Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
in everything but graphics.
And stability. I’ve recently replayed the main Fallout games and the crashing and bugs in the vanilla New Vegas experience is inexcusable.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
FO4: Welcome to Fallout! Here’s your nuclear war, here’s your vault, here’s your wasteland, here’s your wacky robots, here’s your dog, here’s your Good Guy Faction, here’s your power armor, here’s your first Deathclaw, now either go find your son or fuck off.
It really tried to cram the entire setting into a playable E3 demo, made most builds nonviable, not to mention how half-baked the modding system and settlement construction tools are.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
I’m free to buy my PC games lots of places. Sometimes I go through GOG or itch.io. But I’ve uninstalled the Epic launcher and whatever Ubisoft calls theirs because they’re a worse experience than Steam in every way. It’s not a monopoly just because there’s a clear best option.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
Reasonable “death with dignity” options would erase the need for such drastic measures but of course the Christian Nationalists hate that kind of thing.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 week ago:
I’d rather walk in front of a bus than die in a nursing home, frankly. Wasting away unable to care for myself seems uniquely miserable.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
the lives of my partner and kids is worth more than your inconvenience.
But not worth more than your inconvenience or you’d just slow down when you can’t see as well.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: I drive a 98 chevy and I can see fine at night because my eyes are good unless someone is in the oncoming lane and their headlight spill washes out my vision. People that can’t see adequately with old-style headlights simply should be legally restricted from night driving. (The same way vision-impaired people are restricted from all driving)
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
Switch to one specific LED bulb instead. (Or two! Your choice of circle or rectangle.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Illustrating the wide range if ways people enjoy games, because I absolutely hate playing with people like you. I want everyone trying their best to fairly engage with the objective. Competitive, sweaty even.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 4 weeks ago:
the idea that we’d dumb down a curriculum for the minority is… troubling.
“No Child Left Behind” peering out from the shadows, gutting programs for more advanced students.
It’s easier to lower the bar than make people jump higher.
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 4 weeks ago:
Nah, astronomical spectroscopy is cool as hell and it’s really easy to have simplified examples you can fiddle with. At its most basic you’re using a prism to divide the sun’s light and measuring the visible bands. (This is pretty much how infrared light was discovered in 1800!)
- Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids? 4 weeks ago:
I can read way faster than I can listen to a narrated video or whatever, and I can easily split my attention without losing my place in the information.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 1 month ago:
Slingshot (or old-school sling but they’re much harder) is probably better for small game if we’re entertaining real dystopian collapse, unless you also learn how to make arrows.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 1 month ago:
Maintaining my own home and garden justifies the continued use of my 98 pickup, plus I’m “the friend with a truck”, but it’s not my daily car and I dread the day I have to replace it. Contemplating an EV conversion kit if it can manage the same loads.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 2 months ago:
3070 can’t play them to my standard.
You’ve poisoned yourself. Chasing fidelity and refresh rates has done for graphics what short-form media did to attention spans. I’m emulating PS1 games and playing Fallout 4 on a 970 while my computer fans blow like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and I am free.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Oh, and it would be nice if the main character wasn’t automatically the leader of every faction in the game.
Really wish Bethesda would get over this and their fear of letting players miss out on some of the content in their gigantic worlds. Taking over a guild should be hard and it should have consequences. Preston Garvey knows Nate/Nora all of fifteen minutes and puts you in charge of an entire movement (while gatekeeping essential system mechanics behind further investment in his faction, fuck you if you wanted to roleplay as a raider warlord you gotta be a good boy first)
Actually the whole first hour or two of FO4 is the core of what is wrong with it. They went all-in on essentially an E3 demo and expect every player to follow along exactly their rails.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
What I really want is Steel Battalion.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
I really love the idea of asymmetrical games like DBD but the community always ruins it. Evolve was absutely incredible in the first few weeks before players optimized all the tension out (and before the backlash over what is now laughably tame monetization).
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 2 months ago:
Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of outputs that aren’t those things.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 2 months ago:
Fuck off then, stop hiding your “I don’t care for the current trends in gaming” behind a boomer-ass “they don’t make em like they used to” take. There’s tons of good games and there’s always been a bunch of low-effort garbage to sift through. We used to call it “shovel-ware”.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 months ago:
Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 months ago:
It’s called “sealioning” and the only solution is to not engage with these types. They aren’t interested in honest answers, just controlling the conversation with a veneer of legitimacy to shield them from criticism.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Imagine if “exciting” was the only metric all art was judged by.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 months ago:
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 5 months ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 6 months ago:
Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 6 months ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 6 months ago:
Good thing it’s extremely preventable thanks to modern medicine. We should all be so lucky that our greatest fear is 100% avoidable through easy life choices.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 6 months ago:
And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 6 months ago:
Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!