Underwaterbob
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- 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. 16 hours ago:
I (horribly inefficiently) figured out a puzzle in Prime Mover last night that took me four hours over two days. It was a real hallelujah moment.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 days ago:
Final Fantasy isn’t continuous. Aside from races, the occasional character name, and some thematic elements, the games are not connected at all. PS2 has two of the best: 10 and 12.
Of the two, 10 is a more traditional turn-based experience with notoriously awful-in-a-good-way voice acting and a very typical FF plot. It’s not really a spoiler to say that you end up killing god. It features some of the most egregiously awful mini games to grace the franchise. And if you want some of the best gear in the game, you will be committing a not -insignificant amount of time to frustrating button mashing.
Square tried a whole bunch of new stuff with 12 including realtime, MMO-like combat and a much smaller and focused narrative that is mostly a side story occurring inside a larger narrative. The voice acting is infinitely better than 10’s, and there are no obnoxious mini games.
They’re both still worth playing. The PC ports don’t add all that much to the games over what you can do with them emulated. In fact, I bet save states make some of the mini game awfulness of 10 better.
I did not intend to write an essay…
- Comment on Piegoth Ur 5 days ago:
Bocca Della Verita!!
Stick your hand in there and say something. If it’s a lie, lose your fingers.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
I will search that! Sounds cool. Why are there no giant mud dauber horror movies I wonder?
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
That’s cool. Mud daubers are extremely chill and will only sting you as an absolutely last resort. They also are great at keeping the spider population down. Which I’m a little torn on because I love spiders since they eat mosquitoes, and mosquitoes can fuck off and die afaic.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 3 weeks ago:
I tried to play through it recently. Game was OK, but fuck their stupid launcher. I want nothing to do with GTAO, so why do I have to load into its menu every single time I go to play the game and suffer through a bunch of ads to play a fucking single player game I paid for? I uninstalled about ten hours in. I might pirate it. It’s probably a better experience.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
The one reason I have a nice, relatively new phone is that I want a fairly large, OLED screen for reading after dark. Yeah, I use it for a bunch of other stuff, but I wouldn’t really miss any of those. The only thing I really need is the ability to make it look like text is floating in the dark over my head in bed.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 3 weeks ago:
They won’t because the bullshit is profitable. Yeah, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and Hollow Knight: Silksong are all fantastic games and sold very well, but their numbers don’t even come close to something like Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite. The bullshit will continue as long as “gamers” keep foisting money at it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 weeks ago:
I used to play inverted. If it wasn’t inverted, I’d flail around helplessly. Then one day, inverted didn’t feel right, and I had to switch. It’s been that way ever since. Sometime during the PS2 era I think. I played equal numbers of PC and console games up to that point. Dunno why it happened.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I remember a few sad runbacks with populations looking pretty sparse…
- Comment on quiet place 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and the waterfall blocked their hearing entirely. Might be a good idea to go live there, even. Especially if you’re, y’know, pregnant.
And some random guy in his house discovers the sound that messes them up. Apparently the military failed to try playing loud sounds at aliens with super sensitive hearing. Just never occurred to them to try that I guess.
Annddd, if their hearing is that crazy sensitive, they’d be jumping at every random raccoon fart and bird dropping. There’s no way they could pick humans out over any distance. Sound is just a pressure wave through a medium, and doesn’t actually get that far with an appreciable amount of energy left over. These things would have to be everywhere to be such a threat, yet you hardly see any in the movie.
Maybe entertaining, but it holds up to precisely zero scrutiny.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 weeks ago:
The run to Blue Smelter nearly gave me a coronary.
- Comment on Finished Inscryption two days ago and I am absolutely amazed (minor spoilers) 5 weeks ago:
I loved the first act. Acts 2 and 3 took a bit of a nosedive mechanically, I thought. It was very easy to break the game and just have some game-busting card combo that carried you through all the fights. I don’t think I lost a single encounter in the third act. Still, it was super cool overall. Lots of interesting ideas.
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 5 weeks ago:
It’s the George Carlin bit about driving, “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”.
- Comment on Metal genres 5 weeks ago:
Haha! Now you’re just taking the piss. Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and any number of modern composers have composed plenty of music in 4/4. Whatever bias you have against western music, there’s no denying they knew their shit.
- Comment on Metal genres 5 weeks ago:
Well, 4/4 is definitely the easiest to dance to. It’s also the easiest to ignore in lieu of whatever else is going on musically. It appeals to the lowest common denominator. Not that 4/4 has to be boring or predictable.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 5 weeks ago:
The sound from the speakers he must have used was also “analog”. Sound - defined as a pressure wave through a medium - can’t be digital. Though the difference between analog and digital kinda loses meaning in cases like this.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 1 month ago:
I used to argue this stuff online. I had to quit for my sanity. If anyone wants a sample of the absolute insane beliefs and the staggering amount of handwaving these people are capable of, I suggest checking out evolutionfairytale.com. They will unironically claim to be objective, then a sentence later tell you that “proper science literature” is to be discredited because it has a pro-evolution bias. 🤣
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 1 month ago:
One of my most vivid memories of the 80s was that bullying was absolutely rampant and no one did anything about it. Parents then were just like, “It’s part of growing up!”
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 month ago:
I have 4630 MP3s on my phone. Most of it is organized well enough. An album per folder. Lots of them are even tagged correctly. The folder on my PC that is holding probably 3X that is a horrible mess.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Battleblock Theater and Noita, but I’m having trouble with controller support for the latter. It doesn’t seem to work on Steam Deck when it’s docked.
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- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 2 months ago:
Megaman 2 still reigns supreme IMO. The most consistent soundtrack for any video game ever. Bangers end-to-end.
Sexy Parodius is also fantastic. It’s a demented mix of jacked up, synthesized classical and folk tunes. This is probably my favorite track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRO9Q0dbQA&list=PLAdIErL… The synth-sax is incredible!
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 months ago:
Huh? I don’t think I’ve ever used a rental car service that didn’t require a credit card. Exactly so they can charge for this sort of thing.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 2 months ago:
It took approximately an hour after Ozzy Osbourne died for every single Black Sabbath video on YouTube to be inundated with “R.I.P. Ozzy” comments.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 2 months ago:
It’d be incredibly unrealistic to have them have any degree of success given the ease of determining their motive and potential targets, and the sheer amount of resources the police would undoubtedly throw at finding someone who was killing oligarchs.
- Comment on Oatmeal 2 months ago:
“Xarelto”, or alternatively “cereal with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, crushed peanuts, raisins, dried cranberries, and Greek yogurt” if medicine doesn’t count.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Used to be 18 or 20, then I had a kid and 2 became the norm.
- Comment on In heat 3 months ago:
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 3 months ago:
Yeah. Reacting? Not a problem! Waiting to react? Ohshitohshitohshit!