Tarquinn2049
@Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 4 days ago:
Hehe yeah, I figured with them having no context, that might make it easier to figure out which zelda it was quicker.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 6 days ago:
Earthbound, gotta play that at least once in your life.
Chrono trigger, still one of the greatest games of all time.
Final Fantasy 6(US 3) there is debate, but widely regarded as the best one overall still. 7 is the other strongest contender, but if you are gonna play that one, don’t play the retro one, as one of the very first polygonal games, it’s hard to look at now.
Zelda (3), a link to the past.
There are certainly more, but those’ll last you a few months.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 6 days ago:
I’m Autustic and don’t seem to have anger. “Frustrated” is similar, I got that one just fine, but anger doesn’t seem to come up. I don’t seem to have a bunch of them, though. So, I have definitely noticed the same thing. The internet is so full of anger, and it mostly just seems to serve to temporarily compromise the intellect of the person feeling it, so it makes them sound dumber at a time when they probably wish they were coming across as clever.
Dumber, but also more sure of themselves. There is a reason people usually come back half an hour later and apologize for what they did when they were angry. It does have its uses, but open communication can also preclude it. For people who don’t tend to communicate freely, anger can help them finally say something they haven’t been saying. And quite a few people seem to work that way. Finally saying the thing they haven’t been saying can lead to solutions for their problem.
But anger can also lead to some pretty dumb things, and that seems to be the more common result.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 2 weeks ago:
I can see an argument for how it can still be possible to work with that… filing system, but I still don’t get what the upside is, just that it doesn’t have as many downsides as it seems like it should.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 2 weeks ago:
So, I have seen people do this, and I gotta ask… what is the plan?
Like you are saving the file, implying that you plan on using it again… why make it so hard to figure out which one it was? Especially in this case, where he has done it to enough files all in the same place that he eventually hit the same combo again… like, are there hundreds or thousands of randomly named files in that same folder? Why save them if they will be impossible to find again anyway?
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, can always go back to school when you age out at 25…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
But, it all started with his dad having a mistress… it was already ruined…
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
Whatever words you want to use, when steam decides you don’t own a game anymore, they can take it away. I’ve had 2 steam games taken away from me.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
When you buy a game on a CD or Cartidge, it’s up to you to make sure you continue to own it from then on. That is the same model as GoGs digital downloads. You own it, you make sure you still have it on hand for as long as you want to still have it on hand for.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
I mean the kinds of gambling that might trigger someone with a gambling addiction. Isn’t that where you were coming from?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
You can’t gamble with dice?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
Ok… but his thing can actually happen… your version of the bad things that can happen for still also posting news to twitter is all imaginary stuff that doesn’t happen in real life.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
The whole point of the post is real gambling is rated as totally safe for kids. As long as it doesn’t use card or poker chips as imagery. Why is getting kids to actually gamble ok? Why is imagery associated with gambling so much worse than actual gambling for kids?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
So then explain why games with actual real money gambling aren’t rated 18+, is gambling “imagery” really that much worse than having actual gambling?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 4 weeks ago:
If your stated downside to still using Twitter is that it’s a waste of time, is that invalidated if your posting tool posts to all of your socials with one click? Like most professional social media users that have to maintain a bunch of channels with the same content?
Also, who is being dramatic about how important it is to be on or off twitter?
- Comment on A little Russian invasion comparison to put it all in perspective 1 month ago:
Now, imagine the reason was to prove you aren’t just powerful on paper but can really back it up…
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 1 month ago:
In the same vein
“Wha-wha wha-wha what do you want? Wha-wha wha-wha what do you want? Why do you keep poking me?
Daah buu daah buu”
The song from warcraft 1 or 2 or something.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 1 month ago:
Do you want axe? Except as "dyouwan taxe?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
A lot of it is the difference between learning practically and learning theoretically. You don’t have to understand the underlying mechanics in practice to know how to keep getting the same result. Your brain doesn’t have to be doing any math, it just has to have shaken a bottle enough times to have a good comparative basis formed.
Learning to calculate the current remaining volume in a container when observing someone else shake it… that would use all that theoretical knowledge and math.
It’s like knowing how hard you have to throw an egg at a wall for it to break instead of bounce off. You do it 100 times, you just get a good feel for it. Doing all the math, and then trying to learn it practically is barely gonna affect how quickly you learn it in practice. But if you wanted to make a robot that throws it exactly hard enough without wasting any energy, practical knowledge will have almost no value, and theory and math will be incredibly valuable.
- Comment on Understandable, copy that. 2 months ago:
Yeah, it sucks to be on the side where people will pick apart your words to see if they can intentionally misconstrue anything. So you have to very carefully craft all sentences to reduce the chance that any of them can be misinterpreted. Instead of the side where you can just say whatever you want and if it doesn’t play well, you were retroactively actually joking.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 months ago:
Do they have them when they are little too? Or maybe it worked out that it was less likely predators would yoink their babies because it seemed like they were always watching. Can’t sneak up on someone with eyes on the back of their heads, that never close, even while sleeping.
- Comment on So begins the great smart bulb saga! 2 months ago:
Careful with alarm fatigue. It’s unfortunately something your brain does without your permission. If you ever find setting lots of alarms stops being helpful, that is likely what happened. Basically, since you will end up brushing off a decent portion of those alarms as you are either still on task or don’t need to be on task yet “this time”, your brain will slowly think of those alarms as less important, no matter how important you want them to still be.
It can help to set as many different alarm sounds as possible. Sometimes, that can make it feel like each alarm is different, and they won’t all be lumped into the same category in your subconscious.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 2 months ago:
Discussing it properly is fine as long as they are interested. If they don’t seem interested, then you can boil it down to a simpler analogy. Some kids very much appreciate having the full picture right away, and some need a framework first before details can be added. Most schools use method 2, because it will eventually reach all kids, and the only downside is kids that need/want method 1 will be bored the whole time.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 3 months ago:
Yeah, all the complicated flashlights with multiple settings I have used support turning on and off into the last used settings. I don’t think I’ve ever used a flashlight that forced you to cycle through everything. I had a bike light that did, but I got rid of it and replaced it with a flashlight mounted instead.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s just one of the ways it has changed over time for some cultures, hehe. There were plenty of millenia before hell was even thought of the first time, we probably will never know what the first written use of it was, let alone the first time it was used in oral storytelling. But with what little evidence we do have from thousands of years ago, we can see that the idea of hell was never consistent since.
- Comment on How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell? 3 months ago:
Religion is pretty hard to believe if it wasn’t the one you were raised into. And it’s often times pretty hard to get out of the one you were raised into.
But outside of religion, a pretty common fictional view is that heaven is the extreme end of order, and hell is the extreme end of chaos. Neither one can harbor any middle ground, and thus they would both suck to be stuck in.
Inside religion, whatever your religion’s version of heaven is, usually depends on what “your people(local and as a whole)” would want it to be. It changes over time and distance to better fit. But never bring up that it has changed, as it has always been this one and true correct way of depicting it, to question that is some kind of sin… and hell of course is similarly fluid despite having always been “this” way.
In truth, they have both been depicted every which way imaginable.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 3 months ago:
It’d be nice to line up his quotes on the subject in chronological order, since it seems like the last one would be about how his infidelities were his biggest failings in life. People say a lot of stuff to rationalize their behaviour while they are still doing it. But with time and space, can put together that the problem wasn’t that other people “chose” to feel hurt about it. They will always be hurt if it came by surprise and you didn’t have consent first. Hell, even in proper polygamous relationships with as much consideration and communication as possible, it can be a challenge to not hurt anyone.
- Comment on Eureka 3 months ago:
I’m sorry you are not familiar enough with one to know this. You know the difference between men and women? There basically isn’t one. We are 99.9% similar.
- Comment on In honor of the start spooky season (yay!), I have a question about an apparently beloved spooky meme/skit. What about "David S. Pumpkins" is so funny? 3 months ago:
The thing about it is to remember that it’s generally one of 5 skits they have had to write and rehearse as much as possible in the course of 6 days at most.
SNL is more about having a good reason to workshop their skills than it is about how good the show is. But innthe context of what they are actually accomplishing, it’s generally a pretty good live show. But of course, it will never be as funny on average as a pre-written and pre-recorded show that can be edited and fixed up.
Sort of the same thing as going to any live theater shows. They are not as good as recorded and edited stuff, but you have to appreciate the effort given the context. And adjust your expectations of the quality of the results. They might occasionally still make something that happens to compete fqvourably with other media, but it shouldn’t be expected.
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 3 months ago:
Just a heads up, Alterlife likely never got off the ground. They mocked up a demo video with store assets 3 years ago, but were never heard from again. I still have it on my wishlist, but my hopes are not up, lol.