cobysev
@cobysev@lemmy.world
- Comment on It may be true but doesn't help me today 1 week ago:
My first car was a 1991 Honda Ascot. I bought it in 2003 in Japan, when I was stationed there with the US military. I bought it off a fellow service member who was leaving the country, for $1,000. I gave it to another service member for free when I bought a better car a year later.
- Comment on U good, fam? 1 week ago:
Living the dream…
- Comment on ENHANCE 2 weeks ago:
I use a VPN that won’t load catbox images for some reason. If I turn it off, catbox starts working again.
- Comment on Day 201 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
Epic just recently announced that they’re never releasing it outside of their store. They’re the exclusive publisher, so they have distribution rights, and their CEO Tim Sweeney is determined to snub his nose at Steam, even though Alan Wake 2 still hasn’t earned back its production costs. It’s a complete flop, but they won’t extend to the Steam market to help sales.
Unlike other games, where publishers sign exclusivity contracts with Epic Games for a certain time period, Alan Wake 2 was actually published by Epic Games, meaning that Epic Games gets to decide what systems the game releases on. So it’s not coming to Steam. Which means I’ll never get to play it, because I’m never giving a penny to that awful store of theirs.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job 4 weeks ago:
The plots of Portal 2 singleplayer, co-op, and PTI are very “distant” from anything happening with Half-Life.
From what I understand (it’s been a while since I read up on the lore), Portal 1 and 2 take place after the Combine invasion of Earth, shortly after the first Half-Life game. That’s why Aperture Science is almost completely devoid of life, minus the personality cores that are attempting to continue running things. It’s because of the resonance cascade incident at Black Mesa that Aperture Science is now mostly defunct, and Chell is trapped as a lab rat at GLaDOS’ mercy.
So the Portal series is pretty reliant on Half-Life’s story to justify their plot, even if it’s never directly addressed in the game itself.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job 4 weeks ago:
This is actually my second Steam Deck. I bought the original LCD-screen one back when they were first announced, but they had a nasty habit of the bumper buttons (L1 and R1) breaking. Sure enough my L1 button broke and I just never sent it back to get it fixed. I’ve just been re-mapping that button to the L2 (trigger) button instead.
Recently, my wife expressed interest in having a Steam Deck (she almost bought her own when they first came out), and she claimed she was perfectly content taking my old one, since she doesn’t game as much as me anyway. So I bought a fancy new HDR OLED-screen Steam Deck. It’s much more responsive than my first one. And the bumper buttons work! I forgot how nice it is to just play a game without re-mapping buttons first.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 1 month ago:
I’ve been shaving since I was 12 years old (I’m 40 now). For most of those shaving years, I liked to get really close to the mirror, to ensure I didn’t miss a spot, so I always leaned far over the sink to get that close shave.
Unbeknownst to me, spending decades leaning unsupported over the sink for 7-10 minutes every morning gave me very strong lower back muscles, which also helped to stabilize my core. I never had back problems, even when all my friends, family, and coworkers started to develop back pain later in life.
About 7 years ago, I discovered the wonders of shaving in the shower. I put a small mirror on my shower wall and shaved without all the additional hassle of cleaning a sink and counter. It was wonderful… except I wasn’t doing my morning lower back routine because I could stand upright, right next to the mirror. My lower back started getting weaker over time.
About 4 years ago, I slipped while going down my stairs and landed hard, injuring my back. I used to be able to bounce back from a fall like that, but I actually had to go to the ER to ensure I hadn’t broken something; I couldn’t even sit up straight without pain.
The pain lessened but never really went away and I found myself finally stuck with permanent back pain.
I’m considering getting rid of my shower mirror and shaving over the sink like I used to, to help rebuild my lower back muscles and better support my spine. My wife deals with permanent back pain thanks to degenerative disc disease, and the things that helps her the most is building a stronger core and lower back muscles, to take the support away from the areas that want to cause pain.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 1 month ago:
The creator of Lower Decks wrote her a letter explaining how important her character was to him and she read the script and enjoyed it. She also asked if she could just go by Jolene in this, which he was cool with.
Saved you a click.
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
A coworker of mine did this. He and his new wife took parts of their last names and blended them together to create a unique new last name for both of them.
- Comment on We all need Seaman back in our lives! 1 month ago:
Oh wow, this was actually a thing.
- Comment on Zelensky condemns Russian 'inhumane' Christmas attack on energy grid 2 months ago:
His last name has two Y’s. Zelenskyy. I don’t know why there are so many articles dropping that second Y now, but I’ve seen a bunch of them on Lemmy in the past few weeks.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #51 - Tavern Manager Simulator 3 months ago:
For single player games, I don’t see why players shouldn’t be able to play on their own pace.
Agreed, I always hate when games force me to rush an event or situation. I’m here to have fun! Let me enjoy it at my own pace!
Although I think the days in this game are plenty long enough. Just when I’m getting tired from running around, I realize it’s evening time in-game. It’s mostly morning that comes too soon. Once I’m prepped for the next day, I don’t have much time to run around and explore before it’s time to reopen the tavern.
I could just close earlier, but the more stuff I sell each day, the more money I have to work with for the next day. Upgrades cost money to unlock, so I’ve been saving up to expand the tavern. I haven’t bought any decorations and I only bought more tables so I can sell to more customers at a time. Although I don’t get enough customers to fill all the seats right now.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 3 months ago:
If I had to ask my boss for permission to use the restroom all the time, I’d probably respond the same way.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 3 months ago:
I personally see “bloodline” as a specific, direct line of descendants through a certain genetic-based family, title, position, etc. Whereas a family tree is literally everybody you’re related to, directly or not.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #37 - Call of Cthulhu 3 months ago:
I’m glad you like my posts! My goal was to introduce people to a new game every day. I have way too many games in my Steam library and I’ve barely played a quarter of them, so this forces me to try something new every day and share it with others.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #37 - Call of Cthulhu 3 months ago:
I apparently have Conarium in my library already! I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
Yeah, Call of Cthulhu is not really a Lovecraftian game. You could easily substitute any other creature and it would still play out the same. The only element of the old RPG game that really carried over is the sanity level. The tabletop game would have you roll for sanity checks every now and then and basically track your gain or loss of sanity, which could alter your character as the game progressed.
That, and the eldritch creatures, are about all these games share in common with each other, and both are very loosely based on the Lovecraft short story. So it’s about as far removed from an H.P. Lovecraft work as you can get.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #36 - Kona 3 months ago:
Thanks! I originally planned for these posts to just be a screenshot or two, with maybe a little discussion on what’s going on in my latest games (See a few of my first posts). But one of my pet peeves with gaming communities is how everyone just assumes you know the game being discussed. They jump into fine details, or use acronyms or in-game lingo to talk about it, which alienates those who’ve never played the game. Sometimes I’m interested in a game being discussed, but I’ve never played it, so I can’t follow the discussion!
So I figured I’d make posts that introduce games to everyone. If you’ve played it before, it’s a nice refresher of the gameplay and gives you a space to gush about what you loved or hated about it. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a good intro to the game and its story and mechanics.
Also, my other hidden purpose is to force myself to play more games. I have a Steam library of over 3,500 games and I’ve only played 25% of my library (according to SteamDB). So this forces me to pick something new every day and give it a shot. I’m discovering a lot of fun games that I didn’t even know I had in my library! I got a lot of my games through random bundles, so I didn’t even choose a lot of them.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
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- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #34 - Happy's Humble Burger Farm 4 months ago:
I’ll be honest, just going over training on how to properly cook and assemble a burger brought back PTSD from my teen years… 😭
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Comment on Day 100 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Congrats on hitting day #100! I just made it to #32 myself; I have a long ways to go.
Here’s to another 100! 🍻
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #32 - Duck Season PC 4 months ago:
I believe you’re right. I see on Steam that both exist, and the Duck Season game is VR only. I stand corrected.
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
