spriteblood

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spriteblood,

Trust him, he's an expert on not paying bills.

spriteblood,

I thought Tommy was the White Power Ranger?

spriteblood,

I'm 100% not okay with stealing and ransoming people's personal information, but this makes me want to be 99% not okay with it.

spriteblood,

The issue is voters talk about how regular people are doing, while politicians talk about “the economy” which is rich people and business…

This, 100%.

Ask some person on the street how their stock portfolio is looking, and they'll probably be like "The F are you talking about???"

Ask the same person about the cost of groceries, and they'll have a rant locked and loaded about why a 12 pack of soda costs $10 now.

When people respond to these surveys, they are taking their experiences with them, and most of us are seeing expensive gas, expensive groceries, expensive housing, and jobs that don't pay enough to live. People couldn't afford to live on $8 an hour a decade ago, and now everything costs more.

This has downstream effects in that it makes it harder to switch jobs because you cant wait two weeks for your new job to kick in - much less afford to take off work to go to an interview. You can't move to a city with more opportunities because cities are more expensive and you can't even afford to save up enough to make the move because you're paycheck to paycheck. Jobs paying "market rate" for wages which is dragged down because the system keeps people desperate enough to work for cheap.

These are people who have had to live with the boot of the economy on their necks for a long time. And while politicians can talk about all the great jobs out there and how amazing the economy is, for real people that boot is just stepping down harder. It's no wonder they blame leadership when this is their experience with this economy.

spriteblood,

Console that exists for 7 years vs PC with library of 20+ years worth of games - how is that an unfair comparison lol?

spriteblood,

Oh man I forgot Burnout. That console had so many good games

New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?

Update 1: Thanks for all the responses! I’ve gotten a lot of very good comments saying I should stick with Mint, and that’s sitting comfortably in my top two picks right now. Between new distros, I’m most interested in Arch’s rolling release model, as it provides some benefits for me for reasons I didn’t really get...

spriteblood,

Sounds like you should just use Mint, especially if you tried and like it. It's customizable, GUI friendly, it's based on Ubuntu so most guides for either will work, and you can download Steam to it and play native games (or Windows games through Proton).

I don't know what you're looking for, that Mint doesn't provide. You can download different DEs or window managers, you can write your own bash scripts, and the core functionality for regular use is already there.

spriteblood,

I like the idea of rolling release in theory, but stability is extremely important to me because I use Linux as my daily driver.

EndeavourOS and Manjaro aren't really going to do much to address your desire to use terminal more than Mint IMO, either; most mainstream distros like that emphasize usability first and foremost.

If you're looking to really get under the hood, go with Arch ans follow a guide so you don't bork anything too badly. Arch uses a different package manager than Mint/Ubuntu, so some of the commands might look different if you're not following Arch-specific guides, but terminal is terminal is terminal in many cases. You can run Steam on Arch, and building the core functionality on your own will get you acquainted with terminal.

Although I've used everything from Arch to Zorin, and eventually you will have to use terminal for something. Just depends on what your longterm goals are, what usability you will need to rely on quickly, and how you think you'll get to those goals most efficiently.

spriteblood,

Picked up Paper Mario TTYD on Switch to see what all the hype is about, and yeah honestly all the OG fans were right about it. It's the best one I've played in the series by a longshot.

Without context, I would assume Sticker Star and Color Splash released before TTYD - as if they were still figuring out where to go with the series, and would eventually evolve into something better as technology advanced. Then TTYD comes along, and not only has more mechanical depth, but also so much more life and creativity in it.

spriteblood,

What are your options?

spriteblood,

Cemu or original hardware? I love playing the original on the Wii U but it's cool upscaling to 1440p

spriteblood,

8-bit and most of 16-bit eras.

For 8-bit era, a lot of those games are rough around the edges. Games like Mario Land 3 hold up pretty well, but honestly I'd rather play the remastered version in Mario All Stars. Zelda is still interesting, but it feels so dated even compared to A Link to the Past, which only came out 5 years later. Tetris holds up, but there are many better versions that have come out since the GameBoy.

You get into the 16-bit era, and it really feels like devs have enough room to flex their muscles. We were getting stuff like Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island, Mario World, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Street Fighter II Turbo, Sonic & Knuckles, etc. But by this point, I've played these games so many times that it doesn't feel like nostalgia anymore. Other games from that era don't always feel as polished as the ones I remember fondly, so trying a new game is always hit or miss.

Modern indie games inspired by the 16-bit era just feel like modern games with pixel art, so I think there may be some level of conflation in my nostalgia muscles, as well.

The games that are really feeling nostalgic for me now are early 3D era games, and the indie games that scratch the same itch. Lunacid and Crow Country hit this primordial nostalgia I didn't even realize was there.

spriteblood,

April 16, 2024

For those who can't watch right now

spriteblood,

I've had Kenshi on my wishlist for a long time, and I haven't pulled the trigger. What's your favorite part about it? Most of what I know is that it's punishing and has deep roleplaying opportunities, but I don't know a lot of the specifics.

spriteblood,

Genre mismatch might be a factor? Don't Starve is not an action-roguelite like Binding of Isaac; it's a survival-crafting game. They are aiming to be vastly different experiences.

spriteblood,

Most of the story criticism I've heard fall into a handful of categories:

  • Overall plot seeming convoluted and hard to follow (which is understandable when you throw both time travel and parallel universes into the same story)

  • Whitewashed portrayal of racism used for story aesthetics

  • Ending feeling confusing and/or unsatisfying

  • Certain story moments feeling out of place and/or undermining things that other story moments set up

I haven't seen much in the way of players expecting/predicting plot twists.

spriteblood,

Dang coming in clutch, my friend

I was able to register, thank you so much!

spriteblood,

Check out Tildes

I would if it wasn't invite-only :/

Half the reason I was on reddit was to engage in discussions, and that's largely lost if I'm just scrolling through an unfiltered news feed with no way to participate.

spriteblood,

Pollution, climate change, unchecked capitalism, VR headsets... I'd say we're just a few decades out from a dystopian cyberpunk era

spriteblood,

Is this just SMTV: Royal? Like basically the same game but with some added content?

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