rtxn
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I take my shitposts very seriously.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 7 hours ago:
some developers “hope” the next installment in the GTA franchise will be priced at $80–$100
Management are not developers.
Executives are NOT DEVELOPERS.
Shareholders are NOT DEVELOPERS.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 11 hours ago:
David Cage is a pretty good hack
- Comment on People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat? 14 hours ago:
I just suffer through any mandatory outdoor events (mostly in silence, but sometimes wailing and profanities are included) and limit myself to activities after sunset, I always keep a bottle of water with me, and I have an hourly reminder to drink when I’m on the computer.
- Comment on Saviour 16 hours ago:
I’ve seen people hail him as the saviour of muslims like 2016-2020 didn’t happen.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 16 hours ago:
Hey Hulu, how many masts on my full-rigged ship?
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 6 days ago:
Low voltage: “Oh no, there is a tiny spot of corrosion on the contact surface, I think I need to lie down…”
High voltage: (rips line of coke) “I’M GONNA MAKE MY OWN WIRES WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS!”
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
I remember Mirror’s Edge getting praise for its runner vision because of how well it integrated into the already strong visua style.
But then I also remember Half-Life 2 using nothing like that. It used player training, framing, and visual/aural/mechanical cues. The Ravenholm chapter was particularly great at that.
You enter the chapter. It’s a long shot of a backyard. The way forward is marked by a flock of crows, a pair of legs swinging from a tree, and light coming from the building. The building is full of sawblades and propane tanks, and a zombie torso perched on top of a blade stuck deep in the wall. Your path forward is blocked by debris, which forces you to slow down, and you had just received the gravity gun, so your options are obvious. The game is telling you what to do in a completely diegetic way. When you first meet Grigori, you leave a well-lit area and walk through a dark alley, which frames your view and forces you to look at the introduction. You can’t progress until you figure out the fire trap mechanic. Then you disarm a high voltage trap, which is marked by a loud spark, and the effect of your action is immediately visible through a window with a strong contrast between the cold exterior and warm interior light. Immediately after that, you get inroduced to the poison headcrabs in a safe place where their mechanic is obvious, but can’t actually kill an unprepared player. The fast zombie introduction still gives me the creeps. Having them leap across the moonlit cityscape was not only absolute cinema, but it quickly taught the player what kind of enemy to expect.
The yellow adventure line is a crutch. It marks either the laziness or outright failure of a designer to train the player. Half-Life 2 was a masterpiece and the gold standard of environmental design that the likes of Naughty Dog can’t even come close to replicating.
- Comment on How to take CPU out? 1 week ago:
LGA sockets (including AM5) have flat contacts on the CPU and spring-loaded contacts on the motherboard. You could take a small tweezer or precision flathead screwdriver and lift the CPU from a corner. As long as you don’t reach in too deep, it won’t damage either side.
- Comment on How to take CPU out? 1 week ago:
If you’re sure the clip is released, but can’t/don’t want to lift it by its edges, you could use suction.
- If there’s still some moisture in the thermal compound, you can use a flat piece of glass or plastic. Press it against the CPU’s surface and lift gently. If the thermal compound is dry, apply a little from a new tube.
- A small suction cup might work.
- There are vacuum pens made specifically for this kind of work.
- Comment on Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin. 1 week ago:
People have forgotten the simple joy of climbing to the top of a sketchy structure and suffering major contusions and broken bones on the way down.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 2 weeks ago:
What if Hitler had access to social media in 1939?
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 2 weeks ago:
My entire house is 3000K
Your heating expenses must be absurd.
- Comment on The children yearn for the mines 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Team building events back when I was working in a factory. One day a year we had the option* to go to a crowded bar and have overpriced drinks with the same people we met every day. I would’ve preferred a regular shift on an assembly line.
* the other option was taking out a paid vacation day (non-American labour laws FTW)
- Comment on the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots 2 weeks ago:
Then we chose a completely arbitrary point that doesn’t line up with either the apsides or the solstices to represent “zero”.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Even the original Duke controller had two analog sticks and two analog triggers. Mapping two independent actions (camera movement and steering) to the same input was already bad in Halo CE, but it was downright criminal in Halo 2 and later games that started to include massive backdrop setpieces. You can either look at the Covenant spaceship glassing the city or steer your warthog, but not both. It’s asinine.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
You’ll interact with three objects to progress the unvoiced cinematics and you’ll like it, or you’ll get the trolley again!
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Do it the Linux way with
pkill -9! - Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
> escort mission
> keep close to the escort target or the radio will yell at you
> faster than walking
> slower than running - Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
Halo’s gameplay is really not that great (I’d even say pretty bad) without the nostalgia goggles.
- Comment on What are they even doing in school these days? 4 weeks ago:
“Sentencing”, as in determining a sentence for a crime. Still incorrect, though, since he was only charged at this point, not sentenced.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 4 weeks ago:
Yet, you engage with society. Curious.
- Comment on Acquire 5 weeks ago:
Hell of a first day, isn’t it? Alastair Grey, with an E.
:))))
You seem a little on edge, young man.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 5 weeks ago:
“Big company, therefore manipulation” is one hell of an argument my dude
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 5 weeks ago:
- It’s decently-made (rarely the case with new titles in current year)
- Concentrated industrial-grade nostalgiabait
- Doesn’t require the player to be a skilled Gamer
- Judges determine the majority of the score (who are probably not skilled Gamers)
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 5 weeks ago:
Just language barriers and general gamer stupidity all around.
I’m pretty sure nationalistic pride is also a factor. Wukong is not just a game they like, it’s their game.
- Comment on nuclear 5 weeks ago:
Oh joy, I get to bust out these bad boys again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhHHbgIy9jU
There’s also that one guy who touched the hot part and is now using that tiny blister to conduct a decades-long smear campaign against pots.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
It could work the same way as the three origin stories in CP77: each ending from The Witcher 3 leading to a separate intro story with a time skip before the main game begins.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
:::spoiler Witcher books spoiler One of the early Witcher books mentioned that Ciri was given some witcher drugs while she was training at Kaer Morhen, but didn’t undergo the trial of the grasses at Triss’ request. :::
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
It makes perfect sense with two of the three endings, and could even work with the third depending on how much CDPR wants to explain the cosmology behind the white frost.