drasglaf
@drasglaf@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 16 hours ago:
I ended up getting a Japanese Model 1 years ago, but I always wanted the Model 2.
- Comment on Umurangi Generation - Capturing the Apocalypse 2 weeks ago:
The soundtrack was made by youtuber ThorHighHeels, maybe some of you have heard the name before.
- Comment on Dark Messiah of Might and Magic - RTX, Coop and more 2 weeks ago:
Vermintide 2 has fun melee combat IMHO.
- Comment on Why is Pokémon Emerald so grindy? 2 weeks ago:
I had the same problem. Slow transitions between interactions or conversations, I’m convinced it was made like this by design. It makes the game look longer than it actually is, pretty infuriating.
- Comment on Hi-Rez Studios is laying off further employees and ending development on Smite, Paladins, and Rogue Company 3 weeks ago:
They de-spaghettified the code so it’s less spaghettified than ever.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Devs Might Be Adding Fake Heroes In Game Files To Fool Data Miners 5 weeks ago:
Some new skins leaked earlier today:
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 5 weeks ago:
Its creator and only maintainer started having health problems and that was it.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 month ago:
I got here as a kbin.social refugee and I can’t say I have any complaints.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 month ago:
Even back then this kind of advertisement was an anomaly coming from Nintendo.
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 2 months ago:
It’s a shame they forced them to release it unfinished. If you decide to play it, install the Restored Content Mod from the Steam Workshop. It restores a lot of cut content, making the game a bit more complete.
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 2 months ago:
Knights of the Old Republic: D20 based RPG set in pre-BBY Star Wars universe. Excellent story and characterization, great gameplay and progression - I’ve replayed it at least six times. If you like Mass Effect at all you should enjoy this. The sequel is worthy but not the same gem that moved the genre, but a worthy title
The sequel has Sara Kestelman as Kreia, that alone makes it worth playing.
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 3 months ago:
One of the best games of the past decade for me.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #37 - Call of Cthulhu 3 months 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 3 months ago:
That’s exactly what came to my mind when I saw the image haha
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 3 months 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 4 months 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 5 months ago:
idbehold
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 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 5 months ago:
Next game: Hazard Of Precipitation.
- Comment on Cemu 2.1 Release 5 months ago:
I meant PS3, but thank you for reminding me I’m old.
- Comment on Cemu 2.1 Release 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 months ago:
Way cooler than astroturfing.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 6 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 6 months ago:
What next, a Ristar movie?
