squirrel
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit
- Comment on The Electric State (2025, dir Joe Russo and Anthony Russo) 4 days ago:
Definitely, but I have to admit that probably anyone other than the Russo brothers could have done a better job.
- Comment on The Electric State (2025, dir Joe Russo and Anthony Russo) 4 days ago:
I sure hope Simon Stalenhag got enough money for the rights, because his meditative book about the loss of humanity and the end of civilization getting turned into a Chris Pratt action vehicle makes my head hurt.
- Comment on Just one toke! 3 weeks ago:
“I’ll kill you… after I eat all these donuts and get off the couch.”
- Comment on [Movie detail] In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) an orthopedic store named “Liefeld’s” is named after Deadpool comic creator Rob Liefeld. Liefeld has been criticized for not being able to draw feet 2 months ago:
I think it’s extra funny that Liefeld very likely traced a photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger for that one.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 3 months ago:
Additionally to what has already been mentioned: People are susceptible to politics that confirm their prejudices. Right-wing political thought is largely based on confirming that whatever prejudices people hold, they are morally good and justified. Thus elevating an in-group above out-groups. That is a powerful lure.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
My ‘I’m No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile’ T-shirt is raising question already answered by my ‘I’m No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile’ T-shirt.
- Comment on A set of 1979 camera tests for "The Muppet Movie", featuring Jim Henson and Frank Oz bantering dialogue (in and around the English countryside) as Kermit, Fozzy and Miss Piggy. 5 months ago:
Love it. It’s almost like an unaired episode of the original show.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Stardew Valley 5 months ago:
Yes and no. Like in Stardew Valley, technically you can romance every NPC in your party, but in practice you have to meet certain criteria to do so and those differ from character to character. Of course, it is possible to “game” that system.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Stardew Valley 5 months ago:
The most famous one ATM is probably “Baldur’s Gate 3” which offers a wide variety of mechanics and stats to measure if an NPC member of the player’s party is romantically interested in the player character. Two examples given in the talk I linked are the VNs “Monster Prom” or “First Bite”.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Stardew Valley 5 months ago:
I love this game (500 hours played), but I have to bring up a point of criticism…
One aspect which has not aged well IMHO is the “kindness coin” mechanic: The exchange of goods for the NPCs’ friendship and/or affection. You give the NPCs stuff, then you give them more stuff, then some more on top, then you get a cut scene and then you get back to giving them stuff until you trigger the next one.
Yes, the requests on the blackboard and the occasional personal quest mix up things a little bit, but overall the mechanic remains the same and for me over the years this has cheapened the interaction with the NPCs for me somewhat: They are mostly transactional and predictable to the point where you can calculate their outcome.
You have to give character A so-and-so many objects X to romance them. It takes so-and-so many days to do that.Sure, the “kindness coins” mechanic was industry standard at the time, but I wish there were more variety in regards to the interactions with the NPCs, because they are amazingly written and I wish there was more to do with them besides giving them stuff over and over again.
- Comment on Sexy Math 6 months ago:
- Comment on Controversy and Censorship 7 months ago:
How often does it need to be said? Do not preorder games based on what they looked like in the trailers!
- Comment on How 2001 PC Game Majestic Almost Transformed The Gaming Industry 8 months ago:
Yeah, Majestic was incredibly interesting because it was an attempt to create an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that was more than just a marketing campaign and could support itself financially. Its failure led to ARGs being abandoned as standalone games and ARGs mostly remained marketing which - ultimately - led to a slow, but inevitable decline of the ARG as a genre when the marketing money dried up.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
They also leave out half of the story: The whole thing already started in October. After months of harassment one of the employees snapped and called their shit out. But they leave that part out, claim they got attacked out of nowhere and play the victims.
- Comment on Squirrel with a Gun (2024, Dee Dee Creations) 9 months ago:
This is going to be the best game ever!
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 1 year ago:
That’s Mattel. And one of the reasons why Hasbro looks so bad in comparison.
- Comment on Nominees for Game of The Year at TGA 2023 1 year ago:
Maryland authorities are looking for a man, aged 53, goes by the name of “Todd” who went missing this afternoon.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Announced by Nintendo 1 year ago:
Depends, really. Producers do decide who will work on a movie in the first place. And sometimes they pick the wrong people.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda Live-Action Movie Announced by Nintendo 1 year ago:
Avi Arad’s track record is a very mixed bag IMO. His films include the “Spider-Verse” films on one hand, on the other there is stuff like “Morbius” and the live-action “Ghost in the Shell”.
There is no doubt that Arad knows how to get the budget and bring the people together, but it certainly isn’t always working out as intended.
- Comment on Report: Unity's Runtime Fee quietly gave exemptions in launch rush 1 year ago:
Despite all that’s happened, at least one source told the outlet they don’t think Unity’s moves were made out of complete malice. “They need to do something to make more money. Sadly, it wasn’t delivered well, but the need to make more money is still there.”
And that’s why every dev (who can) should run as far away from Unity as possible, because Unity will try to screw them some other way.
