owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 21 hours ago:
That, or take up sailing. Either way.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 21 hours ago:
It’s there right now too, also 80% off.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 23 hours ago:
Finally picked up Portal. So far, living up to the hype.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 23 hours ago:
BG1 is probably one of my favorite games, but I started playing it as a teenager when I had time to sink into it. I imagine I might not have enjoyed it as much if I had first picked it up as an adult, especially after playing more recent titles with better QoL (I’m looking at you, 20-arrow-stack-maximum).
In addition, if you don’t know much about AD&D 2e rules, it’s not as fun. I typically play it with a party of 3 or 4 for faster leveling, or even a duo (I typically play all the Infinity Engine games this way), I find it more fun and challenging.
If you’re not into complex character building elements or slower RPGs, I don’t recommend BG1. Still one of my top 5 personally, though.
- Submitted 23 hours ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 29 comments
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
I use Qobuz, as I understand it pays the most to the artists. It’s $11/month CAD, which is still doable for me. Not sure if it’s “worth it” in the long term scope of things, but monthly I listen to music from a hundred or so albums (not every track from every album, so it’s hard to estimate what it would otherwise cost to buy).
I wouldn’t pay that much to Spotify or Google, though. Fuck them.
- Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 5 days ago:
I’m not sure what the difference between “lifespan” and “expectancy” is other than semantics, given the context of your questions. Regardless of what our DNA says, our life expectancy is typically in the 70s or 80s, and that hasn’t changed much throughout known human history, so it has nothing to do with modern technology.
- Comment on Is it true that the natural lifespan of humans is only 38 years old and we only live past that because of loads of modern medicines/technology? 5 days ago:
No.
People have lived into their 80s for millenia. Average lifespan used to be shorter because of the amount of infant mortality. That is, anyone who made it out of childhood was likely to make it at least to their 60s, barring things like war and plague.
The simpler explanation is that the study is cookydooks.
- Comment on You only know if you're bad at something after a lot of practice and hard work 6 days ago:
I already know I’m bad at taming alligators.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hey, it’s that thing Jimmy Kimmel was talking about!
- Comment on Video Games: 🙃 2 weeks ago:
We know all about blocked paths
- Comment on If your name is Theodore, you could end every conversation with "thanks for coming to my Ted talk" 2 weeks ago:
Is that… legal?
- Comment on If your name is Theodore, you could end every conversation with "thanks for coming to my Ted talk" 2 weeks ago:
We have evolved beyond merely human.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Some important facts to always remember 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on We need more signs like this posted everywhere 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jeffrey Epstein was linked to the upper echelons of wealth and politics – but where did he get his fortune? 3 weeks ago:
We know where he got his fortune. Everyone knows. Just release the damn files already.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
– Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Comment on I always thought that the airbags are in the steering wheel 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
That was my general impression, which is why I figured I’d play them in order. Going back might be less fun.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Started playing the Witcher. Gonna try to play through all three in order. Picked them up for cheap or free a while ago, never got to them until now. So far, it feels a little clunky, but the aesthetic is great.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
I think I’d be willing to let go of the handful of things that are exclusive, given that I could probably do more with a proper Linux system. It’s the basic phone functionality (as others have mentioned) that keeps me from switching.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s not really ready for it yet, but I guess I’m gonna be looking into a Linux phone before I thought I would.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 5 weeks ago:
I expect the causation is the other way around. Someone with a fragile ego may become narcissistic to protect themselves.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It lets me know they use Arch.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 5 weeks ago:
Dali/10
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 month ago:
No.
Exhibit A: current US administration…
- Comment on After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 1 month ago:
Sure, the earth will roast and people won’t have water, but they won’t have to fund artists anymore!
