tomkatt

@tomkatt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspected it wasn’t a serious suggestion, but couldn’t help thinking through the logistics anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A horse would be even more expensive than a car, and would have way more emissions compared to my driving habits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of agree, but I’ll admit, I wouldn’t give up my car. I moved out here because I wanted out of city life and into more nature and quiet life. I only drive into town every 6 weeks for groceries and necessities in bulk and there’s no way I could haul all that on public transit. I want to be in the city as little as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My property doesn’t even have paving, and trying to get the drive graveled was such a pain I just ended up slapping on all-terrain tires, both to deal with getting on and off the property slope in mud, and also because there’s country roads (dirt/sand) here and street tires stuck on that or when it snows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a rural area over 30 miles from the nearest city in a town with a population in the low thousands. The nearest place I can get any goods is over 4 miles away. I’d be completely fucked without a car.

  I know that’s not everyone’s situation, but just pointing out there are people living in remote places with no other transportation options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they’re referring to The Host and… yeah, it’s actually not bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SteamDB.

  steamdb.info/calculator/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Fuck $70+ games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love CV3 but it’s brutal, I’ve played it off and on since around 1991 or so and still never finished it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it’s great and has some of the best music in the series. I mean, it introduced Bloody Tears!

  Try a romhack of the game, like Simon’s Redaction or Simon’s Quest Retranslated, it’s absolutely worth a play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, believe it or not the first Metroidvania style game was Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest for the NES. It was actually an excellent game, but a botched translation to English made it more frustrating and obtuse than it should have been. It was rather ambitious for a NES game.

  Also, while level based and not Metroidvania style, Castlevania 3, Super Castlevania IV, Bloodlines, and Rondo of Blood were all fantastic games and Iga’s games have their lore and continuity based on the prior titles.

  Not to mention, while it wasn’t as well received, the attempted series reboot (Lords of Shadow) was pretty great too. Mostly people didn’t like the gameplay changes for the 3D title.

  And that’s not even getting into the N64 and PS2 games (one of which, Curse of Darkness, was popular enough that the first Netflix Castlevania series involves characters based on it).

  Metroidvania was Igarashi’s style, to the point they were sometimes coined as “Igavania” games, but they’re not the end-all-be-all of the series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Koji Igarashi was responsible for the “Metroidvania” style, but was not the creator of Castlevania. He worked on the series from Symphony of the Night and through the NDS games. There were games in the series both before his involvement and after.

  Iga’s great, but Castlevania is still Castlevania without his influence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. I love Castlevania
  2. Evil Empire and MotionTwin

  I’m in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Absolutely shoes off now, despite growing up in a shoes on house.

  I have inside shoes and slippers/sandals for home and inside exercise use. Outside shoes and boots are for outside only, and come off in the mud room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ham flesh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the pic of the ham for comparison? This is just a pic of your hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your teenager AND your husband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I have been working out and losing weight and now the question is “am I hungry, or is it lonely mouth?”

  Though I’m burning so many damned calories it’s usually I’m really hungry. 🥺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This kid gets it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong community. This is for shitposts, not depressing factual information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.

  They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fucking stupid. There’s no AI assets in the final game, and it was used for placeholders during development.

  I dislike AI for a lot of reasons, but this is massively overblown. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no putting it back. This is right up there with artists airbrushing, photoshop, and so on. People are going to use the tools available if it leads to quicker development cycles to get a product out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …I’m just saying. Making a modern engine from scratch is hard. There are just too many things to worry about. And the record of “RPG studios rolling a new in house engine” is not great.

  Larian’s track record is good. They used an in-house engine for Divinity: Original Sin, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3. And Vincke attributes at least part of their success to using in-house tools instead of “off the shelf” engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Larian is very ambitious in their aims. Divinity: OS, DOS2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 were all huge games with incredible interactions and stories.

  I don’t always like everything they do (in fact, I kinda hate BG3), but I respect their efforts. They don’t half-ass anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn for the corn throne⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heresy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn for the corn throne⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damned Cornites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grim Dawn was an excellent and finished game on release, and said DLCs came out years later via DLCs that acted as expansions to the campaign.

  Last Epoch doesn’t even have a complete story, just some unfinished tripe with no real lore and oh here’s a bunch of alternate versions of how the unfinished thing you encountered could have happened differently.

  They’re not even in the same class. It’s why I have 440 hours on Grim Dawn and would play it more still. I dropped LE at 170 hours and don’t really see any reason to play more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what happens when you abandon Splinter Cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down to buy it. I have a Steam Deck and it’s very comfortable to hold, other than the weight. This thing is basically the Deck controls without the screen and a bunch of the weight.

  Plus, I’ve personally found the gyro, trackpads, and back buttons to be extremely useful for games that don’t have controller support, or for simply easier use of existing buttons (like putting L3/R3 on back buttons). I’m really looking forward to this, looks way better than the 2015 Steam Controller.

  Lastly, that charging connector / wireless adapter all-in-one combo is just nice.

  My only concern would be haptics. This really needs to have good rumble motors, and not just trackpad haptics like the deck. The pad haptics are good for subtle effects, but near useless for conveying actual heavy vibration, explosions, stuff like that. Sounds like they accounted for this though:

  High definition rumble

  Steam Controller’s powerful motors are capable of handling complex waveforms for immersive, accurate haptics.

  That sounds closer to something like the PS5 DualSense enhanced haptics, and if so, I’m here for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t understand what you’re talking about, but it sounds pretty cynical the way you describe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me the most important factor is partnership. My wife and I split up our responsibilities equitably and we each play our roles well. We’re also flexible enough to cover and support each other when needed. If you can’t do that for each other you don’t have a partnership.

  This is a big one. Like… I can cook, but I hate doing it. My wife went to culinary school in her youth and enjoys it. So she does nearly all the cooking, and I generally take care of dishes and laundry. She does the periodic sweeping, and I’m more inclined to mop and/or vacuum, take out trash, and general maintenance stuff. I handle our finances for the most part, but I don’t keep up on news and info well. She has time to keep up on financial, political, and tech sector news and keeps me informed on anything important so I’m aware of things going on that could potentially affect us financially. We’ve got a balance of chores that works for us, and doesn’t leave either of us annoyed or exhausted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 40s. I don’t have any kids, but am married nearly 20 years, home and property owner, bills, the household handyman “fixer,” managing health conditions, etc.

  1. Find work you enjoy. I know that’s easier said than done, but you spend much of your waking hours at work, and it bleeds into everything. Find a way to make it suck less. A bad job will suck the life out of you.

  2. Find hobbies you enjoy. Preferably more than one, you can burn out on things you enjoy as much as you can with work.

  3. Cut off negative people. Social connections are important, but be wary of social vampires, people who leave you exhausted and stressed. Cut them off, even if they’re your own family. If that’s not possible, keep as low contact as possible, put them on an information diet, and gray rock them.

  4. Make time to connect with your spouse. Cuddle in bed, talk about your day. Hug. Engage.

  5. Make time for exercise. Don’t say there’s no time. Don’t make excuses. Get it done. It’s one of the most important things you’ll do for your physical and mental well being, and should improve your energy levels over time.

  6. If at all possible, contribute to causes that matter to you. If you have the funds, maybe donate to your local food bank, homeless shelter, animal shelter, or maybe volunteer if you don’t have funds. It can help a lot to feel like your contributing meaningfully to society and your community, and jobs may pay the bills, but don’t always provide that sense of meaning and contribution.

  7. Practice gratitude. Spend some time thinking of the things you appreciate and are grateful for, the good things, even just small stuff.

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  None of this advice is particularly specific, but it’s mostly worked for me. Dunno what else I can suggest. You sound stressed and possibly burned out, so take some time to find your stressors that are triggering this feeling of being overwhelmed and “over it” and try to focus on the good and meaningful things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Perfect Picture of Helth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Toss on some mushrooms, spinach leaf, and a bit of ground beef or sausage and you’re good to go.