taiyang
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- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s my first time with it. Even as a check list it’s an insane amount of content. I’ll need a detox with something smaller afterwards!
Also, I like the hard stuff but subsets help keep that sorted so it doesn’t scare people away. White 2 has a challenge mode that was bugged at release but the RA patch fixes it. It’s not too hard and it’s kinda fun being challenged in Pokemon for once since I used to play competitively and actually know some strategy, haha.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Nice, totally with you on using RA as a checklist for these games (especially after multiset). It feels a bit more guided, especially as they add more and more gimmicks over the years. In post game, it’s practically essential.
White 2 is still kicking my butt because it’s just so, so much stuff. Emerald at least is probably a bit more tame. I’ve still got to beat battle subways, star in movies, beat the Elite 4 with every type, and do every post game tournament including battles with all previous games gym leaders… Plus a 400+ Pokemon capture/evolve/breed list which is just the White 2 only dex entries.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 days ago:
Interestingly your link doesn’t mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn’t do it for decoration, though.
That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol
- Comment on Game over 6 days ago:
Hehe, ok but I’m not sure what the intermediary is between those. I have much better options that are cheaper and tastier, at least for now (although 8 dollar chicken burritos are up to 12 now after obvious 2025 reasons… sigh).
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
No, you’re right. Chipotle isn’t the highest grade food but there’s a reason it’s in a category above, say, Taco Bell. It’s servings are a little big, but it’s not unhealthy per se, except some of the more gimmicky items like “queso”, lol.
They do have a bad rep, but the hoopla about it giving you diarrhea is probably more because it sits out too long and/or spicy; fast casual is basically pre-prepped lower tier casual chain restaurant food (e.g. Olive Garden, Applebee’s, or whatever).
- Comment on oh no 1 week ago:
Reminds me of something that’s been on my mind for several days now. I spotted in my rear view mirror a driver and their passenger having a conversation in sign language while driving.
I never once thought about it.
- Comment on The snow drifts in my yard from yesterdays storm 1 week ago:
Ah, to be one with mother nature…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m near SpaceX in CA and see plenty of men in them because SpaceX purchased a bunch for company cars when Tesla couldn’t sell them.
Also it’s really weird to see like, 8 of them in one place.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 2 weeks ago:
The article is bunk, but oddly enough the all time high by Steamdb suggests it’s around tied with DST, Megabonk, Hades II, and a few others at 115k-ish.
Nightreign, as AAA go, 313k at peak, lol.
You can still tell the article is bunk for comparing it to Stray as a cat game. Oh yeah, sure, while we’re at it let’s compare to Hello Kitty Island players, eh? AI logic. Lol
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 2 weeks ago:
The article is talking about concurrent play, which generally peaks near release for all genres, with a few exceptions (like Hollow Knights sleeper numbers). Isaac came out when there was relatively fewer players and it’s a slow growth, so the original probably didn’t have a very high concurrent count.
The remake is around 70k peak, although it’s oddly high at 20k right now, perhaps because if Mewgenics.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Typo, or likely auto correct for FFXVI. Yup, was autocorrect, as it just did it again just now lol. I’ll correct it.
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 2 weeks ago:
To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn’t be that much of a stretch lol
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Really short article but kind of an interesting point. To be quite fair, the games don’t just take very long to produce but their appeal keeps shifting towards more adult themes so younger players might not even play them. FFXIV was basically Game of Thrones and prior to that you had… whatever the fuck FFXV was what with a road trip royal theme? Hell, even DQ12 was announced to have adult themes.
DQ spinoffs have a better shot but they haven’t been particularly good and FF spinoffs are money grabs, so there’s that too. The article points to more popular franchises in Japan like Pokemon, although at my kids are literally watching Pokemon TV designed for toddlers, that’s kinda cheating with how everywhere that franchise is, lol.
- Comment on Exclusive Resort 🏨 3 weeks ago:
Witnesses, maybe, but typically they’re the ones doing the murdering (although usually paid to by said rich people).
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 3 weeks ago:
Sigh… reminds me I have to file my US tax returns.
- Comment on Exclusive Resort 🏨 3 weeks ago:
In most murder mysteries happening at resorts, it’s usually the guests who are murdered and never the help.
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
Quite simply, as it says, when things get heated, such as during a fight with your spouse, the fan will start trying to escape which causes it to spin.
This also works if you start yelling at it yourself, although you need to be genuine. It can detect if you’re lying, so get angry!
- Comment on Onii-Chan is watching you 😩 3 weeks ago:
They especially like loan words that most Japanese people kinda know, so yes, definitely the best option.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
I’m kind of poking fun as a Missouri friend of mine who had dogs who came and went outside freely. Obviously when you’ve got animals coming and going, the floor gets really dusty and dirty.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
Places with diversity, basically. You visit a Japanese friend and realize how much better that is, lol.
That, and have you seen interior people’s floors? The shoes are sometimes cleaner, oof.
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 4 weeks ago:
The KDE wiggle wiggle is a feature that was enough to convert a friend of mine. Game compatibility? Nah. Win privacy issues? Nah. Giant fucking cursor? Wiggle wiggle, baby.
- Comment on no, I don't have ig 4 weeks ago:
My students typically use ig or tiktok, but when I’m asked what I use, I hesitate mostly because it’s super hard to explain the fediverse without completely derailing the lesson.
Plus it’s not like there are studies talking about the dangers of Lemmy or Piefed. “Oh no, I’m compelled to install Linux!”
- Comment on How accurate is this? 4 weeks ago:
My wife did both in a Californian suburb and this is accurate in that retail will make you lose faith in humanity while waiting tables is actually kinda fun but very tiring.
In her case, it wasn’t the Karens but rather the amount of terrible parenting she would witness. One kid shamelessly stole thousands of dollars of Pokemon cards, get caught, and the mother took his side and blamed the store (?!). Plus, so many kids just left there like it’s a fucking daycare, too. Touching and messing up stuff. My wife was working alone most of the time, too!
Not to mention, no chair, no real breaks, minimum pay, and so on. At least with food service, good places have tips and you get to bring home food. If you sell alcohol, it’s extremely lucrative in states that don’t dock your pay. An occasional jump scare is worth making more than an average college grad, and one of her friends opened a sushi place and gives us a discount. Food service is cool.
- Comment on Nature sure made the right choice 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate that we also only use one nostril at a time, which we can only do with two. It swaps every few hours, too!
- Comment on One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals 5 weeks ago:
Not too surprised. What I’ve seen from friends and family in the industry is a mix of union busting and natural shrinking after the 2020 boom. AI is kinda frowned upon for those AAA companies (at least at middle management and below) so it wasn’t so much job replacement although that option might still galvanize union busting.
Granted the companies in question are Japanese and Korean developers, so the US side is mostly licensing and marking and such. And if I’m being honest, some of those marketers really should lose their jobs, or at least stop getting paid twice that of actual talented people… sigh.
- Comment on Does your boss even love you if he doesn't portray himself as the big minion and you as a baby minion? 5 weeks ago:
Art historians from the future are going to have a weird fucking day going down the early millennium works.
- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 5 weeks ago:
Bros plate is a fucking giant pizza slicer. That’s magnificent.
- Comment on aspirations 1 month ago:
Drat, too blurry to make out the less common horrifying things people are looking forward to.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 month ago:
It’s mostly awful for the first two badges, but playing with fast forward I beat my first badge in White 2 with in game time around 65 hours (so probably around 15 hours). It’s insanely tedious, but I enjoy it late game.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 month ago:
Beg to differ on the Pokemon example, but then again I am a completionist so that type of challenge gives me lots of self satisfaction (plus now I have achievements through RetroAchevements so a little bragging rights). Frankly, things like that should have internal motivation, so literally no reward is fine by me. I’m literally doing a professor oak challenge right now, which is significantly worse, lol.
Where I draw the line is mostly challenges that I just don’t see myself being able to accomplish in a given lifetime. Like the Balatro golden chip on every joker is way too RNG and time consuming for me. I also generally prefer not to have to do a speed run, but that’s mostly because I have kids now and setting something down without worrying about time is ideal.