Kit
@Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Could you fcking not. 1 day ago:
This makes me feel sad.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 6 days ago:
Serial Experiments Lain. I managed to acquire a bootleg Japanese VHS of the show (sans subtitles) in '99 or '00 and fell in love. I bought the English dub as soon as I could find it. I was totally obsessed, even going as far as carrying a messenger bag like Lain had, and making a custom Windows XP theme based on Navi. I even bought a Palm Pocket to mimic the smartphones shown in the show.
Lain shaped my passion for IT, and I feel it changed my life in profound ways.
I’m confused by the sudden popularity. It went under the radar for so long. Now all of the merch goes for insane amounts of money.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 1 week ago:
That’s a yikes from me dawg.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 week ago:
Having played other MMOs does not make you qualified to have an opinion on a game you’ve never played. FFXI does have a grind, but it is unlike any other MMO out there. The intensity of trying to time your weapon skills and magic to land at exactly the right time, the dance-like coordination with your teammates, the variety of enemy strengths and weaknesses, learning a basic programming language to write macros and having them work flawlessly in a pinch - everything about it is exciting and you have to be at the top of your game to succeed. Every single mob fight feels like a boss battle and every kill is a win. Top that with some of the best writing of any Final Fantasy game and it’s a winning combination and technical marval that I cannot believe was achieved in 2003.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 week ago:
You clearly have not played FFXI.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 week ago:
Hop on HorizonXI! It’s a very populated classic server.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 week ago:
Final Fantasy XI. It’s been online for over 20 years and still has a devoted player base. The game’s scale is so epic that many people still haven’t beaten the expansions.
When it came out it was so far beyond what we had seen in an MMO before - The only competitors were UO and Everquest, but the graphics, music, complexity, and storyline were miles beyond those games.
It’s a game with unimaginable depth of play that takes years to master - not like the hand-holdy easy games we get nowadays. Truly a gem the likes of which we will never see again.
- Comment on Anon remembers moot 2 weeks ago:
I met Moot at Otakon 2007 and he was kind of a dick.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally World Premiere Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s interesting that Microsoft is leaning into Windows on Xbox devices. It lends credibility to the rumor that the next Xbox console will run Steam natively.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 4 weeks ago:
What’s a computer?
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 5 weeks ago:
A House-like TV show about troubleshooting computer issues would be absolutely fascinating to me and a dozen other people. All along you thought it must be drivers but it turns out that the exact RGB configuration used on the case fans combined with the anime waifu wallpaper caused a slight over-voltage on a RAM chip resulting in game crashes and only Hackerman was brilliant enough to see it.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 5 weeks ago:
Yep you got it. So for people with only minimal vision issues it might not be worth it, but for those with severe vision problems it may be worth the risk even though their vision likely will degrade slowly back to their original prescription.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 5 weeks ago:
The sample size of that study was only ~300 people. A study with 20,000 participants in Singapore found that 90% of patients had 20/40 or higher vision after 10 years. It found that high-myopia (-14+)(the most extreme form of near sightedness) patients had a much higher rate of regression, with 39% of those patients losing 2 points or more from their vision within 10 years of tratment (and likely choosing to wear glasses [not listed in the study] or get retreatment [27%]).
So basically, if you have extreme vision problems before LASIK you’re much more likely to have to wear glasses again down the road.
Also, worth pointing out that almost everyone will need reading glasses as they age regardless of LASIK. This conversation only surrounds glasses for near sightedness.
- Comment on Anon visits a guy's house 5 weeks ago:
That would contradict Rule 30.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 1 month ago:
No. 34 million current gamepass subscribers. 40% of Xbox gamers are from US, so roughly 13.6 million subs in the US. There’s 131 million US households, thus 1 in 10.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 1 month ago:
40% of Xbox gamers are from the US. The US has 132 million households. That means that roughly 1 in 10 US households currently has a Gamepass sub. Hope that puts it into perspective.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 1 month ago:
PS Plus is closer to Xbox Live than Xbox Gamepass. Xbox Live had 40-50 million subs at the time in 2020.
Presently Xbox Live has 120 million users vs 33 million PS Plus Essentials subscribers. Gamepass has 34 million subs vs 14 million higher-tier PS Plus subs. Even if we drop Nintendo into the mix, Gamepass has an equal number of subs to Nintendo Online members. Seems like they’re doing just fine.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 1 month ago:
They hit 10 million subs 5 years ago. Not sure what your definition of “lots” is…
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 1 month ago:
Amazing how I’ve been hearing the same thing since the service released 8 years ago. Will it eventually get shitty? Probably. But in the meantime it’s a phenomenal value.
- Comment on Anon makes friends at the kinoplex 1 month ago:
I would go to movie theaters if this were the normal experience. I haven’t been to one since Star Trek 2009 came out.
- Comment on What are the best gaming moments of the last decade? 2 months ago:
+1 for Inscryption. I started playing it blind because I saw it was a card battler. The twist left my jaw on the floor.
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 2 months ago:
I only like open world games when I can really immerse myself into roleplaying. Oblivion and FFXI (if that counts) were perfect for this style of playing. Most open world games just don’t hit the mark, unfortunately, and I’d rather play a linear game that feels like reading a good book.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
Howdy yinzer, glad your outage wasn’t too bad. May 6 is rough.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
Still nothing here :( ETA is Tuesday
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
Yes sorry, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, a few hours west of Washington DC
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
Pittsburgh, 40% of households lost power on Tuesday, the worst power outage in the history of the city.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
I am indeed still without power
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
Pittsburgh. (Only open link if you have an ad blocker, our local news websites are garbage.) www.wtae.com/article/…/64642751
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 2 months ago:
Went ahead and requested it off work. Hopefully I don’t lose power for a fuckin week like I did with Oblivion Remastered.
- Comment on Anon achieves a higher form 2 months ago:
Plot twist: he was actually looking for 177013.