De_Narm

@De_Narm@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea exam sees record number of re-takes after medical reforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed as much, but had hoped for a less disgusting reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea exam sees record number of re-takes after medical reforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you protest this change? 0.015% is still insane and it takes nothing from the ones away who already made it.

  I’m really glad I wasn’t born into one of the hypercompetitive asian education systems, but on the other hand, I’m not sure the degrading western education systems I was born in are better. A happy middle ground would be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who am I?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t name a single street in the city I’ve been born in except the ones I lived in. I’ve learned to navigate the city before I could read and never bothered to read street names thereafter.

  The same goes for every other city, my mental map of cities includes almost no street names. Maybe that’s because I don’t use cars at all, after all I could name bus stations and such (some of which are named after streets, I guess, but I’ve still got no idea about how they connect or even which street of an intersection actually has the name).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch. It.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the anime isn’t even good. Like, I’m still reading the manga, but I had to stop watching the anime something like 10 years ago.

  I’ve heard it has gotten better since then, but watching the whole thing still includes years worth of episodes so thinly streched you could probably watch every third one without missing anything. And that’s on top of arcs so long, they are even a slog to read through (Dressrosa and Wano).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lore Of Disturbing Human-Pokémon Relationships & Hybrid Offspring Come To Light In Recent Game Freak Leaks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing the hackers are releasing both actual and fake leaks, just to get attention. Do some damage until GF gives in to his demands, wich I presume they made.

  Just don’t believe anything that could easily be made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First, it’s NEVER right for a person or group of people, regardless of position or occupation, to wish for a company’s death.

  I disagree on a fundamental level. I stopped reading shortly after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamer philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite easy, actually. I usually play everything years after release, however, if I’m really into a certain series, I’ll buy it right away. If I don’t care for the wait, I probably don’t care enough about whether or not a sequel is being made.

  Of course that only works if you don’t get hyped easily. I play a lot of games, but usually only 1-2 per year are released within said year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, there is no instance matching my interests. There are a number of communities across different instances, but it seems like several people tried to make their own, didn’t interact with each other and all of them are long dead.

  Once I find such an instance, I’ll switch over. I’ve been meaning to leave .world anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I do agree with the problems identified, I can’t help but think they also made forums a lot better. Due to the lower discoverability and higher effort to actually join communities felt more personal. You interacted with smaller groups and came to know specific people. I still have friends from back then.

  On larger platforms, I never had that. Even lemmy, which is small in comparison has enough people that I barely even think about specific users. Let alone speak with them on a personal level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because people liked the idea so much with FF7? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the sake of adding something new, X is pareto optimal in terms of having both the best and the fewest games.

  • Xenogears
  • Xenosaga (maybe, haven’t played it yet)
  • Xenoblade anything
  • X-COM anything

  I’d probably be content with only playing games from the Xeno- meta-series alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything Dragon Quest needs to be on the list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day -6 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite loving the genre overall, I bounced off KoA multiple times. Maybe it’s time to give it yet another go. I just wasn’t in the mood for MMORPGS - which the IP should have become iirc -, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about random encounters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come around to really liking them. In short, they vastly improve dungeons in my opinion.

  Most RPGs don’t manage to create interesting battles outside of boss fights. Heck, an increasing amount of RPGs fails to create any kind of challange. However, random encounter can add another layer to dungeons: resource management. You have to plan out how to tackle fights in order to get through the dungeons with your limited items/MP - do you sacrifice more HP or do you go for your strongest attacks? How much exploration can you get in? Do you need to be extra careful and plan for stronger rare encounters? Maybe even plan around lvl up healing.

  Sadly, this layer is easily removed. Overworld encounter? Just dodge everything. Adjustable encounter? Grind just enough, go heal and disable encounter. Non-challanging fight? Just use basic attacks. Healing stations? No need to plan anymore. Ideally, the dungeons provides no healing at all - especially not before encountering the boss.

  If you’re interested in a game with great dungeons, I’d recommend every single Etrian Odyssey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for a reason to get a PS5 at all, everything I’ve been interested still got released on PS4 too - except for one single game.

  I really don’t care for better specs anymore, I probably couldn’t even tell PS4 and PS5 games apart without a side-by-side comparison. Not to mention, to see a difference at all I’d need a new TV on top of the console. Not gonna happen anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They very much are for a lot of people. Lines goes up, you can give yourself a nice bonus payout and if things come crashing down you leave. With your golden parachute of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, basically yes to every question. Those all amount to waste and that is always a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat less pizza then instead of wasting food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I surrender, this time around I didn’t even know you could shorten William to Bill. Next up someone’s telling me Donald is short for Ottobertifurz - honoring his fake german roots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew that Joe could be short for Joseph, it just never occured to me you guys would address the president of all people with a short form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the post I found out he’s not literally named ‘Joe’. Would be even more embarassing if I was american, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming back to a western open world game H:FW after Elden Ring is a massive whiplash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar experience of first finishing the DLC and then going into God of War (2018). While not open world, it’s the same type of AAA soup you get from most big studios. There are so many baffling design decisions, I cannot fathom why people love the game so much - the constant barrage of stories and small talk is the most engaging thing in there.

  The combat is utterly boring. Increasing the difficulty only results in spongy enemies. Their move sets are boring at best and annoying at worst. They are all but helpless if you just keep them at a distance and throw your axe.

  Upgrades are meaningless. Early on, you unlock a smith. I got my axe from 5 to 40 damage. Guess what? The very next enemy took the same amount of hits as the same type of enemy did before.

  Traversing is mechanically boring. Climbing just means you gotta follow the yellow markings - press in the right direction or do the indicated button press. You literally cannot fall. Everything else is just walking from combat area to combat area.

  The game throws an endless barrage of puzzles at you, none of which are engaging. They are so watered down, there’s barely much more thinking involved than in climbing.

  Even worse, major upgrades are placed in “puzzle” chests. The puzzle? Well, just walk around and rotate your camera for several minutes until you’ve found all three runes.

  The game basically just feels like a very long cutscene with a lot of padding so you can press some buttons. You can play it just fine, but they removed everything that could make any one system interesting in favor of having nothing in there a player could be stuck at. I like the characters, but I’m better served just watching a cutscene compilation for the second one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday in Kroger (a supermarket for you non-Americans) I saw a bunch of cans of potato salad. Why would someone buy canned potato salad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived in both regions and both versions are strictly inferior to a potatoe salad based on mustard (+ oil and broth). The vinegar version uses a bit of mustard, but I’m speaking of mustard being the main ingredient. Naturally, I’m hated by both sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GBA-Style JRPG 'Tako no Himitsu' Has Golden Sun And Terranigma Staff Involved⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t play any Zelda title on the GBA, but those could work due to their puzzle focus. However, even fully combat oriented games couldn’t really do much more than Zelda did in terms of their combat system, which ended up being quite dull.

  I kind of liked the Legacy of Goku series, just because I like Dragon Ball and because level ups made a huge difference. The battle system wasn’t anything special, but it was satisfying to just grind a bit and afterwards demolishing anything in your path - just repeat this in any given new area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GBA-Style JRPG 'Tako no Himitsu' Has Golden Sun And Terranigma Staff Involved⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was fully on board with it until I looked at the screenshots. Don’t get me wrong, it is gorgeous. But it’s an action RPG, something the GBA usually didn’t succeed in. I waa hoping for something turn based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bravely Default 3DS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The story gets amazing, too! It’s one of my favorite games on the system and the best on in its own series. Although, I’d also recommend Bravely Second and Bravely Default 2. Second is a story sequel, BD2 is stand-alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this house we share the bananas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I vaguely remember reading about monkeys teaming up and beating others to death if they hoard too much ‘wealth’. If that’s actually true the meme is still kind of true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for checking! I’ll keep an eye on it and may give it a try with the option enabled. I honestly never even checked whether or not Hades I has something like this, maybe I should do that do - I’m still a bit bothered I had to stop after only 4 successful runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get a wide variety of both sliced and unsliced loaves in pretty much every supermarket in my area. The ultra-processed american type bread is something else entirely and it’s also a pretty bad idea too, like pretty much all ultra-processed foods. Can that stuff even get stale? I remember it staying exactly the same up until it grows mold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think sliced bread is overrated as fuck. It used to be nice back when people couldn’t just buy knives for cheap, but nowadays it just means getting stale bread faster.