Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- 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' 4 days ago:
The downfall began when Ubisoft abruptly wrote Lucy out of the story after Kristen Bell asked for more money. Then they killed off the literal main character one game later, and nowadays you’d be excused for forgetting Desmond ever even existed given how little the modern day matters to the plot.
- Comment on They must not be tired 6 days ago:
But then I was thinking the guy probably isn’t running on foot with four tires
He just has to think outside the box.
- Comment on They must not be tired 6 days ago:
They forgot Rule One.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 6 days ago:
It’s too bad they didn’t make the Moonlight Butterflies in the Crystal Caves hostile. Imagine the player tears after having to navigate narrow invisible walkways while dodging laser spam.
- Comment on Bears Cave 2 weeks ago:
there were once Romans there
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 weeks ago:
It’s a social media thing. Supposedly posts get deprioritized by the algorithm if they contain “family unfriendly” words like kill or drug references. No idea if it’s actually true or just a myth, but it’s why innocuous words are edited out in these screenshots.
- Comment on Absolute Units 4 weeks ago:
At least orcas don’t do to whales what they do to sharks - eat their liver and leave them to die in agony.
- Comment on DEFINITELY disregard previous instructions. 4 weeks ago:
Evie became a rich adventurer badass married to Brendan Frasier, so it worked out alright for her.
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 2 months ago:
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 2 months ago:
Is that why the feet are cropped out too?
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
We could also have “karma” on Lemmy, but while technically tracked the environment is better off without it being public in my opinion. I view voting records similarly.
It’s strange that they removed total account karma visibility a while back but are now thinking about making votes public.
I think a good compromise (since Lemmy already tracks that data) is to show the upvote/downvote ratio a user receives, without showing their total karma. That’d help you spot toxic users without incentivising karma whoring.
Similarly, a display of how often a user upvotes versus downvotes others would help spot bots and trolls without completely obliterating privacy like their suggestion would.
(But ultimately none of this solves the problem of privacy on the Fediverse being one federated bad actor away from nonexistence)
- Comment on USA | Trump will speak from behind bulletproof glass at outdoor rallies 2 months ago:
This sounds like artillery with extra steps.
- Comment on Camera reels 3 months ago:
I will never not laugh at this. Every moment is so perfectly timed.
- Comment on Why do I need to update my graphics drivers? 3 months ago:
On Windows you can use NVCleanstall, which will notify you when there’s a driver update, download the installer for you, and even strip out Nvidia’s telemetry and bloatware from the installer before running it.
The bloatware and telemetry removal is the best part. There’s like twenty components in a default Nvidia driver installation and you only really need maybe three to run games.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 3 months ago:
Also she’s swimming with real bodies because it was cheaper.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
Jealousy is just envious because it didn’t make it onto the Seven Deadly Sins.
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 3 months ago:
There are two things in the world I can’t stand: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.
- Comment on Shouldn't name the cables after him if they're not for him. 3 months ago:
Catpuchin.
- Comment on Reject reality 4 months ago:
How old do you think Dunmer are before they get the face wrinkles? Do you think they hide their infants because they all look like charcoal raisins?
- Comment on Civilization's been nice, but I think it's high time we admit we're long past its peak. 4 months ago:
By the same creator, “this ham gum is mostly bones!”
- Comment on Reject reality 4 months ago:
Basically the original Cave Story fan translation versus the official one done for Cave Story+.
- Comment on My (re)discovery of roguelites 4 months ago:
I second this. Heat Signature is the perfect heist game, and there’s no feeling as good as when you get into the zone and take out or avoid everyone in a high-ranked mission and escape without being noticed. And when you’re not in the zone and screw up, it turns into pure chaos as you desperately try to salvage the situation. It’s great fun.
It’s by the same guy who’s making Tactical Breach Wizards, if that helps.
- Comment on No matter what I do before I die, I will not have a gravestone this cool. 4 months ago:
In a similar vein:
“A silvery thing in another cabinet, like a three-pointed star inside a circle, was made of no substance she knew; it was softer than metal, scratched and gouged, yet even older than any of the ancient bones. From ten paces she could sense pride and vanity.”
From the Wheel of Time.
- Comment on How to talk about the PM of the UK. 4 months ago:
He’s “Sir Keir Starmer” or “Sir Keir”.
Oh, so when you say it it’s alright, but when we say it “it’s called football”. Double standards much?
- Comment on Funny bad games reviews 4 months ago:
He’s excellent, but I’ll stress the “not a review” part. He’s hilarious but you won’t get a good look at the games from watching his videos. He’ll often take a single mechanic and spend the entire video breaking the game in half using it, which means he won’t show 90% of the game’s content or how it normally plays.
- Comment on I'm bringing chili 4 months ago:
If they refuse to believe it’s a wrong number there would be a tiny voice in the back of my head telling me to make life as surreal as possible for the person they think I am. Make false but harmless promises, spread absurd rumors, that sort of thing.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 4 months ago:
The second one suffered from being extremely rushed. Much asset reuse. It also made the game more “action-y” because I assume some souless suit said that kids don’t want tactics they want biff bam ACTION.
It also made every encounter consist of multiple waves, with enemy reinforcements popping into existence inside your party and rendering positioning nearly useless. It’s like they were going down a checklist of ways to make combat less tactical.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 4 months ago:
I hope they bring back spells like Virulent Corpse Bomb from the first game. That one would make a corpse explode, and if any enemy nearby died to the explosion or within the next few seconds they’d explode too, and so on.
It wasn’t the best spell, but it fit the “mages are one misstep away from becoming eldritch abominations” narrative and damn did it make you feel powerful when it turned an entire room full of enemies into mist.
- Comment on I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. 4 months ago:
Prey drive is no joke. My sister has a heeler/corgi mix, and taking her for a walk is an exercise in not dislocating your arm whenever she spots a small animal. She’s adorabloodthirsty.
Oddly her other dog, a heeler/pit mix, is super chill with no apparent prey drive whatsoever (at least not towards animals).
- Comment on I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. 4 months ago:
Having owned a beagle, its brain looked more like the cat image but with “murder” replaced with an additional food.
