Pheonixdown

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a few sections restricted to solo only, but it’s not the default, the matchmaking is pretty quick for a random group and there’s a variety of people always looking to form groups for different tasks. One word of warning, people move fast, until you get parkour down, you might just end up running from the start to end of a level if you join groups, they’ll have completed the objectives and be waiting for you to extract.

  Clans exist, and each have their own space station called a dojo that’s customized by them (cost is based on size of the clan, as a solo I was able to build up and level a clan on my own).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Path of Exile.

  I’d say I’m a fairly mid-tier player, get better with each season I play, the breadth of mechanics and depth of complexity is mind breaking. I’ve only played like 2000 hours though, I’ll get it all figured out eventually… Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Article says the erroneous menus weren’t distributed. So, probably not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Removing the allergen warning is basically some form of attempted manslaughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 is about 75% done. Let's recommend the best games of 2024, but with a twist: only the ones with no paid DLC!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  #ZERO SIEVERT (Steam)

  I’m bending rule 4, because the official 1.0 release is announced for less than 1 month from now.

  ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive.

  I’ve played through it a 2nd time recently, it’s a fun solo experience, the difficulty is largely customizable, the different zones feel unique, lots to explore, even just a little morality testing on some quests. Decent enemy variety, the guns generally feel different, and different ammo types do matter. Skill will take you far, and carelessness, even in the easy areas, will be punished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peloton to ruin the secondhand market by charging a $95 ‘used equipment activation fee’ | It doesn’t apply to refurbished models bought directly from the company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife has a NordicTrack bike, it auto adjusts resistance and incline. Insane people would pay more and not even get that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My (re)discovery of roguelites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, sticking to roguelikes, here’s some other options:

  Deckbuilding Style: Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Griftlands, Balatro

  Survivor/Bullet-Heaven Style: Vampire Survivors, Brotato, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

  Realtime Combat (I’d put Hades/Dead Cells here): Hand of Fate 1/2, Zero Sievert, Wall World, Rogue Legacy 1/2, Risk of Rain 1/2, Heroes of Hammerwatch

  FPS: Gunfire Reborn, Roboquest

  Turn-based/Pausable: FTL, The Last Spell, Loop Hero, Dungeons of Dredmor, Darkest Dungeon 1/2, Backpack Hero, Into the Breach, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2

  Sure I missed some other good stuff.

  Not a roguelike but if you liked the combat style of Hades, check out Bastion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are women who intentionally choose to be a single parent. Like they’re single, they get a sperm donor, have a kid. It’s not some insane thing. Kids should have a supportive and caring environment, whomever raises them. Not every kid with a single caregiver is neglected, nor is every kid with 2 or more caregivers properly cared for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's out now! The prologue for my solo project, a roguelike tower defense, is live. Check it out.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, UI mouseover is fine with it unplugged, issue returns when replugged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's out now! The prologue for my solo project, a roguelike tower defense, is live. Check it out.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. PC, other than M/KB, I have a Razer Tartarus.

  2. I was using the scroll wheel, might have missed the cue to use keys, that’d fix it for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's out now! The prologue for my solo project, a roguelike tower defense, is live. Check it out.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Played a couple runs. Definitely seems up my alley.

  Feedback:

  1. Idk why, but when cursoring UI menus, it just ticks from where I cursored to the top like I’m holding an up arrow. Happens in Menus, Stats, Level ups and Shop. Clicking works fine, just really couldn’t read any stat descriptions.

  2. When teasing the locked towers/skills, when you obscure the text with the X of locks, it’s hard for me to read and get excited about getting access to that thing. Maybe move the lock indicator somewhere there isn’t text (top right?).

  3. This is maybe more fundamental, and idk how it fits with your vision, but scroll wheeling between skills feels clunky, could it maybe be key based (either as well or in addition), think that’d feel snappier to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any new purchasers (I am one) are also probably waiting for the mid-generation update coming later this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta crank up that dystopia meter.

  This is slowly moving toward having Content On Demand. Imagine being able to prompt your content app for a movie/series you want to watch, and it just makes it and streams it to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a coincidence, nobody wants to live near an airport let alone an international one, the noise level is insane. My grandparent’s house is less than a half mile from the edge of one, and even with soundproofing, the dishes still set to rattling far too often. The airport was basically forced to buy out like half the neighborhood because it was so bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, this wasn’t an issue with the scanner, it’s an issue with the core design of the software. For whatever reason, it uses different value fields when determining the price to display for an item and the price used in the total, that means this problem can occur for any number of items and the only way to detect it is to manually total the receipt. It’s a fundamental problem with the software and their pricing change control process and a good PSA, the negative headline draws better attention than the positive, which is that anyone could be charged incorrectly. That the store was able to fix it is also good to include, but it is an expected responsibility of the store to do so, not some positive spin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has any of you ever tried the "Ragnok 2 gun mouse"? If so, how good is it?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks awful.

  If you want an actual egro vertical mouse, don’t buy a gimmick. I’ve got both wired and wireless zelotes vertical mice from Amazon, would recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FFX Blitzball is the mini-game that I sunk the most time into by far (100+ hours), and always had fun.

  Gwent from Witcher 3 kind of goes without saying, the framework is so good it’s spawned 3 full games that I can think of.

  Best Hacking mini-game goes to the newer Deux Ex games, quick, the right amount of challenge but if you didn’t like it you could basically never do it.

  Best lockpicking I’m going to give to Starfield. Literally the only part of the game I actually enjoyed, each is a great little puzzle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Foresees AI Competing with Human Intelligence in Five Years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like in this story?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They said if you’re buying solely based bubble color then it’s based on peer pressure, there of course are other valid reasons for someone to choose one and there are also other bad reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dvorak?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered switching to pickup when you can? pick what you want from the comfort of your home, drive to the store at the designated time, an employee has picked all your goods and it is brought out to you. Same price for you, more labor for the company to pay for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RoboQuest has been my main jam for a bit, decent little roguelite shooter. I like how you unlock travel to different areas by finding things from other paths.

  Wish it scaled to more than 2 player though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re headed towards the Star Trek episode “A Taste of Armageddon”. I’d also note, that people losing a war without suffering recognizable losses are less likely to surrender to the victor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it’s ok to skip to optimizing the autonomous drone-killing drone.

  You’ll want those either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Washington wants to treat Apple and Google like Big Banks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just checked an Amazon purchase that had the option for a payment plan, my options were to use my Chase card affiliated with Amazon or Affirm which is a 3rd party that is offering the structured payment. Not sure what it looks like for others, but if it’s similar, then Amazon wouldn’t be doing anything bank-like with those payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube Abblock Reckoning as a service problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You could do banner ads, shrink the video, randomly add a banner to top/bottom and a 2nd left/right. If you skip the ads, you skip the content too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grown Adult Coward: 'I'm OK With Just Watching Alan Wake II' - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been watching and enjoying Jesse Cox (on his CoxClips youtube) play it. He knows a lot about the universe lore and does some explaining for people who may not be as familiar. Someone related to the game also mailed him some ARG stuff related to the game before it came out and he did a few videos on his jessecox channel for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube Abblock Reckoning as a service problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m expecting someone smart at Google to figure out how to encode ads as part of the video file as it is delivered, making it literally undifferentiatable in the data we receive, and then there’s no way around it. They’ll make millions in ads and billions licensing it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google employees typically work more than eight hours a day: Internal memo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your talk of providing estimates just reminds me of this scene from Star Trek TNG.

  Geordi La Forge: I told the Captain I’d have this analysis done in an hour.

  Scotty: How long will it really take?

  Geordi La Forge: An hour!

  Scotty: Oh, you didn’t tell him how long it would ‘really’ take, did ya?

  Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.

  Scotty: Oh, laddie. You’ve got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried over 20 Steam Next demos so that you don't have to!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has a bias and that’s expected and the stating of opinions as opinions is good, the line is stating opinion as fact or review bombing.

  I didn’t play it because I didn’t want to log in, isn’t a review of the actual game, it’s at best review bombing against secondary logins. It tells anyone interested in playing the game nothing other than that a secondary login is needed.

  The definition of the minimum criteria for what makes a game is pretty nebulous, but survivor styles are well above all but the most disingenuous definitions of what makes a game. Saying it isn’t a game because you don’t enjoy it is not having a bias that causes you to like something less.

  The trending of most games to be 7+/10 is largely driven by idiots who tied the success of a game to metacritic scores and publishers who retaliate against games journalists for “hurting” that success by not cooperating with them on future products by providing review codes.