Dvixen
@Dvixen@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 16 hours ago:
(As a note, I do have APD)
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 days ago:
For me it’s too much sound input makes everything resemble the Peanuts adults talking.
One person talking is ok, two people talking is harder, three is pure white noise.
Drop music or environmental sounds on top of it and I can’t understand a damned thing.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 days ago:
I’d prefer text over audio, so long as I can skip the text when I am done reading. (Grr argh to the games that have both, but won’t let me skip because the NPC isn’t done speaking.)
Being able to choose either as the primary information delivery would be fantastic.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 days ago:
I’m a muted game player as well. Music is the first thing I turn down to negligible, followed environmental sounds. If I can’t control those, buhbye all sounds.
In the murder hobo games, I don’t really need to listen to that anyways.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 days ago:
Launching a new game shouldn’t shake the house. I shudder to think how loud it would be if my system volume was above 30%. I made the mistake of having a headset on when launching a new game, and the headset learned to fly.
A couple games are still loud even after setting game volume to less than 10%… They get the full mute treatment, I no longer care of they have the most amazing soundtrack, I value my ability to hear.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 days ago:
In a similar vein, games that have sounds for everything. I have to play with sounds off in games I enjoy, and some sounds are used to foreshadow dangers that I end up unaware of because I can’t deal with the sound of crickets or bees or a random humming that are always present. (Shout out to Satisfactory for the incredibly granular sound control, overwhelming at first, but once it was set up it is great.)
Remapping keys. I have function (and not always voluntary) but no feeling in part of my left hand, and an essential tremor that appears randomly. I need to disable some keys because I will find my character suddenly crouching/running/attacking or whatever at really inconvenient times, and with some games the controls are so touchy that I can’t aim or move in a straight line.
Not colorblind, but some games have some very headache inducing colour choices, I have sympathy for those who can’t see colour A font on Colour B background.
- Comment on Annoying dark pattern where no means maybe later 1 week ago:
Instagram pulls this shit too. Clicking to block an account counts as engagement, so they throw more of that type of crap at you.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 month ago:
Turning the Stream shader feature of was the only way I could get Dune to run without a shader error crash. Good Enough is always problematic.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 months ago:
Fair enough. The creative modes are definitely worth considering, you can set build cost to zero, eliminating the waiting and farming. Survival aspects can also be tuned, so you can stand in storms and feel like a god.
- Comment on A Little Shoutout 4 months ago:
The problem with some succulents is they will appear alive, but actually already have one foot in the grave. It laying down without any grip into the soil might mean the taproot is gone.
When you repot it, take your time, and check that it’s tap root is intact. It’s ok to let it sit out in the open for a day or two - any damage should scab over.
If there is a taproot - you’re good to go, but if there is little to no root, chances are slim it will survive. There are methods to encourage a new taproot, but that is (currently) above my knowledge level. (AKA I’ve never been able to get them to grow a new taproot.)
- Comment on A Little Shoutout 4 months ago:
It’s badly etoliated (stretching to get more sun) and appears to be in a soil with too much organic matter.
The poor dear needs heaps more sun, and soil that doesn’t retain much, if any water.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 7 months ago:
Fun Fact: Dolphins fart.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 7 months ago:
Charlie Jade
Lost Room
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 7 months ago:
I learned to type on one of these. I still can’t unlearn the habit of having to use actual force to type - my neighbours can hear my typing on my mechanical keyboard. :D
I did unlearn the two spaces after a ‘.’ so that’s a win at least.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 7 months ago:
Zeeeero!
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 9 months ago:
Origami and handmade cards are very thoughtful. :)
Keep trying with the folds, one day you’ll forget to check the videoguide!
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 9 months ago:
I have, many times, and nothing changes, hence why I have completely given up trying to plan anything. Like talking to a brick wall. Things only happen when I take the initiative. Special days, house repairs, appointments…
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 9 months ago:
Dud. After years of having to remind, plan and remind the other half again and again, I gave up and said nothing last year. Nothing happened. Nothing happened again this year. Next up - Mother’s Day, which I expect to be equally nothing, just like last year.
I can’t wait for the complaints that I planned nothing for birthdays or Father’s Day.
- Comment on Steam News - Your 2024 Steam Replay is here 11 months ago:
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 1 year ago:
I’ve always added a carrot.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 1 year ago:
First I was asked politely to not swear, even if I was not a customer facing employee.
Second time I was cautioned was because I’d switched to swearing in another language. Manager thought it was hilarious, but they still knew I was swearing.
I spent the next five years being increasingly creative with how I swore. A temporary (and loud) revert to English swearing when I was in a workplace accident was kindly ignored due to circumstance.
There was no third warning.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 1 year ago:
There was a place like this in Vancouver, no idea if it is still there.
The Elbow Room. “Food and service is our name, abuse is our game!”
They weren’t kidding. One of our group asked for water, he got told his legs worked and he could get it himself. The food was amazing, although we did get told off for not finishing our plate.
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 1 year ago:
Hopefully through their buttholes, not through their fingers and mouths.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 year ago:
Our previous ISP kept after us for a few years to return their modem/router. Only problem was we were a BYO account - we never had a need for their device, nor was it ever on our account or any invoices. A few years later, and every few months afterward (typically after I’ve had to contact them to solve the hell that was constant dropouts - reconnecting 2-4 times a minute) the missing BUDii would pop up again and they’d demand we return or pay for it.
Each time I got snarkier and snarkier, treading the line of being polite and sounding like I wanted to chew their face off. Then I got Betty (fake name) who asked for a moment while she read the correspondence on our account. She commiserated with the troubles we’d been having, clarified notes on our account and then solved what a dozen others couldn’t figure out, and we never heard about the BUDii ever again.
- Comment on Day 59 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 year ago:
I have ended every session of Sea of Thieves by setting my ship on fire.
I still feel bad for the two guys who were laughing as my ship burned (while on my ship) when the gunpowder kegs exploded and killed us all.
But only a little bad. They knew things would explode eventually, I was carrying a keg of gunpowder, and my shop was on fire!
- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 1 year ago:
We’ve been using it since it came available to test, and is such a lovely change from before. The check out system is so much cleaner than the old locked out of account while someone in the family is playing.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 1 year ago:
Cure for me - in my arse.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 1 year ago:
There’s a colony of them off the coast of northern BC. It was started about twenty years ago for a study.
Granted, they are plastic and nailed down, but hey, who cares about details.
- Comment on What games do you recommend to play with a girlfriend 1 year ago:
Satisfactory. Lots to organize and build.
No Man’s Sky. (Free to play this weekend on all platforms.)
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 1 year ago:
I have noticed this. I have a few searches that I do regularly, and over time I’ve watched the results get less and less relevant for the same keywords.
One of the more recent searches was for a set of data I had been building. I had the keywords from my notes, and when I went to search for it again, using the same keywords that found it the previous times, it was no longer a result. I knew the dates of one event in particular, so I narrowed to that, and still google served me results for ten years before the specified date range. A bit more fine tuning, and Google continued to serve the same results, all not even remotely close to what I was after.
