Coelacanth

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best instance to host a big community in Finnish?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This would have been my suggestion as well. Cool instance, surely would be perfect for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we all give up on calling him Drumpf?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The John Oliver bit about the sound of Trump vs Drumpf was an alright punchline to a show ten years ago, before even the first installment of this madness. Those were simpler times, though, and fundamentally I agree with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Up for it; down for it. Same thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the confusion stems from some people assuming an implied “turn up [the temperature of] the AC”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 215 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea how AC2 holds up, honestly. I’ve never replayed it and it was my first game in the series - I didn’t own a Playstation when the first one came out so I only experienced it through being over at a friend’s house and watching him play it, occasionally taking turns for missions. Playing AC2 was an incredible experience back when it released and I’m full of fond memories, but I don’t know how well it’s aged. It’s probably a less impactful experience now than it was 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 215 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is pretty much confirmed that Unity’s poor launch led to the hard pivot to the “modern” RPG style AC games. I remember reading about it at the time. The only reason Syndicate wasn’t changed was it was already too far into production when Unity released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 215 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like Unity. I’ll always have a special nostalgic feeling about the Ezio saga that makes me hold them in especially high regard, but even so Unity is probably my favourite to play. Revolutionary Paris is an amazing setting and it’s so beautifully realised too, and the parkour system with free run up/down and all the myriad animations lets you do some of the most slick things in the entire AC series if you get good at it. I’ve linked AC Unity choreography before, but just look at what people can do when they’re good at this game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wheel of Time - for both the book and show fans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely at this point some diehard fan has put together an abridged version? If One Pace can exist surely Wheel of Time Saving can? I’d like to read that one to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wheel of Time - for both the book and show fans⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One day I’ll get through this series. There is some really good stuff there but it’s not an easy read. At this point I feel like it might be too much effort but who knows. I’d like to finish it some day, but I don’t really want to re-read the first 6 books again just to re-orient myself in the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the classic Bill Hicks bit about Jesus and crosses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a community for asking for and recommending content creators⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear I saw an “If I Like Blank” community around somewhere recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really care enough to actively hate Ubisoft - I save those sentiments for companies like Nintendo and Disney. However, they did influence about a decade of horrible game design trends with the popularisation of the dreadful checklist-filled Ubisoft Open World^TM, and that is worth at least a mild dislike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so torn on the subject of a VI remake. On the one hand, it tickles my brain to think of what it would be like if given the full treatment à la VII Remake, but on the other hand I consider the game pretty much perfect as-is and don’t want it sullied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Privacy is invisible. Being barred from content unless you pay is highly visible. Most people only really care about whether their end user experience is affected. People cared when their favourite apps got shut down, but they don’t really give a shit their data is sold. We’ve been so desensitized to having our data sold these days that most people have stopped caring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed Launches to Strong Reviews – WGB⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my biggest gripe watching the Luke Stephens video on it as well. The announcement trailer looked great, why the hard pivot into an oversaturated mushroom kingdom aesthetic? Especially since it sounds like the actual game is pretty solid, beyond technical issues (that may or maybe fixed by now with a day 1 patch).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the other person said, 99% of users never create communities anyway. I don’t really know what this read-only instance is meant to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some type of "unfinished business" community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I feel the same way. I’m trying my best to curate my feed right now to minimise the amount of posts that make me want to not be alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair I guess. I remember that. That was around the same time as well, so someone registered to say Beehaw or Hexbear during the Threads fediverse announcement period would probably get the idea that federation wars is all that’s going, at least if they stopped visiting Lemmy shortly thereafter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The analysis paralysis of having to pick an instance is definitely the biggest hurdle in my opinion. I don’t think a read-only instance is the solution though, at least not one that requires registration. That just adds another step, which I think would further confuse people. The simplest way to onboard new people is to just shove them onto the biggest instance, but I know that kind of goes against the ideology and creed of the fediverse. There were endless debates about it during the Reddit exodus of 2023.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sync on Android. I’ll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I’ll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I’ve yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there some type of "unfinished business" community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know this existed, that’s a neat community. Might want to get the word out on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only real federation dramas I can think of were relating to Hexbear and Beehaw. If Greenleaf was on one of those instances then maybe it could explain their skewed perspective. Otherwise yeah, I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy vs Mbin vs PieFed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck is “Magazines”

  This but unironically. I could never get over it with Kbin and still can’t with Mbin. It’s a bad name for a community/sub and I’ll die on that hill. You can never get me to call a meme shitpost an “article” in a “magazine”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rayman Legends is an amazing couch co-op game if you like platformers. I still think about the musical levels from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 200 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alongside Cyberpunk, AW2 is probably the best showcase for ray tracing I think. Truly a gorgeous game.

  Excited to hear what you think about the DLCs! I also have been avoiding spoilers and putting them off, and I’ve built up towards doing a full playthrough plus the DLCs sometime soon myself. Really looking forward to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How powerful is the PC? Is the question more about games optimised for mouse+keyboard, or is it about demanding recent games that allows his new machine to flex its muscles?

  Since you say he likes Souls-likes Black Myth Wukong probably checks both boxes - I never ended up playing it (my backlog is too long) but it looked great with stunning visuals and I heard good things about the gameplay.

  Cyberpunk with full path tracing is still one of the prettiest games out there and a pretty damn good game too after the patches and expansions.

  Finally, something like Fallout: London could be an interesting suggestion as mods of that nature are out of reach of the console crowd. Could give him a whiff of what he’s been missing out on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It breaks my heart to read about all the bugs and performance issues. Not that they were entirely unexpected - especially since it’s a STALKER game - but I was hoping for a miracle. I really, really want this game to succeed and the game itself sounds like they hit it out the park. I just hope launching in this state doesn’t ruin the game’s reputation and sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the generally accepted scientific term for the English language is “clusterfuck”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be, could be. I think your suggestion would make for a better game with less conflict between what the main story is saying and what the game is presenting in the open world. Having the story emphasize how fast V is dying, only for the player to then fuck around with car races and random merc contracts and whatnot really doesn’t work all that well as far as immersion goes.

  Jackie’s death would have also been much more impactful if we’d have spent all that time with him playing through those six months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… maybe? Those are nice things of course, but what is the target audience for an app like this anyway? I don’t use TikTok anymore, but if I wanted to start using an alternative to it I would never consider something without an algorithm. The whole point - for me at least - is to waste time eating digital slop served to you by an algorithm so that you don’t have to know what you want to watch when you sit down and open it up. If I already knew what I wanted to watch I wouldn’t be on an app like this, I’d be searching up the video or subject on another platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always felt like the game was originally never meant to be an open-world game, it’s as if they were going for a mission-to-mission corridor kind of game and wrapped up a world around it to walk around in at a later phase.

  That’s my take on it too. The story they wanted to tell does not mesh well with an open world game, but since the people loudly wanted something like “RDR 2 but Cyberpunk” they felt obliged to attempt to shoehorn it in.

  The whole cutscene thing with Jackie after the intro feels like it was supposed to be actual gameplay, but was just cut out and changed to a cutscene to skip time.

  Completely agree. I think having you play through that part would have made a huge impact on how you connect with Jackie. Maybe they felt it would have pushed the Keanu introduction too deep into the game?

  I’ve been trying to get back in the game a couple of times, but it often just feels so lifeless and lacks any depth.

  They’ve added some touches to the open world, but I think it was too fundamentally broken to be easily patched. The new skill tree from 2.0 is actually good though and I think the combat is pretty fun in its current state, even without going to mods.