tomkatt

@tomkatt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.

  Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:

  1. They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.

  2. I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.

  Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.

  From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  After a certain tipping point, stupidity en masse becomes indistinguishable from malice. The result is more important than the intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, for some reason when I was looking at post earlier it was just the screenshot, no link. Maybe it didn’t load properly, happened to me sometimes with Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a link? I don’t know who this is but my curiosity is piqued.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  En Dash (single dash) usage is not standardized for literature to my knowledge, and is primarily used as a divider for ranges, in lieu of the word “through.” E.g. The year 1998-2006 (or 1998 - 2006) can be used in lieu of “The year 1998 through 2006” in text. It’s also used to denote negative numbers and compound words, of course. It can also be used to denote relationships, E.g. - The Johnson-Winters wedding party, or the Osea-Belkan War.

  Informally I’ve read that a a single dash can be read as a half-beat, shorter than a comma, but I don’t think it’s actually defined in style guides for writing.

  Fun fact: En Dashes and hyphens are not the same thing, though often used interchangeably, while a double-hyphen is often considered an exact equivalent to the em dash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad, I was probably overly aggressive there anyway. I’m a nerd and the idea of em dash as emoji horrified me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An em dash is an emoji.

  The fuck it is. Em-dashes have existed in literature and text since long before the existence of computers and are a traditional form of textual form pause length:

  • comma (,) - one beat
  • em dash (–) - two beats
  • semicolon (;) - three beats
  • period (.) - four beats
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We just split duties there, and tbh our third run of the game was mostly custom characters just because the combat is so fun. For that run we sent Yrliet to the inquisition, spaced Idira, told Agents she wasn’t needed, and pointed Cassia off the ship at the first sign of trouble. Was actually a hilarious run, and ended up siding with <spoiler guy> at the end for the first time, who was as crazy as I thought but not actual evil and still emperor aligned.

  We’ve also played a ton of Solasta, and looking forward to Solasta 2, but absolutely despised BG3. We want to go in adventures, not play a soft-core fuckin’ simulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rogue Trader is excellent. Wife and I have put almost 300 hours into that one with co-op.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m finding this sale underwhelming, and my backlog is already huge. Might skip it this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy to help, I made a donation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At $20 this is a day one Steam purchase for me. Even if I don’t get around to playing it for the next several months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course there’s bugs, it’s a sequel to Hollow Knight. It was all about bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually something Wipeout did, it’s one of the few things from Fusion that people liked enough for it to be brought back.

  Ah, I didn’t know that, I’ve never played the series past 3 and XL/2097.

  Just a heads up to, BNG has a 2097 mode as well, with entirely different physics/control. It’s still in dev builds but it seems like the goal is to integrate both styles from OG Wipeout (2085 and 2097) within the game as separate campaigns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Redout is a weird one. It got a lot of comparisons to F-Zero because of the speed but it plays a lot more like Wipeout, or like an F-Zero/Wipeout hybrid. It’s very fast, and the steering mechanics are interesting as it requires using both joysticks to steer through a lot of turns. I like it, but find it pretty difficult. The ships tend to be a bit floaty and the main thing is controlling well to not hit walls as they utterly kill your momentum.

  With BallisticNG, it does ape on Wipeout a lot (by design) but it’s an absolute love letter to the series and is extremely polished. It also has workshop support for all kinds of custom tracks and ships.

  There are things BallisticNG does though that are really interesting, like solo races where your goal is to go as far as possible without exploding from damage. You can’t use the brakes and it gets faster every few sections. Those are probably my favorite races.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A whole bunch of racing games are cheap at the moment, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What are your recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you mentioned AG racers, check out BallisticNG and the Redout games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good racing games on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries. I’ve heard of BeamNG but don’t own it and am not familiar with it to recommend. I mean BallisticNG, it’s an AG racer in the style of the Wipeout games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good racing games on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s Redout 2 compared to the first one? I have the original, but have been on the fence with the sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good racing games on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • WRC 7, 10, Generations
  • Dirt Rally 2.0
  • Rush Rally Origins
  • New Star GP
  • Forza Horizon 5 (I don’t own this one, but hear it’s very good)
  • BallisticNG
  • Wreckfest (don’t own this either but I’ve played it in the past)
  • Assetto Corsa
  • Assetto Corsa Competizione
  • Descenders
  • Grid Autosport
  • Redout
  • Automobilista 2
  • V-Rally 4
  • Sebastian Loeb Rally Evo

  These vary between arcade and simulation racing, and things in between. For some (Assetto Corsa games, Automobilista, WRC and Dirt Rally games) a racing wheel is highly recommended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main story points are further apart level-wise, leading to more grinding. There’s also more fluff side story content involving multiple characters instead of just one. Which isn’t bad in itself, but none of it is actually optional because of the leveling curve.

  The way it was done, the story beats for individual character plot arcs are very far apart. 30 hours in, I only had a few characters through the second parts of their stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like the first one, but OT2 felt very padded. At 30 hours I think I was less than halfway through the game. I got frustrated and put it down, never got back to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true friend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has something similar with Bacardi 151 back when I was in college. Me and two friends were playing cards and drinking, losers take a shot. We went through a huge bottle in like 30 mins. I was just utterly blasted, I’d never drink so much in my life. Thought I might die of alcohol poisoning.

  I stayed completely sober for like 5 years after that, and some 20 years later I still rarely drink.