Doc_Crankenstein
@Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Rime, a descendant of Ico 1 hour ago:
Rime was such a relaxing game. Sad to hear about their studio.
- Comment on There are no laws! We made the whole thing up! 2 hours ago:
Congratulations, you have discovered the starting point of anarchist philosophy. Please, read further. It’s good stuff.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 hours ago:
“Rule of Law” is itself a form of tyranny. It is nothing more than the dictates of a hierarchical authority trying to assert its control over others. It is a fundamentally oppressive system that can and has repeatedly throughout history been used to facilitate the oppression of marginalized peoples.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 hours ago:
And then there is Andor… Image
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 11 discussion 1 week ago:
I fucking knew we were getting a Gundam episode when I saw the Kaiju and remembered the new guy had sci-fi mech magazines at the beginning of last week’s episode.
Why not? We already have paranormal, supernatural, and fucking soccer genres. Let’s toss mecha into the mix.
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 1 week ago:
*cries in PS Plus Game Catalog*
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 1 week ago:
Isn’t called the military-industrial complex for nothing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Saw a couple streamers show off an hour of gameplay.
looks that they took fan criticism to heart. The night is back, it’s deadlier and darker than ever.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 2 weeks ago:
I see the appeal but that appeal doesn’t apply to me.
They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.
I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don’t like souls design creeping into my other genres that don’t need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 2 weeks ago:
It’s also plays very differently even if both are still Metroidvanias. Axiom is more of traditional Metroidvania while Hollow Knight/Silk Song are modern “Soulsvanias” that include Souls-like mechanics, such as precision combat with a high skill ceiling and corpse runs. I also prefer Axiom over Hollow Knight as well and wish more retro styled games were more popular.
Hollow Knight gained popularity so rapidly and widely explicitly because of it kinda, and I mean no offense by this, riding the coattails of the Souls genre and doing a better job of it than Salt and Sanctuary, which is also a great game, with great art, runs on a potato, and is also in the “Soulsvania” genre yet didn’t receive nearly the same level of recognition.
Hollow Knight just got lucky going viral. That’s just how markets be sometimes.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 2 weeks ago:
Shaka literally tells you they will go back to town if you talk to them I think two or three times. That’s just a Soulslike thing ya gotta get in the habit of. Exhaust that dialogue, always.
But Corpse Runs are just a dumb mechanic for a Metroidvania. Those platforming challenges wouldn’t feel so bad if not for them. Losing 200 rosary hurts. That’s a lot of time grinding that back.
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 10 discussion 2 weeks ago:
The new dude being juxtaposed into all the flashbacks as if he was actually there the entire time threw me for a loop and made me question my sanity.
Then I remember I am watching Dan Da Dam and that’s just what this show does to ya.
- Comment on [Episode] DAN DA DAN Season 2 • Dandadan 2nd Season - Episode 10 discussion 2 weeks ago:
Yea, I do believe the flashbacks stopped after the unintentional teeth knocker.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 weeks ago:
Called it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 weeks ago:
RIP Steam download servers.
- Comment on Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me 2 weeks ago:
Good work, bad choice of pose though.
Idk what you were going for but it really looks like she’s just lifting her leg to show off her butt and nothing else.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 3 weeks ago:
Just to say, they were still semi-anarchist in nature, but not in the modern sense where it means “chaos” rather the political sense where it means “absence of hierarchy and horizontally-structured self-governance”, which is representative of the confederated nature of the Flying Gang where the different crews were considered equal and all had a say in their governance, based in a mutually agreed upon code of conduct. Within the crews themselves, captains were more like delegates who were chosen to take on leadership responsibilities but were at the whims of the crew. Power came from the bottom up, not the top down. If a crew was displeased with how their captain led the ship they were well within their right to depose him and appointed a new one.
Anarchism is not the bad “chaos and disorder” that the ruling class would have you believe.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 3 weeks ago:
Really wish more people understood this.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 3 weeks ago:
Also, retire early
Lol, what a pipedream. People these days are lucky to be able to retire at all.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 3 weeks ago:
Nope then you just get overwhelmed with your lack of access to basic necessities because our society is structured to where, if you do not overwhelm yourself with arbitrary responsibility for the sake of generating profit for owning class bastards, you apparently haven’t “proved” that you “deserve” to live.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 3 weeks ago:
Was gonna comment this earlier but decided not to. Glad someone else did.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 3 weeks ago:
Okay. And? Be mean to cops anyway. Don’t let them scare you into submission. That’s how fascism wins.
- Comment on Day 408 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The game has periodic expeditions that have some story to them, and there is the main overarching story plus the “Journey to the Center” bit
But yea, it’s mostly a sandbox where you make cool bases (and now cool space ships) or try to make number go up and grow an intergalactic trading empire.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 3 weeks ago:
How has no one mentioned Happy Wheels yet?
- Comment on Centipede Simulator Steam Page is now live 3 weeks ago:
Why does the game footage look like one of those cheap, mobile “game”, scam ads?
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 3 weeks ago:
I can’t fix her but she can make me worse.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 3 weeks ago:
Then use one of those sites that gets rid of it if there is a paywall for you.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 weeks ago:
Economics also plays a huge role in conservation as well.
Sadly the focus is put on making the conservation work for the economic interests rather than the economy working for conservation efforts.
My econ professors did not like me that much when I had to take their classes for my conservation degree.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 weeks ago:
Just want to chime in and say that Karl Marx was also an econ major.
Yet, being an economist, he also neglected to base his theories in any real science, only in “business science”, which is why I’m a proponent of Kropotkin instead.
- Comment on Mystery surrounds $1.2B Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas 3 weeks ago:
A mystery? For who? Scooby fucking Doo?
