Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the one! Lol my memory about it was so vague that while I remembered you had to collect things in the maze, I didn’t remember it was a capture the flag game. It came on the windows 95 CD, though IIRC you had to install it separately from windows, which I think meant not that many people were aware of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t even tried 1 in a long time. It’s been a while since I played 2, so maybe it won’t be so bad. I’ve even got my own copy now, though I think I might still have the burnt copy of brood wars from my friend’s disc lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’ll have to check that out. I’ve been letting it update when it wanted and kinda assumed I had missed the window of breakable versions.

  But yeah, your second paragraph is also accurate sounding to me. Though I do wonder if they see the video game market similar to the other media markets, considering how no one seems to be able to compete very well with Valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only is it a huge brand, it’s also a struggling brand. Like as disappointing as Sony has been lately and while I do have some regret that I got a PS5, I have never once wished I had instead gotten an xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox division after Phil Spencer's exit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention proton and dx2vk handle playing directx games on Linux more reliably than most linux native games (at least in my experience… If a game doesn’t work, odds are it’s using the steam linux runtime and switching to proton gets it to work).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how it was Laura Croft’s triangular prism boobs that became so famous when there were better boob depictions in games with detailed pixel art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those ones above were all included with windows back in the day, like installed from the disc when you installed windows, then they’d be discoverable in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games (other than paint, which was in accessories) IIRC. Eventually they moved it out of the accessories folder, then later on they changed which games were included, eliminating some, though these ones I believe remained the longest until MS started instead advertising games they had on the windows store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We thought it could never get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember once getting a demo CD for strategy games (not a cereal box one but one they had for like $5 beside the cash register at computer stores). It set a trajectory on my life that resulted in my later WoW addiction.

  That disc had Dune II on it, the first RTS game I ever played. I was instantly hooked. Then I tried Warcraft II (also on that disc) and it was even better. I mentioned it to a friend at school and he had just gotten SC:BW, which meant he had two play discs and let me borrow the SC disc first, then the BW disc later and we played a ton of StarCraft. Somehow, on battle.net despite using the same key (my assumption is they screwed something up in early manufacturing and duplicated some keys, which meant they couldn’t just limit it to one player online at a time per key for some set of keys that included my friend’s).

  That eventually led to me discovering the StarCraft modding community, which defined my later high school years. Funny enough, I wasn’t even into modding that much, I was more fascinated with the tools that enabled it and the reverse engineering process involved in building those tools.

  It also led me on my path to D2, WC3, SC2, and finally WoW (uh, might have the order wrong for SC2).

  I wonder how things would have gone for me without that demo disc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be reality sooner than you think⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When they first come out, there will probably be stories of people trying to do that but then crashing when they run out of compressed air but the traffic they are trying to avoid is still there and not leaving them room to land. Assuming they even maintain enough control for that to be relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My stove is just a platform for my 2 burner induction hotplate. Way more efficient and faster than the radiative heat burners on the stove, though I’ll use then occasionally for large pots or stone bowls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates new slang⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This could be adapted into a strategy. Use some words that look like they follow some other pattern, deliberately pronounce them and volunteer a definition as if they do to prompt a challenge, basically gaslighting your opponent into losing confidence in challenging to allow you to start making up words later on. You’d basically convert Scrabble into poker lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For those still on windows, it’s very infuriating. For those that have made the switch, it becomes mildly amusing. Averages out to mildly infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Make one right now. Stick it on your keychain. Then you will be prepared to at least boot into Linux on a moment’s notice. Should probably also have a look around and figure out how to show a presentation on there or do whatever you might need to suddenly do there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, this is why I went out of my way to make sure I could control updates for my personal machine where the only consequences of it doing a random update would be that I can’t use it until it’s done. I didn’t even ever have it actually do an annoying update because the frustration was obvious as soon as I heard the term “automatic updates”, like this isn’t just for some program, it’s for the OS itself and will demand restarts.

  And that isn’t even mentioning the undesirable updates, like the buggy ones or the ones that just enshitify your OS rather than add anything anyone wants, like all those windows 7 “get ready for windows 10” ones and apparently some people even got an automatic “7 to 10” update.

  And then on Linux, every part of updating is nicer, other than the supply chain attacks (which is unfortunately serious enough I could see it threatening the entire Linux ecosystem itself).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true story⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The private table in the break room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nice sleeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailor shop. You can try the armor shop, too, but that’s more hit or miss for cloth items.

  Or, if you’re the daring type, a wizard’s tower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When lemmy is down and you can't shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any time Lemmy.world goes down, I get reminded I should check my sh.itjust.works notifications more often when looking at months old replies to comments I made the last time it was down when I wanted to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon listens to the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my favourite was the brief period where there were full physical qwerty keyboards on phones, which existed before smart phones did because texting was popular before smart phones. Also, smart phones existed before iphones did and I held on to my BlackBerry torch for a while after iphones and later android were a thing specifically because I knew I’d hate touchscreen keyboards.

  Phones actually de-enshitified, too, because there used to be a huge market for things like ringtones, wallpapers, emoji packs. I remember getting a special cord to connect my phone and PC to be able to set my own shit because I wasn’t paying for a 20 second clip from a song, not to mention no one was even trying to sell the FF battle music as ring tones, which I thought was perfect because phone calls are like random encounters lol (boss battle music for my parents haha). These days you can just set those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They all look like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon listens to the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re underestimating people’s ability to text on those old number pads. When it was all that was there, people got good at doing it. They were physical buttons so it was easier to touch type on them than today’s touchscreen phones. It was just a different layout that needed to be memorized, but it was a pretty simple one, if annoying to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if? WHAT IF?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a kid and had that nervousness. I remember when we left the hospital, it felt like it was too easy, like “we just made this kid, an actual person, and you’re just letting us leave and take it home with us!? Isn’t that irresponsible??”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is there’s no such thing as immutable rules unless you’re talking about the laws of physics. Any system only exists because the (sum of the) people in it allow it to exist. Laws only matter because there’s the hard power of force backing the soft power of the courts and branches of government. The unfortunate truth of this reality is that might does indeed make right, not so much in a moral sense but in a “what are you doing to do about it?” sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with max terms, mainly because good leaders are fucking rare and if they want to keep going, it’s to everyone’s benefit. Plus, as Trump is showing, when the really bad ones come along, they’ll challenge the maximum rules anyways and not give a shit about the optics like a good faith leader that feels like they need to answer to their population.

  Though maybe each leadership term should end with a trial of some sort, though it would be difficult or impossible to be sure that those trials would be run in good faith rather than the ruling class taking it over to punish leaders that hurt them for the sake of the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.

  We’re also lucky to be on this planet during the time the sun and moon’s apparent sizes match. Being able to see a total solar eclipse where you can see immediately around the sun without needing a spaceship might be incredibly rare in the universe. Though total solar eclipses in general are pretty common, assuming our gas giants’ accumulation of moons is typical for giant planets, they’d happen any time the moon passed through the giant’s shadow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a mental health professional isn’t going to be much help with the actual issue, they are more about how to cope with it. Which is also the case when dealing with past trauma; the past is in the past and no one can change that no matter what kind of licenses they have. And while mental health professionals can do something about the system, those things have nothing to do with what their expertise is in (assuming they are the kind that has expertise and aren’t just using people’s issues to recruit or strengthen their ties to their cult and that kind doesn’t want to help you but wants their cult to join in the capitalists in exploiting you, though some do seem to believe they are helping people).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the tera tera. Terra terror or Terra tearer, or a trillion terajoules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon experiences a glitch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are demons gathering strength and waiting for you to let your guard down and go to sleep!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Kid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The medical exemption also gives access to the older gen dispensaries, which can have better prices/options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name me country which has better food than England⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never expected a your mom joke to have so many layers, thanks for the setup!