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  1. Well I'm trying to do a House-aligned playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, but I very really truly hate him and the terrible asshole things he says :-/

    Sunday, 23-Feb-25 20:07:17 UTC from web
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    • @scribus Interesting, he's my favourite faction to side with on the grounds of pragmatism, he's the only one with a plan (and the actual capability to make it happen) to make humanity go anywhere other than "we'll just be hobos in perpetuity"

      He might not be incredibly likable, but in a survival scenario that's irrelevant.

      about a year ago in context
    • @nerthos Yeah, I want to not hate him - I mean, a retro-future spaceVegas? Hell, yeah!! He's not even that unlikable, there's a wry sort of amusement to his bearing. But he's too egocentric; he's not preserving humanity, he's feeding his ego and seeking to create a thrallhood underclass to prop HIM up. Ultimately, I don't consider him sufficiently distinct from Caesar. Both cling to old-world ideals and play up some fantasy of the "inevitability" of "their" power. So, I kill him, take his city, and in my mind carry on with developing the space plans in a little more cooperative, ground-up fashion. (Though in all honesty a spacefaring future would be just as hellish as the vaults so iunno w/e i guess lol) Also I make The King governor or something :p

      about a year ago in context
    • @scribus That all sounds good until you factor in the kind of human resource you're dealing with in Fallout. Ironically the tv show is the best illustration of this, with the main character trying to behave like a civilized person and consistently getting banana'd by everyone.

      House's narcissistic approach is a necessity in the world he's operating, without the army of robots forcing the wastelanders to work at gunpoint nothing will get done (example: they're still living in shacks near 200 years after the war)
      Plus, he has civilized some factions already, so it's not like he won't uplift the competent and decent wastelanders into better positions. He has to do that for any space settling plan to work, since good people are needed to populate those colonies.

      Sometimes, a competent megalomaniac is the only option that can get the job done.

      about a year ago in context
  2. i think they should add pirate majima to the new monster hunter game because who else is more fit to hunt monsters? not your hatsune miku character creation, that's for sure

    about a year ago from web
  3. a game show where the final challenge is to talk about eugenics while the host records you with an iphone

    about a year ago from web
  4. o.o
    Goodness you are all still alive, HI RDN MY GODS YOU ARE STILL GOING?!

    Thursday, 13-Feb-25 23:19:33 UTC from web
  5. I addictively played the game for 8 hours straight with minor pauses to grab a snack and go to the toilet. It is just past midnight here and I am almost mad because I'm too tired to continue and have to work tomorrow.

    Thursday, 20-Feb-25 23:15:49 UTC from web
  6. It's unhinged one-eyed man time!

    Thursday, 20-Feb-25 15:19:53 UTC from web
  7. Preordered the upcoming Like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. I'm such a RGG simp.

    Tuesday, 18-Feb-25 16:32:18 UTC from web
  8. I’m working with a well-known brand sponsor for upcoming Mattimation cartoons and they want to know if I will happen to be in Dubai next week for a face to face. I, uh, will not, and unless I find myself with unfathomable wealth in the next five years, you can probably count on me not ever “happening” to be in Dubai.

    Monday, 17-Feb-25 14:09:57 UTC from web
  9. Children should play a bootleg console at least once in their lives. A good 'ol famiclone. A NES on a chip or anything that promises 99999999 games in one but they are repeats or just start at a different level. This kind of disappointment and wonder is a unique brew of an experience that is both cheap and rich in questionable fun. A lie with an upside. Bonus points if they are actually rom hacks with the weirdest promises.

    Tuesday, 11-Feb-25 23:26:42 UTC from web
    • @adiwan As a child I had an N64 controller that you would plug into a tv and it would load up 900 NES and arcade roms, probably less than a hundred of which were unique games. Kids today now can get handheld that do the same thing on Temu, everything is properly labeled, the emulators don’t run at half speed, sometimes they play like PS2 games and Fluffle Puff, you can load your own on an sd card… it just ain’t the same.

      Tuesday, 11-Feb-25 23:30:48 UTC in context
    • @zeldatra For some reason I stumble upon reviews of those emulation machines and even now they are not always delivering the proper performance to even run NES games at a smooth performance. PS2 games, even PS1 and Dreamcast are a joke. There are only few exceptions where they run well enough for an enjoyable experience. The famiclone I had in the 90s was a weird "handheld" one. It was a big black "Game Gear"-like case without a screen that plugged directly into a AC/DC adaptor and it needed to be connected with a RF coax cable to the TV. It really sucked as over time both power and TV plugs on it got loose.

      Wednesday, 12-Feb-25 06:32:21 UTC in context
  10. Let’s say I have five million dollars, cash. Do I a) move into a house on stilts in the most expensive state in the country and declare bankruptcy in a year after being unable to pay property taxes, or b) just buy a bigger house in the DC suburb I already currently live in for one million and then still have four million to play with

    Friday, 24-Jan-25 16:28:37 UTC from web
  11. It's not that I'm not empathetic towards people who lost everything in the recent LA wildfires, it's more that I don't consider washed-up media influencers living deliberately uninsured in a mansion they know they shouldn't be able to afford to be "people" like you or me https://apnews.com/article/california-fires-los-angeles-water-lawsuit-548b08e13f256079ff0ffc4e7a9c55a3

    Friday, 24-Jan-25 16:16:46 UTC from web
  12. I just realized Haruka’s head is like 30% larger than other women in Infinite Wealth and that’s why a lot of the headwear doesn’t fit here. What the FrankerZ

    Saturday, 18-Jan-25 20:43:18 UTC from web
  13. Very fitting that Hell on earth started with the fires in California just before Trump gets in office again.

    Thursday, 09-Jan-25 08:36:26 UTC from web
  14. Today is kind of like if on the anniversary of 9/11 we made Osama bin Laden president

    Monday, 06-Jan-25 16:09:19 UTC from web
  15. And so tonight my laptop dies because God just seems to want me to kill myself or something idk we

    Friday, 03-Jan-25 04:36:06 UTC from web
  16. I hope 2025 is as exciting as 2024 was

    Tuesday, 31-Dec-24 12:42:51 UTC from web
  17. the party of family values sent me some chick’s boobs in the mail and told me to go vote for them in a special election that I did not previously know about, but now do

    Thursday, 02-Jan-25 22:04:56 UTC from web
  18. new year

    Thursday, 02-Jan-25 22:49:32 UTC from web
  19. https://youtu.be/G6wlpkOSLI0 Modified Chitose's basic attack to look more like something Haruka would've learned through observation. First two hits are Chitose's regular rush combo, but the third is now an edited version of Kiryu's Dragon style high kick.

    Monday, 30-Dec-24 22:53:17 UTC from web
    • @zeldatra second hit is also slightly changed in that it now launches for a slightly flashier looking hit as originally it lacked impact. I'm told this makes it impossible for enemies to dodge mid combo which is probably why RGG didn't do this to begin with but they already were not dodging mid combo very much so i don't personally think it changes the balance too much

      Monday, 30-Dec-24 22:54:53 UTC in context
  20. Life lesson: It's easier to solder two stacking PCBs together via pins than to remove all that solder to disassemble. I got a new solder sucker and it sucks. I mean it is not very good. That solder sucker is an iFixit solder sucker and i'd give it a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars. The nozzle is way too big for 2.54mm pitched pins and the suction action itself is a little bit too weak.

    Thursday, 19-Dec-24 19:14:47 UTC from web
  21. I have been adjusting valta that nobody touches to change some of these animations. Some of them didn’t even know they exist. It works fine right now but uhhhhh

    Sunday, 22-Dec-24 19:59:23 UTC from web
  22. Think I might see the new Sonic later today

    Sunday, 22-Dec-24 09:20:44 UTC from web
  23. Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.

    Wednesday, 18-Dec-24 17:37:02 UTC from web
  24. Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.

    Monday, 09-Dec-24 05:44:26 UTC from web
  25. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice

    Sunday, 08-Dec-24 02:59:34 UTC from web
  26. Weird factoids about playable Haruka:
    -she is capable of doing all of Kiryu’s minigames although because she is much shorter some of her animations are a bit weird, IE she doesn’t reach the handlebars in Can Quest. Not sure how easy the fix for those things is because although I COULD tweak the animations, they’re meant to be universal so switching the party leader to anyone else breaks the animations for them.
    -she CANNOT play most of Kasuga’s minigames, he takes over for those. Likely has something to do with the game switching to his cutscene model or something like that, I haven’t looked too deep into it yet.

    Wednesday, 04-Dec-24 18:37:35 UTC from web
    • -she CAN however go to Dondoko Island. The only issue I’ve found there is that she has no voice lines for greeting villagers, although she does not reuse Kasuga’s like I thought she would; she simply doesn’t say anything at all, opting to wave instead. That’s interesting as hell. Pulling audio from other Rie Kugimiya/Xanthe Hyunh projects probably fixes this.
      -When taking selfies she either starts speaking in Kiryu’s voice (when in Japan) or Kasuga’s (in Hawaii). Not sure if this is fixable.

      Wednesday, 04-Dec-24 18:38:07 UTC in context
  27. Cities Skylines 2 is so great, I love how the entire town will all choose one road to drive on so no matter how many new highways you build they will all decide to clog up a suburban street forty miles away because they all decided that is the best way to work

    Monday, 25-Nov-24 06:46:59 UTC from web
  28. Am chaffing a laff at the FrankerZ I said but oh my god I didn't understand tone at all or social context wowwwww

    Wednesday, 13-Nov-24 20:38:37 UTC from web
  29. Hello Chat
    It's been years, and I'm 2 years on HRT. Life has been hectic but great.
    What's up?
    Also grug, can't upload image on phone >:(

    Wednesday, 13-Nov-24 19:27:29 UTC from web
  30. There are theories about a hollow earth, which are obviously stupid. I have have also a theory on my own: the hollow head theory, which shows more and more signs each day that provide evidence that it might be true.

    Friday, 08-Nov-24 07:27:23 UTC from web