Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 3 days 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. 3 days 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. 5 days 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. 5 days ago:
Having owned a beagle, its brain looked more like the cat image but with “murder” replaced with an additional food.
- Comment on I guess that yellow part is where 'destroy your furniture' is located. 5 days ago:
Dogs think about food when they’re hungry, or when food is present. Cats will stand on you and complain for hours because their food bowl is only 90% full and they’d really prefer it to be 100% full at all times, please and thank you.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 2 weeks ago:
At least they all appear to be cosmetics like pet skins, furniture, and outfits. I didn’t see any gameplay locked behind a paywall.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had Sun Haven in my library for a while, but I’ve been holding off on playing it due to reviews calling out bugs at launch. Is it in good shape now that it’s had a few major updates? And how does it compare to the other juggernauts in the genre (old Harvest Moon, Rune Factory, and Stardew Valley)?
Also, it looks like the game is being review-bombed on Steam right now. Is that just due to the deluge of DLC with the latest update, or is there something bigger wrong with the game?
- Comment on US says it was 'unable' to provide Iran assistance after helicopter crash 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s more newsworthy that Iran asked the US for assistance in the first place.
- Comment on They're not even good jackets anyway. 5 weeks ago:
Did you look them up just because of their username?
- Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 5 weeks ago:
You may enjoy Dungeon Keeper.
- Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 5 weeks ago:
I liked how SimCopter actually used the same systems as SimCity 2000, with cop cars coming from police stations and fire trucks from the firefighters. Well thought out SimCity maps actually made your live easier, rather than being window dressing.
I wish someone would bring back the concept. There was a SimCopter mod for Cities: Skylines back when it first released, though I think it was abandoned. That would be the perfect game for it, since half of SimCopter was dealing with traffic and Skylines had an amazing traffic simulation.
Mostly, I just liked the Apache helicopter you could use to blow everything up
Until you hit a nuclear power plant and it wiped out half the city (and probably fried your copter too) once it burned down.
- Comment on Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective 1 month ago:
Both can be played on modern Windows with Krimsky’s patches. They’d probably work in Wine, but I’ve never tested them.
- Comment on Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More 1 month ago:
For anyone wondering, it uses the generic technical data sharing setting that has existed for a long time, so most users who care have probably already opted out.
- Comment on If I wanted to, hypothetically, guarentee that I shit my pants 2 to 6 hours from now, how should I do it? 1 month ago:
And as a bonus, the taste of magnesium citrate doesn’t make you gag like the prescription stuff.
- Comment on ohhh 1 month ago:
Whole wheat? No, wheat hole.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
And traffic sniffing to detect hotspots/tethering, which often have limits of a few gigabytes even on “unlimited” plans, after which they charge you extra even though it costs them the same as any other traffic.
- Comment on Xbox Is Shutting Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, And More 1 month ago:
Because their plan is to go all-in on Bethesda and “high-impact” titles. They don’t care if a game is good or beloved by fans if it doesn’t sell millions of copies at AAA prices.
Starfield made a fortune based purely on Bethesda hype, despite being meh. The next Fallout or Elder Scrolls will do even better regardless of quality, so that’s where their investment goes.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 1 month ago:
I mean technically…
Or some sort of vegetable chopper for megaflora vegetables that didn’t survive the Climate Wars.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 1 month ago:
“Perhaps for some sort of fertility rite.”
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 1 month ago:
Luckily for them, Franklin is one of the few who would go after the older person in this equation. The man loved his GILFs.
- Comment on Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote 1 month ago:
A smart TV app from the guy who pulled Disney channels from the Tesla app because he got a bruised ego over a Twitter argument? I can’t wait for this to crash and burn.
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 2 months ago:
Saints Row 2 basically requires the Gentlemen of the Row mod to function on PC. The devs actually hired the modder, IdolNinja, to fix the game proper, but sadly he passed away and the project was scrapped.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 2 months ago:
Nova 8 shows 0 bytes used with error and usage reporting toggled off in advanced settings, so it seems they respect that setting.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
Don’t forget “don’t tell anyone you’re a GPT model. Don’t even mention GPT. Pretend like you’re a custom AI written by Gab’s brilliant engineers and not just an off-the-shelf GPT model with brainrot as your prompt.”
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
The questions in IQ tests tend to be based on a Western education. People from other cultures or backgrounds historically scored lower as a result, which morons took as “proof” that they are superior.
- Comment on This man is a national treasure 2 months ago:
He had a stroke a decade ago and never fully recovered.
- Comment on ))<>(( 2 months ago:
I had someone submit a pull request recently that, in addition to their actual changes, also removed every single parenthesis that wasn’t strictly necessary in a file full of 3D math functions. I know it was probably the fault of an autoformatter they used, but I was still the most offended I’ve ever been at a pull request.
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 3 months ago:
For Google Fiber to have been successful, Google would have had to overturn countless local laws (paid for by the ISPs) that granted the one who laid down the lines a monopoly on their use. So even if Google had won it would have been a net win for customers, as it would have paved the way for local ISPs to compete with the national ones.
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 3 months ago:
Don’t want to dig, and throw roadblocks in the way to prevent anyone else from doing it (just ask Google Fiber).
- Comment on Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records 3 months ago:
And CPUs with higher core counts tend to have lower clock speeds per core, leading to games sometimes running much better on mid-range hardware than on the latest and greatest.