apprehensively_human
@apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks 2 days ago:
Counterpoint: you could not have TPM and secure boot requirements that needlessly alienates a large player base of Linux users.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 days ago:
I’m going to have to watch the episode again to give it a fair chance, but I think I agree. The characters were acting pretty much exactly like the teenagers you see in a cliche slasher film.
I know that the episode has to happen, but discovering a facility like they did during a dig should have called for a thorough study before proceeding, but they just strolled in. Chapel even gave a sample of her blood to an unknown alien mechanism just to see if the door would open.
Then when they walk in the first thing they should see are a couple of corpses lying on the ground, but it takes them several minutes of wandering around the room before noticing. Scanning the bodies reveals that they died a long time ago of starvation; possibly a hint that they were trapped and sealed in maybe? At this point Spock should have deduced that the door was going to lock.
They also lost contact with the Enterprise pretty much immediately, but with the front door still wide open it doesn’t occur to them that it might be a good idea to set up a comms relay. These are 8 skilled professionals that just waltzed in here without a plan or backup, and then lost contact with their only support and chose to keep going anyway.
And then Gamble, in full view of everybody, and after just hearing the chief of security say not to touch anything, grabs the shiny glowing orange sphere of destiny and holds it up for a good last look.
From here most of the rest of the episode is actually really good. I enjoyed the puzzle of them figuring out that they’re all still in the same room.
I didn’t enjoy so much the explanation that Gamble is brain dead but is somehow still being controlled by a non-corporeal being. If his body is moving around then surely there are still signals in his brain indicating life. I suppose this could be explained by the entity taking control of his lower brain functions only.
And finally I don’t know why they made such a big deal about crossing the invisible bridge to reach the door. After taking a single step the bridge is revealed to be solid, so why couldn’t they have just stuck a toe out or thrown something to see what would happen? Or hold on to Chapel by the arms and carefully lower her down over the edge.
Just so many unnecessary risks taken again and again this entire episode.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad Ortegas is finally getting a subplot. In the previous seasons she’s always felt like she was missing “her” focus episode which other members of the crew like M’Benga got. All she had was “I fly the ship” which was a bit lame.
Thank you. It felt to me like her entire character development arc has been her coming to terms with being a great pilot? But yet at the beginning of the series we didn’t have any sense that she had self confidence issues or was anything less than outstanding.
She’s always been an excellent pilot, but then we had a single episode where she briefly loses her memory and with it her sense of identity because now her entire thing is “I fly the ship.”
- Comment on Donkey Kong Bananza | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
Bethesda
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 5 weeks ago:
When Below Zero came out it was clear that they had no idea what made Subnautica special, which was something that a sequel had no hope of replicating.
Fear of the unknown and the drive to explore deeper. Once you’ve completed Subnautica you are a god of the sea, and that knowledge and experience cannot be lost.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 1 month ago:
This song is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it.
- Comment on Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks 1 month ago:
Daily reminder that Chris Sawyer coded Rollercoaster Tycoon by himself in x86 assembly. In a cave, with a box of scraps.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I much prefer the original N64 models and textures over the 3DS.
Maybe it’s just nostalgia but I feel like the 3DS graphics have aged much worse since it released.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 5 months ago:
Containerized holodeck clusters.
- Comment on place yer bets 5 months ago:
Except that 2028 would also be our window to do something about it before it disappears back into space. There needs to be a plan now, even if that plan is to wait and see where it’s going to hit.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 5 months ago:
What you could do is tell each next person to move out in half the time it took the previous person. This way you get an infinite amount of moves done within a finite time limit.
- Comment on Who's going to watch departure times on the departure board? Let's use it for ads! 5 months ago:
It’s gotta be intentional. You and me might walk into a restaurant and make our own decision on what to order, but there must be some sort of market research that shows random ads and rotating items to be effective against a non-zero part of the population.
- Comment on Captain Disillusion: SNL VFX Mystery 7 months ago:
The humour is a large part of why people enjoy watching his videos, but the main focus of his channel is going over visual effects in viral videos with incredible detail.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 7 months ago:
If we’re following rediquette, (if such a thing still exists or can even be applied to Lemmy) downvotes shouldn’t be used on things you disagree with.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 8 months ago:
Or does it?
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 9 months ago:
Plus the verbiage is all wrong, it doesn’t follow the template.
Cumulative upkeep {R} You gain protection from wordy (Something is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)
- Comment on Complex Creation 9 months ago:
- Comment on Dimensions 1 year ago:
Time is a 4th dimension when talking about spacetime, which assumes three dimensions of space and one dimension of progressing time.
In geometry, a 4-dimensional object can be projected as a 3-dimensional shadow.
- Comment on MODERN WARFARE: How Call of Duty 4 Changed a Genre Forever (Documentary by Ahoy) 1 year ago:
This video made me reinstall cod4 and give the single player another try after all these years.
I don’t think it really holds up very well, even though I have some nostalgia for it.
- Comment on Ahoy - POPPY GAME INSULT TO OUR WAR DEAD 1 year ago:
He mentioned that writer named Stuart and I immediately started anticipating the reveal that Ahoy was directly involved in this story.
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 1 year ago:
Lemmy user slams game developer over use of controlled leaks
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 1 year ago:
I’ve always called them dungeon crawlers
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 1 year ago:
I’m not sure how this compares to Spotify but I still feel pretty good about this one
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 1 year ago:
My Sharp TV runs Roku software. Suffice it to say I do not have it web connected and use an android box instead
- Comment on Let's talk starship classes! 1 year ago:
- SNW Constitution
- Constitution Refit
- Sovereign
- Luna
- Miranda
I’ve flip-flopped a lot over the years about which are my favourites, some runners up include Defiant, Excelsior, Danube, NX Refit and Intrepid.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x08 "Caves" 1 year ago:
- Comment on Any hairs movement feels like a bugs on you, it’s ever more common when you’re hairy 1 year ago:
Dealing with bedbugs was definitely the worst time in my life. I’m also not completely over it and jump when my clothes brush against my skin. Any hotel room or Airbnb I stay at gets a thorough examination around all the beds before my shoes come off.
It was a lot of fun explaining to people that no, I couldn’t entertain them at my place because it was a functional quarantine zone. Oh you’re going to stand way over there while you talk to me, that’s cool I guess.
This is a joke community, but seriously. If you’re reading this, go search online for what a bedbug looks like and be aware of signs of infestation. You do not want to have to fight with them when you could have acted sooner.
- Comment on Canon Connections: Lower Decks 4x01 - Twovix 1 year ago:
Swhale Swhalens never got a real chance at life
- Comment on Play “DECKD,” The Free Weekly ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Word Game 1 year ago:
Having the answer related to the most recent episode seems to make it kinda easy.
DECKD WK 1, EP 1 & 2 Solved in 2
⚪⚪⚪🟠⚪ 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
- Comment on What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote 1 year ago:
Banana, hot. Banana, hot. Banana, hot.
