MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
An almost 30 Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.
- Comment on How You Doin? 1 day ago:
This is a very common dialect thing. Like in the UK, especially the North east “you alright?” Or just “alright?” is just a simple greeting that is often also just repeated in response.
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 6 days ago:
Not a fan of the water, the new visuals somehow make the texture look even more obviously tiled
- Comment on Why am I like this? 6 days ago:
If you wash things that have been tested to be hydrophobic, eventually it’ll wear off so you have to reproof it. If you ever wonder why an old waterproof jacket is starting to let water in, it’ll be because you’ve washed it
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 week ago:
Bit of a sidenote.
Are the English numbers 11-20 influencer by the base 20 system of french back when we had French speaking royalty? And for some reason they’re the only unique “digits” for lack of a better term that survived because once we get to twenty it’s a pure base 10 system with a consistent pattern throughout.
I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can tell me if my thinking is correct or not.
- Comment on The creator of upcoming life sim Inzoi says he was "recklessly brave to even think about creating a game of this scale" 2 weeks ago:
And that everyone is a kpop star with high fashion.
- Comment on There is no method to this madness 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy to me that some countries have everyone double check they’ve paid the right amount of tax. It’s wild to me. That would be your governments job, and then they either tell you you owe them money or they give you a rebate. That’s how it should work everywhere.
- Comment on 5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm 2 weeks ago:
Especially since outside of all the “it bombed articles” there was practically fuck all advertising it
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 3 weeks ago:
That’s understandable, i wouldn’t knock anyone from boycotting for tencent reasons
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
PS1 3d is my favourite early 3d. I think it’s so charming. Some absolute bangers on the ps1 too
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 3 weeks ago:
That’s hilarious haha, that has to be the best autocorrect from my swipe typing I’ve seen yet. I’ll have to figure out what was meant to actually go there now (I’ll stick it in an edit at the end though cause that is too funny to remove)
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 3 weeks ago:
Alan wake 2 had massive critical acclaim what you on about and they’re now in a financial situation to publish they’re own games because of it.
And their store definitely runs better than steam and gog. Gog is the worst hanging most of the time with it often losing its penis place when going back to the previous page, and the latter is often the same on steam. Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 3 weeks ago:
We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though, which also paved the way for remedy to become more independent for future releases. I’d rather have an exclusive then nothing at all.
It’s also arguable whether or not square would’ve ported kingdom hearts to pc if not for epic paying for it as well. Which in turn allowed them to put it on steam later because the game had already been made to work for pc.
Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix, epic have done nothing but good for the pc space in my opinion. Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 3 weeks ago:
What did they do to the gaming community? Make you not use just one platform, giving that platform a de-facto monopoly?
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 4 weeks ago:
Road Trip Adventure
- Comment on 'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong 4 weeks ago:
I think people just didn’t care to go see it. Me included. But anyone i know who has seen it loves it.
- Comment on 'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong 4 weeks ago:
I thought people loved speed racer too?
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 month ago:
Think you’ve hit it on the nail on the head. It feels less like a chore because of the way they all connect with one another.
Although even before fast travel I still did a lot of manual travelling to get everything done. At least until I realised that fast travel was very likely to get better later in the game, which it of course did.
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 month ago:
I’ve enjoyed all of the movies in the moment (except ant man 3) but a few I’ve liked less the more i think back on them.
Spidey 3, deadpool 3, falcon (mostly), Loki and wandavision were great at release and still are to me (i guess the jury is still out on deadpool with it being so new)
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 month ago:
It looking like winter soldier is why I’ve been excited. I’ve also always liked falcon as cap so seeing more of that is always good to me.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 month ago:
It’s a massive improvement too. The changes they made to materia make it more fun too.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 month ago:
I loved the combat system, so I enjoyed every fight in game (except flying monsters in the first game if you didn’t have barret around). I think it’s my favourite hybrid combat system that allows both tactical and reactionary attacks and shines the mist when you’re juggling between characters to get the ATB gauges up on everyone as quickly as possible so you have more toys to play with constantly.
The Yuffie DLC (Intermission) then expands upon the traversal mechanics and team based combat mechanics which were a whole lot of fun. A lot of this carried over to Rebirth as well but expanded up again. Still ended up with Yuffie being one of the most fun to play though because she was originally designed to play mostly solo from her DLC, but having a character that is more fun to play isn’t a bad thing obviously.
Story wise, without spoiling too much, I love how, much like a lot of the mechanics, tries to expand upon old elements rather than outright replace them. And the story being some kind of pseudo-sequel where meta-textuality enhances the experience it ensures that these games are not replacements of the original. Which makes me laud it up in the highest regards. If they had just tried to replicate everything I think it would’ve felt even weirder it trying to be a wholesale replacement of the original like a lot of standard remakes try to be (think resi and silent hill). I don’t know how others can replicate what square is doing though since a lot of it is rooted in it’s story and doesn’t deviate far from the elements introduced in the original and the compilation games. Resi could not have replicated this intertextuality between versions of the game. You could argue silent hill could due to its story elements but they just focused on making it an enhanced version of the original.
I think I’m staying to ramble too much now so I’ll end it. I think the fact I can ramble about these games and gush about them so much does how much I love them. Other than astro bot rebirth was one of the most refreshing breaths in gaming for me, despite me more often than not despising both large open worlds and ubi style towers. Yet I felt compelled to almost 100% the game just due to the amount of fun I was having that I could not get anywhere else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Think you either have a strange definition of mild or a strange interpretation of adultery
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 month ago:
This is why i never use the default folders, I will always make my own elsewhere.
- Comment on historical inaccuracies 1 month ago:
24 if you first do it with the knuckle I’d your thumb and switch to the tip after you’ve done every finger bone
- Comment on cool yourself off 1 month ago:
Spray it on your chocolate starfish
- Comment on What emotion is this? 1 month ago:
Was one of the first faves i got for the ps1 and I still play it almost every year. Fantastic game with a great soundtrack
- Comment on What emotion is this? 1 month ago:
First level Andy’s house, second is the neighborhood
- Comment on What emotion is this? 1 month ago:
I come in peace
- Comment on 200 UK Companies Permanently Move To 4-Day Work Week Without Loss Of Pay 1 month ago:
Not usually. I once worked standard hours across 4 days. And even though it’s the same amount and the standard work day is longer. Gaining a full day to do whatever is so much better. The work day is usually only increased by 1-2 hours with one of them days being slightly shorter than the others too. Less time commuting (if you’re in office) is a benefit too. I wish my current company could go 4 days, but it’s unlikely to happen due to our clients.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 month ago:
I know why it happened, my comment wasn’t written to be serious, sorry for the confusion