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  1. Official RGG Summit prediction: they’re skipping Yakuza Kiwami 3, going straight to Dead Souls

    about 10 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra At this point they are rather remaking 1 and 2 again but with the RPG mechanics from 7 and 8 than overhauling 3. Realistically I see them showing some new footage from Stranger Than Heaven. Maybe they'll announce a new Gaiden game. A Gaiden game with Saejima as protagonist would be the most probable one if any. Personally I would like one with Akiyama and Hana-Chan.

      about 10 months ago in context
  2. Well that's a neat piece of old animation history that's new to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6mqAwGnY8

    about 10 months ago from web
  3. Finally my new smartphone arrived, the Xperia 10 VI, for 250€. 100€ less than I tried to order in May. Now I'm transferring all my data. Only hassle is that I can't use my old SD card because it wants to format it. Have a spare one and it is fine.

    about 10 months ago from web
  4. Database Error begone!

    about 10 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Turns out if you don’t set binary log expiration in MySQL and leave it unattended for about 10 years you eventually run out of disk space

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @ceruleanspark Ah... Makes sense. At a project I was working on they had similar issues. They logged EVERYTHING and had space issues in production. So much so that they had to make rotating logs but soon after so much was logged that the rotating logs would only save about 2-3 hours and yet more and more logging was added. My code had also very verbose logging that could be disabled but the client wanted even that output all the time. Coincidentally their DB views got so big that certain joints in some applications suddenly stopped working because it had too many columns. It was quite the ordeal to debug that.

      about 10 months ago in context
  5. I figured I was good to do another Trump thing because he was in Virginia yesterday but uhhhh now the White House is saying “The President” has an announcement tomorrow. Don’t screw me man. I already have the assets made.

    about 10 months ago from web
  6. A Nation In Mourning
    https://youtu.be/rvnCfCkFzr8

    about 10 months ago from web
  7. Woke up seeing a horrible blob of death at my 3d-printer's nozzle that has engulfed a vast amount of the hotend.

    about 10 months ago from web
  8. On the other hand Tigerella (red tomatoes with yellow-ish stripes) are not that bad and they pump out a lot but they are not my preferred taste with their very juicy and sour notes. If I prepared salads they would have been ideal for that. A Polish sort called Malina on the other hand was described as very sweet and juicy but in my garden they turned out to be dull in taste. The same with a sort called Japanese Crab (it's from Russia) that is not much of a shower in the flavor department. Marmande (from France) is still a very solid all-rounder that I don't mind for being mid in everything. Harzfeuer (German) is also mid but the fruits are a little bit too small for me. Roma tomatoes (Italy) are quite hard, almost like a soft bell pepper and have little juice which makes them eating on bread less desirable. Adora tomatoes that I tasted were also not bad but lacked the qualities it is advertised as with its smoky taste. For me it's a watered-down Black Krim atm.

    about 10 months ago from web
  9. "Superman" was really good, "Weapons" also was good, and damn it even the "Tron: Ares" trailer looked good in spite of the Jared Leto-ness of it all

    about 10 months ago from web
  10. Turn-based combat is king. All those attempts to do a hybrid approach are failing in my opinion. I think Diablo has poisoned these games with the fancy real time hack and slash combat. I like D&D for intense strategy combat and not for the real-time hectic confusion. I have a party of 4 people against 5-10 enemies. I am too slow to even judge the situation and make a good decision.

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    • @zeldatra Yeah. The companion AI might also do a lot of heavy lifting there too. Imagine how bad it would look like if the other characters were potatoes and did the worst decisions. In BG3 I was peeved off any time (out of combat obviously) whenever a character stepped into a trap or dangerous zone. I had to reload and redo a fight because a NPC character completely out of my control stepped into an AOE effect (Moonbeam spell) that was active when every enemy died. Then due to that dumbness the NPC went hostile against me because he was that dumb. It was the hot-headed Roland in the Shadow-Cursed Lands at the edge of Moonrise Towers trying to save his siblings after I defeated shadow creatures to save HIM.

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra Hearing about the new battle system actually piqued my interest in playing the remake, I'd previously been put off by hearing about the plot changes

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @scribus the story is banal dogapple but the game itself is very very fun.

      about 10 months ago in context
  11. I recently put on a very old piece of clothing that has been washed with scented detergent and it hit my nose really hard. For about 4 years I use detergent without any perfumes. My nose couldn't handle the stench of "freshness" companies try to sell to customers.

    about 10 months ago from web
  12. This is me speaking about fashion options as a dude who wears almost exclusively graphic t-shirts and jeans (or sweat pants at home).

    about 10 months ago from web
  13. I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.

    about 10 months ago from web
  14. I continue to find myself surprised by my aim. Today I shot a long gun for the first time and even though my stance was probably awful my spread was tight.

    about 11 months ago from web
  15. Nothing quite makes me wish I could've known a person like beating life expectancy and then checking out in a homemade helicopter accident, he sounds like he was party as batcave https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/russian-man-88-dies-after-homemade-helicopter-falls-apart-on-takeoff/

    about 11 months ago from web
  16. I have finally a working 3D printer! I bought a used Prusa MK3S for 250€. It's about the current price it goes for but for me it's a bargain, as it is the start of the end of many of my printer problems. I want a work horse, reliable, not super fancy, but it does the work, neither exceptionally but competently. Also it's my first direct-drive extruder which will enable me to print with flexible material like TPU at 95 shore hardness.

    about 11 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Congratulations, nothing quite like the end of a string of problems

      about 11 months ago in context
    • @scribus Thanks. The previous owner had printed a test print just before I arrived to demonstrate that it works, and I believe him fully that it always was without any problems. However, There is a lingering thought in my head that is slowly getting louder saying that my luck (more misfortune) will make it to an object with the same amount of problems as I had before. Joking aside, I think it will take me a little bit of time to get it to know and know its limitations and quirks. It uses a magnetic spring steel sheet with a PEI layer as the print bed surface, which can be really tricky to print with PETG, that is my preferred material. It tends to destroy the PEI coating of the print surface when not being carefully handled.

      about 11 months ago in context
  17. I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.

    about a year ago from web
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    • @adiwan The skeleton thing? I went through that one just fine but I guess that's the advantage of a cleric/pally heavy party

      about a year ago in context
    • @scribus Wait until you try Wrath of the Righteous.
      Pathfinder in general is number crunching hell since its first edition, but WotR takes it a step further crowning itself as the most number-crappy TTRPG I've played so far.
      Which is impressive considering the same company made Rogue Trader, which is perfectly good and pleasant to play.

      about a year ago in context
    • @nerthos It was the Ketheric Thorm fight. My party had a Ranger with the teleport moth swarm (my character), a cleric (Shadowheart), a wizard (Gale), and a barbarian (Karlach). My damage output was too low and all of them failed their saving throws more times than statistically possible.

      about a year ago in context
  18. I'm the weirdo blasting orchestral soundtracks out of the rolled down car window next to the guy with the mega subwoofer in the other lane.

    about a year ago from web
  19. What are the natural forces in video games that reset a room upon exiting and entering it again? Why aren't these forces resetting the puzzle upon entering? Is it related to infinitely spawning enemies and why is the law of conservation of energy and mass violated? Why are some people/creatures fading out of existence upon death and some need to be buried? It'd be interesting if a piece of media told a story that tries to explain odd and common video game stuff.

    about a year ago from web
  20. I’m not proud of this but I’ve been playing the Gex Trilogy for most of the night

    about a year ago from web
    • @zeldatra GEX 3D: Enter The Gecko was awesome. I had to guy a 3DFX Voodoo graphics card to get the game to work back in the day. It was the best Mario 64 replacement a PC gamer could have without owning a N64.

      about a year ago in context
  21. just voted. Tactically, both of the men I supported are black, which removes the possibility of me having accidentally platformed a guy who did blackface… again…

    about a year ago from web
  22. I don't like what I was seeing the the Naked Gun trailer.

    about a year ago from web
    • @adiwan I laughed exactly once at the OJ joke in the first trailer but I have been unimpressed otherwise.

      about a year ago in context
    • @zeldatra I got a slight chuckle at max out of this. I feel like the stuff in the trailer was off-putting serious in tone while being off-putting outlandish in the next. I don't remember the originals being like that. Also I don't like that he is so trigger happy for a comedy film. I guess, according to the Youtube comments, it will be a moderate success, as I have seen a ton of positive comments. Cinema is dead, I guess.

      about a year ago in context
  23. The mystery of the mysterious poop in my garden has been solved. A few weeks ago I was cleaning up some poop from behind my grill. Before that I had some poop on my lawn. Today I found the culprit: A hedgehog. Somehow there is a hole somewhere in the fencing and a hedgehog found its way in my garden. I encountered it when I was checking for rain to collect in buckets. While that I found the hedgehog standing absolutely still on my lawn. I grabbed a few sticks and pushed it gently out of my gate since I don't know where it could exit otherwise and I am certain that it wouldn't survive in my garden.

    about a year ago from web
  24. I gotta say… every time I see an F-150 in DC I gotta ask wtf these dudes are doing

    about a year ago from web
  25. While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.

    about a year ago from web
  26. The pharmacist keeps telling me she gave an android device to “the lady with the jihad”. I think she’s trying to say “hijab”.

    about a year ago from web
  27. https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/garbage-and-glory/news/garbage-and-glory-rpg Who wants to roleplay a party of trash pandas?!

    about a year ago from web
    • @scribus That looks fun. I guess my D&D group's taste would like a little bit more serious setting. I own the Humblewood books and I wait for the day I can do a one-shot in that setting when we start a Spelljammer campaign next year.

      about a year ago in context
  28. It's pride month. For me it's pide month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_pide

    about a year ago from web
  29. Had my first time a militant vegan was commenting on my post on bluesky. Shouldn't have replied to them. It baffles me that they cannot frame their interaction in a more positive light like saying that other products might be better and be positive to try more. Guess that's the Internet in a nutshell.

    about a year ago from web
    • @adiwan I didn't want to look into the person's profile but I did it anyway. As suspected the person is as stereotypical of a militant vegan as it can be. Their personality is fully based on spreading veganism by being a dick to everybody and guilt-tripping for eating dead animals. Cool bro. You found an interesting hobby.

      about a year ago in context
  30. FBI reports that the man who bombed the fertility clinic in Palm Springs had access to bomb-making material, wonder how they figured it out

    about a year ago from web