Comment on
Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war
Not only this, but they rephrased the question asking if he thought it would be in America's best interest to win the war and he declined to answer again...
Comment on
Trump refuses to say if he wants Ukraine to win the war
Not only this, but they rephrased the question asking if he thought it would be in America's best interest to win the war and he declined to answer again...
Comment on
Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms
Glad I never connected mine to the internet, I find the interface too laggy and clunky to use the built in streaming apps anyway. It shall remain offline until it dies which is hopefully a long way off.
Comment on
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Tears Past $630M Global, Overtakes ‘Logan’s Lifetime – International Box Office
Reply in thread
As someone who also checked out of MCU shows/movies I found it extremely enjoyable.
Comment on
TIL that in Japan, they have a thing called "nagashi somen", which are restaurants with flowing troughs of water where noodles slide down and you have to catch them
Reply in thread
At least they were wearing their masks, many people I worked with during the pandemic kept masks in their pockets or hanging from the rear view mirror in their cars, but refused to wear them for any reason.
Comment on
“No One Wants to Work Anymore”, and Other Distasteful Fictions
Reply in thread
As someone who has worked in kitchens that sometimes didn't have burn cream, I can confirm that mustard and slices of tomatoes do help with burn relief, but usually as a last resort.
Comment on
*Permanently Deleted*
Reply in thread
He used to call Marco Rubio little Marco during the run up to the 2016 election, Rubio said Trump had small hands, Trump then proceeded to bring it up during debates and rallies. People sensed the insecurity and latched on.
Comment on
what's with the anti-left sentiment on slrpnk?
Reply in thread
Does putin not have peepee?
Comment on
Austrian priest arrested for producing crystal meth in church rectory
Reply in thread
Down with this sort of thing?
Comment on
What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?
Spectrobes, spent a ton of time in all 3 games as a kid. Apparently the 3rd game sold pretty poorly even though I would argue it was probably the best of the 3. It had just about everything one would want from a pokemon rpg, it even allowed for 2 players! Super upset that Disney killed it :(
New entry should absolutely follow the footsteps of the 3rd game (origins). Only thing I would hope that is improved is some of the terrain paths were kinda narrow and hard to accurately maneuver the horse-like mount around. That super frustrated me as a kid as it was much faster than walking, but all the time you ended up losing from getting caught on terrain, having to dismount/dismiss the mount, turn around, then resummon/remount made it more efficient to just walk.
The combat was fun enough on the 3rd, but my absolute favorite part was the excavation of fossils. Trying to go as fast as I could while also being super careful to not damage the fossil and having that linked to better stats for spectrobes was SO much better than breeding/catching new pokemon to me. It felt much more engaging than hoping for good rng.
If they won't make a new one, the least they should do is remaster the games for switch. Which they also probably wouldn't have to do much for the remaster as I would argue even the original version looks the same/better graphically than the latest pokemon releases for switch.
Comment on
Youtube or Spotify?
Have both here, spotify crashes randomly or I just get a blank screen and sometimes requires force stopping the app to make it work at all. I have a phone with an SD card (rare I know) and set in the spotify app to download songs to the SD card, however it randomly switches that option back to internal storage for no reason I am able to discern. I gave up changing this setting after the fourth time as spotify just straight up won't work for like a week or 2 (done everything except un and reinstall as I don't want to have to manually re-download all my music (I don't have everything in Playlist as I usually enjoy jumping from album to album without spotify shuffling the same 3 songs it thinks I love immediately after). I have over 20k liked song but spotify only want to play the same handful of songs makes it really frustrating to use. Spotify also has a really annoying habit of removing an album from the artists page whenever an anniversary or remastered edition comes out. I understand not wanting to have several of the same album listed, but sometimes I prefer the original recording before everything was 'cleaned up'.
YouTube music is my backup music player for when spotify shits itself, as stated above it usually fixes itself after a week or two The main reason I dislike yt music more than spotify is that it plays audio from videos that are straight up not music. It also plays the outros of videos where artists are talking about the album, thanking you for listening, or upcoming tours (which have already happened since the songs were released years ago). These 2 issues keep me from fully switching to yt music.
Got a cheap mp3 player and micro sd card and use that more than either yt or spotify. No internet required, no ads, no songs getting delisted, no subscription. Just all my music readily available.
Comment on
What game, book, TV show, and/or movie do you wish you could experience for the first time again?
Reply in thread
I cannot wait for 1.0! Only 4 days away!
Comment on
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.
Reply in thread
Escape from Tarkov?
Comment on
What music to do you listen to while working?
Work in a restaurant so I need music that can match my pace. Usually this means metal (death metal/ metal core) but recently been going on a grunge kick and some 80s punk and prog.
Comment on
Spectre Divide Reduces Cosmetic Skin Price from $90 to $70 After Backlash
Reply in thread
As a fellow whore for coffee stainI kinda wish coffee stain had something similar for Satisfactory (but I'm also glad there isn't) , but since they don't I took to buying the game 9 times (gifted them to friends) and bought merch over the years. It's so refreshing to have such insanely good communication between the devs and the community.
Comment on
[Challenge-Solved] more weird metal things lol
Reply in thread
I gave up trying to keep plastic from sticking to the tool, instead I just wipe it on whatever junk mail I've received recently. Mine is set to about 220°C and I don't have to clean it super frequently unless I'm adding gobs of plastic for a deeper weld. I should also mention I use a soldering station which I've found has more accuracy than any plastic welders I've tried. Downside to this is that the plastic kinda ruins the coating on the tip for actual soldering, but I get around this by just swapping to another tip.
Comment on
What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?
Reply in thread
I don't remember much about the combat from the ds games other than the enemy ai could be cheesed by running around the perimeter of the battle arena while waiting for abilities/geos to cool down. If they had a better ai or higher difficulty I would take any of the combat options though!
Edit: found old ds and first game, played for a bit and the combat is alright, would definitely benefit from a lock onto enemy feature, and better enemy ai. The circling the perimeter works even better than I remember and allows for easy battles. The movement in combat also has some drift to it which I remember disliking alot back in the day. Also the using geos as an ultimate weapon in battle is still satisfying, upon using one you get a sick cut scene of the ultimate spectrobes you used and brings back lots of memories of using them in tough battles to turn the tide! Forgot about how you level 3 separate stats which each can add levels to the spectrobes which made building specific stat based spectrobes super engaging. Also the incubator rooms (4 of them!) allowed you to feed the minerals you excavated to the spectrobes. Also the excavation mini game is lightyears ahead of what pokemon implemented in Gen 4 and way more engaging! Using the ds mic to blow away debris brought a smile to my face all these years later. This honestly should have been the pokemon killer it was made out to be.
Comment on
My pick is Rubberband Man by The Spinners.
United in bloodshed - hostages
Comment on
What's something you wish would "come back" but you feel like you're the only one that cares?
Cuba lima monster energy. So many good memories of getting out of school and going to my buddy's house, we would just hang and drink so many of these. Granted it was no doubt terrible for our health and was a bunch of money we probably could have used for better things, they remind me of a simpler and better time.
Comment on
Which fictional character's death affected you most?
Reply in thread
One of my teachers read Where the Red Fern Grows to my class at the pace of a chapter or two every couple days (spare time in the lesson plan). I was impatient, so I got my mom to drive me to the public library, checked it out and finished the book that night. Had to wait almost 2 whole weeks before the class got caught up. I also didn't want to spoil the ending for my classmates, so I just had to kinda hold onto the knowledge of the events and deal with it by myself while all the other kids were oblivious. Out teacher had us start watching the movie towards the end of the book, she had it timed perfectly so that the class (other than me) had no ideas for the back to back double whammy of loss that they were about to experience.
Comment on
Any ocala reddit folks make the jump into Lemmy?
One here, never thought to look for Ocala till talking to some buddies about lemmy. Hello fellow Ocala resident!