whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 2 days 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 week 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) 1 week 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. 1 week 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a counter recommendary (anti-recommendist?), whatever they recommend look for the opposite instead
- Comment on We have one at home 2 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 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? 2 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
That’s okay, public libraries were around much longer and will continue to be around long after
- Comment on Check your candy 5 weeks ago:
Golden Corral’s new slogan
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Someone is getting serious about their chess game
- Comment on for future fireflies 1 month ago:
Still cleanup sidewalks and walkways please, those leaves can be slippery little guys
- Comment on concert 1 month ago:
It’s about $42 just from inflation not accounting for decreased spending power with many prices increasing faster than inflation itself.
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 1 month ago:
Tomorrow’s soup is an ancient cloud of ambient consternation with a hint of mint
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 1 month ago:
Special interest journalism is usually overrun by corporate interests and inflated reviews. Find someone who was fired or left an organization for something like reporting a low review to search out integrity for individuals.
- Comment on Got 'em 1 month ago:
The haversine formula is more accurate than a straight line in measuring distances around the size of cities or zip codes. Geodesics are even more accurate because they take into account the stretching around the equator, both require curved earths to calculate more accurate distances than flat calculations. But obviously math, especially addition, is a conspiracy to cover the truth of the Time Cube™. /s
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
Maybe dipped in some oily legume seed paste that has a name including -nut but isn’t one
- Comment on Fucking idiots 1 month ago:
And the earth is flat, nobody is going to carbonate all the oceans
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 month ago:
If a tech executive says we’re on the cusp of a technology breakthrough it means less than nothing and we should be more suspicious of it than already. These are people who don’t know how to manage an organization based on the frequent layoffs (2009, 2014, 2023-2025 over 20k workers). People get fired because they fuck up, management layoff people because management fucked up.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
Time can stretch and squish and follow physical rules, if the passage of time is an experience of the mind time itself would remain existent without minds just as real as distance and the passage of distance via movement between objects would remain without minds.
One interesting thing I heard is the DESI data from a telescope observatory in Arizona that was trying to build a more accurate map of the universe identified the dark energy acceleration as slowing. That could mean if the trend continues eventually gravity will overpower dark energy and everything collapses back together again. I don’t think it’s conclusive, but it is evidence maybe heat death isn’t an ending phase.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 1 month ago:
There used to be audio scrobbling programs I think they called it that would run on your computer to keep track of what you listened to and publish on a user page and also use the site to get recs, check out what your friends are listening to, etc. I think last.fm fucked up the official client or something but there were a couple open and universal scrobbler that might still work, but they do still only connect with last.fm I don’t think there’s a self host option.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 1 month ago:
Sandboxing by default and preventing Google and others from spying in and manipulating apps are good steps phone OS developers should use, but I don’t think those kind of things would help for this particular case.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 1 month ago:
