SolOrion
@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Where should I ask for help deleting an account for a Japanese website? 1 day ago:
I just couldn’t think of any other reason you’d care.
- Comment on Where should I ask for help deleting an account for a Japanese website? 1 day ago:
Yeah, just leave it. If the issue is that they keep sending you emails, redirect them to your spam/trash. Done.
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 2 days ago:
SoD2 is a solid game! I wouldn’t describe it as amazing, but it’s pretty unique and scratches a particular itch.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 5 days ago:
Honestly, they’re all at least decent. Which one is the best will vary drastically from person to person. Personally, I liked 1 the most. 2 was decent. 3 was… playable, but with some extreme flaws. 3 is the only one I never finished.
- Comment on "Hacked" Instagram 1 month ago:
Meanwhile my main email account has started getting “WALMART.WIN.CONFIRMATION PLEASE REPLY TO LOCK IN YOUR NEW IPAD” emails from a4c9z4jskp8e8_a4c9tgz4jskp@cardci.de about once a week. Just… in my main fuckin inbox.
It’s frustrating because it’s so obviously spam.
- Comment on Does it seem odd to track my lifespan? 1 month ago:
“It just started saying ‘yikes’ like five years back.”
- Comment on 9 years later, I finally played fallout 4 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s the part that confused me. Skyrim’s enchantment system is just it’s enchantment system. It’s not as… exclusive as Fallout 4’s legendary system. I think that’s what makes it distinct in my mind. I definitely see what you mean.
a deathclaw is a deathclaw.
Fallout 3, sure, but with New Vegas? Not really. There’s plenty of places you can go and then decide whether you’re making friends or enemies. You can interact with them, and then decide if you want them dead or not. There’s definitely some places where- like you said- a deathclaw is a deathclaw, but there’s also plenty of exceptions.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders? 1 month ago:
Ooh, thanks. I’ll check it out!
- Comment on 9 years later, I finally played fallout 4 1 month ago:
The legendary system isn’t transplanted from Elder Scrolls, is it?
Unless you’re saying legendary weapons = enchanted weapons I have no clue what you mean. If that is what you mean, that’s a weird take but I guess I see it.
Also it’s your take on the world feeling more large scale and alive is extremely interesting because I would’ve said the direct opposite. Fallout 4 feels incredibly dead to me. There’s enemies, sure, but they don’t exist past being targets for me to destroy so that I can loot them and whatever structure they’re functionally just guarding. I can’t really influence most of them past killing them and putting the Minutemen there instead. Fallout 4 feels too much like I was dropped in a sandbox.
Fallout 4 is a good game. I’d go as far as to call it great if you just ignore that there’s a main story. It feels like the devs wanted to make a looter shooter, but they got told they had to make a Fallout game with RPG mechanics. So they absolutely half-assed all the RPG parts.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders? 1 month ago:
I’m really very much not a City builder guy so grain of salt here: I really enjoyed Banished.
I dislike the scale of other games- in stuff like Cities Skylines I tend to get overwhelmed by how much is going on and everything I need to make work together. So I guess it makes sense that I prefer a village builder over a city builder lol
- Comment on Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? 1 month ago:
I have pretty much the direct opposite experience so it was the first thing that came to mind- I started with Rome 2 and couldn’t run it at the time lol.
- Comment on Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? 1 month ago:
It requires a special type of insanity to learn, but the rewards are WELL worth it.
That’s very accurate. I’m not that guy, I tried lol.
- Comment on Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? 1 month ago:
The more modern Total War games are pretty hard to run, so keep that in mind OP. If you still have Windows 7 Total War Three Kingdoms or the Total War Warhammer games are going to laugh at you. That said, anything before Shogun 2 is likely to run on anything made post-2010.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
is it true that you have to pay to receive calls in the US?
I’m not certain what you’re asking. Are you asking if someone can call you and make you pay for it? Not that I’ve ever seen. With the exception of jails/prisons- inmates can collect call you. I imagine it’s a thing in other contexts, but not that I’ve ever experienced.
Generally, ime pretty much everyone has unlimited calls and texts these days. It’s pretty dirt cheap. Data is much more expensive and limited.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
There’s literally like four places with free wifi in my entire town. Most of the restaurants don’t have it, and we only have two hotels… neither of which has properly free wifi- you have to get a room to use it.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
Free as in: unlimited calls and texts are included in pretty much all but the most bargain bin plans nowadays.
I was looking for a new cell provider a couple months ago, and I honestly don’t recall even seeing a plan that didn’t come with unlimited talk and text.
- Comment on US foreign aid package: how is it financed? 2 months ago:
Debt for governments doesn’t really work like debt for people. The vast majority of it is owed either to the US government, or individuals/companies in the US.
It’s generally treated like a low-yield extremely safe investment. You can absolutely count on a US government bond being paid on time, every time. If the US starts defaulting on debts like that, it’s a safe assumption that the entire economy has gone to shit a long time ago. Which means it’s good for everyone.
- Comment on Now that Deus Ex has been cancelled, what other games scratch the Deus Ex itch? 4 months ago:
It’s pretty great.
- Comment on Now that Deus Ex has been cancelled, what other games scratch the Deus Ex itch? 4 months ago:
Dishonored is 2012. I’ve got absolutely nothing.
Honestly I think Prey fits the request closer than Dishonored but that was released in 2017 so it’s waaaay outta scope.
- Comment on How do conspiracy theorists get all of their coveted secret government information if it's meant to be hidden and the government would never hand it over? 4 months ago:
Hell, warthunder has had like 7 leaks now?
It’s double digits now- like 12 or 13. It’s absolutely hilarious.
- Comment on Suggest me some games overlooked on PS3 platform (±emulation) 4 months ago:
I mostly used my PS3 to play PS2 games honestly. That is, amusingly, also the main thing I use RPCS3 for.
I pretty much keep the Jak and Daxter collection, and the Sly Collection on my PC 24/7.
- Comment on If a question is downvoted on !nostupidquestions, is the question too stupid or was it not stupid enough? 4 months ago:
Either option is viable. Depends on the question. Usually things are either downvoted because it’s too stupid to be a legitimate question and it’s clearly just someone being inflammatory, or it’s a question that, while arguably stupid, doesn’t really fit with the idea of the community.
“What are your thoughts on photosynthesis” is a post that’s -2 right now. It’s probably getting downvoted because it’s just a fucking question. It’s kinda stupid, but only in the sense that I have no clue what they’re wanting to hear about photosynthesis. It doesn’t fit the community. Goddamnit I still instinctively type subreddit. It would work better for a general discussion community.
Sometimes there’s a rare question that’s actually incredibly stupid and clearly not someone trolling, but they give zero further information. Like “Could time start moving faster due to climate change?” How do you answer something like that without knowing how the hell they came to that conclusion? “No.” isn’t exactly a satisfying response, but it’s pretty much the only one you’ve got.
Hell, your question isn’t a particularly great example of a ‘no stupid questions’ question. It’s really more of a shower thought.
- Comment on Which is less religious: Xmas or Christmas? 5 months ago:
Kinda my take on it.
The only aspect of Christmas that’s inherently Christian is the fact that it has ‘Christ’ in the name.
When I was young it was a bit different- we’d pray on Christmas, have a themed tree, a little nativity scene setup. That sort of thing. I don’t do that anymore. Christmas is as religious to me as Valentines day, my birthday, Saint Patrick’s day, and Thanksgiving. It’s more a cultural event than a religious one, is what I’m getting at.
- Comment on Commissioning a Board Game Table, What Should I Look Out For? 5 months ago:
I definitely agree- this isn’t ‘nostupidquestions’ it’s just ‘random questions’. Maybe the mods should be a bit more strict and redirect people to an asklemmy community? idk if that exists, though, which is possibly part of the problem.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
They’re inherently louder. But they’re not always inherently loud. There’s a lot of different switch types, and some are loud on purpose. So if you get a keyboard with blue switches they’re going to be loud because they’re specifically intended to be both tactile(you feel a ‘bump’ when the key activates) and loud (you hear a click when the key activates).
Personally I like tactile keys, but I absolutely hate loud keyboards. So I have brown switches- they have the tactile ‘bump’ that I like the feel of, but they’re not obnoxiously loud.
You can also go with red switches, and those are just straight up-down switches. No bump, no click. They’re generally the quietest common switch, especially if you’re not whaling on them. “Silent” switches also exist, but I have no experience with them.
Note: I’m not crazy into mechanical keyboards. I just did a bit of research before I bought one awhile back. So… grain of salt and all.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
God that movie was creepy. That bear was downright horrifying.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
The page still loads behind it, usually, there’s just a popup keeping you from accessing it. So I don’t see how they could stop you from just… removing the popup.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
I don’t engage socially in random Discord servers, I’m almost certainly just there for an FAQ, to ask a question, or to use Discord’s- pretty decent- search function to find someone who’s had whatever issue I’m having before.
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 6 months ago:
Gone Home was good, yes!
I feel like it generates way more of a spooky atmosphere, too. I honestly thought I was playing a horror game for the first half, before I finally realized it wasn’t
In a similar vein, The Suicide Of Rachel Foster is a decent experience. It’s not nearly as good, to be clear, but it’s worth playing imo. It’s much creepier, however.
- Comment on Best games that can be completed in under ten hours? 6 months ago:
I don’t think anyone else has mentioned Gunpoint! So… Gunpoint.