ADHDefy
@ADHDefy@kbin.social
Person of considerable jank.
- Comment on What anime do you like but are afraid/ashamed to admit it? 6 months ago:
Yamada's First Time. lol I don't like ecchi, but I got into romance anime last summer and this one was just so funny, sex positive, and oddly sweet at times. It's def kinda ecchi though.
- Comment on What site can I use to find if games will run on my computer? 10 months ago:
YouTube. I know it sounds goofy, but often you can search something like "Baldur's Gate 3 gtx 1060 6gb i7-4790K" (or whatever your specs are) and you will get tons of videos of people running it on their systems. If you happen to have common parts, you will not normally have trouble finding a benchmark for a rig very similar to yours for most games, but even with more niche hardware, you can usually find something helpful, even of it's just like a similar GPU or another laptop with the same chipset, or whatever your case may be.
Beyond that, Steam's hardware requirements on the store pages of games and pcgamingwiki are great resources.
I'd also say you can look on protondb--it's for Linux gamers, so the results may or may not be applicable if you have a Windows system, but in most cases, if there's a report that something runs well on Linux machine with the same hardware as you, it's going to be very similar on Windows. The other way isn't so applicable, though--just because something runs poorly on a Linux rig doesn't necessarily mean it will also run poorly on Windows, as the problem could be with the compatability layer and not the hardware.
None of these are a perfectly elegant solution, but they are typically reliable enough.
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- Comment on What were your top favorite video games as a kid? 11 months ago:
Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Megaman X, Mega Man Legends 2, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Super Smash Bros., Tomba! 2, and TLoZ Ocarina of Time were all monumental for me. I spent soooo many hours with each of them, often just exploring the world at my own pace, experimenting, and goofing around.
I also loved Star Fox even though I sucked at it. Pokémon Blue was probably responsible for my advanced reading level in elementary school. Mario Paint was my first exposure to digital art, animation, and music making which all later became passions of mine. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was my first ever JRPG. War of the Gems introduced me to other Marvel characters besides Spidey (my favorite). Baseball Simulator 1000 is my earliest memory of playing video games with my dad. Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland is the first game I ever beat all on my own.
There are a lot of games that are very special to me for many reasons, now that I think about it. That's pretty cool.
- Comment on Give Me Experiences, Not Obligations 11 months ago:
I suspect this is exactly why Battlebit Remastered blew up the way that it did this year even though it looks like a Roblox game. lol
I think people are starved for a good, clean FPS that isn't mostly battling menus, cluttered UI, MTX, endless DLC, P2W, battle passes, lootboxes, daily login bonuses, timed events, invasive anti-cheat (or an overwhelm of cheaters), constant updates that break the game, etc. I think there's a lot of us that just want to shoot stuff and have fun with our friends, like the glory days of online FPS. I'd happily fork over $60 today for that kind of experience, but I don't trust hardly any AAA publishers to keep their promises if they even did offer something like that.
- Comment on Give Me Experiences, Not Obligations 11 months ago:
You are right, I'm a pretty big fan of Bloons TD 6 myself. I've also played a lot of Osu!Lazer and some of the Netflix indies. It just kind of feels like the overwhelming majority of mobile games are predatory and obnoxious, but there are definitely some really well-done games between the premium options, console ports, and a handful of open source games.
- Comment on Give Me Experiences, Not Obligations 11 months ago:
I felt this in my soul. lol This has basically been my state of mind for the least couple of years. I used to game on mobile a fair amount, but these days, I just can't handle mobile gaming anymore. I can't deal with F2P games on PC, either, despite having loved some of them in the past (Apex Legends, Warframe, etc.).
Between F2P games, paid games with F2P-style monetization, and soooo many AAA games coming out broken or just bad, I have been playing a lot of retro games, older JRPGs, and indies the last couple of years. I'm just so burnt out on the modern game industry.
- Comment on 3,500-Year-Old Book of Spells to Guide The Dead Uncovered With Egyptian Mummies 1 year ago:
"Klatu, barada, n-- ........ Necktie? Nectur? Nickle?""
- Comment on What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises? 1 year ago:
Just beat it a few weeks ago, it was a great time. The set pieces are jaw-dropping at times.
Multiplayer def has a learning curve, but it's fantastic.
- Comment on What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises? 1 year ago:
Nexomon Extinction and Siralim Ultimate are great monster collecting games.
- Comment on UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection is coming to GOG 1 year ago:
Cool, but please just release the Nathan Drake collection on PC 🥲
- Comment on Is there any christian religions that don't believe in space? 1 year ago:
He's got enough problems
- Comment on NASA Brings Back Actual Sample Of Asteroid But Can't Open The Lid 1 year ago:
You gotta run it under the tap for a minute first, to help loosen it up.
- Comment on It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time 1 year ago:
Gen Z likes to know where everyone is all the time. It's totally normal for them to have each other's GPS locations. Snapchat has a built-in map feature where you can watch your friends move around in real time, and there are other apps that offer this, too. I was blown away when I learned this was so commonly used.
- Comment on Squadron 42: Hold The Line 1 year ago:
Did they get Gillian Anderson for this fucking game?! lol
- Comment on Is there an alternative to "motherfucker" that people would actually use? 1 year ago:
Who is scrolling reddit calling people "dipclown" or "trumpstick"?
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch 2 NEEDS to be backward compatible. 1 year ago:
For sure. If it's not backward compatable, I'm probably skipping at least this gen.
- Comment on Was thinking about how sometimes a therapist can give bad advice, and if you're not thinking about the situation clearly, how would you know? Clearly... 1 year ago:
^ This. My therapist won't give me advice about anything, even if I ask for it. lol
- Comment on Older games with female protagonists? 1 year ago:
That's true! There's a lot of good games in that series, I've heard. I have yet to play most of them myself.
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 1 year ago:
Where I live, we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.
- Comment on Older games with female protagonists? 1 year ago:
How old are we talking? Final Fantasy VI, Super Metroid, Resident Evil 2, and the OG Tomb Raider series are all pretty old but great.
Portal, Portal 2, Mirror's Edge, Alien Isolation, Child of Light, Celeste, Tales of Berseria, Final Fantasy XIII, Slime Rancher, the newer Tomb Raifer games, and A Plague Tale are a few games from previous gens that hold up really well.
A more recent game that flew under a lot of people's radars is Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and it was a lot of fun. Also, Atelier Ryza and Alba: A Wildlife Adventure are very worth mentioning, too. :)
- Comment on With the news of the latest Assasins Creed day 1 Denuvo patch. This community just keeps proving itself. Be Patient. 1 year ago:
lol I kept being like, "oh, there was..." and then remembering that it was an indie game.
God of War: Ragnarok was pretty polished at launch. There was also LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga that launched in really good shape, IIRC. Tears of The Kingdom wasn't too bad either. Those are the only AAA games that I can think of from the last couple of years that weren't shitshows.
- Comment on Adventure Time: Fiona and Cake 1 year ago:
Just finished it tonight, it was really excellent. My only complaint was that Kumail Nanjiani didn't return as Prismo because a stupid communication error with his management team. :(
With that heartbreak aside, it was a truly great watch.
- Comment on Are there any prince movies for kids? 1 year ago:
Zuko's a prince! He's not an awesome role model, but he's an outstanding character and there are some great lessons to be learned from watching him over the course of the whole series.
- Comment on ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Gets Sept. 19th Release Date On Paramount+ 1 year ago:
It was great! Very funny, lots of heart, gorgeously animated.
- Comment on Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending 1 year ago:
Just you wait until we get to the prequel septology dedicated to Uncle Ben getting shot.
- Comment on How safe is Bitwarden? 1 year ago:
Seconding this. I won't use any cloud-based password manager but Bitwarden rn.