Stamets, 4 months ago

Absolutely. This is why when you are microwaving a cup of water to boil it, microwaves will usually recommend having a spoon in the glass of water. It will prevent explosive boiling but also won’t be an issue as there’s no other metal to arc to.

However the meme does specifically say spoons in plural, so there would be other pieces of metal for it to arc to

Stamets, 4 months ago

Dont worry I’ve got like 25 points left in my lay on hands, you’re good buddy.

Stamets, 4 months ago

Well True North Strong, for sure. Given my kinks? Free aint so common

Stamets, 4 months ago

Been playing the closed beta and I know it’s a beta but the game releases in 7 days. Not a whole lot you can do in that time.

The game is still really unpolished and feels jarring. The opening section has you in a rather large vessel but the thing turns on a dime. Only water craft able to turn like that is a jetski and even that didn’t have the super tight turning radius this thing did. There was also no time in turning. It felt really jarring, especially when Black Flag did it so well.

The voice acting of the characters you start with is extremely uninspired. I don’t blame the actors but the director who decided this was okay. It’s so jarring and disconnected. Characters aren’t even consistent on pronunciation of simple things.

The combat is hyper simplistic. It’s just hold left trigger to aim and then hold right trigger to fire. A quote I said to my buddy while playing was “Huh. My pirate ship is fully automatic.” The cannonballs just kept firing more and more until I needed a reload, then more and more. Everything is bulletspongey and nothing visually seems to change or update to sort of reflect the damage that you’re doing. Most vessels you fight against have multiple giant red boxes where the helm is located and those boxes are explosive and almost guarantee a one hit kill. It just feels so basic and simple and boring. When you complete the opening battle and get your own small craft, you start getting attacked by sharks who are leaping out of the water to attack the boat. Not you. The boat. Because that makes sense. And you have to attack and kill the sharks by throwing harpoons at it, also super simple point and click. Think the fish fight in Resident Evil 4 Remake or even RE4 OG.

Walking around on the ground is painful. You can’t sprint, for a start, and the character will either keep walking for another few feet when you stop or suddenly stop. This leads you to getting used to the trail so you stop preemptively and end up 5 feet away from the thing you need to do, forcing you to start walking again and that animation is also way too long.

One of the locations you have to go to at the start is called ‘West Island’. I’m sorry but how simple and boring do you have to be at the start of the game to just lazily call it West Island because it’s in the west?

This game is awful. It’s a patchwork disaster which is only made more concerning by that article saying that the third creative director just left the game before it even launches.

Stamets, 4 months ago

As someone who just downloaded Sea of Thieves on the PC, thanks!

Stamets, 4 months ago

It felt like a f2p game. I play a decent amount of Star Trek Online and spend some time with some other free games. SnB has the same unpolished vibe. Like you’re seeing the framework of the entire game with posters hung over holes in the wall

Stamets, 4 months ago

Fucking same. My friend told me two days ago the open beta was out and that’s when I discovered the Feb 16th launch date.

Stamets, 4 months ago

I’m gay, this is a shitpost community, and I saved this meme from a gay meme place. Sometimes we just adopt jokes ourselves to take away the power from people who throw it at us in hate. That’s why you’ll see so many people in the community openly say “Thats gay” about stuff. We had it thrown around us so constantly now we say it as a joke and a meme.

That’s the reason for the title. Sorry if I wasn’t super clear. This is meant as an in-joke about homophobes and idiots.

Stamets, 4 months ago

I stopped caring when I saw everyone and their mother talking about it but no one providing any fuckin links

Stamets, 4 months ago

I don’t know how to feel about this so I just let my lizard brain take over and rage. I think rage is what’s supposed to be felt

Stamets, 4 months ago

Bro, I get being frustrated about stuff but it’s a single post that’s being wary of CSAM. While I’m with you, as the report thing is bizarre and doesn’t always federate reports properly, I also see where they’re coming from. People stayed away from AskLemmy for a little bit too but they’re coming back now. The content that some people saw was awful and they want to make sure it doesn’t happen again so they’re backing off for a little.

They’re not making you or other mods look inept. They don’t know what happened. A clarification post like this is useful in alleviating those fears in people but getting angry with those posters for wanting to protect themselves and be upset doesn’t help anyone here.

Stamets, 4 months ago

You have no fucking idea.

Stamets, 4 months ago

https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExazlqOTExbDE0aWxhZDRhb2RnOGY1dWlhZG03aWdwbTBxcTd3dGx0ZSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/Pos54CkOtkDeg/giphy.gif

Stamets, 4 months ago

Lactaid is your friend

Source: Without it my dairy inspired assgass is so corrosive it could eat through the hull of a naval vessel and trust me when I say that’s not the way you wanna call out “YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!”

Stamets, 4 months ago

It’s almost like its a shitpost

Stamets, 4 months ago

I’m that predictable? Lol