moody
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- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 4 hours ago:
I thought the original Prey was boring as hell. It’s not like it didn’t have any interesting features, but the lack of penalty for dying meant that failure is impossible.
Prey isn’t really a franchise at all, just two completely unrelated games with the same name.
The newer one was supposed to be a sequel when it was being made by the original devs, but in the end it’s a completely separate game with no connection to the first.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 6 days ago:
Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.
Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.
The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 week ago:
If people aren’t property, why would damaging property be so severe?
Sorry in advance for defending the concept of defence of property. It’s not that I think it should be that way, but currently it is.
Property can easily be equated to either work or status. In today’s society, we work to earn our property. Damaging property is then damaging work, or at least the value of the work already done.
On the other end, status is something we already know that the elite value above all else, so it makes sense that attacking someone’s status is going to get punished.
So it’s not so much that people are property, but that harm to property is harm to its owners.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The 3 ways to make money in gaming are to a) be exceptionally good at games, b) have an entertaining personality, or c) do something that nobody else does.
For a) either you’re good enough to make it in esports, or you’re good enough that people want to watch you stream. For b) gaming is really just a small part of what brings people in. c) might be doing things like challenges or other niche gaming related stuff.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Game testing is a shit job. It’s incredibly tedious and the pay sucks.
If your goal is to work in game design and you want to use that as a way to get your foot in the door, that’s one thing. But the career of game testing is much less interesting that gamers might expect.
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 2 weeks ago:
e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location
Airlines have lower mourning rates specifically for that. There are many other bad reasons for them to charge you more, but this one is a poor example.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, 5 years ago Proton was already in pretty good shape. 2018 is when I switched to Linux, and already had very little trouble gaming.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Steam doesn’t have non-Linux games enabled by default. In the settings, you’ll find a compatibility tab. From there, enable the setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”
That’s what lets it use Proton for everything by default.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 4 weeks ago:
About 6 inches.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 4 weeks ago:
People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.
- Comment on This Cyberpunk 2077 mod literally called "Weeee" lets you leave your flat via a big slide like a trash Batman 5 weeks ago:
Walking around the building and taking the slow elevator down is long and tedious. This juat makes sense.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 5 weeks ago:
Every once in a while, Youtube makes some change to how they serve ads, and uBlock stops working for some people for a while. An update will typically come up pretty quickly that fixes this. Odds are tomorrow it will be fine.
- Comment on I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney. 5 weeks ago:
That’s an assumed name though, it’s not her real first name.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure other scientists are also looking into that issueas well.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 1 month ago:
An alternative to.space junk clogging up the sky would indeed be nice.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What’s this about dumplings?
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 1 month ago:
I hate the fan buffeting noise, and would be happy to have a fan that doesn’t do that. Not $500 happy, mind you.
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 1 month ago:
Fill them with farts and then pass them around to friends.
- Comment on Help with Bambu AMS (retraction) 1 month ago:
Have you tried moving the spools around? Could be the AMS system is struggling with that one specific tube, or it could also be that the curve in the filament is making it hard to pull it into the extruder.
You could try feeding a lower spool into the tube that is currently holding the upper spool to see if that changes anything.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
The easy way around this is to require passing regular fitness tests. If your obesity isn’t an impediment to the fitness test, then it shouldn’t be an impediment to your job.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
That’s a misunderstanding. CRTs technically don’t have refresh rates, outside of the speed of the beam. Standards were settled on based on power frequencies, but CRTs were equally capable of 75, 80, 85, 120Hz, etc.
Essentially, the speed of the beam determined how many lines you could display, and the more lines you tried to display, the slower the screen was able to refresh. So higher resolutions would have lower max refresh rates. Sure, a monitor could do 120 Hz at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, you could probably only do 60 Hz.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
The lack of ammo is solved with the chainsaw. That’s why they give you puny zombies in every battle. They’re easy to kill for a little health, and it only takes one charge of the chainsaw to fill up on ammo.
Doom rewards you for playing aggressively, much more so that the OG game did. They want you to get right up into the thick of it, not corner peek with your shotgun.
Definitely fair if that’s not your type of game though. It’s plays quite different from the original.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
It took me a while to figure out how important higher level pictos are for their stat boost. Your base stats become basically irrelevant at one point when you can give a character 500 defense with one picto.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
Sounds like Satisfactory might be what you’re looking for.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
It’s very particular in its style and pacing. I liked it at first, but wasn’t able to stick to it. I’ll have to give it another go at some point.
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 2 months ago:
deflecting the plastic while it’s still molten
That was my first thought
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Official Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
I watched a stream of it. It looked like a good time with friends in voice chat, but I wouldn’t want to play it with randos.
I also don’t think it would keep me hooked for very long. Probably a session once in a while. I can’t see myself playing dozens of hours of it.
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 2 months ago:
My plumber told me never to use a plunger in a toilet, and to use a snake instead. The back-and-forth motion from using the plunger can damage the wax seal and cause a leak.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s got produce, bread, and meat highlighted for the bread knife.
The only thing I’ve ever used a bread knife for is bread.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The bread knife has markers in the produce, bread, and meat sections