Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 1 day 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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? 2 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? 2 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 7 months ago:
This is the dude from zero punctuation!
- Comment on What game did you last finish? What did you think of it? 7 months 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? 7 months 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] 7 months 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? 7 months 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 7 months 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 8 months 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? 8 months 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? 8 months 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? 8 months 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? 9 months 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? 10 months 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.
- Comment on Does anyone *not* love using their bidet? 10 months ago:
I bought a cheap one a while back, and I didn’t like it. It was not a heated model, and I did not enjoy cold water spraying on my butt, especially in the winter.
At the time, I also had some painful anal issues that I was dealing with. The water pressure on mine felt quite strong and was painful for me.
I ended up switching to wipes, and they have worked wonderfully for me.
- Comment on Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good? 10 months ago:
Everyone has their own code of ethics, but I think almost every company has some things that might be controversial or that people don’t like. Even some of my favorite companies have done things that I am really opposed to.
I would not work in a job where I had to directly do things that I was morally opposed to. But we live in a society where huge companies touch our lives in a lot of different ways. If you are too strict about it, you might find that there aren’t many jobs available for you.
- Comment on How To Play Project L - Riot Games 10 months ago:
It all looks very similar to BlazBlue cross tag battle, but it’s interesting to see some of the mechanics they are coming up with and how they are trying to balance everything. Definitely looks like it will be fun to play.
- Comment on Why so many people get triggered about ads nowadays? 10 months ago:
Many people have become accustomed to life without ads. I have used adblockers in my browsers for probably the past 20 years. So the experience that you are talking about (just scrolling past them), is an experience that I don’t really know, unless I am suddenly using some other computer that belongs to a friend or something.
People have also gotten away from ads in their entertainment by subscribing to things like Netflix rather than cable.
Once you don’t have advertising shoved in your face 24/7, then suddenly being bombarded with it is incredibly offensive.
- Comment on Why are we focused on a room temperature superconductor instead of a less cold superconductor? 10 months ago:
So instead of trying to get it running at temperatures 300 degrees warmer, just focus on trying to run it about 250 degrees warmer? Should be much easier, right?
Doesn’t it sound a little ridiculous like that?
- Comment on Nintendo Rumored To Show Next System At Gamescom 10 months ago:
Ah yes, Nintendo does have a long tradition of making big announcements at Gamescom, after all.
- Comment on Switch 2 would arrive in the second half of 2024 and development kits are already out 11 months ago:
As opposed to the other source a couple days ago which said it will launch in March.
- Comment on Smash Bros director says "it's fair to assume there will be another one," and he can't imagine anyone else making it 11 months ago:
Just because a sequel has fewer characters doesn’t make it an inferior game. But that logic, Mortal Kombat Armageddon was the best Mortal Kombat.
- Comment on FOUR whole parking spots 11 months ago:
You can see on the next line over, there are a ton of empty spots right up front. This is probably some place that’s not open to the public or whatever, or else they just have way more parking spots than they actually need.