BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Years later, I finally completed Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 hour ago:
I really, really want to like KCD, but after a bad experience early on I’ve never been able to get back into it. There is a mission fairly early on where you need to sneak from one end of a large map to the other. There was a lot to do and explore on it, so it probably took me 60-90 minutes. Then right at the end I got jumped by 4-5 soldiers and died. And because of KCDs aggressivly-anti save system, I would have had to repeat the entire thing. I get that KCD is supposed to be super hard core, but I’m a busy dad of two small kids. Finding an uninterrupted pocket of 90 minutes to enjoy a game is a rare luxury, so having it ended like that completely soured the game for me.
More games need a “busy parent” easy mode.
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 3 days ago:
To claim a subdomain in the DNS system you have to have the domain first.
- Comment on Not the worst sales technique. 5 days ago:
My motorcycle dealer has a similar sign about being sad and ugly.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 weeks ago:
“That that” can and probably should be replaced with “that which” in almost every instance it is used.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve left two jobs because they were toxic. I always had something else lined up beforehand though.
- Comment on Republicans suggest in 'private' that they would be better off if Trump loses: GOP insider 2 months ago:
This is probably going to get me downvoted to hell and back, but from an electoral standpoint Kamala taking a strong position on Gaza doesn’t matter. Tragic as it is, the median voter and most importantly the few swing voters in the US don’t really care about it. Yes, the majority of Americans disapprove of what Israel is doing and support a cease fire, but it’s just not a high priority. Sure, people who are extremely online and spend lots of time in leftist space care, but the average voter? It’s barely on their radar.
Only 21% of voters even mention it as important. poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3903
- Comment on Freak in the Sheets 4 months ago:
Also, me eating a fig.
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? 5 months ago:
I’ve been really enjoying my current Pathfinder:Kingmaker run going for the true ending.
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 6 months ago:
My development PC running linux (I don’t use Arch, BTW) + Steam has by far the most games I’m interested in playing. Games that I have played my entire life run great, through DOSBox, Proton, native, or console emulators.
That being said, I still have a huge soft spot from my old 3DS and wish I still had it. Sure the Switch is great, but the 3DS had so many fun little quirky features that it was just fun to use as well as play games on.
- Comment on Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch? 7 months ago:
System Shock (2023) just had a big new patch and is just about to tick over the one year mark. Seems like a great time to play it again for the first time.
- Comment on The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. 7 months ago:
There was an interesting physics paper recently that suggested that time travel was possible, but you wouldn’t be able to travel to before when the machine was built. Of course, it also would require an impossibly huge amount on energy, but that’s a problem for the engineers.
- Comment on xkcd #2915: Eclipse Clouds 7 months ago:
It has nothing to do with actual distances and everything to do with optical illusions and atmospheric effects.
- Comment on I want Nintendo Streetpass in my life again... 7 months ago:
Man, now I’m nostalgic for my 3DS. I sold it when I got a Switch, which is a nice system but the 3DS had so many fun little things about it like Streetpass.
- Comment on fossils 7 months ago:
Dinosaurs aren’t reptiles, they’re birds.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 8 months ago:
Much like all of life. Expectations cause suffering.
- Comment on Now that Deus Ex has been cancelled, what other games scratch the Deus Ex itch? 8 months ago:
I say yes both to SS2 and Thief 1&2. SS2 has several way for approaching most problems, a great story, lots of lore and a lot of character customization. It does lack story choice, but I feel thats ok for the setting.
Thief 1&2 are a bit more of a stretch, but if you like playing Deus Ex as a stealthy character, it will scratch that side of things. There isn’t any character customization or story choices, but each level can be approached lots of different ways and they are all very atmospheric, with conspiracies and great story telling.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 8 months ago:
That’s going to be a function of your SD card reader and the quality of the card itself. If you’re really concerned, copy it to your HDD, then read again and verify. And then when writing, do a verify step as well.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 8 months ago:
Uh, you very much can take an image of an SD card, the same as with any other block device.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 9 months ago:
A write off is a colloquialism that refers to reducing your effective taxed income. A more realistic example would be, let’s say you make $250k, but you’re self employed and spent $50k on business expenses like a car and office space. Then you can write off that $50k and only pay taxes like you made $200k.
- Comment on What’s a “sovereign citizen “? 9 months ago:
They are people who have fallen for and/or are grifting for a deeply unhinged conspiracy theory that national laws don’t apply to them if they do some certain set of pseudo legal things. What exactly those things are, as well as what laws don’t apply to them,vary widely, but are usually centered around driver’s licenses and car registration, tax evasion and not paying child support.
Past that it’s hard to explain what their beliefs are because it is so vague and ever changing.
- Comment on How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable? 9 months ago:
Christ do I feel old now. CDs and DVDs are read only, so you won’t do anything to them by ripping them. It’s just a copy of the data onto your drive and then probably a compression step of some sort. Nowadays it probably takes less than five minutes for the whole thing. I remember taking at least half an hour on a 2x drive, and then mp3 compression taking another hour or so.
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- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 10 months ago:
I’ll check that out, thanks!
- Comment on RPGs for people who don't like RPGs 10 months ago:
I’d suggest Shadowrun: Dragonfall. Fairly simple mechanics, character building and inventory. Great storytelling and characters in a familiar but fantastic setting.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 10 months ago:
After getting annoyed at New Vegas, I picked up Red Dead Redemption 2 and have been really enjoying it. I kind want to get a cowboy hat, not ironically. My wife would probably hate it though.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 10 months ago:
I keep wanting to like New Vegas, but find that after a few hours it becomes more of an inventory management game than anything else. Has anyone had success with getting mods running under Linux?
- Comment on ‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps 1 year ago:
It’s not you, it’s the apps. They’re set up that way to get you to pay for them.
- Comment on ‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps 1 year ago:
Dating apps are deeply, deeply enshitified because the economic incentive for them is the exact opposite of what monogamous users want. Specifically, the apps want you to keep subscribing, but the super platinum plus extra added packs, but never really find someone and date them, because then you stop paying. Old school pre-sellout OKCupid had a great analysis of this in their blog, which was taken down the day they sold out.
This is why the few sites/apps that cater to non-monogamous or event based communities are still reasonably decent, e.g FetLife, Bloom and Feeld, though Feeld is partially down the enshitification pathway.
I’d be really interested in seeing what a fediverse dating app would be like, something that didn’t have the financial incentive to enshitify, and maybe had a match/search system like old-school OKC.
- Comment on Making my own bubble memory? 1 year ago:
When someone says basic semiconductor, my first thought would be a single diode or maybe a transistor, not an entire integrated circuit.
- Comment on A question regarding the picking of a printer that fits my use case. 1 year ago:
It sounds like you want to print things, not tinker with a 3D printer. In that case, get a Prusa. You can make Enders and other cheap clones work great, but how much time do you want to spend tinkering and hunting down answers? What is your time worth?