chronicledmonocle
@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Loosing my religion 5 days ago:
I have a few:
- When looking at the video feed from a night vision camera, my parents tried to convince me the white specs floating around were angels and souls watching over is (it was dust in the air refracting the infrared)
- Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are part of a baby murdering cult were they skin baby faces to wear as masquerade masks
- Bill Gates is building COVID-19 nanites and putting them in the vaccines
- The whole QAnon conspiracy stuff they REALLY got into
- My wife and I are being controlled by the devil and now our kids are damned because we got them vaccinated, since it’s “The Mark of the Beast”.
My parents are estranged now. You can imagine why.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s actually incredible the mental gymnastics involved.
It’s also fun when a Republican is involved, because it’s “clearly overblown or fake”, but when it’s someone they don’t like, THEN it’s a problem.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
My parents told me that the Clinton’s, Gates family, and other influential people go to masquerade parties where they murder babies and wear their skin ask masks. And they were 100% serious.
In the world of Epstein Island revelations, there is some fucked up stuff out there, but I’m pretty sure we’d know if people were mass slaughtering babies for fun.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
My parents nearly didn’t let me read or watch Harry Potter “cuz witchcraft”. There is a lot of stupid out there.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
As someone who grew up in a conservative, Baptist home, I can tell you that this 100% isn’t the most insane thing I’ve heard or seen, but it falls right in line.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
True, but it at least covers all of the purchases actually made on the platform.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
You can check your actual spend in the steam support --> Data about my account section.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Apparently $3135 is what I’ve spent on Steam games.
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 1 week ago:
His wife is about to get some booty, to be sure.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
400-425F or 200C is pretty much universally the temperature, but yeah…somebody done goofed.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Average annual salary is slightly less than $70k annually in the US. A union that gets you even a meager 3% raise annually is ~$2100 in increased income or 3x what your dues is.
Bunch of fucking wankers.
- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 2 weeks ago:
Gee I wonder who made things so expensive MICROSOFT? Who could have possibly been responsible for this MICROSOFT?
- Comment on Sonic turns 35 today—what does this franchise mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
Sonic started my video game journey. I was a SEGA kid all in. I had a Genesis and a GameGear and played Sonic 1 through Sonic and Knuckles. I later played the Dreamcast, although I skipped the Saturn, because I was a kid and my parents couldn’t afford it.
However, once SEGA went under for game consoles and Sonic couldn’t transition from 2D to 3D worth a damn, I stopped playing the games. Sonic just wasn’t good anymore. Sonic Mania and Origins were both fun romps, but beyond that there hasn’t been a Sonic game to give a damn about in decades. Mania wasn’t developed by Sonic Team and you can tell…because it’s actually good. Origins is just a lesser Mania.
It’s pretty incredible to me that Sonic Team can continue to be one of the worst, most mediocre game development teams in the world and still somehow stay afloat. The Sonic movies were incredibly well done and fun, so you’d think they’d put out a great, fresh game to capitalize on it, but even with a literal golden platter in front of them handing the franchise a breath of fresh air, they then released Sonic Frontiers…the most “7/10” game I’ve ever seen in my life.
It used to hurt seeing my favorite franchise as a kid bludgeoned by Sonic Team over the years. Now it’s just sad.
- Comment on Survey says... 2 weeks ago:
Every person in the world with a net worth over $1B USD. Then I’d equally reallocate their money across every human on earth.
- Comment on Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Toys for Bob is making this game, the people who made the original trilogy remake. It’ll probably be done well. They seem to get it.
- Comment on 'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable 4 weeks ago:
Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves
- Comment on 'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable 4 weeks ago:
Indie Devs: Allow us to introduce ourselves
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 4 weeks ago:
The irony in claiming you don’t type like that, but your entire comment is full of mangled punctuation and grammar, is hilarious.
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 4 weeks ago:
This is a late-Gen Z/Gen A thing. They don’t use punctuation or capitalization anymore. Apparently they view it as too formal or “fake”. They relate it to “fake it til you make it” mentality in the workplace.
I know this is a “no the kids are wrong” take, but I just find it infuriating to read. I understand you want to be more genuine and I’m all for that…but if I can’t fucking read what you write because it’s 28 lines of all lower case, unpunctuated text…that’s not a “professional” versus “being genuine” problem. That’s broke ass communication.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 5 weeks ago:
I played during the trial period once. I usually love games with fun gameplay loops that have a bit of grind, but I couldn’t get into WoW. It just didn’t feel fun. It felt like a job. I’m still not sure how it became the largest MMO ever made.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
My games are less “nobody liked it” and more “a lot of people have never heard of or tried it”:
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps
They’re absolute masterpieces. It’s like playing a video game version of a beautiful oil painting with incredibly tight movement controls. And the soundtrack…MY GOD is it good.
It’s one of those game series that I wish I could memory wipe to reply again. Sure, the story is a bit simplistic, but it hits the notes it needs to without dragging.
It’s one of the best Metroidvania games ever made, but it kind of fell into obscurity similar to other masterpieces like Titanfall 2.
- Comment on The Matrix 5 weeks ago:
Personally, I wouldn’t give AF if it was “fake”. Fake is perspective.
- Comment on Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch 1 month ago:
Krafton is paying out $3 for every $1 earned. They made a shit deal.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Temptation intensifies
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Well it’s usually cheaper during early access. I got the game for $32, so you could just grab it and then wait for full release.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m never usually an early access person, but Unknown Worlds has a proven track record. They’ve released two games from early access after a very open development period. Plus they fuck over Krafton if it sells well, so win win IMHO.
- Comment on Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable" 1 month ago:
Yeah I own Destiny 2, but when I converted to Linux, I stopped playing it. It wasn’t good enough to dual boot for one game.
- Comment on Don't forget the hoodie too. 1 month ago:
As someone who has lived in the Midwest most of my life, people absolutely walk around in shorts and T-shirts after the temp jumps post-winter.
- Comment on Don't forget the hoodie too. 1 month ago:
30F in the American Midwest: Shorts and T-shirts
30F in the American South: 14 layers and they’ve cleared the grocery stores of all water bottles in panic
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
My Xbox 360 RRoD’ed on me twice.
It also had its disc drive die THE DAY I got Skyrim on release after waiting in line for it.
I spent the next several hours learning how to flash the firmware of a broken RRoD’ed Xbox 360 so that I could replace my drive with its parts.
It was simultaneously the best and worst console I ever owned:
Best because I have a lot of fond memories playing Halo 3 multiplayer, Skyrim, etc. with my friends in my college apartment we all shared.
Worst because it was an unreliable piece of shit.