Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 18 hours ago:
X-Com: The Bureau Declassified. Your “teammates” are fundamentally suicidal, making keeping them alive almost impossible. But the setting, story and challenge made up for it. It was inventive.
The Technomancer: Mid-budget game by Spiders. Was short and straightforward, which most people disliked, but I thought it was a blast. The story still sticks in my head screaming for me to write a novel based on it.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I’ve honestly been having some trouble getting into Prey. Don’t know why. It theoretically should be everything I enjoy in a first person game, but somehow I always turn it off after a half hour or so. I’ll keep trying because, hell, I paid for the damn thing. But yeah… It’s no dishonored (but what is really)
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
Which one? I don’t recall running into anything critical.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
I would desperately love a remaster but upgrading the squad mates AI operate similar the Mass Effect squad mates.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
XCom 2 - War of the Chosen (with the Long War mod) is easily in my top 3 games of all time. Its a must-play.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
X-Com: The Bureau Declassified
Its fatal flaw was simply that the A.I. squadmates would far to often make suicidal decisions unless you micro-managed then, which made winning far more about luck than skill.
But the setting, the writing, the story were all super interesting to me. And the graphics hold a special charm for me (I still say the facial animations were better than LA Noire)
- Comment on Neo, wake up! 2 weeks ago:
Smith is just upset he’s never invited to the rave-orgies.
- Comment on Neo, wake up! 2 weeks ago:
That’s not a requirement. There’s nothing stopping them from happening in the Matrix, and probably with people who smell a lot better.
- Comment on Neo, wake up! 2 weeks ago:
The older I get, the more I realize that Joey Pantaloons was right.
If I’m living a life in the Matrix, I’m not being harmed in any way while they use my body to generate electricity. Who really gives a shit? Does it make a difference?
Reality is just neural inputs translated by our brain; does it even matter where that input comes from? Does it make a difference if those inputs simply skip my five senses and plug directly into my brain?
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 weeks ago:
A large part of my younger self wanted to be a paramedic. But I quickly realized I didn’t have the emotional resilience to be one.
I remember watching Nic Cage in “Bringing out the Dead” (Excellent film by the way) and that movie putting the big ol’ nope on that plan once and for all in the early 2000’s.
- Comment on lmao 3 weeks ago:
That’s been Mamoa’s fate since Stargate Atlantis.
- Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers? 4 weeks ago:
I go to ebay and select “Canada Only” when trying to find a particular item. (Am Canadian)
- Comment on lmao 5 weeks ago:
That’s true. But Blockers and Trainwreck are a part of what I’m describing. He’s content to mostly stick to the same basic character; a jovial everyman, basically. I don’t see him ever wanting to tackle the stage on Broadway or play Macbeth, or anything for “serious” actors. He’s just happy to be doing his thing. And hey, that’s fine and dandy. More power to him.
I see Bautista as someone who (Ironically I wasn’t a fan of at all in GotG) legitimately wants to climb that acting ladder. I don’t think he’ll succeed…let’s be clear. He won’t be winning any oscars any time soon. But I respect the effort to stretch himself with things like Bladerunner 2049, Dune, Knock at the Cabin, See, etc… which are all drastically different characters.
- Comment on lmao 5 weeks ago:
None of them are “great”. But Bautista puts in the most effort with trying various roles and actually “acting”, and improving every time he tries a new role. So he gets the nod for actually taking the craft seriously, even if he’s not particular great at it yet.
Cena is likable enough and he plays his character well. But he doesn’t stray into trying to seriously act, he just takes fun goofy roles for the most part and that’s fine. But I haven’t seen him challenge himself like Bautista does.
And the Rock is…just “The Rock”. He has no characters. In any movie it’s just “The Rock climbing a skyscraper”, “The Rock get’s lost in a Jumanji game”, “The Rock cosplays as Buford Pusser”, etc… etc…
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 5 weeks ago:
Same as always. Just going with the flow.
- Comment on When drawing up the middle east after WW1 and 2 how come the Kurds got the shit end of the stick? 5 weeks ago:
The Sykes-Picot agreement basically fucked over anyone who was white or Jewish.
At the end of World War 1 it carved up the middle east into areas controlled by the allied powers (France, Russia, England). Each of those sides puppeted their zones of control with varying degrees of civility, while the original groups that still had to live there day-to-day radicalized over being controlled by outsiders.
That was exacerbated by the Balfour Declaration in 1917, in which Britain basically said “tough titty-toenails, Arabs. We’ve promised to give the Jews a homeland, and we’ll have to take it from you.”
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 5 weeks ago:
“Aim”? What’s this “Aim” you speak of?
The only way I’ve ever known is to stand four feet back, whip down your pants and skivvies right down to your ankles and just firehose that sunuvabitch.
As God intended.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 1 month ago:
Within less than an hour, Rule 34 will come into effect and someone will make a porn-film about them.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 2 months ago:
My dad’s a gynecologist. He looks at vaginas all day long.
- Comment on Radioactive Steel 2 months ago:
IIRC, it’s also one of the best ways to test for forged paintings, because paint after WW2 is affected by the same minute traces of background radiation that the real deal painted a few hundred years ago wouldn’t have.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 2 months ago:
To put it simply, there is a difference between “intelligent” and “smart”.
- Comment on Can someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a plant and insect? 2 months ago:
You see, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much…
- Comment on When is the last time you had actual conversations with friends? 2 months ago:
Last Wednesday. We regularly go out to a local pub for trivia night and converse face to face there.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 months ago:
Yep. And boot-lickers of that kind of business ethics will always say “Well that’s capitalism, baby!”
But it’s really not. Capitalism as an economic theory IS those small businesses that are being driven under. It’s human beings making a living from their own labour." Even if that human being is the person in charge and doesn’t set foot on the sales floor (for example), it’s still a human being at the helm.
My goto example for some reason is always furniture, I don’t know why. But someone making bespoke wooden furniture out of his garage because he enjoys it and other people want to purchase it. That’s capitalism.
If that same guy’s product gets so big that he starts a company, get’s a factory, and now has employees making the furniture for him, it’s still capitalism because he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.
What’s missing from what the bootlckers call capitalism is the human element.
When the human equation is taken away and everything is at the whim of a stock price, it’s not capitalism anymore, it’s called a Corporatocracy. Humans themselves become just another metric on a spreadsheet called “labour”. Something to be accounted for, controlled and minimized for the sake of the share price. Those shares aren’t owned by humans either (for the most part), they’re owned by other corporations and hedge-funds. Humans are so far removed from modern corporatocracy that there’s no room (or even understanding of) empathy.
- Comment on How many cases from the TV series Unsolved Mysteries remain unsolved in 2026? 2 months ago:
Watching Unsolved Mysteries on PlutoTV, I like that the producers of the show actually add updates to the end when things have been changed or solved. They could just replay the episode as is, but they make the effort to introduce new updates. I appreciate that from them.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 months ago:
To put it simply, cost isn’t the same for everybody.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 months ago:
With you 100% on that. I love Picard, but it’s Janeway I’d trust to her me through the delta quadrant.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 months ago:
The new show was cancelled because not enough people watched it.
“Outsized influence” my ass.
Money talks. You think if the show hit the top ten in the streaming Nielsen stats that they’d cancel it because some people “didn’t like it”? Get real.
People are allowed to like something. People are allowed to dislike something. If enough people like it, the show gets enough viewers to continue. If not. It doesn’t.
People who don’t like it aren’t obligated to watch it just to prevent it from being cancelled for your sake.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 months ago:
/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 3 months ago:
At this point there is nothing that they could do to make Creation Engine feel “new”. I don’t understand why they keep beating that dead horse.
A couple of months ago, I had some extra money, so I bought Starfield because I had an itch to go back into my Crimson Fleet character.
The problem was that a couple of weeks before that, I had also purchased a game that I had wanted for years, but could never justify spending the high price of new games on, Red Dead Redemption 2. In comparison, Starfield just felt so…lazy… in ways both big and small, beyond the common issues like repetitive dungeons, barren worlds, loading screens, etc…
The biggest thing I noticed immediately was the effect of bumping into people as you’re walking. If you compare a Rockstar Game (Or even an assassin’s creed game), where npcs will make a comment, will move out of the way, get upset, etc… Whereas in Bethesda can’t be bothered to do anything except slide you to the right when bumping into a character, who doesn’t react or flinch in any way.
I started noticing those little things fucking everywhere. And I have to believe that little limitations like that are because it’s running on an engine that is older than dirt.