knight_alva
@knight_alva@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 16 hours ago:
Idk if everything is back up now or if I got lucky but I had no issues.
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 6 days ago:
The dude is so happy about his lot in life too.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 6 days ago:
I’m getting the impression that your producer isn’t remotely qualified to be making these claims.
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 6 days ago:
How much are you willing to dig for it? I’m playing through hollow knight atm and have been shocked at the emotional depth that hides in the margins of the world. If you plow through the game and only touch the required content then all you get is the overall somber vibe. But if you turn every stone, talk to every npc, complete every side quest, you might be surprised at how much love and loss and joy and pain there is in the story.
Overall it is about picking through the ruins of a dead kingdom. You can engage with that as much or as little as you want. IMO they do an outstanding job of rewarding you for the effort.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 1 week ago:
You aren’t completely wrong but what you are saying is wildly overly reductive. Yes nutrient deficiencies can cause many symptoms which overlap with mental health disorders such as ADHD and can often lead to similar dopamine seeking behaviors, but it is wildly inappropriate to observe a person’s disorderly behavior and conclude that the condition is dietary. It’s just not that simple.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 1 week ago:
Dopamine seeking behavior might stem from poor mental health? Color me surprised!
- Comment on ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Gets September Release Date After Seven Years in Development (Gaming News Roundup) 1 week ago:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think this is a bit harsh. Personally I respect the devs for going silent. I’m glad they took however long they wanted to perfect the project. No doubt their silence has cost them but I would rather see that than see them constantly putting out bits to try and keep the hype alive. It’s more honest and respectable this way, and the game itself will be better for it.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 weeks ago:
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? (/s)
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 weeks ago:
Not how that works but it’s funny.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 3 weeks ago:
Arguably, dark souls 1 (either ending)
The other games leave room for long term consequences but the 1st game is entirely pointless in the broader scope of the story.
If you don’t link the fire, you just did all of that adventuring for nothing. You may as well have just stayed in the asylum and let Gwyn slowly burn away.
If you do link the fire then you just reset the clock for the age of fire to fade again later while you wait for the next guy to come kill you just like Gwyn.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 5 weeks ago:
I would add the OG Mortal Combat gave us the MSRP rating system.
- Comment on This is why brexit happened 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate the Moomlaut
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 month ago:
Can’t be sad about being poor if you just stop wanting things.
- Comment on choice 1 month ago:
Help me step bro I’m stuck in the washing machine!
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
Not great. Thanks for asking.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
It is materially different because a person with dementia can’t legally advocate for themselves so it is easier for an action against them to be considered a crime.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
I’m down to 28 now. Apparently some of them saw this thread …
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
Fraud in the sense that the guy is lying and profiting from it, sure. But the common / google definition of a word and the legal definition/ application of that word are two completely different things.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
I mean the article itself is apparently satire so yeah.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
I’m no legal scholar by any means but I think in America this would be a civil suit not a criminal case unless the amount of money involved was tremendous.
I won’t even try to guess how it would shake out in Japan.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
Your grandma having dementia changes the formula a bit.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
As I said in another reply, my thinking is thus:
It’s a poor definition because gift exchanges are strictly voluntary and non-reciprocal engagements. I’m not saying what he did was ok or even legal in other contexts. My only point is that I wouldn’t consider this fraud because the victims were not compelled to give. This isn’t a Nigerian prince scam where the victims were promised greater returns at a later date. These victims gave with the expectation of monetary loss.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
It’s a poor definition because gift exchanges are strictly voluntary and non-reciprocal engagements. I’m not saying what he did was ok or even legal in other contexts. My only point is that I wouldn’t consider this fraud because the victims were not compelled to give. This isn’t a Nigerian prince scam where the victims were promised greater returns at a later date. These victims gave with the expectation of monetary loss.
- Comment on Perspective 1 month ago:
Old carpet will show wear as people kick / drag against the backs of the steps. This is especially true for cheaper construction where the steps don’t have the typical overhang.
- Comment on Perspective 1 month ago:
At the top-left corner of the image we see a support bracket for the hand rail. The orientation of this bracket only seems to make sense if we are at the bottom of the stairs looking up at the mattress. The shadow cast by the mattress also looks like the light is above and slightly closer to the camera.
If we were at the top looking down, that would imply that the hand rail brackets were sideways instead of being vertical, and that the light was mounted on the wall instead of the ceiling. I have seen stranger things in construction but it would still be strange and unlikely.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
Hoping that isn’t real because that’s kind of an f-ed up definition for fraud. Also, what a legend.
- Comment on It was inevitable 1 month ago:
The brand name is far from the point here but why bother when “grumble grumble America bad” is an option.
- Comment on Fitness 2 months ago:
Nope! Just a single hole they do all of their business through called a cloaca. Birds are like this too (because birds are reptiles)
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 2 months ago:
Memes about the suffering of the innocent don’t actually help either. If your feeds were just a firehose of misery you are ultimately powerless to change, all that would do is hurt you.
I’m not saying we should be ignoring the wrongs of the world. All I’m saying is that there is a time and a place for moths.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you were talking about someone else, you would probably say something along the lines of “everyone deserves to be loved” so when you start being down on yourself, just remember that though means one of two things:
Either you really are somehow the worst human being who ever lived and somehow the first who truly doesn’t deserve to be loved, or your brain is just being mean right now.