yukichigai
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- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 7 months ago:
Who would've thought that making your product more readily available would increase sales? That's so much more counterintuitive than "double down on NFTs and release schedules that require knowledge of calculus to figure out."
- Comment on Let's discuss: Earthbound / Mother 7 months ago:
If you want to bypass grinding entirely then you'd need something like that, but it might trivialize certain parts of the game. Won't trivialize all of it though since several of the key fights rely on strategy.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Earthbound / Mother 7 months ago:
That was someone's insane interpretation of the ending of the first Mother game (a.k.a. Earthbound Beginnings). It's not as out there as the guy who filled the Silent Hill wiki with claims that it was all symbolism for circumcision trauma (yes, really), but it's still kinda nutters.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Earthbound / Mother 7 months ago:
Yeah, you do have to grind a bit. Nowhere near as much as some games (looking at you, basically every Final Fantasy game) but the leveling is designed around you doing some extra fights for XP. Every new area generally has a "grind spot" that is moderately to incredibly obvious, typically some grouping of enemies that are enough to fight but not enough to overwhelm you, placed within reasonable walking distance of a bed, hotel, or other way to refill your HP/MP for cheap/free.
For the first town, before you take on the punks roaming the streets you should get some levels fighting crows, dogs, and snakes up near your house. Once you can kill them in two turns or less head into town and try taking on a single punk. If you survive that fight without being nearly dead, keep fighting punks. If you almost die, go heal up and farm a little more. And if you DO die... well you only lose half the money you have on you, so as long as you keep most of it in the ATM you haven't lost much of anything.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Earthbound / Mother 7 months ago:
EarthBound was the first JRPG I ever completed and the first JRPG I ever enjoyed. Before it I'd never been able to get into JRPGs: there was just too much complexity while also having too little going on. Wandering an overworld only to be randomly pulled out of it for no apparent reason was maddening. As a kid, trying to piece together the backstory of some undefined thoroughly detailed fantasy world while also taking in the emerging plot in the opening sequence wasn't anywhere near as appealing as firing up Mario or Mega Man and getting straight to the action.
EarthBound neatly sidestepped all of the things that had stopped me from liking JRPGs. The equipment system was simple without being braindead. The setting was a pastiche of suburban life that I could easily understand. The stakes were high but the tone was still whimsical and amusing. And above all I knew why I was suddenly getting dragged into battle with a snake or a crow or a dog instead of just being clotheslined by combat.
EarthBound still is my go-to recommendation in the (increasingly unlikely) event that someone says "I've always wanted to get into JRPGs, what should I start with?" It is the perfect "intro to JRPG" game without feeling trivial or like it cannot stand on its own. It singlehandedly made me love the JRPG genre, and I probably would not have played literally every other JRPG I've ever played if it wasn't for EarthBound.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 7 months ago:
Screw it, go make the actual Starship Troopers game not suck. That thing is in dire need of help.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 7 months ago:
While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.
Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 7 months ago:
Let 'em frown. You have Cinnamon Toast Vodka now.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 7 months ago:
Local safety regulations require a breathalyzer test before you're allowed upstairs.
- Comment on Sorry lemmy but I have to ask? 8 months ago:
Seconding NewPipe. It's the easiest to get set up, and once you get it set up you basically never have to touch it again.
YouTube Revanced is more user friendly and has more features once it's set up, but the install process is more involved and updating it essentially requires you to redo the install process again. It's nothing crazy, but NewPipe is the "set it and forget it" option IMO.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 8 months ago:
Try to see if there are any that do that little Javascript-evaluation-to-render-the-client-side-site thing, and if there are, have them mine cryptocurrency for you.
Using your evil powers for good I see.
- Comment on Feel the bass 11 months ago:
Also cheat during chess championships!
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
The copy of Invidious I installed on my NAS is even more steps ahead.
I too have an NAS that runs Docker and have been looking for things to run on it. Container++! :D
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
That's where I'm at as well. For a long time I didn't bother with adblocking on my TVs and a few other devices because I could tolerate 1-2 ads before every video and the occasional mid-roll ad on the longer videos. Then they started ramping things up; it was when I got 10 ads on a 6 minute video, 7 of which were the same ad that I'd finally had enough. I'm not going back, they can get bent.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
People were okay with ads, then YouTube started making them obnoxious. Ads every 2 minutes, postroll ads that interfere with autoplay, incredibly long "ads" which mean you need to watch YouTube like a hawk to make sure your 5 minute video hasn't been interrupted by an hour long ad you need to manually skip.
There's a balance that people need to be happy with a service, and if the service doesn't provide that then people will use things like adblockers to get it themselves.
YouTube brought this on themselves.
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal 1 year ago:
I had a similar "it's great I don't get what people are talking about" experience, only I was running it on lesser hardware than yours: 4GB GTX 970, 12-core i7-5820k, 32GB ram. I ran into a handful of bugs that were funny but not really disruptive (e.g. some dude's corpse floating behind a car as I was on the highway) and otherwise had a blast.
Nonetheless, it didn't really feel finished, y'know? That part wore on me, and I think is what undermined my enjoyment the most. It really was released to early.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
Gosh I love scrolling through 7 pages just to read two paragraphs!
- Comment on Anyone remember Xfire? 1 year ago:
Agreed. Cutesy emotes are great when you aren't trying to concentrate on multiple other things at the same time. When I'm mid-game the only chat I read needs to be static and non-moving.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Sounds like half the people on /r/conspiracy and 100% of the people in /r/gangstalking.
- Comment on The media won't talk about this!!!!! 1 year ago:
Just since some people wear a mask
don't mean... they... did nothing automatically.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Or put it another way, quality over quantity.
- Comment on Pick your Lemmy instance wisely... 1 year ago:
That's nice and all, but "join our instance" and "we're defederated from the other two biggest instances" are in direct opposition to each other, doesn't matter what excuses you use.
- Comment on Pick your Lemmy instance wisely... 1 year ago:
Beehaw: You should join our instance.
Also Beehaw: We're defederating from two of the largest instances.
- Comment on tru do 1 year ago:
Noooooooooope, don't fall for it. I've seen the finale of Dinosaurs, I know how this ends.
- Comment on Game ad notification on Windows... 1 year ago:
They forgot to remove game mode and a bunch of the built-in advertisement stuff from the workstation images they were using a while back, and I work for state government.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The last good turn-based game I played was... oh wait, D:OS2. Huh.
- Comment on true story 1 year ago:
Well yeah, at least it had the chance of being fun.
- Comment on true story 1 year ago:
A surprising number of corporate decisions of that era were made with the "Cocaine and Dartboards" decision making philosophy.
- Comment on true story 1 year ago:
Perfect for scooping a small amount out of a baggie, and the shape of the spoon made it easier to place it against a nostril and sniff.
- Comment on true story 1 year ago:
Drugs are neat, and you can buy them relatively cheap. And when you do 'em people think that you're cool.