Coskii

Coskii, 4 days ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8996fbe4-4757-48d8-b418-16037d8ac331.gif Of course I do, I was there when they were made.

Coskii, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

I don’t think I played anything over the past week. I’ve been thinking about trying some fresh builds in nova drift, which is in it’s final steps to full release.

I remembered that I played dragons dogma 2, as I also did last night and there is something inherently wrong with the later parts in that game. I’m wandering through the desert sections of the map, clearing everything as I go, and I’ve flat out lost pawns while just walking on major paths. They get stuck running into a cliff face somewhere and no commands or anything else will tell them to knock it off. I literally have to go to them, pick them up, and move them away from the wall. I must have missed one of them getting this stuck as she simply despawned completely instead of teleporting back to the group. I have been besieged by roaming groups of what might as well be orcs only to look at the minimal and realize my front men are somewhere 100m back. It’s so incredibly frustrating.

Coskii, 8 days ago

I thought I was a straight man once. Ended up being not the case.

Coskii, 8 days ago

There were ‘sales’ on the game before it even launched, putting it back down to less than $60. Units sold doesn’t really seem like a useful metric from that standpoint.

Coskii, 10 days ago

Well now it’s starting to sound like the Shia LaBeouf song.

Actual criminal Donald Trump.

Coskii, 24 days ago

at least it’s the fluffy kind.

Coskii, 23 days ago

Huh. I wonder if maybe covering nearly every single product in it, mixing cloth with it, and generally using it for everything large or small might not have been the way to avoid being completely full or microplastics.

Coskii, 28 days ago

I don’t think the Fediverse has enough of a reach for the time being for this type of request to gain much traction. I don’t have an issue with anyone attempting it, but I feel that it’d be disingenuous of me to not point out the plethora of mobile apps geared towards meeting people in your area, some romantically, some platonically. I hope you’re able to find people to be yourself around.

Coskii, 23 days ago

I hope you are able to find what you are seeking. And aside from mobile apps, there are also bog standard websites you could potentially use. Many require some personal information but some of them don’t.

The first one that comes to mind is fetlife, and while yes, it’s generally used as a romance or fetish thing, it’s also just a good way to get out with a group to chat about whatever and hopefully find people with similar interests. See if there are any open invite munches happening in your area, those are generally the basic entry points for anything else.

Coskii, 1 month ago

There was some random video on YouTube about the original fable and I had the urge to play it again. At some point had received the anniversary edition on steam so I loaded it up. 30 minutes and a bit of motion sickness later I uninstalled it and went hunting for my actual original disk. Found it, installed it, and the options and controls are so much better… It’s amazing that they ported the Xbox version for the anniversary edition and didn’t bother to include things like mouse sensitivity, smoothing, acceleration, or really any pc specific options.

The main issue is that the camera seems to be connected to more than just character location, it seems to also be connected to orientation of some part of the character, like the hip. Combat is jittery as all hell, movement isn’t pleasant, and everything else hardly matters… I will be playing the original.

Coskii, 1 month ago

After spending a bit of time back on the original, I can say that the camera controls are just naturally janky, though it is significantly worse on the anniversary edition and it might be due to something as simple as the increased aspect ratio.

Coskii, 1 month ago

And then hilariously I happen across this article today about a free unreal 5 version of fable some fan has made. From the looks it seems like a prettying up of the original, but might not have changed much if anything about the gameplay.

Coskii, 1 month ago

D-pad for precision, analog for thereabouts.

Or in monster hunter, d-pad for camera with index finger, analog for movement with thumb, embrace claw until everything cramps.

Coskii, 1 month ago

I guess this is the day I’m remembering my psn password.

Coskii, 1 month ago

If this isn’t an SCP, it definitely should be. That being said I’ve never experienced this and I spent an awful lot of time wandering in the wildernesses in Monterey.

Coskii, 1 month ago

They didn’t want to deal with the bees.

Coskii, 1 month ago

This was true for me in my younger years especially, I ran on about a 32 hour cycle. As I’ve gotten used to my weekday work routine I’m much closer to a 28ish hour routine now.

Coskii, 1 month ago

might’ve had an acquaintance who was interested in them so they wanted to double check size.

Coskii, 1 month ago

I thought about playing a lot of things. I spent about 2 hours in helldivers 2 and that was about it for the week.

Coskii, 1 month ago

My American city has at least 2 roundabouts in it, and I happen to get confused by at least one of them every time I’m trying to get somewhere.

Coskii, 1 month ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/2e28a30e-c269-47a9-81a6-b3eb01206b3a.jpeg

To be fair, it’s the most American roundabout ever. Changing numbers of lanes, stop lights around it, and completely unintuitive. I seem to always be one lane more to the right of where I thought I needed to be.

Coskii, 1 month ago

Every time I install gimp in an attempt to switch over, I find myself frustrated that the tools I commonly use on other programs are not either available by default or unintuitive enough that 20 minutes of looking through tools, tabs, and menus has not provided the results I went looking for.

I try every few years, or every major update, whichever happens first.

Coskii, 1 month ago

This topic actually prompted me to google the answer to the one thing I had been looking for only to find that the answer is completely obtuse and kind of misleading, which is why I wasn’t able to find it on my own.

Coskii, 2 months ago

I’ve said it many times, but the channels I speak through are small, so from the top!

If you put your artwork online in any public location, make sure your signature or even a QR code is obnoxiously large and centered on the image. Humans can still see and enjoy what you’ve made, AI won’t be able to discern anything, and if it happens to get ripped by one of those Chinese T-shirt bots, at least anyone who buys will know who the original artist is.

Coskii, 1 month ago

It’s not that I prefer having images occluded by anything, signatures, text boxes, or whatever… But when it comes to online protections for someone’s work, hell yeah put that shit on there.

The best part is that I’ve been saying this well before generative AI was mainstream. Artists who put their work on public domains who don’t want it getting into the hands of others shouldn’t have an issue with signing the hell out of the image. They can of course add it before uploading and not to the original.

Would it be amazing if people properly lisenced others work and/or requested permission to use it? Absolutely. That’s just not the world we live in.

Coskii, 2 months ago

Whatever the default ad blocker is on opera works fine, always has. Once in a blue moon I’ll see a frame of an ad, but it skips directly after.

Coskii, 2 months ago

Considering it was asked to copy the previous text, it could easily be something the creator of this screen cap had written and the chat or literally just copied. A ‘repeat after me’ into a gotcha.

Nevermind. Enough other screenshot have shown the exact same text in realistic looking prompts that I suppose this is legit… Sadly.

Coskii, 2 months ago

I’m pretty happy with Coskii, but I mean…

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/a36c8a7d-31b0-46d2-93b1-ee3165b36184.png

Coskii, 2 months ago

It’s a nice message, but the dude literally showed himself clearing the engine of water, checking the singular spark plug, and then just starting it up with very little else in the way of actually tinkering, exploring, or otherwise discovering. I know it’s a short video format but the actual video content seems to only be there to serve that message.

Coskii, 2 months ago

I have no problems with the message.

I’m a carpenter by trade and a tinkerer on the side. I have an older flat-screen TV waiting for me to get some time as the back light has burned out. I will completely disassemble it, test the leds, find the busted one(s) and bridge the connections so it can be backlit, just a bit dimmer.

I know how to because I’ve already done this once. I’ve had that particular LCD for over a decade at this point and I’m not going to just toss it when the issue is fairly simple to bypass.

Coskii, 2 months ago

Yeah, this boils down to “does the bond company have the money and was the bond issuer authorized to issue the bond”

It will get interesting if they for whatever reason can’t provide these two formalities, but I’m not holding my breath.

Coskii, 2 months ago

These are actually new? I could have sworn they were the same posts from other stuff either last year or the year before with the place name changed. I know I’ve read that blm one almost exactly before this.

Coskii, 2 months ago

Answers by survey… I’m not sure exactly how much I trust those results in either direction.

Coskii, 3 months ago

Cool, now make them use bytes as the system of measurement and we’ll be on to something.

Coskii, 3 months ago

In no particular order:

1. Half minute hero: quirky, quick, hilarious, and a bit stressful at times. It’s a perfect mobile title.
2. Disgaea: infinitely scaling/playable strategy rpg. You can power through the game pretty quickly, or take your time and slowly become a god so strong that even friendly healing spells miss you.
3. Patapon (2 and 3): rhythm based game about using drum commands to get your little dudes to complete missions.
4. Dj max (any/all):dance dance revolution for your thumbs. Korean game featuring Korean artists. One of my favorite continuing series.
5. Monster hunter (freedom through portable 3rd): action rpg all about them boss fights. Kill monsters, use their parts to hunt tougher monsters in a game all about incremental progression, inventory management, and learning movement patterns to git gud.
6. Patchwork hero: do you like the dig dug stages where you slice off bits of the land to drop enemies into the water? This is that except they are airships and you must defend your homeland
7. Lumines (1 and 2): musical game about matching colors and making combos in a tetris-esque style game. The devs went on to make tetris effect.
8. Cladun 2: so I heard you like action rpgs, infinite scaling, pixel art, and enough grindy systems that even my power tools get jealous. Enter Cladun.

I’m wondering if I missed any I spent a disproportionate amount of time on… But these were the first ones to pop into my head.

Edit: I am finally home so I can look over my games… and I definitely forgot a couple.

1. LOCO ROCO! It’s a very simple platformer in which you guide your little dudes through stages by using the L and R to tilt the stage. You collect fruits to increase your dude into a larger dude, or several dudes, depending on the situation.
2. N+ Be a platforming Ninja, die a lot… like a lot a lot. It’s… simple and hard and so satisfying to clear one set of 4 stages at a time. You can even make your own stages if you’re feeling up to the challenge.

Coskii, 3 months ago

Regardless of how this plays out, I can confidently say that I’m done supporting that company in any way, shape, or form.

Coskii, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Last game I’ve played was egg, inc. It’s a mobile idle “numbers go up” game… There’s nothing overtly criminal, so probably tax evasion or something on my trevigintillion bocks.

Coskii, 3 months ago

I mean… I’m giving them their own unique universes to live in. I don’t think they’re being abused.

Coskii, 3 months ago

Definitely not wrong. Also using the multiverse and time splices to select only the best eggs is surely some kind of time crime.

Coskii, 3 months ago

Truly terrifying.

Coskii, 3 months ago

It’s good to see those who are willing to vote with their wallets. I’m still very much playing helldivers 2. The matchmaking was recently broken and will likely be fixed before the mid week, though it certainly hurt those who just tried it out.

Matchmaking being down means I have to coordinate with the folks I know who are also playing. Thankfully for me, I have plenty of options.

Helldivers 2 was the only game I played this past week.

It clearly has a few major issues, but I’m having a ball, even when the defense mission types are completely busted and the game seemingly isn’t satisfied until it hits the cap for enemies and maintains it.

Coskii, 4 months ago

I was thinking the same.

Coskii, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Helldivers 2. After a somewhat rocky launch, the game is good and enjoyable. It’s missing a lot at the moment in terms of what the first game offered, but the third person shooting is very refreshing from the top down game it once was. I was planning to spend my whole weekend on it, but seeing how quickly I’m progressing through the ranks and knowing how the difficulty curve is, I’ve decided that taking my time and waiting for further updates is preferable.

Edit: seems I missed out on login issues yesterday from literal hundreds of thousands of people joining in.

Coskii, 4 months ago

4. If tortilla still isn’t large enough, make larger.

Coskii, 5 months ago

Depends on the game.

Monster hunter: they get the cute armor sets. Dudes get the fat armor sets, while that version of the lady armor is something like a mecha teddy bear.

Social games: I aim for the more gender neutral looks, and for whatever reason guys are almost always bulky. It’s usually somewhat possible to get a female avatar to look guyish. And if it’s using voice chat, there is very little question.

Online MMOs: I have set male and female character tropes/character types that have been developed for 20ish years at this point. Coskii is an axe welding merchant or as close to that as I can manage. My thief is a lady, archer is a guy, wizard is a guy, and sorcerer is lady.

Single player whatevers: it depends on the character sounds. Sometimes games can get a bit excessive with their sound design, and for whatever reason make the guy voice sound like he’s constipated for every sound effect.

Coskii, 5 months ago

The method to it’s madness is fairly underhanded to adults, much more so for its’ intended audience.

I wish I could find the video that did a basic deep dive on all (negative) aspects of the roblox community, from the robux, to the game makers potential for being exploited, and the oddly nft/stock market of cosmetics which are a massive fomo money sink. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t aimed at children, but because it is, that only makes the handful of bad/fringe cases even more unsettling.

It’s no big secret that kids are dumb enough to try and get robux for free from almost any link saying they can online. But the incentive is there for them to try.

Removing roblox from a kids library is a good thing for peace of mind. Plus there are plenty of other games out there to play with friends and depending on how they spent their time on roblox, it likely wouldn’t be terribly hard to match to another game within whatever genre they were playing.

Coskii, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

It would be helpful to understand what types of games the kid was playing in the first place to suggest alternatives. I ripped this answer from quora on how to see which games within roblox your child was playing

• Game History: Roblox used to have a “Game History” feature that allowed users to view a list of recently played games. This feature showed the last few games you played, but it was limited in terms of historical data. It’s worth checking if this feature is still available in your account settings.
• Roblox Account Activity: You can check your Roblox account’s activity feed, which may show some information about recent game interactions and achievements. However, this feed typically doesn’t display a comprehensive game history.
• Roblox API: Some third-party websites and tools may offer services that attempt to retrieve and display more extensive game history data by accessing Roblox’s API. Be cautious when using third-party services and make sure they are reputable and secure.

I went looking for any kind of account tracker and to no one’s surprise they are mostly about account value from items, not so much about worlds/experiences they have been on.

Most of the responses I’ve seen on here are just suggesting games which may or may not be to your kids looking purely based on those games being generally accepted as good.

Coskii, 7 months ago

I’m in a weird gaming rut at the moment, I just bought into the radius, but I don’t want to play it until I get a better headset. I worried that the screen door effect of my first Gen vive will ruin the experience.

As such I’ve fallen back to the rogue lite twin stick goodness of nova drift.