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- Comment on Figured I'd join in sharing what I'm playing- my platinum team ☺️ 8 hours ago:
Nice, earlier this year I wanted to to likewise but with Professor Oak challenges, which is get every Pokemon as early in progression we possible. I did it on Blue but it was quite miserable grinding lvl 36 Blastoise fighting only lvl 6 stuff prior to the first badge.
Suffice to say I took a break after that, but I’ll hit Silver next. Fast forward on emulation was a godsend, as well as achievement tracking for keeping track of how many more I had to grab before the next badge (it got really weird because you can skip Lt Surge and just keep going without the HM lol)
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
I agree we don’t know if they’re loss leaders yet. I will say that even if the hardware is priced at a loss, though, it’ll sell more Steam games. Ultimately I don’t know if it really matters.
Though yeah, people should get past headlines. Lol
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 days ago:
Headphones won’t break your ears any worse than loud speakers do, and noise cancelling headphones are actually a solution to blocking loud noise (e.g. construction), or for people who get overstimulated.
In fact, since headphones can block out sound you might even be listening at a lower volume than if you were trying to drown out sound with speakers, assuming the headphones have any noise cancellation (even just muffled cups). Even just competing with ambient noise can cause us to raise volumes more than necessary.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 1 week ago:
Shitpost aside, my dad did honey mustard under the dog while topping it with chili and cheese. It’s the only way to do that combo right.
- Comment on The moon 1 week ago:
Banana for scale, our solar system is a lot smaller than I initially thought.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 week ago:
Before the Internet got social media, we had the GameFAQs voting thing; you’d get head to head popularity contests of coolest characters. Cloud always won, but it was nice to check daily to see who was most popular.
I still use GameFAQs, though. Even after the buyout, the guides are important to those of us RetroAchevement-ing through some older titles.
- Comment on Thank me later... 1 week ago:
Careful, some of us on older hardware have a bug where we overflow and crash the system. My second cousin bricked his system just by stacking the last two.
- Comment on Is it too late to post something spooky? 1 week ago:
Not as bad as finding a “No Memory Card Detected” message.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Haha, your quote is almost the exact line I’ve read. HR email was literally saying how they should talk to them first and about them failing. Lol
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can’t speak to Rockstar directly but I do know some game companies send anti-union propaganda emails regularly. To take the next step and fire people is entirely believable given when I’ve seen HR push out.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Look, only a basic bitch drinks Alkaline water without a like acid.
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 2 weeks ago:
Mumble was… fine. My friends actually moved to Discord from Mumble for our MMO stuff but that was primarily because it was easier to invite randos to the chat. That quality makes it almost impossible to break away from atm.
I recall the latency being only a little worse than Discord, but I think that’s because a friend set up the server at his work as a side thing (he also hosted Minecraft and Terraria). It’s not too complex to setup, but your quality will depend a lot on the computer and network you’re running. At least, it did for us, back in the day.
We’ve thought about alternatives to Discord. Old names were Ventrilo and TeamSpeak but they’re just not very modern. Plus, now almost every chat app has voice, too. Just, for features, it’s hard to beat Discord at this… though I’m willing to read the other comments to get for ideas, too. Lol
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
I like this. I also like the one I saw in the wild “I’m speeding because I need to POOP.”
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 weeks ago:
Well they need someone there; if you just exile people to hell without a plan you end up with Australia.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
There was a post the other day pronouncing female like tamale and it made me take a while to read this post and made it a little more fun, too
- Comment on Denuvo has been removed from Dead Island 2 3 weeks ago:
Who the fucks been trying to pirate Dead Island 2, lol
- Comment on A little known fact that may describe YOU 3 weeks ago:
Hey, brushing at least once a day while depressed is still an accomplishment.
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 3 weeks ago:
Look, you could give me a multi-million dollar grant and I will wouldn’t want to work with cockroaches, lol. (But then again, that’s what grad students are for…)
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 3 weeks ago:
One of the older social psych frameworks called Social Facilitation says that when we feel watched by others, how comfortable we are with the task determines if we improve or get worse. I’m of course simplifying for Lemmy but you can look to that framework easily.
They tested it with shoe tying vs putting on lab gear, measuring time to finish in the presence of others. Shoe tying got faster while lab gear, being unfamiliar, was slower.
I often give a more modern but dated example as when I play Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, I tend to do choke, because it’s not really my genre, but of the same era I tend to show off if I’m playing Metal Gear Solid 2, except the skateboard level of course.
- Comment on If only we knew... 3 weeks ago:
I mean, yes and no. I live where gang tags and random acts of vandalism are rather a frequent occurrence so when I say graffiti removal, I’m thinking that. Things like that only work to harm our neighborhood, defacing our storefronts and public transit and making people feel less safe in their community.
But yes, some forms of graffiti are expression and art. Nazis would take pleasure in removing that we aren’t for that, of course.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
… Why not just copy the meme they’re referencing? It’s like they’re intentionally trying to screw this up.
- Comment on If only we knew... 3 weeks ago:
Why the death penalty?
Suspected Nazis should be given community service to work in soup kitchens, clean graffiti and pickup trash and such in majority black and brown neighborhoods.
- Comment on passage of time 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, 2025.
- Comment on Moon talk 4 weeks ago:
It might be because the moon is falling in 3 days.
Which… I guess is due to capitalism (Happy Mask Salesman peddling Majora’s Mask) or maybe the male loneliness epidemic (Skull Kid has no friends).
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 4 weeks ago:
Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.
And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 4 weeks ago:
So funny I read this post right after my 3yo dishes l ate all her broccoli, her brothers broccoli, and seconds on… broccoli. Didn’t finish her rice, though.
I think she might actually like fruits and veggies?
That said, I think a good trick is to style the performative foods as Japanese bento style because kids are kinda easily swayed by look and feel of food, so if it’s cute or cool they are more likely to eat it. We’re planning on doing that anyway, mostly cause my wife was raised in Japan where that was common.
Another thing to keep in mind is parents are often the role models, so liking or disliking things will matter. If you hate fruits and veggies, they’ll notice.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 4 weeks ago:
I thought that too until today, it’s never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 4 weeks ago:
Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I’ve been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren’t even that important when there isn’t a national outage lol).
My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey’s pawed AWS into non existence.
- Comment on DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core 4 weeks ago:
Mmmm… I don’t mind the Retroarch version and use it on occasion, but this is great news. The 9x experimental support and the running from zip are great news and I’m curious if it’ll make it easier to use the eXoDOS packages more easily.
I’m also wondering if this will impact the planned RetroAchevements’ MSDOS release, since I think they were using Pure for that. I can’t imagine it being an easy feat as it is, but if there’s active work on this I imagine it might push that along a bit. I really am craving a couple of DOS and 9x titles, and good achievement sets really help me get the most out of a game.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 4 weeks ago:
Box labeled “burnt to a crisp” and put everything in it.