MimicJar
@MimicJar@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning 7 hours ago:
You could definitely make 2e a little more user friendly by skipping THAC0 and just having big numbers be better like everything else.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 21 hours ago:
I can only assume anyone who doesn’t like it hasn’t played it. It’s a platformer racing game, which is rare, but excellent.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Sure, in the same way a hot dog is a sandwich (or taco).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve put a lot of hours into this game, but haven’t played in 8+ years so maybe it’s changed a lot. But! There is A LOT to explore and play and I suggest doing that first. But! Unless they’ve added a bunch of explainer gameplay/tips the you’ll need to eventually look up some stuff online.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 weeks ago:
I bought Forza Horizon 4 on sale for $20 last year. I think it came with all the DLC or whatever. That seemed like a good price. I played a bunch and I’d say it was worth it. The game really pushes you to pay more money to buy more things, but I just ignored it.
Overall $20 felt right.
I’d buy Forza Horizon 6 or whatever for $20 in a few years.
- Comment on We're so back 3 weeks ago:
refused to say that ivermectin is a miracle cure
What sucks the most is that ivermectin is a miracle cure! It just isn’t helpful again COVID or Hantavirus. The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded (in part) for discovering ivermectin.
It’s what frustrates me the most about discussion with people like this. They’re willing to take a random drug, a drug that is fully backed by the medical community, but they’re not willing to take the drug actually recommended by the medical community.
- Comment on Anon thinks about Truman 3 weeks ago:
There is a deleted scene in the film where they discuss replacing Truman. Basically they bring in a new “Truman”, film both of them, then the original Truman dies, and the show only follows new “Truman”.
I assume if Truman were heading down a path where he needed to be replaced they’d do something similar.
- Comment on Anon found a plot hole 1 month ago:
So the stories of Sherlock Holmes are public domain and freely available online. I did my best but I can not find an instance of Sherlock Holmes locking a home. He does instruct someone to lock a door within their home, which they do, but that’s the closest I could find. There are also lots of cabinets and things that need locking and unlocking, but that’s hardly a home.
- Comment on Internet Comment Etiquette: Staying MAGA 1 month ago:
Erik and his rocketships keep me sane
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- Comment on What is the Shortest Possible Ride in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2? 1 month ago:
Marcel Vos!
If you ever wanted to learn more about RollerCoaster Tycoon 1/2/OpenRTC than you thought possible, this is the channel.
This video is a follow up to the longest coaster, and if you’re thinking “I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride” then yes, that coaster is long but…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
We’re on Minecraft 26.
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 2 months ago:
Is Tic-Tac-Toe a good game? I know people who played it a lot at one time. Does it hold up?
If you had fun playing it, it was a good game.
Fruit Ninja? Doodle Jump? Angry Birds?
Games take a simple concept, possibly copied from elsewhere, possibly a mash up of others, possibly original ideas, and of it’s fun, it’s good.
Now was the hype over Flappy Bird strange and over the top? Probably. But remember fidget spinners? Yo-yos? Sometimes trends/fads happen.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 2 months ago:
Exactly. This is Sony declaring victory in the console wars. You could argue “But Nintendo”, but Nintendo was never playing the same game as Sony & Microsoft. You want to play Nintendo games, you buy a Nintendo. You want to play Sony games, Sony says you have to buy a Sony PlayStation.
I’m not a fan, but it could work.
- Comment on Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content? 2 months ago:
move the franchise forward
You’re absolutely right and we’ve been asking for this since the end of Voyager and I think one of the biggest reasons why Enterprise had such rough time.
90s Trek was fantastic and did a great job handing off to each other. Even Voyager being stranded was still moving the world forward. Then we reset back to the first Enterprise, absolutely killing all the momentum.
The best thing Discovery ever did (apart from soft launching Strange New Worlds which got lucky) was launch us into the far future and give us a place to build.
I never would have asked for that. Picard seemed like that path forward, but struggled (season 1), told a what if story (season 2), and then just did a fun reunion (season 3). But ultimately set up a Seven show that just never happened.
But we’re in the far future now. Discovery put us there. Starfleet Academy is building and moving us forward again. It’s not perfect, but it’s building and I’m in.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Wins Emmy Award For Animation 2 months ago:
So this is a weird one.
The 4th Children’s and Family Emmy Awards… eligibility period ran from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2025, mirroring that of the Primetime Emmy Awards.
The issue is that the most recent Primetime Emmy Awards show happened back in September 2025.
For some reason the Children’s and Family awards happen about 6 months later.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Sorta. It’s developed by the team that made Dragon Quest Builders, which leans more towards Minecraft/Terraria, or maybe Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley.
It’s hard to tell, but it should be like Animal Crossing, but with more complex building.
- Comment on ```curl -u "lab_tech:olympic_medalist" https://usa-curling.org/podium``` 3 months ago:
Just to add additional context.
This is Cory Thiesse, who won silver in “mixed doubles curling”, with her curling partner Korey Dropkin on February 10th.
Cory is also a member of the women’s standard (4 person) curling team, who at the moment have a chance of also winning later in the week.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 3 months ago:
They are not. They are region free.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 4 months ago:
To quote Jeopardy host Ken Jennings,
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Since we’re stuck with the two parties at the moment it’ll need to be a Democrat.
Mark Kelly has mentioned interest and seems to be willing to fight back, so I’m leaning towards him at the moment.
But it’s early so I’m open to candidates who meet the first requirement.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x03: “Vitus Reflux” 4 months ago:
See exactly! That’s what I think is happening here. Earl Grey is a solid tea, but someone being a bit snooty would absolutely look down on Picard and his choice of tea.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x03: “Vitus Reflux” 4 months ago:
Kelrec’s tea fetish is setting us up for some kind of Picard/Earl Grey joke… But I don’t know how yet. The most straightforward joke being that he finds it too basic/unappealing, but admired Picard and is trying to emulate him.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x03 "Vitus Reflux" 4 months ago:
This episode started rough with the gym lens flare being so strong I couldn’t even look at the TV. The War College gave up a little easy, but I expect them to be back harder and stronger, I hope they get a big win just to help even things out.
Also something I appreciate is all the security this episode and the previous episodes have had. So many Star Trek plots would have been fooled with even the most basic of security, so seeing someone need proper authorization or cloning an eyeball is surprisingly new for Trek.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It’s deceptively worded, because it kinda happened (at least according to Clarke).
From ew.com/…/game-thrones-finale-interview-emilia-cla…
“What, what, what, WHAT!?” the actress recalls thinking. “Because it comes out of f—king nowhere. I’m flabbergasted. Absolutely never saw that coming.”
“I cried,” Clarke says. “And I went for a walk. I walked out of the house and took my keys and phone and walked back with blisters on my feet. I didn’t come back for five hours. I’m like, ‘How am I going to do this?’”
She never says she dislikes the script and makes it clear that she found the story surprising and emotional. Which is true, the story is surprising (not in a good way, but it is surprising) and for her character it is full of emotion.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s so much Nintendo in this case as Retro Studios.
Nintendo EPD co-developed “Metroid Dread” with MercurySteam and they fucking nailed it. Retro Studios developed the original Prime trilogy, so in theory they should have been able to figure out Prime 4. Maybe there is backroom drama, but Nintendo gave the original developer of the three original games the go ahead for a forth in the series and they ultimately delivered what they did.
Sometimes studios just change too much.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 5 months ago:
The cable is fiber optic, which is to say light. Light don’t care about gold and silver. The highly polished lens but is probably also bullshit, but at least light cares about lenses.
- Comment on That boy is all right 5 months ago:
Evil Hank says, “Taste the heat, not the meat!” as he burns you alive with his propane flamethrower. You can’t burn a man alive with charcoal.
- Comment on Paul Giamatti Ranks His Favorite Star Trek Shows and Talks Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 5 months ago:
I skimmed the video, but given the choices of TOS, TNG & DS9, Giamatti chose DS9, TOS, then TNG.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 5 months ago:
Nothing has been announced as far as Baldur’s Gate 4 goes yet. It looks like Hasbro is being a little bit smart and are going to try and make (“make”) a handful of other smaller games, like the recent Warlock game announcement.
But at some point Baldur’s Gate 4 will be announced, but Hasbro isn’t going to be willing to invest properly into it in order to make a good game.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 5 months ago:
Re D&D,
It’s because Hasbro gutted the D&D division and burned their goodwill with Larian. pcgamer.com/theres-almost-nobody-left-ceo-of-bald…
Hasbro could have done nothing and made a bunch of money, but they chose temporary short term gains. Baldur’s Gate 4 will arrive far sooner than you think, and it will be terrible.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 5 months ago:
post-DS9 show.
If you haven’t seen it the DS9 Documentary, What We Left Behind, can give you at least a tiny hint at where the writers would have gone, maybe, possibly.