Gestrid
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- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll also add The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC. I know there’s a remake coming out next year, but there’s a bunch of shady stuff surrounding how they’re gonna localize it. (Supposedly, they’re gonna use AI to try to do most of it and then have real people brush it up.)
So I’d recommend playing the original instead. It’s a 2.5D game with a mostly 360° camera. It uses turn-based combat, but not traditional turn-based combat. And it has a great story.
It’s also on sale for only US$9.99 on GOG (which is DRM-free) and Steam.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim.
Do not go in knowing anything.
The most I will tell you is that it’s an adventure game with some minor tower defense elements. And that it is the best game I’ve ever played, and no game has ever topped it since.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
“GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK! GET UP ON THE HYDRA’S BACK!”
- Comment on Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬 4 weeks ago:
Did you make sure you have several GBs of free memory on the device while patching? At least until recently, ReVanced Manager would throw an error if it ran out of memory, and it actually needed (if I recall correctly) around 8 GB of free memory in order to finish the patching process or it’d throw one of several errors, depending on where in the process it ran out of memory.
Supposedly they’ve fixed this issue with the latest update to ReVanced Manager, which included a new patching process, but I haven’t had a chance to test it.
- Comment on Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬 4 weeks ago:
Did you make sure to turn on the “GmsCore Support” patch. (I think it used to be called “MicroG Support”.) You have to enable that patch on unrooted devices in order for the app to work.
- Comment on Sounds crazy till ya try it 5 weeks ago:
Excuse me while I go bleach my eye holes.
- Comment on Grr Windows 1 month ago:
It… only updates once a month, though. The second Tuesday of every month.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 2 months ago:
They must’ve done it in the hyperbolic time chamber.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 2 months ago:
No, viruses don’t mean the scientific definition of life. IIRC, the primary reason why is because, in order to make copies of itself, it must hijack a living cell’s reproductive system to do so. It can’t simply divide to make more of itself.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
Linux, politics, and the occasional meme that doesn’t fit in either of the other two categories.
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 2 months ago:
Oh, we had something like this in college. The vendor would load up the… well, actually, it was more like a big version of those little coolers you see in the checkout line in grocery stores—the ones with the sodas and stuff in them. Anyway, the vendor would load them up every couple days. It’d have sandwiches, salads, puddings (which were actually really popular), sodas, Gatorade, water, and a bunch of other stuff. If we wanted something, we would just get it out, scan the barcode on the scanner attached to the handle, tap our phones or cards to pay, and be on our way.
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 2 months ago:
CANNED BREAD
Since you mentioned it, I’m obligated to link this clip.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 2 months ago:
Like I said, the illustration does break down.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 2 months ago:
I think OP is saying that, while you can buy a book to read it, you do not own the copyright to that book. They’re saying it’s basically the same idea with GOG.
The illustration does break down, but I think their point still stands.
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 months ago:
Most stores around me thankfully don’t even use the weight station. I don’t even think Walmart does anymore since they “upgraded” their checkouts recently.
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 months ago:
That’s an option at some stores in the US. I believe Walmart has that option for Walmart+ members, and I know Sam’s Club has the option available in their app for all members.
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 2 months ago:
Steam does actually tell you on the game’s page of the game requires a 3rd party account to play.
- Comment on Stay frosty 2 months ago:
The house would have to have like 5-10 of them. One for every room in the house.
- Comment on Stay frosty 2 months ago:
Honestly, I can’t sleep without any white noise.
Without it, it’s just quiet. Too quiet…
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m just a big JRPG fan.
As for the Trails series, I’ve been told that the best place to start is (understandably) the beginning. Play in release order. The first three games are in 2.5D (as opposed to 3D), but they actually hold up really well.
Most people (myself included) will recommend that you use a spoiler-free guide to avoid missing hidden quests and collectibles (such as a book series you’ll collect in its entirety over the course of the first game). I’m using this spoiler-free guide for my playthrough of the first game.
It’s also recommended that you go around talking to every NPC in the town you’re in every now and then. Dialogue updates as the main quest advances and, at times, if you’ve had an interaction with an NPC in (for example) a side quest and that NPC later pops up in the main quest, the NPC will remember that interaction from the side quest. Some NPCs also pop up in later games with their stories continuing (or so I’ve been told).
Almost every single Trails game is also available DRM-free with achievements on GOG. The only missing is the latest game (which has a “coming soon” page). The series goes on sale on GOG pretty frequently, too.
Also, examine every chest twice: once to open it and once to see the “empty chest” dialogue. The English localizers noticed that, in the Japanese version of the game, instead of having the empty chests call a single line of dialogue multiple times, each chest had its own line to call. (It was the same thing copied and pasted every single time.) So they had some fun with it and made nearly every empty chest have unique dialogue.
Also, just today, during the Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st, a remake of the first game in full 3D with the modern Trails as aesthetic, was announced for a 2025 release worldwide. Though I don’t know how faithful it’ll be to the original game or to its localization. So you could wait for that if you want or just play the original trilogy immediately. But, again, the originals still hold up really well.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 3 months ago:
I’ve started playing through it, but I’ve got other games currently that I’m focusing on (currently Trails in the Sky FC, then Persona 3 Reload: The Answer, and then Metaphor ReFantazio).
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 3 months ago:
Sadly, it’s not available on PC, but it is available on Nintendo Switch (US eShop page linked above) and PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility).
It’s a sci-fi game made by the creators of some games you might’ve heard of in passing (namely Dragon’s Crown, Odin Sphere, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, etc.), Vanillaware. I can’t go into details because spoilers, but I will say it is quite simply the best and most uniquely told story I have ever seen in a game. It’s a game you have to experience for yourself. You should go into it as blind as possible, too.
I will say the English dub of the game is also surprisingly good, considering it was recorded almost entirely in COVID lockdown. The Atlus West sound engineers (Atlus published the game in the west) must’ve worked some incredible magic to get it to sound as good as it does.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I mean, just schedule the appointment, put it on your work schedule, and ask that doctor (or whatever you call them) for a note for work. That’s what I do.
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 4 months ago:
If Lemmy had gold, I’d give it to you.
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 4 months ago:
And parsecs measure distance, not time, and yet here we are.
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 4 months ago:
There’s plenty of spacewalks in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. They don’t have gravity there and instead have to use thrusters or magnetized boots.
- Comment on Anon hates fast food 4 months ago:
This. They’re already stressed enough as it is dealing with normal everyday work stuff. Don’t throw anything completely unexpected at them. They don’t need that.
- Comment on Bananas 4 months ago:
Yeah, it’s probably more like a chemical reaction of some kind. Like how some flowers close at night.
- Comment on So how will VP picks be done? 4 months ago:
Ah, that’s what you meant. A presidential nominee will typically pick someone who’s different enough from them (but that they still fundamentally agree with) that people who felt underrepresented by the presidential nominee pick will feel represented by the vice presidential nominee pick. That’s the general logic behind who becomes the VP pick.
- Comment on So how will VP picks be done? 4 months ago:
That’s exactly what happened in 1800. Both Jefferson and Burr, who were from the same party, tied in the electoral college vote. Some people in the party didn’t like Jefferson, but they but didn’t like the opposing party even more.
Each electoral college member got two votes. So all the electoral college members who were part of what would be the winning party ended up casting one vote for Burr and one vote for Jefferson, resulting in a tie. (Due to slow communication in those days, they all assumed someone else was going to be the one who would cast the tie-breaking vote.)
The tie went to the House of Representatives to break it, as is specified in the Constitution. Unfortunately, neither Burr nor Jefferson got the majority vote needed even after thirty-five separate votes. On the thirty-sixth vote, Alexander Hamilton managed to convince some others to vote for Jefferson, and he got the majority vote he needed and became president.
