BertramDitore
@BertramDitore@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited) 6 days ago:
Wow, that sounds awesome. Based on all that, the devs seem solid, I think I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the response!
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #64 - Enshrouded (Revisited) 6 days ago:
This looks pretty amazing, but it also looks huge, and for a game this big I would need assurances that I won’t lose my progress if it leaves early access. Have the devs said anything about their completion timeline? I’ve never played anything in early access, because I frankly don’t trust devs to respect my time. Thoughts?
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 week ago:
That does help explain the strangeness of the whole thing, thanks for sharing. Sounds like things were pretty tough for you, so I’m sorry for that.
It sounds like he is a bit oversexualized (not sure if that’s the right term), but it doesn’t seem like it’s anything too out of the ordinary for someone figuring themselves out. Many of us probably pushed things a bit too far when we were little, I certainly didn’t understand how uncomfortable it made people for me to run around the house naked when I was young. But we all test boundaries like that when we’re growing up, and usually the adults around us help us find the right boundaries, not stretch them.
So yeah, with that new context, giving a fleshlight to her 18 year old son is very odd, and does raise some red flags. Sounds like you made the right call cutting things off.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 week ago:
I’d be super curious to hear the context if you’re willing/able to share, but it all depends on the relationship between the mother and son. It strikes me as a bit weird and abnormal, and certainly embarrassing, but if you normally talk about sex in an open and healthy way with her, then this might not be as weird as it seems. Parents know their kids play with themselves, and it’s usually healthier to be open about it than to stigmatize it, but actively buying this kind of thing for her son is a bit much in my opinion…
- Comment on UK plans to recognise Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets conditions, Starmer says 1 week ago:
Despite how unlikely it is for this to actually happen, it’s at least good to get people used to hearing it out loud. I don’t have any faith that they’ll follow through, but it does strike me as odd that this is being used as a threat against Israel. Like, “Israel, if you don’t stop indiscriminately massacring children then we’ll be forced to symbolically recognize the independence of the people you’re ethnically cleansing.”
The fact that Israel has no desire to see an independent Palestinian state doesn’t mean a toothless and symbolic threat like this will stop their monstrous actions…
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 1 week ago:
I think it would be valuable to take a step back and look at how you’re thinking about women in general. This isn’t an attack FYI, I’m trying to be constructive because I totally understand your anxiety.
Firstly, lose the word “female.” Forget it. It won’t help you anywhere except biology class, and it’s a big red flag. In your brief question, your framing makes it sound like women are some mystical object that you can “get” with exactly the right words or the right amount of money. But they’re just people, and many of them are probably having similar issues talking to men. If you start to actively think about women as fully formed, independent, thinking, feeling human beings who have many of the same problems as you, and many that are quite different, then you’ll have a much easier time approaching them.
All of that is to say, empathy is critical. If you approach an interaction from a place of empathy—where you’re trying to understand the other person by listening to them and expressing interest—then it’ll slowly start to become natural. I realize that’s all easier said than done, but just thinking about women as complete people who aren’t there for you, but for themselves as individuals, would be a massive first step. Good luck.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 week ago:
That’s totally fair (though I haven’t played any recent Zelda games, so I can’t speak to that). I actually think quite a few recent open world games didn’t need to be open world at all and would have been better if they were more of a single player guided narrative.
One game that did this perfectly IMO was Guardians of the Galaxy. It wasn’t open world, but you could explore each “chapter” or “level” or whatever as much as you wanted and could replay them individually. That made the whole story feel really tight, coherent, and well thought out. I find myself really wanting that format in some of these big beautiful (and yeah, often boring) open world games.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 week ago:
This is pretty disappointing to me. I know it’s kind of an unpopular opinion these days, but I really enjoyed Outlaws. It was just different enough from other Star Wars properties to be novel, but recognizable enough to be convincingly in the Star Wars universe. Sure some characters were a bit flat, missions were repetitive, and it didn’t invent a new revolutionary mechanic or anything, but does every game have to be groundbreaking? I got solid enjoyment out of it, and was looking forward to how they’d continue the story.
- Comment on A 2,600-Year-Sealed Etruscan Tomb Found Intact with Ceramics, Weapons, and Silver Objects 2 weeks ago:
Huh? Baylor is in Texas.
The fourth paragraph:
SGARP is an interdisciplinary team led by Baylor University, in collaboration with the Virgil Academy in Rome, under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in close partnership with the municipality of Barbarano Romano.
While Brits certainly still have an outsized role in international archaeology, I’m not seeing any Brits mentioned in this article.
- Comment on Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza 4 weeks ago:
If you intend to profit from the murder of innocent people by helping governments develop weapon systems, then you don’t get to feign innocence and act like a biased dictionary when the world notices the evil you’ve contributed to. As a fellow Jew, I wish he would understand that we don’t have a monopoly on being the victims of genocide.
- Comment on Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s a good point. The space battles are really solid, I forgot how fun they are.
- Comment on Battlefront II is currently at 3,99€, offers ends on the 10th of July 4 weeks ago:
I’ve mentioned it before, but the single player campaign is worth this price. I frankly couldn’t stand the multiplayer, but the single player story is simple and fun, and has a surprising amount of content. Gorgeous graphics.
- Comment on E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps 4 weeks ago:
I couldn’t care less about what this has to do with “AI,” but e-ink is horrendously underutilized. It should be so much more ubiquitous.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
No Mans Sky is totally a time guzzler. It’s incredible how easy it is for hours and hours to go by like it’s nothing. It’s a really fun game though, and I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into it.
I did one playthrough shortly after it came out doing things the way you’re supposed to, and then I decided to just have fun with it and started using a save editor to give myself all the resources that take ages to farm or craft. That was a game changer. It’s so much more fun when I can just explore and build without having to worry about not having enough fuel for my jetpack, or not being able to finish a building because I don’t have enough resources for that one last piece of glass, or having to salvage a fuckton of ships just to open up inventory slots.
So if the game ever starts to feel like work for you, I suggest using a save editor and going to town. The devs don’t seem to have much of a problem with it, and it really opens up the game.
- Comment on Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)... 5 weeks ago:
The other day I thought to myself, “huh I’ve got a few extra bucks, I think I’ll buy a switch 2.” Then I saw that zelda costs $80. So nope, no switch for me.
I’m someone who has never played a switch, never held one, and I was about to impulse buy it. So I’d be a brand new customer (my last Nintendo product was the NES), and now I won’t be. Their loss.
- Comment on YSK that military members cannot simply defy orders they object to 1 month ago:
Soldiers take an oath to the constitution, not the president, so all members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Source.
- Comment on star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number 1 month ago:
Yeah, exactly. It seemed important to them to stress that Ahsoka’s training was different from a normal padawan’s, thanks to Anakin.
- Comment on star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number 1 month ago:
That’s “Practice Makes Perfect.” Episode 5 of Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi. It’s a miniseries that came out a couple years after Clone Wars ended.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Oh I know, I’ve been here for years despite the age of my account. I just migrated from lemm.ee
I tend not to like to name these types of extensions because more exposure puts them at risk, and they’re super easy to find anyway.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Or, and hear me out: just install a browser plugin and forget ads exist.
These companies don’t respect us, so I don’t feel the need to respect them by allowing them to force their meaningless bullshit down my throat.
I don’t use it that much, but you better believe if I go to YouTube to watch a video, that video is the only thing I’m watching.
- Comment on Downhill is a fourth wall breaking action RPG whose protagonist knows you exist, and might not agree with your actions 1 month ago:
Such a cool concept. I could see myself really getting into a game like this.
- Comment on Lemm.ee communities migration megathread 2 months ago:
This is a very useful resource, thank you!!