oxideseven
@oxideseven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
There are places in the US, that when you buy a house or property, you are given a choice. You can build a sidewalk for it yourself, or you can pay the city/county for a sidewalk.
The thing is, if you pay the city/county for the sidewalk, they stipulate that they can build that sidewalk where ever they want. This does not have to include in front of, or anywhere near, your house
The US is a very strange place.
- Comment on Just Terrible 4 weeks ago:
Barefoot gang would like a word.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
I’ll leave this here, as I’m particularly bothered by the weird megamyth of kudzu in the US, as is evidenced but the other comments.
English ivy is actually a generally bigger threat but it never gets any real attention.
I will concede that the image above is kudzu tho.
- Comment on Lord of the SCIENCE 2 months ago:
✨magic✨
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
I like Humankind.
I like the civ switch since you can change you priorities each age. Also I like having a leader I actually like with a civ I like.
Let’s me do what I want to do the entire campaign instead of having to be stick with some stuff I don’t like just to play with the things I do like.
I’m terrible at these games so I can’t speak to balance and strategy and stuff. I use lots of auto stuff or relying on suggested choices from advisors lol.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Gameplay Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Sounds similar to Humankind. Which is nice cus I like that game.
- Comment on swaggy interpretations 3 months ago:
Agreed.
- Comment on pseudomonas 3 months ago:
Fritoes
- Comment on LaTeX Master Race 3 months ago:
Lay tex.
Why bother to fit your acronym to latex otherwise. ConTexT is another one. Would be silly otherwise.
The creator might promote saying tech, but that shouldn’t matter since they Internet ignores the creator of the gif format and swears on ghif instead of the desired jiff…
- Comment on Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals 3 months ago:
Waffle House, Denny’s, IHOP, aren’t even fast food… They’re just bad food. I still don’t understand why people eat at these places. It’s not like it’s ever the only option, or the cheapest option.
Also I love this picture.
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 4 months ago:
There are still players. Much more rare I’m sure. I played maybe 4 months ago and met a few people.
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 4 months ago:
Gris hooked me much more than Journey.
Gris broke me lol. It was so beautiful, so emotional.
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 4 months ago:
Witcher 3 took me a few attempts before I finally got into it. And those types of games were always my favorite.
I don’t think Witcher 3 stuck until the DLCs. Now I’m sad I’m done with the game…
- Comment on hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey? 4 months ago:
I’m with you here.
I played it just recently so I didn’t get to play with as many people as I’m sure there were at the start. I did encounter others frequently enough though. Even played with 1 person for a big chunk.
It was fine. It’s pretty and it has soul for sure but it’s not a transcendent experience like so many seem to describe. Maybe I’m broken in my own way, maybe I missed something, maybe I don’t understand art. Who knows.
I had fun though and it was worth the price.
- Comment on Rover 5 months ago:
This is the way. We didn’t abandon that awesome machine! It went above and beyond from day one and kicked ass! It’s a true hero.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
I see this and worse daily here and I rarely drive.
I’ve seen this exact scenario but the “polite” person is in a normal lane, not a turning lane. I hate drivers here.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 7 months ago:
Starting Rogue Trader this week. Having fun with it.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 7 months ago:
The conversion rate isn’t great.
There were talks of using them in sidewalks, but it doesn’t really make much sense really. Piezo almost always only works as energy recovery, which isn’t nothing but you will need the infrastructure which also isn’t nothing.
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 7 months ago:
Garlic power.
Nah, just a non-traditional way of saying wind generators like turbines.
- Comment on Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse 7 months ago:
Mmmm… Peppermint
- Comment on it's a pumpkin 8 months ago:
Not the brain, the inner ear. They struggle to maintain balance mid hop.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 8 months ago:
Only been playing balatro. Now it’s fully out. Hooray!
- Comment on First game you played 9 months ago:
Sheesh. That’s a tough one. My memory is trash from TBIs… Maybe pong, or space invaders? I think it would be something that was in an arcade. Our first console was the NES with SMB, but we definitely played in arcades before that.
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 9 months ago:
Anyway to roll back firmware on some of these TVs?
Mine was never connected, except once a friend came over and connected it and it updated and now it requires a connection to rename inputs…
It’s never been connected since that day either.
Hate this kind of crap.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
SO STRESSFUL!
I love this game so much. I have to constantly walk away from the stress lol.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
Why did you include great in new/innovative?
I think the ship builder fits all of that despite your wording. It was new, it was fun, it achieved awesome results. The amount of interesting ships people built was crazy. It plays a pretty big part of the game, and finishing some unique skills out there was cool.
Possibly killing off your spouse or main companion was wild. I can’t recall having the possibility happen in a game like this before. That messed me up for a bit.
The looping gameplay with insane universes was innovative. A bit tedious to achieve but still neat
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
I liked it well enough. Not enough to repeat the loop 11 times. But enough to finish the game and find that idea inside with a some work. It wasn’t bad enough for me to write it off completely.
I enjoyed the ship building a lot. It felt innovative to me. It was a blast and pretty well done. The bulls I’ve seen out there range from insane to just freaking cool.
I thought the possibility of killing off your spouse or main companion was innovative and painful. I put the game down for a few hours to decide how to move forward. Save scum or live with my path despite that loss.
The hate bandwagon for games seems a bit out of control these days. People are literally going into the community for those games just to talk shit… Not to be constructive or to hear why people like it. Just to be mad and try to convince others they can’t possibly like it. It’s weird.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
For real. The new in thing is to sit on any game you are mildly disappointed in and claim it’s the worst game of all time and no one can like it.
For being the shittiest game of all time there sure are a lot of people (myself included) who put in nearly a hundred hours into it or even more…
Everyone obsessed with absolutes these days, no place for middle ground or a measured response.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
That was back in 21. Last year’s numbers posted in May 2023 have them making a profit.
It’s worth buying from them every chance you get. Even if they disappear you will own your games so long as you can store them, unlike every other store front, steam included.
- Comment on poggers 11 months ago:
Somewhat long story time.
Because I moved from a different country to the US they got confused what grade to put me in. And then they really goofed my class assignments. So I ended up literally only taking algebra 1 and geometry in high school. Unlike most that also got algebra 2 and possibly trig.
This set me up supery poorly for college. But I’m actually really good at math and I love math. So when I got to college, I failed miserably and dropped out after teachers were telling me this was simple stuff I should know from high school trig. How the college even let me get to that point was also insane…
Anyway years later I went back, they tested me and I needed remedial math classes. Finally this new college was doing it right. I immediately started failing my tests. The teacher actually cared to find out why. I was getting every answer correct, but I was only finishing about 50-60% of the questions. When they looked at my work they noticed I just want using the right formulas in the right places or the common shortcuts and such. At they focused on teaching me that stuff all of a sudden I was actually finishing my tests ahead of class and passing.
Math is weird.