Stovetop
@Stovetop@lemmy.world
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 day ago:
Absolute embodiment of less is more. Controls are simple but intuitive, you can beat it in one session, there’s no major payoff in the end. It’s just a game about the journey and the friends made along the way.
I still remember having my mind blown that the other figure I met after the tutorial level was not just an NPC, when I noticed their movements were too deliberate and they were solving some puzzles for me.
I made it all the way to the end of the game with that person. Never knew who they even were until their name showed up at the very end. What a cathartic experience. I’ve also never been able to achieve anything similar since then.
- Comment on What should be known before launching a voice cloning application/service? 2 days ago:
You can go in with the best intentions, but people will find a way to abuse it for malicious purposes.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 2 days ago:
Agreed, those are my only two choices as well.
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I feel like the first two are basically the same thing and are also asking for a monkey’s paw sort of scenario to happen.
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I don’t want to stop shopping because there are things I want that can’t be obtained for free.
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I’m not the tallest, but I don’t feel any particular need to be any taller.
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I don’t want my emotions regulated to always be happy, because then you basically never truly are.
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Followers are overrated and creepy.
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And I’d never want to forget an ex because I’d end up losing a lot of good memories in the process.
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- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 5 days ago:
Could be good, Alex Garland is a very competent director.
The question is, what kind of story are they looking to tell? They can’t do a full chronology and having a simple “Tarnished kills all of the bosses” type of story would be very boring.
- Comment on 'Andor' Season 2 Debuts to Nielsen Viewership High With 721 Million Minutes 6 days ago:
Agreed. Rogue One was basically redeemed with that final act, basically right when it became clear to everyone that no one was getting off that planet alive. But everything leading up to it (aside from the opening) was basically just okay in retrospect, and I found myself rolling my eyes a bit at some of the memberberry cameos like R2 and C3PO just having a random conversation, or bumping into the guy with the weird face from the Tatooine cantina. And uncanny CGI Tarkin, which I remember thinking was fine when I first saw it but now just really sticks out a bit.
Surprisingly, other than the mere presence of some core characters, Andor didn’t rely on nostalgia bait at all and I think that really worked to its benefit.
- Comment on Was probably just measuring pasta 6 days ago:
Also great and valid advice.
- Comment on Was probably just measuring pasta 6 days ago:
Actually this. Most permanent marker comes off with alcohol. If you ever accidentally write on a whiteboard with permanent marker, just wipe it with rubbing alcohol, let it sit for a few seconds, and then wipe it again and it comes off essentially like dry erase.
- Comment on Day 309 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 6 days ago:
I am glad someone else noticed the painting! I had a good laugh when I saw it.
I’m almost positive the painting is supposed to be the count himself, painted either before he became a vampire or just made to look like he wasn’t a vampire.
If you’re interested in paintings, there’s a cool sidequest in Cheydinhal worth checking out.
- Comment on Draw an arrow to each temperature 1 week ago:
I do, those are definitely still temperatures.
- Comment on Draw an arrow to each temperature 1 week ago:
But there are 31 temperatures
- Comment on Fax machine 1 week ago:
Title made me think of one of my favorite videos.
- Comment on No dont look back! 1 week ago:
I am not PugJesus but maybe I can fill in context.
Odysseus: Legendary hero of The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus famously lied to a cyclops to make him believe that his name was “Nobody”, and so when Odysseus took an opportunity to blind the cyclops and escape, the cyclops could only say “Nobody did this/Nobody is escaping” or something to that effect when he went to get help, which went ignored.
Orpheus: Another Greco-Roman mythological figure, a musician who was skilled at playing a lyre. In one myth, his wife Eurydice died, and so he set off to the underworld to find her soul and bring her back to life. He visited Hades and played some tunes, and Hades was impressed enough to strike a bargain that he would be able to retrieve her soul and guide her back to the world of the living as long as he swore not to look at her until they arrived. Things went well enough basically right up until the very end when he had one moment of doubt and looked at her, at which point she vanished back to the depths of the underworld forever.
- Comment on Not enough real estate 1 week ago:
Found the full statue if anyone else was curious what the whole thing looked like:
- Comment on Corvid testing 1 week ago:
Unidan has entered the chat
- Comment on GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization 2 weeks ago:
No arguments here. I used to love Geoguessr when it was 100% free, but have never once paid for it since they switched to a subscription model. I just blame Google more than Geoguessr is all.
- Comment on GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that Google charges for use of their API. The game could switch to a traditional flat price model, but the moment they stop making enough in sales to pay Google for API access, the entire game is dead for everyone.
The subscription sucks but it’s basically a requirement to continue running. Would be nice if there was any sort of open map standard with even half the street view data Google has so they wouldn’t need Google at all.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 2 weeks ago:
So much for physical media.
- Comment on Onion 2 weeks ago:
Shattered by someone…or something.
- Comment on [Game Bundle] Xbox Games Studio Bundle 2 weeks ago:
Ori is very good.
Would recommend playing Ori and the Blind Forest before Will of the Wisps though, the plot might seem a bit confusing if you don’t.
- Comment on Or a shrimp 3 weeks ago:
Don’t know who the heck downvoted or why, but thanks for the info!
- Comment on Or a shrimp 3 weeks ago:
Fuck that is dark, what is this from?
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 3 weeks ago:
Then why the heck we call them gray matter?
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more 3 weeks ago:
At first I was like “Why would anyone want to change OoT’s art and mess with perfection?”, but I do have to admit that I have really been craving a modern Zelda game in the vein of the N64 releases, which is a formula they haven’t touched since Skyward Sword in 2011.
Wind Waker at least is a game that (visually) aged very gracefully and I think can still stand against newer games even now, but I’ve played it to death and just wish we had something new.
Also not to discredit BotW/TotK or anything, I think they are still great games and I also really enjoyed them, but they’re just built different. Zelda is now a franchise of 3 distinct styles, but only two of them (2D and open world) are still getting new releases.
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more 3 weeks ago:
This is the video I didn’t know I was looking for in life.
I’ve been very into Zelda rando stuff lately, but the mod support shown here just seems above and beyond what I’ve seen so far from my limited experience with Ship/2Ship.
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more 3 weeks ago:
Is this similar to the Ship of Harkinian recompiles, just as a different project?
- Comment on This is a photo of irony. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that is how the song went, the guy who was afraid to fly ended up getting on a plane, which crashed just like he was afraid it would.
Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye He waited his whole damn life to take that flight And as the plane crashed down He thought, “Well, isn’t this nice?”
- Comment on Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
No, those sorts of things can absolutely happen. Newer versions of games often either patch issues on older versions or there may be some glitches that are not as easy to take advantage of when the hardware isn’t struggling as much.
The Zelda Speedruns site even maintains a list of version differences for various Zelda games which make a difference to which version is optimal to run.
- Comment on Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Yep, even going way back, there are differences between speedrun times for Ocarina of Time on N64, Ocarina of Time on GameCube, Ocarina of Time on Wii VC, and Ocarina of Time on NSO. And that’s also not factoring in the native PC port recently assembled by the community.
And that’s why speedrun leaderboards always factor in game version/region and platform when measuring runs against one another.
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 4 weeks ago:
I think Bethesda has definitely fallen off in recent years, but I am a bit confused by the point this post is getting at. We all learned at launch that Oblivion is a remaster, not a remake, and it’s literally the original game running under the hood with a new coat of paint and some minor tweaks.
It’s not a half-assed remake, it’s a pretty high-effort remaster. But I think it’s a bad example to use of how the company isn’t getting better when the point of the remaster was to change as little of the core game as possible.
Starfield is what should be killing everyone’s expectations of Elder Scrolls 6.
- Comment on Asking the hard questions 4 weeks ago:
If someone had 3 eyes, would they trink?
