ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 2 hours ago:
“Modern”? I don’t know.
Final Fantasy 10 was the last game that fit the ‘traditional’ turn based (active or not) gameplay. Since then there’s been less consistency between iterations.
Final Fantasy 11 and 14 are MMORPGs and are just fundamentally different games as a result. The latest is essentially Devil May Cry gameplay.
A lot of people enjoyed DMC and DMC is not inherently bad, but it may not be what people expect.
But the spinoffs using the Final Fantasy name have always been pretty damn hit or miss. (Compare Mystic Quest to Tactics.) This just now applies to the whole series.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 3 hours ago:
I know it is likely just the nostalgia, but the PS1 startup sounds really were the best.
- Comment on Seattle homeless population: nearly half are outsiders 4 days ago:
A stunning 86.6% of the homeless population was born outside of Seattle or King County. Nearly 67% of the homeless neither currently have, nor ever ever had, family living in Seattle or King County. Even more telling, 80.2% of them didn’t even attend high school in the area.
Jason, you’re from New York.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 6 days ago:
Natural Selection was a quality one.
- Comment on A single tuna (once canned) will be eaten across the world at different times, potentially years apart 1 week ago:
When I was in fisheries the tuna boats would bring the haul of frozen tuna into port where they’d be weighed, counted, and transferred to a cannery also in port.
A lot were fileted and cut right there too, so not all was straight to can.
Now a lot of the cans stayed fairly together by shipment. So I imagine where a lot code was split across separate pallets or shipments might a single fish be sent to different locations in can form. So I would wager the ‘rest’ of the tuna is at least on the shelf next to… itself.
As far as waste though? Some companies are super diligent about their waste streams. Fish meals and such have resale value. Others leave large amounts of parts and material in their shop floors and just power wash it back into the marine waters even while being fined and penalized by regulators. So mileage varies there.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
Classic nefarious communist strategy, damn. Next they’ll be after their purity of essence.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
“establish [new systems] before breaking [old ones]” (先立后破)."
Compared to the whole “move fast and break things” mantra thats migrated to the US government, this seems like a wise move.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
I used to tell people the proper response to this stuff would be for western industries to do the free enterprise thing and compete in this market. But the rebuttals always just devolved into prejudiced xenophobia instead of any genuine opinion or belief in green energy, infrastructure, or patriotism.
- Comment on I miss myspace 1 week ago:
I lost the music I made in college to the MySpace database loss/crash/whatever.
Upside: the music I made in college is forever lost.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 weeks ago:
MBFC does the opposite of elevate conversations. It’s quite frankly a poison pill for conversations. People will apply their prejudices and alter their interpretations based on the ‘bias check’, typically before or instead of any critical thinking or ant article.
The last time the MBFC bot was going the user pushing it was very clearly aware of this dynamic. They also knew it was lumping everything to website source, despite authors and opinion pieces, for maximum damage.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
The first year after the api debacle in 2023 was rife with culture class of redditors tromping through anarchist and communist communities and instances and freaking the fuck out they’re allowed to exist.
Those instances have resulted in defederations or there’s been enough fatigue and migration that these days its really just down to like 3 chronically obsessed users variously spamming about it.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of schmucks when shown to be wrong or lying just continue anyway until physically or financially forced to change course.
Right wingers remain the biggest justification of right wing policy.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 2 weeks ago:
Vance, being a lawyer, knows which words have meaning.
That’s why he wrote ‘tell’ ‘command’ and ‘control’ instead of ‘rules’ ‘orders’ or ‘directs’.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Threat of a lawsuit is not a lawsuit.
What happens commonly is the threat of legal liability is used as a tool to gain some kind of leverage or compliance.
In business this is very prominent practice of utilizing capital to suppress competition. Inserting trouble + waste of time and money into your competition is very American.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 3 weeks ago:
Conservative media relies on dogshit takes and outright lies and misinformation. Daily Mail is such a rag of a tabloid, it’s unreal.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 3 weeks ago:
In reality, $44,000 of the payments to Politico came from USAid, for subscriptions to E&E, an energy-focused offshoot of the company, in 2023 and 2024, the Dispatch reported after reviewing the purchases.
- Comment on My old retro game cart (now defunct) 3 weeks ago:
I moved to emulation way before furniture became a thing since I moved so much.
That said: Mickey’s Magical Quest was actually a good game. I remember some of those levels quite fondly.
- Comment on Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned 1 month ago:
‘Attended functions per her job.’
Tabloid rags and their pearls.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Also the subesquent SpeechNow decision that pulled out the stops AND created precedent by citing Citizens United.
- Comment on Here's a hot take about Sekiro 1 month ago:
The parry system isn’t really the barrier I think with the controls. If anything that is the most familiar and intuitive aspect of Sekiro. It is the additonal use of the grappling hook, prosthetic tools, and to a lesser extent consumables that throw me off.
- Comment on Here's a hot take about Sekiro 2 months ago:
I get why people love Sekiro, though it is a game I have played off and on for years now and just never finished. By the time I get myself resituated I start to lose energy for it again.
The biggest thing for me are the controls. The time and focus on committing everything to muscle memory is the barrier to Sekiro. As the years go on I find I just plain don’t have the brainspace for such a specialized game.
- Comment on The Progressive Left's Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition 2 months ago:
The whole point of why illicit drugs are banned is because it is a turning point that should not be allowed, because it is only bad, with no trade-offs, or benefits.
Please tell me you’re British. The irony would be so wonderful if you were British.
- Comment on The Progressive Left's Glossary Of Terms, 2024 Edition 2 months ago:
It’s ZeroHedge who unironically uses the pen name ‘Tyler Durden’. Fragile doean’t even come close.
- Comment on Know Nut November 3 months ago:
I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.
- Comment on Tradition 3 months ago:
PAK CHOOIE UNF.
- Comment on More Republicans Than Democrats Have Voted Early in Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina 3 months ago:
The right wing is certainly energized.
- Comment on Monkey business 4 months ago:
It probably involved Tarzan, thus involving a human.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
Precisely: this is the story CNN and the IDF want you to see. No matter the CNN reader’s reaction, the policy will not change.
So they do the thing because it is a demonstration that they can do the thing without repercussions. Bullingdon Club type mentality.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 months ago:
some of us would rather only see the half of the conversation
Well I guess the only thing I could possibly say to that woul–
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 months ago:
No, but I can almost always check the modlog when a user complains about how their thoughtful, insightful, accurate, and reasonable post or comment was arbitrarily, capriciously, and unjustly removed.
And that comparison rarely disappoints.