aesthelete

@aesthelete@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll also never understand the pleasure of finding a dusty machine like this on a hot day after biking a long distance, putting in a quarter and being shocked when it works(!) and the sodas are ice cold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That would require people to have three to four close friends that could tolerate their presence. That’s an exceedingly rare thing in the US as we’re mostly all intolerable cunts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Claire Obscur has rpg elements, like level ups, skills and equipment.

  Pretty much those elements are my definition. I feel like what you’re describing with nonlinear storylines with lots of choices isn’t all necessary for a game to be an RPG either. But I’m not a purist about any of it. Genres in general are approximate markers, and you can argue all you want about what belongs in what category.

  If asked to describe the genre of Clair Obscur I’d say JRPG because purists have bickered enough to make me add the qualifier. But I’ve seen it described as RPG in lots of places, and given my thirty years plus of playing games it’s very similar to other games I’ve seen described as RPGs.

  But I’m no d&d player, and I don’t really like the Renaissance faire that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah part of the reason that Disco Elysium isn’t the “greatest RPG ever made” is that there’s no objective way to rank such things and stating that as a fact seems on its face kinda absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, Clair Obscur is a better RPG (and game) than Disco Elysium IMO.

  I didn’t even get through Disco Elysium because it was kinda boring. I get how some people could really dig it, and I plan to attempt to pick it back up for the third time. But it was much closer to being an old school point and click adventure game (albeit with a lot more reading) than an RPG anyway, and it’s certainly not the “greatest RPG ever made” IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’d argue clair obscur is better and that’s only talking about recent ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can serve up a git repository remotely on any machine that has an outside access path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to do a lot of things people don’t do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Git is so easy to host yourself and everyone went and handed over all their code to evil corp to farm on anyway.

  (Though I do understand that they were bought, but that was a while ago and it was only a matter of time before the evil seeped in.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some representative of mobile gaming should be on this list (as much as I hate them). Probably either Candy Crush or Angry Birds.

  There should also be a motion gamer entry somewhere on here like Wii Sports or something.

  And maybe a casual gamer entry…like the Sims maybe (the first one).

  Relatedly, I think we’re still waiting for a VR or AR game that anyone gives a real shit about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's got the morbs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They also continually forget that you can’t do frontend only validation for things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This fan of yours sounds fucking terrible, bud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Coldplay actually sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, the arrow of time remains unchanged.

  But what did change is the type of music Coldplay made. They went from Radiohead-lite to whatever you want to call that crap now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Coldplay actually sounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coldplay was termed Radiohead for your parents. I think that was accurate for their early career but now they’re more like EDM for your parents or U2 for your great grandparents or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah, joke is on you. I’m balding and I’ve paid off my mortgage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are awesome thanks for sharing. Also, if you can do magic eye and stereograms, try crossing your eyes when playing those “find the differences between these two pictures” games. They are incredibly easy if you cross your eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costco changed the bag to plastic!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly, the packaging change they made to the rotisserie chicken means me never eating that heated plastic bag garbage ever again.

  It was plastic before but it was at least a tray and a covering. So the plastic at least seemed more durable and not all of it was touching the bird. Now it’s just a shitty plastic bag being warmed under a light. Disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There it is. “Use AI” is the new “learn to code”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone hate Income tax ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I now hate income tax because it’s just giving a handout to billionaires (and military contractors, but I repeat myself).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A big ol pile of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Through what fucking program? Magic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not for me, tho⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Truish and falsish and nullish are all concepts made up by madmen. JavaScript is the language of the damned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day for laughs in jira I looked at the suggested issues the AI came up with, and they looked like jargon laden nonsense but I could see a future where the upper management do nothing business idiots don’t care and just slop up a bunch of tasks and assign those out.

  Everything has become an exercise in cosplaying and pantomiming the thing that’s supposed to actually happen, and AI is the thing that’ll really keep that train rolling. It’s a fucking weapons grade, automated potemkin village creator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf i love capitalism now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Love is love

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m not a huge fan of their recent “direction” either, but it actually would’ve been a lot more innovative for Nintendo to offer a headless switch in a tiny form factor. Maybe that’s just the old, highly innovative ways of Nintendo going by the wayside.

  It’s a shame because Nintendo is a lot more accessible from a “casual gamer” perspective. I’ve even gotten my parents to play switch and wii games over the years. I don’t think they’d ever touch an xbox or ps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me a Switch without a screen. No battery. No detachable controllers. Just a brick that plugs into the wall and the TV, compatible with a Pro controller. Probably could even sell that at a reduced price too. Maybe even overclock it and give it a bigger cooling solution to get better performance. Maybe Nintendo’s newer games can actually run at a stable 60 fps on their own hardware finally.

  I’m actually in the same boat. I hardly ever play the switch in handheld mode. It is incredibly uncomfortable for anyone over the age and/or hand size of a 12 year old. The form factor is terrible for mobile use IMO. Even when we don’t play the switch docked on the TV, we have taken to playing it plugged into a small USB-C monitor on a side table in front of the couch.

  I really wish Nintendo would offer a different option like you’re saying here. The only thing that’s nice about the Switch form factor is the size for portability IMO. Scrap the screen (and probably even the battery) and offer an option that’s as small as (or even smaller than) one of those NUC-looking mini PCs that are all the rage nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Disappointing to say the least.

  My wife loves the switch but has gone through 3 or 4 different sets of controllers. I tried my hand at repairing one of them and it was not fun – to put it mildly – and I do not savor repeating the experience. I honestly did not know there were hall effect replacements for the original joycon sticks, and wish I had known that when I replaced the one I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No you’re not overreacting, but if you’re in America unfortunately you basically have to drive to be a full fledged person. Our governments do not provide you an alternative. I’d personally love to quit myself, but I’m the only driver in my household.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it a lot but I have a clamshell. I don’t understand the purpose of the other form factors. It really isn’t much different from other phones after a while, except you forget about how nobody else’s phone closes or fits in their pocket.