Datz
@Datz@szmer.info
- Comment on Most internet traffic is now bots 5 days ago:
“You could be using Discord, so why use Lemmy?”
Different things, different use cases. More rapid communication is usually worse for archiving, can you conveniently find old discussions on Discord that weren’t pinned? What about Lemmy posts a year back that you didn’t save, but suddenly remembered?
Emails are on the extreme end of the spectrum where you don’t expect a quick response, but there’s less of them to manage and they can be used for contacting strangers. I used them for asking about doctor appointments when calling doesn’t work.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 week ago:
I never used Win11 but I started using Linux (Nobara OS, by friend’s advice) in November, and not really. If you never used either, I’m sure the learning process is as easy, but switching isn’t.
I wanted onedrive on desktop to conveniently edit .tex files, which I can’t do on browser. The most popular option worked at first (after figuring out the terminal), but has bugs with downloading every once in a while (And Nobara doesn’t update it as consistently). The second didn’t work at all. The third, I got to connect, but I couldn’t get it to make a synced folder, on top of misleading description (the flatpack I found said it manages cloud, but it was the GUI for a package you needed to install via terminal anyway. And Nobara encourages to only use flatpacks, rightfully it seems) So I’m sticking with the buggy one and downloading the files from browser occasionally.
For that matter, installing TeXStudio had a font related bug too, and the solution was between the lines of a post about a slightly different problem and final solution.
The first installation (where I picked Fedora instead of Nobara at first) led to the laptop not booting, where my friend said “yeah that happens, I backup before I install something” (though he uses Arch), and I also accidentally installed Steam twice because the discover flatpack is a seperate one from the Nobara preinstall.
Windows? Most things are an .exe you launch, or have instructions specifically for Windows (complete with typical directories) while Linux has to account for at least a dozen distros.
- Comment on My AYN Thor 2 weeks ago:
I’m considering getting one in a few years once I chew through the 3DS library, and want an upgrade for bus drives. The dual screen might still be useful for browsing guides online and such.
I also never touched the Wii U so there should be some duals screen goodies there to play.
- Comment on Just released the trailer for my solo horror game where you can pet your cat to restore sanity! It's coming out 2, Feb 2026! Let me know your feedback on the trailer :) 1 month ago:
I’ll be too much of a pussy to play it because jumpscares (even if there only seemed to be 1?) but it does look cool, I don’t know many camera based horror games besides Outlast (which afaik is more action). The bronze statue getting caught in the same position feels overused in the trailer, but it’s the kind of horror my heart could still take at least - I imagine being too late plops a jumpscare though.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 month ago:
I need extra warmth bro, it’s actually cold in here.
I also wear underwear under my pyjamas.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 month ago:
Where socks?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
When an aspect of a game is ass (usually grinding, and I tend to be tolerant), even if I try to engage with it. Or if I’m about to drop the game anyway and cheats means seeing an ending. Last time I did was Megaman ZX, the game was already tedious and expects you to then also do a boss rush with limited ways to recover between fights, so I cheated infinite lives to get it over with.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 months ago:
I was thinking that they might require a Steam account to order, the same way they stopped scalpers for Steam Deck, but there’d be ways around that.
It’d be hilarious if you needed something like “profile level 10” to order though.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
I recently replayed Dark Souls 1 and tried a Strength build to see how it goes.
Full Havel’s straight up lets you face tank Artorias, and you’re taking almost a 1/15th of his health with just a hit.
Armor was nerfed after that, but still, it was rather hilarious. Magic was nerfed too by the virtue of bosses getting more gap closers and ranged attacks - by Elden Ring, magic is far from the boring “stay back and just spam attack” idea, but on the contrary, the cheesiest tactics I used when needed were Greatshields or dual jump attacks for stunning bosses. It’s crazy to me how most people just grab a greatsword and only use that the whole game, then say the game’s shallow or too hard.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
Hollow Knight mostly had pretty barebones movement for a metroidvania. Great for combat, not fun for going from point A to B, and HK has seemingly more backtracking that other metroidvanias. Silksong actually has a sprint button that makes it all better.
Expedition 33 is still good, but a lot of people go as far as saying it’s the best JRPG last decade, which feels like a copout when half of it is not being a JRPG. It feels like the Persona 5 hype all over again (which was a full on JRPG, mind you, but it also had problems and I felt was just good)
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
To clarify, I meant gameplay, because you can (and a lot of people do) turn on easy mode just to ignore it and focus on everything else.
The easy mode could win battles for you automatically and most people would “enjoy” it all the same, but I hardly think anyone would love it.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
I (re)play Soulsborne for builds, and I think that’s necessary to appreciate ER. Trying out all the spells and different weapons is most of the fun, the rest being trying them out on bosses.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
Was it good though? I imagine you’d be AP starved until you get the Picto for AP on hit, and then it sounds like the opposite where you can spam costly skills.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
The worst part is, that decent game isn’t even in the same genre. E33 is too damn heavy on parrying. Imagine if all 2000-2015 Zelda games were garbage, and Breath of the Wild was the first good one. I’m sure some OoT fans wouldn’t be too thrilled, while a majority of gamers would be.
As a JRPG fan though, I concur, most JRPGs suck ass, and it’s often for the most obvious, easy to fix problems like slow combat speed, or throwaway random encounter design.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
It depends on person and skill, a lot of people manage to beat a majority of bosses 1st try.
Also, personally, I just like using magic which makes some parts easier.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 months ago:
Expedition 33, but I’m sure other people think that about Silksong or Hundred Line.
I love the pictos system, it’s the best thing about it and I hope other JRPGs take it, almost every pickup you find is good. Resuable consumables are cool, and the first two hours or so is cinema (even on Steam Deck with crappy settings). The rest is just good to flawed by the middle of Act 2, especially parrying (I’m decent at it, but I’d rather either play an action game where it’s deeper, or a JRPG where it doesn’t intrude on strategy)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It might not make up for the other shit they do, but at least Nintendo seems to treat its employees right
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 months ago:
Or don’t get it at all, never played them or felt like it!
(Bad news: I grew up with Nintendo instead)
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 months ago:
Crosscode has a ton of dialogue changed if you turn on NG+ modifiers, such as carrying over levels or using a “cheat code” for ludicrous damage, 1shotting almost everything.
One NPC quotes the “you cheated not the game, but yourself” copypasta.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 months ago:
It was a culture shock that you can smoke indoors there, especially since I hate smoking.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
Secondhand PS5? I’m planning to get a used Switch 2 and some come for that price, and so seems the PS5.
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