Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Day 64 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 6 hours ago:
I too refused to learn anything from my time in the Sierra Madre. My Novac hotel room bed is now uncomfortable as I refuse to sell a single ingot.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Pirates, and everyone else in the game, are aware of the date... 6 hours ago:
Yarr, almost slipped me notice that today be 19th o' September!
- Comment on Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance 20 hours ago:
He used to be on a podcast I listen to (Bad Voltage) and there was an episode (pre-pandemic) where he came out as anti-vaccinations. I didn't listen to the show again until he left. I have zero time for people who think they know better than their children's doctors.
- Comment on The Longest Journey, a game series that lived up to its name 4 days ago:
Wonkers, that's... sad.
(I love the whole series)
- Comment on In-game audio ad firm Odeeo secures $5m investment 2 weeks ago:
The race to the bottom continues.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 weeks ago:
If we reword the question as "Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to be a mediocre experience?" then my money would be on "yes". Bethesda generally seem to aim to make games just as good as they need to be to make money. Capitalism over creative expression.
If the game is good enough to get people to buy it and consider buying the next one, that's all the effort it's worth putting in (as far as publishers are concerned). It's not a new approach, they've just had a lot more practice at it than game developers/publishers had in the '90s.
Temper your expectations as unless you're willing to buy a few million copies yourself, they can't justify the cost of caring what you think.
...and no, I do not approve of this system one jot. It's gross and antithetical to creativity. I'm glad we have a lot more independent developers who aren't as beholden to neoliberal capitalism these days.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 weeks ago:
I've been enjoying Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. It's got just the right level of compulsivity to keep me playing without destroying my life. Pretty relaxing, to be honest, although I don't think "easy" mode is actually easy!
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 weeks ago:
I suppose at some point I should learn Node.js and other JS-related stuff. I speak vanilla JS but I've not really touched frameworks. Anyway, thank you for the recommendation.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 weeks ago:
I mostly find the design of WP clunky as all hell. I'd like to add some features to my site and doing so feels tremendously awkward. Learning how to implement stuff in their way of doing things doesn't feel worthwhile to me, I guess.
- Comment on Is assasin's creed origins good? 2 weeks ago:
I found it very relaxing and enjoyable. Excellent escapism. I don't particularly care for the RPG mechanics but I put up with them for the rest of the experience.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 weeks ago:
I suppose what I'm looking for is a lightweight, multi-user CMS, with support for both static pages and a blog. If the blog could support (at least one-way) federation that'd be a bonus. It should ideally be built to work with both desktop and mobile devices (so that I can customise the look rather than build it from scratch).
It's something I could build from scratch but if I can do it then I'm sure lots of more skilled people have done it better!
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 weeks ago:
Same boat here. I had some good times with it but these days it seems to be a bloated mess. Are there any good, lightweight alternatives these days?
- Comment on Russia wants to ban Last train home 5 weeks ago:
I'd not heard of this game but it looks to be pretty good ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/1469610/Last_Train_Home/ ) and if Russia disapproves that's generally a good sign.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 weeks ago:
Don't enable his embarrassing nonsense by calling Twitter "X".
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 weeks ago:
I don't want a private company controlling government email servers, why would I want them to control government social media platforms?