JigglySackles
@JigglySackles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 3 days ago:
Someone please think of the shareholders!!!
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 days ago:
Lol hard to beat free
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 days ago:
QNAP still seems OK, but avoid synology. They are always working on some end hit to fixation scheme.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 5 days ago:
Yeah I’m not looking forward to that part either. I’m working on getting rid of all my services first, but that’s next on the list.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 days ago:
For sure. I don’t care to get in on early access too often.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 days ago:
Really? Were they the later games? I grew up with the NES ones.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 days ago:
I get it. I’ve seen some on here that make no sense to me as metroidvanias. But I think it might be generational. To me a metroidvania has to be 2D, because those are the kinds of metroid and castlevania games I grew up on.
Seeing suggestions for Batman Arkham games or Supraland (love both series) is a weird suggestion to me because I see those as action and puzzle platformer respectively. But for people growing up with 3D Metroid etc. I can see why they’d classify it that way, even though I think the series changed away from the classic metroidvania genre at that point and into more action or action platformer.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 days ago:
I was scrolling looking for this one too! Really excellent game. I’ve been enjoying it and it scratches my metroid itch better than what most people are listing off.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 days ago:
Ayyyy plus one on both Carrion and Supraland! Loved both of those. I can’t wait to get the latest Surpaland game (Supraworld iirc?). Such a fun puzzle platformer.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 5 days ago:
Yeah the only things I have a google account for are YouTube and the play store. And the play store is getting less use now that I have moved to Graphene. So nothing core to my life thankfully. Now if I can get my MS utilization down to that I will be feeling pretty good.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 5 days ago:
It’s really frustrating to me how enmeshed the big three are in our daily lives. And how difficult it can be to fully cleave from them.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 6 days ago:
Lol no arch for me just yet and esp no beta arch lmao. I’m working through my computers and devices at the moment. I have liked Zorin so far and have it on two laptops. I also swapped a fire tablet to lineage last week and I just replaced my phone and got a pixel and installed Graphene as well. I’m getting there. Just have my last laptop and my desktop to migrate. I’m putting off my desktop until I can migrate off a couple services. Also because I know it’ll be a major biiiiiitch. I have so many tools lol
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 6 days ago:
Glad I never invested into gmail as an email platform. I have gmail only as part of my google accounts.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 6 days ago:
I’m so glad I blocked all the updates from MS on mydesktopm. It’s a nice stop gap until I get moved to linux
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 weeks ago:
Fuckin lunatics.
- Comment on Low cost continuous fiber 3D printer 3 weeks ago:
Aaaaaaand, I’m out. Seesh that’s insane.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t seem popular here, but I like TinkerCAD quite a bit. It’s really intuitive if you are good with shapes and you can make detailed and fairly precise models with it without much issue. I’ve made around 20 models in it at this point, some of which I’ve made public. If you want to just learn one program that will carry you into the deep end, I’d probably point you to freeCAD just because autodesk can be dickheads and aren’t above pulling the rug out from under you.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 weeks ago:
I think that all comes down to how the travel, visual appeal, and POIs are handled. As well as a personal interest in the gameplay loop. The following are my general opinions on a few games for why I think they do or do not work.
Daggerfall would be way too big, because the POIs are few and far between and there is no visual interest between, but it worked because it had fast travel.
Each of the successive TES games had more visual interest to them and wel spaced POIs and I spent a lot of time walking on first playthroughs without fast traveling anywhere.
Similarly No Man’s Sky could seem too big at first blush, but if you like the gameplay loop it’s infinitely fascinating. For anyone wanting to move further in it’s also helpful that there are gates to help make large jumps, without them being a requirement to enjoy things.
Cyberpunk 2077 was very visually interesting and had a ton of POIs and was fun to traverse on foot and in a vehicle. I thought the size was fantastic on my first two playthroughs. The third time the badlands areas got a little frustrating though.
Stalker and Stalker 2, are very fun to traverse by foot for me despite being very large. They are visually very interesting, especially 2. There are plenty of things you can stumble on and explore. In fact on my first playthrough of Stalker 2, I didn’t even realize it had a fast travel option for over 60 hours because I didn’t feel the need to look for one to use. Loved the huge size of those.
WoW was horribly oversized, as are many MMOs. WoW was(and imo still is despite many upgrades since I played, just not a fan of toony looking games) completely uninteresting visually, had no “on the way” POIs and had no motivation to look around. Long travel was a chore on top of a burdensome gameplay loop. I hated WoWs size. It felt big just because it would take people longer to play. I can’t express how fucking boring it was to me. And exploring had zero reward. I remember wandering into the water and swimming for like 30 minites to get behind some massive tree or something (all I remember was it was a brown gradient that’s how dull the visuals were) and I get behind it and there was fuckall. That was the last time I played I think. More brown gradient and uninteresting light blue water gradient stretched off into a foggy white gradient. Fucking hated WoW but especially its size. MMOs like that are the equivalent of having a rail shooter that’s more train ride simulator than shooter. It works for other people, I just couldn’t stand it.
Outward is a fantastic game but it’s world feels a little too big sometimes. I don’t really enjoy wandering it that much even though I enjoyed the game on the whole. Just felt I got to the point of sprinting from one objective to the next because I was tired of traversing the map.
So it’s really game dependant imo. If they nail some key aspects, size doesn’t seem to matter.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 3 weeks ago:
Nice, that’s how it should be.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 3 weeks ago:
It was, I didn’t stay there long. That one thing was one of many things indicative of a bad employer.That’s good that your employer treats you fairly though.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 3 weeks ago:
All the more reason to fall back and never spring forward again.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 3 weeks ago:
I hated that when I did overnights. I didn’t even get compensation for the extra hour of work.
- Comment on PRUSA releases the OpenPrintTag, open source standard for filament spool identification and data tracking 3 weeks ago:
Nice! I’m excited!
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 4 weeks ago:
Fuckin hell, thought this shit had finally gone away in the 00s. It’s the 90s all over again. 🙄
- Comment on Supercharger pulley 4 weeks ago:
Oh thank fuck. Solid looking print though! This is fantastic use for 3d printing.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
Signal would need to pay for multi region redundancy and build a programmatic way of swapping regions when their primary region is down.
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 weeks ago:
I used some software they gave out, but otherwise I sit on the horde like a digital dragon.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 4 weeks ago:
I hate zealots. Fuckin religious twats trying to ruin it for everyone else.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 weeks ago:
Truthfully I haven’t gotten a chance to use an 8k screen, so my statement is more hypothetical “I can see a possible benefit”.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 weeks ago:
For media I highly agree. 8k doesn’t seem to add much. For computer screens I can see the purpose though as it adds more screen real estate which is hard to get enough of for some of us. I’d love to have multiple 8k screens so I can organize and spread out my work.