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- Comment on More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 2 weeks ago:
I believe some cults grew out of communes
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 2 weeks ago:
Have you heard that the developers are making an ACTUAL sequel?
Yes, after all these years. They legally had to rename Star Control, so now it’s “Free Stars”. And the sequel to Star Control 2 is “Children of Infinity”!
Check it out! I’m so excited for it.
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 2 weeks ago:
Back in the day, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. I find the series can be a hard sell to people who didn’t grow up in that era though. Sonic 1 is a classic too, but doesn’t hold up as well as the others, imo.
Streets of Rage is another solid trilogy. I think it peaked at SoR2, but the other games are fun too.
If you’re just looking to play games and not buy them, Crusader of Centy is a lot of fun. A bit of a unique Zelda-like game where instead of new items, you get new animal followers!
The Shining Force duology is great, too. It was probably one of the first SRPGs to be released in North America!
And obligatory name drop for Star Control. The sequel is so much more fleshed out, but this one is a tactical strategy game where you have space ship fights when you encounter the enemy. There are two sides, each with ~7 unique and distinct ships!
Other than those…check out Sega Lord X on YouTube! He always talks about Shinobi, the arcade ports, and other awesome Sega games!
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 3 weeks ago:
Fair, but that doesn’t make them pedophiles specifically.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 3 weeks ago:
I believe the research suggests that homophobes (to give one example) are no more likely to be homosexual than the average population. … though not much less either.
Just because some are projecting doesn’t mean all/most of them are.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 3 weeks ago:
Is there truth to this? I get projection, but I haven’t heard anything about this before
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 3 weeks ago:
Notice I wrote in present tense
Immediately after saying “some history is in order”.
Square Enix didn’t give us the original Final Fantasy nor the original Dragon Quest. They give us those games now. But writing as if they were always one company feels like rewriting history.
- Comment on Twitch starts requiring face scans to watch mature streams in certain countries: Your face is now the key to unlocking gambling and hot tub content. 3 weeks ago:
If you’re handsome enough, your face was always the key to unlocking hot tub content!
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 3 weeks ago:
Some history is in order. The two most influential JRPG developers are Square Enix and Nihon Falcom. Square Enix gave us Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
Uhh… credibility lost. They’re saying history is in order and they immediately begin by rewriting history.
Squaresoft and Enix were two different companies for decades, particularly when they were giving us Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
Just goes to show that you don’t even need AI to spread misinformation! Haha
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft says AI is more productive than workers. Microsoft says workers are more productive in the office.
AI is not in the office.
So do we bring AI into the office to make it more productive?
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 1 month ago:
If you mean games, yes.
If you mean consoles (like the post suggests), then what they’re saying is that your strategy won’t work…at least if you want to buy them new.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
Oh, interesting! Is parental consent legally required for certain ages to date in some places?
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
I was asking if they thought that people under 18 shouldn’t date.
15 and 16 pair work by the 1/2 + 7 rule, but not by “Anything goes 18+” rule
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
16 and 15 shouldn’t date?
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
50 and 32? Maybe, I guess?..
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 1 month ago:
It works the first couple of times the receiver gets feedback that way. In their entire lives.
I’ve realized that what the article says applies to me – it can be hard to receive positive feedback when you’re anticipating the upcoming “constructive feedback”.
And then you’re left wondering how hard it was for them to come up with the positive stuff. Is the positive stuff all fake just for the purposes of wrapping the “constructive” part?
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 month ago:
I thought bar food is tipped the same as restaurant food.
Tipping a dollar a drink is standard because
- It’s easy
… that’s really it. No thinking, no math, etc. which is important when you’re drinking.
Also, you too per drink so the bartender knows you tip right from the start.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 1 month ago:
Because they get neutered/spayed
- Comment on YSK that if you live in London, free cycle rides are offered every Sunday 1 month ago:
I can cycle for free every day where I live!
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
Has anyone liimed into these horses??
Looks at keyboard
Ok, I guess that could make sense
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 months ago:
Your title says “What are in you are top 3 favourite games of all time”.
You were thinking of “your”, which is possessive. “You’re” is a contraction of “you” and “are”; the apostrophe is a hint there.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 months ago:
Probably a Mystery Dungeon game. I’d go with Gen 5, having not played it on ages, for a mainline game.
Scarlet/Violet was surprisingly decent, at least in the end-game.