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- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 2 days ago:
Another expansion? I thought it was a sequel. Ah well. Maybe
- Comment on The classic cycle 2 days ago:
Proportionally, most dust within a building is the building itself shedding on the inside.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 2 days ago:
The second game is why I’d rather wait for a good deal on a full package of the first.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 2 days ago:
checks price … Perhaps.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun! 3 days ago:
I think I’m going to get the base Grim Dawn. A complete package might drop eventually for a good price though, so I’m undecided.
A shame Paradox games are DLC/subscription farms. It just ain’t worth getting invested.
Overall still, I’ll probably browse undecided and buy nothing in the end.
- Comment on I can feel it 4 days ago:
Nowadays, it’s usually diabetes or cancer.
- Comment on The four horsemen of unmet financial expectations 4 days ago:
Of all the good games hoarded by EA, I only bought Dragon Age Origins, on GOG.
And despite the low prices, i ain’t touching the Mass Effect series as long as they’re rooted like this.
Just because I’ve got nothing to hide doesn’t mean I’m an exhibitionist.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 1 week ago:
Unless they’re hungry.
Source: bear ate a dog near a cabin I was lodging at some years back. Hungry bears don’t give a fuck.
Geese in general also don’t give a fuck. Also, they don’t fight fair. Remember to protect your gonads.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 week ago:
That Pathfinder Kingmaker was long as hell. Not sure i want to start the sequel until I’m good and ready for another pleasant slog.
- Comment on SWTOR: Scowling at a new Scoundrel 1 week ago:
Meh. Played beta, played f2p when it started and played again early this year.
Unless you’re subscribed, the story ain’t worth the many artificial locks in gameplay.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione's grandma left family $30 million in will 1 week ago:
Before or after taxes? And it’s 10 kids, so 3 mil each at best. And what’s that in chronic illness treatment costs? Like half a year’s worth?
So pretty much worthless then.
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 week ago:
Replace simulation with book where only a framework is defined and and the plot is built within the set rules.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
You say shitpost, but this is or at least was reality. During the worse of times, gas could be either counterfeit or diluted and the best known way to tell on the spot was by taste. Even then, you couldn’t be sure so you had to feel how the car drove after refueling.
There’s probably lots of deadened tongues in countries with fuel supply issues.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 | Official Trailer | Paramount+ 2 weeks ago:
Looks fun enough.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, in a world where judges can’t be bought and criminals don’t get Epstein’d.
I want fair justice as much fair justice can be attained by humanity. But in that kind of world, this type of murderer wouldn’t exist in the first place.
- Comment on Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW! 2 weeks ago:
It’s been some time, but if I remember right, you can spend a few hours in character creation alone just trying to understand all the different selections. And if I’m not mistaken, the factions hostile to you might change depending on which path is taken.
There were biological mutation, cybernetic enhancements and psychic powers. And I think they restrained each other similar to Arcanum’s magic vs technology. Or maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part.
And the controls are a class of their own. It should be easier if you’ve played other games that use the entire keyboard, but there are a lot of shortcuts to learn.
If you go in casually, you will die to the first hostile mob that sees you. I know I did.
- Comment on Does hand washing your undies prevent it from losing its shape and elasticity? 2 weeks ago:
How’d you know?
- Comment on Does hand washing your undies prevent it from losing its shape and elasticity? 2 weeks ago:
Unrelated to washing.
If you have body hair, each one acts as a miniature saw that rips through your clothes making them lose integrity much faster than otherwise.
- Comment on Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW! 2 weeks ago:
Tried it in the past. It’s complex. Lots of stuff to do, but I couldn’t get into it overall. If the demo is still available, I’d recommend going for it first.
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 2 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, no one ever said the thoughts and prayers had to be kind…
- Comment on alpha 2 weeks ago:
You can sorta see the alpha thingamajig in hyenas. The chick with the biggest clit gets a possy of white knights trying to please her.
But it’s not obligatory. Dudes just chilling together and biting asses can still happen without a chick to lead them on.
- Comment on shots fired 3 weeks ago:
According to research, it takes around 2000 work hours for the average academia researcher to start making shit up in order to publish a paper.
Source: an average academia researcher.
- Comment on sacred geometry of the algorithm 3 weeks ago:
One is homo, the other is no homo, bro?
- Comment on I do not want to do anything. Is this addiction? 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna say something different from the other comments and call it a burnout. You ran out of mojo. Need a refuel. Gotta find meaning again and let it power you up.
That can happen easy and fast or slow and difficult. It’s up to chance. In general, people pick up a hobby or take up sports and then do everything else in order to support that joy. More rarely, some people choose activism as joining something greater than themselves drives them to push past this state of couch potato ism.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 4 weeks ago:
Preface: Not a fancy alcohol enjoyer.
My quick searching gave compromised stopper, oxidation and environmental conditions as possible causes. As to why only Jim Beam reacts visibly, might be due to its recipe causing different or more intense chemical reactions.
- Comment on Why do people say "quote unquote something" and not "quote something unquote" ? 4 weeks ago:
It’s “quote unquote something” because most people who "quote something often forget to unquote afterwards.
- Comment on Volcanoes 4 weeks ago:
When you grow up from a cute little frog to a nasty old toad.
- Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, my answer diverged from the topic. I was caught up in a chain of thought of my own when I posted and didn’t realize it.
- Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this? 4 weeks ago:
Piracy is changing in a different way than expected. Before, viruses were mostly of the type that do damage for fun or steal some game accounts. But all that was left behind.
Nowadays, it’s all about stealing your cryptocurrency or making your hardware mine cryptocurrency, organized crime ransomware and government agencies hijacking your shit to spy on its own citizens or rival countries.
With the shift towards a higher digital presence, so do the dangers grow exponentially.
- Comment on [mod reminder] Please read the rules 1 month ago:
Thanks for the high praise. But also quite accurate.
I’ve been a mod before, in other places. My rule always ended up biased and unfair, but thankfully I was quickly overthrown. There’s a degree of separation when being part of the staff that alienates my view from that of the user base over time. Also, as said above, i am a bit of a cunt with people I don’t like. Can’t help it really…
It’s a tough gig, combating hatefulness, and most social media would rather pay fines than actually do their job in this regard. And constantly being exposed to the stress and negativity, well, it changes you.
I wish you luck and remember to visit the wholesome side of Lemmy more often, to keep in mind why you do this thankless job.
Ps: Thank you