birdcannon

@birdcannon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 was absolutely not a miracle on launch, it had its own host of problems that got fixed or ‘features’ removed over time. I distinctly remember the indexing and search being completely worthless for the first year. Forums were filled with posters declaring they’d hold onto Windows 7 until their PC crumbled to dust, and then they would finally switch to Linux. Such is the cycle of Windows releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Egyptian word for cat was “mau” so close enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Palworld: Feybreak’ Draws 200,000 Concurrent Players, Now In Steam’s Top 10⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People going fast and lose the rules of grammar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an interesting take because I would expect the complete opposite. I find it extremely tedious when AAA games force the player into situations where they have to climb or walk slowly so they can pan the camera to whatever fancy graphical set piece their art team made, and more time doing that then any gameplay. Why not just watch a movie at that point?

  When playing a game I want a game. It’d be incredibly frustrating if every time I solved a square in Sudoku I had to then watch an episode of a TV show. Heartening to hear AAA is swinging back the other way and wasting less time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed Heretic’s Fork

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When the game pitch is a cinematic trailer, then a whole bunch of name drops Directed By X, Starring Y, Soundtrack by Z, and not a single mention of what the heck the player is even gonna do in the game, when will AAA studios drop the pretenses and do what they actually wanna do and just make movies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro is getting just a little bit easier in the next patch, and you can try it now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stoked for these changes. As much as I’m loving the game, it sucks to lose constantly in the high stakes runs due to pure rng of only being offered garbage.

  Still keep firing up runs despite the rng cause it’s that fun, so yeah, stoked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Against The Storm v1.1 update is out, improving early game variety and bringing a lot of QoL features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooh yeah Factorio and I are well acquainted, think I’m probably close to 500 hours on that. Definitely closer to Frostpunk than AtS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Against The Storm v1.1 update is out, improving early game variety and bringing a lot of QoL features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much how I felt too. I looooved Frostpunk and wanted more games like that. 100+ hours and loved every second, but eventually gotta move on. Tried Anno 1800 and liked it but not as much, got maybe 50 hours out of it. Tried Against the Storm and after 10 hours of not feeling anything I uninstalled. Really don’t get why Frostpunk and Against the Storm get lumped together, other than both having mechanics of building buildings and assigning workers. There’s sooooo much more to Frostpunk beyond that.