Glide
@Glide@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 3 weeks ago:
Okay, like, I get the meme, but seeing someone kill a large mouse with a baseball bat remains disturbing. There’s a reason we set traps for these things, you know?
- Comment on 7 year old PC. CPU is getting WICKED hot (up to 100 C) while playing games. is there any software that can underclock/undervolt it? 3 weeks ago:
Underclocking your CPU like crazy because you don’t want to replace the thermal paste is an insane thing to do, and probably still won’t help, as the thermal paste being gone means there’s nowhere for the heat to go. It’ll just build and build until you hit a spike; you’ll just reach that spike slower. You’re rapidly sacrificing your parts by not just opening it up, cleaning out the dust and replacing the thermal paste, even using some kind of heat-reduction work around.
85 degrees is high but normal for a component that is pushing it, so software solutions, like underclocking, are viable. 100 degrees is “most computers will turn off to protect the components” territory, suggesting something has gone wrong with your cooling solutions and it really needs to be opened up.
But, that’s not the question you asked just a word of warning I felt compelled to add. Depending on the processor and motherboard, there are BIOS solutions and in-OS solutions. Check your mobo for settings in advanced. If they’re there, they’re there. If you’re using an old Ryzen, (I believe the 1000 series is 8 years old now?) there’s an app called AND Ryzen Master that lets you tweak CPU speeds and voltages. Realistically Google “CPU name underclock” and you’ll find a guide that links you to software, if it is available for your processor. I’ve never heard of a catch-all third party software solution for CPU underclocking the way Afterburner does that for GPU.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
Adding to this one. Incredible game.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
Bugsnax. Substantially better game than I anticipated.
- Comment on Looks delicious 3 weeks ago:
Is that a fucking onion I see?
Bring it back. Make them do it over.
- Comment on Meet the creepiest publisher in indie games. Critical Reflex are “midwives bringing monsters into the world,” backing projects no one dares to touch 4 weeks ago:
God, Mouthwashing was a masterpiece.
I also really, really enjoyed Arctic Eggs, but it’s so absurd that I can barely recommend it to people.
I appreciate Critical Reflex in ways I hadn’t quite put together until reading this article.
- Comment on This guy predicted the future!🤯 4 weeks ago:
What? You mean it was… Projection? Unbelievable. Republicans never do that.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 4 weeks ago:
I’m famously a World hater, so yes, absolutely. Until Icebourne released, I was extremely disappointed with World, even for a pre-G Rank release.
Though, all of the titles since Generations have had the problem of being released with a portion of the planned content missing. I was more forgiving of it before, though I am having a hard time pinpointing why.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 4 weeks ago:
Compared to World and Rise? It’s just not very good. It’s by far the fewest hours I’ve put into a Monster Hunter game since… Well, literally ever.
- Comment on Have you noticed 4 weeks ago:
It’s interesting because
The nooticing is coming from inside the house.
SHIT, NOW I AM NOOTICING THINGS. IT’S TOO LATE FOR ME.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Based response tbh.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
While you are overreacting to the accident itself, driving is not for everyone. I strongly disagree with driving being a basic skill everyone should have. This is some North American cultural mythos created to help further push the responsibility of building decent public transit off of our lawmakers and governments.
Driving is a challenging thing to do correctly, and a not small number of people have no idea how to do it, but are on the roads anyway. While I believe you should take an accident like that with a growth mindset, the clear truth is you’ve never felt comfortable behind the wheel, and your skill set doesn’t seem to be built for that. If it’s important to you, I suspect you’d be capable of overcoming the unique challenges it presents to you, but it’s not. There are ways to live without being a driver, and things you can provide to others in exchange for them being the drivers in your life, and imo, that is fine.
Don’t quit driving because you had an accident. Decide if being able to drive matters to you, and decide how you want to live.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 5 weeks ago:
I still have the CD in a box somewhere. It was loaned to me by a friend and I never gave it back. Hilariously, I still see that friend, so that might make for a fun conversation.
- Comment on the illusion of human thinking 5 weeks ago:
What the fuck is this slop posing as academic study, lmfao. “arcruacy”? “tinking”? Using a pile of academic language around slop doesn’t make that slop accurate or useful, and the joke that is the writing style shows that this wasn’t reviewed by anyone with a brain cell.
- Comment on Jump Ship Demo is Live! 1 month ago:
I do want to state that the flight model has NOTHING on Elite. But otherwise, it is in a lot of ways a game which I wish Elite was a lot closer to.
- Comment on Jump Ship Demo is Live! 1 month ago:
Friends and I downloaded it, prompted by this post. There’s a little bit of awkwardness and animation jank, but man, does the game get the core concept right.
Space is not flat, the ship feels like a near arcane contraption, rail guns should feel like they’ll punch a hole in a small planet, and grappling hooks always feel good. These guys know what I’m looking for. The only thing I could genuinely ask for is a more true to physics flight model, but ultimately, I’ll be too busy taking down fighters using a rocket launcher while gravity-booted to the nose of my ship to care too much.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 month ago:
With you in spirit, but they have too much control over too many lives to just be dismissive about.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 month ago:
While I am sure there are real, specific reasons that can be pointed to as “the reason,” the real answer is that you can’t put two narcissists in a room together and tell them they’re on the same team. This always was the only possible outcome.
- Comment on Are you a Lemmy Shitbird? Click here to find out. 1 month ago:
Weirdly, I know for a fact I’ve upvoted a number of posts today, but my search on this ONLY shows my downvotes?
I definitely down vote more than I upvote, though. It’s habitual to think “that is fucked up and really shouldn’t be here,” but a lot less habitual to hit an up on every mildly neutral to positive comment that, tbh, deserves it. It’s eye opening to have all my downvotes laid out in front of me. Though still weird that the ups I know for certain exist aren’t showing.
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 month ago:
In any other setting, when we take specific, tiny stones and carve patterns into them until they can perform tasks for us, we call it magic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The BMI was created by a social scientist to place people into rough categories for a study on how obesity impacts social interactions, in a study on how the “average man” represented a social ideal. The fact that we now use it to define who is obese and overweight I’d a little insane. While it’s been adopted by major health organizations (and hopefully adjusted by genuine health professionals), it is a horrible singular indicator of physical health. People in the extremes are statistically more likely to face health issues. This is not the same thing as “being in the obese category makes you unhealthy because you are fat.”
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 2 months ago:
He. The fact that you assumed I’m a woman explains a lot about why you’d defend this.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 2 months ago:
Because that is the target audience, but not the explicit message.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 2 months ago:
Oh come off it. You and I both know that the man in this image is not the butt of the “joke.” Fucking sad that it’s 2025 and we’re still defending pathetic positions like “the only thing that really impresses women is wealth” under the guise of shit like “no, no, see, he’s old, so it’s actually a deep and nuanced boomer humor Facebook post from Grandpa.”
Sling insults and argue ad hominem to try and deflect all you want, this meme is base level, early 2000s sexism.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 2 months ago:
Ah yes, classic boomer misogyny disguised as a meme.
I mean, the post sure is shit, I’ll give it that much.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When you get the letter of the rule, but completely miss the spirit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I know it’s not the point, but this toeing if the age line is just as gross as going after minors imo. We need to respect the nuances of human relationships rather than reducing it to a number.
Mind you I get that this guy identifies as having aspergers, so nuance is not his fortee, but still.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 2 months ago:
What in the late-stage capitalist brainrot.
It’s “simple economics” to attack people trying to make art and entertainment for having the gall to ever consider increasing their prices, knowing full well that the cost of living has increased drastically? You’re going with “that’s just the market telling them they’re charging too much” while ignoring the reality that rent has doubled - and in some cases tripled - food costs have gone up 50%, and wages have barely improved? It’s the fault of video game developers that you have relatively less money and cannot afford to purchase their product around the other products you need or are expected to purchase?
If your wage increased with the cost of living, you would not see this price as “too high.” But because some price increases are on necessary purchases, we attack the unnessecary ones, like good little capitalists. Adam Smith would be proud.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 2 months ago:
I hate that you get downvoted for pointing out the reality of the situation.
Relative to the price of every else, $80 for a AAA videogame is actually reasonable. The problem is that rent has gone up drastically, food has gone up drastically, and our wages have stagnated. Getting pissed off at Gearbox for charging $80 for Borderlands 4, and then paying $15 for a burger and fries without an equal reaction just doesn’t seem sensible to me.
Everything is awful, and videogame devs aren’t the ones stealing all our buying power.