DrSteveBrule
@DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 day ago:
Its in a hospital and as far as I am aware there’s no cameras in the break room.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 day ago:
My job has the opposite problem. We have four refrigerators full of food that no one wants to eat. People bring in homemade meals in glass containers that end up rotting and growing mold. Every so often someone gets the courage to clean all the refrigerators out, but it doesn’t take long before they turn back into giant trash cans again.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 1 day ago:
Are psychedelics legal where you live?
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 day ago:
Aa per the FAQ on their website, Factorio will never go on sale.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of other reasons to pirate content besides disagreeing with pricing. I get that the price point of this game is the subject here but I doubt 99% of pirates are at a disagreement over pricing.
- Comment on “Production” to describe multiplication? 2 weeks ago:
It seems like every other poster here confusing your use of the word “production” and simply stating that “product” is an acceptable word to use lol
- Comment on The audacity 3 weeks ago:
They’re also easy to clean if they get gross from surgery.
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, even some of the other characters in the games/movies recognize this and call her out for it.
- Comment on Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours 4 weeks ago:
When i first started playing Dark Souls i always equipped my characters with shields. I played all 3 games several times through with shields. One playthrough I decided to challenge myself and not use shields, only relying on dodging attacks. Doing so also opened up my offhand for using a staff or talisman (the equivalent of seals in Elden Ring). I have never used a shield in any Dark Souls game or Elden Ring since.
Dark Souls 2 introduced a feature called power stance. I wont go into go into great detail about it here, but tnere are many guides online that explain how it works. The short version is that it allows you to dual wield weapons from of the same category. You equip them in each hand, level up your character with the correct stats, then you open character up to unique move sets and really high damage.
Power stance wasn’t included in Dark Souls 3, but it was reintroduced in Elden Ring and is very fun to use. Some of my favorite weapons to power stance with are: daggers, twinblades, reapers, rapiers, and even heavy rapiers. I wouldn’t say power stancing is the equivalent to playing on easy mode. The movesets are unique and take some practice to use effectively. There are also some cons, like not having a shield or magic casting weapon in either hand. There is no way to do a jumping heavy attack using both weapons. Also stamina depletes much quicker. One of the greatest pros though, is that each weapon can be equipped with different status effects like bleed/poison or holy/frost.
If you look up or are suggested specific builds, be open to tweaking them to your liking. Higher numbers for damage output are obviously good, but are only so useful if the weapon you are using is right for you. Keep trying different weapon types until something sticks. Also, level up several different weapon types because different enemies have different resistances and weaknesses. Slashing weapons aren’t as effective against rock enemies as hammers are. Sometimes these resistances aren’t obvious so dont be afraid to use online wikis to look up some info.
Lastly, dont neglect summon pools! Some people will try to convince you that summon pools are for noobs, and it only counts as a win if you solo a boss. That’s not true in the slightest. Every item/feature in the game was added with the intention that players will use them. Same goes for spirit ashes. Each spirit ash is very different from the next. Some will follow you around, some will sit in one spot, some regenerate health, some inflict status effects on enemies, etc. If you or anyone else is on PC feel free to shoot me a DM and we can set up a coop session!
- Comment on Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple 4 weeks ago:
Android users do not need an app store to install apps onto their devices. Apple not only requires it, but only offers their own storefront and if i remember correctly, they take about 30% of all sales. Companies used to get around that by redirecting customers to a website that doesn’t use the app store to make purchases. Apple then banned those apps from their store making them no longer available to iPhone users. This has nothing to do with allowing people to install incompatible applications on apple devices.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
It is only in the form of crypto with your name attached to it. Trump, Elon, and all the rest constantly hype it up on social media and make bank on it. Everyone in the world associates you with being another maga grifter.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Everyone who interacts with you immediately forgets who you are or why they are doing what you convince them to do as soon as they stop seeing and hearing you. They will continue to do as you instructed them, but they won’t know why. Once it’s done, they will continue life as though they’ve never met you unless you introduce yourself again.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 5 weeks ago:
My ps3 got what I called “the yellow light of death”. They both had the same issue.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 5 weeks ago:
I’m not even aware of any ps3/xbox360 games that are fully contained on discord. Maybe Orange Box?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
My penis is
very difficultarduous - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A McChicken is definitely not worth more than $1 lol
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 1 month ago:
Peggle! It’s a very fun and unique brickbreaker with lots of silly and cute characters, art, and music.
- Comment on Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates 2 months ago:
This is a part of how any business is valued. You don’t just buy the building, stock, brand name, etc. You also buy the customer base. Any place you’ve ever done business with that later got sold, has made you a part of the sale technically.
- Comment on At least in the darkness of my dreams, I can forget how things are 2 months ago:
For your health!
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 2 months ago:
The only thing I can think of that Word does better, is making equations. LibreOffice works ok, but it’s more clunky. I still use it over Word because it runs much faster on my PC
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 2 months ago:
I think you have the right idea to put the NSFW content in a spoiler tag, but so is the text that is warning users that it’s NSFW.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 2 months ago:
How does people being wrongfully deported to El Salvador relate to a gaming community?
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 2 months ago:
I’m trying to remember, is this a Mr. Show reference?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
I recently emailed my professor about a question on a take home test. I asked for clarification because the wording was weird. I also asked how I should format the answer, and where in the textbook I can find info relating to it. His email back to me just said “the answer is on page 75”. It was not.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
My cousin and I spent a summer messing around in hitman blood money when we were younger. There’s a level that takes place in a neighborhood with a cul-de-sac. We managed to kill every single npc undetected with the snare wire and dump theoe bodies into the sewer to leave no evidence. After each level, the game generates a newspaper article to describe the events and it basically said everyone in the neighborhood just vanished.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
If the game plays on your linux distro who cares what you call it?
- Comment on FromSoftware aren't abandoning single player in favour of games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, says Miyazaki 2 months ago:
Wtf did i just read? The author here admits to not caring and therefore not paying attention to what he was supposed to be “reporting” on. Video game “journalists” continue to amaze me.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 2 months ago:
That’s true. I should’ve specified i use gg.deals to look for sales from 3rd party websites. Green man gaming is a pretty good one that often has $5-$10 off of new titles.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 2 months ago:
gg.deals
New steam games may have $80 price tags at some point, but most of them will end up on that site for a fraction of the price after some time. Nintendo titles might go down to $70 after a decade.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 2 months ago:
There was a good point explaining how the invention of email made communication a more dreaded thing. When all you could do was send written letters, it could take weeks or months to communicate with someone on another continent. When email was invented everyone thought it would make life so much easier to get a near instant reply. But now some some people have to read and send a hundred emails a day. It’s the same with cell phones. A hundred years ago we mostly didn’t have phones. Then landlines became popular but you had to be home, also you had to memorize numbers or write them down. Now everyone has a cellphone where anyone can call you at anytime and any place. It could be work related, medical related, an old friend wanting to say hi, a tech illiterate family member asking for help, someone trying to sell you something, or any other kind of spam call. Phone anxiety is completely understandable.