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- Comment on Humans should lay eggs 1 month ago:
A single shoot for everything like the cloaca sounds terrible though
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
For sure, enemy variety is important.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
I agree FF style turn based combat is boring. I mean games that have an auto button that plays it for you are admitting it.
That’s why I like games that have more creative combat that blends different genres. Undertale has some turn based, some realtime bullet hell. Battle network has a real time grid based with card game elements.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
Haha I have thought about that too actually. Mainly because my career path and favorite hobby were both decided by small random moments. It’s definitely made me more open to new experiences.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
I also hate grinding but sometimes I get addicted to it. Like my lizard brain is likes watching the numbers go up. I recently loaded an old save in final fantasy and saw my level at 99, health at 999/999 and gold at 999999 and was like “I don’t remember grinding any of this”. It happens in a trance.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
I agree these games made big improvements but I still see them as bandages to the inevitable problems that came with random encounters. There’s no undoing the interruption of flow you know.
I think it’s a tradeoff though like I said. Because I don’t know how you can have a combat system as cool and creative as say Undertale (blending turn based and realtime bullet hell) or battle network (blending turn based, real time and card game) without it being completely separate from the overworld.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
Good point. I guess it is 2 things I’m talking about.
I think battle transitions are a tradeoff. They free combat but at the cost of interrupting flow. If you don’t do anything with the freedom they give you and you just make the same tired pokemon style choose from a menu combat it’s not worth it.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
I haven’t played any CRPGs and I’m not familiar with them. Any recommendation of an intro to the genre?
But many of your points are still familiar. Trivial encounters feeling like an annoying waste of time, items or abilities that control the encounter rates, etc.
I think making regions safe is a great idea but I would want it tied to a challenging side quest. Like maybe you can intentionally fight a harder version of an area’s enemies to make it safe?
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 1 month ago:
That’s a good point. Trivial encounters feel like a grindy and annoying waste of time. I guess it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way though.
I also think Final Fantasy falls too much on the old turn based choose from a menu, watch a cut scene system, when there was room for something more interesting. That’s just taste though I guess. I haven’t even played any other than Final Fantasy I and Tactics Advance maybe they changed.
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- Comment on xkcd #2983: Monocaster 2 months ago:
Where would a penny-farthing go?
- Comment on When investing your money, what is considered a good rate of return? 6 months ago:
- Comment on There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. 7 months ago:
Thing is these generation labels are not as common outside the US. I doubt they know or care.
- Comment on Is my voice annoyingly high? 8 months ago:
It is high but not annoyingly. Don’t let it bother ya
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Why is everyone saying passwords are encrypted? I thought they were hashed?
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 9 months ago:
Morally wrong? What does morality have to do with any of this?
This is a matter of conventions. Which way we do it doesn’t actually matter that much as long as we all agree on a way. Maybe you think PEMDAS is counterintuitive, maybe others disagree. That doesn’t make it morally wrong.
- Comment on the agent's argument in the matrix 9 months ago:
Again with this defeatist attitude huh.
- Comment on If one day our Fingerprint ends up Getting Stollen, Is There a Way we can Change it? 9 months ago:
Stollen?
- Comment on What are your thoughts on photosynthesis ? 9 months ago:
Maybe you’d find chemosynthesis more interesting. Bottom of the ocean, using Earth’s heat, independent of the sun.
- Comment on HELP: Fediverse app / network that allows the following? 10 months ago:
I don’t know if that’s true. I thought it wasn’t. In theory they should work together if they both implement the protoco, maybe it’s the clients or the instances that are lagging behind?
- Comment on HELP: Fediverse app / network that allows the following? 10 months ago:
I know this doesn’t answer your question but a lot of client apps are open source so you can always request a feature on their GitHub.
- Comment on Why does the gaming community (among others) have to be so destructive and toxic? 10 months ago:
I don’t think the statements you cite are destructive or toxic. They’re just negative reviews. If you truly don’t care what people say then they shouldn’t matter to you.
As for the charge that a game is generic and you enjoyed it, well think about it. A game reviewer has to play hundreds of games a year. They’re constantly playing games. If a game is like other games they’ve played it’ll be boring for them. You on the other hand as a player probably don’t play nearly as many games. So it’s less likely that a game is like other games you’ve played. Even if it’s similar to other games you probably haven’t played them so to you it’s new.
There’s nothing wrong with people having different opinions about games and expressing them in their own language no matter how mean it may sound to you as a fan. If you had fun with it, great.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Look at that beautiful [answered]. I forgot lemmy lets you edit the title of posts. So many embarrassing typos avoided
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
Maybe wait a little while haha. This civil war is dragging on and we might be more than one country by the time it ends.
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
I live in Qatar. Will be moving to Germany soon hopefully.
I don’t really feel qualified to say what the media gets wrong about Sudan because like I said I didn’t grow up there and I’m not a political scientist. Sudan is not talked about much in the western media and when it is, it’s never good news. Usually because another coup or killing, and it’s more accurate than most media in the middle east. But if you want an example of western media getting something completely wrong here’s Fox News calling Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo a reformist. He’s a genocidal warlord with ties to Russian Wagner. I suspect that article is propaganda because he’s been known to hire PR firms to clean up his image.
Ok. Enough of the depressing reality. What food are we known for? I don’t know actually. We share some of our culture and foods with our much more popular northern neighbor Egypt, but that culture is mostly attributed to them. For example we also have pyramids but not many know that. We also make Falafel, ful, mahshi etc.
We do have many foods that only we make but it’s not known to outsiders. Usually Ramadan food: traditional stews eaten with gruels or fermented bread. There’s some traditional drinks too.
One of those stews, is a food other Arabs know because of a funny coincidence: part of its name in our dialect means “male whore” in other dialects.
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
I’ve not lived there since I was 6. My experience is doomscrolling the news and getting really anxious about getting a new citizenship ASAP. I have family there and they mostly moved outside the capital where the fighting is. Some are still in the capital. It’s hard to contact them. Last I’d heard of my cousin he was eating raw flour to survive. He’s a doctor in the military trapped in a place surrounded by fighting.
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
Sudan
- Comment on While everyone is watching the world stage and some are predicting WWIII, isn't there a good chance that the USA is getting close to some kind of civil war? 11 months ago:
My country is going through a civil war right now.
The US is nowhere near close. You’ll be fine.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 11 months ago:
What am I missing? Can you explain?
- Submitted 11 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 64 comments