Excrubulent
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- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
Honestly less frantic gameplay sounds good to me, I got sick of the “oh god they’re after me now I fell oh well try again” parts of the gameplay. I might take a look. Thanks!
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
I played the first game and thought it was okay but not great. What were the changes? Maybe they’ll suit me since I’m not so attached to the original.
- Comment on Time sure flies. I remember pausing my N64 to watch the news coverage. 2 weeks ago:
GodFUCKINGdamnit please don’t remind me how easily I trust random commenters to report information.
At this point even if I click on it there’s no guarantee one of you fuckers hasn’t vandalised the page.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Some real “steel is heavier than feathers” energy coming off this teacher.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, the two statements in the premise are simply given. How is the child to know one of them is false? At that point, why not say Marty ate more than Luis and therefore the fractions must be different? Maybe the fractions are wrong and Marty ate more.
Just an absolutely terrible question if that’s supposed to be the answer. I’d guess the teacher didn’t write the question and didn’t understand the answer.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 2 weeks ago:
I remember people talking about how the other smokers at work were all the cool people. And like, yeah, you spend several minutes several times a day hanging out outside with them, with no work and nothing to do but shoot the shit. Of course you like them better, you spend way more time with them.
Also you can all bond over your common terrible life choices, what’s not to like?
- Comment on Infinite glitch 2 weeks ago:
Assume, he says, that the distribution of holdings in a given society is just according to some theory based on patterns or historical circumstances—e.g., the egalitarian theory, according to which only a strictly equal distribution of holdings is just.
Okay well this is immediately a false premise because nobody seriously makes this argument. This is a strawman of the notion of egalitarianism.
Also, we don’t need Wilt Chamberlain to create an unequal society, we just need money. It’s easy enough to show that simply keeping an account of wealth and then randomly shuffling money around creates the unequal distribution that we see in the real world:
…github.io/…/inequality-process-simulation.pdf
And every actor there began with the impossible strictly eqalitarian beginning. No actor was privileged in any way nor had any merit whatsoever, but some wound up on top of an extremely unequal system.
So Noszick just needs to look a little deeper at his own economic system to see the problem. There is no reason why we need to have a strict numerical accounting of wealth.
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 weeks ago:
Your funeral, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
- Comment on No looky for you! 2 weeks ago:
Your gnomes shouldn’t be dead, they’re technically immortal and a stint in the dishwasher is their ticket out of the salt mines. If you’ve got dead gnomes the last thing you want is to keep their bodies on the premises. If you leave them in the cartridge they can be revived when you exchange it for the new cartridge. If you put them in the ground they will find… other ways back to their realm, and they will remember what you did.
Also don’t ask me why the gnome salt mine slavery exists, I didn’t create it, I just benefit from it.
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 weeks ago:
You can get anti fungal liquid that you add to one of the secondary dispensers which should keep that at bay while also keeping mould off your clothes, and also you can leave the door open between cycles to dry it out. I’ve been told it’s important to leave the door open when it’s not in use.
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 weeks ago:
You don’t replace your dish gnome cartridge every 3 years? I was told it was a feature. They get tired.
- Comment on Anyone Hiring? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience that is not a true defence against disappointment.
My expectations weren’t low enough to guard against my boss’s husband getting drunk, shoving his kid around in front of me then driving like a lunatic with us both in the car. When I quit over it I didn’t get my last paycheck or even an email back.
There had been red flags in the hiring process which these days I would absolutely bounce over, especially since they’d taken so long to get my contract in order, but you just don’t expect people to be complete monsters.
When I emailed again a week later to ask what was taking so long the second business partner’s email bounced. Apparently she’d left in that time. The business is still somehow running because you don’t need to be competent to get startup capital and run a business, you just need to talk fast enough to get the bag.
- Comment on Misunderstood the assignment… 3 weeks ago:
…well my biggest question now is why I didn’t even notice that.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 weeks ago:
Got them working, and was pleasantly surprised to find most of them had flatpack installers! Manual saving is still a pain but the engines running smoothly does make a big difference.
Although the dark forces installer doesn’t work with the steam install so you have to copy the game data to the data folder to make it work.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 weeks ago:
Honestly anything to deal with the horrendous friction and instability of the original, even modded I think I had to stick with 4:3 which even with black bars was still not quite right on my modern system. It would have to be a better experience, even if I have to re-learn manual quicksaves.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 weeks ago:
I just found Shockolate, a GPL-3 source port of system shock:
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 weeks ago:
I actually really appreciate someone clarifying the chronology of these games, I’ve got them all in my steam library and can never remember the order they go in.
Do the OS remakes have any QoL improvements? I tried playing through them recently and had a very hard time with the manual save system since I’m used to autosave points in linear games like that.
- Comment on Are you amused 3 weeks ago:
That guy gets to say that if you look up “humour” in the encyclopedia there’s a picture of him.
- Comment on What has he seen?? 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say pebbles, but this is probably the safer option.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 4 weeks ago:
Breighden.
- Comment on Don't try this at home 5 weeks ago:
Do they have fuji 9?
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 5 weeks ago:
Sure but they still don’t have to raise the rent at every opportunity, that’s still a choice.
Also though the largest landlords are in a position to create artificial scarcity by buying up properties just to keep them empty, so people don’t have other options.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 5 weeks ago:
Always remember that “the market” is just a signal to the landlord that they could get more if the property were on the market today. It’s still their choice to squeeze you to take advantage of that. “It’s the market” is code for “because I can”.
Also they know that people don’t want to move every year or two, so they can absolutely raise the rent above market level without you wanting to leave yet. This has the effect of pushing the market higher. The switching cost is very high, so it’s in their favour that way too.
A landlord I knew about through a friend said they never raised the rent as long as their property is being paid off, because they would rather have it occupied and being paid than the tenants leave and the place sit empty.
Not to say that’s a good landlord by any means, but there is a choice. The market isn’t a mandate.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year 1 month ago:
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 month ago:
Wait, open world, specific upgrades needed to access new areas and progress the story… I think Subnautica is a secret metroidvania. It’s just most of the upgrades are “you can go deeper now”.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 month ago:
Yup, and honestly even according to that anti-art logic it was a strategic failure. Funny meme gifs were part of how the game gained notoriety, but you don’t maintain a game long term on meme status alone.
Even if “haha funni physics glitches” were still the in thing - I think people got over them fast, like with any comedy style - the longevity of the game came from the deep mechanics and impressive missions people could do, and the community support.
I actually think that “sequels” to breakout sandbox games are always doomed to fail. Like what if they tried to release Minecraft 2? It would be awful, and I think we all instinctively know it would be, which is kind of a self fullfulling prophecy.
Minecraft doesn’t have a monopoly on the special sauce that makes their game good. It has a decade and a half of support and cultural recognition from a dedicated following. You can’t make that happen a second time. I don’t like what’s been done with the franchise commercially, but they figured out how to milk it without doing a direct sequel, which I think is part of why it’s still relevant.
- Comment on To whom it may concern 1 month ago:
Also weirdly accepts the premise of the story then calls it a lie. Like at least have some narrative cohesion in your snark, people, it’s not hard.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 1 month ago:
If you like factory designing games, I can recommend anything by Zachtronics.
They’re all esoteric programming/automation type puzzle games, and they all have their own unique solitaire games built-in for whenever you get tired of the main game.
My personal favourites are SpaceChem - scifi molecule factories - and Opus Magnum - steampunk alchemical molecule factories. Something about the molecules just works for me, don’t know why. Plus the Opus Magnum solitaire game is really unique and fun, and it has a user-made level feature, so you can keep playing.
Last Call BBS is a collection of minigames they made as their final release before shutting up shop, so it’s a lot more casual than the others, but a lot of fun.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 1 month ago:
The full list of her titles is a short book.
Even the “full honorifics” are usually a long and boring paragraph.
People usually don’t use them because a) it’s annoying, b) it takes too long, and/or c) we don’t particularly want to honour her and the extremely long list of genocides that those titles are formed from.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 1 month ago:
That doesn’t make her not the queen of England, though, so the other person isn’t wrong.
The thing that makes her not the queen of England is being dead as shit.
