theskyisfalling
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- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker' 2 weeks ago:
I realise you are having health issues from reading your other posts and you should always prioritise that!
I really have so little interest in that short form twitter esque posting that I actively reject it so if I’m being completely honest I doubt I will go there.
Don’t push yourself to post the long form posts, get better and the best of luck with your upcoming appointments. I will look forward to your return to the long form post and hopefully with accompanying info of how well you are doing physically in the future :D
You are not an imposter, you are the fediverses premier gaming journalist and I’ll fight anyone that says different xD
Have a good day!
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always avoided games based “journalism” (and all journalism really) as in my experience it tends to be full of over opinionated bullshit however your posts are different.
I genuinely enjoy your posts, they are well written, clear and succinct. You offer your opinion on things you genuinely enjoy but usually as a side note rather than baking it into the news or subject you are writing about and it is generally clear you are just passionate about the things you are writing about.
Where can I join the PerfectDark fan club?
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. They don’t like being called out on it either. I am very vocal towards them and their blocking of cycle lanes and consequently I have had multiple drivers try and knock me off my bike. I had one guy when I was on foot try and run me over and then get out and try and fight me.
What also really pisses me off is that they are allowed to use bus lanes. Bus lanes, in my opinion, should be there the encourage use of PUBLIC transport by making it quicker for buses to get through traffic. They should not be benefiting these private businesses and encouraging even more entitled cunts driving taxis.
Honestly I could rant all day about taxi drivers, I fucking despise them.
- Comment on Tough new driving rules could land Brits with a ban for ‘minor’ mistakes 2 weeks ago:
As a cyclist this is even worse, the amount of people that pass dangerous close and then I catch up to them and they are sending a text in their lap is absurd.
The deliveroo type food delivery riders on scooters are even worse, they drive around my city permanently looking at their phones with one hand on it tapping the screen, passing me as close as they can it seems. I also see them driving on foot paths and down cycle lanes to cut between two roads so they don’t have to go around more and more often in the last year or two.
And worst of the worst, taxi drivers. They are arrogant, entitled cunts who think they own the road just because they drive as a job.
I fully support these idiots being banned as they are all menaces on the road and are endangering countless peoples well being with their irresponsible driving. I don’t care if “that’s their livelihood” they should consider that before driving like pricks.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 2 weeks ago:
Sadly I don’t use any of those platforms and with a cursory view their website and etsy page don’t cover the actual materials and methods used to produce them (which is a bit weird for a passion project). I may have missed it though and will look properly once I’m not working.
Have a good day!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 2 weeks ago:
That is fine, I didn’t expect you to be as interested in the printing side but thought I would ask anyway. Thanks for the link, I’ll have a look around and see what I can find. :D
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 2 weeks ago:
Do you have any more information on those manuals in terms of how they made them? (Or a link to where I could read the info) Things like printing process, materials used etc. I work in print so that kind of interests me and from the photos they look of an OK quality so I was just curious.
All the best with your health, I enjoy reading through your posts even if I am not commenting every time but health is always more important so I hope things take a positive turn for you!
- Comment on Anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
Thank god for basement flats when it is hot, I was strongly considering a jumper last night at one point…
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 2 weeks ago:
My apologies, I didn’t realise it was a joke seen as most people in this thread aren’t joking when they say things like that.
I don’t blame you for not chronically being online, that is a good thing rather than a bad thing, but if you were using it as a forum would you reply to a thread without actually reading through the rest of the conversation? The snide comment was mostly because I thought you were being serious and each of your points has been gone over multiple times within the tree of my original comment so I thought you were being intentionally belligerent.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 2 weeks ago:
Following a curated list of people on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
Listening to mixes and hearing something I like then tracking down what it is.
You could also check things like the beatport or juno charts to see what other people are buying in specific genres, just don’t buy your music from them.
Listen to radio?
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 2 weeks ago:
Imagine replying to a comment 36 hours after the fact and not even having a cursory look at the comment chain to see what else has been said.
We don’t use decimals in everyday life, you don’t need to.
- Comment on Remembering those times 3 weeks ago:
We used to do the same in HMV circa 98-00.
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 3 weeks ago:
36.5°c for people who use sane units ;)
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 1 month ago:
I’m surprised the police actually came out at all, they usually don’t give a fuck.
As someone else said you need to go to the council, they will have a department specifically for noise complaints and anti social shit like this. You will probably need to fill out a form online and then they have officers for this specific problem who will call you and probably come out to visit. They will be your best recourse to finding a solution to this.
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 1 month ago:
Only three episodes in so far but have been enjoying El Eternauta (The Eternaut) an Argentinian apocalypse type show based on a comic of the same name.
I can’t really offer much more info as I’m going in blind and haven’t read the comics or anything but it has my intrigue up and looking forward to finding out more information as to what is going on.
It is also nice and refreshing to see an apocalypse type show that isn’t based around the USA.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 months ago:
I am an adult male who goes to the park / beach to play with and practise my levitation wand (flow toy) which is way less “normal” that just juggling.
Aside from the fact that who gives a fuck, it is a public park and anyone who thinks a man juggling is weird is the one with the problem the opposite is actually true in my experience.
The majority of people ignore me and the ones that don’t are genuinely interested in what the fuck I’m doing or how it works. Some people will watch from a distance, some people will engage and ask but no one tells me it is weird.
Go practise your juggling man!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 2 months ago:
Couldn’t agree more with your take on Early Access bullshittery. I too refuse to pay for anything that is “released” and described as much. It is just another thing after micro transactions that have further ruined gaming and despite a personal boycott of these practice’s still gets ever more common :(
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 months ago:
That is how I felt about Dave the Diver, was really enjoying the first part of the game and was excited to keep playing but they kept adding more and more shit on top that seemed unnecessary and it just made me lose interest entirely.
It could have been great but turned out to be a bit Meh for me.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 months ago:
That is a blast from the past! I absolutely loved ‘Z’ when I was younger but had forgotten about its existence!
Shame Atomfall decided on denuvo otherwise I’d have liked to have played it but I will not support games that include that trash.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
I default to DODI but sadly this game wasn’t available from them. I’m still very new to Linux and this is my first foray into repacks on there so it is just a learning curve :)
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
When did I once “blame the OS”? Just because I am frustrated with not being able to get it running I never once said it was the fault of the OS. In fact the opposite, I care about continuing to use the OS and that is why I spent so long troubleshooting my issue…
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
Lol wut, my wallet is empty hence why I’m using repacks and my initial post was about the frustration of getting them to run on Linux… So what are you on about?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
looks at empty wallet after paying for rent and food for the month :P
Yeh proton is pretty good and I know things are way better than they ever were before but things still aren’t always simple for people with no experience of Linux :)
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
Me spending 4 hours last night trying to get a repack to install in lutris for it to crash every 5 mins xD
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 4 months ago:
I would describe them as not great currently xD
I haven’t played Heat but like you I like the Forza Horizon balance of pretty arcadey feel with some sim elements mixed in without it really going too far to either extreme.
I don’t want to be excessively harsh on a game that is still pretty early in its development so far but also not having played any of the previous entries I dont know exactly what feel they are going for, so maybe this is already pretty close to their goal (which would be a shame I think)
As it is right now though it is very arcade-y feeling and in all honesty the “upgrades” didn’t really make the car feel any different as I spent money on the car, it was consistent throughout. The cars don’t really corner that well, you cant really initiate a drift or have any real control through the corners to that level, you can yank up the handbrake but the car doesnt slide in a nice, predictable manner at all. You can either use it to cut a lot of speed suddenly in a quick jab or hold it and spin out.
So generally you’ll be driving flat out dodging traffic until a corner at which point you’ll slam on the brakes to cut your speed enough to try and get around the corner without riding the walls (the races use a battle system with “health bars” to win or lose and hitting walls depletes your health bar)
As I said in the previous post as well the opponents definitely need balancing as well as you will often need to cheese the harder battles or just hope to god that they crash and you can get far enough ahead to win. A lot of the AI drivers will hook their front onto your rear and plow you into a wall which is extremely frustrating.
The game itself is set in an open world of sorts. So when you leave for the night you choose which highway entrance to enter on and in which direction. You are then free to cruise the highways (you start with a small loop and then a little more opens up as you play, I presume the full game will have a lot more) and challenge any other vehicle you see to battles. You can race all the civilian trucks or cars if you want or you search for other rival gangs. When you beat a certain amount of members from each gang then you unlock the boss of that gang for a boss battle.
Whilst cruising you are stuck going the direction you began with unless you pull into a parking spot. Here you can chat to random people about inane shit or challenge some others that are parked up. Here you can also leave the parking area to go in the opposite direction on the highway. It is realistic but also frustrating sometimes to try and find a parking area if someone you want to battle is on the opposite side, I wanna have some places where I could illegally switch sides really.
If you dont like JDM shit then I would say the appeal would be even narrower for you cause it is focused on those cars. This is what I love so what kept me involved to see it through but the selection of parts and wheels etc is honestly shite (nightrunners blows it out of the water by a long way in this aspect).
TLDR: you probably won’t like it that much based on what you said, even cruising the majority of the available world is really fucking long straights and is pretty boring and you dont even like JDM stuff :)
- Comment on Teardown to Get Multiplayer Later in 2025 4 months ago:
I don’t cheat as for me that takes away all the satisfaction I get from seeing a game through from beginning to end however as I have gotten older I no longer try and force myself to continue playing games that I am not enjoying. I have enjoyed gaming on the whole a lot more since I started doing this. Sometimes I’ll go back if it is something I really want to like and sometimes that works but I no longer get hung up on quitting a game if it is doing nothing for me.
- Comment on Teardown to Get Multiplayer Later in 2025 4 months ago:
Not just me then, I have considered going back and trying again as I really did enjoy it a lot up until that point but I dont think it is worth my time thinking about what is to come.
Damn shame!
