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- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 3 days ago:
I think the commander dude gives you hints if you keep losing a particular fight though. He’ll get explicit about the trick for Psycho Mantis!
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 4 days ago:
I played MGS for the first time recently, and it felt like a PS2 game with older graphics. Would’ve blown my mind as a kid if I had it back then…with a guide, too. Otherwise, I never would’ve figured a bunch of that stuff out, haha
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
I understand the skepticism on society’s priorities.
Athletes are literally 1-in-a-million individuals. They bring in crazy amounts of money from people who want to watch them play.
The real problem is that there are so many people who are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to watch a sports game, but not willing to see teachers properly compensates (in my opinion). Because athletes getting a big share of the pie that they’re bringing in sounds fair to me. The question is why people have that much pie to give them, and not as much pie to give to schools.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Where I live, we’ve been treating…
- Nurses very poorly. Underpaying and overworking them, while not training enough new ones.
- Family Doctors (aka. GPs) very poorly by removing the kinds of services they’re allowed to provide, increasing expenses without increasing compensation, and again, not training enough new ones.
Doctors are paid well, but they also have incredibly high expenses (and often high student debt, too).
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 1 week ago:
I have an Excel file for recurring expenses with dates of recurrence and auto-calculated yearly and monthly totals, and these factor into my monthly/yearly “budgets”. And thus, into how much I need to maintain my emergency fund!
- Comment on YSK that you can/should budget yearly for long term purchases 1 week ago:
That’s a good idea! I do things differently (basically adding money to different “pools” to use for different categories), but if I need to forecast how much I’m going to spend on things, this would really help.
I tend to assume that something I buy will last forever (unless it’s explicitly replaceable)…but that’s basically never the case these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
(her boyfriend is no longer alive)
- Comment on UZDoom the successor to GZDoom has a first proper release out now 4 weeks ago:
I played it for the first time a few years ago and had a blast. But I’m also not big on modern FPSs. I just liked the simplicity of Doom
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 4 weeks ago:
Their hardware is too expensive even with this subsidizing it
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 4 weeks ago:
The commenter you replied to seems to be suggesting that the spying still happens
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 4 weeks ago:
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 5 weeks ago:
When did you see the most activity here?
- Comment on Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away 1 month ago:
Damn. One month, you find out you have cancer. Next month, you’re dead.
- Comment on A list of open source games. 1 month ago:
Originally released for PC in the early 90s and ported to the 3DO with voice acting and FMVs. The 3DO version got released open source.
UQM Mega Mod is a fan-made remake with optional HD graphics, QoL features, and all kinds of extra goodies. Only possible because the game is open source.
Originally known as Star Control, the series is now known as Free Stars. UQM is SC2, and they released it for free on Steam in anticipation of the release of its long-awaited sequel, which fans backed upwards of 6 figures.
The game is a space adventure game. The dialogue is great, and was the cited source of inspiration for Fallout’s dialogue trees. There’s also space battles with a couple dozen unique spaceships.
The game inspired things like Mass Effect and Stellaris. So if you enjoyed any of those, give this game a try!
…or at least add it to the list!
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 month ago:
I’m generally of the same opinion about the Switch, but it’s amazing to be able to play it on flights
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
I was about to say that garage doesn’t have the wrong “g” for GIF, but then I realized that some people might be ending “Garage” with an actual “j” sound
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 1 month ago:
Given that they’re using stack overflow, I’m guessing they also have “professionals who have more time than work to do at work”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
with the exception of two brief situationships I was in cus women suck.
This is part of the problem. You’re blaming an entire gender because you ended up in situationships.
Even if those two women are 100% at fault, you’re not just blaming women, but saying that all women “suck”.
women don’t wanna be talked to for more than small talk
This is part of the problem. Why are you talking “to” women and not “with” them? What do these two different phrases (“talking to” and “talking with”) look like? There’s a huge difference.
Plus getting out is anxiety provoking
This is part of the problem. It’s natural for some people to have anxiety. If you have the means, see if this can be treated by a specialist.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 2 months ago:
What else would it mean? That’s the kind of content the internet creates.
a centaur-woman pregnant with octoplets
You may have spent too much of your lifetime on the internet if you think that this should be common knowledge, haha
(I say that as someone who probably fits into that category)
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 2 months ago:
I’ve heard it’s 30%, or whatever the same as Steam is
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 months ago:
On the contrary, I think the standard way that just about everybody who can read English would be best.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views 2 months ago:
Literally the motivation behind Grok.
“ChatGPT doesn’t lie in the way that puts us in a positive light. So I’ll make my own AI to do just that!”
- Comment on BALL x PIT | Release Trailer 2 months ago:
I can’t help but pronounce this as “Bollocks Pit”
- Comment on More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause 2 months ago:
- Give all players a pause limit. A certain number of minutes per game and per pause, and a number of pauses. Players can’t pause anymore after going over their time limit or pause count limit. The game resumes after a pause’s time limit is reached.
- Pausing should happen after a delay of a certain number of seconds. So a player hits pause, countdown starts before actually pausing.
- Resuming from a pause also has a timer.
- Players’ pause stats are retained. People who take more pauses or spend more time pausing the game get matched with each other.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 2 months ago:
To stop the edit wars.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it’s officially pronounced “jiff”, and it’s taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 2 months ago:
Most are at airports, but it’s amazing to me that number one is a shopping mall in Canada… albeit Canada’s Texas.
The other non-airports were media-related amusement parks (mostly Disney)
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 2 months ago:
What are you eating for dinner that the taste of energy drink goes well with it?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 months ago:
No wonder the last guy thought we got disconnected 30s in after I told him I was unplugging my router.
“Sir? Are you still there?”
“Oh, yes. I was just waiting with the router unplugged.”
“Oh. Well… it’s probably fine now.”
“But it’s only been like 30 seconds.”
"Oh, has it? Well…uh, ok I guess.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 months ago:
There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.
If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 3 months ago:
From experience speaking with Americans, Bahb would get really confused because he probably can’t hear the difference between his name and Bob.
I thought this post would be about calling a French guy Pierre vs. pee-Air, even when speaking English, lol