hank_the_tank66

@hank_the_tank66@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  EXCEPT…for when your computer teammate jumps in front of you while you’re shooting and accosts you for it, then a second later they literally mow down a bunch of infected by shooting through you with no consequences.

  So I have to knock it down to a 9.9/10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zelda: Link’s Awakening on the GameBoy Color in the mid-90s. I got to the second temple, and was totally stuck - to progress I needed to learn to jump, which I inferred was in this temple, but I just couldn’t figure out where it was.

  Wandered all over the available map, which of course was constrained due to lacking the jump skill and other story-driven tools. Nothing.

  Finally bought a game guide, which explained to me that I needed to bomb a wall in one room in the second temple to progress. It was indicated by a small crack, a staple in Zelda games but invisible to me in my first experience with the series.

  The cherry on top was that by that point, I didn’t have any bombs to break the wall, and I recall that I didn’t have the ability to buy or acquire any and had to restart the game to progress past the point where I was stuck.

  After that point, Zelda: Links Awakening became one of my favorite games of my childhood. It is hilarious how much frustration it caused me before that realization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump announces new US tariffs on Mexican... beer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn it, Tecate is my favorite beer. I’m sure Kroger will have raised their prices tomorrow already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UnitedHealth updates data breach impact to 190 million people, nearly doubling previous estimate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got notified of it in the first quarter of last year.

  I had already switched insurances because all my providers stopped accepting UHC because THEY WEREN’T PAYING THE FUCKING PROVIDERS