MimicJar
@MimicJar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Paul Giamatti Ranks His Favorite Star Trek Shows and Talks Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 17 hours 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’ 4 days 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’ 4 days 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. 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it. 2 weeks ago:
I tell every Star Trek friend I know to watch The Orville and they never do. Compared to Star Trek it leans more heavily into comedy, especially at first, but it’s easily the best Trek since 90s Trek.
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
RPN or Reverse Polish Notation is a notation for calculators to be less ambiguous. The last numbers use the operator to their right, repeat.
- 2 5 8 5 - × +
- (8 - 5 = 3)
- 2 5 3 × +
- (5 × 3 = 15)
- 15 2 +
- (15 + 2 = 17)
- 17
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 3 weeks ago:
To add, give me some way of tracking these collectables.
If I’ve collected all of the trinkets in a given area, mark that area in some way. If there are 100 trinkets, number them and give me a list. Give me a map, hints, thing that beeps, something.
I don’t need any of the above to be unlocked from the start. You can add it in the post game or after I’ve collected some percentage of them or make it a side quest.
It’s annoying going online and someone has posted “I found 99 of 100 things, where else to look?” and basically no one can help them. It’s annoying being that person, to be so close and yet so far.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 4 weeks ago:
In order to receive full congressional pension benefits you need to be a member for 5 years. January is her 5 years. (She isn’t old enough yet to retire and collect those benefits, in her case that happens at 62, or about 11 years from now.)
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 weeks ago:
Just so it’s not forgotten to time I want to recommend AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake). It’s basically what if Metroid 2 was made in the Super Metroid engine.
I’d recommend any of the 2D Metroids, but if you’re going to play Metroid 2, that’s the version to play.
- Comment on 🚣 🚣 4 weeks ago:
No, the man in the rowboat is on his way to fix door hinges so it’s basically the same thing.
- Comment on challenge 4 weeks ago:
A new house! Just think of all the new doors with hinges that need adjusting.
- Comment on challenge 4 weeks ago:
Yes. I can spend those two hours watching door hinge repair videos on YouTube, I was going to do that anyway.
- Comment on Had to look this up 4 weeks ago:
I know this is just a meme but isn’t this scene of Seamus Finnigan a movie only scene?
There are plenty of reasons to shit on JK Rowling, but shouldn’t this one be on the director? (Assuming it was done on purpose.)
- Comment on [Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26] 1 month ago:
A 40 minute video about dishwasher soap is either,
- A, Incredibly boring and will put her to sleep.
- B, Incredibly exciting and meant to shared.
Win. Win.
Tap for spoiler
Also it’s B. Great video.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 1 month ago:
I mean it is a cool idea. It’s not a cool idea for a last minute series finale, but it’s a cool idea.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 month ago:
The psychological scarring is an interesting point, but that only works if you know why the snap happened.
By the end of Infinity War most of Thanos’s army and underlings have been defeated. Thanos then (within a few days/weeks) goes into retirement. So he’s not spreading word of his accomplishments or reasoning.
Carol mentions at the start of Endgame that a lot of other worlds need her help. So she could spread some information on what happened, but I’m not sure it’s going to really stick. You need the trauma of Thanos actually showing up (or his underlings and then the Avengers filling in the gaps).
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer 1 month ago:
Yes, but that was lazy remake, this one they put effort into, probably.
FWIW I did enjoy this remake, but it did have some janky looking cutscenes.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 1 month ago:
It’s not “real cheese” it’s “Real Cheese™”, it really tastes like cheese.
- Comment on American public transit 1 month ago:
Define “walkable”. The side of the road is considered “walkable”.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 months ago:
True. And Holly Hunter will probably be a great captain. But Picardo is who brings me to the table.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 2 months ago:
I’m just here for Robert Picardo.
The show dies look that great based on the trailer. However of our characters start of terrible and grow, this could work out well. I’m just not sure that’s the show we’re getting.
- Comment on Mary Wiseman’s Tilly Will Be In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,’ But Not As Much As Expected 2 months ago:
Weird. I assumed this was going to be her spinoff show. I thought it was a weird choice, but I was willing to see what they wanted to put together.
I hope whatever this is now is something good.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 2 months ago:
I think if you’re looking for a recommendation, both Strange New Worlds and Enterprise are better than Discovery.
If you were ok with Picard season 1, at worst you’ll be ok with Discovery.
I will say that Strange New Worlds is technically a spinoff of Discovery, so a watching Discovery first makes more sense if you’re planning on watching them all eventually anyway.
Discovery has good episodes, but probably more bad episodes than good episodes. If you’re binge watching, which you can do now that it’s all been released, it won’t be so bad. If you watch a bad episode, you’ll come across a good episode soon enough. When we had to watch week to week, it was rough going bad after bad, week to week.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 2 months ago:
I think the run back is fun for some people and I think the game should deliver the best version they can for those people. For me, it’s just not fun. The reward is smaller than the frustration it causes.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 2 months ago:
It took Silksong coming out for me to identify why I wasn’t a fan of Hollow Knight, and it’s touched on in this video.
It’s the runback.
The Dark Souls series of games have the same “problem”, and it’s why I don’t enjoy them either.
I’m a huge fan of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, the Ori series. When I fail at these games, I’m right back in the action.
I’m not against having to learn boss patterns, I really enjoyed Cuphead because after I’ve failed I’m right back in the action.
And while it’s an easier game by comparison, Shovel Knight was a fun game. The checkpoints were plentifully and I could increase the difficulty by destroying them.
But when I played Hollow Knight I reached a point where I was just running to the boss and dying. Then again. And again. And again. I wasn’t getting better. And the time it took to get back just took too long and wasn’t fun. It wasn’t a rage quit. I was having fun at one point… But then the game wore me down and eventually it wasn’t.
I don’t think the game needs to change. Although I think adding difficultly modifiers would be a good idea. I played through Metroid Dread on normal difficulty and after beating it was having so much fun I immediately played it again on Hard difficulty. If there were a mode with more checkpoints in Hollow Knight and Silksong I might give them a shot.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 3 months ago:
Lol, you’re right, season 3, fixed
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 3 months ago:
I haven’t seen the most recent episode yet, but so far the best episodes this season have been the silly episodes.
Strange New Worlds season 2 spoilers
- Episode 1, the second part of two parter. Neat trick to make the Gorn sleep but otherwise boring. - Episode 2, a fun Trelane/Q wedding episode. (Silly) - Episode 3, zombies I think. - Episode 4, hologram episode, the best parts of which were the over the top parts. (Half silly) - Episode 5, the best serious episode exploring the ruins and solving puzzles.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 4 months ago:
Section 31 was perfectly passable as a non Star Trek thing. If it were a random sci-fi movie it had fun moments. As Star Trek? Good lord it was garbage.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 months ago:
Meanwhile, Bobby’s outside playing in the tall grass pretending to be a Rattata.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 months ago:
Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.