ProfessorProteus @ ProfessorProteus @lemmy.world

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Amen. Haven't cooked eggs in several years. I like them, but I definitely don't need them. We Americans are so fucking spoiled all the time.

I hope it doesn't come to it, but maybe a Great Depression 2 will teach us to resist the call of instant gratification for once in our lives.

The other day, someone in one of the gaming communities posted a comparison of the progress of video games from mid-90s to mid-aughts, and a more recent decade. It was clearly meant to be slightly exaggerated since the the recent screenshots were all the same one from fortnite, but the point still stands.

I wouldn't trade my 90s childhood for anything in the world.

Last week, Donald Trump singled out “Conor” – who last year was found liable for sexual assault after a civil trial – as one of his favourite Irish people.

It's so goddamn predictable, isn't it?

I couldn't agree more with everything you said. It's an indisputable masterpiece.

The lesson here is don't troll these idiots, they'll fucking believe it and then start passing idiotic laws for non-problems.

Exactly this. Just like flat earthers (and that super bizarre one about time cubes or whatever), the rubes will gobble it up and eventually people will get hurt over it.

Another one is the Birds Aren't Real meme, which I think is pretty funny, but you just know that an innocent birdwatcher will get shot some day because an extremely mentally unwell person will assume that they're some government spook checking on the "drones".

Oh I agree 100% on your point about using a guide, but I have this weird fixation on beating it as if I had gotten it on release when I was a kid. The only thing I'm allowing myself is a PDF of the manual that came with it, and no save states. I finally played and beat Super Metroid just recently with the same restrictions (on my childhood SNES and a real cartridge!) and it felt very satisfying.

As for my long-term patience, I have a second monitor and countless hours of long-form YouTube content to keep me entertained through the mundane moments.

I'll definitely give Samus Returns a try as well. Thanks for the recommendation!

Metroid II, the original one for Game Boy. I want to play AM2R eventually but I want to properly appreciate the work that went into it. And I'm trying my hardest to do it, so far successfully, without consulting a map.

So far I have:

• bomb
• spider ball
• spring ball
• high jump boots
• Varia suit
• wave beam (replaced the ice beam)

After more than seven hours I'm starting to go insane, but my stubbornness knows no bounds. I've seen every room of the game at least 20 times and probably bombed every single tile. The only place I know for a fact is new is, well, entirely submerged in lava. I'm at an impasse 😞

Welcome to Lemmy! It's much, much slower here, but a lot of people (myself included) see that as a plus.

Please don't be discouraged if your niche hobby isn't represented here. I'm not one to talk, but if the community for it doesn't exist, go ahead and create it! 😁

So what would happen if the user upvotes something benign and then the OP edits their post to something violent?

You think they won't simply abandon their children at home anyway? Look at how careless they are about securing their firearms around kids.

Not every bit, assuming we survive him.

I fear that this will lead to so much Intel leaking that it will put War Thunder players to shame.

Yes!! And you could kind of cheese the game by pressing both fire buttons in rapid succession (down arrow and 'd' I think). I loved making passes around an enemy's planet and staying just ahead of their defenses, and becoming basically an A-10 Warthog in space. It was kind of difficult since your bullets inherited your velocity so you had to shoot at weird angles 😁

I spent so many hours as a kid on my dad's Thinkpad playing Gravity Well. It came on one of those "50 Great Games" CDs or something like that. The goal is to claim all the planets in the system, which you do by simply landing on them, then building defenses against your opponents. It's so much fun because your ship has pretty realistic inertia and the planets have actual gravity wells. The AI opponents can be quite difficult and aggressive. Challenging and fun, with great sound effects for the time!

This screenshot is from an Internet Archive page for the game, but I'm pretty sure it's only the shareware version. I gotta check again when I get off work!

Edit: I'm 99% certain it's from this exact CD for anyone interested. I've never been able to find a full version unfortunately...

It's time only when it affects their pockets. Fucking leeches.

Please! It would be such a nice improvement!

I want to get out of here :(

I haven't seen anyone else ask, but I have to know: what's your Linux distro of choice?

Sell it? Isn't there an contract you have to sign (at least for the cuck truck) that prohibits you from selling it for some number of years?

I love cilantro too, but now I have to wonder... What if we're not the ones getting the "true" taste?

I'll take my blissful ignorance with some cilantro on top.

I know your comment didn't necessarily appear out of nowhere, but it reminds me of that subreddit "skamtebord"

I miss that one sometimes...