Excrubulent
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
- Comment on No looky for you! 9 hours ago:
Your funeral, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
- Comment on No looky for you! 12 hours 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! 22 hours 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! 22 hours 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? 1 day 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… 2 days ago:
…well my biggest question now is why I didn’t even notice that.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 4 days 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 5 days 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 6 days ago:
I just found Shockolate, a GPL-3 source port of system shock:
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 6 days 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 6 days 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?? 1 week ago:
I was gonna say pebbles, but this is probably the safer option.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
Breighden.
- Comment on Don't try this at home 2 weeks ago:
Do they have fuji 9?
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 2 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 2 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 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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* 5 weeks 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* 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on lion 5 weeks ago:
It’s like a UNION but you don’t STOP at couple of PAY RAISE HANDOUTS you just KEEP GOING till YOU OWN IT ALL.
HELL YEAH BROTHER (INCLUSIVE)
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 month ago:
As written this guy only has one monkey.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 month ago:
892 trillion years sounds like a minuscule amount of time to wait for a string that long.
- Comment on Interesting fact about humans in zero gravity 1 month ago:
I think the real answer is that the only people who actually know are the select few astronauts, and their governments are too prudish to ever be open about it, so the people don’t want to admit to such “unprofessional” behaviour. I think until space tourism becomes common enough, we’ll never know.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 month ago:
I don’t think tankies are keen on recognising Taiwan. They think it should still be part of China.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 month ago:
“this crazy lesbian feminist said all sex is rape!”
Not all sex, just all the sex in their world. So by saying it was “all sex” they were kind of telling on themselves by agreeing.
I should probably read that book, thanks for that.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 1 month ago:
This definitely plays into something I’ve been thinking about lately - in a conservative worldview, all sex is rape, of a woman by a man. Whether it’s acceptable to them is all about ownership. Does that man have the right kind of ownership over that that woman? If so, they’re fine with it. If not, it’s bad.
This is also related to the idea that no woman ever actually wants sex, and no man ever doesn’t want it. It’s all about when it’s allowable for him to overpower her.
