cobysev
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- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 2 days ago:
Meh, it’s a deal to get more subscribers. I’m not mad at them for not extending it to all users. It is a little shady that they didn’t make it clear it’s for new subscribers, though. If that’s their target audience, they should make it a little more apparent.
- Comment on I dunno 3 days ago:
The way I was taught growing up, brackets are [these]. Parenthesis are (these).
Yes, technically the latter are also brackets. But they can also be called parenthesis, whereas the former is exclusively a bracket. So we were taught to call them separate words to differentiate while doing equations.
- Comment on It's important! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's important! 2 weeks ago:
I was stationed in Germany with the US military once, just 30 minutes from the French border. My American coworkers visited Paris and complained that everyone there were snobbish assholes. Every time they tried to ask someone for directions, they got ignored at best and insulted at worst.
My wife and I went to Paris a few times and we had the complete opposite experience. We both took several years of French in high school, so we had an extremely basic knowledge of the French language (thanks, American public schools! 🙄) and we tried to speak to people in French.
Every time we spoke up, they would notice us struggling and immediately switch to English for us. And then they were very helpful. Turns out, my coworkers were just speaking English to French people and expecting a response in English. Which insulted a lot of French people, so they ignored them.
TL;DR: Speak the local language as best you can and French people can be very nice and helpful. Just assume they’ll speak English and you’ll get some rude responses in kind.
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, this looks interesting. And you can’t beat the free price tag. I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 3 weeks ago:
Are you retired or young?
I’m retired AND young… well, relatively speaking. I retired 3 years ago, at 38 years old. I’m 41 now.
I was in the US military for 20 years, earned a pension, plus 100% disability through the VA. With the passive income and benefits (free medical/dental for life), I can afford to be fully retired now. I’m not filthy rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I make enough to live a quiet, relaxed life and have my basic needs met. And that’s good enough for me. Plenty of time to indulge in my many hobbies. And I have ADHD, so I’m always finding new and interesting things to deep-dive into.
I actually started a movie review blog about 6 years before I retired. I ended up taking a hiatus from it shortly after retirement and just haven’t been motivated to get back into it lately, despite all the movies and TV shows I watch regularly.
I switched to reviewing video games sometime last year and have been mostly keeping up with that; although it’s been over 2 months since my last review. I should probably make a new post soon, or declare another hiatus. 😬
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing it this morning. Virus scan came back clean, and the game has been interesting so far.
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 3 weeks ago:
That’s cool, no reviews yet then. Not a problem!
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 3 weeks ago:
I play a lot of games (over 4,000 games in my Steam library) and I’ve made a hobby of reviewing them here on Lemmy over the past year. I especially love horror games. I would love to give it a playtest and provide constructive feedback.
It’s up to you if you’d like me to also post a review of it here on Lemmy or wait until a finished product is available. You can see my post history to see the kind of reviews I write, or you can check out my blog where I’m archiving my reviews here. Easier to browse the history of posts on the sidebar at that website.
- Comment on I'm in danger 5 weeks ago:
Until the one time it was.
- Comment on Purrfect Diagram 1 month ago:
That’s definitely a dragon in disguise. Looks like a cat to mortal eyes, but weights a helluva lot more.
- Comment on Which one and why? 1 month ago:
#4 looks like a shoehorn. Is that even concave enough to use as a spoon? Likely not. That’s out.
#3 is definitely not a spoon. No idea what it is, but it’s not gonna work well as a spoon. Not gonna deal with that one.
#2 is actually a spoon, but a small one. It’ll be frustrating to use forever. I’d prefer not to use it.
#1 is actually a decent sized spoon. Oddly shaped, but it’ll hold a decent amount of food or liquid. I guess I could live with that one.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 2 months ago:
But she’s the Hero™ fighting against the Bad Guys™. Branding is everything.
But yeah, viewed objectively from a third party perspective, a lot of heroes in games and movies are actually borderline villains. Inserting themselves into a situation they don’t need to be involved in, and then the end justify the means. They may murder tons of no-name henchmen, but a greater threat to society has been eliminated!
I actually find it interesting that a lot of superhero characters came from healthy, sane family environments and fight to protect the Status Quo™, while most villains come from hardship and trauma and attempt to change the Status Quo™ that allowed their injustice of a life to exist, so others don’t suffer the same fate.
But some happy-go-lucky hero always comes by and stops them because their plan changes the Status Quo™. And we can’t accept changes to our structured social environment!
- Comment on Not rule 2 months ago:
I still clearly remember others’ embarrassing, cringey moments from my high school years, and I’m in my 40s now. I shudder thinking about who still remembers the embarrassing things I said/did way back in my childhood.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
[…] the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then)
Back then, an internet (lower case “i”) was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
The World Wide Web, being a massive collection of computers across the globe that are interconnected, quickly earned the title of “THE Internet” (upper-case “i”), to differentiate it from smaller isolated networks.
“World Wide Web” turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with “the Internet” instead. Although most websites still start with “www” to represent their global reach.
Nowadays, we’ve stopped using the word “internet” to describe smaller networks, so the word mostly just refers to the global network. And as such, if doesn’t really matter if you capitalize it or not.
However, I was there when the web became accessible to the public and the nomenclature has stuck, so I always capitalize the Internet when referring to it.
- Comment on sponge dna 2 months ago:
Maybe I’m just old, but I read that last line in Popeye’s laugh instead of Mr. Crabs.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 2 months ago:
So… Skynet.
- Comment on Thagomizer 2 months ago:
Yup, because of his comic about it, paleontologists have officially named it the Thagomizer.
- Comment on Gosh darn it 2 months ago:
I’m 41 and I still make this mistake all the time.
No matter how old and broken my body gets, I’ll always be a teenager at heart.
- Comment on Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit. 2 months ago:
I still don’t understand why anyone would ever pay for access to news articles. There are plenty of free and legitimate articles on the Internet, and public access TV still broadcasts news. You never need to pay anyone.
Honestly, putting a price on access to news just makes me not trust that organization. It feels like a scam, like paying for bottled water when water is one of the most abundant resources in the world.
Paid subscriptions are only a thing because people bought into it and normalized it instead of boycotting it. That’s why everything is a subscription nowadays and no one can just buy and own a product now. We have to spend our lives paying a regular fee for access to something we never own.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
37 was the year I started planning my retirement. At 38, I officially retired. I started growing a beard and was surprised to find a white patch to one side on my chin.
Now at 41, my entire chin has turned white and I have salt-and-pepper hair throughout my beard and head hair.
37 truly is a magical age.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 2 months ago:
I posted a review here earlier this year, but A Way Out was an excellent 2-player co-op game! I really enjoyed it. Story rich puzzles with some action interspersed. And it’s split-screen even if you’re playing online, so you can see what your partner is up to and coordinate with them. The ending was heart-wrenching too! Such an emotionally impacting story. Check out my review for a spoiler-free intro to that game.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 2 months ago:
Diablo 3
My wife, two friends, and I all played Diablo IV online together. We beat the main campaign together and had a lot of fun with it. We’re trying to beat the expansion campaign too, but my wife and one friend dropped out, so it’s just been me and a buddy powering through it.
That’s a game where you can just have fun dicking around in the world, even if there isn’t an objective. And it has plenty of endgame content to keep you entertained after you beat the campaign.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Sounds like the author of this article didn’t understand the gameplay mechanics. It’s supposed to be a slow stealth game that requires patience and strategy and avoiding threats, not an action FPS game where you run through and shoot everyone you encounter.
The camouflage mechanic he mentions, almost as an aside, is crucial to sneaking through levels. Moving from tall grass to fallen leaves to swampland can drastically change your camouflage level, requiring you to quickly optimize for the environment or be detected. You need to pay attention to your surroundings and be very methodical in your approach, or risk being detected easily.
I’ve played for 40 minutes and I’m still in the intro area. Granted, part of that is due to another common trope of Hideo Kojima games: lots of cutscenes and story-heavy exposition.
But just learning how to sneak around and avoid detection takes time and patience. The first guard I encountered, I had to sit still for maybe 5 minutes and watch him slowly patrol around the small area, so I could figure out his patterns and approach him… and he still detected me when I got too close! Moving makes too much noise, so you need to wait for your target to approach you before going after them. It’s a process, and if you don’t have the patience to sit and wait for opportunities to present themselves, then this game is probably not for you.
Nostalgia does help with gameplay like this. Metal Gear Solid 3 is my favorite of the MGS series, and I am thoroughly enjoying playing its remake with modern controls and graphics. Going back and playing the original game can be difficult after getting used to today’s modern controls in games, but this remake includes both classic and modern controls, so you choose how you want to play.
Also, this game just dropped yesterday for advanced release. That’s hardly enough time to play through it and write a decent review. This article must’ve been written in a rush, which may contribute to the author’s poor experience.
I actually write reviews for video games and post them to !games@lemmy.world. Just as a hobby. You can check my account’s post history to see them all, or go to my blog where I’m archiving them (This link). I’m excited to write one for Metal Gear Solid ∆: Snake Eater. But I need to play a bit more of the game before I feel I can give a proper review, so keep an eye out for a new post in the coming week or two.
- Comment on Somebody has turned a daft English cheese rolling festival into an even dafter free Steam game 2 months ago:
Cheese Rolling on Steam. Saved you a click.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 2 months ago:
hunter2
- Comment on "Now pendejo, shall we shee what short of shwordsman you've become?" 2 months ago:
I literally just saw this movie for the first time last night. Long overdue. It was an excellent film!
Before anyone asks, it’s from Highlander (1986)
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- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 3 months ago:
“Wshngton” is basically unchanged. It still sounds the same either way you spell it.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 3 months ago:
I personally really enjoyed New Dawn, but it gets a lot of hate from the community. Maybe because each Far Cry game is a completely unique game, and New Dawn is just a continuation of Far Cry 5. I read a lot of reviews that said it didn’t bring anything new to the franchise. Of course! It’s just part 2 of a previous game! You get to see what the world is like 17 years after the events of Project Eden, so the map is the same and a lot of the gameplay mechanics are the same. You do have a community that you’re trying to build up; restoring order and safety amongst survivors of the nuclear fallout, so that’s unique.
One thing I didn’t like was that your character from Far Cry 5 (the Deputy) makes an appearance in New Dawn. Turns out they’ve been brainwashed by Joseph Seed after spending 17 years trapped in a bunker alone with him, so they’re fiercely loyal to Joseph now. Fortunately, Joseph is not the enemy in this game. You actually ally with Joseph’s new group New Eden, so the Deputy (now called The Judge) becomes a gun-for-hire.
I did not like Primal. I played a couple hours of it and just couldn’t get into it. It’s more of a survival game than a Far Cry game. You have to craft everything to survive and you have a stamina bar that depletes unless you regularly eat and sleep. Fast-traveling takes a huge chunk out of stamina, which is annoying and defeats the purpose of “fast” traveling, but I guess it’s realistic.
Unlike most Far Cry games where you’re isolated in a region, trying to overthrow a dictator-wannabe or something, Primal is more about building a community and eventually becoming chief of your own tribe. Sure, there are other tribes to fight against, but it just felt weird not having a solid objective besides surviving. Maybe there’s more plot to it and I just didn’t play enough to get into it.
I still haven’t played Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon. I own both of them and I’ve been meaning to get around to it. I’m an '80s child, so I love the retro-futuristic aesthetic of Blood Dragon. Are they related in story at all, or is Blood Dragon just a standalone expansion for Far Cry 3? If it’s unrelated to Far Cry 3’s plot, I might just jump into it and check it out.
