Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique, 1 day ago

People like Elon are part of why I refuse to bring anyone into this dumpster fire of a planet.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

I really wanted to like ER. It’s fucking beautiful and seems to have a lot of depth, but the a appeal to difficulty doesn’t really hold any water, cuz the only thing that makes it difficult is unnecessarily clunky controls.

Maybe there’s a mod or something now that makes the combat more fluid… I should give it another visit.

Sterile_Technique, 1 day ago

It’s been a while, but I recall most attacks having an obnoxiously long animation, and that animation being set in stone once you trigger it. There is no aborting a sword-swing midway through to dodge or block. And if you make the mistake of pressing the attack button twice, apparently there’s a built-in ability queue that can’t be disabled, so you have to wait for the first animation to completely play through, then wait again for a second animation to play from start to finish.

It makes it extremely unresponsive. That unresponsiveness seems to be what most folks are talking about when they’re applauding the game’s “difficulty”… but you could make any game that flavor of difficult by obstructing the controls.

Sterile_Technique, 1 day ago

Which stats? I put over 100 hours into ER if that’s what you’re looking for. Like I said, I really wanted to like it, and ‘got gud’ (learned to time the control’s clunkiness) enough to progress a decent way through the game. But it never actually got fun, nor did it live up to the wildly positive feedback it was getting from the gaming community. ER is an okay game. 5/10. It’s not bad by any stretch, but it’s not the posterchild of a perfect game that it was/is lauded as.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fb8a327c-73ec-4df2-be8c-6227e550a808.png

Sterile_Technique, 1 day ago

I understand the reasoning behind it all, but those design decisions add up to it being clunky. Being intentional and with purpose doesn’t change that.

Sterile_Technique, 21 hours ago

Making you commit to moves when you make them isn’t clunky.

What is it?

It’s cool if you don’t mind the clunk; apparently it’s a selling point… but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Sterile_Technique, 20 hours ago

It’s standard practice.

In many cases, yes.

In fighting games, monster hunter, and a bunch of other games, really similar rules apply

…which makes those games clunky. I disliked monster hunter for the exact same reason.

Your take is uninformed and you obviously don’t play much of the genre

I don’t play much of the genre… because it’s clunky. I’m sorry that description offends you.

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago

It works in the US, too. I’ve gotten great care at the VA (no, seriously… they have a bad reputation, and the infrastructure is ghetto as fuck, but the actual quality of care is great).

There’s also the USPHS, but honestly I’ve never actually met someone who joined or seen one of their facilities… I think they mostly do humanitarian stuff overseas?

Point being, we have the framework for it already. I could see the VA expanding it’s mission/coverage to spouses/families of vets, and use that as the baby step into coverage for everyone. Fun bonus: state law can suck a dick on federal facilities, so all the rednecks can write as much misogynistic legislation as they want locally, but Susie’s rights suddenly return the second she steps into federal property, even if it’s a hospital in the middle of Y’all Quaeda territory.

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago

…why are you getting downvoted for looking up a word??

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago

I have an extension recommendation if you’re using Firefox (and if not, I’m sure there are similar ones for other browsers):

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/dictionary-anyvhere/

Makes a little popup when you double click a word with its definition; and you can even double click a word in that for a followup definition when necessary.

I use it all the time - 10/10.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2f991a0f-3e0e-4ce6-9ca8-a1cee7d53962.png

Sterile_Technique, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch

The Nazis didn’t get it right the first time either.

Don’t let the right wing’s clown act get your guard down.

Sterile_Technique, 6 days ago

Depends on how they progress. Smart doesn’t necessarily mean good.

They all act like morons, but especially for the ones on top, it becomes a question of whether they came into power by being just the right type of stupid; or are they just good at behaving like an idiot because that’s an effective way to manipulate actual idiots?

We have a tendency to be dismissive of them as -just- being stupid, but every time we give them the village-idiot pass, we’re making their strategy that much more successful.

Look at the harm Trump has caused - he wouldn’t get away with a tenth of what he’s done if he acted competently.

…honestly it’s basically the Darth Jar Jar fan theory - you can get away with doing all kinds of evil if you just act like an idiot while you do it.

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago

I’m not really worried about Trump specifically so much as the movement he’s unleashed. Cult 45 is going to lose their fucking minds when he finally dies… he could literally choke to death on Putin’s dick on live TV and it’d still be pitched as some kind of deep state hit job that merits retaliation. This shit doesn’t end with Trump.

Sterile_Technique, 10 days ago

I can definitely understand the reasoning behind sending troops vs just supplies, and it’s kind of shit either way; but I’m with you, supporting them directly is ultimately the path to losing the least amount of human life.

Russia is running on fumes, but so is Ukraine. Even the threat of our involvement could end the war - continuing the attack on Ukraine would be suicide at that point.

Sterile_Technique, 11 days ago

We have a news outlet reporting on another news outlet’s report on a news outlet’s reaction to an actual event. 🍿

This can go deeper!

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago

Veteran here. Donald Trump fucking hates ‘the troops’. The number of active duty and prior service who still (or ever) support that anti-American shit stain blows my mind.

Here’s some light reading - this list is WAY outdated at this point, so feel free to contribute some more links in the comments. These are examples of things he’s done specifically to attack the US military / veterans:

lemmy.world/post/8041636

Sterile_Technique, 14 days ago

I guess this beats bombing each other…

Sterile_Technique, 15 days ago

Lust: Valentines Day

Gluttony: Thanks Giving

Greed: Halloween

Sloth: 3rd Saturday of October

Wrath: July 4th, and/or tax day

Envy: Christmas

Pride: The entire month of June! 🏳️‍🌈

Sterile_Technique, 16 days ago

They actually do that all the time trying to cover for Agent Orange. “He was just joking.”

Sterile_Technique, 16 days ago

This apology is empty if it doesn’t contain assurances that he won’t post dumb shit again.

Sterile_Technique, 16 days ago

See?! He posted dumb shit again!

Sterile_Technique, 17 days ago

The coming generations will be saying the same thing.

We’re only kind of fucked; our kids are proper fucked; their kids are fucked fucked.

Sterile_Technique, 17 days ago

It’s one of the MAIN reasons I’m not having children.

Sterile_Technique, 17 days ago

Seconding that. Slow phase is the way - as the old shit breaks, replace it with metric. Not just for cost, but to ease folks into it.

Sterile_Technique, 18 days ago

History may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Association_of_German_National…

Sterile_Technique, 19 days ago

There are tools to make them give a shit.

Sterile_Technique, 19 days ago

I wish I could say I had it in me.

Sterile_Technique, 23 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7b5da8ec-1bf5-42e3-98fa-ba3de107bac4.jpeg

Edit - actually I think I owe both Heath Ledger and the fictional character he was playing an apology now… feels dirty.

Sterile_Technique, 23 days ago

Get

Procure

Sterile_Technique, 24 days ago

Republicans are gonna have to square their “law and order” worldview with voting for a CONVICTED FELON.

That’s not how republicans work. The shit they do is always about the cruelty. The “law and order” shit was only ever to cheer on enforcement on people they don’t like (dark skinned people, women, non-christians, etc).

You’ll drive yourself nuts trying to do things like point out hypocrisy on their ‘law and order’ or any of their other paper-thin dogmas because they’re all made to be bullshit in the first place.

The cruelty is the point. Once you start considering their actions through that lens, they become much more consistent and predictable.

Sterile_Technique, 24 days ago

Futurama called it.

Sterile_Technique, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

I’d recommend learning some of this guy’s and the LP’s highlights: you will NOT ever convince a trumpanzee to vote for anyone on the blue team, but they’re a lot more receptive to the libertarian pipe dream.

I’ve managed to direct a few votes away from Trump by singing the LP’s praises tactically to co-workers who were otherwise hopelessly right wing.

The spoiler effect is a best case scenario in that situation.

Sterile_Technique, 28 days ago

what are modern Republicans even about?

Cruelty. You can run circles around pretty much any issue pointing out examples of their hypocrisy and inconsistency, but they’re pretty reliable with harming their community.

Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, their bullshit starts to make a lot more sense.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

Great film!!

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

Idk, I can’t hear it over the neonazi fog-horn the GOP is blaring.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

Some of them are capable of learning - they’re called 'ex conservatives '.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

Vigilantes?

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Hey, congrats Iran!!

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

(X) Doubt

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Sweet flavors are nothing new on wings.

I wouldn’t expect to actually enjoy wings that get the sweet from koolaid, but fuck it I’m down to try a bite.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mimicry

We are prey.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

It’s antisemitic to even ask that.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

That she ever made it out of the uterus is itself an argument in favor of abortion.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

We need to stop giving Trump (and the other neonazis that have surfaced in his wake) the village-idiot or bat-shit-crazy pass and treat him as though his actions are lucid and calculated. We can assess the state of his brain during autopsy. Until then, he’s a traitor and domestic threat to the United States, and we should treat that threat as seriously as its consequences merit.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

In their defense, that’s still better than most news.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

Getting abusive parent vibes from the language of Sony’s post.

Sterile_Technique, 1 month ago

Naw it’s more like “we did something we knew would make you incredibly uncomfortable; but now that you’re screaming we’re worried about the neighbors hearing it and we don’t want the cops called on us, so we’ll back off until a more opportune time.”