JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@midwest.social
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 5 days ago:
Commander Shepard.
- Comment on jsjjsjs 6 days ago:
Dare I ask which one is actually from the game?
- Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident! 1 week ago:
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 1 week ago:
God bless ICE
I mean, yeah, they’re gonna need it to stay outta hell.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
To make it playable for normal people.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 1 week 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. 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
2.5 hours and counting. 🥲
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN - A high-difficulty Expedition mode, "Deep of Night," has appeared 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Upvote for the desktop background.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 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 2 months ago:
Well, yeah. The people who host them for profit should be held liable.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 months ago:
A) And yet, not long after, Andor blew people’s expectations out of the water.
B) Then stop making games exclusively based off of third party IPs.
- Comment on Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor 2 months ago:
This appears to be a rare proper use of machine-learning tech.
No, they did not ask ChatGPT to whip them up a concrete mix. They (in co-operation with engineers) trained a mathematical model specifically for the task of predicting the performance of concrete mixes, in order to narrow down the number of mixes to do (time-intensive) real-world testing on. With a focus on also predicting the carbon-emission impact of the mixes.
This is the kind of technology we need more of. Not LLM slop.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list 2 months ago:
- Always check the Subscriptions page first
- Check Watch Later list, after that
- scroll the Home page, after that
Have never seen a link to a “Trending” page or a “Trending Now” list in any of those spots.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 months ago:
Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.
Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.
- Comment on Oatmeal 3 months ago:
Bacon Cheeseburger.
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 3 months ago:
I re-watched the movie a few months ago, and I had a similar realization: it was quite depressing to see a depiction of NASA that is now entirely lost to us.