CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 1 day ago:
Appreciate the opinion, I’m thinking I’m just going to go ahead and pick it up
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 2 days ago:
The worst part about the politics here in Canada is that the Liberals always spend years setting up the layup that the Conservatives use to dunk on Canadians. This round is going to feature a whole host of anti-competitive business, bad trade deals, media favouritism, privatization, waves of attacks on worker’s rights… all this and more thanks to the moves set up by the Liberals doing things like refusing to stop the Rogers/Shaw purchase, the failure to make deals with other countries, setting up media and “CanCon” subsidies that favour big media companies, and the intentional attacks on the efficiency and effectiveness of public services.
We are so fucked.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 2 days ago:
Yeah and you’re getting renovicted so they can split all the bedrooms up and double the occupancy (and rent)
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 2 days ago:
What the polling likely isn’t capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 2 days ago:
Trump’s still in control of his (meager) faculties and that’s the issue. They’re going to have to put someone else in against Trump or admit that the past few years have been Weekend at Biden’s
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 2 days ago:
I’m just wondering if I need to call the police or the ambulance
Both? One of these guys is a convicted felon turned robber baron and the other is a retirement home escapee who has lost the light in their eyes.
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 2 days ago:
Icarus looks interesting but I’ve been eyeing Enshrouded. My wife liked playing Volcanoids, Astroneer, Drake Hollow, Smalland, Conan Exiles, Dinkum, Palworld, and of course Stardew Valley, among others. Not sure which of those are on sale but check them out.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
An idea for the fediverse and beyond: maybe we should be setting up instances with copyleft licences for all content posted to them. I actually don’t mind if you wanna use my comments to make an LLM. It could be useful. But give me (and all the other people who contributed to it) the LLM for free, like we gave it to you. And let us use it for our benefit, not just yours.
This seems like a very fair and reasonable way to deal with the issue.
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 2 months ago:
The kids really like the beat em ups like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Streets of Rage. They also like Wobbly Life and Wobbledogs (though you will probably want a mouse for that one). N+ was a hit too.
Of course I’ve got some emulated stuff too and you can’t go wrong with Super Mario World, Golden Axe, or Gauntlet Legends.
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 2 months ago:
I’ve got some young kids and the Steam Deck makes it a lot easier to take them places and keep myself (or them) entertained. It also means I can get some game time in while they watch their shows.
Best part was taking it in vacation, plugging it into a TV, and using it like a console we all play together. It felt like I was sitting on the floor playing N64 with my siblings again lol.
I’ve loved having this thing. I still do more gaming on my PC but I’m glad I bought it.
- Comment on 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows 2 months ago:
GaaS is killing competition, imagine that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The plan for me is to go full-time Linux once I’m forced to move off Win10. I already use it a lot but I’m waiting on a few holdouts.
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 2 months ago:
Enshittification. Naming your enemy is the first step and we already have a name, use it.
- Comment on Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off 5 months ago:
I bought the Division 2 for like $3 USD and I still felt like it wasn’t worth it
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 6 months ago:
Warsaw is at the same latitude as Edmonton in Canada, so shouldn’t be really that warmer.
Reading a climate chart for Warsaw, it seems like January lows average out to -5C and your coldest days dip under -20C
In Edmonton, January lows average to -15C, and winter temperatures can dip down to -35C (or rarely even worse) along with nasty winds. It’s a surprisingly harsh climate.
I live around Ottawa, Canada and our winter experience is basically Edmonton with less wind and more humidity. You scrape the ice off your car and drive with gloves on because otherwise it would take 15 minutes to heat it up enough to be comfortable. Seat warmers are cherished here.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 6 months ago:
You have to wonder if the engineer who designed that was a complete dumbass because it seems remarkably obvious that you’d want to keep moisture away from electronics.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 6 months ago:
Because they vote too.
- Comment on What's the best game you played this year (that didn't come out this year)? 7 months ago:
Volcanoids is a fantastic co-op game that I keep going back to. Also just started playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker, interesting so far.
- Comment on Games that my non-gamer girlfriend can watch me playing? 7 months ago:
My wife played Pokemon and Mario Kart before we dated. After dating for a bit she took a bit of interest in what I was playing and even started playing some games on her own.
My wife liked watching:
- Witcher 3
- Red Dead Redemption
- Assassin’s Creed (pre-Origins style games)
- Portal
- Devil May Cry (besides DmC)
- Prototype
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- L.A. Noire
- Spiderman
She joined me or played some others on her own:
- Stardew Valley
- Rust (surprisingly)
- Conan Exiles
- Golf with Friends
- Animal Crossing
- Dinkum
- Core Keeper
- Terraria
- Truck Simulator
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag (she liked to gather supplies and do small secondary quests, or just sail around)
The all-time winner was Breath of the Wild, she loved to watch and play it, and sometimes I watched her play it too. She solved problems in very different ways than I did and it was interesting. Example: my primary way to kill Guardians was to deflect blasts, while she just rode her horse at them and cut them apart. You can imagine how nuts Tears of the Kingdom has been lol.
I feel it might be worth mentioning she did not enjoy watching or playing:
- Monster Hunter
- Any flight/space sims (Ace Combat, Elite Dangerous, etc.)
- Factorio
- Minecraft
- Remnant
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Vermintide/Darktide
- most Metroidvanias
- Civilization
If I had to guess at what these share in common, its a lack of story and NPC interactions, or pacing that makes it less interesting to watch.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 7 months ago:
Piracy is a service and pricing issue. Plenty of people willing to pay, proven by the fact the streaming services were so successful in the first place. They’re just not willing to take substantial pay hikes when they’re going hungry.
- Comment on Hard platformers with banging chiptune soundtracks? 7 months ago:
I hadn’t actually realized the Virtuaverse album was for a game lol, I just really like MBR. I know they’ve got some songs in ULTRAKILL too.
- Comment on Hard platformers with banging chiptune soundtracks? 7 months ago:
Not a game suggestion but a music one: Master Boot Record. It should match your style I think.
- Comment on RPGs for people who don't like RPGs 7 months ago:
A few games that I think you might like based on your post: Cult of the Lamb Dark Messiah Might and Magic Drake Hollow L.A. Noire? The Looker Pony Island (you like puzzles right?) Red Faction Guerilla The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
Also metroidvanias as a genre are probably a good fit for you.
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
imagine generating this at runtime
- Comment on I wish 7 months ago:
Because YandereDev is a legendary moron I can’t even tell if this is a joke or not.
- Comment on Older games with female protagonists? 8 months ago:
Iji is a 100% free game made in 2008. Sidescrolling shooter with a story, fun boss fights, and a great soundtrack. It’s really a shame it isn’t as well known in these circles, it’s quite good.
- Comment on Older games with female protagonists? 8 months ago:
How dare you have such great taste on the internet? I can’t even fight you over this list.
- Comment on Quake 1 holds up really well! 8 months ago:
RotT has really fun weapons and a banging soundtrack, I can see how that would be the defining FPS of the time for some people. I think my favourite FPS of the 90’s was Blood, they nailed the atmosphere in that game.
- Comment on Quake 1 holds up really well! 8 months ago:
The Quake remasters are well done and I’ve been enjoying them on the Deck. I wanted to play something I already knew to get used to the gyro aiming and the remasters came out shortly after I bought it. Perfect timing.
The games have aged surprisingly well. I don’t think you give Doom 1/2 enough credit but I’ll be the first to admit I liked Heretic more. Hexen on the other hand has aged poorly but when modded it is fun.
- Comment on workn 4 weekedz 8 months ago:
ah yes, some of that post-humor “comedy”