Megaman_EXE
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- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 8 hours ago:
It depends on the game, but i like long RPG’s. Sometimes, it can start to wear out its welcome. But for the games where it works well it’s cool. You get to experience this big world, usually going from a weakling to a strong character by the end. The stories can be really interesting (or bland too).
I recently decided that I am going to take on a game that could potentially take me hundreds of hours to finish and it’s daunting, but if at some point if I start to hate it, I’ll put it down and Google the results of the story and feel content.
- Comment on The sound of this one specific bird from Age of Empires keeps haunting me through pop songs, movies, and across other games 1 day ago:
I always think of the rooster call that’s used in Ocarina of time.
There’s also a laser beam noise that gets used in a couple n64 games and various other media. And a couple sounds from golden eye that I’ve heard used.
I can’t say for certain, but I think the popularity is probably due to a lot of these reused sounds being part of sound packs and compilations from the 80’s and 90’s
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 6 days ago:
Yeah thats true! I hope that the world shifts towards that rather than what most people have been doing.
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 1 week ago:
The only way I would be comfortable with Ai is if I could craft it myself, run it locally, and prevent it from feeding bullshit results, prevent it from phoning home, AND if it wasn’t built off of stolen data.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 1 week ago:
First I think it depends on what we are considering kids. I was online from age 8 but didn’t get into online games or communities until about 10. But in the case of the law, they’re often saying anything below 16 or 18 etc. It depends on the country/jurisdiction.
There are lots of places kids can find community. When i was a kid I was playing on neopets, club penguin, old school runescape, guild wars. I made friends with people from all over the place. One of my best friends in my youth is from across the continent, and we have been friends for 20 years now.
I think the bottom line is parents should parent. When I was a kid the PC was in the main room. My parents spoke to me frequently about staying safe online and asked me about what I was doing on the PC. They made sure I was only accessing kid appropriate sites and that I wasn’t getting myself into trouble.
Could I have gotten in trouble? Yeah possibly. I also could have gotten kidnapped at the local park
- Comment on Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog 1 week ago:
I wish union work was more common place. It seems where I live unions are mostly for blue collar work and less common than I would hope to see.
- Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market 1 week ago:
I just got a new pc back in February and I’m kicking myself for not buying more storage and ram
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 1 week ago:
Whenever this comes up, it feels like a play to harvest people’s data and / or to slip additional laws into place under the guise of “protect the children”.
On one hand I don’t think it’s terrible to try to guide kids more. I think parents should be doing more parenting tbh.
On the other I think it runs the risk of preventing kids from accessing information online, finding safe spaces online, and isolating kids more than they already can be. It also limits things like teaching kids about technology and how to use it safely.
- Comment on Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)? 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate the offer, but I likely won’t be able to play it for a while. I don’t have the time that I would need to dedicate to it at the moment!
- Comment on Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been wanting to play this game for a while. But I think in order to have the best experience, you probably need to get a group together that is willing to play at the same time as you
. I convinced a friend to play a bit(like 4 hours) with me years ago and I thought it was fun! But I don’t think he enjoyed the slower grind of the experience and he dropped off.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 3 weeks ago:
There’s a game called suck up, that also has this. I’ve read mixed results on it, but the idea seemed unique at least
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 3 weeks ago:
The vending machine from cyberpunk was pretty cool but this seems like its cognitively challenged ancestor lol.
I’m getting really tired of AI everything. So far AI hasn’t seemed to make my life any easier or better. I have to try and over analyze everything I see now which isn’t fun. But yeah. Wish it would actually do something for me instead of make some billionaires richer.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been personally wondering about these laws. I am thankfully in a place that doesn’t require them yet. But I assume that some asshole somewhere is going to want our data and say “wow that sounds like a great idea.”
My assumption is that i would feed false data to bypass if possible and then say fuck it and not use whatever service it is if I don’t really need to use it. If I do need to use it and have no choice, then I guess I’m SOL and will have my data breached at some point because none of these services seem to know how to lock down their shit properly.
Sorry for the frustration lol. I just think this kind of thing is stupid and a way to steal info or watch people. I don’t think this is genuinely about safety or helping children. Especially with the latter it always seems governments throw in a bundle of laws along side any “protect the kids” laws so that they can fly under the radar while screwing people over.
- Comment on ARC Raiders purposefully puts jerks in the same lobby as each other 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been humming and hawing over if I should get this game.
My assumption was that people would play friendly or cooperate more in the early days, and then straight PVP would take over quickly. Is this the case?
The reason I assume this would happen is that there’s very little incentive to take the risk to cooperate when you could end up getting shot in the back and have your loot stolen.
The game sounds like if you were to try and min max, your best option would be to manipulate others to take advantage of any good will. Eventually, people would stop working together and just go straight to PVP as cooperative play would become too much of a risk or a waste of time.
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 4 weeks ago:
I believe the Truck companies think people just want larger and larger trucks every year. I’m waiting until everyone is just driving monster trucks at this point lol
- Comment on Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway 4 weeks ago:
I started to think of something but…I don’t really need anything. It’s very nice of you to do this for others. Merry Christmas
- Comment on The View From Inside the AI Bubble 4 weeks ago:
I recently saw this video that was an interesting slap back to reality.
- Comment on 'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 4 weeks ago:
I do wonder what comes next for average people. I used to think a UBI would solve the world’s problems, but now I believe it would be just used as a method of controlling the general population. We’re a ways off yet from everything being replaced by this garbage, but when the time comes, I’m nervous about what will happen.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 4 weeks ago:
Just finished Metroid Prime for the first time. It was really cool. Not sure how I feel about backtracking in metroidvanias, but I really enjoyed the world and the various bits and bobs of lore.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 4 weeks ago:
Pokemon typing and attack types are the most important thing. Water is good against fire etc etc. I think that’s the main thing at least! I wana go back and finish pokemon X one day. I tried grinding for a special evee and I burnt myself out before I finished the actual game lol
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 4 weeks ago:
I tried this a few years back, and while I enjoyed the concept on paper, in actual practice, I found it frustrating.
The main issue is I have no idea if someone is cheating. As much as something like a kill cam would ruin the immersion, it also would give me reassurance to know that the game is still fair.
I want to give it another shot one day and just try to accept that I have no idea if people are playing fairly lol.
- Comment on Digital Sewer Socialism: What we need is sewer socialism for the digital realm — and it can start at the municipal level. 4 weeks ago:
I wana see how this plays out. NYC is an experiment that I can’t wait to see pan out. I really hope things change for the better there. It might spur action elsewhere.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 4 weeks ago:
I’ve read this is what many companies are telling staff that have to travel as well.
It’ll certainly be my plan if I ever end up going back someday
- Comment on The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India 5 weeks ago:
This is what happened with Amazon and all those “AI grocery stores”. Easier for them to just use people to watch you from across the world. So dumb lol
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 5 weeks ago:
I feel biased, but i agree with you. Definitely seems to feel that way
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 5 weeks ago:
I’m surprised one of these companies hasn’t bid against the AI bubble yet. Like have they considered going against the grain when there’s obvious push back could actually increase profits?
Could you imagine a world where Microsoft went back to a windows 7 Era where shit just worked how it was supposed to and was super solid? I feel like people would appreciate and buy into a product that just works.
Maybe I’m completely off base here but in my mind having a product that… y’know…actually works and does what it says it does is valuable.
That is unless there’s just so much money being thrown at them to force AI into their products that they seemingly cannot refuse, which could very well be the case. But it just feels weird
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 5 weeks ago:
Interesting! Thanks for the information.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 5 weeks ago:
Is there a reason these outages seem to have increased recently?
- Comment on Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse 5 weeks ago:
I wholeheartedly agree. It does sound dangerously similar. Ultimately, the main difference would be that I don’t want to hurt people. I just want them to be compassionate. I think ultimately, they need empathy. Maybe if i phrased it that way, it would sound less messed up. But yeah, they need to have empathy and a guilty conscience. If we could make everyone have that, it would be a much better place to live.
Governments don’t seem to want to do enough about them. They’re willing to let millions of people die because of billionaires. It just seems absurdly cruel and we just have to kind of sit and watch or get trampled on too.
- Comment on "Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer] 5 weeks ago:
They seem to not understand what made the good games good, and then when a game does do well, they try to milk it. The yearly releases are likely too much as well.
Black ops 3 was cool -> ruined with predatory micro transactions. anyone remember how they would pair you with people who had the items you were viewing in the loot box menu in an attempt to get you to purchase? And then the odds were stupidly low to actually get the items.
The modern warfare reboot was cool. But again they slowly ruined it entry after entry.
Black ops was kinda neat last year. Then they tried to milk it again.
Idk I’m kinda rambling here but if you’ve played most of the titles I think it makes sense as to why people aren’t always getting every one at this point