EarMaster
@EarMaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared 3 days ago:
It is, but hear me out: There is a difference between failing with a reason and failing silently - and seemingly with no reason. I don’t know this project and I don’t know what happened and how the creators handled this, but I have been on Kickstarter since it came to life and I have seen projects with poor communication fail and everyone was furious and I have seen projects fail who managed to communicate their struggles to their investors very well and they didn’t get overrun with refund requests. I know it is hard to admit problems and finally failure, but it has to be part of the progress.
- Comment on Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x01 "Paradise" 5 days ago:
I liked it. It was the perfect length to listen to and the voices are well cast and distinctive enough. The only thing I didn’t like was the intrusive (for a lack of a better word) music in some parts. As if they needed to further emphasize “this is the part where romance is supposed to happen”.
- Comment on Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows? 4 weeks ago:
That might be cynical but it’s true. The fans who liked the book(s) will with a fair chance not like the adoption. So an amount of your hardcore fan base is already against you. The idea would only work if the book series has for some reason a (partially) different target audience than regular trek.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 1 month ago:
Also maneuvering a space vessel with two thrusters which are facing in opposite directions may be impossible…
- Comment on Watch This Documentary About 'Star Trek: Phase II' and See What Could've Been 1 month ago:
Yet the movies only got successful once they got a lot of the TV guys back for set design, wardrobe and makeup for the second movie.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 1 month ago:
I think the point of the invisible bridge was that you had to really believe it existed because only then you would later activate it.
But I agree: The whole logic of the place was a free pass for the writers to do what they wanted. So maybe it’s better not to look too close.
Also: Noone not even mentioning the weird background effects (they were obviously added in post so neither the writers nor the actors had the opportunity to really react to it) was big miss for me. It would have been the first thing I would try to scan with my boxy tricorder…
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 3x05: “Through the Lens of Time” 1 month ago:
Spock calling La’An an excellent dance instruc-tor was a nice nod to his way of pronouncing certain ship instruments…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 1 month ago:
I’ve been thinking about this for a few days now and I think there is a big missed opportunity here. The holodeck prototype showed more of less the same errors holodecks still have 100 years later. They could have shown other faults and use that for a comment on the current AI development.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 1 month ago:
It’s a bit anachronistic what happened with the holodeck here. It’s quite hard to believe that it took them about 100 hundred years to decide to install holodecks like the ones from this episode on starships again and they haven’t fixed any of the problems. Instead there are similar technologies in the animated series and even the holodecks on Enterprise D can’t do the same thing until the Binaries enhance them.
Nonetheless it was a solid episode and I’m glad they addressed the creeping trend in SNW for characters to do things on their own instead of relying on their colleagues…
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* 3x03: “Shuttle to Kenfori”: 2 months ago:
M’benga will probably acquire some into gambling debts to pay all his ex-wives and therefore he will be demoted from chief medical officer under McCoy.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x03 "Shuttle to Kenfori" 2 months ago:
I bet it’s the same door that opens to the turbolift…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 2 months ago:
You are right that no one except Pike has interacted with her since the climax of episode 1. But there would be an empty seat at the wedding right next to him which would be odd…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 2 months ago:
Let’s be honest: Who else had forgotten about the Gorn cliffhanger?
I didn’t like the first episode very much. The Enterprise saves the Universe from some overpowering enemy all by themselves is too much of a trope for me. Also too many characters on the edge of dying, but nobody dies. Some story arks even culminate in the decision to just do nothing…
- Comment on RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft 2 months ago:
I didn’t know that. Maybe the world is in dire need of a RTX remaster for this game…
- Comment on RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft 2 months ago:
So we’re adding more advanced reflections to a game with characters most known for having no reflections…
- Comment on Review — Hallmark's 2025 Star Trek: Lower Decks Ornaments 2 months ago:
Crisis Point - The motion holodeck picture movie
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 months ago:
Is it as bad as the time Netflix killed the movie industry?
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 months ago:
Titanfall 2 is a great shooter and story game. Don’t bother with Titanfall 1 if you are only in for singleplayer as it is multiplayer only.
- Comment on Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” 3 months ago:
Or you just don’t use voice chat? It’s no use anyways if you disconnect your microphone…
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 4 months ago:
The main theme of Papers, Please: youtu.be/DbBB1j5qAFs
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 4 months ago:
Well … let me calculate this … that makes … Infinite money … Please!
- Comment on There is someone in the attic 4 months ago:
Is it a cleaning up simulator? I can totally feel that, I spent the morning cleaning up a closet full of stuff from my childhood…
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 4 months ago:
Although it is not officially supported you can do this: github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/…/9591
I did it years ago (I would say 10+ years) and it works perfectly fine.
- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 4 months ago:
It made me think of indirect games like Black & White, Dungeon Keeper, The Settlers or The Sims. You can give orders but you cannot directly control your characters / units. If you limit the amount of orders, add a delay / the possibility for an interception or introduce areas where your orders can’t reach your hero it could do the trick.
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 5 months ago:
It does, but mostly because we’re talking about an enormous amount of data. The number being advertised is 2 Petabyte…
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t be to sure if Microsoft is working on something like this. What they did with Flight Simulator was pretty spectacular…
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 5 months ago:
You can hope there will be a sudden price drop in about 5 years…
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on reveals a proper generational upgrade, though its biggest new idea remains unproven 5 months ago:
The Switch is a family console. Neither Xbox nor Playstation can compete in this sector (and maybe they don’t want to).
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 months ago:
Transport Tycoon was fantastic and thanks to OpenTTD I still play it from time to time.
Gothic 2 is by far the best Action RPG of all time. Witcher 3 comes close, but still fails to surpass it in so many places.
Banished always gets me with it’s atmosphere. It feels cozy but at the same time you are close to complete annihilation. Oxygen not included hits the same mark, but also has a distinctive art style and humor to it which I love.
- Comment on What are your favorite Switch exclusives? 6 months ago:
The 99 series is fantastic. I loved everyone of them from Tetris 99 to F-Zero 99.