MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Assumptions 11 hours ago:
LOL sounds like that game gets it right too! In Cataclysm DDA there’s something called an “antlered horror.” Basically undead moose.
Sheer. Friggin. Terror!
Obligatory:
“A Møøse once bit my sister …”
“Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…”
“We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 1 day ago:
Thank you so much for sharing your story.
I’m grateful to your mom, and I’m glad you’re here. <3
- Comment on Assumptions 1 day ago:
Anyone who’s played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead will tell you: Moose are NOT to be messed with. Hoo boi.
In the season, if you see them across the map, pray they haven’t seen you.
I imagine this models a healthy respect for real moose(s?) too lol.
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 1 day ago:
The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.
Normally I’d agree, in that it’s not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.
Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I’m not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.
- Comment on Journiv v0.1.0-beta.8: This Thanksgiving, give your family the gift of memories that last forever 1 day ago:
Oh this is REALLY cool. I’ve been using Daylio for a long time, and this seems like it’s aiming to be a great self hosted replacement!
So, multiple users can journal on their own accounts, or can you control who sees your entries?
This is such a neat idea. As a soon to be parent, I 100% understand the motive behind building it too. I can’t wait to try it! :)
- Comment on Insulin 1 day ago:
It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it’s paid for at every possible turn.
- Comment on Insulin 1 day ago:
Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.
“Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums… That health insurance starts to kick in!”
(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)
- Comment on Insulin 1 day ago:
Either that, or maybe they don’t have diabetes there. (Lol joking)
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 week ago:
That’s awesome. Like he was really hoping for some dismal and dark exposé on “savage human nature” a la “Lord of the Flies”, and at every turn, proven wrong by people who were happy to just get along and cooperate for mutual benefit…
… Which should come as a complete shock, social species that we are! /s
I think these desperately dark tales of people turning on each other in sociological contexts is another propaganda tool to put this idea in our heads that without “qualified leaders” we’d all just be grunting and beating each other over the head with rocks.
Nah, someone to gain has to motivate us to fight each other. What if we just said “lol, anyway” and kept getting along on the raft?
- Comment on Immich v2.2.0 adds OCR 4 weeks ago:
That’s AWESOME. I hope Nextcloud gets better at this soon. So far I’ve been needing to spend some time renaming the files from 64 character CDN hash names to tags like
“Monkey,gibbon,spin,woop,reaction.gif”It’s worked somewhat well so far if I try to keep it as simple and obvious as possible.
- Comment on snail lyfe 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like they were designed by a Spore player. 😂
- Comment on Fight me 5 weeks ago:
So does our Colombian red tail boa! :D
- Comment on Smells Great 5 weeks ago:
It got dissed.
What it did to deserve that, we might never know. . .
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 5 weeks ago:
Okay, so eat the fucking coffee cup. I’ll wait.
Bortus enters the chat.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 5 weeks ago:
Let me know so I can hand them my Blender models I’m too lazy to RE-topologize. Ugh! Lol
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 5 weeks ago:
“BEHOLD. A MAN!”
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
I just got it on GoG on sale. Can’t wait to try and tackle it after like…20 years or more? Surely, my brain should be able to grasp some of its logic now! :D
My mom will be so proud. I grew up playing it with her and we had to resort to walkthroughs a lot. XD
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
That’s really cool to see this here. That’s one I haven’t played yet but keep thinking about because watching the wild first person parkour leaping just felt like some of the best dreams I’ve ever had.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
How fitting, you fight like a cow!
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
Based on this criteria, everything about the sequel, Riven, seems like it passes with flying colors, as everyone says the puzzles tell the story and feel like real devices in the world, rather than a world constructed to be a puzzle itself.
I’m really looking forward to playing it with my grownup brain haha.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 5 weeks ago:
I got SO FAR through it and somehow lost my cloud saves after a hiatus so…I guess I am gonna have to experience it for the first time again!
It can be a little tedious in long stretches, but I absolutely loved how this game took us back to those fun quirky self-expressive days of the Internet.
Stand with Gooper!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Oh that’s a lovely game! We really enjoyed that one too! The voice acting was sublime and the characters were so loveable. It was so endearingly quirky without going way over the top.
Exciting to hear that there’s a sequel coming!!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
X-COM 2: War of the Chosen:
I’ve played this game off and on for years. Fondly wishing I could get back to it and just not having the time. Then I caught strep throat and literally couldn’t do anything but just play games.
Honestly? Finally. I felt like crap, but I was so happy to have an excuse to just enjoy myself instead of being obsessed with what I “had” to do.
The game changed a lot since I last played so I had to start a new save, and I’m having a blast. I love this game so much even with some of its flaws. Do your squaddies miss a 90% shot sometimes? Yes. Infuriating.
But when they make that hail-Mary hit that saves a teammate, or you sneak through a compound to break out an imprisoned comrade and exfil, it’s ADDICTING.
Also, not gonna lie…the game hits a little different in 2025, seeing as it’s about being resistance fighters waging insurgency and a propaganda war against an alien occupying authoritarian regime that is kidnapping people and hauling them to blacksites. Man, that uh, is a little uncomfortably close. (But it’s only a game…The aliens are actually competent.)
The custom voice packs are incredible too. (My sniper with a Bob Ross voice calmly saying “Let’s do a little painting today.” Or “Let’s get a little crazy.” When setting up a shot from across the map never gets old.
This game’s complete version I’ve seen on Steam for like $5 before. This is one of the best tactical experiences there is, and at first I hated the “pressure” this game puts on you, but I’ve come to enjoy the urgency and being forced to weigh difficult decisions rather than just sending my “A-Team” of snowflake OCs to clear every single mission at a leisurely pace haha.
And the soundtrack. Oh man. Once that “Ready for Battle” track hits where you select everybody’s loadout, you really feel the weight of assembling the right squad when you never know 100% what you’re about to send them into.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
From the trailers it honestly looked really cool, but then I saw and heard about the all draconian user-disrespecting stuff like the online-even-for-campaign requirement and highly invasive kernel level anticheat that requires TPM 2.0?! That part felt bonkers to me.
Like is that gonna be a thing now? “This game demands to register a cryptographic key with your bootloader to make sure you’re not up to funnybusiness.” (I’m not 100% sure how it works, so my ignorance is filled in with LOTS of suspicion…)
Also EA just got bought by like…Saudi private equity? That’s pretty spook to me, too.
I dunno. I just wanna play Titans on Battlefield 2142 again. And BF 3 and 4 were nice too…
Also a Linux gamer. (Shrug)
Don’t wanna scare you off too much! Just things to consider, because £60 certainly ain’t chump change! :)
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Oo I hope it can be paused for when a customer shows up. Looks fantastic for a slow day!
(I considered MUDs but lots of people talk about how obvious the traffic is, it’d freak out I.T, blah blah blah…)
- Comment on Built to last 1 month ago:
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
Woah you know what? I think when I got it on 360 I didn’t get any of the DLCs. (Just a special edition that gave me a…nuke launcher? Lol)
Here the remastered trilogy is just sitting in my library…I need to finally get to it!
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
Swimming Nougat didn’t come out until Steak Eater tho.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
The ending of ME2 alone makes the whole trilogy worth it IMHO. I dare say that’s just about a “perfect game.”
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
I really miss that. I’m sad that even games like WoW where I gladly chatted with strangers all day has turned into…well…
Kinda like everybody’s going grocery shopping with their headphones on…
