Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 week ago:
Teens are kids, they’ve just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They’ll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as “seasons”.
It’s everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.
- Comment on Forced to lie on a questionnaire 2 weeks ago:
I hate that “social media” is such a broad umbrella term. It totally lacks useful context. “Social networking site” is great, straightforward and descriptive. But “social media” encompasses every way we communicate with each other except for “traditional media” which got grandfathered through. BBS predates the internet!
All that to say: YouTube is, for many, a public-access TV station and I’m too young to be this mad about it.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 3 weeks ago:
Ok, well, I am. It’s not “pointless story” it’s entertainment and I’m struggling to come up with a game that has zero plot or setting or characterization. Rocket League maybe.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 3 weeks ago:
It’s set in the Titanfall universe, there’s lots of lore scattered around. People work hard to integrate a narrative into the level and character designs, to imply plot in incidental dialogue or cinematics, or just literally write text entries that the majority of gamers will never read because only shooting and rare skins trigger their dopamine.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 4 weeks ago:
Leave Draw exactly as it is, thanks. Maybe increase magic damage scaling but the Junction system is neat and the whole thing ties into the plot.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
They don’t actually know why it happened. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
Old English is significantly harder than Middle English, yeah.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
I’m really hoping to stay where I am. I’d rather try to integrate with the Coast Salish people than 14th century Christians.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
Crude soap is easy to make. Wood ash + water + fat. From there you just fiddle with ratios and timing while trying not to burn your skin off with strong alkalinity.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
If your argument is that humans can only be “native” to southeast Africa… that’s dumb. It might be defensible in an ecological sense but sociologically the word is used differently.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
Middle English is understandable. It’s tricky and there are lots of unexpected differences but you’d get used to it. This is right at the edge of Early Modern English and the Great Vowel Shift.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 weeks ago:
American here: governments have never cared about signed treaties with natives. But your heart’s in the right place.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
Most sports never make the news. Even in the US it’s pretty fringe except for the wrestlers who transition to Hollywood, like John Cena or Dave Bautista. Though it had a heyday from the Hulk Hogan era through Stone Cold and The Rock when people were much more aware, generally. I don’t know anyone who watches but I know a bunch of people who used to watch.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 5 weeks ago:
Sports theater as well.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 5 weeks ago:
…wikipedia.org/…/Professional_wrestling_in_the_Un…
Quick little history of the last century in the UK.
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Active circuits are pretty much everywhere.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 5 weeks ago:
Wrestling has a significant presence in Central America, Japan, and Europe. Presumably other regions as well but I really don’t follow the sport so my experience is all second-hand.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 1 month ago:
Fish is a polyphyletic group. It’s a shorthand to refer to various lines of aquatic vertebrates with a similar anatomy. It’s not a clade but that’s not the only way to logically group organisms. People trot it out like a “gotcha” or just misuse it in much the same way they don’t understand speciation (or most science terminology, to be frank)
We are not fish by anyone’s honest definition, but “there’s no such thing as a fish” is the kind of attention-grabbing false revelation I hate: it’s the headline with none of the understanding to actually learn something.
- Comment on Skill issue 2 months ago:
“My position is so tenuous yet so important to my identity that I will not tolerate the slightest challenge.”
Alternatively, “That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick, no frou-frou symbolism. Just a good simple tale about a man who hates an animal.”
Psychonauts is about trauma. Fallout is anti-war. FFVII is environmentalist. Samus as a woman was an intentionally subversive choice. Video games have had socual commentary for as long as it’s been able to be expressed.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 2 months ago:
Never take any risks to improve the world, that’s how things are gonna get better!
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 3 months ago:
Also doesn’t work when one side is supported by evidence and the others are “opinions” but given equal consideration.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 months ago:
Sure, you’d end up with at least two countries because many states would just refuse to join the new republic.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 months ago:
Then maybe they should have their own shithole country and stop taking our tax dollars.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 4 months ago:
They can ignore election results though, or fraudulently certify them.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 4 months ago:
People are indeed buying Super Soakers instead of just using a hose.
The point of this comparison is that they aren’t at all the same thing. People don’t want things that barely work and few have the time to learn new skills to craft what they want in an acceptable quality. Could any able-bodied adult pick up a knife and whittle themself a spoon? Probably. Most of those spoons are going to suck though and you can get one at Target for a couple bucks. It’s a position that feels out of touch.
I’m all for taking care of what you have and repairing rather than replacing when possible, and I’d love to collectively move away from plastic crap, but saying “just learn to make bread with all the free time and functional kitchen you for sure have” helps nobody except the speaker patting themself on the back.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 4 months ago:
Flexible sure but not exactly easy. There’s a lot of choices to make at every level and many of the feats have prerequisite, earlier feats so you functionally have to plan your entire expected progression up front.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 4 months ago:
I don’t want 25 cents worth of checkerboard, I want a decent wooden object that doesn’t make me feel like I live in a dumpster. And most people want a sturdy piece of decorated, folding cardboard that will last a century if nobody spills juice on it.
Your position sounds a lot like “why do you kids need Super Soakers anyway, we have a perfectly good hose.”
- Comment on I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway 5 months ago:
“End of life care” is entirely optional. I’m not going to waste away in a hospital bed, that’s for sure.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 months ago:
I played Yahtzee once and now I hustle back alley Craps foe drug money.