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- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 2 days ago:
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 1 week ago:
It isn’t a problem; mote has misunderstood the law.
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 1 week ago:
www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
“Illegal without good reason.” You are most definitely allowed to buy kitchen knives to take home with you; trying to take them into a football game will be frowned upon, though.
Police are usually fairly sensible about it. I’ve got friends that do medieval reenactment that have been stopped with cars full of longswords and crossbows. Show them your event tickets and some of your other gear, you’ll be waved on your way.
A three-inch blade is allowed provided it doesn’t lock in place; as long as it just folds away (like a swiss army knife) then it’s fine. Three-inch butterfly knife will get you in a lot of bother, though.
- Comment on Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defence 2 weeks ago:
Question is, who is this a deterrent against? Only other nuclear powers.
Russia? We can just blow the shit out of them with conventional weapons, don’t need this.
China? We’d fucking lose, a hundred-fold. Only deterrent against China is a very strong Europe, so let’s get back to the table.
USA? These submarines carry their missiles, and they’ll just remote-disable the fucking things.
France? They’ve got more nukes than we do, and honestly I can’t see us ever being at war with them again.
Israel? Can’t see any global power actually taking them to task for their genocide.
Conclusion: useless. On the basis that they’re a stupidly expensive left-over from the cold war, might as well cancel it, invest half of the money into conventional boom, and pocket the rest.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 weeks ago:
They all challenge you on different ways.
DS3 is actually quite interesting to finish on SL1. You can cast one basic spell, lots of weapons are available to you, but you need to think carefully about your loadout so you’ve got a good set of resistance and buffs for each area.
DS1 limits you to terrible weapons with boring movesets, and by the time you’ve heard the pyromancy noise for the ten thousandth time, you’ll be ready to chuck your monitor out the window.
DS2 is hellish. Your dodge is tied to your agility, which only a few items boost, and for the first 3/4 of the game, you’ll only get that from a crap armour set. Only a couple of weapons are available to you. You’ll need to know basically every boss inside out; some of the ones that were comedic before are no longer so funny.
Scholar is like DS2, but you can’t run into the DLC early on any more to get some of the powerful rings that are in there. I almost cried when I finally got the ring of the embedded.
Wouldn’t know about finishing ER on RL1/no summons. Cleared out the four demigods easily enough, but Morgott was a run ender. RL1 does not leave you a lot of room for mistakes, put it like that.
- Comment on Make it so 3 weeks ago:
Well, the universe is expanding, and we don’t know why. Dark energy has come to dominate the energy balance of universe, and we don’t know what that is. We’ve a theory that’s great for describing small things, and a different theory that’s great for describing large or fast things, but they don’t line up, so we can’t have them quite right.
If the universe did have a period of greatly increased expansion shortly after the big bang, it doesn’t seem too crazy to suggest that you could do it again, at least in theory. Might require some absurd energy density. That much energy in one place is likely to collapse into a black hole, which would sort out contacting the universe again.
- Comment on Works for slugs too 4 weeks ago:
Really traditional vampires are super OCD; one of the ways to get rid of them is to spill a big bag of eg. rice in front of them, and they’ll spend so long counting every grain that they’ll get caught by the rising sun. Salt ought to work as well?
One grain of salt, two grains of salt. Ah ha ha ha. Three grains of salt…
- Comment on Gaslamp Games Under New Management; Announces Surprise Public Beta of New Dungeons of Dredmor Patch 4 weeks ago:
Oh, cool. Great game, really fun to play.
I’d like to nominate “several different versions of Dredmor” as the update required; maybe have some cryptic clues as to which version he is as you progress down the dungeon. You either know what he’s like and have planned your build around it, in which case you’ll whip him like a red-headed stepchild with implausibly big eyebrows; or you’ll get a complete kicking because he will one-shot your otherwise end-game character as soon as he gets close.
A rogue-like where most of the options aren’t good isn’t a great one. Everything should be useful in some kind of character build.
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 1 month ago:
Heh heh, phallus.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 1 month ago:
Asha Sharma had this statement, in amongst the rest of it. As per Ars Technica:
Some decisions in the gaming division currently pass through “14 layers” of decision-makers, Sharma said, before promising that the new Xbox will be a “flatter organization” with “no more than 5, and where possible, 3” layers of management involved in any decision.
You’d have to think that it’s this shit that she’s pointing at. Massively excessive management certainly helps with all the design-by-committee cookie-cutter crap that’s filled with monetisation. Alas, they’ve just got rid of the really interesting studios that I’d like to see spread their wings a little.
- Comment on Sidebar update: "Is this a science meme?" 1 month ago:
Professor Kitkat there has somehow gone from Pythagoras’ equation and the basic equations of a circle, to Einstein’s equation for mass-energy equivalence, without even showing the working for applying the Lorentz transformation. That’s the kind of haphazard mathematics I’d expect from a feline and has no place in a classroom setting. Zero marks.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 month ago:
I’ve found that the real problem is having a television to plug them in to. Still got my old NES and SNES from when I was a kid. But no modern TV has the RF input to connect them to, they’re all digital only. Emulation is much easier.
- Comment on Bee Brushie 2 months ago:
Now I am wiser! Thanks AON.
- Comment on Bee Brushie 2 months ago:
Bad for the bee as well…
- Comment on I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review) 2 months ago:
It’s its trick mode. You can convert it without dropping your attack ‘combo’ on odd-numbered hits, so you can rush up to an enemy, quickly ‘cane hit’ twice to stun, then ‘whip hit’ until you’ve killed it with a bit of AoE coverage that stops any other enemy in front of you from sneaking in. Works great when you need to clear out a large number of mooks; the whip is a bit slow when you’re fighting single high-difficulty enemies.
In fact, might bust Bloodborne out again after I’ve finished Mina, always something more to learn about that game…
- Comment on I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review) 2 months ago:
Ah, but that’s the joy of it. You don’t need a new PC for this; a very old one will still run it absolutely perfectly. And I agree with OP; great game, although I’m still only 2/3rds through it.
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 2 months ago:
Enjoying it greatly so far - the difficulty level seems calibrated to ‘brutal’ but everything about it scream polish and perfection.
I find it hard to believe that some of the platforming sections are intended to be as difficult as they are. If there’s nothing to attack, you can’t heal, and you take a tonne of damage from falling off. Even with the life ring accessory, it’s still wicked in places. Not so bad once you’re able to equip a few more items and have some extra sparks, but at the beginning of the game, oof.
Some of the bosses having very random attacks is a bit unpleasant, too. If they keep busting out screen-fillers that are very hard to avoid, there’s not much you can do, especially as some of them can finish you in a couple of hits.
- Comment on I miss Wilfred 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, was just watching Hard Target the other day. Terrible film, but he’s great in it.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 months ago:
Hate AI ‘art’. Love me some Icon For Hire. But they mostly sing about mental illness with pop-metal hooks, and rarely anything spiritual.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 2 months ago:
It’s very much a CPU-bound program requiring single-core performance; I get about 50 fps at any resolution including 4K with a Ryzen 9 5900 XT and an RX 6700 XT. Ryzens are multi-thread beasts but their single-core isn’t the best, it’s not the ideal CPU for ShadPS4. You can turn up the amount of “GPU memory” in your emulated PS4, and need about 10GB for 4K.
Of course, Bloodborne originally ran at 30 fps, so that’s more than enough frames and it looks amazing; didn’t have any problems playing it all the way through. I will obviously not be upgrading my PC any further with prices the way they are, too.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 months ago:
Man alive, that’s gutting. I also haven’t bought a Bethesda game since F4. Was hoping they might have doubled-down on the improvements between F3 and F:NV, but what they came out with was no kind of RPG at all, a shocking disappointment.
Means I missed out on F76 and Starfield, which is no kind of hardship at all. And I’m whatever the opposite of “hyped” is for ES6 - looking forward more to booting up Morrowind again.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 2 months ago:
Scientific method and all that. Any conjecture is okay.
Now, what’s the hypothesis that you can make out of it? We’ve plenty of observations that don’t match theory, which we believe to be on account of dark matter - galaxy rotation speeds, what happens in the core of a type 2 supernova, and so on. Does this hypothesis explain those problems better than what we have?
If it does, keep it. If it doesn’t, discard it. Repeat, until we’ve solved all the mysteries of the universe by banging our heads against them.
This strikes me as the kind of conjecture that has no predictive power, and therefore must be discarded, but I’m no PhD-level theoretical physicist.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It’s a slow burn, and it undoubtedly sags in the middle - the massive empty spaces tip over from ‘epic’ into ‘time wasting’. But it benefits hugely from telling a very personal drama with a lot of character development, and it has one of the darkest stories of any Zelda game. The Gamecube version has much sharper controls than the Wii version, so is the much better choice to reimplement. Hope you enjoy - I’m a big fan of this game, and set this up to play last night, it’s really smooth.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If your system is all-AMD, then it’s amazing how well Linux just works. Turn it on, hardware accelerated everything.
If you’ve got NVidia anywhere near it, that’s not so much the case. If Mint is being a bit dodgy, then I would have used to recommend trying it with Pop!, since that has pretty good driver support out of the box. Probably outdated advice, something like Bazzite might make more sense now, but I’ve not used it first hand. Partly because my system is all-AMD and just works, but also because I run Arch btw.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 3 months ago:
Well, on the one hand, that just looks like a graphics upgrade from the first game. On the other hand, you wouldn’t expect the EA trailer to give too much away, there’s no evidence of the snowfox or the spy pengling in it, and the original is one of the finest games ever made so why mess? So I’m thinking that’s mostly positive. Will need to go and reinstall the original now I’ve seen this, too.
- Comment on Octopussy 3 months ago:
Six legs, and a tail split into two for what looks to me like flight. I think you’ll find that’s a beautiful Butterfly Cat.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 3 months ago:
It was quite prone to crashing-to-desktop and certain PC configurations had bizarre graphics issues, but I did play through it on hardcore in the week of release and had a great time with it. Just needed to quicksave a lot.
The kind of bugs that it did not have a lot of were quest bugs. Bethesda’s own games are ‘wide but shallow’, and very few quests in the world seem to interlink with each other, but despite that, they’re very easy to break accidentally, or cannot be completed due to flag issues. Oblivion managed to wrangle up a complex plot with tonnes of interrelated parts, and it mostly just worked.
What F:NV could have been if it had been made in a good engine… Most of the times where it got dinged in review scores were for bugginess and instability. Trying to build a castle upon sand; there’s only so much you can do before all the cracks appear.
- Comment on Teenis 3 months ago:
Alas, no.
- Comment on Teenis 3 months ago:
I call mine ‘little Elvis’, because that’s what Elvis called his, and it’s always struck me as a good name for it.
- Comment on More than a dipper 4 months ago:
It’s a creature that comes from an environment where we cannot survive, and drags us back into its realm to eat us. I was thinking more the kraken, but maybe ‘space cthulhu’-type aliens work too.
Don’t think Bigfoot is a particularly violent chap? Maybe a Wendigo night be a better match.