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- Comment on How much has the ratio of accidental vs intentional pregnancies changed over time? 1 week ago:
Not sure how it was elsewhere but where I live people usually had more kids because there were no retirement and once your body was weak you needed someone to provide for you. And more children = better chance of providing for their parents.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 week ago:
Holy fucking shit! I live under the rock in the middle of nowhere so I’ve heard only some brief parts of “something wrong with DOOM Eternal music” but nothing factual. Now I gave the time to read the whole article and I’m speechless. 'Cause this is bad, really, really, REALLY bad. I feel sorry for people that have to work and live under such assholes like Marty obviously is…
- Comment on Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah so surprised with that vaporware scam pinata…
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 weeks ago:
After reading your comment I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I tend to not buy where owner of the store treat me like shit. Neither in real life nor online.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 2 weeks ago:
That’s even worse part of it. Why tf does game like GTA6 even need marketing? Everyone and their dog will talk about it anyway…
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 weeks ago:
It’s really absurd where budget of those games went to… Big corpo gaming is wasteful as fuck.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 4 weeks ago:
Sure, it might be $80,why not? Also I might skip it. Or wait for sensible sale like $5 in a bundle. Backlog keeps expanding anyway and I doubt this will be even worth half the rrlease asking price…
- Comment on Nintendo's new user agreement includes power to brick your Switch 4 weeks ago:
Fuck Nintendo.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 weeks ago:
It’s completely fine. Unless you’re juggling with your balls or other’s naked body parts.
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t say one or the other globally. It is very much game dependent for me. There are open worlds that are just wonderful and it’s joy to play them and there are others whose world is empty and useless and that sucks.
One of the best executed open wolrds is old Gothic IMO (Gothic 2 is great too). Sure it’s probably ugly and bland by today standards, but the world is absolutely amazing. It’s completely open from the start, but player is so weak it is probably good idea to play semi-linear at the beginning. But nothing (except for tough enemies) stops you from exploring whatever and whenever you want. And there are tons and tons of things to explore. Hidden cave with loot? Shortcut connecting two roads? Place with very rare alchemy ingredient at the end of narrow valley? Shadowbeast lair? There is so much love put in there I still have cravings to play it even though it’s like quarter of century old game… Quite the same can be said for e.g. Morrowind which is another absolute gem from early 2000s.
But there are also open world games where open world either simply sucks or serves no purpose. I’d have to think about which games fall in there, because once it’s like this I tend to uninstall and forget the title…
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 4 weeks ago:
Ekke ekke p-tang zoom boing!
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
Fuck no. Luckily it’s not even enabled in my cou try.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
I’m too old to learn vim escape game. I’m glad I can do
:q:-D - Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
I have to live with Windows at work so that’s where I use Notpad++. I’m fine with Kate at home.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:
- Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it’s not evwn funny
- Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it’s still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
- literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
- ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
- and plenty others, like Linux vs. Windows, lol
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 1 month ago:
Morrowind is clearly and by far the best TES game ever made. It’s old and it shows, but this doesn’t take anything from the quality of the game. It has one of the best executed and most interesting worlds in any game I’ve played, it has great main story that is still just a scratch among other stories hidden throughout the Vvardenfelland lastly the soundtrack… It’s epic when it needs to be epic, it’s calm when it needs to be calm, great melodies very well tied to different areas and parts of the game, it’s just awesome.
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 3 months ago:
86? That’s like the double of our entire company management combined! You’ll do good.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 3 months ago:
I’m no expert, but I’ll give you my two cents. I play bass guitar and there are two types of connectors between amplifier and speaker cabinet. First one is plain barrel jack, second one is Neutrik. I’ve been talking with local amp maker and he said something like this: "jack is fine with low wattage, but with more power you’d do better with neutrik - it has much larger contact area " So I believe this is similar problem. We were speaking like 400-600W of power where jack starts to be worse. How about vacuum cleaner or kettle? Or similar appliance that can do 2kW… Small contact and higher drain means more heat generated in that spot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m no genius, far from it to be honest. But I went through most parts of high school without studying because I somehow remembered stuff being talked about in class. I just recalled how the teacher said required thing and what they were connected with. It was enough to get average grades.
Uni was a bit different. I had huge problems with classes focused on just memorizing stuff. Lectures was not mandatory and most teachers were terrible at explaining stuff so I ended up missing most of those as it gave me zero benefit.
To pass the exams I had to really understand some basic procedures where applicable (math, economics, etc). And I mean really understand to what’s going on and why, not just memorizing equations. Once I grasped the basic concept it was often quite easy actually (I wasn’t aiming for As) because everything made sense out of sudden.
That’s why memorizing heavy classes were such a pain for me. There were usually no such “basics” where you can build upon. I had a classmate which was exact opposite of me. She could memorize a whole lecture book over night just by reading it once or twice. And I mean memorize like basically she could start to finish it word by word. Did she know what she was saying/writing? Often times not, but as long as the exam was written, she had straight As because she just wrote whatever the teacher wanted to be there. IDK if she had photographic memory or what, but it was completely mind boggling to me, exactly like your roommate is to you. Maybe they function the same?
- Comment on Any people who speak Urdu/Hindi on Lemmy? 4 months ago:
Nice, thank you.
- Comment on Any people who speak Urdu/Hindi on Lemmy? 4 months ago:
I don’t but I wonder how close these two languages are? Since I sometimes watch Karl Rock on youtube, he apparently speaks both depending on where he is at the moment. Is it like “I understand nearly every word without even trying” or is it more like “If I focus hard enough I get the meaning of what the person is saying”?
- Comment on Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor 4 months ago:
I can tell you. It would be HUGE absolutely generic open world with AI generated characters and quests, virtually zero human made and interesting quests and gameplay would feel like filling excel spreadsheets. Somewhat like Ubisoft recepe :-D
At least that’s what original Daggerfall 's spirit would be. It was at the time where “the biggest” was simply the catchphrase and Daggerfall was exactly that. The biggest. But also very shallow and empty. Sure there were billions of quests but what for? When for one interesting there were dozens of generic ones? Don’t get me wrong, it was still a great game at the time, because players weren’t as spoiled and something was always better than nothing. At least that’s my impression.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Devil!
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 5 months ago:
Well, not entirely true. I use broker that has no fees for cheapskate scum like me, only having brokerage fees for trading 100k € in a month.
- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 5 months ago:
Sixteen times the
detailhard work! - Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 5 months ago:
Which cannot be said about Todd Howard.
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 5 months ago:
True, but majority of non-entirely-indie devs do exactly what I said. Sadly some indie too.
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 5 months ago:
I’ve played many different RPGs during my life, but Disco really is like nothing I’ve played before. Maybe, just maybe a little like Planescape Torment, but other than that? Nothing comes to mind. Which is unbelievable in this age, where most developers play it safe with basically sequels of successful games and new ones you barely can tell apart…
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 5 months ago:
I got hooked, but I was like “what if I chose this option now?” all the time. So I started completely different character right after I finished. Got couple hours in, but… 1) it’s too fresh experience and I should probably give it a bit more time and 2) I wanted the new character to be this fascist, racist, egoist, alcohol and drug abuser, but damn. It’s so tough to play against some basic human principles.
- Comment on What is your Game of the Year? 5 months ago:
Disco Elysium
I know it did not release this yer, but I got to it now, so it is GOTY for me.