Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on invertebrate 2 days ago:
The nobility of the sea. True blue bloods, if you will.
- Comment on dog days of summer 5 days ago:
They don’t shove them onto spikes so they’re not quite at shrike level, but leopards sometimes drag their kills up into the trees to hide them. Imagine walking by during a windy day and it starts raining monkeys and antelope.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 5 days ago:
I remember reading sketchy guides on how to add custom ringtones without needing to pay for the privilege. Arbitrary restrictions on user folder access predate Android.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 5 days ago:
Once a week? Those things could go pretty much forever on a single charge so long as you weren’t making calls, even with batteries that had a tiny fraction of modern capacity due to their simple hardware.
Nowadays even a completely idle smartphone on extreme power saving mode is lucky to last a couple of days, especially if you don’t/can’t disable the vendor-mandated bloatware that periodically wakes it up to phone home. When used regularly, it’s not uncommon for a phone to drain within a single day.
Sometimes I miss the simple, rugged designs - right up until I remember how much better smartphones are at literally everything else. Still wish companies would get the memo and focus on bigger batteries rather than smaller phones, though.
- Comment on The Mysterious Noise, The Empty Bottle, The Asshole Labmate 5 days ago:
Thanks for getting the intro theme stuck in my head for the rest of the day, you monster (username checks out?).
- Comment on happy friday 5 days ago:
It also helps protect against biting insects.
- Comment on happy friday 5 days ago:
They’re testing the costume for Dogma 2.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 5 days ago:
We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants, but there are so many layers of giants that it’s hard to see the ground.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Voyagers free update released with modular Corvette ships you build yourself 1 week ago:
You can walk around on (parts of) capital ships, the frigates that follow them (though that’s only used for repairs), and the corvettes added in this update. The only ships you can’t explore are the single-person fighters the game started out with, which makes perfect sense given their size.
- Comment on Brutal survival game Vintage Story gets another huge update, plus work on an Adventure Mode announced 1 week ago:
They’ve also disabled purchasing on their itch.io page, so now you have to get it direct (it’s not on Steam or other stores). They claim that itch.io haven’t paid them “for over 3 months”. In their Discord, the Vintage Story developers expanded on this and said itch are “withholding a six figure sum of our revenue share”.
That looks like something that deserves its own post!
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
I’m right there with you. They’re basically saying “things could be worse, so there’s no point in wanting them better.” It’s a nonsensical thought-terminating cliché.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
They’re taking the opposite approach.
In the past families had a bunch of kids because they needed extra laborers to stay afloat, plus childhood mortality rates were so dire they needed spares to cover for the ones who wouldn’t make it.
We’re already seeing pushes towards removing child labor laws, and RFK Jr is well on his way to ensuring death from easily preventable diseases makes a comeback.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Still working on Conan: Exiles, which got an update yesterday. My thoughts remain the same: good game, excellent base-building, but there’s not really much that I haven’t already seen a hundred times in other survival games. I’ll probably drop it soon.
I finished a co-op campaign of Abiotic Factor with my brother-in-law that we started early in its Early Access period and have been returning to every few months. The game is every bit as great as everyone says, though the ending is incredibly abrupt and felt a bit rushed. I hope they expand on things in a later update or in future DLC.
Also played a bit of Gloomwood, a lo-fi immersive sim which comes very close to scratching that Thief itch. The stealth is great, there are many pathways through the level so you always have multiple routes to achieve an objective, and the AI is the perfect balance between smart and dumb for shenanigans. There’s also an incredibly satisfying backstab, though certain enemies wear armor that makes them immune so you sadly can’t ghost and clear out entire levels.
I do have some minor complaints. I’m not a fan of the limited Resident Evil-style grid inventory since I’m a packrat, especially since the game has a research mechanic where you need to chop up enemies and bring one of every single body part to a specific point on the map to unlock crafting recipes and character bonuses and one body’s parts take up the entire inventory, necessitating some very fiddly inventory juggling or multiple trips across the entire world map.
Enemies are also persistent, including their state. Once you kill someone they stay dead for the rest of the game, which on one hand speeds up backtracking, but on the other also make it a boring chore. There are a few points where new enemies spawn in old areas, at least.
I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a good immersive sim. It’s still in Early Access but what’s there is already incredibly satisfying z despite my gripes.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Please post your thoughts on Abiotic Factor when you get to it. It’s tied with Grounded as my favorite game of the past few years.
- Comment on There's a new Platinum game hidden in the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake that's actually a remake of a rework of a Zone of the Enders 3 prototype 1 week ago:
I kept a separate save file on the original just to play that minigame on demand. It’s peak Kojima, putting an entire section with gameplay and art assets never used anywhere else behind an Easter egg that 99.9% of players will miss. You rarely see that kind of budgetary mismanagement (in a good way?) these days.
I’m glad the remake kept it and expanded on it, especially since the previous HD rereleases cut the scene from the game entirely. Everything I’ve heard about Delta makes me tempted to pick it up despite usually waiting for sales.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 week ago:
I’ve played Lunacid! It was good, but the limited equipment slots (just your weapon and two rings) meant it didn’t have the same feeling of gradual progression that Kings Field had. Haven’t played Tears of the Moon yet.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 week ago:
If they ever announce a new Kings Field game, people’s heads (mine included) will explode from sheer shock and excitement.
- Comment on Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files 1 week ago:
In addition, the company […] wants to be awarded all rights, title and interest in any intellectual property developed by Cleveland, McGuire, and Gill during their employment at Unknown Worlds, including "all movie scripts, movie footage, game design, game code, play tests, or other software development.
Ugh.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 1 week ago:
Ah, right. Is there any video of his whose comment section isn’t a complete cesspool? His edgy 4chan-lite schtick draws in the worst sorts of people to become fans.
Sseth also destroys the culture around the indie games he covers. Whenever he does a video on a niche game, the flood of viewers overwhelms the existing community with toxicity and many of them never fully recover.
I’m still mad he turned the wider community of the game Starsector from mostly left-leaning fans of classic sci-fi into a bunch of stereotypical Redditors who constantly joke about committing rape and genocide - his fans even spearheading development of a mod to add those into the game. Fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #65 - Vampire Hunters 2 weeks ago:
Damn, single-player only. My brother-in-law is obsessed with Risk of Rain 2 and this seems like a good alternative, but the lack of co-op means he probably wouldn’t play it.
- Comment on You can build 136 million different houses in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's new DLC, if you really must 2 weeks ago:
What gets me is how small a hundred million is by that metric. That’s less than thirteen customizable items at four options per item, or eleven if there are six options per item.
Ironically the more choices, the less impressive their touted number becomes.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they clearly meant in liquid form.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 2 weeks ago:
Have you forgotten their Texas toast?
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 2 weeks ago:
What video are you referring to? All I could find searching on YouTube was a stream with comments disabled and tons of videos by right-wing shitbags complaining about how “woke” the awards are.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What if you have a mortgage and they call up the bank?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You greet a Bavarian with “Grüß Gott” (good luck pronouncing that one correctly) or “Servus”.
First word rhymes with “goose”, second is pronounced as it looks? That’s what my decades-rusty language skills are telling me, at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
- Most Germans have very good English skills, except maybe very old generations
Anecdotally, nearly every German I’ve ever talked to - in real life or online - has had better English skills than the average native speaker. Their secondary language education is genuinely impressive.
- Comment on Kiki a bouba 2 weeks ago:
I prefer Pallas’ Cat.
Because then we have someone to blame.
(I kid, I kid. Even if [according to zookeepers who work with them] they’re the demonic personification of every negative cat stereotype out there, I love those murderously grumpy munchkins. They’re my second favorite feline after snow leopards)
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 2 weeks ago:
Nowhere was it said that you had to give any blood back.
- Comment on 🤝🤝🤝 2 weeks ago:
There was an article posted recently about those having a surprising amount of microplastics in them as well. It turns out the production line machinery scratches the bottle cap and microscopic fragments make their way into the drink.