ryven

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Baldur's Gate 3': Patch 8 Will Get TWELVE New Subclasses In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the world is ending, and the 13-day timer is very real. You basically get told “do as much as you can before the world ends” and let loose. So there’s urgency AND side questing.

  And of course you have the opportunity to spend that time doing things that are completely irrelevant to making progress, like collecting silly outfits and forcing Lightning to wear them so that Hope can laugh at her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ginkgo don’t have flowers. They’re older than flowers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes questing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Blood Mage sympathizer, I say we let Solas cook!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's grandfather has been jerkin' some chains⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Jenny is very popular but hasn’t uploaded to Youtube in a year, so this a big comeback.

  2. Star Wars is a popular franchise but has had mixed success recently, and Disney’s perceived mismanagement of it is a popular topic.

  3. It’s organized as an Internet-friendly numbered list!

  4. 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They think you look sympathetic and they’re trying to make friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon encounters a Switch owner⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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.