Deconceptualist

@Deconceptualist@lemm.ee

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The dude from the Scorpions also studies wolves??

  No wait, that’s Rudolf Schenker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not TIFF. This isn’t NASA imagery. PNGs do alright on compression for photos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's insidious⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice find. That one tells me 1401x1705 and 0.86 MB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's insidious⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is that PNG file 1.3 MB? Is it huge or just unoptimized? Is someone using it as a fullsize Quark poster or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say yes. It’s one of my favorite genres (if you can call it one) and definitely includes loop-based plots like Groundhog Day and Primer. But I also enjoy the Terminator Series and Back to the Future and Army of Darkness. I imagine most fans are similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke up today to find out my demo has 100% Positive rating (from 10/10 reviews)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could go give it a negative review if that would help you feel more grounded.

  Just kidding, congratulations :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s labeled “holy” I assume a priest stuck his willy in it, so no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I went there a couple months ago, and it seemed like all the native folks spoke Irish (Gaelic) to some degree. It was pretty surprising, I thought I’d have to go to the west coast to get away from English, but nope, even the first cabbie I encountered in Dublin was more than happy to chat about linguistics!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language was spoken in ancient empire armies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No EU member has English as its main language

  Ireland?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears Cave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s called a rabbit hole because rabbits live there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, fair enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I don’t even want to give credence to Carlson’s garbage by repeating it. But even if we imagine Otto Frisch was somehow there alone making drawings in the snow, we still know when it happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Marie Curie didn’t discover fission; that was Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch and colleague Otto Hahn. But yeah, same problem. Meitner was left out of the publications and overlooked for a Nobel Prize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Curie was brilliant but she didn’t discover fission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t ancient history. Links in my top level comment, but the answer is right around Christmas 1938.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone wants the answer, it’s 1938.

  Further reading: Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  [Obligatory] Your mom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What if you take off the costume? Humans aren’t entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moi non plus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mais bien sûr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ceci n’est pas un signe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50% survival rate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s sort of why I asked. I thought I was missing something but no, the meme is apparently assuming academic professionals are dummies. Not to say that we should expect nuance and robust portrayals from a meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heavy Metal Darwin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They say he was Hellbent for Leatherback turtles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨50% survival rate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I suspect a mathematician would consider the latter point too though.