LoamImprovement
@LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
So I know it’s a joke, but isn’t this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?
- Comment on Number 1 Student 1 week ago:
Another kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show!
- Comment on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun 1 week ago:
I know exactly what it was for me. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, right up until 7th grade. To encourage kids to read, they implemented a reading requirement.
Upon completion of a quiz, every book with a length of ten pages or longer awarded a point per ten pages.
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
And they’re probably carving themselves a nice bonus out of the tax write-off for the studio closure.
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 1 week ago:
I mean, let’s not forget that the early consoles had their own pitfalls, a period of gaming that spawned tropes like ‘Nintendo Hard’ and ‘Guide Dang It’ in order to, among other things, pad out the length of what we would sell time on their hints and tips hotline. I do feel like there was less bullshit in the past, but it definitely still existed.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
Like I think that’s the thing that pisses me off the most about this - Sony clearly didn’t give two shits about this game on launch with servers underprepared and overwhelmed for weeks after, but as soon as they smelled money they were more than ready to shit where Arrowhead eats with this godawful requirement.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 1 week ago:
Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!
- Comment on Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I asked at a library if I could plug into the Ethernet because my laptop had an RJ45 port and I needed to download something sizable for work and the WiFi was dropping it. They let me hook up on one of the library computer ports and I left it the way I found it.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 2 weeks ago:
I preferred the switch lite with a protective case that gave the grips a little more body, made it way more comfortable to hold. At least until I picked up a Steam Deck, which ended up being pretty much everything I wanted out of portable gaming, and waaaay easier to emulate on.
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 2 weeks ago:
No discredit to R.E.M. but my world’s been ending for over a decade and I feel like dogshit constantly. Nobody told me the apocalypse would be heralded by the dumbest fucking cryptobros and AI prompters the world’s ever seen.
- Comment on BlizzCon won't happen in 2024 2 weeks ago:
Tired of people asking about the out of season April fool’s jokes.
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 3 weeks ago:
Meta acquiring Oculus
As someone with industry experience working with VR, I can tell you it’s a mixed bag. I think there’s certainly no way Oculus (and consumer VR in general) takes off the way it did without Facebook’s dollars behind it, and it’s certainly paved the way to the outstanding quality of standalone HMDs that are on offer today. However, it killed the initiative for PCVR hardware with the non-consolation that Meta, Pico, and HTC offer “Link mode” on all their headsets and it’s iffy on good days, which makes B2B PCVR very difficult to facilitate without some serious legwork on lowering latency over the air connections. Would that we could revive the Rift S, that headset was perfect for our needs.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account 3 weeks ago:
Gross. Hopefully I can regedit that shit away.
- Comment on Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it 1 month ago:
Redfall also flopped last year
Feels like an understatement - this was the game that killed Arkane, because a majority of the team decided they’d rather fuck off than work on whale chasing live-service nonsense. And like, good on them, but it means no more Dishonored, no sequels to Prey, no chance of Arx Fatalis II, and it fucking sucks to see enshittification strangling good talent. I hope they’ll find success outside of MS’ looming shadow.
- Comment on Cerveza Cristal 1 month ago:
Malort: Those pants aren’t gonna shit themselves.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
“That shit tracks”
- Comment on Public trust 2 months ago:
I mean a lot of them also don’t believe we landed unmanned units on mars, or humans on the moon, for that matter, so…
- Comment on What are some good PSP games? 2 months ago:
I don’t know if I could call it good, exactly, but one unique concept that I haven’t really seen captured anywhere else was the Dungeon Maker series on PSP, that allowed you to build dungeons that you would then explore/fight/loot, to give yourself funds to build out further/deeper, ad infinitum. It was clunky, controlled pretty stiffly and basic as ARPGs go, and after a certain point you kind of went on autopilot, but there’s a certain je ne sais quoi to it that I really quite enjoyed, especially if you planned out your builds. I think a similar title was released on the DS but it was turn-based and not particularly well-executed.
- Comment on Opinion | Trump Is Losing It 2 months ago:
Is losing it? As far as I could tell it’s been long gone.
- Comment on Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods 3 months ago:
The link’s broken for me but I assume it’s the RE8 Dimitrescu flyswatter thing?
- Comment on Digested is a bodycam horror game about being ssssstuck on an island with a giant snake 3 months ago:
Wow, I’m shocked anyone else has even heard of that game. I wish we could get a remaster for modern machines, it was strikingly beautiful in places.
- Comment on Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times 4 months ago:
I just want to return to a time before the technocracy, and the metricization of everything, before we started caring about clicks and views and the algorithm, for the sake of squeezing every last bit of monetization and efficiency out of everything and everyone.
- Comment on Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter 4 months ago:
I dunno, but they better watch out if they don’t want Seegson eating their lunch.
- Comment on Unity Apologizes For Runtime Fee Policy, Promises To Alter Plan This Week 7 months ago:
I know what the implication here is but I feel like I should ‘pray they don’t alter it any further?’
- Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me. 8 months ago:
There are so many good conversations going on in that movie, everyone I talked to who had watched it said it was good but I was not prepared for just how many topics it covers so artfully. And god, I could listen to Ferrera’s monologue over and over again.
- Comment on The more I think about it, the more the 5 minute car commercial in Barbie bugs me. 8 months ago:
And the Mojo Dojo Casa House ‘selling like hotcakes.’ And the CEO pooh-poohing a ‘regular barbie’ before immediately reversing course when he’s told it’ll be super profitable.
Honestly it’s got shades of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special, that weird dichotomy of Charlie Brown depressed by the rampant consumerism of the holiday season bookended by Hallmark ads with the new peanuts ornaments. But the lesson the special teaches is to find your own meaning in the holiday, and that it is inviolable by the consumerism so long as it still means something else to you.
- Comment on Which particular episode(s) of Star Trek do you find yourself going back to? 9 months ago:
I’m surprised The Measure of a Man isn’t on that shortlist for procedural episodes.