ryven
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on I honestly think they're impossible to understand 5 days ago:
I love learning new rules. It’s honestly almost as much fun to me as actually playing the game.
- Comment on Dune game 1 week ago:
Oh cool, I guess I just didn’t see it!
- Comment on Dune game 1 week ago:
With regard to vehicle combat, I find it very strange that the very first NPC we meet has a man-portable surface-to-air missile launcher, but there don’t seem to be any anti-vehicular weapons that players can use.
Or at least I think there aren’t; I’m not nearly as far as you are, but I looked ahead in the research tab and didn’t see any.
- Comment on Dune game 1 week ago:
I am about 4-ish resource tiers in out of 7-ish or so, and I don’t feel like it is especially grindy by the standards of survival crafting games. There is obviously some grinding for resources, but there is also a good amount of exploring and doing quests, during which you can pick up a lot of the things you need. Getting through the iron tier was a little bit long because you don’t have access to a large vehicle inventory yet at that point, but I also took that time to reveal a bunch of the map, clear out bandit camps, etc. so it didn’t become too monotonous. There are a good variety of secondary resources that will keep you visiting different kinds of locations (wrecked ships, old mining operations, etc.) so that even if you just want to farm resources, you won’t just be spending all your time running between ore nodes.
If your friends would be playing together, they could also do things more efficiently by sharing bases so that they don’t each have to build their own infrastructure, and eventually you get access to a mining buggy that is faster to operate with two players (a solo player has to switch between the driver and mining laser seats).
- Comment on ICE Protests Pop Up on Roblox as Kids Organize Virtual Demonstrations: 'FRICK ICE' 2 weeks ago:
The kids are alright.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 weeks ago:
This is the one where we bully our little brother into going back to the world where he can’t walk, right? :P
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 2 weeks ago:
Canceled Pride? Well, I canceled my sub!
- Comment on Anon plays Metroid 2 weeks ago:
The first screen is sort of a tutorial, though. If you go right first because you’ve played Super Mario Bros. or some other platformer and you think going right might be the way to win, you’re presented with a narrow passage you can’t crawl through. At this point, you’ll discover that you can also go left. There’s another rock formation with a narrow passage, but from this side you can jump on top of it to get over it, and you’ll find the Morph Ball. From the Morph Ball side, you can’t jump back over, so you have to figure out how to get through the narrow passage by pressing down to enter Morph Ball mode. Now you understand the game: find obstacles, acquire the corresponding upgrade, use it to bypass the obstacles.
- Comment on the young always think they have all the right answers but THIS eventually happens 1 month ago:
Nah man, the older I get the less I trust adults. They let me be one and I’m the biggest fuckup I’ve ever met!
- Comment on Nathan Fielder Created a Fake Singing Competition for ‘The Rehearsal.’ One Contestant Lost $10,000 and Feels Betrayed: ‘I Signed Up to Be a Singer, Not a Lab Rat’ 1 month ago:
How is it hard to get mad at Fielder? I don’t see how this isn’t a huge dick move.
All of these shows where you recruit people under false pretenses about what kind of show they’re going to be on are extremely gross, and have been since the invention of reality TV.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
It’s been a long time, but it’s supposed to be coming out this year.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 Dev Announces More Emergency Changes as Recent Steam User Reviews Hit 'Mostly Negative' 2 months ago:
“If you’re a masochist who enjoys being punished for little to no reward, this game is for you,” reads another negative review.
Hot damn, they made this update just for me? I was holding off checking out POE2 but I guess I should.
- Comment on in case of emergencies, light it. 2 months ago:
Well, the good thing about the inert gas systems is that they work even if the fire starts when you aren’t there. We didn’t have the budget for one, so we just hoped there wouldn’t be a fire after 5pm.
- Comment on in case of emergencies, light it. 2 months ago:
This is like the place I worked where our server room fire suppression system was a handheld extinguisher and a “Guardian Angel of Computers” wall hanging.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 3 months ago:
Americans are notoriously terrible at protesting. I was in high school in the '00s and our textbook had a sidebar about the 1999 Seattle WTO protests. The bit that stuck with me: a French dignitary interviewed on the scene was unconcerned about the protesters. He pointed to an untouched BMW. “In Paris,” he said, “That car would be burning.”
- Comment on surgeon generas warning 3 months ago:
Smoking proves that you officially Don’t Give a Shit about your long-term health, and Not Giving a Shit is the essence of being cool. I mean, I guess for a long time now “cool” has just meant “good,” but the original “cool” aesthetic was all about acting like you were probably going to die young and looking sexy doing it.
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 3 months ago:
The cars make contact so much in this game that it feels like a missed opportunity to not have damage, at least visually. I want to see those cars crumple!
I know it’s typically because of licensing issues, though.
- Comment on WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again 3 months ago:
Any% clear!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Can we blame this on the engagement era? The first competitive game I got into was Unreal Tournament 2004, and it seemed like every team deathmatch had one or two players who were in a completely different league from everyone else so the result just depended on which team they were on. You can’t blame the matchmaking because it didn’t have any, you just picked a server to connect to and played with whoever was there.
- Comment on I don't have my shit together 4 months ago:
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 months ago:
It’s a US label and the percents are % of recommended daily intake. So that’s 3% of your daily recommended carbohydrate intake, 6% of your daily recommended intake of sugar, and 12% of your daily recommended intake of “added” sugar. The recommendation is something like, no more than half of your carbs should come from sugar, and no more than half of those should be added during manufacturing (i.e. most of your sugar intake should be from fresh fruit, etc.). So the numbers do line up.
- Comment on Anon achieves optimal testosterone 4 months ago:
What can I say, I aim to please!
- Comment on Anon achieves optimal testosterone 4 months ago:
I mean, this is clearly a bit, but I don’t think addicts smoke exactly one cigarette a day. Some people who smoke small amounts never become addicted. I used to smoke, like, half a pack over a few weeks, forget where I left it, and then go months without smoking. Haven’t smoked at all in probably eight years now, not because I intentionally quit but just because I couldn’t be assed to carry them around any more. (I really only started buying cigs so that I could stop telling people I didn’t smoke when they asked to bum one.)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you call someone “daddy,” it means you’re having sex and you consider them to be the dominant partner in the relationship (or are roleplaying that for sexual reasons). Your language partner is being a creep.
There is some very old slang, “daddy-o,” which isn’t sexual and would be used with a friend, but using it makes you sound like a jazz musician from the 1940s.
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 4 months ago:
My friend tried to convince me to get into bitcoin early and I didn’t bother, I thought it was just a fad, like my mom “investing” in Beanie Babies.
He spent all his on drugs before the price took off though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Luck be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play 5 months ago:
It is hard to see how the slot machine in LBALL can be gambling when you are guaranteed to profit on every spin (unless you’ve intentionally designed a machine where you can win nothing, but that seems like your fault). Gambling involves risking a stake, but in almost every configuration of the machine that you’ll encounter during normal play there is no risk, you are guaranteed to make more than it costs to spin. The challenge is to make enough to stay ahead of the landlord.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 5 months ago:
The Sims 3. I had to figure out how to disable OneDrive backup for my Documents folder, because Sims 3 insists on keeping your saves there, and somehow everything breaks if OneDrive tries to sync them. Previously I had given in and let OneDrive sync everything because Win11 nags you if you try to avoid it.
I also have to fiddle with processor affinity to get the game to launch, because it doesn’t play nice with modern processor architecture.
It still crashes a lot.
- Comment on Hurry 6 months ago:
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 6 months ago:
World of Warcraft is probably still in the lead even though I stopped playing years ago. It would be in the thousands of hours, which dwarfs anything else I’ve played.
- Comment on 'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025 6 months ago:
I think I’m part of the Terraria crowd (I play through it basically every time there’s a big content update, at least) and I think the patience argument has a lot of merit even with games like Terraria. If you were only going to play through Terraria once, waiting longer would mean you got to play through more content. For people with limited time to game, I think it makes a lot of sense to focus on games that have had more time to build up features so that they get a more complete experience.
