BlemboTheThird
@BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Intel Unison allowed Android and iOS to connect to Windows, now it's shutting down 3 weeks ago:
I did not but I’ll give you an upvoted anyway
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #58 - Black Mesa (Half-Life) 4 weeks ago:
The key to having fun with the gonarch fight (and other huge chunks of Xen too, like the Gargantua chase and Nihilanth) is to discover that the jump pack is broken and if you hold your crouch key, it tricks the game into thinking you never touched the ground. So you never lose momentum and can infinitely slide around at a thousand miles an hour, boosting your speed every time the jump pack recharges a bar. If you’ve never learned Source airstafing, the wide open first stage of the gonarch fight is a great place to start.
I do agree the gonarch was changed to be a ridiculous sponge though. Its regular health bar is set a bit too high anyway, but on top of that it’s actually invulnerable through the whole sequence between the first and last stages of the fight. Which would be fine, except they didn’t do anything to communicate that to the player! It still bleeds, it still makes pain noises, and the only way to figure it out is to waste a bunch of time dumping ammo into it. Very silly oversight.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 4 weeks ago:
I’m probably just old but it’s always faster to type :) than it is to find the 🙂, same goes for every emoji really.
Also they convey slightly different emotions
- Comment on Terrorists 5 weeks ago:
You’re responding to a Nazi. Reread their comment, they’re saying all the people being illegally arrested are rapists and murderers
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 5 weeks ago:
I was gonna say “there’s tons of em on .ml” but one of em was nice enough to prove it right in this thread
- Comment on Assetto Corsa Evo devs quietly changed Steam description, paving the way for Early Access price hike 1 month ago:
Ain’t no way that’s a real person, who tf could possibly type that out and click post without a moment of introspection
- Comment on I firmly believe all 3-4 letter acronyms will eventually be used for evil. 1 month ago:
Evil Villains In Love
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
Unfortunately I don’t know the physics, maybe something to do with how lights scatters through the windshield? Idk, all I can tell you is my repeated experience: turning the brights on definitely helps with seeing through oncoming traffic. But you are right, my older car is both smaller and lower, so I’m sure even the modern cars with lights aimed downward are more likely to shine directly at me
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
I mean I guess I’m stupid but I straight up can’t see if there’s oncoming traffic and my brights aren’t on. Doesn’t go for every oncoming car (if its lights are reasonable then I have no issues) but the vast majority of cars have newer, hilariously bright headlights that shine in a way where my normal lights simply don’t seem to cut it.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
Meanwhile I’m out here driving a 20 year old car with correspondingly dim headlights and need to have the highbeams on just to be able to see anything when there’s oncoming traffic. My normal headlights are fine when there’s nothing coming the other way, but that’s not really how that’s supposed to work lol. Kinda defeats the purpose of ever turning the brights off! I swear any newer car’s normal lights are brighter than my brights
- Comment on Rate my breakfast 2 months ago:
Make sure you microwave the can first
- Comment on Valve have just updated the Source 1 SDK on GitHub to the latest code based on Team Fortress 2, effectively making TF2 code source available 2 months ago:
Valve has made attempts to take down projects that follow those rules. TF2Classic is the example that comes to my mind since it’s the main one I’ve played, but I know there are several others. In TF2C’s case, they tried contacting Valve to find out why they’d been hit with a C&D, never heard back, and eventually quietly resumed development.
Some kind of miscommunication between legal and the devs? Maybe internal drama? Maybe they didn’t really pay attention and still aren’t aware TF2C is back up? Who knows. Still happened tho.
- Comment on Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging 2 months ago:
Kind of an odd and short article. Gives a decent rundown for OBS’s complaint but doesn’t even attempt to explain why the Fedora devs would be resistant to fixing a borked package.
- Comment on TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockin 2 months ago:
Just to be pedantic, the “let alone” turn of phrase is meant to imply that the second thing has a higher standard. So in this case it should be corrected to “this wouldn’t hold up in a Victorian age court, let alone a modern one.”
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 2 months ago:
On the one hand calling it AI is annoying, but on the other we’ve been calling video game NPC logic “AI” for as long as I can remember and no one thinks they’re actually sapient. Surely we can get to that point with GenAI as well.
- Comment on GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition Drops As a Standalone Package In Response To Take-Two's "Cruel" Move 2 months ago:
Whoops sorry, tried to post a magnet link but it didn’t work for some reason. Too long maybe? Anyway you can grab the torrent file from moddb here
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 months ago:
Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less “revolutionary” game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren’t as profitable, and that’s fine, I guess. They’re a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 5 months ago:
Or he watched one (1) JJ Abrams movie and is just trying to use the cool kids’ space jargon in an attempt to get people on his side
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 months ago:
When I look at the steam store Portal has a price tag of $9.99.
Portal didn’t come out until 2007 with the orange box, which also had hl2: episode 2 (and tf2), but the base game of hl2 came out standalone in 2004. This giveaway is a celebration of hl2’s 20th anniversary, so maybe they’ll do a portal giveaway in 2027.
- Comment on Do you really want it in your body??? 5 months ago:
Actually, that’s an avocado