JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@midwest.social
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 2 days ago:
Welcome to last week, Tim.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 2 weeks ago:
That’s the precise reason that you eat a hotndog the same way.
- Comment on Everything must go 2 weeks ago:
As in, they’re going to end operations in the US? Great news! Wish it could’ve happened sooner.
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I’m aware this likely means nothing of the sort.
- Comment on Autograding tool 4 weeks ago:
When I was in college, I took a 100-level CS course that required me to ssh into a server and run a command to submit my homework. It’s not crazy.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 4 weeks ago:
Bob’s Burgers has got to be the #1 here. One of the most loving families in television history.
Avatar - The Last Airbender might be a contender. If you can tolerate some entirely NOT wholesome dynamics alongside all the wholesome ones.
The Owl House also comes to mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Grats!
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 5 weeks ago:
Social media, but it’s setup lile e-mail, so there’s no one single company that owns everything or enforces universal rules. Anyone can do their own hosting and still communicate with everyone else.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 1 month ago:
Commander Shepard.
- Comment on jsjjsjs 1 month ago:
Dare I ask which one is actually from the game?
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 1 month ago:
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 1 month ago:
God bless ICE
I mean, yeah, they’re gonna need it to stay outta hell.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m well versed in Team Cherry’s habit of hiding stuff behind the edge of a body of water.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 month ago:
I’m definitely overstating for effect, but yeah, to me, the game very much feels like they wanted to cater to the inhuman speedrunning and challenge running crowd from Hollow Knight, and made things unreasonable for causal/average gamers.
Maybe my bias is in having played and loved Hollow Knight first, but I NEVER felt like I was being given an unreasonable challenge in Hollow Knight. And Hollow Knight, by the late and post game, is HARD. They just managed to balance the difficulty curve so masterfully, that every escalation felt natural, even exciting.
Silksong, overall, did NOT do this for me. The early game felt obnoxiously punishing, the mid-game completely fell off a cliff into easy, once you get a handful of key upgrades, and the late game just varied all across the spectrum.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 month ago:
Last Judge runback didn’t really bother me. Just sprint straight out, with a few properly-timed jumps, and you skip every enemy and reach the boss in about 30 seconds.
Bilewater was nonsense, even after learning how to run it perfectly. And I LIKE Bilewater, as an area.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 month ago:
Agreed, the fight itself I didn’t find too difficult. Just the runback. And I got REALLY good at the runback.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 month ago:
There’s about 3 different “no double-damage” mods that I’ve tried, for a boss I just couldn’t be assed to try legit, anymore. They all seemed to work, fine.
There was a “respawn outside the boss room, instead of at a bench” mod that I installed for a particular boss (you can probably guess), but I can’t really speak about whether it works, cause I happened to beat it on the next try after installing.
There was an “infinite shards” mod I tried, but it didn’t work at all, and I didn’t see any others, so be wary of that one.
Referring to mods available on Nexus Mods, BTW.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 month ago:
To make it playable for normal people.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 month ago:
It’s a parody movie that stands on its own, even if you don’t know anything about what’s being parodied. It has a legit plot and character writing that could hold up decently well, if all the parody were removed.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 month ago:
Oh, cool, another buyout where the buyer doesn’t have to actually pay for it, they just take out a loan and magically make the company pay for it.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, the Lugoli bug is still a thing, after the patch. Saw it happen on a stream from before the patch, then got it myself a couple days ago.
FYI, supposedly if it happens, you should close out and reopen the entire game, or it will continue happening.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Every player I know had a lot of trouble with her, because they didn’t vash their head against the Craw gauntlet first, like I did, and get Silk Storm, which makes her ADDs laughable. And fair enough, I think the Craw gauntlet is supposed to filter you until well after Sister Splinter.
- Comment on Wrong Groomers 2 months ago:
Not Makoto, Sadayo Kawakami. Still Persona 5.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 months ago:
The highly-anticipated sequel to 2017’s indie hit video game Hollow Knight. 2-time winner of “Most Anticipated Game” at the Unity Awards, and 3-time winner of “Most Wanted Game” at the Golden Joystick Awards. The most-wish-listed game on Steam, up until its release today.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 months ago:
2.5 hours and counting. 🥲
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN - A high-difficulty Expedition mode, "Deep of Night," has appeared 2 months ago:
Sounds like maybe this is the “ranked mode” that rumors were going around about? Thank god, if so, the last thing this game needs is more incentive for players to be competitive against each other.
Neat concept, it sounds like. They really are just using this game as an excuse to try every new idea they have, aren’t they?
- Comment on Sekiro - Shadows Die Twice Anime 3 months ago:
So, the word floating around is that the studio is using generative AI as part of the animation process for this show. I don’t suppose anyone has details on this? If we’re talking about animators and artist supplementing their own work, that’s quite a bit different than the studio using it, or enforcing use, in an effort to replace or underpay animators. I’d be interested to hear the opinions of the animators themselves, but unless they’re unionized, I can’t imagine we’ll ever hear their opions.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 months ago:
Upvote for the desktop background.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 3 months ago:
The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
Yeah, wouldn’t want those AI companies to get all that data for free. Gotta make 'em pay for it.
- Comment on OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis 3 months ago:
Well, yeah. The people who host them for profit should be held liable.