jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 55 minutes ago:
I appreciate you adding your review!
Seems like you and I had similar opinions. I don’t have the dlc, but ended up reading up on it. It seems like they were good additions to the game, but I didn’t feel strongly enough to go back and get them.
If you liked the fishing theme with some plot, Dave the Diver has some parallels. I think the gameplay loop is a bit better, but it goes more for goofy/zany rather than Lovecraftian.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 7 hours ago:
I didn’t even know it had a mobile release (it’s slow paced enough I could see that working okay)!
I was actually able to finish it over the weekend and overall I think I’d give it a 6-7/10:
- Gameplay: Solid. The mechanics are fun, but don’t really evolve beyond the first couple hours of gameplay
- Graphics: Great. The open sea is both inviting and omnionous, while the characters and fish all have a nice flair to them
- Story: Okay. The story being revealed in messages and encounters is fun, but the stakes never really seem to change, and I think if the world got pulled more into your descent it would make it more impactful.
- Comment on Crunchyroll & Now Netflix Both Confirm Anime Sub Watchers Are the Minority on Their Platforms 18 hours ago:
As with most AI/LLMs it’s about how much error you can tolerate.
Translating basic info, sure the user can infer any slight mess ups. Translating jokes, idoms, tone, cultural differences, etc. is hard assuming you even got the original text right.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 3 days ago:
If that’s your kind of game, Unfinished Swan is another thats more plot based, but still has some fun puzzles. Doesn’t get mentioned as frequently so usually one people haven’t seen/played before.
- Comment on Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion 3 days ago:
Oh god, I forgot about that plot point. Yeah, hopefully they sort that out quickly. That writing in anime is too cringy for me.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 4 days ago:
Antichamber is another that feels similar. Although Antichamber doesn’t really have a plot.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
Yeah, I finished the game wishing it would be a higher recommendation, but it just falls short on a lot of things. I don’t mind the price I paid for it, but it’s a hard sell even at $29.99 (summer sale price).
The top things to me were setting, animation (feels like clay/stop motion in a cool way), and setting. But the fighting is only okay (never really evolves beyond button smashing and dodging), the story doesn’t really build on itself, and the platforming is generic and linear.
It also doesn’t help this is an Xbox studios game, since it seems like a bit more time/money would have gone far for this game.
- Comment on Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Season 2 • Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou 2nd Season - Episode 2 discussion 4 days ago:
I’m ashamed to admit I watched this due to how ridiculous it sounded. In the end it was actually one of the better isekai I watched. In the first season they really never drift from the core concept that the main character is a vending machine and can only do vending machine related things.
It did feel like it should have reached a natural conclusion in season 1, but I could see a second season being okay if it’s used to wrap up the story (don’t know enough about the original to know how long it is).
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
I just finished South of Midnight , it’s a mediocre action game with a decent story, but pretty good music specifically written for the game. It kinda feels like Alice Madness Returns meets Disney’s Princess and the Frog (without the frog changing).
Just started up on Dredge and having some fun with it so far.
- Comment on Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate 5 days ago:
I don’t have an issue with serious and complex stories, but it is an issue if that’s all you make (or at least are known for).
- Comment on Black Clover Season 2 Announced (Teaser Visual) 5 days ago:
I was equally confused. Didn’t really know it had “seasons”, felt like one piece where they just kinda keep pumping out episodes.
- Comment on Netflix Says 50 Percent of Global Users Now Watch Anime, Reveals Expanded Slate 5 days ago:
Especially if you want something semi-lighthearted and around 20-30 minutes.
Its like everything on Netflix is either full drama or dark dramedy with a 40 minute runtime and deep plot.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 5 days ago:
So I ended up reading up on the original comics because I knew they were a bit darker than the cartoons. It seems shredder is only in volume 1 of 4. In it he’s basically a New York Yakuza boss that kills splinters master. So splinter trains the turtles to kill shredder. After that he does get resurrected once, but after that he stays dead.
Volume 2 cover a full on battle with DARPA (for experimenting on aliens and turtles), Volume 3 has a possible daughter of shredder trying to get revenge, but volume 4 retcons volume 3 and focuses on a future where aliens come to earth and the turtles can roam the streets as “aliens” (which isn’t that weird for the series as aliens first appear in volume 1).
So, yeah, it gets kinda weird.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 1 week ago:
The wording is a little weird, but it’s about Capcom finances. They make more selling games on steam than selling on the Playstation. So steam/pc is a bigger market than Playstation consoles for Capcom.
- Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality. 1 week ago:
Given they mourn their dead, I think there is evidence that they do. If they can value a life, then there must be some framework within which that value stems from.
If we’re willing to agree on that, then the follow-up question would be, “do elephants have supernatural or religious beliefs?”, as you claim that’s required for morals.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 week ago:
Looks like there is a config and cache location in their docker scripts. The easiest way to make a docker application portable is to bind mount the config and cache. That way you have access to the actual files and could copy them to your windows partition.
If you’re already using a volume for that data, I think it becomes a bit trickier. I know technically you can move or copy volumes, but I’ve never tried. Although you could still bind mount a random directory and still copy the files out.
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 1 week ago:
Yeah probably while making a tool/smashing something. Knocking two rocks together, create a spark on accident, boom fire.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
You’d probably be better served by a retro handheld. A lot of them run android so you can play android games, but the built in controllers make emulating actually enjoyable.
Major issue is that the ones cheaper than a switch struggle with 3D games.
If you have the money, steamdeck is definitely one of the best bang for buck, but it’ll probably be more expensive than a switch (unless you can find a deal on a used/refurbished one).
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
There is also dead cells, slay the spire, monster train, disable immortal, etc.
However, those are also all playable on switch too. Technically you can emulate the switch on android, but I think this brings up the biggest flaw in gaming on android; you’re either emulating or streaming for most good games.
- Comment on Docker Backup Stratagy 2 weeks ago:
Yep, bind mount the data and config directories and back those up. You can test a backup by spinning up a new image with the data/config directories.
This is both easy and generally the recommended thing I’ve seen for many services.
The only thing that could cause issues is breaking changes caused by the docker images themselves, but that’s an issue regardless of backup strategy.
- Comment on US Supreme Court upholds Texas age-check for porn sites 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t think anyone has issues with having some age check/protection. The issue is how you set it up and the privacy implications.
- Comment on US Supreme Court upholds Texas age-check for porn sites 2 weeks ago:
Why can’t the law force websites to provide an age rating and we let parents decide what their children can see?
Why should someone have to share government ID with a porn site?
How does this impact social media sites like Twitter, reddit, Lemmy?
The impacts to content hosting providers and the privacy or everyday people is negatively impacted for something parents should have more responsibility over. Not to mention the Republican justices seem to be using this to make “partially protected” language a thing, which is dangerous in itself.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 weeks ago:
Really you should have it direct to a clone of the site, but with fake accounts pushing whatever agenda you want.
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but sizing is user dependent. So unless it’s based on the users purchasing history it’s useless what the average person does.
If it said “L is your recommended size based on your purchase habits and customer data”, then sure. But it just says we recommend L because that’s what other people said/ordered, which makes no sense.
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it then update to recommending a M if he picked large?
If it’s really that the sizing runs large it should just say that, but that message is very ambiguous.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 3 weeks ago:
Just want to expand on this as it’s the most direct explanation.
With two die there are 6 ways to you can roll a seven (each side has one way to add up to seven), and 36 total combinations (6 sides * 6 sides). So the odds are 6 times out of 36 or 6/36.
With one weighted die, you have a set value (say 3 for example). There is only one side on the other die that will equal 7 (4 in our example). So you have 1 out of 6 possibilities, or 1/6 chance.
However, this is only true for 7. If you were targeting 2 for example, the odds can change substantially. Normally you have one way to get 2 (1 and 1) so you’d have 1 out of 36 possible rolls or 1/36. If the weighted die was weighted to 6 though, you’d never be able to get 2, so your odds would be 0.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 3 weeks ago:
It’s really great software, and the android app is great (given it supports offline mode). I just wish the folder structure was simpler/flexible. Makes me tempted to try to make a pull request, but haven’t done something like that in ages.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 3 weeks ago:
I saw Boox called out, but not the Boox Palma². I just got it and it’s been pretty nice. The major draw is the form factor though as it’s phone sized making it pretty portable.
It runs android and I’ve set it up to work with AudioBookshelf and Komga
AudioBookshelf, while designed for audiobooks, allows you to download books for offline reading and seemed the best all in one for books self hosting. It also has a native android app.
Komga seems pretty amazing for manga and comic books (haven’t settled on an app, just using the browser now). The e-ink display isn’t the best for reading this medium, but it’s not terrible for black and white comics.
Since both of those are self-hosted solutions they could integrate with readarr pretty easily (although audiobookshelf’s folder structure can be frustrating).
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that would be my recommendation too. Anything else will produce a worse experience (laggy and slow) and more complexity to get setup/maintain.
- Comment on Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, this has always been true, the drones only close the gap by miles. The big issue with the drone attack was Ukraine ability to sneak explosives deep into Russian territory. The delivery mechanism of drones may make it more accurate, but it could have been rockets/mortars and the effect would have been the same.