Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 day ago:
The “every single American is culpable and therefore my bigotry is excused” energy is getting wild.
- Comment on Disturbed 1 day ago:
DEVO covering (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is way up there for me. Loses the fuzzy guitar but the lyrics land better as an odd punk song than the whining of one of the biggest rock acts in the world.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 week ago:
That part is like only like five fights against humans and robots, the only tricky part is the kicky robots will ruin you if you save them for last. And you’ve been without Yuna for a bit by that point so somebody (Kimahri or Rikku) should be filling in the healer role already. It is a weird and kinda weak story sequence but I think the game starts improving after that point.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 week ago:
The system of corporate veiling of responsibility is going to kill us all. What should happen is every single person who signed off on, voted for, or materially contributed to the implementation of this dangerous hardware should be prosecuted for criminal negligence. Gut the C-suite and the board.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: there’s an episode where a genie kills a man by giving him a giant penis but not enough blood to fill it and keep his brain alive, then turns another person invisible. It’s a monster-of-the-week episode, but still. Definitely magic.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 2 weeks ago:
Plane or sand it smooth and refinish it. Probably you would need to strip and refinish the whole thing to blend it in but that is an advantage to wooden furniture.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 2 weeks ago:
Pass on sticking within the bounds of treadon and tyranny. I’m gonna keep idealizing beyond that.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 2 weeks ago:
Oh, uh, pass.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 weeks ago:
Nobody should be obliged to host bigotry. That’s not “censorship” in a way that matters.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 3 weeks ago:
The fan base is earned.
This is what I have a problem with. The fan base WAS earned but now is taken for granted.
You can’t just pretend that online play isn’t important for multiplayer games. It’s a huge knock against the titles you mentioned.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land tries so hard to keep gameplay smooth that any enemies more than like 15 feet away drop to 8fps and it still dips when there’s too many effects on screen. Breath of the Wild simply banishes mobs that get too far away (or just run for too long) to keep the memory functional (and many things don’t even render at the edge of bow range). Super Mario Odyssey also aggressively culls actors and gets a bit sad when you force too much on screen (high up in Metro Kingdom, for example) It might not matter to you but it impacts the game enough for me to notice it.
I simply don’t think that you can trust a Nintendo game to be worth the day 1 cost.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 3 weeks ago:
Nintendo makes pretty good games but nothing about their product is “top tier”. The online experience is terrible, their flagship games suffer from framerate dips, pop-in, and stuttering because they don’t invest in better hardware, and speaking of hardware they went with the same will-break-down-and-drift sticks because they’ve been coasting for ages. Meanwhile they’re suing fan projects into the dirt and growing increasingly out of touch. (Sony and Xbox are hot on their heels, the big three could really do with some outside competition)
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 3 weeks ago:
Disagree, I think being in the pilot seat is important. The immersion of control amplifies the experience.
- Comment on Most American headline 4 weeks ago:
I think you missed my point if you’re accusing me of straw-manning, I was pointing out that even their flimsy justification is baseless.
- Comment on Most American headline 4 weeks ago:
Nevermind that lots of countries allow for personal firearm ownership.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy VIII, almost at the end of the third disc. Hot take: this is my favorite PS1 entry in the series (and IX is my second favorite). I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect game but it takes a lot of chances and I think most of the them pay off.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 weeks ago:
I got half on my own, but I threw in the towel after half an hour and I’m glad I did.
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 4 weeks ago:
Well, she’s a prominent figure in relatively recent world history whose actions are responsible in part for the world we have today. It’s kinda weird to be proud of historical ignorance.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 4 weeks ago:
.world was already the closest thing to reddit on the fediverse.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s not like the movies, people don’t just fall over when they’re grazed by a blade or pistol-caliber bullet. If all I had was a knife to defend myself against an attacker I would choose “keep stabbing until they stop moving” even if that looks worse to juries. Better than being shot in the back trying to run.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 4 weeks ago:
People can prefer lots of stuff, “this aspect of the English language is not to apply to me” is a lot of cognitive load to ask for.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 weeks ago:
Which is an awkward and strange way to speak to people.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 month ago:
Teens are kids, they’ve just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 1 month ago:
Ok but there’s zero movement in a lot of hobby communities here, and I’m not talking about niche interests. There cannot be quality when the quantity is none.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 1 month ago:
Pretty much for as long as online games have gotten updates. DOTA kinda codified it with the Battle Pass system but WoW battlegrounds/arena had seasons way before that. They’ll wait and do content/balance updates in chunks and that effects the meta in waves defined as “seasons”.
It’s everywhere now. It can be weaponized FOMO or a clean way to provide regular novelty without being tied down to legacy content.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 month ago:
I’d happily have a phone half an inch thicker if it meant a folding or sliding physical keyboard for my large hands.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 2 months ago:
Ok, well, I am. It’s not “pointless story” it’s entertainment and I’m struggling to come up with a game that has zero plot or setting or characterization. Rocket League maybe.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 2 months ago:
It’s set in the Titanfall universe, there’s lots of lore scattered around. People work hard to integrate a narrative into the level and character designs, to imply plot in incidental dialogue or cinematics, or just literally write text entries that the majority of gamers will never read because only shooting and rare skins trigger their dopamine.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 2 months ago:
Leave Draw exactly as it is, thanks. Maybe increase magic damage scaling but the Junction system is neat and the whole thing ties into the plot.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
They don’t actually know why it happened. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 months ago:
That seems backwards to me, I would absolutely tell my friends if I thought their life choices were harmful.