whotookkarl

@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It was toys r us for me too, I was able to get a copy a week later but there’s no point to preordering if they don’t honor the reservation & when you’re a kid that week feels like forever so it sticks pretty brightly in memory

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I pre-ordered ff8, they ran out anyways. Lesson learned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an idea ☝️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pokemon x Luigi crossover?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is coming from someone who is pretending to think Microsoft is currently doing well and could lose some quality at the expense to introduce new features users want faster to sell an image of technology innovators or at a baseline a user friendly experience

  What is actually happening is they are trying really hard to sell Microsoft after windows 11 launch pushed a lot of users away or at least have them an accurate impression of how MS caters to corporations and advertisers and they don’t give a shit about users as long as they keep buying computers with windows monopoly pre installed.

  Also the interview only covers corpo interests and doesn’t include any labor or software union leaders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice collection, how does rogue squadron run? I remember it was really buggy on the GameCube version

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans aswell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Corn pie‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think even that’s getting cheaper over the last couple years. Mid range guitars are getting premium features & qc out of Philippines and Indonesia is pretty solid, modelers are making a big collection of amps and pedals unnecessary for chasing tones. As long as you’re not a collector gathering signature serieses or looking at all the new releases giving yourself fomo it’s not too bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turn based jrpgs like Final fantasy series games, octopath traveller, dragon warrior

  Sam and max beyond space and time, comedy point and click adventure style game

  DOOM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for a better future for ur children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks mostly grey to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the old scummVM adventure games; Sam and max hit the road, monkey island, day of the tentacle, etc

  For something more cinematic I’d look at platinum games like Bayonetta, god of wars, mass effects, gears, half-lifes, dark souls

  I would avoid something really puzzle heavy like professor Layton or tactical like civ or Stellaris I enjoy watching/listening to people play games but those usually can’t hold my interest unless I’m playing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the one where devolver digital does something goofy? That’s usually pretty fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Celebrities drum up drama about themselves to try to stay relevant when they shill whatever product they work on. He was talking shit about a couple actors in an interview or whatever and people defended the other person which just proliferated the fake drama further, he’s probably got something coming out in 2026.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BotW was a great exploration and movement game. I think the things that help are fun transportation methods and a big open world to use them in. So Tony hawk might be a lot of fun to just ride around but the levels are too small for any real exploration. Or daggerfall is a huge open world, but traveling feels pretty tedious. MMOs are kinda fun for this but the leveled regions means some places are very dangerous to move around in without a group or higher levels. Forza 4/5 were a lot of fun for this is you ignore the loot box casino garbage. The last couple Spider-Mans were really good for this & Burnout paradise was a good one too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mmm... tastes like chimkin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I got the search terms reversed

  extinct terror bird holding a horse in it’s mouth, but the size difference is goofy it’s holding the whole horse in it’s beak meaning either the bird is like 5 times bigger than actual or the horse is only a foot long

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no registration or registry with individuals’ information if guardians use parental controls and adult sites and apps identify themselves as adult for those controls, check what their kids are doing online, and talk with them about dangerous people or content they might see to teach them how to stay safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of a setting that would university apply to all games, like I’d be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it gets better with practice to some degree, if I go for a long stretch reading more or less fiction I find it affects my imagination and ability to visualize with more or less detail and memorability. I don’t think it’ll bridge the gap to 5 necessarily, but it might bump a 4 to a 3 or a 2 to a 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling like you could do a completely mechanical one. Like a way to push it open and a part gets pushed out to stay put so when you open the faucet back up it bumps it and has a little resistance when it first turns so you don’t accidentally move it. Rotate the full way around to reset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, replied before I saw this. 2 on live references in a single thread, feel like I just spotted a bigfoot or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  💀

  on live micro console, old streaming only console that Sony bought and cannibalized for PS Now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO articles most often than not are just corpo salespeople telling you about trash they are trying to push on people. They are literally paid millions of dollars by the wealth class to not tell the truth unless under oath in court or a deposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d probably go for historic impact if there’s no more games I’d want a good selection of what people considered major titles of video game history. Maybe one classic, one old console, one arcade fighter, one modern PC, and one online shooter.

  Pong The legend of Zelda Tekken 3 World of warcraft Team fortress 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2d/3d: I want to keep both thumbs on the sticks for 3d so I prefer a controller like this 3rd party Xbox with back buttons and extra shoulder buttons

  Xbox style controller with 4 back buttons and 3 buttons per shoulder

  Fighting: leverless is a lot of fun, I have a slab mini and a junk food micro lite I prefer the micro it’s way lighter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dwarf fortress, chess, crosswords, Nonograms, sudoku

  Check out scummVM and ROMs for old point and click adventure games like grim fandango, monkey island, Sam & max, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there’s a too big for a simulation type game world, go all the way. But for more directed game styles that are narrative driven or more carnival ride than simulation don’t make it boring use techniques from past games; the keeping distant landmarks in view outside like in New Vegas, or hilly landscapes to obscure stuff to discover like in Zelda or Skyrim. Bad examples would be like traveling between towns in daggerfall or those monuments in the middle of nowhere in starfield.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s okay, public libraries were around much longer and will continue to be around long after

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your candy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Golden Corral’s new slogan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Halloween Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The secret of Monkey island games have a tropical Halloween feel with ghost pirates and root beer

  Kentucky route zero for a slower ghost story, dear Esther for a walking sim ghost story both with great soundtracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone is getting serious about their chess game