tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 1 week ago:
Pretty sure they’re referring to The Host and… yeah, it’s actually not bad.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
SteamDB.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I love CV3 but it’s brutal, I’ve played it off and on since around 1991 or so and still never finished it.
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s great and has some of the best music in the series. I mean, it introduced Bloody Tears!
Try a romhack of the game, like Simon’s Redaction or Simon’s Quest Retranslated, it’s absolutely worth a play.
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Nope, believe it or not the first Metroidvania style game was Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest for the NES. It was actually an excellent game, but a botched translation to English made it more frustrating and obtuse than it should have been. It was rather ambitious for a NES game.
Also, while level based and not Metroidvania style, Castlevania 3, Super Castlevania IV, Bloodlines, and Rondo of Blood were all fantastic games and Iga’s games have their lore and continuity based on the prior titles.
Not to mention, while it wasn’t as well received, the attempted series reboot (Lords of Shadow) was pretty great too. Mostly people didn’t like the gameplay changes for the 3D title.
And that’s not even getting into the N64 and PS2 games (one of which, Curse of Darkness, was popular enough that the first Netflix Castlevania series involves characters based on it).
Metroidvania was Igarashi’s style, to the point they were sometimes coined as “Igavania” games, but they’re not the end-all-be-all of the series.
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Koji Igarashi was responsible for the “Metroidvania” style, but was not the creator of Castlevania. He worked on the series from Symphony of the Night and through the NDS games. There were games in the series both before his involvement and after.
Iga’s great, but Castlevania is still Castlevania without his influence.
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
- I love Castlevania
- Evil Empire and MotionTwin
I’m in.
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 2 weeks ago:
now I don’t think I could enjoy certain political aspects of the story where the americans (the government, not the people) are the good guys…
As an American, I feel you on this.
All I can say is that Conviction is a personal story for Sam, and in that one there’s a terrorist threat, but it’s domestic terrorists.
In Blacklist, the Engineers seem to be global and evidence points to the Middle East, but it’s a misdirect. And while 4th Echelon is working to stop the attacks, I don’t think the American government is painted in a good light in that one either (the stated goal of the Engineers is to get US troops out of other sovereign nations and bring them home). It’s actually feels like a relevant and nuanced plot in the modern day.
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- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 weeks ago:
Same. Absolutely shoes off now, despite growing up in a shoes on house.
I have inside shoes and slippers/sandals for home and inside exercise use. Outside shoes and boots are for outside only, and come off in the mud room.
- Comment on Ham flesh 3 weeks ago:
Where’s the pic of the ham for comparison? This is just a pic of your hand.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 3 weeks ago:
My wife and I have been working out and losing weight and now the question is “am I hungry, or is it lonely mouth?”
Though I’m burning so many damned calories it’s usually I’m really hungry. 🥺
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
Just sell Splinter Cell to a company that knows what the hell to do with it already.
- Comment on This kid gets it 4 weeks ago:
Wrong community. This is for shitposts, not depressing factual information.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 5 weeks ago:
For a general use or gaming PC, 32GB is more than enough for the majority of users. It might show its limits with use as a server or dedicated database using complex queries.
Heck, even as servers go, I’ve got an AMD mini-PC running a Ryzen 5700u with 32 GB RAM. It’s running Plex, Jellyfin, AudioBookShelf, Home Assistant, Asset UPnP, and a few other apps, plus has extra VMs and I’m hardly utilizing it. I’m never using more than 8 out of 16 threads, and about half the RAM is still available even under full load scenarios when I’m running updates and using Plex heavily (such as scanning intros, or doing acoustic analysis for Plexamp use).
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
I use it because I love it but no need at least not for app installing having Discover.
Didn’t you have to install that via the terminal? Discover store is not installed on EndeavourOS by default. You must have installed it and forgot.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
Anyway can’t compare an arch based distro to Fedora or Ubuntu
Why not?
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
Depends on your distro. Maybe on Ubuntu or Mint, sure. I’m running EndeavourOS, and it’s terminal or nothing. I’m fine with that, but YMMV.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 month ago:
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 1 month ago:
I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.
They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 month ago:
I they’re gonna take 4 years to grow, I’ll just stick with fillings.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 months ago:
Firefox currently, though with recent AI related announcements, I’m shopping for replacements. Maybe Iceweasel or Waterfox, have to investigate.
I keep Opera around as a back up option as well though not sure if it’s suitable as a daily driver.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 months ago:
There’s plenty of “unbloated” software available. It’s just not on Windows.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
Ryzen 5600x here, was rocking a 6700 XT but found a good deal on a RX 9070 for $540 right around when the RAM prices increased. Already have 32 GB RAM, so I’m set for a while.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 months ago:
Hah, guess they’re gonna have to run Linux. Windows 11 would choke on 8 GB RAM.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
This is fucking stupid. There’s no AI assets in the final game, and it was used for placeholders during development.
I dislike AI for a lot of reasons, but this is massively overblown. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no putting it back. This is right up there with artists airbrushing, photoshop, and so on. People are going to use the tools available if it leads to quicker development cycles to get a product out.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
…I’m just saying. Making a modern engine from scratch is hard. There are just too many things to worry about. And the record of “RPG studios rolling a new in house engine” is not great.
Larian’s track record is good. They used an in-house engine for Divinity: Original Sin, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3. And Vincke attributes at least part of their success to using in-house tools instead of “off the shelf” engines.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 months ago:
Larian is very ambitious in their aims. Divinity: OS, DOS2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 were all huge games with incredible interactions and stories.
I don’t always like everything they do (in fact, I kinda hate BG3), but I respect their efforts. They don’t half-ass anything.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
I’ve got a home assistant server hooked into homekit with voice (via an Apple HomePod). I can say something like “turn on home theater” and it will turn on the receiver, TV, and Apple TV, and will set the receiver to the Apple TV’s input.
Then, other automations. Like, I’ve got a Lytmi Fantasy 3 Pro light strip behind my TV, and when I launch video (via streaming, plex, whatever) on the Apple TV, it will automatically turn off the living room lights except for the color strip. Then if I stop or pause the video, it will turn them back on. Stuff like that.
