CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anything tempting you? 2 weeks ago:
Aloft looks potentially interesting but the alpha was a bit bare on content. I want to see how people feel about it in a few weeks.
For the patient gamers though, perhaps check out Astroneer or Dinkum? Maybe Stationeers or From the Depths if you’re into serious simulation.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 weeks ago:
This along with the upcoming damage to Canadian trade is why you’re seeing a lot more Canadians talking shit. Of course we’re pissed: Trump opening his dumb shit-eating mouth caused our dollar to lose 10-15 cents on the US dollar.
Also it’s pretty funny that some Americans (like OP) think Europeans are jealous of them and that’s why they shitpost about America. Americans need to actually talk to Europeans about this, because they will find out America is viewed as a deeply immoral and unequal country, stuck in a backward way of life because Americans think it’s the greatest nation on Earth.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 3 weeks ago:
I used to spend more on new games but I have cut back a lot, largely because new games suck and are very poorly optimized. I have refused hardware upgrades due to the absurd costs and been playing more on my Steam Deck instead.
Currently playing State of Decay 2 and Helldivers 2, will circle back to Hogwarts Legacy, Core Keeper, and a few other games later.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 4 weeks ago:
Larry Ellison is one of the biggest pieces of shit and Oracle can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 4 weeks ago:
The wealthy all seem to understand that class solidarity is more important than any other issue. Why is it taking so long for everyone else to figure that out?
- Comment on Favourite games to play around Christmas time? 5 weeks ago:
Wurm Unlimited tends to be my go-to winter game to get stuck into.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 1 month ago:
Earth Defense Force 5 ends with you fighting a god. EDF 6 basically starts and ends with this.
- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 month ago:
Abiotic Factor. It’s like playing through the Black Mesa facility but as a survival game, something I never knew I wanted until I experienced it.
- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 month ago:
Had some friends try to get me to play. Gave it a good 20 hours or so, spent most of it just trying to get anywhere. About a quarter of the time some random guy would zoom along and blow me up before he even showed up on radar, and now I was on a timer. Another 10% of the time I’d get sucked through my ship when I tried to use FTL.
The time consumption even when things go right is absolutely ridiculous, and they often go wrong. The random killing feels so fucking awful that I’d really rather just play something else.
I have played and enjoyed games that require patience, like Wurm Online and EVE Online. Star Citizen is on a level above even those and I’m not sure I would have liked it even before I had kids, but now? Forget it.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 2 months ago:
Eat the rich lol
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Not sure if you played the original version but the remaster adds new attacks to some enemies and changes some of their behaviours. It also seems to have changed some enemy spawns, I think. It made the game feel fresh in a way I wasn’t expecting for something I probably played through a few dozen times lol.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Mankind Divided has some too close to home moments but the first game? That shit was almost like a playbook of the next two decades, it’s actually nuts.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
You probably would have liked Guild Wars 1 as well. You get to max level (level 20) well before you finish the content, and the rest of your advancement is farming mats for high level equipment and stealing elite attacks from enemies to unlock them for yourself.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
The costs used for wind/solar energy never included the cost of the required buffer storage, and even the rare few people who include that never factor in frequency stability which to this day is maintained by the giant steam turbines everyone wants to get rid of. It will not be trivial to solve the frequency stability problem; it will likely require massive investment in pumped water storage, flywheel storage, or nuclear energy, and these costs once finally included in the real cost of wind/solar will hurt its value prospect considerably.
As for nuclear waste: the overwhelming majority of nuclear waste generated over the lifetime of a reactor is stored onsite. Only the smallest amount of material is what will actually remain dangerous for a long time, and many countries have already solved this problem. It’s a seriously overstated problem repeated by renewable-purists who usually haven’t even considered how much frequency stability and grid-level storage have and will add to the cost of renewables, meaning they have not given a full accounting of the situation.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 2 months ago:
The curse of Private-Public Partnerships (P3s) means middle-men sapping all the value out of long-term government projects. We simply cannot trust these organizations with our energy infrastructure.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
It’s more better lol
Seriously though it’s really well thought out actually. Each planet has unique challenges you will have to deal with and it’s clear they put a lot of effort into designing these challenges and their solutions. Each planet grants new features that give you options you wouldn’t otherwise have to help solve other problems. Lots of quality of life changes and an ever-improving user experience.
It won’t win over people who didn’t like Factorio but fans of the game will get more of what they love, which I guess is just about the best possible case scenario for an expansion.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
What does getting bigger actually accomplish? I’ve been through enough Eternal Summers to know it sucks to lose a place you like to the swarm of terminally online bootlickers who infest every place that actually has people they can rule over. I’m good
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
You need clearer language? Only immature people worry about being “grown up”, well-adjusted people just get on with it.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
Normie filter, based in Canada, less tankies, fun name. I mean those are strong selling points.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
“when you grow up” is what people say when their skin starts to grow over the mask they wear.
I got tired of half-assing being someone else. Frankly I’m too busy to bother.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
“I can’t link this, it doesn’t fit within my corporate values!”
Yeah that’s why I’m here. The name makes this place much more difficult for corpo scum to infest it.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 months ago:
I keep critical applications running at work that thousands depend on. While I was at a union convention, one of my apps broke. I had to login that day and fix it while going over the budget with other members.
This is how the IT world is. I’m the only person capable of maintaining it and I must be available if things go wrong. The show must go on.
- Comment on Just So 3 months ago:
Like many things, people hate it because of its associations with other things. They will happily throw it out even if it has good uses. Here have some spicy examples:
Some people experience gender dysphoria and may benefit from medical intervention? Nah it got abused by ideological idiots so it must always be bad. Karl Marx says workers must arm themselves? Nah guns are bad, I know this because rightoids like them.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 months ago:
People are still playing? That’s tempting, I still haven’t found something that hits the spot this game did.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 5 months ago:
Quick Celsius breakdown from a Canadian:
40+ - most Canadians stop eating food and hope for a quick death 35 - you might just be able to live with this if you do nothing at all 28 - right about the place where comfort gives way to a general sense of warmth, something that makes any Canadian uncomfortable 23 - room temperature, and why “room temperature IQ” is an insult only Americans could have come up with because their scale was made by a madman 15 - If it’s Autumn you are wearing a light jacket, if it’s Spring you are sweating 5 - sweater time 0 to -10 - that stereotypical TV winter experience, where everyone is skating and sipping hot chocolate? Yeah that’s like half the year here. You better like hot chocolate. -15 - We enjoy the fresh air, others will probably find it painful to breathe directly; put on a scarf! Do not brush your teeth immediately before going outside unless you want to experience mint-flavoured pain. -20 - Canadians put their boots on by now. Exposed skin on a windy day can get frostbite in as little as 10 minutes. -30 - We will debate putting a coat on to put the garbage out at this temperature, usually erring on the side of caution in case your kids lock you outside again. Seriously invest in good winter gear for this, this temperature can kill surprisingly fast and it only gets increasingly unpleasant from here. -40 - turns out you can’t form snowballs in hell because the snow is too crispy
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 5 months ago:
Here in Canada I’ve seen much the same behaviour for both Liberal and Conservative voters. “I vote Liberal because I’ve always voted Liberal” is a surprisingly common statement especially among the older generations, and to a small extent even the Green party has a few loyalists in BC.
Always voting the same way no matter what happens is just giving your vote away for free.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 5 months ago:
I used to be a heavy industrial player in EVE Online and Foxhole fills the hole, surprisingly. Each faction has at least one group whose sole purpose is logistics, and they’re both decent.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 5 months ago:
How the hell are League of Legends or Valorant considered MMOs? Are Rocket League or Team Fortress 2 MMOs? Is Battlefield 5 an MMO now?
The expansion of this term to include 5v5 games is never not going to piss me off.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 5 months ago:
The alternative is to just keep getting fucked by Microsoft…
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 5 months ago:
no u