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- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
I just got 100% on Nier Automata, and I only loved it more as I played it more. Usually I hate any grinding in any game and will either skip any content that requires grinding, use mods to bypass it, or just put down the game and move on to another one. But the whole game just felt so damn good. I could just walk around for hours doing nothing because the movement felt so good.
There was quite a bit of grinding, but I didn’t find any of it too bad. I got 100% in about 50 hours, which is my sweet spot. Any longer and I feel like the game is dragging on.
- Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions. 2 months ago:
I think the devs like this design. They are currently contemplating making votes public for everyone. There is a discussion on their GitHub about it. They opened the discussion and asked if the users want to make all votes visible on the UI. If it happens, I will probably stop voting altogether.
- Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions. 3 months ago:
Yes.
Hell, one of the lead contributors to Lemmy and an admin of lemmy.ml is like this. If that person sees you say anything negative about China, you instantly get banned.
- Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions. 3 months ago:
I hosted my own instance and was able to see the usernames of people who voted on communities that were not hosted on my instance. To prove my point, I had posted the list of votes on a comment that was claiming it was impossible to do this.
- Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions. 3 months ago:
Yes, as the other person said, you need to be an admin or mod. As an admin, you have raw database access. I crafted an SQL query using a couple of joins of I think 3 tables, and I was able to provide a comment or post ID, and it would return a list of people who have upvoted or downvoted it.
- Comment on New to Lemmy. I have a couple of questions. 3 months ago:
Votes being public is one of my main turn offs of Lemmy. Anyone can host their own instance that federates with everyone and peek inside the database and see everything you’ve ever up voted or downvoted. I have personally done this just to confirm my suspicions that it is possible. I don’t vote on a lot of things I otherwise would because I don’t want people making assumptions about me. For example, if I see a copy/paste bot spamming a pro trans comment, even though I agree with the message, I might want to downvote because it is a spam bot. But I’m afraid that if someone sees that comment in a list of my downvotes without any context, they will incorrectly think I’m transphobic.
- Comment on Krafton acquires Tango Gameworks and Hi-Fi Rush IP from Xbox 3 months ago:
I read that by the time MS acquired Tango and Hi-Fi Rush was released, most of the developers and management had already quit, so MS basically only owned the IP anyway. Tango allegedly had nothing in the pipeline, and the few people who were left were working on nothing, and there were no leads to start the process of developing a new game.
Not sure how true it is, but in that case it would make some sense to just shut down the studio, because the alternative would be essentially starting a studio from scratch.
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
That’s my main problem with Signal. They refuse to add features because they can’t be perfect. I damaged my old phone beyond it being usable and got a new one. Now it’s impossible for me to get my conversation history, because the only way to keep it is to do a backup in the app and then manually move the backup file, then restore it on your new phone. Oh, but you can’t backup and then restore to your laptop. That would be crazy talk. It’s impossible to get your conversation history to your laptop.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
I don’t. When I installed my solar panels and batteries there was a stipulation that if I charge my batteries from the grid, I don’t get a tax rebate. Essentially they gave me $10,600 USD for me to not do that. If they catch me doing it, I would need to pay that back. However there is an exception for inclement weather. If there is a severe thunderstorm, fire, etc. in my area, my batteries are automatically charged from the grid.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
What part of Texas are you in? Here in the Austin area, it was like 85°F. It was super nice. Looks like it’s gonna be nice tomorrow as well.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
I live in Texas. Our electricity delivery is quite complicated. I moved here from California where our only choice was to have PG&E or no power. We paid what they told us to pay, and we said, “thank you.” It was simple. But in Texas, you have different choices for power companies. Where I live, I have about a dozen or so choices for companies, and each one has multiple pricing schemes. So you could have a pricing scheme that is a flat rate, or you could have ones that have time-based tiers, or usage tiers, etc. I’m sure someone offers a pricing scheme that roughly follows the market prices, but honestly you’d be dumb for choosing that one. Most people go with tiered usage ones because they appear to be the lowest prices. So you pay based on how much you use, but the more you use, the more you pay.
I have solar panels, and when choosing a power plan that works best for that, I did see many that purchased your excess power based on the market price. Usually it was like some percentage of the market price, not 100%. However I ended up going with a time-based pricing scheme where my power is free between 9 PM and 7 AM, as my solar panels and batteries cover me for the rest of the time. I essentially pay nothing for power, and I have an electric car, electric dryer, and electric oven.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 4 months ago:
In my experience, when it comes to debating the validity of religion, people tend to get far more emotional than other topics. People who are normally level-headed and quite logical tend to completely lose their ability to think rationally. And I mean both the people who argue for religion and against it.
- Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.? 5 months ago:
I have a 9-5 job as a software engineer. Though really I can stop working whenever I’m done with my assigned work. I usually stop around 3 or 3:30.
- Comment on PPSSPP has been approved for the iOS App Store! 6 months ago:
Mega Man Maverick Hunter X and Mega Man Powered Up are my two favorites.
Disclaimer: I’m a huge Mega Man fan.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
I think we should rename this community “gaming controversies” because that’s all that’s ever discussed here.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
I respect other people’s choices in what to consume, and I expect the same respect in return. I have no problem with people being vegan or vegetarian. In fact, most people I work with are from India and are vegetarian. We eat lunch together most days and no one has any problems with each other.
Unfortunately most vegans I know are extremely pushy and judgemental about their diets. They do not respect my choice in what to consume. This used to causes some preemptive judgements on my part, where I would get defensive immediately about my dietary choices, because I assumed they were judging me. Over time I have learned to control this reflex.
I can only assume that many people have had the same experience as me, and jump to the same conclusions.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
That depends. Where I used to live, Comcast had a monopoly and a data cap.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
WiFi isn’t free. And Idk about you, but where I live the internet service providers are the same as cell providers. I have AT&T for internet, for example. So they still get the money.
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 7 months ago:
What’s that song about Grandma getting run over by a reindeer?
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 7 months ago:
As someone with OCD in the form of germaphobia and excessive/repetitive cleaning, I recommend you see a doctor and get tested for OCD. Doing therapy massively improved my quality of life.
- Comment on Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom devs explain why it was a much bigger overhaul than you'd think 7 months ago:
You haven’t had to rescue Zelda much in the past 25 years.
In Ocarina of Time, Zelda was a badass ninja warrior that was constantly helping you.
In Majora’s Mask, Zelda didn’t appear.
In Wind Waker, Zelda was the leader of a gang of pirates. She had their respect and undying loyalty despite all being twice her size, because of he toughness and bravery. IIRC she actually kills Gannon in this one by bouncing an arrow off Link’s shield.
I don’t remember Twilight Princess enough to speak on that one, tbh.
In BotW, Zelda is fighting Gannon for 100 years (!!!) to buy time while Link sleeps and then later cooks food in his underwear.
In TotK, Zelda makes the ultimate sacrifice, trading her humanity to give Link a chance to beat Ganondorf. She makes herself immortal, but trades away her individuality and ability to think. She spends eternity crying because of what she lost to give Hyrule hope. I think she’s particularly brave in this one.
Zelda has not been a damsel in distress for a very, very long time. Both Zelda and Link play critical roles in saving Hyrule. Their roles are just different. Link saves Hyrule with a sword. Zelda saves Hyrule in other ways. Their roles are different but equally necessary.
- Comment on Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles 7 months ago:
Yeah, well I want game pass on Steam and Linux, but we can’t get everything we want, Phil.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Well, you could blame that on the fact that economy experts don’t have the power to do any of those things. Politicians do.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I have found that economy experts say that things are counterintuitive more often that any other field. I think at this point I have just accepted that the economy is some black magic that I’ll never understand. So I’m gonna smile, nod, and let the experts do their thing.
- Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? 1 year ago:
You got me!
- Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? 1 year ago:
Anything that is desirable is going to be more expensive. I share initials with a certain show company and a comic book company. Getting any domain name with my initials, even one of the “cheaper” TLDs is insanely expensive. Like $60K USD a year expensive.
- Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? 1 year ago:
icecream.social is available, and I really want it, but I just can’t justify the $800 a year, even if the name is amazing.
- Comment on Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral? 1 year ago:
That’s actually really cute.
I know a family where a pair of brothers are married to a pair of sisters, and they all four had the same last name before marriage.
- Comment on Can you get a big bite on your eyeball? How would the eyeball respond? 1 year ago:
That sounds awful. How was the pain level?
I scratched my eye once with my fingernail when I was about 12 or 13. It just felt like I had something in my eye constantly for a week.