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  1. also i would evidently need to stay awake another like 8.5 hours so . . . .

    about 7 months ago from web
    • If we're about to see a sleep deprivation fueled # here it'll be a bittersweet set telluwhut

      about 7 months ago from web
      • Do I really miss analog, or is it just being a kid? Is it even that? Something, maybe, about the time when there was more ahead than behind? Or are those roughly the same thing? Anyway here's wonderwall https://youtu.be/CKAc3nYEatw?si=lFVTSVwVp4hay1z1

        about 7 months ago from web
        • Read a story on CNN about how they’ve nearly doubled the price of Japanese rail tickets for foreigners, up to ¥50,000 from ¥29,000. Is it bananaed up that my first thought was “well, the yen is falling in value so quickly that by next week it’ll be like nothing even changed?”

          about 7 months ago from web
        • aww damn Dick Butkus died

          about 7 months ago from web
        • Somebody at Sega is going to hell for designing UFO Catcher

          about 7 months ago from web
        • this site needs to get about 20% cooler

          about 7 months ago from web
        • Silksong Never

          about 7 months ago from web
        • Put 15 hours into Yakuza 7 without realizing it and I only just got my fourth party member

          about 7 months ago from web
          • @zeldatra I think I've spent about 80 hours with that game finishing all side quests that are reasonable to finish. The any% speed run is at 3h 11min. You have a lot of game in front of you. Have fun.

            about 7 months ago in context
        • just got accused of racism at the store because “you look like a Hispanic”, which I’m pretty sure is the most racist way you can accuse somebody of being racist

          about 7 months ago from web
        • Whoa, activity!!

          about 7 months ago from web
        • Yakuza 6 is disappointingly lacking in content (if you’re not a fan of RTS gameplay or baseball management simulation)

          about 7 months ago from web
          • @zeldatra I tried the baseball management and the clan builder and I share the same opinion, they are the weakest mini games. The clan builder is too simple, and the baseball management is too obtuse and lacks more involvement during a match. The chat room mini game is also quite lacking. There is some novelty but there is no reason to play it more than once. I enjoyed the undersea fishing a lot, but only when playing with the PC mouse. The gamepad analog stick moves the reticle tooo slowly.

            about 7 months ago in context
        • Kiryu has what

          about 7 months ago from web
        • Yakuza 6 is fully voice acted. This is a blessing and a curse, I like that I can actually hear the characters in sub stories and the like for once, but the animation during the more talky cutscenes (like exposition dumps) is basically nonexistent, I might as well be listening to a radio drama during those parts. This happened in Yakuza 0 too but the expository dialogue is SUPER out of hand in this one, it’s everywhere, and now it applies to sub stories too. Might have to start skipping through dialogue with this one once I’ve read the subtitles instead of at the end of the voice line like I’ve been doing throughout 5 and 0.

          about 7 months ago from web
          • @zeldatra Yeah. They listened to all the critics that were complaining about all the reading and didn't think that animating all the scenes is eXpEnSiVe. Still 1000 times better than the fully voice-acted Oblivion or Skyrim. For what they did it was an adequate job using canned animation clips. Y6 was probably the only game in the series where I haven't mashed though the dialogue because of the voice acting. I tend not to skip voiced dialogue (even when I don't understand Japanese). Written dialogue is quicker do digest and thus mashable when nothing really happens.

            about 7 months ago in context
        • That Big League Chew has a different kind of mouthfeel

          about 8 months ago from web
          • Soo... how 'bout that Unity blowup? !vgp

            about 8 months ago from web
            • @scribus Unity is in the red for years and buying Weta wasn't cheap so they were grasping for the most stupid decision to gain (repeatable) revenue by choosing to get paid by the amount of installs of the games. The problem is that indie game developers have very little profit and it can cost more in the long run than it gained profit. Also the way to determine the amount of installs is not clear. The last information I heard was that Unity wanted to use a heuristic to guess the amount of installs. Also Unity did that decision out of nowhere and tried to cover their tracks by sneakily removing paragraphs in their license that would hinder that license change. Unity had image problems (being used for asset-flip games, taking a lot of time for updates and being behind on the technical side) before but that was a huge kick in the balls to devs and all people who bought games made with Unity.

              about 8 months ago in context
            • @adiwan their president also sold 2000 shares just before the install thing was announced, adding up to about 50k in the preceding year. seems bad

              about 8 months ago in context
            • @zeldatra Him being at EA before that goes great with that... I read that that amount of stocks was only a very small percentage of his stock holdings. Still looks scummy.

              about 8 months ago in context
          • Very cool and normal that you need to limit your game to only use two CPU cores in order to do the fishing minigame, SEGA.

            about 8 months ago from web
          • Weird thought I just had: do you think someone who doesn't know sign language would have an easier time understanding ASL or something improvised by another non-ASL-knower?

            about 8 months ago from web
            • @scribus Typed an entire response about how ASL would probably be the harder one only to realize that my reasoning applies to braille, not ASL. I found ASL somewhat easy to learn (could not use it today, though) and I’m crazy bad with foreign languages so maybe the answer’s in there somewhere?

              about 8 months ago in context
            • @zeldatra According to 2 people on a discord server I'm on, one of whom has a non-verbal child, improvised is easier (and the ASL sign for "Hallway" and "Focus" are the same except for the eyebrows)

              about 8 months ago in context
          • If you played all the Yakuzas as they were coming out, starting from Yakuza PS2, by the time you get to Yakuza 0 it probably starts to look like Kiryu actually died and the games that followed (in order, a samurai spin-off starring a real life historical figure with Kiryu’s face grafted on where he meets other real life historical figures who look like his friends and enemies, a prequel set in the 80s, and a remake of the first game with stuff that didn’t happen in the original release) are just his brain coming to terms with death

            about 8 months ago from web
          • There are no restrooms in Washington DC metro stations. I had to venture into the city on Saturday to find a bathroom. Found a Macy’s. It was close enough. What I’m mad about is that in DC you get charged your fare when you leave the station rather than the way it works in Europe where you pay for a distance up front, so I basically paid $2 to use the bathroom.

            about 8 months ago from web
          • Gardening will be a pain. Everything is mostly overgrown with ivy. There was even a cut dead tree fully overgrown by that stuff. The tree was so decayed it was basically at the strength of cardboard. The ivy gave it the most structural integrity.

            about 8 months ago from web
          • First time posting on this site, how's it going everyone?

            about 8 months ago from web
          • It's funny how cheap wine is less expensive than empty bottles

            about 8 months ago from web
            • @scribus Yeah. Preserving jars are almost the same in that regard. It's cheaper to just buy stuff that's sold in a preserving jar than to buy them empty. A family member has some apple trees and the preserving jars I collected were used to preserve apple sauce made from these apples.

              about 8 months ago in context
          • "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" what a bad movie. For the most part it's "fine". Very slow pacing but "fine". The last act was the kick into the groin.

            about 8 months ago from web
          • I have the keys to the house. If it weren't for the heat, I'd be moving my stuff to the house. 31°C and no clouds. Unbearable.

            about 8 months ago from web
          • Does anybody else think that saying "RIP" for Jimmy Buffet is kind of . . . weird? Like, rest and paradise were his job, his whole persona. What changes??

            about 8 months ago from web
            • The last season of Disenchantment is quite a mess in how the story was told.

              about 8 months ago from web
              • @adiwan I think the whole show would have gone a lot better if the first 4 seasons tried to develop the overarching plot during the whole season instead of just the first and last 2 episodes. This latest one was, like, "all plot, all the time!" and it felt so slapped together. Not awful, but I'm glad they didn't try to keep it alive for 40 years, and I'm not hopeful that Comedy Central will pick it up for a revival in 2030.

                about 8 months ago in context
              • @scribus I think the creators had a lot of internal conflict on how to create an epic and make the episodes episodic, like Futurama and Simpsons. I fully agree with you. I really liked the characters, some more, some less, but none were truly terrible (even Elfo to some degree). It's just that the plot made all of them brainless and stupid stretching all of the characters to an unrecognizable form. Fast-forwarding a lot of the plot didn't help. In this season, multiple times, there was no reason to stop a chase but it happened despite no reason at all.

                about 8 months ago in context
            • Ah F***!!!! Got a bill from the government for the tax for buying land. 11k€ down the drain. I knew I had to pay it before I got into thinking about buying a house. It still stings nonetheless. That's about 2800 comic issues!

              about 8 months ago from web
            • oh boy i cant wait! AHAHHAAHAAAAAAA I WANT TO DIE

              about 8 months ago from web
            • Am I lost in the sauce? Or is the sauce lost in me?

              about 8 months ago from web