SolOrion
@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
The Halo 3: ODST OST is so good, man.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Hades, although I refuse to call it a “patient gamer” game
Why? It’s 6 years old at this point so I think it qualifies.
- Comment on How it feels to be a high-level necromancer in Grim Dawn 1 week ago:
Following Iron Lore Entertainment’s failure to secure funding for its next project, former members of Iron Lore announced they had created a new company on February 18, 2008.
The first paragraph of their wiki page.
- Comment on Is lemmy really any different from reddit? 2 weeks ago:
and more political just in general, actually
Yeah, that’s pretty much the only part of Lemmy I don’t like. It feels drastically more political than Reddit did. I didn’t even know what the hell a tankie was before I joined Lemmy.
- Comment on What is the issued between the band Thrice and Google 2 weeks ago:
Who knows?
This stuff just happens sometimes.
I remember Tokyo by Imagine Dragons wasn’t available on Spotify for a few years. No clue why, but it just reappeared one day.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
TIL. That’s actually really cool info!
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
Double up. Assert dominance. Demand to be referred to as ‘Mister Doctor’. Hmm… ‘Doctor Mister’? I think I like Mr. Dr. better.
- Comment on Is my reaction weird? 3 weeks ago:
Boners are largely age dependent. I remember in high school I got random boners all the time and anything could trigger them.
100%. I remember sometimes they’d happen in Church of all places. No clue what happened. Tip for anyone with this problem currently: flex your legs hard and repeatedly. Always worked for me.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever bought games on eneba? 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s possible. It’s not incredibly likely, though, I’ve bought maybe six or seven games from key sites like that over the years and I’ve not been banned.
Just keep in mind that if the price is too good to be true it probably is- be really wary of any keys that are below the historical low for whatever game you’re buying.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
There’s not, maybe that’s what he means by ‘in a way’?
Great games, highly recommend them. Not sure they really fit the trope, though.
- Comment on How do people make and save kaomoji art? 1 month ago:
ChtGT
I’ve not seen someone censor that yet and I was confused asf lol
- Comment on Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops? 1 month ago:
Yes, but that would just make them a biased source. Not an entirely useless one.
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
He can travel as a proper national leader to all the places he wants to travel
Unless he wants to travel to a place willing to enforce the ICC’s arrest warrant. Afaik he’s only been to Mongolia and South Africa since the warrant was issued, and both were criticized pretty heavily for not enforcing it.
Realistically, he’s not going anywhere that even might arrest him.
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
Legitimacy.
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
Because A: putting a bounty on the leader of a nuclear power is drastically different from the leader of a… terrorist rebel organization(I’m not entirely sure what to call al qaeda).
And because B: it would change basically nothing. Putin already can’t travel in most places internationally because there’s an ICC warrant out on him for war crimes. The bounty isn’t going to be relevant in Russia or allied places, and it’s not going to be much of a motivator to an entire government.
- Comment on Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? 1 month ago:
I don’t personally use this feature, so I don’t honestly know if this would solve your problem, but there’s a firefox addon that might add the functionality you’re wanting.
If it doesn’t, then this issue
except that links clicked from within them will open in Chrome intead of FF, which makes for a confusing experience.
could possibly be solved with a chrome extension
- Comment on Civilization VI: Just another knowledge check 4X game 1 month ago:
To elaborate further on grand strategy games, pretty much all Paradox games can be played… sort of cooperatively?
Generally the maps are large enough that you can kind of just pick your corners and only rarely interact.
In a single game of Europa Universalis 4 one player might conquer all of Asia, while another consolidates Europe and a third player is in Africa. You can’t generally actually disable PvP, you can just not go to war. Same is true for Crusader Kings 2/3, and Stellaris. You can coexist and mutually stay out of each others way while possibly helping each other out.
Also, I’d add some of the survival crafting/sandbox titles to the list of stuff you can play cooperatively. They don’t all work for it, but some of them are definitely friendly to a coop group play style. 7 Days To Die works brilliantly like that, though it will be absolutely trivial with multiple players unless you turn the difficulty up. Ark: Survival Evolved can be pretty fun coop (especially with the Primal Fear mod- you will need friends.)
- Comment on Civilization VI: Just another knowledge check 4X game 1 month ago:
OP seems to want a very competitively focused tightly balanced experience, and Stellaris is absolutely anything but that. I enjoy the game, it’s fun, but I can’t imagine anyone considering it to be particularly balanced or enjoyable as a PvP/Versus experience.
- Comment on Civilization VI: Just another knowledge check 4X game 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen some specify that they want different second person pronouns, but hey new things every day.
- Comment on Civilization VI: Just another knowledge check 4X game 1 month ago:
I’ve sort of generally moved over to coop games in general nowadays.
Or even if I’m playing something that’s a versus sort of multiplayer- like Civ- I just don’t really care about winning. I’m there for the journey, not the destination.
- Comment on Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community? 1 month ago:
I greatly appreciate your old man mode. Sounds like a fantastic job.
- Comment on Does leaving a single board computer caseless can be a problem or not? 1 month ago:
Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink.
They still make passive heatsinks that work, but they’re fuckin massive and not incredibly effective compared to just… putting a quiet fan on it.
- Comment on Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community? 1 month ago:
it can be used separate from a “flame”, which is a term for the very flamboyant gay men regardless of their presentation or physical appearance.
TIL. I’ve heard people being called, usually in a derogatory way, “flamers” or “flaming” but never just “flame”, nor did I understand the context.
The ones that would travel for shows carried all the news and culture with them, like fabulous bards.
So just your average bard, then?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I can explain a few terms, if you’re interested. I’m simplifying so nobody murder me:
Retroarch is basically a program that lets you emulate (basically make your computer mimic a console to play the games from it) a bunch of different videogame consoles. Mostly old ones, but some newer things like the Switch.
Shaders are complicated to ELI5 but it’s easiest to think of them as a filter you can apply to a videogame in real time, like you would apply a filter to a photo or something. You can get some absolutely crazy effects with filters- generally the simpler the game the more shaders will accomplish.
He’s basically just asking if shaders for old games intended to make things look more like a CRT- those old, gigantic tube TVs- are just nostalgia bait or if they actually make things look better.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I remember I had a CRT as a kid that had the deepest button press to turn on. It felt like it was a whole 3 inches of travel- realistically I’m just remembering it like that cuz I was 8- but that was the best button. You could feel it actuate at the end, and even hear it. And CRTs had a presence about them. In hindsight, I was probably just hearing the whine and didn’t realize it.
Idk CRTs had their own vibe. Objectively, the crazy resolutions and crisp screens we have todays are better but in some less definable ways they feel lesser.
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 1 month ago:
Agreed completely. I have an S23 rn, but my previous phone was a mid-tier android with a fingerprint reader on the back. My natural resting grip on my phone would just unlock the thing. It was amazing. My current phone is a clear upgrade in every way except the fingerprint reader. My new one has it in the screen and I fuckin hate it.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
There’s definitely memorization, but there’s just a ton of tricks that aren’t explicitly memorizing the images themselves.
They can sometimes narrow down the area based on the car that’s taking the images, or how wide the lens is. Things like that. If they see a red toyota corolla is the car taking the photos- which they can tell based on the mirrors appearing- they know it’s specifically mainland malaysia.
Very small context based clues a lot of the time.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
Like the other guy said, it’s street view.
With that said, road patterns are a solid chunk of what the really good players are looking for/at. There’s definitely more to it than that, but because of the nature of the game there’s almost literally always a road in view.
- Comment on Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA? 1 month ago:
It’s 100% not about crowdsourcing. Idk how that even makes sense- do you know what Geoguessr is?
There’s some people that are absolutely cracked at geoguessr. Rainbolt, for example.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I’ve never really been on 4chan for any length, but I remember some of their greatest hits- managing to almost win a contest to name the next mtn dew flavor ‘hitler did nothing wrong’, or that one time they got Taylor Swift to do a show at a school for the deaf.
Kinda edgy, extremely amusing.