DrSteveBrule
@DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 6 days ago:
Not sure if users can host their own servers yet, but once that becomes available then I don’t see what would stop you.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 6 days ago:
I’m in the US but it varies state to state. Some states are dirt cheap while others are insanely high. Probably 8 to 10 dollars a pack on average around me
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 week ago:
I know it’s common for actors to not really eat when filming a scene in which the character is eating but it almost adds to the joke that we never really see them eating the pistachios. They’re just fidgeting with the bags and chewing on nothing.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 1 week ago:
Now smoking is much more financially responsible than eating pistachios
- Comment on learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what? 1 week ago:
What are the 24 scales you mentioned?
- Comment on ESL homework 1 week ago:
The English dub of the anime Monster has a really funny interaction between the main character (Japanese), a young child (German), and an older couple (English).
Despite the voice actors all speaking English, the main character and child communicate in German. The main character also knows English so he can communicate with the English couple. There are scenes in which they are all together and the Japanese guy has to translate what they are saying to each other, but to the viewer they are all speaking English. The kid and old couple just won’t directly talk to each other.
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 2 weeks ago:
I love everything you said about Conviction! It was a very misunderstood game. Absolutely not like the previous games gameplay wise but I loved where they took the story. Great write up!
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 weeks ago:
For your health!
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 2 weeks ago:
Then you get conversation drain flies
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 3 weeks ago:
The customization in this game is great so games can be as small or large as you’d like. I’ve set up games that take as little as 15 minutes. The campaign also starts off with small games that take about half an hour. It was my first RTS so I’m sure it took me much longer as I wasn’t familiar with the general strategy of those kind of games.
- Comment on It's easy 1 month ago:
I hope this post is. My cousin made a similar post on social media about owning a house. He was ranting that the current generation was lazy and didn’t know how to budget. Everyone should easily be able to buy a house. The house he owned was bought with the money he made by selling his first house which was inherited. Some people are really just that dumb.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
I guess I’m truly not understanding the comparison. I do not see the similarity between having a series ruined because an actor is a sexual predator and having a series ruined because you don’t like the sequel. Not sure what part of those scenarios you were comparing, but I’m just not seeing it.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
The crime doesn’t have to equate? Why bring up Kevin Spacey’s crimes at all? How is that relevant to not liking the direction a franchise went?
I don’t feel that “this franchise went in a bad direction, so now I can’t enjoy the previous works” is anything like “this person is a sexual predator, so now I can’t enjoy their previous works”.
It would be really awkward to watch a known sexual predator in a movie, even if the movie predates the crime. The existence of the Fallout TV show has no effect on Fallout 1 as a game.
What a weird turn this conversation took lol
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
That would be a good comparison if Fallout as a franchise was a person who committed sexual assault I guess
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 month ago:
I don’t even get it. Everything after fallout 1 has no bearing on fallout 1. It’s exactly the same as it was when it was released. It’s not hard to not think about things you don’t like lol
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 month ago:
The United States of America is just a series of English words. It really wouldn’t make sense in some other languages.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
How long do you wait before lifting the lid back up to check for streaks?
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 2 months ago:
I don’t feel I was much more mature at 21 than I was at 18 and I was very immature at 21 lol
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 2 months ago:
I remember getting CD demos in cereal boxes lol
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 2 months ago:
The 360 is old enough to die in war but not drink alcohol in the US!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
Possibly. I never messed around with tab management extensions before. Everything in Zen is built in
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
All my life I never saved tabs and everytime I closed the browser I would open it again with just the home oage. Then about a year ago I downloaded Zen Browser and I really liked the tab management that came with it. I created some profiles and folders to organize the tabs in so now I have maybe 20-30 tabs always open, but they are almost always used regularly. I might have 5 for my school. 5 for torrenting/hosting. A few for music related things, gaming, etc. It’s very organized and basically replaces the need for a custom html homepage.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
I think there is a difference between what the developers expect and what characters expect. In Fallout3 a settlement builds their town around a deactivated nuclear bomb. There is an opportunity very early in the game to detonate it, which most characters understandably react poorly to. But I wouldn’t rate the game poorly because the surviving NPCs of that settlement become hostile to the player afterwards. The developers don’t really expect anything from the players as there is the choice to do either thing. I thought Dishonored did that as well. NPCs who cause havoc to the city by killing people and spreading disease will hear complaints from the surviving citizens. Also the story of the game sets up the player to be framed for murdering the empress so most NPCs by default already hate the player character. I liked that the game gave players the choice to remain noble and try to actively prevent further chaos or say fuck it and slaughter everyone who stands against you even if you are technically in the right.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
Appreciate the response. I feel that I’m in the minority when it comes to caring much about good or bad endings. Usually if a game has several endings I’ll replay it to get the other endings. I’ve never really felt that a “bad ending” was a punishment though. Even if I get immersed in the character I’m playing, I never felt as though I experienced the negative outcomes. I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with a friend and he was getting mad at me because I wasn’t playing lawfully good lol. That game was designed to keep progressing no matter what choices you make. You can kill the most important characters but the game keeps going. Yet he felt as though we would have to reload a previous save if I did something too “wrong”. Anyway, I just find the difference of opinion on the topic interesting lol sorry for the wall of text.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
That’s true, it is a game where each choice has a direct consequence. Going along that train of thought, do you see the “star system” in GTA as the game scolding you for your choices? If you’ve never played it, in GTA you are a criminal and as you commit crimes you get a star rating. The more stars means the more law enforcement that attempts to subdue or kill you. There really isn’t a way to complete the game in a non-violent manner though.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
In what way do you think the game scolded you for killing enemies?
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 months ago:
Can you explain why you think the game punishes the player for engaging in combat and killing enemies? I get that the events in the game may change but I’m not getting how that’s a punishment to the player.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 3 months ago:
Every play a game of telephone when you were in grade school? That’s basically how reliable any religious text is. Even if it were originally written with the exact words of God, it certainly isn’t what it contains now. My favorite thing about the bible is when people specifically say “King James version” because they are admitting it has been altered.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 months ago:
No doubt. I wasn’t trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don’t learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn’t learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn’t been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it’s a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It’s not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 4 months ago:
One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren’t learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don’t want some old geezer giving me shit because I don’t want to learn to use an abacus. I also don’t want to be that old geezer.