CancerMancer
@CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Please choose one 3 hours ago:
lol but seriously this is the first time I’m not buying a Nintendo console on launch in a long time. Their prices here in Canada were already absurd but this gen is just unreal.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.
RSS exists, sadly average people just couldn’t figure out how to use it.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
Still hate spitters though.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
I’m building an arcade stand I can put in front of my TV so I can play emulated games with my kids. I could not care less about most of the new games coming out these days.
GPU prices priced me out of the gaming market, got new hobbies now.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
The hardware is 10 years old and it wasn’t even shiny at the time. Shield is a damned joke.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
Don’t give your TV wifi access, use a separate device to watch stuff (Chromecast, FireTV, Android box, etc…)
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 3 weeks ago:
For Canadian Right to Repair advocates: CanRepair is a brand new advocacy group started by R2R advocates from all over the country. The first Annual General Meeting is on March 25. Sign up to be a member and go to the AGM!
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
lmao didn’t even think to invert FireWire
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
wireless house fire
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
I am with you on this, I don’t want a cooktop with a damn battery and software updates. That’s ridiculous.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
Nothing stopping you from using diluted lye / oven cleaner and wiping it off, just be very sure you take the necessary precautions. Do not breathe that shit in or let it get on your skin.
- Comment on Anything tempting you? 2 months 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) 2 months 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? 2 months 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' 2 months 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 2 months 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? 3 months 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." 3 months 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? 3 months 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? 3 months 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 4 months ago:
Eat the rich lol
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 4 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? 4 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? 4 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 4 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 4 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? 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
Normie filter, based in Canada, less tankies, fun name. I mean those are strong selling points.