Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found that as I got older, my taste in games has narrowed significantly. I used to be able to play pretty much anything, or especially any popular or critically acclaimed games. But these days I just don’t give a shit about most of what’s out there. I do have certain genres and developers that interest me though, so I know there are occasionally going to be some new games that I really like. And every now and then I might get surprised by something too.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 weeks ago:
Slightly better performance than a 4060 and $50 cheaper. But the 4060 is a few years old at this point, so is it actually a good deal? Questionable.
- Comment on SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers 4 weeks ago:
Looks like an exciting model. I am curious to see how it will be with finetunes and controlnets. Could potentially be better than sdxl. It does unfortunately appear to be a non commercial license though, which might limit interest.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business 1 month ago:
The game was in a pretty rough state when they relaunched it, but they have been slowly improving it a bit at a time (it often feels like 2 steps forward, 1 step back). I feel like the game is in a pretty good spot though. I enjoy it and am looking forward to season 4.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 1 month ago:
I’m more surprised that this game is still running. I haven’t heard of anyone playing it in years.
- Comment on mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI: SwarmUI 0.9.3 Beta Release 2 months ago:
Swarmui is really awesome, I’ve switched to it as my main ui recently.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Honest question here. I’m not familiar with the game, but you seem to be upset that it offers cosmetic items for sale. One of your proposed solutions is to bundle all of the cosmetic items together and sell it as a DLC. What is the actual difference in those two options? Why does one of them seem acceptable to you while the other does not? They sound like the exact same thing to me.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 2 months ago:
I don’t really like random battles for the most part, but they are not normally the thing that makes or breaks a game for me, either.
Some of the first jrpgs that I remember handling battles better then the typical final fantasy was Chrono Trigger and Pokemon. In Chrono Trigger, you can typically see the enemies before you have to fight them, though they would often surprise you with enemies that you couldn’t see jumping out. I think that worked much better than just the normal system where if you walk around long enough you get a battle. Then Pokemon has 2 different things that it did. First, for trainer battles, you can see the trainers on screen shot you can make sure you are prepared before you go into a fight. Then for the normal battles around the world, it does use random encounters, but they take place ONLY within certain spots, like in tall grass or in a cave. So you still have a lot of freedom to roam around in areas without triggering battles, and when you do go through those spots, you know that a battle could pop up, so you can be ready for it. There are also items you can use to avoid encounters.
For dealing with the annoyance of low level enemies, I think Earthbound had a pretty good system. In Earthbound, it shows you enemies on screen rather than doing random encounters, and once you get to a significantly higher level than the enemies, they will run away from you instead of coming at you, so you are free to just ignore them.
- Comment on What is your opinion about Read dead redemtion 1 in terms of graphics by todays standards? 4 months ago:
Having not played either one of them yet, what do you think makes the first one so much better?
- Comment on Evo 2024 highlights (feel free to share your own!) 4 months ago:
Jesus Christ, the ending of that 3rd Strike match was incredible!
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 5 months ago:
I’m willing to keep an open mind until it releases, but that tells me that the gameplay will be nothing like the original.
- Comment on Temporary Stable Diffusion 3 Ban | Civitai 5 months ago:
Well, hopefully this will at least force stability’s hand in some way and get them to at least make an official statement instead of just remaining silent.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3 Medium — Stability AI 6 months ago:
It’s been a wait, but glad to see it finally out. Looking forward to playing with it later.
- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 6 months ago:
For me it’s the NES and N64. While they both have some great games to be sure, I feel that a lot of the games outside of their top 10 simply don’t hold up very well today. These systems were both limited by technical issues and were in eras when developers were still learning what makes a good 2d or 3d game.
- Comment on MultiVersus - Launch Trailer 6 months ago:
I enjoyed it a lot during the open beta. Really looking forward to playing again soon.
- Comment on Which game series had the worst anniversary celebration? 7 months ago:
Well I mean, they also ADDED Super Mario Bros 35 to the eShop, for free. You can’t just mention the removal as if it had always been there. I agree it was shitty for them to remove it though, it was one of my all time favorite games. But I’m at least happy that I got to play it.
- Comment on Which game series had the worst anniversary celebration? 7 months ago:
For the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros, Nintendo released Super Mario All Stars for the Wii. It was just an emulation of the SNES game from years before. It was released for $30 even though you could buy all of the original games on the Wii shop for like $21 total. It just reeked of “We know you’ve already bought these games like 4 times, but please buy them again”. They did do a better job on the 35th anniversary though.
- Comment on The Difficulty Paradox 1 year ago:
This is the dude from zero punctuation!
- Comment on What game did you last finish? What did you think of it? 1 year ago:
I think there is a middle ground though. It’s fine to have easy settings to help people get though a game if they want. The online functionality in Mario wonder, and the ability of Yoshis to not take damage are great examples of that. But on the other hand, I also don’t want to just steamroll the game, fully clearing most of the stages in a matter of minutes. How many man hours of work did they put into each of these stages, just for me to blaze through it in 3 minutes and then never look back?
Like I previously mentioned, something as simple as just a time trial mode could give me an actual incentive to go back and enjoy the content a little more.
- Comment on What game did you last finish? What did you think of it? 1 year ago:
Super Mario Wonder. It was an enjoyable game, but just too easy, and no reason to keep playing once you finish. There were only maybe 3 stages in the entire game that offer a real challenge. It would be so much more replayable if it just had a time trial mode or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I owned every Nintendo handheld since the original Gameboy. They were so convenient to just be able to play anywhere. I could be laying in bed or on the sofa. Put it in your pocket or toss it into a bag to carry with you.
However, I don’t really feel like the switch has really captured that same sense of portability. It’s large and bulky and heavy. It feels uncomfortable for me to play the same ways I used to play the older handhelds. It also feels more fragile, so I’m hesitant to just toss it in a bag. I ended up just using it as a normal console 99% of the time.
Maybe it’s just me being older, but I feel like the switch didn’t give us the best of both worlds, it just compromised and gave us a worse version of a handheld and a worse version of a console.
- Comment on Is there any free to use AI that accepts images and can talk about them? 1 year ago:
I don’t understand what you are asking. Do you mean you give it a picture of a cat and it speaks to you in a voice saying “this is a picture of a cat”?
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 1 year ago:
With the huge improvements that have been putting into their drivers, I think their 2nd generation cards will actually be worth getting. At least in comparison to a Radeon.
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- Comment on Nintendo Community Tournament Guidelines 1 year ago:
Well, looks like they have finally succeeded in killing off the tournament scene. There will probably still be some holdouts trying to adhere to the ridiculous rules, but this is effectively the end.
- Comment on Nowadays, on certain games and game launchers, you can play the game before its fully downloaded. How is possible? 1 year ago:
I’m not referring to Diablo in particular. I am just using “level” as the standard video game nomenclature to mean separate areas or content.
- Comment on Nowadays, on certain games and game launchers, you can play the game before its fully downloaded. How is possible? 1 year ago:
Because when you are in level 1, you don’t need all the assets from level 10, and it can just download what you need first.
- Comment on When do you think there will be an app for android that could identify and store objects on a database in real time from video capture? 1 year ago:
There is an app called Object Detector which does this. It’s not particularly accurate and can’t recognize a lot of objects though. It does run on phones in realtime though.
- Comment on How would you explain the need for three writing systems in Japanese to a person who only has had experience with one? 1 year ago:
When Japan began interacting with China, Japan did not have a writing system. So Japan had to adopt Chinese characters and shoehorn it into their own language, in order to be able to trade with China and stuff. They later invented their own writing systems. But kanji kind of just continued to hang around. I imagine that part of it is just because kanji was already so ingrained that it became difficult to get rid of. It’s kind of like saying why don’t we fix English to get rid of all the weird letter combinations and make it more phonetic? It’s kind of a big undertaking.
Kanji is also very economical from a perspective of how compact it is and how quickly it can be read. You can fit a ton of information in a very small space, and you can understand the words at a glance.
There is a funny thing among Japanese learners. Ask a beginner their thoughts on kanji, and they will often complain about how difficult it is to learn, and how it doesn’t make sense to keep kanji around. Then take someone who has spent several years studying and become fairly proficient, and ask them to read a passage that is entirely in hiragana or katakana. That person will likely complain about how difficult it is to read, because they have to look at each individual character and sound out the words.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
It varies from person to person and place to place. But generally, I would say that America is a pretty good place, but not perfect and has a lot of room for improvement.
Yes, healthcare is expensive, but we have some government programs to provide cheaper care for certain groups, like the very poor, the elderly, and veterans.
Violence varies from place to place, but I feel like I live in a safe area, and I have never seen or heard a gun fired at someone in a public place.
A lot of the bad laws typically involve disenfranchising certain minority groups. I am lucky enough to not be affected by most of this, and a lot of people are fighting back against it by trying to vote in better politicians.