grrgyle
@grrgyle@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update 14 hours ago:
Enjoy! Would love to hear a newcomer’s thoughts on it. I remember it being so immersive and cinematic the first time I played.
Though many of its innovations are now common in other games.
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 2 days ago:
My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they’re Canadian). They’re still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.
It’s such a huge change.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Are you kidding meeeee
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 4 days ago:
Added to the list! Thanks for the recco, it sounds like a good game to go in to if you’ve got reasonable expectations.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 days ago:
Kingdoms of Amalur is a great example of a perfectly enjoyable, mid action RPG. It’s not going to like define a generation, but every time it comes up I think back on it fondly.
I would like another like it.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 1 week ago:
Can we just say it isn’t? Like that’s an exception, and then the rest of math can just go on like normal
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Propaganda
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard it’s very good and I’ve tried every one, but personally could never get into them.
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
They certainly sound satisfying, but definitely can’t beat Doom in terms of utility or power fantasy.
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
I do love the audio and visuals and vibe and just overall everything of HeXen a lot. It’s not as pick-up-and-play-able as the Doom, but it’s a great suggestion. Been a while since I did a replay, too…
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like Doom or Quake are cop outs here, but they are perennial replays, and they have some great horror aesthetics
- Comment on Mandibles 2 weeks ago:
We don’t deserve ants
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.
But I’m not interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.
The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
^^^
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 weeks ago:
Pirates now the only ones preserving this culture, yeah
- Comment on ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’ 2 weeks ago:
We’d have fewer problems if they didn’t
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 weeks ago:
Ok let’s hear your take
- Comment on Purposely leaving small amounts of crypto on your device is like leaving a few dollars in the console of your car. It lets you know if your property has had it's security breached. 2 weeks ago:
So hard to pick… But I love those bushy dark maples with the leaves that are so blue they’re almost black in certain light. I call them goth maples.
Found a picture:
- Comment on "I'm hungry and thirsty at the same time what do I do???" 2 weeks ago:
I think soup was so popular because everyone had bad teeth and trouble digesting, especially as they got older.
But I’m just guessing
- Comment on Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2 2 weeks ago:
I love random screenshots! I wish I could enjoy Sonic for the gameplay as much as the vibes - I just suck at it too much
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Legitimately though.
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m still not getting it. Maybe I’ll see one for real one day and then it’ll click
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
Agreed
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve never seen one in real life, so I feel like like I’m not grokking the sense of scale.
Kind of like seeing a horse or moose for the first time (guess my hemisphere lol).
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
That was Steve though - he probably knew the croc
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Every time I picture an alligator biting me I’m like I bet I could wiggle out or like somehow overcome it, because their jaws look so long and flat - like how much strength could they have? Certainly not more than a lion.
Well.
- Comment on In action strategy builder RailGods, Cthulhu is a train and you'd better keep it fed 3 weeks ago:
Where the Trains Turn the game
- Comment on Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 3 weeks ago:
This is why we need a Crysis demake
- Comment on Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 3 weeks ago:
Ok WTF. Unencrypted PII on prem, just out in a hostile public environment???
