BlueSquid0741

@BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's causing the Greek yoghurt shortage in Australian supermarkets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You could not pay me enough to eat yoghurt. But pretty much everyone I know is eating it daily now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub’s owner to block Australians over age check laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More sites need to take a stance to just shut us out, and when Australia doesn’t have access to barely anything let’s see where we go with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Stardew while I lay on the kids floor waiting for them to fall asleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even last night we had a power surge and my nas went down. Back up with no errors, but I got real worried about HDD costs for a moment there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why some Australians are spending $35,000 a year on food delivery apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every few months we visit Melbourne to take the kids for a city trip. We order uber eats at the hotel because it’s just easier than trying to visit a CBD restaurant with two little kids. 

  I’m in Melbourne twice a week for work and I always go out and buy lunch. At home we have a pub that opens 3 nights a week, of course I’m buying lunch when I’m in the city. 

  But I can’t understand the thought processes people have outlined in the article. Someone just spending all day thinking about food and what they’re going to order, that’s fucking insane. Multiple food deliveries per day? What the fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me and my partner spent a couple of nights to do like 10 minutes of every game, and we just thought so much of it was bad. 

  When we did the same thing again a year later, we were way more into it. I think it grows on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game have you been most patient for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy vii, just bought it on gog. I think I first saw screenshots of it in a PC magazine almost 30 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course. That’s my understanding too. Just wondering why this guy claims message boards and mailing lists have been regulated away and supported that by citing this article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Governments have regulated that we can’t have forums, mailing lists? What about special interest bulletin boards? I read the article but I didn’t pick up on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Quest VIII is so charming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked DQ5. I played a translation on SNES emulators way back, but it was unfinished so it was a sloppy experience.

  Went back to it when the DS remake came out, and I loved it. When I think of Dragon Quest I think of 5. I understand it’s part of a trilogy 4, 5, 6 as well but I didn’t play the others.

  I’ve also played DQ3 on gameboy colour. I only played it halfway, but it was a good portable rpg for sure. I’d only played Final Fantasy Legend 3 on gameboy and this was much better. I just didn’t have much time for playing games then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend some games for PCem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only tried wine and GE-proton through Heroic, Lutris and Bottles. Always gives some wine error.

  I’ve never tried it through Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend some games for PCem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have it on gog too, but I’ve been on Linux since 2009 and it just throws wine errors every time. The last time I was able to play it was on a Pentium M laptop I had from 2006 or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend some games for PCem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interstate 76. I haven’t been able to get it working on any machine after the mid 2000s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia Post rival shuts operations without warning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That sinking feeling when you’ve bought something online and then get an email “your order is being delivered by Sendle”, gone forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you are using everdrive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Mega Everdrive x7 I bought about 15 years ago or something. It worked great. I’m only not using it because I put the jailbreak firmware on my Mega SG and just pay the games directly from sd card.

  I also have the old SD2SNES one that is now called something different. Also have the Master System Everdrive which I didn’t even use because the Mega Everdrive supported master system games :/

  Iirc they both have similar menus. You can setup folders, like I have “A - E” with all games starting a through e. It’s just a text list (white text on black) and you scroll through to find the game you want. You could make these folders anything though.

  The SNES one only seemed to differ in that it had themes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common household rat poisons found to pose unacceptable risk to wildlife as animal advocates push for ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It with be nice if there was a list of 2nd gen anticoagulants provided, or is it just all currently capable poisons?

  The article also has a running theme that a problem is users not following directions on the packet being a problem. But I’m not picking up on what the failure is. Is it that people are using the baits outside when they’re not supposed to?

  Outdoors there are significant better options than poison. Traps are actually pretty effective, and baits tend to attract more rodents than you initially had anyway. But especially the throw-pack poisons are integral inside the ceiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just random pico-8 games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Played a lot of Strange Journey on DS. It was a really cool game. I didn’t know there was a remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the most hilarious 2000s indie game tutorials.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a fun game, we used to play it on our laptops in uni.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very sensible take

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond 007 for Gameboy is 9/10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I must have been about 13 sitting around playing my brothers gameboy. Had a real good time with it, but never finished it.

  I’ve never gone back to it, yet whenever I put a collection of roms together I always put this one in there, thinking I’ll finally play it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love gog for being able to download and own the game. I have about 10x more games there than steam. It’s a bit more hassle integrating them with the steam deck than steam is though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077: A Beautiful Night City but oh what it could have been.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played it yet. But I do own it on gog.

  Every few years I get stuck into Shadowrun on sega mega drive. It’s an open world cyberpunk rpg. You can choose to start as samurai, decker or shaman. You can follow the plot or just do whatever. You can choose to just spend all your time in the matrix. You can go to different “Johnsons” and do any number of randomly generated runs against various corporations.

  But in the end your only real choice that affects the gameplay ends up whether you use magic or guns. Even if you take a shaman, you can hire a runner to join you so you can still sit in the matrix all day. The story doesn’t care which class you picked. It always turns out the same.

  But it remains one of my favourite and most played games of all time.

  Do you think Cyberpunk could give me that in a modern game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been playing Shadowrun on my Sega. Always good to get this one out again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we’re only getting 3 hours of sun on our solar panels amirite? 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dual Screen Handheld Starter Guide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the top screen crop to the same size as the lower screen?

  I would have thought these are finally a decent solution for playing games like Contra 4 and Sonic Rush, that need to seamlessly go between two screens. But if the two images don’t line up then it won’t be so nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens and Australian Christian Lobby form ‘unholy alliance’ to shut down late-night pokies in NSW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as I saw the headline I could already hear Tim Freedman’s voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also did this with the first Monster Truck Madness and Big Red Racing. And Motocross Madness. Seems these games were just built for that. Only had demo versions though, so just the one stage to explore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think DS should take the final round - plays the DS and GBA library + relatively easy to emulate GBC if you really want to.

  And still the only way to play some games - Contra 4, Sonic Rush for example, are horrible to play on emulator but still really fun games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Borderlands 2 was fun, but Borderlands 1 is the game I replay.