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anakin78z

I make things with computers. Preferably artsy things, but I also like to work on random scripts and pipelines. I like D&D & video games, but don't always have time to play them. I like pet chicken. I watch soccer, especially NWSL & USWNT, as well as some WSL and whatever happens to be on.

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  • Eh, my company got that same email from Unity about using personal licenses for production. A simple email reply of: "No, we're not" did the trick. I wouldn't get too worried about this.

  • So we just post random political shit on here non stop now? Some people are being idiots. Wow, so uplifting. Humanity is in such a better place now.

  • 😁

  • You can turn on wake on LAN. Then to unlock it, use the button on the right with the 3 dots and choose the option to bring up the keyboard, so that you can enter your pin or password.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    Holy time warp, Batman

  • One issue is with video freezing. The sound will keep going, but the video is stuck and the only thing I can do is kill and restart the game.

    The other issue is with my lock screen. It's very hit or miss if I can unlock it from the deck, and sometimes it then picks the wrong monitor to display the game on. Since my 2nd monitor is vertical, that creates a mess of a vertical stream with the game half cut off, and half an empty desktop displaying.

  • Oblivion Remastered. Playing via Remote Play, which has given me a decent amount of issues, but when it's working, it's great. The game looks gorgeous and has been a ton of fun to play, although I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding side quests. I seem to remember there being more than one or two per town. But whatever, I can always go find a cave, be stealthy and snipe things.

  • It feels really good.

    It's kind of crazy how well this 20 year old game is designed. Each NPC has a life. Each house is a real house, and not just a closed box for background setting.

    The gameplay feels so good that it's a bit startling when things are buggy, or just not as modern. Like when you have a fetch quest, but you already have the item: there's no option to say: here it is! You have to literally walk away to trigger something in the quest engine, and then come back to deliver the item.

    Also, the way enemies are not at all aware of each other stands out: 2 bandits standing next to each other. I snipe one of them, and the other doesn't even react. Must have been the wind...

    But overall I'm loving it.

  • Oh no, their profit was only $400M. Whatever will they do???

    Schadenfreude is the lowest form of uplifting.

  • Driving to tracks is 100% a chore. It's made me not enjoy any new racing game in the last 5 years. I really hope this game has an option to skip that and jump right into a race. I don't look forward to wrangling my family to drive to the same track just to start a race. I'm sure at least one of my kids would drive in the opposite direction because they think it's funny.

  • Thanks for your reply. My post was meant as kind of a joke, but it's good to know the mods actually read through things.

  • This isn't a shower thought. Mods, please remove.

  • I still don't use gog much. Last game I got there was free through Amazon prime, I think. It was Lego star wars episode 1, and while I usually really enjoy the Lego games, controller support was totally busted, so I ended up not giving it much time. 🙁

  • Having just played Veilguard and Origins back to back, that's a hard disagree from me. The voice acting in Veilguard was top notch. đŸ€·

  • I don't really see it being a sandbox. I mean, all answers are given, and you select from those choices. That's the same as other games that have pc vo. I feel like it would have made more sense to have no voice options at all, and to just get rid of the ridiculous quips. That way, you create your own voice in your head. In no universe would the character I created complain about having to put her hands onto everything before opening a door.

    Anyway, not a big deal, but like I said, it was a bit jarring.

  • One thing I find jarring about BG3 is the lack of vo for the player character. It seems like a weird omission in this day and age. (Not counting the dumb 'I clicked here, so my player has to say something' vo. Like, shut the fuck up with your dumb chess references, Gale!)

  • I mean, that's just common sense

  • Specifically Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle. The sequel was a massive disappointment.

  • Solasta Crown of the Magister for $8.99.

    For me it's the best game ever to capture the D&D feeling. The custom Warlock subclass, Timekeeper, is ridiculously fun.

  • People don't accept that, perhaps, something isn't just "not for them"

    I think this is my favorite comment on this whole thread.

  • Games @lemmy.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    Gaming has a polarization problem

    With recent big game releases, it's become obvious that a game is either a resounding success, or complete shit. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground.

    Kingdom Come Deliverance II is a ambitious masterpiece, and Avowed is lazy slop. 93% of Steam users recommend KCD2, vs 77% for Avowed.

    And maybe this has been an issue for a long time, fed by the need to get viewer numbers on articles and videos, leading to more polarized opinions that give people a reason to pick a side, even if they're never going to play the game.

    But as regular people, gamers, Lemmy posters, why are we doing the same? How is it serving us? Are we all influencers in waiting, hoping to up our updoot count and build a following of... dozens?

    More than 2/3rds of players of Dragon Age Veilguard recommend the game on Steam. And yet reading the comments here and other places, you'd think that 90% of people who tried the game found it to be, not just bad, but absolute trash, with a small number of people chimi

    Bipolar Disorder @lemmy.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    Change in Latuda/Lurasidone 20mg pills?

    I just noticed the pills changed a bit, and instead of a 20 printed on one side, it's now a 25. I called the pharmacist and they said that it was changed and they don't know why.

    Much more worryingly, I seem to be experiencing increased side effects since I started taking it a few days ago.

    I'm curious if anyone else is taking these pills, and if you're noticing anything different?

    Games @lemmy.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

    OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

    Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

    That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

    To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the

    Football (Soccer fĂștbol fußball è¶łçƒ ) @lemmy.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    Lauren James out for 2 games following red card

    Gardening @lemmy.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    TIL about squash vine borers & had to perform surgery on my plants

    www.almanac.com Squash Vine Borer

    Are your squash plants suddenly struggling? It could be the work of a squash vine borer. Here are tips on how to identify, control, and get rid of the squash vine borer!

    Squash Vine Borer

    After having a fantastic squash harvest 2 years ago, last year kind of sucked, and we never figured out why. This year things started great, but then started going south, with plants yellowing and squash wilting. Well apparently there's these asshole moths who lay eggs on the stem, which then produce these little effers that bore into the stem itself and eat the plant from the inside. Cutting into the stems I was able to find and remove a bunch of them. Cutting the stems didn't feel great... I tried to cut along the grain, but had to pretty much cut a chunk out of every plant just so I could even see inside and prod enough to find the squiggly things.

    Hoping the plants survive and thrive đŸ€ž. Apparently next year I should get a syringe and inject them with something called BT. I had no idea raising squash required a medical degree đŸ©ș

    What We Do In The Shadows @lemmings.world
    anakin78z @lemmy.world

    Our sourdough starter is named Colin Robinson

    He gets very excited when we feed him