Aganim

@Aganim@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it wasn’t perfect, but at least it had its darker edges. Feel like a slaver? Sure, no problem, you can enslave random wastelanders and sell them from r profit. Screw over BoS? Broken Steel let you do that. The Pitt gave an antagonist with a motive which turned out to be a bit more nuanced than it initially seemed. You could roleplay a fat-shaming, racist PoS if you wanted to, instead of presenting only safe options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile a game like Fallout 3 had its fair share of flaws, but gave you plenty of opportunity to decide if you wanted to be the good guy or not. It also wasn’t afraid of locking players out of quests if they behaved like an asshole. I liked that, why would somebody try to work with you after you just gave them the proverbial finger?

  Far better than ‘oh golly, you just told me that I’m not a nice person. Well, that’s not very neighbourly of you, but I’ll pay you my life-long savings if you hop over the next hub and return my package that I conveniently know is collection dust over there, but can’t be bothered to collect myself’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Morrowind.

  Can you find this person whom wandered off into the ashlands? They went east-ish.

  I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit in the Construction Kit so find out where in Vivec’s name I had to go this time. Usually it turned out I just barely missed the person or location I had to go before starting an hourlong search.

  But despite that still a game I deeply love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets dommed by his barber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sound of hoof beats cross the glade!
  Good folk, lock up your son and daughter!
  Beware the deadly flashing blade,
  unless you want to end up shorter!
  Black Adder! Black Adder! He rides a pitch black steed!
  Black Adder! Black Adder! He’s very bad indeed!
  Black - his gloves of finest mole.
  Black - his codpiece made of metal.
  His horse is blacker than a vole.
  his pot is blacker than his kettle.
  Black Adder! Black Adder! With many a cunning plan!
  Black Adder! Black Adder! You horrid little man!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EBay binding arbitration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad crap like that isn’t valid in the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Buddhism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Relax in my ass.

  I’m fully aware of the irony here, considering what the song is about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If only he skipped Daylight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I especially hate it when you see a Warthog firing the old Avenger and they’ve made it sound like a slightly more rapid version of the original Gatling Gun. So underwhelming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the duality of beetle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only one way to find out.

  *Squish*

  With this character’s death, the threads of prophecy have been severed. You may load a saved game, or persist in this doomed world that you have created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon achieves optimal testosterone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I once called a friend at home, back before mobile phones were common, only to have some older man answer. Shit, did I call the wrong number? My mind started racing: his mom is divorced and doesn’t have a boyfriend from what my friend told. It’s unlikely my friend’s voice dropped 3 octaves overnight… Fuck, did somebody murder them and picked up the phone? Am I ne… Oh wait, his mom is a living chimney, ah… ‘Hi *friend’s mom*’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've studied most of my life for this moment.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is wild that there are countries that allow this distopian shit at all. Sure, if you’re a pilot our something random tests are fine, lives depend on you being fit to fly. But for most jobs having used drugs the evening before wouldn’t affect the job, so it should not be the employers business what you do in your own time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I let my password manager create 32 char passwords, that should be enough for a while. But of course then you have websites that throw you a ‘your password is too long’ message and have you find out by trial and error that they only accept 12 characters.

  Or the off-by-one errors where the insist that 24 chars are the max, but in reality they accept 23. Probably never tested the limit.

  Or websites that truncate your password after X characters when registering, but not when logging in, so you end up with an incorrect password and good luck finding out which limit the registration page actually uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but mysqli_real_escape_string() or any number of other similar solutions are indeed a thing that exists. A prepared statement would work, too.

  You make it sound as if a prepared statement is a last resort. I would turn that around: as a rule always use prepared statements when dealing with user input. It’s very easy to forget a single call to mysqli_real_escape_string().

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beautiful⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably iron deficiency, major blood loss after being stabbed in the kidneys by a spear will do that to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount will be releasing "GLADIATOR II" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on March 4.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is, of course, a perfectly natural response to this century’s most superfluous sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. will be releasing "CONSTANTINE" (2005) on 4K Ultra HD on February 18.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes, his performance is reason enough for a rewatch. 🤌🏻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  also doesn’t hurt to have a thick skin too, because you’ll be both criticized and made fun of for your choices.

  As somebody who started out with PHP I can fully relate to this. 😋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon pretty much sums up my experience with Java when I had to learn it in college 20-ish years ago. I’ll never get rid of my distaste for the language I’m afraid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my Dutch social circle it is indeed, but don’t ask me why. Personally I dislike Ibuprofen, it always makes me feel queasy and upsets my stomach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Across all states, more people voted for him than for Harris.

  I never said otherwise.

  Unless you’re arguing that electoral college votes should be redistributed in a way that ensures the winner will always be a Democrat…

  No, I’m saying that your system needs to be fixed so every vote has the same weight, that’s all. The fact that the term ‘popular vote’ exists at all is the flaw. Who won this year is irrelevant to the argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Trump won fair and square this year, but that doesn’t mean your system isn’t flawed. Votes from certain states still carry less weight due to improperly distributed electors. Same happened with Gore Vs Bush by the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m most certainly not. Oh look, time for The Two Minutes of Hate already. 📺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, I could have sworn it was Eurasia last year. I must be mistaken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority voted for the candidate I don’t like. That means democracy is broken.

  Don’t worry, the US democracy was already broken. That became painfully clear when Trump started whining about not winning the popular vote when he was elected the first time. Being able to lose while having the support of the majority of voters is proof enough:

  Hillary: 65,853,625 votes Trump: 62,985,106 votes

  Not every vote has the same weight, which is just completely bonkers and proof that your archaic system is due for a retrofit. Let’s just hope it won’t get chucked away entirely in the coming years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sets a trap⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they? I do consider scum like Trump, Musk, Putin and fascists like them below me. Although admittedly they hardly qualify as people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fisiks⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, at some point friction will start to become a relevant factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soulslike games only frustrate me immensely. I don’t mind a challenge, but when a game starts to feel more like work than hobby I’ll pass. So Elden Ring has never been on my wishlist, but I applaud those who have the motivation to git gud and persevere.

  To each their own, research a bit before you buy something and accept that you might sometimes buy a game that doesn’t suit you. Mistakes and wrong decisions happen, that’s life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awww, he's so cuuuuttteeee!!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP my LG robovac. Dutifully cleaning and mapping my house without having any kind of wireless connection ability whatsoever. Until it mistook my stair for just another dark corner. 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to be witty⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That does depend on the cheese, ricotta and mozzarella for example do contain lactose (enough to cause me quite some discomfort unfortunately). And processed stuff which shouldn’t be allowed to be called cheese may contain amounts that spell instant doom for the guts of the lactase deficient.