Lesrid

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Lesrid,

Buffett is a bastard but he’s a clever bastard.

Lesrid,

Because they don’t need touchpads and like an asymmetrical layout

Lesrid,

It’s been around since they first had profiles. I’m pretty sure that was while Steam was still green

Lesrid,

Yes if your solution is to throw literal children at the problem you should quit while you’re ahead.

Lesrid,

The UI is definitely easier to navigate. But the game is still about timing wars and angling to get heirs on thrones, and the game still does not do a great job of shouting out nearby wars.

And rulers get free navies now so Ireland is actually kind of dangerous. I recommend new players start in modern Norway

Lesrid,

When they first released their keyboards the equivalent to iCue was fine. Now it’s actually adversarial.

Lesrid,

An older goth girl bit me on the arm as a child. Completely inappropriate behavior and I’ve been chasing that high ever since.

Lesrid,

And for me it’s not even a principled issue. I just hate using their store. I’m not saying they need parity with the weird social media aspects of Steam (though I have come around to dropping comments on friends’ achievement notifications on the library page). But let me see reviews and let me refund and some other basic stuff I’m forgetting.

Lesrid,

I love it. Low poly and horror really belong together in mind. Probably for similar reasons as your own

Lesrid,

It was my first Rated M game and it set the bar impossibly high

Lesrid,

I never had egregious visual bugs like Skyrim’s dragons flying in reverse. But when I first launched New Vegas the doc waking you up from your coma had a glitch where his head would gently rotate like a clock hand while his mouth flapped. If his mouth stopped flapping his head stopped pivoting on the top of his neck.

I honestly thought it was intentional until his cheek went inside his shoulder.

Lesrid,

Yeah it’s definitely more substantial than something like Blood Dragon for Far Cry 3.

Lesrid,

I made a comment referencing how bad DayZ early access was and the reply has me considering reinstalling. I remember zombies flat out ignoring walls though.

Lesrid,

But it’s so safe and familiar, why should I regard you as a real person with thoughts and dreams?

Lesrid,

Capitalism is bad not because “grow or die” is ridiculous, it’s bad because it’s true.

Lesrid,

Yeah it was cool they got mr las Vegas to be Mr New Vegas but dear lord his voice and the song selection really puts you to sleep. It wasn’t until recently I remembered I loaded up the radio with 50s and 60s rock.

Lesrid,

Could you imagine if that were true? Waggle to move toward the nearest enemy, swish to retreat. After all the enemies are dead waggle to move toward left exit, swish to move to right exit.

Lesrid,

Yeah it doesn’t really stand out.

Lesrid,

The triumph of modern marketing. The company is my friend and the product is my child.

Lesrid,

One thing I appreciate between BG3 and their Original Sin series is that the latter games felt like turn based Splatoon whereas the former has much less surface spam barrelmancy (though it is still present)

Lesrid,

Lots of young folks with time to dedicate to surfing were at the right age where lolrandom was peak humor. They were ripe to receive the shit posts of prodigious animators congregating on Newgrounds and Ebaums etc

Lesrid,

That’s fine. Poker is just a theme. And it’s got a guide for poker hands, but after a couple trips to the item shop you can usually throw everything about poker out the window.

Lesrid,

If that was possible we wouldn’t have public education, we’d just sleep for the first 20-30 years of our lives so we could work weeks long shifts at McD’s.

Lesrid,

I should call her

Lesrid,

Yup one of the first things I learned in computer repair is that a mostly flattened Philips works way better

Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. (lemmy.world)

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...

Lesrid,

My neighborhood was just poor enough that basically no kid had a PS memory card. They were all jealous of my n64’s ability to save on the cartridges. When the PS2 and GameCube rolled around we just left the machines on all day again

Lesrid,

Let me gift games, let me wishlist games to receive gifts. There’s lots of other features I would also like but if other stores had that I’d be much more inclined to use the other stores.

Lesrid,

One thing I loved about Elite was the collection of mini games. Navigating through the space station to your landing pad, finding a suitable patch of surface to touchdown on a planet, having to fight or yield to a supercruise interdiction, they all came together to make Elite feel like a driving game where your vehicle happens to be a spaceship.

In No Man’s Sky landing and takeoff are achieved with a singular button press. And the ship combat is there to check a box. The game is mostly about taking pics of flora and fauna and digging trenches in planets for minerals.

Lesrid,

I really enjoyed the writing of the side characters in the N64 games. Sure most only had two maybe three things to say outside a side quest but they all had a nugget of commentary on the human condition.

Lesrid,

The sort of alternate universe I yearned for once upon a time was Zelda continuing to be about time gimmicks. OoT had two points in a timeline, MM had the groundhog’s labor day weekend, and there was oracle of ages/seasons by Capcom. I guess there’s only so many ways to spin it though.

Lesrid,

That’s the one time a grocery store deal actually achieved its purpose of getting me to permanently switch brands. That mayo is perfect down to the texture.

Lesrid,

I host my pihole through Google because it makes me feel rebellious

Lesrid,

It’s amazing that Newgrounds is essentially as strong as it ever was. Sure it’s small time now but the activity level is still about the same

Lesrid,

I had the same impression at least 4 years ago as well. More privacy maybe but less security definitely.

Lesrid,

Brand recognition is cool and all but the rest of the world wants numbers or entirely new names, cmon N**ntendo.

Lesrid,

I loved getting my Assist medals in BF3 for consistently being just a bit slower than my opponent and dropping them down to 5% health. I am keeping the tradition alive in Finals

Lesrid,

DST was established in the context of anemic government trying to show extensive reach/control over the economy at a time where it had very little (arguably it still does today but only because most governments have matured to represent their most powerful class). As if to say “We determine the clocks that industry schedules by”

Lesrid,

It’s a common issue with lots of team play games. The other player decided that it was better to have two people operating separate mortars than to have one of them provide small arms cover on the flanks of the tank.

Helldivers 2 has a similar problem where some players can help other players reload their larger weapons at a much faster rate than typically; however the player base decided that it’s better to fan out and each operate the weapon solo because shots do not need to be made so rapidly and clumping together increases the odds both players die.

Lesrid,

I rather disliked the whole ‘your primary weapon is not supposed to be the weapon you primarily use’. Fine then rename them to small, medium, large or something instead of leading me to believe I should be able to kill a smaller horde without a Destroyer or Eagle.

Lesrid,

Maybe my friends are too drunk but with the shield and the railgun we still get about three bile titans per breach and breaches retrigger regularly. With automatons it is easy for us to kite circularly, thereby reducing the number of patrols we drag in, but the speed of bugs leads us to back pedal across the map. If you care to share advice I would welcome it.

Lesrid,

The man in the ivory tower even says under the railgun heading that they are aware that one of the reasons the railgun is popular is because other anti-armor sucks.

Respectfully sir that’s like the only reason. Your CEO said on Twitter that the ass of a charger is not a weak point, merely an unarmored point; well all the same I need my partner to get the charger to face the other way to hit its butt since I need multiple recoilless rounds to kill it.

Lesrid,

That’s what they mean though. Weakspots multiply the damage received. Their only lever without redesigning the way weakspots function is to drop base damage.

The Arc Thrower for example ignores armor but does relatively low damage, however sometimes it will oneshot a beefier enemy when the arc hits a weakspot. Even with the flamethrower it is better to hit the charger’s armored leg because that is a weakspot on that enemy.

Lesrid,

No the laser cannon is supposed to be an lmg that you don’t need to reload. It only got its buff because people were confused about a weapon with ‘cannon’ in the name, that you have to rest on your shoulder, getting completely blocked by armor. But initially the lascan was completely in line with other laser weapons.

Even the orbital laser weapon only kills chargers and bile titans by reapplying the fire DoT unless you strip top armor first. And the scythe primary weapon is a complete waste of everyone’s time since it is eclipsed by any DMR.

Lesrid,

My biggest complaint with R* games is that they refuse to let players leverage the open world to even a minor extent in their missions. I understand that restrictions are important to telling the story and can even nurture creativity but for as detailed the world and fairly deep their systems are their missions are quite dictatorial.

Lesrid,

Now I’m wondering how did we ever manage to kill each other before timezones?

Lesrid,

Morally I would say it depends on how much the legal aspect is valued. Legally (where applicable) you’re supposed to use your own copy of the software to make the rom you use, ensuring you own both the hardware and the game.

Lesrid,

Anyone have recommendations for an executive style chair with a high back? I assume the reason why I can’t find them anywhere is a combination of them being a larger box by volume and something about ergonomics but I love reclining in a chair with a high slightly wide back that doesn’t put all the weight onto my feet like ‘racer’ style chairs tend to do.

Lesrid,

IIRC even Nintendo Power had an acerbic fan mail section

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