Trail
@Trail@lemmy.world
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
If the earth would be accelerating towards you, then g would be less than 9.81.
Think of free falling, where your experienced g would be 0.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Could have started with lead directly. Why go the extra mile.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
Aren’t all sprites prerendered? What is the alternative, hand drawn ones? That would go waaay back…
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
I am not sure prerendered describes ja2 and fallout (some of the best games tbh). Aren’t those just sprites?
The rest I have not played.
- Comment on Deadlock cheaters are being turned into frogs as players get chance to vote on their fate 1 month ago:
Yes but what kind of frogs? Ice frogs?
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
You’d have died either way most likely. Git gud.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
Slice and dice is similarly fun.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
Sorry, the greatest Rpg remains planescape Torment.
- Comment on How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy? 2 months ago:
Well, technically no one is stopping you.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Well, OP could always play BG1 and BG2 which are still two of the greatest games ever.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Path of exile is superior.
- Comment on Why do I need to update my graphics drivers? 3 months ago:
Does this on my work computer by waking from sleep occasionally. I want to hit it with a brick. Can’t change any settings due to policy configurations or shit.
- Comment on Geography 101 3 months ago:
In Greek as well.
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 4 months ago:
Curious why you don’t just ask your wife.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Well, not harder. Impossible. That’s my gripe.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Are you on windows 11?
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Your argument sounds OK, but is probably stuck a bunch of years in the past. I observe the opposite lately.
Like I want to do something trivial on windows, like move the fucking taskbar on the left side of the screen, I have spent time searching and it still does not work. At lest on Linux if something does not work you have a leg to work on and a community to help. Have you seen the windows forums when encountering an issue? It’s tragic.
- Comment on Kami 4 months ago:
I still chuckle years ago later with a skit from Trick: zou no zou no zou (elephant shaped statue).
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 6 months ago:
Shoe on head.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 8 months ago:
It’s very similar in some ways in the surface, but pretty different in essence. I like both. STS is more hardcore and “strict” and choices matter more, MT is more chill, relying on a single good combo usually, but with very high ceiling for broken fun things. I prefer MT more to unwind.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 8 months ago:
Slay the Spire but no Monster Train?
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 9 months ago:
Eeeh… I mean…
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Well, until you start understanding the game mechanics, you can follow a build guide.
I do not, and I roll my own builds, and I will say they are generally quite successful. I can get ideas from guides, or other builds on poe.ninja, but then I still research and adjust to my liking, budget, and playstyle.
Rolling a build is more than half of the game for me, and I spend a lot of time tuning and testing.
So yeah I’d say there are several layers to playing PoE:
- Playing the campaign and a few maps casually without looking something up. It is still a great experience to discover things and the complexity at your own pace. You won’t get to do the true endgame though, but it is an experience you can have only once, so I would personally recommend to go through it and see how you like it.
- Go with a well described build by someone else. You can reach the endgame, learn how the game works, how the mechanics work, how the market works, how farming works, and lots more things.
- Start rolling your own build. It’s like switching games at this point, theorycrafting a build is the true game, and POE is just a frontend for testing your build. And it feels awesome when you succeed and complete something you can call your own and see it do well. And it is iterative, you learn how building a character works so that you can do even cooler things next time.
- And also do achievent/challenge hunting.
I’ve only followed a build once. And it was fun. Then I rolled my own, and it was more fun for different reasons.
But definitely needs a lot of time investment long term. It should probably take a couple of years for you to be able to claim you know what you are doing. But thankfully, the game respects you and does not demand your immediate time investment. You can play at you own pace. I have work and family, I play for a couple of hours every few days mostly. And it is fine. No one is pressuring me with daily quests and shit like that. I play because I feel like playing. I pause and play other games no problem, depending on my mood. It’s great.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
The newest path of exile build with my newest custom build.
- Comment on The Game Awards 2023 fell short of honoring its own industry 11 months ago:
Only reason I cared about it was the one in a gazillion chance to get a free steam deck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Good.
- Comment on *screams exestentially* 1 year ago:
Well said. He sounds like a smart fellow.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
I mean it’s not clickbait, thought, it’s exactly what’s happening, isn’t it? And it is rage inducing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Well I had played the shit out of Formula 1 '97. Especially when I later got an actual 3d card, Voodoo 3 Banshee, which rocked. With a cyrix 166mhz.
- Comment on YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge 1 year ago:
Huh, what is the issue? Been working fine for me for years.