Apeman42
@Apeman42@lemmy.world
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
I can’t quite tell from the trailer if it’s what they’re doing, and unfortunately I can’t find the video about this that I watched recently, but I wonder if they’re talking about “animating on 2s”? It’s a technique where the character’s animation only changes every other frame, which gives an effect that’s just slightly choppy but pleasing to a lot of people. It’s how they animated the Spider-verse movie.
- Comment on The witch from Hansel and Gretel is the only person that's allowed to say "Home, sweet home." 2 days ago:
It does seem he lives at the factory. I think you’ve got a fair case here.
- Comment on Is it possible that none of this is real? 2 days ago:
God, I hope so. How bleak would it be if this were baseline reality?
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 3 days ago:
You’re right, of course. Indie devs with passion are still putting out some great stuff.
My ire was much more for the AAA studios, which seem to have tossed out all the talent and vision that brought them to the top.
I mean, I was Ride or Die with Square Enix for decades, when they were different companies. After 16, I think I’m just done with new Final Fantasy games altogether. Fuck you guys, imma go play 6, 8, and 9.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 3 days ago:
Not playing games, or not playing the current live service shovelware they keep pulling out?
Lots of people are realizing there were more quality games released between 1985 and 2015 than you could ever play in a lifetime. We don’t need new shit if it’s just gonna suck.
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 3 days ago:
I’ve been doing both!
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 3 days ago:
I never tried that one, but I also had a recent late-to-the-party “gaming as exercise” discovery: Beat Saber! I never gelled with rhythm games before I got a VR headset, but I’m really digging it, and it totally gets me sweating after a while.
- Comment on Coromon works really well on old TVs! 1 week ago:
OHHH, the Steam deck is reflecting the popcorn ceiling! I stared so long wondering what kind of weird textured opaque screen cover that was.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 1 week ago:
I adore 7. It had just the right balance of memorable party members, but the absolute flexibility of the job system. It is VERY long, and somewhat slower paced than 8 (in the original PSX version anyway), but once it gets rolling it had a sense of wonder and excitement for me that none of the others quite matched.
Having never played the 3ds version, I’m not sure what’s different, but I imagine it’s closer to the original than the new reimagined is in terms of content. Personally, I’d say emulate the PSX version if you can, but I’d just really rather look at sprites than that era of 3d graphics. If you prefer those graphics, or it’s just substantially easier for you to play that version, go ahead. The point is you should definitely play it in some form or another.
- Comment on Dragon Quest VIII is so charming 1 week ago:
It gets darker and more serious with its plot, but I always found Breath of Fire to share some of the same charm as Dragon Quest for reasons I can’t quite quantify. 2 and 3 especially. 4 is also magnificent, but it’s something of a a stylistic departure from the previous ones.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
big radish
They’re called daikon.
- Comment on You can sing the words "it's on like Donkey Kong" to the Imperial March from Star Wars. 2 weeks ago:
You’re talking about “common metre”, and it also includes Amazing Grace, the Gilligan’s Island theme, House of the Rising Sun, Casey at the Bat, and the Lay of Nimrodel among many others.
You can swap any of the tunes and lyrics and they more or less work. One of my favorite music trivia things.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 2 weeks ago:
If this is widely adopted, I have enough emulators and classic PC games to never buy another game in my life and still be entertained the whole time. Good luck, corpo dipshits.
- Comment on We need libraries, but instead of books, you borrow musical instruments. 2 weeks ago:
My ideal “non-book library” would be a public woodshop with a Ron Swanson librarian figure to help people use the tools safely.
Woodworking seems so satisfying as both an art and a craft, but between the cost of materials, tools, and the space needed, I could never take up the hobby in the foreseeable future. But if I could go to a public workshop and use shared tools, just providing my own raw materials, the barrier to entry falls dramatically.
- Comment on Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together? 3 weeks ago:
I was about to hazard a guess that it hearkens back to Ray Harryhausen, but I rewatched the skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts, and I’m astounded that they apparently didn’t do it there.
- Comment on "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols 5 weeks ago:
…how long are your fuckin showers, man?
- Comment on Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show 5 weeks ago:
Picture hasn’t been updated since Lower Decks, it’s missing Agimus.
- Comment on Why is kissing? 1 month ago:
Lips and tongue are erogenous zones that you have fairly fine control over, and aside from feeling nice, pressing your face right up against someone else’s chompers is a sign of mutual vulnerability and trust.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
For the prices, or the access to things they don’t sell anymore? If I went to 1992 I think I could stock up on Ecto Cooler and TMNT pudding pies at the same time, maybe even Crystal Pepsi.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I played the intro campaign of Wildermyth, and not only is it great as the “fantasy XCOM” I was hoping for, but if you’re the type of person to headcanon little stories and relationships between your party in a tactics game, this game is for you.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse. 1 month ago:
Someone will come up with a strat to reroll into something obscure like a wood louse and farm so much positive karma with an exploit that it won’t matter how negative you were.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 month ago:
All the major character replacements on MASH were better than the characters they replaced. It’s not that I don’t like Burns and Blake, but Winchester and Potter were just so much more interesting. Trapper John was kind of a rapey creep even for the time, so there’s no question BJ was the winner there. Honestly as much as I love Radar, even Klinger taking over his position was an improvement. There was only so much more they could do with his Beaver Cleaver Goes to War shtick.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
Ooh, Wildermyth looks pretty tempting too…
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
I haven’t bought anything yet, but I’ve been compiling a short list of mostly DRPG games like the old Might and Magics that I’ve been playing, specifically ones that’ll work on the Deck nicely. It’s a genre I loved when I was younger that’s been rather missing from my modern collection.
- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord and/or
- Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls
- Legends of Amberland II
- Operencia: The Stolen Sun
- Songs of Conquest (not a DRPG, but a great-looking spiritual successor to Heroes of Might and Magic 3.)
And then on GoG, I might pick up a few real old ones, like Lands of Lore and/or Wizards & Warriors, but I don’t think those will be good for steam deck even through Heroic.
- Comment on I sometimes can't sleep at night. Perhaps my brain's "CMOS Chip" battery ran out and my circadian rhythm defaulted to my "factory settings" of Beijing Time (UTC +8), which would explain my insomnia. 2 months ago:
I feel like for a lot of us, the 24 hour day does not align with our natural rhythm. Since working from home for a few years, I found that a 26-hour day fits better for me. I’d fit in great on DS9.
- Comment on Anyone a fan of Wizardry, or other first-person dungeon crawlers? 2 months ago:
Oh, and GOG has both Grimrock games for a pittance right now. That miiiight be my whole weekend now.
- Comment on Anyone a fan of Wizardry, or other first-person dungeon crawlers? 2 months ago:
Ooh, I’m really digging the art style on Grimrock. It’s very reminiscent of the weird-looking old games, but so charming and slick about it.
Weepstone also looks fantastic, like playing an AD&D sourcebook. Will definitely be trying that demo this weekend.
- Submitted 2 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 15 comments
- 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 months ago:
His parents were just massive fans of Klinger from MASH.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s Earth’s shtick. People think it’s pluck or determination, but no. It’s near-universal fuckability.