justdaveisfine
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- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 5 hours ago:
I was specifically thinking of books with sexual violence, suicide, or promoting toxic behavior, and even then it does go down to the book’s context.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 8 hours ago:
It sounds kind of ridiculous but this is actually pretty smart. I’d prefer to know what my kids are diving into and maybe set up guardrails or at least warnings if something they were interested in was funky.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 day ago:
I’d probably argue games that ‘can’ do this well is JRPGs because they tend to be a slow burn and have a lot of small side conversations that are not directly plot related, which allows the characters and relationships to get fleshed out.
The ones that immediately come to mind are FF 8/9/10 but I’m certain there are others.
In games where the romance is like a mechanic and not a part of the story? Hmm that’s a tougher question because I think mechanics/gameification tend to ruin the human part of relationship building.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 1 week ago:
I’ve found store bought ones are usually bigger but blander. Wild or home grown blueberry is quite a bit better.
- Comment on Ubisoft Reportedly Cancelled A Co-op Multiplayer Assassin's Creed Title 1 week ago:
Cowards.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m uncertain on this as its being made without Larian and likely has more involvement from Hasbro, now that the latter is realizing BG has turned out to be a golden goose despite their attempts to wring it for cash.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m going to wait for Steam reviews to see how crunchy the performance is on PC.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 2 weeks ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 weeks ago:
Most anything PvP.
I just can’t do anything with games that don’t allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.
It doesn’t help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you’re not reading up on forums or discussions.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I somewhat agree. I think Morrowind would need a proper remake (not just graphics remaster) to iron out some mechanics but also expand on some of the content/areas where stuff got a little thin.
Even so, there’s a 95% chance they’ll face a lot of disappointment unless they nail it perfectly, and I don’t know if they can capture that lightning in a bottle again.
- Comment on Apparently I'm into Web3, says Netcup 🤷 2 weeks ago:
What kind of hosting service doesn’t have afterhours support?
- Comment on there i fixed it 2 weeks ago:
Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!
- Comment on Gail the snail? 2 weeks ago:
I suspect if you were the equivalent of crumbs in the bed, you would not stop and consider if you were the crumbs in the bed.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 2 weeks ago:
Immersion for me is when you can interact with the world in a realistic or internally consistent way.
This sounds dumb, but if you can walk into a bar and order a drink, that’s a level of immersion. If you can steal the beer off the shelf so ths bartender can’t serve you, that’s even more immersive because even the NPCs are bound to world logic.
That’s great immersion to me.
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- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 3 weeks ago:
Playing Factorio co-op was one of the games that got my wife into gaming. She couldn’t do quick reaction time shooters, but Factorio at its most basic is essentially a ‘puzzle’ game.
… But yeah we lost a few weekends or weeks or months to it. The factory must grow.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 3 weeks ago:
Semi-casual games that run well on older PCs and linux? Plus no launchers? Let’s see. I got a few but there may be splitscreen ones in this list too. (If that’s ok)
Battleblock Theater Biped (maybe?) Cassette Beasts Castle Crashers Children of Morta Don’t Starve Together Dinkum (If Australian Animal Crossing sounds interesting) Factorio A hat in time Guacamelee Human Fall Flat Hyper Light Drifter ibb & obb KeyWe Kingdom Two Crowns Knights and Bikes Like, all of the lego games (They’re all similar mechanically, so pick one of the newer ones that look good) Lovers in a dangerous spacetime Magicka (I like the first one but the second one isn’t bad) Monaco Moon Hunters Necesse Peak Resident Evil 5/6 (Yes, really, its a great time in co-op) Satisfactory Secrets of Grindea Split Fiction (This one may be graphically harder to run?) Stardew Valley Spiritfarer Terraria Trine games Valheim (At least until mistlands)
I’m kind of going off of semi-casual meaning not high intensity shooters or things that require crazy skills. Most of these are pretty easy to pick up and are generally forgiving. They shouldn’t have launchers but if they added one in a later update, then dang.
- Comment on With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of? 4 weeks ago:
Could be a poison pill prompt meant to lure out bot responses that wouldn’t realize its bogus?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Excitement
- Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975? 4 weeks ago:
I thought they were based on gorgons, specifically gorgoneion which is the image of just the head of a gorgon.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 4 weeks ago:
Joklahoma?
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen the argument that if you’re generating an image and making some edits, you’re robbing yourself of original concepts. Even if human hands do the editing you’ve already outsourced one of the most important parts.
- Comment on How to deal with agression? 1 month ago:
Like being aggressive towards others irl, find yourself rage spiraling, or something else?
- Comment on Dying Light 1 month ago:
Against the Storm. Its a roguelike colony builder where you’re trying to establish colonies and ship resources back to the queen before she loses patience with you.
Its not so roguelike that bad rolls ruin a run but also you have to deal with a bunch of fantasy races who each have their own needs.
Its pretty good.
- Comment on Is it all a dream? 1 month ago:
I was thinking about this the other day when I would cut down a dozen trees in Valheim, and then had to chop firewood in real life.
Funky. At least I’m not hungry every 15 minutes.
- Comment on Dragon Eye Water Bottle... 2 months ago:
Dang I need one of those spinner things…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
An unfortunate ‘secret’ for most indie titles is that the vast majority of their sales are on discount, usually during launch or one of the big week long sales. Not a lot of people buy indie games at full sticker price unless its a pretty high quality title.
So your $200K net revenue would be at absolute max, but is realistically ~50-80% of that.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
As I recall, its around 5%-20% of players leave a review, usually closer to 5% unless something about the game makes people want to talk about it, for both good and bad.
- Comment on ideas for deadspace behind fridge 2 months ago:
You could build some shelving and use it as a baking tray holder, with the trays facing vertical. They would be easy to slide in/out.
