morbidcactus

@morbidcactus@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 387 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come to really like WW over the years, that and TP may be my favourite of the console Zelda games, the graphics of WW aged pretty well imo, art style still looks great some 23 years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some places will issue library cards if you work in the city but don’t live there just as an fyi.

  Some systems let you check out and sync to an e-reader too, kobos work with my system but I think there’s other ways to get then on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Way back in the day, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) had an amateur league fittingly called the Cyberathelete Amateur League (CAL), we had a small team for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars that we competed in, didn’t do stellar but it was a blast, met people from other teams we’d often practice with or just do pub games. It was total beer league type stuff, if you can find a group like that imo it’s worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bandcamp, I follow a bunch of labels that’ve done releases I like and have set up a bunch of genre tags, I’ll go through every so often and go through releases, see what jumps out at me.

  Otherwise, there’s a few reviewers I’ve come to trust over the years, my partner likes angrymetalguy and both follow Rez Metal Podcast. Otherwise it’s forums, Lemmy, reddit or other online community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From the 360 Era — Too Human
  The control scheme is bizarre at first (right stick is melee) but it works once you’re used to it. It’s Sci-Fi Norse mythology, I recall it having a pretty solid art style. I picked it up used from either Blockbuster or EB because I wanted to see just how bad it was, ended up enjoying it far more than I expected, I’ll give it a “Yeah, it’s ok”, disc images are readily available if you want to emulate it, can find a physical copy cheap online too if that’s your thing.

  This is the game that ended up taking down its studio (Silicon Knights, they developed Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, they tried to sue Epic, who countersued and won, probably added to my initial interested tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should add eduke32 for Duke Nukem 3D, believe Ion Fury (which is phenomenal) is built on that, think I’ve seen mention of it working with other build engine games, I’ve used with assets from world tour, it’s a better experience imo.

  Gzdoom has some great games built on the engine too (bit of a tangent), Selaco and Hedon both fantastic games.

• ⁨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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are already are, look at season passes, dlc etc, 90+ is the de facto price of a lot of AAA games. They’ll claim going even higher is to support developers or whatever when laying people off en masse and posting even larger quarterly results, it’s pure avarice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t Kripke intend for that to end after season 5?

  I’ve tried, think I made as 10.5, first 5 are legitimately excellent though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRASSICAS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sprouts do well with Braising, this is roughly how I do them, based on a whim that turned out fantastic.

  1. Halve and clean your sprouts, salt and pepper them
  2. Sear cut side down in oil of your choice. Bacon is the classic but absolutely not required if you want to do it vegan, maybe use some smoked paprika to get the smokey flavour, add aromatics like garlic near the end, it burns easy.
  3. Deglaze with balsamic vinegar, add enough liquid to just barely cover the bottom of the pan, cover and simmer until happy.

  I know sprouts are far less bitter than they were when I was a kid, but I legit thought I disliked them. Borrowed a lot from braised cabbage recipes, just with a bit more aggressive browning. The sprouts hold up really well to longer cooking IMO (can’t say the same to leeks, braised leeks are great, but not how I did them, turned into a textural nightmare), they’re amazing hot or cold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Combat changes put me off initially but honestly, enjoyed it far more than inquisition, combat is far closer to me:a and that’s a good thing, me:a is easily the best mass effect game mechanically (and that’s coming from someone who still loves me1), skill tree is massive and you can respec whenever to try different things, as an RPG I personally felt it’s quite strong. Also, felt da:v was more focused wrt maps, da:i has really large, empty maps that I originally tried to do everything in, by the hissing wastes unless it was shards or an interesting side quest I ignored it.

  Felt them making companions invulnerable was a good idea too, da:i on nightmare they usually died almost immediately against things like dragons or dlc bosses unless you micromanaged the hell out of them.

  Story wise, it’s me:2; you collect a bunch of experts for an impossible task. Personally, I like bioware RPGs, they’ve always been cheesy. Shepard has lots of one liners that are sarcastic quips, “it’s a big stupid jellyfish” comes to mind immediately, half the dialogue between Shepard and Garus in the later games (especially me:3). One criticism is probably shared with me:a, we had time to experience the me characters over the course of the games, they weren’t immediately like that, but honestly it never really bothered me, jade empire has really cheesy dialogue and is up there for me flaws and all.

  IMO one thing bioware has always done well is world building and veilguard isn’t an exception to that for me, I like that the set the game in a region only really mentioned in previous games.

  is it the best game I’ve ever played? No but definitely an enjoyable one, I personally feel we’ll see retrospectives in a handful of years like I’ve seen with me:a recently (another game that was actually solid and had some interesting ideas and concepts)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked in primary metals for a while, core business applications still ran on mainframes, they had a project to move some of them to SAP that apparently had the same timelines as nuclear fusion (perpetually x years away).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ducky has programmable keys FYI, while you don’t have dedicated media keys it’s really easy to bind media key macros, fn+pg up/down are volume, fn+end is pause etc on mine.

  Razer keyboards I’d shy away from personally, found their build quality isn’t great, mice specifically, the ducky is more comfortable for me to use anyhow. My partner has a one 3 tkl in white with clears, I have a black one with browns (used blacks for years, prefer tactile+clicky after having used them).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any game recommendations for the Steam RTS Fest?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking of Relic, looks like Homeworld remastered is <$4 cad and I’ve heard amazing things about that series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why can't there be a soda dispenser for energy drinks?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  500ml of black tea is going to be maybe 100mg if we’re generous, no wonder!

  300mg is a lot at once, you can get more than that drinking an extra large coffee, but that’s super variable, don’t know how accurate this is infographic containing information on caffeine content for sizes of Starbucks coffee people can easily go over the recommended limit (400mg a day I think)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was reminding me of an evolution on Andromeda’s combat, actually plays well, went in not a huge fan of that change (da:o is still my favourite of the series) but after how dumb as fuck the companion AI was in inquisition (I always play sword and board, unless I micromanaged people in inquisition they’d all be dead during dragon fights), but ended up really enjoying it, between that and the sphere grid skill tree, there’s some decent stuff to work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sold my pledges off 9 years ago, the reason I even made a reddit account in the first place. Was getting disillusioned with it back then and I was super excited when I initially backed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was a thing when I took geo in first year, rock test (and the professor) was kinda a legend within engineering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨135.9 Million Reasons Why the Working Class Is So Angry⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always wondered if these could/should be considered constructive dismissal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could totally be setup to feel/work like a trackball, remember playing a bunch of warframe with mine and being able to “throw” it and have it stop when you touch the pad again, took getting used to but substantially more flexible than a regular analogue stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the heck of it, if you heat protein enough to denature it but have no Maillard reaction (let’s say you’ve just steamed an egg or something), would that not be considered cooking by that definition?

  My understanding is that denaturing is a physical structure change, not a chemical one (and according to Wikipedia can be reversible in some cases), not a biochemist or food scientist though so totally accepting that my understanding is incorrect/incomplete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Suffering⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure you’re right it was season eight, think it’s from that documentary they did, there’s a clip in that of Conleth Hill reading Varys’ death apparently and looking disgusted, only clip I could find was reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner and I gave up destiny before witchqueen dropped, played pretty consistently since house of wolves with a pause just before forsaken until shadow keep. Absolutely loved the core mechanics and the PvP is some of my favourite, but it just felt so stale, barely any new maps, sunsetting old ones, lack of committing to ideas (4v4 was actually solid, some of the maps do not play well in 6s, 3s are fine though), rotating gamemode playlists like d1 had (for 6s I find control annoying after a while, 3s I liked relic in d1, mix in elimination and I’d be good)

  It’s a shame because as I said, core mechanics rock, slug shorties and hand cannons feel amazing, and fusion rifles are legitimately awesome as well. I have really solid memories of doing stupid things with stuff like the Le Monarque and No Land Beyond. Wasn’t a huge fan of some metas but had some fun times with the games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I like Mark Meer for his voice work in other Bioware games (Jade Empire for sure, also I don’t dislike maleshep at all) and his work on stuff like the irrelevant show, Jennifer Hale is just fantastic to the point where renegade femshep is to me the cannon version of Shepard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will outlive us all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall NKRO was the selling point on some of those keyboards, my old steel series mechanical will absolutely let you mash all the keys with a ps2 adapter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with sleeper ships⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a side quest chain in Starfield that has a generation ship arriving at a planet they claimed centuries ago only to find it’s a corporate owned resort planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously though, it’s been some time be afaik any microsoft product file that ends in x, .docx, .xlsx, .pbix are all just archives and you can totally interact with them programmatically if you want. Really easy to corrupt them but hey, found it interesting years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had a drain that you knew was clogged only with hair, could you unclog the drain only using Nair?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s drain guards you can get that work pretty well, I got tired of cleaning out hair from the shower drain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely deranged⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only annoyances I had were general keyed connector issues, but usually you’re able to look at the port, it’s usb a that tended to be plugged in blind, usb c can be annoying to plug in blind because if its size, just less overall annoying that og usb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Circle of Life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine stare at them, maybe do a light paw and meow like a maniac at them, they’re not good pest control.

  Luckily, the gratuitous amount of spiders seem to do their job, there’s a lot of lake flies!midges/gnats but I’ve never seen them or ants in the house, just spiders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I explain my job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always struggled to succinctly describe my job to people outside of it, it’s muddy because I often fill gaps and there’s often a lack of clear r&r, I’m on paper a Data Engineer & Architect, I just say I design and build backend stuff and handle infrastructure.

  Had the same issue when I did Equipment Reliability Engineering, technical roles are often really hard to explain to people I’ve found.