Deconceptualist
@Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 3 days ago:
Hollow Knight isn’t exactly over when you finish the story. There are more flights, especially Godhome. If you can beat all that you’re an incredible player.
- Comment on You know... they have a point 4 days ago:
Brushing your teeth is the only time you clean your skeleton.
(not technically true but fun anyway)
- Comment on ETERNAL TORMENT 1 week ago:
THE SAME THE FISH
- Comment on Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) 1 month ago:
Give me alchemy, give me wizardry Give me sorcery, thermatology Electricity, magic if you please Master all of these, bring him to his knees I master five magics
– Megadeth, Five Magics
- Comment on Bill Murray Doesn’t Flinch While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones [20:24] 1 month ago:
What are you talking about? He asked Bill about getting bitten in Groundhog Day and the strikes at the end of Kingpin, and every fan already knows those stories are true. That’s like the lowest hanging fruit possible.
- Comment on Bill Murray Doesn’t Flinch While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones [20:24] 1 month ago:
I wanted this to be so much longer! They didn’t even talk about Ghostbusters or Lost in Translation. Still pretty great though.
- Comment on Discuss. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what there is to discuss. These seem pretty accurate at this point.
- Comment on Xenon 2 months ago:
I didn’t think to check Wikipedia for pharmacology info haha. Thanks.
- Comment on Xenon 2 months ago:
Isn’t that the same as Nitrogen, like Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works said? That doesn’t sound like there’s any unique mechanism to Xenon.
- Comment on Xenon 2 months ago:
Xenon is a drug?
Drugs.com calls it “physiologically inert” with some anaesthetic effects at high doses. Most of the coverage is about Xe-133 radiopharmacology and not what most people would think of as a “drug”.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree with you. But don’t you think there’s a component of it that’s like, “Hey I want to both 1) release a game and 2) put food on table”? Since 99% of players are on Windows, actually doing both kind of necessitates building for Windows first.
As Linux gamers I think we should keep going in the direction we’ve been and making it easier and easier for devs to port to Linux or run their games through Proton and so forth. It’s been amazing and my time as a player has been so good in the last couple years. If we keep showing that, more players will come over and the userbase will grow. I’ve heard from plenty of others who have ditched Windows, because gaming was their last holdout.
The big AAA publishers aren’t struggling for basic needs. We can make demands of them. But the small inside devs? Help 'em out where you can.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 2 months ago:
It was just a nibble!
- Comment on I will take no arguments 2 months ago:
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
- Comment on What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president? 2 months ago:
Thanks, correction added!
- Comment on What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president? 3 months ago:
It’s the same situation as if the president became ill or incapacitated in some way.
This has already happened 3 times; once for Reagan and twice for GW Bush. In these cases it was temporary.
- Comment on South Afruleca 3 months ago:
NAND and NOR are swapped. Pretty good otherwise 😄
- Comment on Think twice if once isn't working 3 months ago:
No; I died.
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 3 months ago:
Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?
- Comment on Thank you for your service 3 months ago:
Microsoft: Sees that you like this feature
Next year: “Attachment reminders are available to O365 Professional Plus subscribers. Upgrade now?”
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 3 months ago:
Yeah but the spelling ‘normally’ would have been updated to match English pronunciation. That’s what happens in most languages. As I understand there were two issues:
- Some dictionary writers (ca. late 1400s IIRC) wanted spellings that seemed fancier like French and Latin, which is why e.g. the silent B in plumber was added ‘artificially’.
- The printing press was invented right in the middle of the Great Vowel Shift so old spellings got “locked in” even though spoken English continued to change significantly for a long time afterward.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 3 months ago:
English isn’t exactly innocent there. See knight, plumber, mnemonic, pterodactyl.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 3 months ago:
That’s your issue? Not adjective declination?
I’m nearly at the end of Duolingo’s German content and spelling has mostly been quite easy (as a native English speaker). You want a spelling challenge, try French.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 4 months ago:
For SR3, just do it, it’s a really well-made game and runs great and you don’t need any prior knowledge except to know that it’s kind of a GTA parody. I don’t think SR1 was even ported to PC, and SR2 is pretty buggy and unstable on modern machines (though fun aside from that). SR4 supposed to be pretty great (same engine as 3 I think) but I haven’t played it.
FH4 has a healthy playerbase and I’m pretty confident it’ll still be worth playing over the next year. However beyond that as the community slowly dwindles it will eventually become less fun with fewer people doing Forzathons or seasonal co-ops or using the auctions, even if the servers are still running.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 4 months ago:
KSP has what players call “the Kraken” where the game engine sometimes bugs out and causes your vehicle to spin out of control and/or explode for no apparent reason. It happens more with really big vessels and complex missions. But yeah it’s not bug-free and you’ll want to quicksave often so you don’t lose hours of work.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 4 months ago:
If you like the cheesy story, Saints Row the Third is pretty wacky nonstop fun. It’s not 100 hours so you’d have to replay it, but you could do that co-op with a couple of friends. There’s nothing quite like bailing out of your fighter jet wearing a hotdog costume and then blowing up half a city block with your rocket launcher on the way down.
Vampire Survivors is a good candidate too, regularly introducing new characters and weapon combos for pretty non-stop dopamine. Maybe you could get 100 hours with the expansions but that seems like a stretch.
Honorable mention to Forza Horizon 4, it’s everything Burnout Paradise wished it could be and had a smile on my face nearly the entire time. Although there were a few spots where I set the difficulty too high and/or didn’t tune up my car and lost races, so that was less fun, but kind of my own fault. Well over 100 hours on this one, but the base game has only come down to $12 and won’t be sold after today!
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 4 months ago:
Kerbal Space Program’, do I need to say more ?
I love KSP, but no way, it’s full of challenges that require careful planning, patience, persistence and more. e.g. Your first Mun landing, or making a vehicle that can successfully return from Eve. Those are not adrenaline-fueled non-stop thrills, but rather careful exercises in engineering and discipline occasionally punctuated with excitement.
No, the last game that got me hooked for hundreds of hours is modded Cyberpunk 2077, but I don’t know if it can be found for 10 bucks.
Nope, historical low is still like $25.
- Comment on alpha 5 months ago:
The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves??
No wait, that’s Rudolf Schenker.
- Comment on Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬 5 months ago:
Nude pipe?
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 5 months ago:
Why? BCC is the solution and has been part of email since at least 1990. I’m not condoning a dogpile on OP, but this is a solved problem.
- Comment on It's insidious 5 months ago:
It’s not TIFF. This isn’t NASA imagery. PNGs do alright on compression for photos.