wizardbeard
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 18 hours ago:
Vampire Survivors’s Ode to Castlevania DLC
It’s so fun to see them actually get to use the IP VS was inspired from, and the DLC is absolutely a love letter to all of Castlevania, including some of the more obscure characters in the lore. The DLC has roughly double the content of the base game, with at least three big “unlock/events” locking more layers of content behind them. Tons of new playable characters, tons of new weapons, one new massive map with its own unique mechanics and progression, and so much classic Castlevania music and remixes. Totally worth it.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 18 hours ago:
Nope.
512+256=768, 768+64=832… minus 7 for system data and general overhead maybe? That’s my best guess, but that’s a really odd size.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 days ago:
Sounds like a good time to download a local backup, before they inevitably pressure Wikipedia.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 3 days ago:
Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.
Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 3 days ago:
Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 3 days ago:
Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 3 days ago:
Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.
If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.
Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.
For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.
And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 3 days ago:
I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.
Anyway…
But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.
- Comment on [OC] El Zappo & Mr. Quetsch [6/?] 4 days ago:
The fart rocket is an inspired touch.
- Comment on Schrödinger's Pedo 5 days ago:
Unfortunately unlikely. This has happened before, where he’s abandoned commitments and not made any public appearances for days.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 5 days ago:
I feel you, but there’s some good news! There’s an indie games team working on a game that’s Air Ride combined with the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure.
Star Garden:
- Comment on Title 1 week ago:
No man, you’ve got it backwards. Why are we growing our humans so small?
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 week ago:
Of course. Funnel all that info to Peter fucking Thiel’s Palantir surveillance company that also has contracts with international law enforcement.
There couldn’t possibly be any problems with funnelling every bit of panopticon into a single billionaire super lobbiest’s hands. Especially one that has openly stated that he doesn’t believe in the continuation of the human race. Who is the closest thing to a real life vampire, regularly getting blood transfusions from healthy young “blood boys” in a hare brained attempt to prolong his own life at all costs.
I find it a massive failure of society as a whole that this fucking charlatan wasn’t laughed out of society in the 2010s when he was doing interviews about the “blood boy” bullshit and all the other crackpot shit he was doing to prolong his life. Absolute fucking ghoul. The people in power value money more than sense.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Numbers is also part of the Torah! Christians don’t have a monopoly on this crazy. Good old Abrahamic religions.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.
Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.
- Comment on What foss MP games are still active? 2 weeks ago:
Zandronum was the Doom server browser of choice, at least 4 years ago or so. Even will auto download the mods the server is running (if the admin configured things right).
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.
DLCs are also usually a paid affair, unless they’re explicitly referred to as “free DLC”. Not sure if you worded it that way or not, came to this post after you edited the title.
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 3 weeks ago:
We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can’t take anyone concerned about that seriously.
We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.
Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches. Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last.
- Comment on I have hired this Byleth to stare at you 3 weeks ago:
You gotta diversify your Fire Emblem Husbandos. Hector from The Blazing Blade (first English Fire Emblem, I think 7th overall) is GOAT.
Whole great game series out there beyond the edges of Three Houses.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 3 weeks ago:
Louis Rossman (the guy pushing this) is also running the consumer rights wiki, has made countless videos on board level repair of Mac devices, and just recently offered a $5000 bounty for jailbreaking a smart thermostat that pushed out an update to lock out owners unless they agree to a $100+ subscription. He’s constantly pushing for self hosting and less big tech reliance, has released a number of guides.
This is just a small side piece in the overall strategy.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 3 weeks ago:
Yep! But Control is based off SCP, not the other way around.
- Comment on Weird green shadow when playing Paper Mario TTYD with RetroArch + Dolphin 3 weeks ago:
Retroarch’s cores are usually multiple revisions behind the standalone versions, as it takes some effort to modify them into cores. The Dolphin core in particular has been pretty notoriously out of date over the years. I would check the Dolphin Wiki entry for the game and see if there’s some settings you need to tweak in the core settings that might be being applied automatically by standalone.
- Comment on Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
The faster sail and having the wind automatically change to be the direction you’re sailing are both features I’ve seen people use with randomizer mods for the GC version, but I don’t know if they’re available without randomizing treasures.
- Comment on Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
In the bloom-ified remaster OP is playing, there is a double speed sail you can get, and once you get the bow you can fight an optional mini-boss to get the abilty to warp.
Sailing is still monotonous though, if you aren’t in the mood to just vibe to the music.
They also streamlined the section of the game where you have to search high and low for triforce pieces. It was a hell of a slog in the original GC version.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 weeks ago:
Holy shit, how did I forget Wipeout and Zone of the Enders in my list? Great picks beyond those too.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks so much!
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 weeks ago:
A lot of great ones have already been mentioned: (Old School) Runescape, Bastion, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Braid, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Celeste, Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Cyberpunk 2077, Deus Ex (2000), Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Doom 2016, Earthbound, F-Zero GX, FTL, Hades, Halo, Hi Fi Rush, Hotline Miami, Jet Set Radio and JSR Future, Kirby (any of them), Legend of Mana, Mother 3, Neotokyo, Nier: Automata, Pizza Tower, Quake, Ratchet & Clank (any of them), Risk of Rain 1 and 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Shantae (any of them), Shatter, Shovel Knight, SimCity 3000, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic CD (Japan), Sonic Mania, Sonic Rush, Sonic Rush, Stardew Valley, Sword of Mana, Tower of Heaven, Transistor, Trine, and VVVVVV
Here’s some that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Ape Escape
- PS1 game, soundtrack by icon of the 90s era Japanese House music scene, Soichi Terada. All of his tracks are bangers. I’ve seen the soundtrack described as House, Jungle, and DnB. Probably my favorite game soundtrack ever, but that’s probably nostalgia talking.
- Soundtrack: Game Rip, Fan Remastered or Originape Soundtrack/Official Soundtrack CD (Note: Terada has released his own remastered tracks in the 2020s since the Originape CD, but they are split over multiple albums and I’m too lazy to track them down at the moment)
- Standout tracks: Peak Point Matrix/Galaxy Monkey, Primordial Ooze, Thick Jungle- Woods, Dark Ruins, Crumbling Castle, Specter’s Factory- Outside, Time Station
Final Fantasy Legends III / SaGa 3 Jikū no Hasha: Shadow or Light
- Originally on Gameboy, Japan only remake on DS (fan translation patch exists). This is really a game in the SaGa series, but was released under the Final Fantasy name internationally for marketing purposes. Characters don’t have levels, their stats change based on what they do. Enemies also drop meat and parts that you can apply to a character to change their class, with some unique mechanics for different types. Features a time traveling stealth bomber, THE TALON, that may possibly be the only airship in gaming with a working toilet. DS Remake is generally better, but it kills overworld exploration by turning it into “select an adjacent POI” instead of free roam.
- Soundtrack: Gameboy, unfortunately I can’t find this version with track names. DS Remake
- Standout Tracks: Setting off into the future, Holy Ruins (a criminally underused track in game), Oasis (has some odd animal sfx added in the middle in this remake version), Stronghold (imo, one of the best dungeon themes in gaming), THE MOTHERFUCKING TALON THEME (this is the GB version, as the DS remake loses the countermelody which imo weakens the track)
Ghost Trick
- Originally for DS, has been remade for just about everything now. It’s effectively a VN with fancy gameplay segments, and the music really helps carry the whole thing. Beautifully done sprite animation too.
- Soundtrack: DS, 2023 Remaster
- Standouts: Ghost Trick, Lynne- Red-Headed Target, Awakening, The Mystery Surges Ahead, Cabanela - Lanky and Loose Lawman, Jowd- Fated Jailbird
Gunpoint
- Old indie sidescrolling noir stealth game. The main gameplay revolves around puzzle solving by hacking buildings’ electrical systems. Hook that lightswitch up to the secure door lock. Rig that motion sensor up to short out a power plug and take out a guard instead of it just turning on the lights. Delightful jazz soundtrack.
- Soundtrack
- Standouts: Security, Circuitry and You, Subterfuge Shuffle, Cold Halls and Footfalls, The Five-Floor Goodbye
Megaman ZX
- DS sequel to the Megaman Zero series for GBA, but now with a Metroidvania twist.
- Soundtrack: ZX Tunes- Official remix/rearrange soundtrack
- Standouts: Innocence- 90s style anime opening, Green Grass Gradation, Rockin’ On, Brilliant Show Window, Cinq Ville - C`est Notre Espoir, Gauntlet
And I’ve spent way too much time on this comment. Here’s more not mentioned so far that I don’t have time to do a writeup for: Skies of Arcadia, Super Meat Boy, Tomba 2: The Evil Swine Returns, Uplink, XCOM (Original), XCOM (Reboot), XCOM 2 (Reboot)
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- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 4 weeks ago:
I believe most of the SMS and GG Sonic games have remakes like this now. I know there’s Triple Trouble 16-bit at least,which another good one to check out.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 4 weeks ago:
This has been my argument for a while. If you’re doing boilerplate once in a while, it’s a good way to keep even the boring part of your skills sharp.
If you’re doing it regularly, just make a fucking template you can copy paste, or set it up in your IDE’s code snippet functionality.