panels, doors, and bumpers (which together function as armor), its wheels (which are necessary to get anywhere), and the various add-on systems you can craft for it. Tools gradually break with use, so you’ll also craft replacement tools, which are mostly for scavenging materials or interacting with stuff in the Zone.
By collecting a certain resource you gradually unlock upgraded parts and tools for crafting, which is the main way player power progresses during the game.
- Comment on Do you ever get frustrated at your own creation? 2 months ago:
There are definitely some things it is healthier not to know, and I’m pretty sure this is one of them. It’s why I don’t ask my mom questions about my dad, who I have never met since being old enough to form memories and I would like to keep it that way.
- Comment on Where do you even meet people anymore? 2 months ago:
My friend seems to have good success meeting people in Discord channels about his niche interests, with the caveat that there is a lot more video calling than there is hanging out, because nobody lives in the same state. Maybe join a furry chat and say hello?
- Comment on Final Fantasy Creator Reveals Which Entry He Thinks Is 'Most Complete', and It's Not Final Fantasy 7 2 months ago:
Don’t you press R1 when your attack hits to pull the trigger for extra damage? You do use the revolver part, just only in close combat.
- Comment on Before times. 3 months ago:
Ginkgo don’t have flowers. They’re older than flowers.
- Comment on Anon goes questing 3 months ago:
I wish didn’t get bored of jobs so easily. Like, getting to use a cutting torch sounds fun, but I know that by the time I was any good at it I’d be sick of it already.
- Comment on Rubber ducky, ur the one 4 months ago:
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 4 months ago:
I will never understand the giga-rich. They could afford to hire round-the-clock help at rates that both buy expertise and inspire loyalty. Your house staff know where the bodies are buried, maybe literally—there’s no world where it makes sense to pay them less than six figures. Remember, $100,000 is 0.01% of $1,000,000,000, or about 0.003% of their estimated net worth of $37B. They could hire an extra maid at $100,000/year and not even notice the expense.
But they can afford even more than that. Splurge a little. Hire a specialist in early childhood education to tutor your kids. Get a chef who graduated from a renowned culinary school. They could afford to spend millions on salary. Why skimp? What do they think they are saving up for?
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 5 months ago:
Oof. Wasn’t this the one that was going to have in-depth object customization? I was looking forward to it from a dollhouse-building perspective. Even if it wasn’t great, having some competition might convince EA to allocate more dev resources to the Sims, which has ruthlessly embraced the “minimum viable product” philosophy for a long time.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal 5 months ago:
As a Blood Mage sympathizer, I say we let Solas cook!
- Comment on Anon's grandfather has been jerkin' some chains 5 months ago:
This is a pretty common style of humor among older people IRL, I feel like? The problem isn’t that he isn’t thinking of them as people, the problem is that since they can’t see him laugh at their reaction they never get let in on the joke, which is an important part of the difference between joking and trolling.
- Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson 5 months ago:
Iger was CEO when the project was announced, left for a while in the middle, missing the opening, and was back again in time to close it down. He stepped down in February 2020 and was reinstated in November 2022.
- Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson 5 months ago:
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Jenny is very popular but hasn’t uploaded to Youtube in a year, so this a big comeback.
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Star Wars is a popular franchise but has had mixed success recently, and Disney’s perceived mismanagement of it is a popular topic.
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It’s organized as an Internet-friendly numbered list!
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I, and apparently a lot of other people, could listen to Jenny talk about theme parks all day.
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- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 months ago:
This is Sakurai’s explanation, and it seems reasonable to me:
“I feel very sorry for making the user wait,” he explained. “If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time you will cause players to lose."
- Comment on This shit makes me want to murder, some times 6 months ago:
A while ago I spent 20 minutes doing captchas to try to reset the password to my Steam account. I finally Googled to see if it usually took so many, and it turned out to just be bugged, lmao. Had to reset it through the mobile app instead, IIRC.
- Comment on 'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable 6 months ago:
Rublite died after being found unconscious under her coat in an A&E waiting room more than eight hours after arriving.
- Comment on I don't really know how to deal with coworkers who emotionally dump their issues on me 6 months ago:
They think you look sympathetic and they’re trying to make friends.
- Comment on Anon encounters a Switch owner 7 months ago:
It did. In TotK only, put (almost) any weapon on the ground in front of a Rock Octorok and let it inhale it and spit it out. You’ll get back the same base weapon, with the same fused item, at full durability, but with a rerolled modifier.
- Comment on Anon encounters a Switch owner 7 months ago:
People in this thread really hate weapon durability, huh? I thought it was kind of genius, and that TotK introducing a way to repair weapons was really bad for the gameplay loop.
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 7 months ago:
Mine is like 50% vids from people I mildly dislike and 50% Vtubers. I think there is really just not very much good short content.
