Silentiea
@Silentiea@lemm.ee
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 8 months ago:
L stands for leap year, so that tracks.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 8 months ago:
Just maybe don’t chew those ones.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 8 months ago:
They have a high alcohol diet?
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 8 months ago:
Hey, man, don’t shit on my corsets and hats.
- Comment on There is one uncleared level remaining in Super Mario Maker, with 18 days to go before the servers shut down 8 months ago:
I mean, I knew what I was talking into, but still. Interesting story, wish it had a better ending.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Parents, talk to your kids about saxophones. That, and cheating on video games, are the most important subjects to cover.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Laughs in Rockefeller and standard oil
Steam is a private company and being run by a decent human. Didn’t have to be both.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
And buy them their own copies of online games.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Or, like, me sharing single player games with my buddies. But you do you.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 9 months ago:
You know that old E=mc² equation? That’s actually only the simplified “rest” half of it. The full equation that relativity gives us says E²=m²c⁴+p²c². Meaning if it has energy, it definitely has mass, momentum, or both.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 9 months ago:
It’s about taking money from people who like spaceships.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 9 months ago:
Okay I did some math. If the gun shot a single photon with all the energy of a .50BMG from an M2 heavy machine gun, it would have about 1.2e-4 Ns of momentum. For reference, the bullet it’s compared to would have 38.3 Ns. So the photon has about 32000 times less momentum than a bullet. Do with that what you will.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 9 months ago:
I mean, the US medical system is terrible in basically every way, but it’s nice to know it’s worse than everyone else in this particular way, too.
I expect there’s probably the “rich folks” version of your open asylums that are marketed like “mental health retreats” or something and cost as much as a house, but generally if you don’t have the luxury of shopping around reviews for the hospitals you’re staying at, you’d just wind up in a “closed” one here. And the person who needs to check in because otherwise they know they won’t eat for a week probably isn’t checking reviews.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 9 months ago:
The trouble is that there’s often not a difference in treatment between being involuntarily committed because you’ve demonstrated that danger and you checking yourself in because you can’t take care of yourself right now.
- Comment on How A Small Video Game Narrative Studio Wound Up At The Heart Of A Massive, Anti-Woke Conspiracy Theory - Aftermath 9 months ago:
I’m not sure I understand what’s happening here, but I’m looking forward to the five hour hbomberguy video explaining the whole thing in about 8 years.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 11 months ago:
All the radiation that normally heats up the surrounding air into a giant fireball would heat up the walls of your vacuum chamber into a giant fireball.
- Comment on Honda's commercials saying they are going to be carbon neutral by 2050. What? 1 year ago:
😂 hilarious and perfect
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
AoM is one that’s in a little subgenre with games like Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends and total war Warhammer. Fantasy versions of strategy games otherwise strictly rooted in reality. Usually they’re great but left as one-offs forced to wallow in relative obscurity, but every now and again one shines through.
- Comment on Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2 1 year ago:
“Because when every game’s shitty…
…No game is.”
~Syndrome, probably.
- Comment on What's your favorite game through the ears of Original Soundtrack? 1 year ago:
I started so many games in Morrowind the music in Sends Neen is imprinted upon me forever.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 1 year ago:
There was a project to port the story from FNV into FO4, but I haven’t checked on the progress in a year or so.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 1 year ago:
I liked its mechanical innovations, especially in how power armor works, but…
And I’m assuming we’re just not talking about 76?
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
Does tabletop count? I become an incredibly powerful Planeswalker and visit zendikar, ravnica, and Kamigawa.
Otherwise, I’ll probably just settle into the grind on a freighter and drift into the starfield.
- Comment on What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up? 1 year ago:
Porque no los dos?
- Comment on What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up? 1 year ago:
Ah, yes, another quaranteenie.
- Comment on When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps 1 year ago:
A pint is 2 cups, so it’s actually 4.5 pints!
- Comment on The Weekly Discussion Topic - Rougelikes [1] 1 year ago:
The trouble with “gamelike” as a descriptor is really well illustrated here. People will always disagree on how alike the games have to be for it to fit or what particular things it needs to do the same to match, while others will argue that something they play feels like game so it is now gamelike.
Early roguelike games took something rogue did first (repeating often procedural gameplay that at least mostly resets on death) and often ignored other aspects. Arguing about what exact criteria necessary or sufficient to make a game roguelike is like arguing whether a song counts as “punk” or “pop” or “metal”. Different people will feel like it does or doesn’t fit into any particular category for one or another reason, but ultimately the categories exist because some people put things in them and that’s it.
- Comment on The Weekly Discussion Topic - Rougelikes [1] 1 year ago:
Loved this one too. It’s a first person space dogfight simulator with a few secrets and an enjoyable progression as you move through your first full run and then subsequent runs after you learn the twist.
- Comment on The Weekly Discussion Topic - Rougelikes [1] 1 year ago:
Noita is a game I keep coming back to, it has mod support and SO much to discover by exploring. It’s a good palette cleanser and just a good bit of fun when I need something for a bit between other games.