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- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
I always attempt to play a game the way the developers intended the first time through. If I decide to give it another playthrough and I don’t want to put up with the extra grindy parts of the game, I’ll look for legitimate cheats to help me fast-forward through the rough parts.
I mean “legitimate” as in, cheats the developers put in the game, not outside hacks or mods that alter the game itself. I’m not big on mods in general, and I don’t usually use cheats, but I will in rare situations.
Back in the day, Warcraft III had cheats that let you power through each level with stuff like infinite resources, invulnerability, or just letting you automatically complete a level. I used those on recurring playthroughs because each level could easily take 30 mins to an hour to beat, and it was very grindy.
In Satisfactory, there’s a cheat where you can add a single stack of a resource into the back of a factory cart, then deconstruct the cart. You’ll get all the resources of the factory cart in your inventory, plus double the resource you put into the cart.
Do this dozens of times and you can exponentially grow resources without having to wait on factories to make them. I’m pretty sure the developers are aware of this “glitch” because it’s never been patched out, even after a bunch of people started pointing it out on official Satisfactory forums.
I played hundreds of hours of the game and made some pretty massive continent-stretching factories. Upon building a new world, I started to implement this “strategy” to hurry up and acquire rare resources so I could get factories off the ground. Saved me from hundreds of hours of gameplay, waiting on production lines to make basic resources into more advanced resources so I could get to the next step.
A buddy of mine asked to be part of my Steam Family so he could have access to my 4,000+ game library. He regularly streams games online and figured it’d save him tons of money buying games to play.
But he’s also completed all achievements on almost every game he’s played on console and uses some website to automatically complete all the achievements for his Steam games, so he doesn’t need to redo them on PC.
The thing about Steam Family is… if someone’s caught cheating and earns a vac ban, the owner of the family account receives the ban, not the individual player. I told him I was worried that cheating of any kind might affect my immaculate record and/or library of games and he decided to just buy his own games instead of risking my account. Good friend; he didn’t even argue. I was still willing to let him have access as long as he was careful, but he chose another route.
- Comment on The family name goes first in East Asian names, reflecting the fact that they view family over individual; Whatever the parents' idea of "family" is, triumphs over the children's individuality. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t vouch for all East Asian countries, but in Japan, it’s a matter of formality. When you meet someone, you always refer to them by their family name and an honorific. (Like we would say, “Mr. Smith.”)
Once you start to get more friendly and familiar with an individual, you’ll move on to more intimate honorifics, until you’re allowed to call them by their direct first name, no honorifics. That’s a sign that you’re very close with someone.
It allows people to refer to you without being too direct and familiar until you’ve gotten to know them well. And you can tell what relationship two people have by what names they use to call each other. Heck, really close friends will probably make up nicknames for each other too.
When I was in the US military, it was kind of the same mentality. Everyone was referred to by rank and last name only. As you got to know someone of the same rank or lower than yours, you could refer to them by last name alone, no rank required. But only the closest of friends would refer to each other by first name.
- Comment on When you get right down to it, cereal is just cold breakfast soup 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how much milk you add to it. Personally, I see it as more of a breakfast stew; more solid food in the bowl than liquid.
- Comment on Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now 2 weeks ago:
Ah dammit… Curiosity Stream was the only streaming service I’m still actually paying for. I dumped everything else for raising prices and enshittifying their services.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
The way I was taught growing up, brackets are [these]. Parenthesis are (these).
Yes, technically the latter are also brackets. But they can also be called parenthesis, whereas the former is exclusively a bracket. So we were taught to call them separate words to differentiate while doing equations.
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 2 weeks ago:
I have a Google phone, which has YouTube embedded on it. I can’t remove it. I had to disable it, then tell my phone to redirect all YouTube links to my browser. Now I can block ads again!
- Comment on It's important! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's important! 4 weeks ago:
I was stationed in Germany with the US military once, just 30 minutes from the French border. My American coworkers visited Paris and complained that everyone there were snobbish assholes. Every time they tried to ask someone for directions, they got ignored at best and insulted at worst.
My wife and I went to Paris a few times and we had the complete opposite experience. We both took several years of French in high school, so we had an extremely basic knowledge of the French language (thanks, American public schools! 🙄) and we tried to speak to people in French.
Every time we spoke up, they would notice us struggling and immediately switch to English for us. And then they were very helpful. Turns out, my coworkers were just speaking English to French people and expecting a response in English. Which insulted a lot of French people, so they ignored them.
TL;DR: Speak the local language as best you can and French people can be very nice and helpful. Just assume they’ll speak English and you’ll get some rude responses in kind.
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, this looks interesting. And you can’t beat the free price tag. I’ll check it out.
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 5 weeks ago:
Are you retired or young?
I’m retired AND young… well, relatively speaking. I retired 3 years ago, at 38 years old. I’m 41 now.
I was in the US military for 20 years, earned a pension, plus 100% disability through the VA. With the passive income and benefits (free medical/dental for life), I can afford to be fully retired now. I’m not filthy rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I make enough to live a quiet, relaxed life and have my basic needs met. And that’s good enough for me. Plenty of time to indulge in my many hobbies. And I have ADHD, so I’m always finding new and interesting things to deep-dive into.
I actually started a movie review blog about 6 years before I retired. I ended up taking a hiatus from it shortly after retirement and just haven’t been motivated to get back into it lately, despite all the movies and TV shows I watch regularly.
I switched to reviewing video games sometime last year and have been mostly keeping up with that; although it’s been over 2 months since my last review. I should probably make a new post soon, or declare another hiatus. 😬
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing it this morning. Virus scan came back clean, and the game has been interesting so far.
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 5 weeks ago:
That’s cool, no reviews yet then. Not a problem!
- Comment on Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation. 5 weeks ago:
I play a lot of games (over 4,000 games in my Steam library) and I’ve made a hobby of reviewing them here on Lemmy over the past year. I especially love horror games. I would love to give it a playtest and provide constructive feedback.
It’s up to you if you’d like me to also post a review of it here on Lemmy or wait until a finished product is available. You can see my post history to see the kind of reviews I write, or you can check out my blog where I’m archiving my reviews here. Easier to browse the history of posts on the sidebar at that website.
- Comment on Purrfect Diagram 2 months ago:
That’s definitely a dragon in disguise. Looks like a cat to mortal eyes, but weights a helluva lot more.
- Comment on Which one and why? 2 months ago:
#4 looks like a shoehorn. Is that even concave enough to use as a spoon? Likely not. That’s out.
#3 is definitely not a spoon. No idea what it is, but it’s not gonna work well as a spoon. Not gonna deal with that one.
#2 is actually a spoon, but a small one. It’ll be frustrating to use forever. I’d prefer not to use it.
#1 is actually a decent sized spoon. Oddly shaped, but it’ll hold a decent amount of food or liquid. I guess I could live with that one.
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 2 months ago:
But she’s the Hero™ fighting against the Bad Guys™. Branding is everything.
But yeah, viewed objectively from a third party perspective, a lot of heroes in games and movies are actually borderline villains. Inserting themselves into a situation they don’t need to be involved in, and then the end justify the means. They may murder tons of no-name henchmen, but a greater threat to society has been eliminated!
I actually find it interesting that a lot of superhero characters came from healthy, sane family environments and fight to protect the Status Quo™, while most villains come from hardship and trauma and attempt to change the Status Quo™ that allowed their injustice of a life to exist, so others don’t suffer the same fate.
But some happy-go-lucky hero always comes by and stops them because their plan changes the Status Quo™. And we can’t accept changes to our structured social environment!
- Comment on Not rule 2 months ago:
I still clearly remember others’ embarrassing, cringey moments from my high school years, and I’m in my 40s now. I shudder thinking about who still remembers the embarrassing things I said/did way back in my childhood.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
[…] the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then)
Back then, an internet (lower case “i”) was a small internal network of computers that communicated with each other.
The World Wide Web, being a massive collection of computers across the globe that are interconnected, quickly earned the title of “THE Internet” (upper-case “i”), to differentiate it from smaller isolated networks.
“World Wide Web” turned out to be a mouthful to say, so we replaced it with “the Internet” instead. Although most websites still start with “www” to represent their global reach.
Nowadays, we’ve stopped using the word “internet” to describe smaller networks, so the word mostly just refers to the global network. And as such, if doesn’t really matter if you capitalize it or not.
However, I was there when the web became accessible to the public and the nomenclature has stuck, so I always capitalize the Internet when referring to it.
- Comment on Self hosted music server that remembers playlist location and song time stamp 2 months ago:
It’s not FOSS, but Plex does that. I host my music from a server I built at home (you can literally just use your desktop PC) and then I have access to it from anywhere. I like to stream it to the Plexamp app on my phone, which I connect to my car via Bluetooth, then I have my own homemade “radio” on the go. No ads, just my own music that I can shuffle through.
I paid for the Lifetime Plex Pass, which gave me full access to all their features and apps. It’s expensive, but it’s a one-time payment, vs. their monthly subscription which can add up over time.
I actually got annoyed at Plex for remembering exactly where I was in every song. I’d return to an album I hadn’t heard in a while and it would skip right to where I left off in each song instead of playing from the beginning of the song
Sometimes while trying to find a particular song, I’d skip around in a track, then move to the next until I found it. Then when I returned to that album later, every song would start somewhere in the middle. I eventually needed to turn that feature off. It still remembers exactly where I left off the last time I played music, but it doesn’t save my place in each individual song anymore. Just the last one I played.
On the app, it keeps a list of all the playlists I’ve recently played, so I can pick up on my latest playlist or scroll back in the history and start up one I played a while ago. This is great because I like to just shuffle my entire library as a playlist while I’m mowing my lawn, but my wife likes to hear specific genres or bands while we’re riding in the car together. So I can just keep alternating back and forth between playlists depending on the situation and it remembers where I left off in each one.
- Comment on sponge dna 2 months ago:
Maybe I’m just old, but I read that last line in Popeye’s laugh instead of Mr. Crabs.
- Comment on Thagomizer 3 months ago:
Yup, because of his comic about it, paleontologists have officially named it the Thagomizer.
- Comment on Gosh darn it 3 months ago:
I’m 41 and I still make this mistake all the time.
No matter how old and broken my body gets, I’ll always be a teenager at heart.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
37 was the year I started planning my retirement. At 38, I officially retired. I started growing a beard and was surprised to find a white patch to one side on my chin.
Now at 41, my entire chin has turned white and I have salt-and-pepper hair throughout my beard and head hair.
37 truly is a magical age.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 3 months ago:
I posted a review here earlier this year, but A Way Out was an excellent 2-player co-op game! I really enjoyed it. Story rich puzzles with some action interspersed. And it’s split-screen even if you’re playing online, so you can see what your partner is up to and coordinate with them. The ending was heart-wrenching too! Such an emotionally impacting story. Check out my review for a spoiler-free intro to that game.
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 3 months ago:
Diablo 3
My wife, two friends, and I all played Diablo IV online together. We beat the main campaign together and had a lot of fun with it. We’re trying to beat the expansion campaign too, but my wife and one friend dropped out, so it’s just been me and a buddy powering through it.
That’s a game where you can just have fun dicking around in the world, even if there isn’t an objective. And it has plenty of endgame content to keep you entertained after you beat the campaign.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Sounds like the author of this article didn’t understand the gameplay mechanics. It’s supposed to be a slow stealth game that requires patience and strategy and avoiding threats, not an action FPS game where you run through and shoot everyone you encounter.
The camouflage mechanic he mentions, almost as an aside, is crucial to sneaking through levels. Moving from tall grass to fallen leaves to swampland can drastically change your camouflage level, requiring you to quickly optimize for the environment or be detected. You need to pay attention to your surroundings and be very methodical in your approach, or risk being detected easily.
I’ve played for 40 minutes and I’m still in the intro area. Granted, part of that is due to another common trope of Hideo Kojima games: lots of cutscenes and story-heavy exposition.
But just learning how to sneak around and avoid detection takes time and patience. The first guard I encountered, I had to sit still for maybe 5 minutes and watch him slowly patrol around the small area, so I could figure out his patterns and approach him… and he still detected me when I got too close! Moving makes too much noise, so you need to wait for your target to approach you before going after them. It’s a process, and if you don’t have the patience to sit and wait for opportunities to present themselves, then this game is probably not for you.
Nostalgia does help with gameplay like this. Metal Gear Solid 3 is my favorite of the MGS series, and I am thoroughly enjoying playing its remake with modern controls and graphics. Going back and playing the original game can be difficult after getting used to today’s modern controls in games, but this remake includes both classic and modern controls, so you choose how you want to play.
Also, this game just dropped yesterday for advanced release. That’s hardly enough time to play through it and write a decent review. This article must’ve been written in a rush, which may contribute to the author’s poor experience.
I actually write reviews for video games and post them to !games@lemmy.world. Just as a hobby. You can check my account’s post history to see them all, or go to my blog where I’m archiving them (This link). I’m excited to write one for Metal Gear Solid ∆: Snake Eater. But I need to play a bit more of the game before I feel I can give a proper review, so keep an eye out for a new post in the coming week or two.
- Comment on Somebody has turned a daft English cheese rolling festival into an even dafter free Steam game 3 months ago:
Cheese Rolling on Steam. Saved you a click.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 3 months ago:
hunter2
- Comment on "Now pendejo, shall we shee what short of shwordsman you've become?" 3 months ago:
I literally just saw this movie for the first time last night. Long overdue. It was an excellent film!
Before anyone asks, it’s from Highlander (1986)
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The creator stated that he’s trying to make it the dumbest humor possible. It’s not meant to have any intelligent writing behind it. But he said he’s also trying to get a chuckle out of readers in the process, and in that endeavor, I feel he’s succeeding. At least, for most people.
Elf Comic was the only one of his comic series that got super popular online, so he’s appealing to the demands of his readers and put his two other series on hiatus to create Elf Comic exclusively. As long as there’s a large fanbase for it, Elf Comic will continue to be made.
