otacon239
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- Comment on fuck gary 15 hours ago:
Oh hey. That’s the meme I made!
- Comment on Has InZoi been better than the Sims in your opinion? 4 days ago:
So far, the critical component that the Sims clones lack is character. Sims understands that Sims are a bit different than real people and they go out of their way to make them quirky and a bit hyperbolic. The clones seem to try and be real life simulators which I would argue is difficult to actually make enjoyable. Real life is boring.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 5 days ago:
I picture an electric car with almost no dashboard at all. Just one dial for speed and another for remaining charge along with your odometer if you feel you must have that info. Maybe estimated mileage, but even that’s just spare info to someone who’s used to a classic fuel gauge.
In a car, the interior should fall away and the car should become an extension of the driver. Only by feeling the need to preserve the car do you drive with the necessary attention to protect yourself.
People seem to treat cars like roaming living rooms instead of the farm equipment they really are.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 5 days ago:
I spend a solid amount of time in RDR2 camping. I’ll go to town, gather some supplies, and head out in a random direction with no map.
Gather food as I go, hunt for game as I find it, craft supplies, and live off the land.
You can take multiple in-game days to get places and even better is choosing a mountain or similar in the distance and making that your destination.
You still come across plenty of side missions with this approach because of how much is going on in that game, but it feels quite genuine when you do.
- Comment on Never saw this before and it's funny 5 days ago:
Still my favorite take on this:
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 week ago:
I still chase after the first playthrough experience of Okami. It was a time before novel ways of interacting with the game world were the norm. Everyone I knew at the time was playing CoD (some even just played Zombies mode and nothing else), Battlefield, Halo, GTA, Pokémon, Mario, Zelda… all titles that “everyone” played at the time.
When I saw Okami on a commercial, I knew I had to own it. There was nothing like it at the time and the way it pulled from Japanese culture was such a new concept to me. The way you can stop time at any point and paint shapes on the screen was just too cool to pass up. Not to mention, the almost hand-drawn aesthetic was still one of very few at the time.
I will admit, I can’t stand the experience on Wii. I can only enjoy it on controller because of how awkward painting with a 6-foot brush is.
- Comment on Oooooh! 1 week ago:
I assume this is to the tune of “I’m a Lumberjack”
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- Comment on Lingo 1 week ago:
Don’t ask where the Dunkaroos come from
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 week ago:
I have seen this recently pretty often that people seem to believe Lemmy is an equal representation of the real world. It’s probably one of the more niche media platforms, though. I come here because I enjoy every third Linux post. I also know that I have to go out of my way to find someone who has even heard of Steam, let alone a Steam Deck.
- Comment on is micromanaging in classical music much worse than in other jobs? 1 week ago:
When I was in high school band, it didn’t feel like this. It felt like you were trying your best to become a part of the bigger sound. You really don’t want to stand out or “express yourself” as much because it was about the song, not the players at that point. Whenever I was corrected or told I needed to practice a section, it came across as duty more than personal reflection.
I also did marching band and the same rules apply. You want to blend in with the field. No one player really gets a spotlight of their own.
- Comment on October gaming 1 week ago:
And then my dad beat me with jumper cables
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 1 week ago:
Obligatory
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 1 week ago:
I’ll stick to my home server, thanks.
I’ve spent the last 2 years pulling all of my cloud data. I’ve read too many stories at this point about people losing access to their stuff and with the way administration is going, that’ll only get worse.
The cloud is just someone else’s computer, after all.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I guess I was taking for graced that 4k was one of my requirements. Hadn’t even thought to mention it.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 2 weeks ago:
Or even worse, “if we don’t it, someone else will anyway”
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
The challenge is finding a model that lets you rip them. To my awareness, there isn’t any officially supported method to rip BluRays and you have to modify the firmware to let you backup your own media.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
Back in 2015 or so, I noticed some of the movies on Netflix that I wanted to rewatch disappeared. I caught on pretty early that this was going to be the case where all the good stuff cycles out, so I took to building a Blu-Ray collection. Now all of my favorites are quick and easy to get to.
At some point I’m planning on digitizing the whole collection because I know discs degrade, but I’ve been hesitant because I don’t want to cook my drive’s laser in the process.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 2 weeks ago:
That’s easy. You just ignore your conscience because money speaks louder to these people.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had plenty of success using it to build things like docker compose yamls and the like, but for anything functional, it does often take a few tries to get it right. I never use its raw for anything in production. Only as a leaping off point to structure things.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 weeks ago:
All I want is more BT 😢
- Comment on Why does my brain think I still need counterpoints for arguments I had ten years ago? 3 weeks ago:
……No
- Comment on Why does my brain think I still need counterpoints for arguments I had ten years ago? 3 weeks ago:
I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 3 weeks ago:
doot doot mr skeltal ☠️🎺
- Comment on Good one! 3 weeks ago:
Nope. Imhotep from The Mummy.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 3 weeks ago:
Burgerius sounds pretty believable
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 3 weeks ago:
Banksy’s Letter on Advertising presents it in better words than I ever could.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Teaser Trailer | Tokyo Game Show 2025 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, 5 was one of the go to demonstrations for the Steam Deck when it first came out.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, not to mention the actual advantages that come with the format, such as search, highlighting, multiple bookmarks, nets, etc. Yes, you can do most of these with a physical, but not without marking up your original copy or having extra materials on hand. Just way more convenient overall.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t had to do a full OS upgrade yet, but standard packages can be updated and installed right in the web UI as well.
