Apeman42

@Apeman42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s also responsible for all the awful Captain Proton episodes that I always skip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck that. Neelix was heart of Voyager. Someone had to remind them to live on their way back to their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just started Cubivore. It’s fascinatingly weird, deceptively simple at first, but I feel like there’s some complexity growing beneath the surface.

  You start as a weird little cubic pig, and you have this one square flap coming off the cube on a hinge that helps you move around, and a mouth. So you go around eating everything smaller than you. And the things your size you can take, you rip their meat flaps off (phrasing) and eat them to mutate. When you kill a boss, you get better meat that unlocks big abilities, and your pig gets to mate and die. Then you start playing as pig’s offspring, who now has an extra flap and more ways to mutate which put those flaps in configurations that make you better at running, evading, fighting, or defense.

  Also your pig does a lot of oddly philosophical ruminating between areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Hope Epstein was 2 Steps from Kevin Bacon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kevin Bacon? America’s most beloved invisible rapist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …how long are your fuckin showers, man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Picture hasn’t been updated since Lower Decks, it’s missing Agimus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kissing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, and GOG has both Grimrock games for a pittance right now. That miiiight be my whole weekend now.