Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there’s a middle category of foods that I don’t go crazy for but aren’t bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn’t like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).

  I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn’t trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people’s bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it’s just sensations that you can get past. It’s a mental block that if you can get past it, you’ll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.

  Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don’t think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety… I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is now live⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been enjoying Tales of Maj’Eyal lately. It’s a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I’ve been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I’ll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)

  It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except there are programs that can edit pdfs fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that is the version my work has us use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Autosave requires the file be saved on onedrive.

  I was going to say that the only way to make it worse is if it showed ads while it autosaved, but autosave itself is literally an ad for onedrive.

  If you try any of the other decent options, some of them free, you might come to understand the contempt people have for word, because there’s nothing special about it that the others can’t do, and you have to put up with design decisions made because they have market dominance and can use that to push people towards other shit that makes them money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, because it’s not feasible to deconstruct a baked cake, not because “things that are made shouldn’t be edited”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great guy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A flock of good sturgeons can strip the flesh from a man’s bones–kidneys included–in seven minutes flat, without even using their hands.

  A flock of bad sturgeons take between ten and eleven minutes because they do use their hands, which slows them down to about two thirds speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Construction magic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Though still apparently solid enough to be an example of how disney sucks at writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Construction magic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Things don’t despawn in the real world. What was happening is the contruction workers were looting it after their raid defeated it. Those crane frame pieces add 1000 HP to their home’s structure each, so they are great items to have, especially if another crane were to spawn nearby and managed to use its [Collapse] skill on their home before a raid could defeat it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think kawaii is in the process of being absorbed, though I’ve mostly seen it in more weeby areas of the internet, so hard to say for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your gaming highlights of 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played a lot of games this year, but there were main ones that “stuck” more than others. I’m a patient gamer, so most of these aren’t new releases.

  I was playing a lot of Satisfactory earlier in the year. Not much more recently but I know I’m not done with that game. I started a second save to organize things better, though not sure how well I’m accomplishing that. Though this second one uses more trains while the first one had more of a road setup, including a raised highway to access the oil area in the south east. Still nothing like some of the megaatructures I see in other builds online. I try to plan for expansion, so don’t tend to “finish” buildings, but rather build up a frame that can be added to in any direction. I’d give the game a 9/10 overall.

  Another game I got into for a bit was TCG Card Shop Simulator. It was fun for a bit but then dropped off hard as the novelty wore off. I think that’s how “pretend to work a job” games generally go for me. Fun and satisfying at first, but then repetitive and unrewarding later on. I’m going through something similar with Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 right now, though I’ll get to that. I’d rate it about a 6.5/10, though it feels like an 8/10 at first before dropping off to more like a 4/10 once it gets old.

  I’ll give Healed to Death an honourable mention, even though I moved on from it pretty quickly. It’s a great concept IMO, since sometimes I want to do a “healing the raid” type activity but don’t want to invest the time into a MMO to get there again. But this one isn’t just playing the healer, you also need to manage a constantly revolving party’s gear and switch them to follow mode (where they do no attacking even if they are ranged) to move them out of the fire during fights. So it’s basically healer simulator but your party is always the worst. If they (actually it’s one guy I believe, so impressive job even if it is lacking overall) added better AIs that didn’t need to be micromanaged, it would be much better. I’d give it a 4/10 in its current state but it could be a 9/10 with better execution.

  TMNT: Splintered Fate is very similar to Hades (in fact, I’d call it a clone). I liked it but didn’t stick with it for long. 8/10.

  Schedule I is another one of those “work that is fun at first but gets old”. Though they’ve added a bunch of stuff since I last played, so I will probably check it out again at some point. Game loop is basically find a spot, produce drugs, maybe modify them by adding shit to them, then selling them either directly or via a dealer. Then use the cash to produce more drugs or get new places (both areas to produce drugs and businesses to launder the proceeds, though I don’t know if laundering even makes a difference at this point), hire workers or buy vehicles and weapons. I believe they added competing cartels in an update since I last played, so it could be more interesting now. 7/10.

  Then had a short period where I was interested in speed running, though mostly just against myself, since I’m nowhere close to the top charts on anything. Did a bit with Subnautica (best time to leave in rocket was under 10 hours now iirc) and Grim Dawn (I think I got my best Act 1 time to beat the record full game time lol). No rating for speed running in general (though it does not go well with ADHD unless you hyperfocus on one game), but Subnautica 10/10 and Grim Dawn 8/10 (it’s similar to Diablo).

  Widget Inc was another, it’s pretty much an automation game without logistics, where each new production building rises in cost exponentially and prestiging to increase overall production. Apparently they just released a major update yesterday (looks like it adds enemies). Not sure I’ll look into it. 6/10.

  Did House Flipper for a bit, which followed the job game pattern of being fun and engaging for a bit and then repetitive. At first, I intended to get the second game, but my interest in the whole thing waned before that. It was cool that they had Kame house in the game, with hidden dragon balls to find. 7/10.

  Also was playing some Dark Souls this year off and on. I realized that there was a lot more to the world than just a hard path through tough enemies. Like there’s shops, blacksmiths, and a ton of hidden things. I also tried builds other than highly mobile swords builds and found 2H is actually easier because your hits often stagger the enemies (and do way more damage), so instead of dodging and timing carefully, you can rush in and overwhelm opponents, eliminating members of groups before the others can even react. Got stuck on the gargoyles, though there were some close attempts and I’ll probably get farther the next time I pick it up. 8.5/10.

  I 100% Particle Fleet: Emergence. This game is great if you like systematically picking apart an opponent’s position. Took 15.8 hours to get 100% of achievements, though there’s also a bunch of other maps without achievements that I haven’t done yet and will return to when I feel the itch that those games scratch. 7/10.

  I didn’t play it for very long but tried Breathedge, going for a subnautica kind of experience. It does feel like it, but I don’t think the game is tuned very well. I’m not sure if it changes later on in the game, but the part I was playing had me constantly returning to the start. I could go farther out as I upgraded, but progress felt stagnant and I gave up on it. The game did set goals at points of interest, but they were pretty far between and I felt like either I didn’t know what to do to extend my range that far or that it would be tedious as hell doing it the way I could see was possible. I’ll give it a 7/10 on the assumption that part of my issue was needing to git gud, but if I was right about it being the tedious route, I’d drop it to a 5/10.

  Played a bunch of Dota 2 for a few months. They give you free dota plus access when you start, which gives access to some useful meta information, but then when it expires, the amount they want for a subscription is kinda high. I’ll give credit for coming up with a f2p system that can generate revenue without any p2w (between the dota plus and cosmetics), but the price turned me off and I didn’t feel like playing as much without that info. Maybe I’ll return to it eventually, as I did enjoy the game itself and like that the full hero list is free (unlike LoL with a rotating set of free ones, though I also don’t mind that monetization system, but I’m on Linux so LoL doesn’t really exist anymore). 7/10.

  Stuck in Time is an interesting idle-ish game. You play a regressor, so a character for whom the world resets and plays out exactly the same (depending on your actions) each loop, and as you loop, you get better at doing everything. You give a series of actions to perform each loop and can tweak that list as you go for the next loop. 7/10.

  Icarus is a survival game on an alien planet that was teraformed and seeded with a bunch of earth life. You start out with stone age tech (though with a modern understanding, like you can build stone age tools for water purification). I like that, even though there’s oxygen on the planet, they still have you in a atmospheric isolation suit because the air contains microbes we can’t breathe safely (though no idea how it would be safe to consume food and water in those conditions, but hey, it’s still more accurate than most “visit alien planet with oxygen” fictions are which usually just do analysis that says it’s safe to breathe the air). The open world mode is very well done, a nice combination of freedom to do what you want plus missions to do something more specific for a reward or direction. I’ve more or less mastered the forest biome and have started branching out into the arctic biome. The wildlife can be tough to deal with before you figure out how to fight certain animals (like bears and polar bears), especially when you’re stuck with stone or iron age weapons. I almost rage quit the game a few times due to a scenario that spawns a bear, which then tends to stick by your corpse and gear. But there are multiple strategies to handle them, so I suggest sticking with it and even looking up how others do it if you’re really stuck (I did for bears, though they get easier to handle with shotguns). 9.5/10.

  Nova Drift is a recent game I’ve been playing, a bullet hell roguelike, so far 2.8 hours in, it’s a lot of fun. 8.5/10.

  And Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 is the latest in the job games I’ve been playing. It’s following the trend, as I’ve finished tearing down the biggest ship in the vanilla game and am now on the fence about whether to a) finish up the smaller ships I skipped along the way to the biggest, b) buy some DLC with more ships, or c) just move on from this game. I will say that it is more satisfying than other job games I’ve played, but at only 23 hours in, it’s hard to say if it will have more staying power than the others. 8/10.

  And on my playstation, I’ve been playing through FFX remastered. FF7 was always the “main” FF in my mind, but I think I like the FFX gang better now. I’m not as into JRPGs and the turn-based combat as I used to be, but don’t mind it so much in this game. 9.5/10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention they often cheap out on both the software and hardware, so you end up having to slowly navigate through poorly designed UIs that it struggles to display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even more pathetic than that. They aren’t just expressing their will to play the game, they are asking for approval despite it. It’s similar to the “nothing personal” disclaimer which is usually followed by something with significant personal disruption.

  Most honestly expressed, they’d be, “I’m doing/about to do something that impacts you negatively, please don’t retaliate against me because I don’t like it when negative things happen to me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans n Corn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t an example of that. The three sisters provided benefits to each other while growing simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will be great, they said...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see how their reply was combative if yours wasn’t in the first place. Coming out of nowhere to protect AWS’s honour or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it’s about other things, too. Like Jenny’s character’s arc had nothing to do with that part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

  Cause: No one knows.

  Treatment: Tell the patient to stop worrying about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like for instance, when epic came out with their exclusive access titles being a part of their business plan, valve could have responded with their own exclusive access system and had a good chance of killing off epic and others in the process. Instead they just ignored it and people like me continued using them and didn’t even consider epic even when their anticompetitive actions switched to ones that would have benefitted me (free games), because I could see the shithole they wanted to bring gaming to if their platform achieved dominance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there’s plenty of other reasons to not steal a tesla. It being a mobile surveillance device being one of them. Also, if I was going to steal a car, I’d pick one with better build quality and one that doesn’t have a different fire exit than the normal way to exit that I’d probably be going for if my car was suddenly on fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That “or else” is pretty great, though. Using linux after windows might feel like getting into a healthy relationship after being in an abusive and controlling relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be cool if it rolled into a functional telescope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nature⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might have been very horny but also very self aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, a skill cheater!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The President of the United States of America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you realize that they are just using whatever words they think will get what they really want, they become much easier to understand.

  Also be aware that they aren’t very creative and tend to just accuse others of the same horrible shit they are doing that they know could get them into a lot of trouble (or aspects of those that they support that makes them uncertain they should be supporting them).

  Also, since so many others are dumb, many either believe the first accusation they hear or don’t believe it but then think when it turns out that the accusers were actually doing that, that it’s just more political lies coming from the other side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol, wrong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that one has been out for a while. It has two screens on an awkward helmet thing, one screen for each eye. The 3d effects are kinda cool but it’s all red lines. The idea is probably about 15-20 years ahead of the technology to make it good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).

  If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).

  Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.

  Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn’t imply “ok, this is all I’m doing until it finishes”, and it never interrupts what I’m doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it’s been a while since I needed to.

  But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the cost is lower than mining it from the ground, I think other gaps can be overcome, especially where batteries already have their own logistic waste path. Though I guess it also depends on scale required to get that cost. If it’s something that can be set up at any waste facility, sourcing might be close to “free”, as in it might just require a redirection of what’s currently done. I don’t think it even needs to be cheaper than mined lithium, since there’s other costs associated with that, like environmental.