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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is better: F-Zero or Super Mario Kart (SNES)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I never liked Mario Kart at all until a friend that had a multitap invited people over for 4 player battle mode. That was legitimately fun with no equivalent on any other SNES game. For pure racing, F-Zero in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyway, i started blastin'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it made slightly more sense in the comics, though still batshit. In the comics there was no noble purpose like they tried to shoehorn in for the MCU. IIRC, Thanos was literally doing it to impressed Death (the cosmic entity) to gain her affection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three "Lost" Shining Force Games Have Been Preserved | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had Shining Force Gaiden for the Game Gear and it was probably my most played game on the system. I wonder how different this version is, not that I’d remember it much at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GTA 2 was fantastic, especially multiplayer over LAN on PC. It unseated a lot of our usual FPS or RTS games for a while as the game of choice.

  Then again, what do I know, I still think Zelda 2 was awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve definitely heard some sort of frog/toad make the “ribbit” sound, but I’d say the German “kwaak” is probably more common. The various Asian sounds seem odd to me though. I suppose it is entirely possible the frogs makes different sounds there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s absolutely the defederating that worries me more than the blocking. I have seen talk about nontrivial lemmy instances mulling defederation enough to keep an eye on it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dbzero and programming.dev are already also high on my list, but thanks for the recommendation. I’m not in a super hurry to move or anything, I’ve never been given a hard time on ML, but I hate to think I’m slowly being edged out of the wider lemmy experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I lose the spread gun, I start over.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this, this has to be the best version of this meme I’ve ever seen.

  I personally won’t start over if I lose spread, but lose all my powerups in something like Gradius or Lifeforce and it probably isn’t worth it to keep going. It is the Konami way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to say the responses in this thread are a bummer, but I’m not surprised. I signed up on lemmy.ml because when I read the descriptions of the various instances, ML’s “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts” sounded pretty great and I saw a lot of technical communities that interested me. I didn’t expect the politics. I tried to make a new user on .world a few months back, but I seemed to get stuck in some sort of user verification limbo. Maybe I’ll try midwest.social since I moved to the midwest recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I see where you’re going now, but I’m still not sure I agree with you here overall for the genre.

  I think the “add tactics” thing is already done to a degree in these games as early enemies in these games tend to be dead simple since players like likely still acclimating to the game, but I suspect that there is only so much you can do before you end up turning later enemies into some sort of frustrating puzzle. Diablo-likes, for better or worse, aren’t generally mind bending affairs, high skill ceiling affairs.

  There is definitely room in the genre for more tactical, skill dependent entries, but I not sure the end result would be as fun for most people as that would be a fundamentally different type game. Hey, maybe I am wrong and this would lead to some sort of souls-like Diablo game where skill and learning are all that matters and items and character building are far less important. Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like Hades in a way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your desire to dumb down diablo-likes is your own and I hate it. PoE and Grim Dawn are about the only games like this that I have truly enjoyed in a long time. Blizzard ruined Diablo and WoW with this bullshit take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that shopped at both, but preferred Circuit City, I think Best Buy initially did a better job of “wowing” customers and had a better store layout. They also were better at trying to squeeze money out of people and thus were more profitable than Circuit City, so when times got leaner they survived and then had the whole market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if your keyboard is hotswappable and you have any spare switches, it could be a quick fix as long as you know which switches/keys are chattering and you have leftovers. I don’t know who (Mass)drop had actually manufacture the Halo Clear switches, it could be Gateron, but I don’t think they made that information public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have chattering, that is sadly a problem with the specific switch itself and the software has just been ignoring the issue. I don’t suppose the keyboard you’re using is hotswappable? If it is, just pull and replace those switches. If not, you either need to desolder the bad switches and resolder in replacements or stick with that software. I have had some consistently bad chattering issues with Gateron switches to the point that I completely avoid them as a manufacturer. So if you coincidentally are using switches from them and plan to replace them, I’d look for a different brand of switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose technically any keyboard with a programmable controller could be considered to have software even if you don’t need to run, but I was thinking more along the lines of Logitech or Razer always memory resident garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While that keyboard isn’t for me, I’ll admit that look good and does in fact have software. Good counter point. Also, that software appears to just for reconfiguration of the layout and probably macros so I bet it doesn’t need to be run all the time, or even at all if you like the standard layout. That is how software for hardware should be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclaimer: I’m a keyboard snob. I can’t think of a single good keyboard that even has software.

  I actually use Logitech for all my mice and trackballs, but I also haven’t installed Logitech’s junky software in a long time. Maybe I don’t know what I’m missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy being used as a source now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they are definitely something that is awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Salaries are not “going through the roof”, that’s ridiculous. Salaries haven’t come close to staying in line with the cost of living, and especially house prices, for decades. It’s been thoroughly shown companies have been lying about employee compensation being the main cause for inflation and high prices. The real reason is corporate greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s both, the housing market is a disaster here, but they also could easily buy a house in a less popular, less desirable area. Now maybe that $250K combined salary is also only possible because of the very high cost of living area they live in. I have a friend that was making $150K in CA that had to live in small an apartment with a roommate, and that was nearly a decade ago. It still blows my mind, but that salary simply wasn’t a lot in that area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d have a much harder time if the questions was A Link to the Past or Final Fantasy VI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "Worst PlayStation RPG Ever" Is Getting A Fan Translation | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is for real. I have never been so disappointed in a video game, and I had E.T for the Atari 2600 as a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eddy Gordo has been this way since his inception in Tekken 3. We had a house rule banning him unless you were someone’s much younger sibling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italian herbs and spices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to this of the Earth more as a pizza roll. Eating one right out of the oven sure feels like tasting magma to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pros and cons of getting a job at a very small software company? (14 employees)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in this exact situation now and have been for many years, while previously in a gigantic company…

  Pros:

  You (hopefully) tend to have significantly more influence on the tech stack and software direction. 
  
  You're (hopefully) treated like a real person and not a cog in the corporate machine.
  
  You (hopefully) get to learn and do a larger variety of things.
  

  Cons:

  Pay can be lower, and getting raises can be harder when you're talking directly to the CEO/Owner and it is quite literally coming out of his or her pocket.
  
  Taking leave tends to be harder when there is so few people to pick up the slack.
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be Wayland issues with Nvidia, I use three higher res monitors, but only 60Hz in X11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PopOS has been running games fine on my 3070 for many years at this point. It might be worth another try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I get an NES, Master System; or an Atari 7800?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that owned all three, the NES without question. If you have budget or desire for a second pick, my recommendation would be to try and find a Sega Game Gear and pick up an adapter for playing Master System games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly all the branches have one at the schools. I made the mistake of taking the ASVAB test in high school to get out of class, scored well and was hounded by all of these guys. The marine recruiter showed up at my house carrying a CRT TV/VHS combo to try and convince me to join lol