drasglaf
@drasglaf@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 days ago:
One of the best games of the past decade for me.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #37 - Call of Cthulhu 2 weeks ago:
I played it when it released and quite enjoyed it. I don’t remember much of it though, it might be time to give it another go.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what came to my mind when I saw the image haha
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found this in the wild, it’s quite worrying, but not surprising, unfortunately.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 5 weeks ago:
You can, install it and uninstall it once again. Repeat until you’re sated.
- Comment on New Cheat Code Discovered in Sega Saturn Doom After 27 Years 2 months ago:
idbehold
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
If you like JRPGs and haven’t played it, Radiant Historia would be a great choice.
- Comment on Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve 2 months ago:
Next game: Hazard Of Precipitation.
- Comment on Cemu 2.1 Release 2 months ago:
I meant PS3, but thank you for reminding me I’m old.
- Comment on Cemu 2.1 Release 2 months ago:
I thought the consensus was that a system needs to be at least 20 years old to be considered retro.
- Comment on Archaeologists find 4281-foot-long secret tunnel beneath ancient Egyptian temple 2 months ago:
For more than two decades, criminal lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez was on a quest to find Cleopatra’s tomb. The quest took her to a temple known as Taposiris Magna, located 25 miles west of Alexandria, Egypt. Her initial excavations revealed mummies with golden tongues, a cemetery of Greco-Roman style mummies, a mysterious bust, 22 coins that were believed to belong to Cleopatra’s visage, two Ptolemaic-era alabaster statues, and ceramic pots, and vessels. But in November 2022, Martinez and her team stumbled upon a colossal rock-cut tunnel beneath the temple, that they dubbed as a “geometric miracle,” reported Artnet.
Since the time Martinez came to Egypt to search for Cleopatra’s tomb, she believed that it was hidden somewhere on the outskirts of Alexandria. Once in Cairo, she contacted archaeologist Zahi Hawass, then the country’s minister of Egypt’s antiquities affairs. She rolled out her project details and requested support. Her project was approved.
Cleopatra was the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt from 51 to 30 BC. According to Artnet, Cleopatra died by suicide after her husband, the Roman general Mark Antony died in her arms. The two were buried together. Through her excavation project, Martinez aspired to discover both tombs. While the tomb itself was not discovered, the discovery of the tunnel was significant as it could give some clues to the tomb. Representative Image Source: The Death of Cleopatra, 1785. Private Collection. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Representative Image Source: The Death of Cleopatra, 1785. Private Collection. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Among other artifacts, “The most interesting discovery is the complex of tunnels leading to the Mediterranean Sea and sunken structures,” Martinez told CNN. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities also announced the find in a Facebook post. As per the translated post by Artnet, the ministry described the find as a 4,281-foot tunnel, located 43 feet underground. According to The Smithsonian, a part of the tunnel is submerged underwater, probably due to several earthquakes that impacted the region between 320 AD and 1303 AD. Archaeologists believe that these massive seismic tremors caused the temple to collapse.
The tunnel is quite alike the Eupalinos Tunnel in Greece, which is considered as one of the most important engineering achievements of antiquity, Martinez told Live Science. The Tunnel of Eupalinos, located on the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, was an aqueduct that carried water for more than 1,000 years.
As for Cleopatra and Antony’s tombs, Martinez kept working to locate them. "If we discover the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, it will be the most important discovery of the 21st century. If we did not discover the tomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, we made major discoveries here, inside the temple and outside the temple,” Hawass said in 2009 to Heritage Key in a YouTube video.
In March 2024, Martinez shared an important update stating that the clue to Cleopatra’s mummy might be hidden in the Mediterranean waters of the submerged Alexandria, per Discover Magazine. “If there’s one percent of a chance that the last queen of Egypt could be buried there, it is my duty to search for her,” she told the Heritage Key blog in 2009.
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the first half of 2025 2 months ago:
I cancelled my preorder years ago and don’t regret it one bit. The last 4 games I ever preordered: Shenmue 3, No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. Never again.
- Comment on New Toejam & Earl ROM Hack Revives Classic Mega Drive Game 2 months ago:
I never got to play it back in the day. there was always something else more interesting to buy/rent. Will have to try it one day.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
The problem I see with that is, bad actors only need to make accounts in instances that opted out to keep doing their thing. But yes, I think they’ll choose this option in the end.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
That’s a fair point, but I still thin it’s a very specific case. I believe it would benefit way more than harm the fediverse in general.
Like others have said, maybe do it opt-in, so each instance can choose whether to have it or not.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
If your privacy is at risk in a place like Lemmy, you might be giving away too much private information IMHO.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Way cooler than astroturfing.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
I say make them public. It was like that on Kbin and it never brought trouble.
- Comment on Screenwriter of Zelda Movie Developing Live-Action Eternal Champions Film 2 months ago:
What next, a Ristar movie?
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
If I’m not mistaken the Hot Coffee mod restores content made by Rockstar that was cut last minute.
- Comment on What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments 2 months ago:
For me it was the jump to 3D in the 32 bit era. We already had some games in 3D prior to that, but with the arrival of Playstation and Saturn the landscape changed forever.
- Comment on Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order. 2 months ago:
I’d say play them in release order. I hope you didn’t pay much for that set…
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 2 months ago:
I think it’s a matter of taste. I prefer JRPGs, so FFVII is the best one for me. But both are great games in their own right.
Ocarina is more innovative and its formula was copied for many years. Z Targetting especially (I know some other game used something very similar before OOT), set an example for everyone to follow.
And FFVII, while not that innovative, also set its own legacy: if not for FFVII the West would have missed many great JRPGs from then on. It opened the floodgates and publishers started thinking of US and Europe as viable markets for JRPGs. So we have to thank FFVII for that.
- Comment on What have you played this week? 3 months ago:
I’m about to finish Phoenix Wright 1 and with it the whole saga (I started my replay with 2), and I’m playing Breath Of Fire IV. The first time was 2 years ago and my phone died mid-playthrough, hopefully this time there will be no issues. I’m playing it on an RG Cube for the portability, the only downside is I can’t fully appreciate the gorgeous sprite work in such a small screen.
- Comment on What if Dinosaur is the most common form of life, and they sent their DNA here in a galaxy wide seeding operation? 3 months ago:
Children of Time
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
If you don’t mind emulation, I think Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale fits your criteria quite well.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
Remote Play Together is another big one for many, I’ve used it together with Retroarch, so much fun.
- Comment on "Resurrected" Sega Neptune Console Gets Its First Exclusive, Sword Of The Apocalypse | Time Extension 4 months ago:
If it’s not too expensive and there is an easy way to hook it to a CRT monitor, I might consider getting one.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Here, something to keep you going.
- Comment on Play 3DS Games On A Virtual Reality Headset | Retro Gaming News 24/7 4 months ago:
Citra can already be played on VR, this looks a bit unnecessary.
