cobysev
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- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #68 - 007 First Light 2 days ago:
It does require a one-time connection to the Internet for a day-one patch before you can play it, but after that, you can enjoy the whole campaign offline.
It does disable some features of the game if you’re offline though, like the tactical simulation mode is inaccessible (since it’s a challenge ranking system with the community). I read that some cosmetics and in-game challenges are also disabled. But if you’re here just for the story, you can enjoy it without an Internet connection.
- Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
More true than you know. Valve won’t allow you to transfer accounts to other people, so your account is legally dead when you are.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Nice! Glad to know I’m not the only person sinking ridiculous money into my gaming habits. 😅
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
According to SteamDB, $18,181 over 18.6 years. I’m sure that number will be much higher when the Steam sale is over, since it pulls data from current game prices.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
I can’t vote because of my VPN… but I’ll wait for a sale before purchasing Grand Theft Auto VI. I don’t agree with spending $70+ for a game that I might enjoy for a handful of hours. No game is worth that price to me. I firmly believe in voting with my money, so I won’t support the industry that keeps inflating game prices.
Plus, I never buy games at release anyway. No game seems to be perfectly polished at release now (unless it’s been in early access for over 5 years) and I’d rather wait and let others find all the game-breaking bugs and get them patched first.
I remember a time when games were strictly offline. A new game released and whatever flaws it had were just part of the experience forever. Game studios were especially careful to ensure their games were as close to perfect as they could get.
Now with everything connected to the Internet, game studios just release a messy pile of code and drop day-one patches to make it semi-playable, with the expectation that gamers will find and complain about other problems that the studio can patch out later. There’s no more pride in making a quality game anymore, it’s just pushing garbage as fast as possible and fixing it in post.
I’ll wait maybe a year or so until Grand Theft Auto VI drops to $20-30 during a Steam sale and then buy it. I have plenty of other games to play in the meantime; I’m in no rush to experience it.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Ah, I haven’t even met any bosses yet. That’s probably why it’s so slow. I don’t even have engines yet.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
I’ve been playing this game. It’s enjoyable, but it took way too long to get started. I was already several hours in before I was able to build my first base/ship and get moving to new islands. I wasn’t really sure what to do, so I spent a lot of time just wandering and exploring. I still feel that way, several hours into the gameplay.
And even then, it just feels very slow paced. Like it takes forever to do anything in the game. On that note, flying between islands is also very slow. I don’t know if it’ll pick up with later advancements to ship engines or something, but it’s kind of mind-numbingly slow where I’m currently at. It could use some fast-travel options so I’m not just leaving to make a sandwich while my ship flies to the next island over.
I tried to get my friends into it so we could all base-build together, but none of them had the patience to get a character started. So I’ve been playing it solo and hoping it’ll get better in the later game.
the devs are continuing to put significant work into the game, and it’s in a good state now
It’s actually been a while since I played it. I should probably pick it up again and see if the game has improved.
- Comment on and what?! 2 weeks ago:
*Naked Snake enters the chat*
- Comment on and what?! 2 weeks ago:
Spoiler, but yes.
- Comment on and what?! 2 weeks ago:
And what?! I have never played mgs
Liquid Snake is a character in Metal Gear Solid. He’s Solid Snake’s twin brother and one of the antagonists in the series.
- Comment on Anon the Hutt 2 weeks ago:
The new Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian and Grogu, is all about the other Hutts. Twins took over the Hutt empire after Jabba died, and they recruit the Mandalorian to track down and rescue their cousin who was kidnapped as a child. It got mixed reviews, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
At least in the movies, there’s only one Hutt empire, with a bit of a power struggle within the Hutt family. Sounds like the twins were eager to take over in the power vacuum when Jabba died. Even the Resistance has to work with them occasionally because of the powerful connections their family has.
- Comment on You need to think long term 3 weeks ago:
I was 10 when the Internet because publicly accessible, and 13 when I made my first ever email address. I used my current username as my email handle, which was an abbreviated version of my name.
It took me like 10 seconds to come up with it. I had a cute girlfriend who was insisting I make a private email because I was sharing my mother’s email account and my girlfriend didn’t like my mother having access to our private conversations.
It’s been 29 years now and I’m still using this username. My original email is long gone, but the username lives on.
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on He's an arborist 5 weeks ago:
I measured like this when my first girlfriend asked what my size was. I told her it was 10". Suffice to say, she was definitely not impressed when the pants came off for the first time. 😅
- Comment on Grammar school kid who is a realist 5 weeks ago:
They cropped off the fourth kid on the bottom, who is afraid of Conor.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
Despite being an old guy who was around for the original Zelda game, Skyward Sword was actually the first Zelda game I ever sat down and seriously played. I really enjoyed it!
And as a completionist, I appreciated that it’s canonically the first game in the franchise. It gave me a foundation for the lore of the series, so I have a better understanding of every other Zelda game I’ve played since.
If there’s anything I didn’t like about it, it was that there was a borderline romance subtext going on between Link and Zelda at the beginning of the game, which doesn’t ever go anywhere. I half expected them to fall in love by the end, but they kept it strictly platonic once the plot started rolling. I learned later that that’s pretty much par for the course in Zelda games. Link is always the protector, not a love interest.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
I LOVE Saints Row IV! It’s my favorite of the entire franchise. Yes, it’s extra campy and over-the-top, but that just makes it more enjoyable.
Probably my favorite mission of Saints Row III was where you took an experimental drug and it gave you super-speed for a little while, so you could sprint across the city faster than if you were driving a car.
Saints Row IV just gives that to you as a permanent upgrade at some point. You don’t need cars later in the game, you can just run ridiculously fast and leap skyscrapers in a single bound.
I can’t remember if you can fly too, but I wanna say you can. It’s been quite a long time since I played that game.
I had so much fun in Saints Row IV, most of my playtime is just running all over the map and dicking around with NPCs once I was too OP for them to do anything to me. It’s hard for me to go back to the other games after that.
- Comment on They just made the winning bid 1 month ago:
It’s not Pixar, it’s Disney.
Pixar got its animation start when John Lasseter got fired from Disney for promoting CG animation over the traditional hand-drawn animation. He moved over to the Lucasfilm CG studio, which was later renamed “Pixar.”
Through Pixar (after Steve Jobs bought it from George Lucas), Lasseter and his team proceeded to not only revolutionize CG animation, but to create incredible unique stories with it. They were seen as a real competitor to Disney for a while. They only started making sequels when they started collaborating with Disney.
Eventually, Disney realized the money to be made from CG animation, so they bought out Pixar. Now it’s a Disney product and their ideas are bankrupt once again. We don’t get original stories anymore, just a bunch of unnecessary sequels and garbage films that were probably written by AI.
- Comment on Confess your sins 2 months ago:
Maybe that’s it. I only watched it on DVD back in the day. It was grainy and everyone’s faces looked plastic and uncanny. You couldn’t see facial textures or wrinkles.
- Comment on Confess your sins 2 months ago:
Where did this HD version of this meme come from? I’ve seen Monster House, and CG wasn’t that good in 2006. I’m pretty sure someone’s enhanced this image with AI.
- Comment on this is real btw 2 months ago:
Under a fascist regime, yes.
- Comment on Military Grade 2 months ago:
The military is definitely all about following regulations and protocol, even if they don’t make sense.
[…] the military often does stuff in a dumbass way
I was in the Air Force when I served, but I deployed with some Marines once. Their motto, which they repeated all the time, was, “If it’s stupid, but works… it wasn’t stupid.”
They used this as an excuse to try very dumb ways to problem solve everything. And it led to very creative ways to do things; some of which actually worked.
But myself and a couple other Air Force folks got a kick out of watching the Marines figuratively smash rocks together, hoping to ignite a fire.
My favorite quote from that deployment came from one of the young Corporals in my office. He had just returned from a week-long forward mission and got stuck in an airport for 24 hours before his connecting flight.
He said, “I was so bored, I actually read a book from cover to cover! I don’t think I’ve ever read an entire book in my life!”
I expected that to be a joke, but instead of laughing, the rest of the Marines just solemnly nodded along. Wow.
- Comment on Military Grade 2 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Military Grade 2 months ago:
Former military member here. There are a couple things at play here.
1.) The military will outline a specific requirement for specific equipment that contractors need to meet. Requirements depend on the mission, usage, tools required, etc. so “military grade” just means “we needed a specific product to perform a specific way.” This does not mean it’s good for any use. Just that it’s what we needed in the moment for a specific job.
2.) We are required to buy from the lowest bidder. We ask contractors to build products for us that meet the specific requirements we outlined, then compare/contrast prices. Every contractor that built our product are in the running to become our supplier for that product… if they can beat every other contractor in price.
So how does a contractor win a government contract while still making money on the product they’re selling? By cutting corners, using cheaper materials, and ensuring the product will last just long enough to meet our requirements before breaking. The cheaper they can build it, the more money they make while also selling cheaper than all their competitors.
So “military grade” just means it’s a cheap piece of crap that met some arbitrary request the military made for a specific tool at one time. If you want quality products, avoid military grade.
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 2 months ago:
When I was 9 years old, my golden lab got hit and killed by a car.
He was always an outdoors dog. He just showed up on our country property when I was about 3-4 years old and decided to stay there, so we vaccinated him and gave him a collar. I named him Rusty because of his coloring.
He was an old dog at the end. Blind in one eye, hearing was going, and he had bad arthritis. He liked to just lounge around and fawn over me. Sweetest dog ever. There’s a lake across the road from my house, through a thin forested property, and he would trot down there for a swim every now and then to soothe his aching bones. One day, he popped out of the woods on his way home and got hit by a car on the road.
My mother didn’t plan to tell me about it. She didn’t want to risk traumatizing me with my first death, so she was just going to ignore it for as long as possible. Rusty would disappear for days on end, so it wouldn’t be unusual for him to be gone for a while. Then when I’d start asking questions, she’d suggest that he probably migrated somewhere new.
I was playing in my front yard one day when a minivan came up my driveway. A lady hopped out and handed me a small plastic bag. She said, “Here’s your dog’s collar. I figured you’d probably want it. I’m sorry for what happened to him.” Then she just hopped back in her car and drove off, leaving me staring blankly after her. ‘What was that all about?!’
I went inside and showed my mom the bag, told her some lady just handed it to me, and asked her what happened to Rusty. My mom immediately broke down crying, which made me cry, and we both just hugged and cried for a while.
My mom was furious that some lady just handed off a dead dog’s collar to a 9-year old instead of finding an adult. She explained what happened to Rusty and said they were going to bury his remains in our backyard. She absolutely refused to let me see him, though. She said she wanted me to remember him as the childhood friend I grew up with, not as a corpse run over by a car. I wasn’t allowed into the field out back behind my house until my dad had finished burying him.
So yeah, my first experience with death was with my first dog, and my mother could’ve handled it much better. But getting a good cry out with her did wonders for helping me deal with it.
- Comment on Batteries 2 months ago:
I turn 42 next month, but my body is beat up from 2 decades of military service. I’m definitely experiencing some “catastrophic functionality” myself.
- Comment on Post title lol 2 months ago:
Elder (and just old) millennial here. I remember “lol” became a thing because cell phones became a common thing. Specifically, the old flip phones.
Texting on them was a pain. Imagine having to type words with only a number pad. And you only had a tiny digital screen that could only fit a few words on it. On top of that, we were sometimes charged by the character. Or sometimes by the word. Depended on your service.
Everyone was looking for the shortest way to type words and get their message across. So shortcuts like “lol,” “ily,” “wdym,” etc. became common use. As well as a variety of text emojis like :) :D :P or the fancy Japanese ones: (^^) (--;;) etc.
As someone who spent their childhood with their nose buried in books, it bothered me to see this shorthand English everywhere. It just felt lazy to me. To this day, I’ve never typed “lol” unless I’m talking about the acronym itself.
- Comment on Medicinal Big Mac 2 months ago:
My first thought was, “Perry the Platypus? Where?!”
- Comment on Anon runs into his boss 2 months ago:
Back around 2005 or so, I was stationed in Japan with the US military. A buddy of mine parked his car on the shopping strip in front of the military base’s main gate and then walked to a bar. Later that night, intoxicated, he stumbled back to his car, intent to sleep it off in the back seat before going home.
A gate guard saw him drunkenly ambling toward his car with a key in hand and ran after him. Busted him for a DUI on the spot. Dude didn’t even get into his car and he got a charge on his permanent military record for intent to drive under the influence of alcohol.
I dunno how things work in the civilian sector (I don’t drink at all), but the military doesn’t play games.
