caseyweederman
@caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Boys and beans and... 2 days ago:
And absolutely shredded cuffs.
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 4 days ago:
It would be accurate for me if it was fifteen John Darnielles.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 week ago:
Hmm. I’m not sure these count.
A) they’re supposed to be mysterious
B) the progression makes sense, even if the key is in one of several burned books on a bookshelf among many other similar keys, or given to you in one of the bad endings.The information is there, you just have to work for it.
I haven’t played Myst III, that was by a different company, right?
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 week ago:
It’s a secret to everyone!
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 1 week ago:
I’m playing Oracle of Ages for the first time in a while, and it is not great! The level design is flawed. The eighth dungeon is a a dark room, some ghosts, and a hint owl that tells you to “attune your ears to the sound of sword on stone” which, right, standard Zelda fare, good of them to make explicit the reminder. But none of the walls clank! You need to push one of the non-pushable statues out of the way, in the dark, to even expose the bombable wall. I went over the whole place twice, and then thought “oh maybe they’re doing a cool metapuzzle thing and I’ve got to leave the dungeon and bomb a new entrance” so I went out and tested the whole area with my sword and then bombed everything in case I was just misinterpreting the clank sound.
The underwater dungeon had the interesting raise/lower water level mechanic, but I explored in loops for an hour before looking up where to go next. I’m not saying it’s supposed to be easy, I like a challenge, but it felt like the layout was deliberately withholding information, which is bad design.
The Long Hook is an upgrade for the Switch Hook. The improvment is marginal and the puzzles that require it feel confusing (I finally have the tool for this but it’s not working (before you know about the L2 version)), forced (this is the same puzzle but the anchor object is two tiles further away) or frustrating (oh of course I was supposed to know about the offscreen anchor).
The Long Hook has an entire dungeon dedicated to it.It seems all my fond memories are actually from Oracle of Seasons. I wonder if they had parallel teams working on them.
- Comment on Build your own antisocial writing rig with DOS and a USB key 2 weeks ago:
ok fair
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
The law of the prophets was a costly covenant between old-testament god and humanity. Or, you know, whatever subgroup was in charge of translations at the time.
The “fulfillment” mentioned is a single lump sum of holy lamb blood in place of the never-actually-complete exchange of not wearing blended fabrics, not getting tattoos, and sacrificing your firstborn on a rock in the mountains. And slaughtering prisoners of war who you tricked into getting circumcised as a condition of their surrender so that they would be vulnerable. - Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
Zoom was so bad, too. It was so unreliable, it was missing basic features, the UI was unfriendly.
They’ve improved on each of these things slightly since then.
But it’s a testament to how bad Skype was that Zoom was found to be preferable. - Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 2 weeks ago:
Gold rating on protondb
https://www.protondb.com/app/553850 - Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
Jesus was in fact the one to say “yeah all this old rules don’t matter, just focus on these two: don’t be a dick and don’t be a fucking dick, god damn”
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
I was going to say “2 but with 5’s handle and if you say 1 I am going to” but I couldn’t think of a silly threat that would be absurd but in a funny way
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 weeks ago:
I have a hard time believing anybody wants AI. I mean, AI as it is being sold to them right now.
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 5 weeks ago:
The first gym is rock, the second is water, the third is electric. Charmander has a really hard time in those first two matchups and only hits neutral in the third. At this stage of the game, it’s really difficult to fill out your types because the wild Pokémon are largely birds, bugs, and rats.
If you’re really lucky, you’ll hit the extremely low encounter rate for Pikachu in Viridian Forest, and if you’re even luckier, you’ll catch one. But that only helps you against Misty.In contrast, Bulbasaur is super effective against the first two gyms, and is merely neutral against Lt. Surge and his electric mice.
And by that point you’ve fed two whole gyms full of trainers and gym leaders into your Bulbasaur (by virtue of not having to constantly rotate through your back line just to survive).
Which means it can both take a beating and lay a smackdown in what is on its face a “neutral matchup”.After that point the game opens up dramatically and that initial advantage fades.
- Comment on Switch-2 5 weeks ago:
It was a perfect storm of unpatchable hardware exploit and games releasing in parallel on hardware that was already solved. We might be waiting a while on the Switch 2.
- Comment on Switch-2 5 weeks ago:
I’m about 50/50 on this being sarcasm. I’ll risk ruining the joke by saying:
It’s simulated 3D sound, meaning no special hardware is required. Youtube plus headphones would be a good demonstration. - Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
Sorry! Sorry. Miss bro.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 month ago:
Ah yes, “co-op mode”
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 can now be hacked with just a USB Flash Drive | Modern Vintage Gamer 1 month ago:
Still pretty cool though. Maybe this tech will eventually lead to a softmod.
- Comment on Any Xbox 360 can now be hacked with just a USB Flash Drive | Modern Vintage Gamer 1 month ago:
Before you all go upgrading your consoles to the latest official firmware:
Q: Can this be turned into a softmod?
A: No, the Xbox 360 boot chain is very secure with no attack surface to try and exploit. There will never exist a software only boot-to-hacked-state exploit akin to a “softmod”.It’s also not persistent, so you have to do this 20-minute process every time, and it only has a 30% success rate.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 2 months ago:
My two wifi bands have always been Castor and Pollux.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 2 months ago:
I take a word that’s related to the purpose of the new host and put it in an online translator and cycle through languages until I get something cool.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 2 months ago:
No you.
- Comment on [DISC] Houkago, Bokura wa Uchuu ni Madou - Chapter 2 2 months ago:
That art style really reminds me of Pseudo Harem.
- Comment on I am at a loss on words 2 months ago:
One of my biggest pet peeves. Anything that I write that outputs words is gonna have a little pluralization function.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
I get what you’re saying.
But the last half of that last sentence reads “poor people are poor because they deserve to be poor”. - Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 2 months ago:
“I bought a lot of pudding”
I tried to get a gif of Adam Sandler saying that in Punch Drunk Love but I couldn’t find the exact scene I wanted so you get this explanation instead - Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
It absolutely baffles me that there isn’t a huge custom printer firmware movement.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 2 months ago:
Ao
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 2 months ago:
Sexy sexy nibbles the snake
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 2 months ago:
The MSX design space was such an exciting place.
For anyone curious about the above, it’s like this:Imagine Nintendo said “instead of manufacturing the Switch 2, we released the specs and invited everyone else to build their own. You’re welcome to buy the Xbox Switch 2, the Sony PlaySwitch 2, the Philips Switch 2-i, the Sega Switch 2 & Knuckles, or the TRSwitch80 2. They’re all guaranteed to be compatible with our software lineup.” and then like, that actually happened.