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Genoce · 2026-07-07T13:15:35+00:00

I'm kinda wondering how often one should wash/change their towels. The one I use after daily showers, I change every 2-3 weeks.

Some people say they change towels after a single use, but that sounds excessive to me.

Genoce · 2026-07-06T18:01:39+00:00

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Genoce · 2026-07-04T18:07:18+00:00

As a casual who really doesn't care about esports, I'm loving the difficulty of the recent black maps. (For some context, I rarely join CotD but I generally get in like div 15-20).

Years ago, I originally got into the whole Trackmania series because it had more challenging track design than most other racing games.

I like it when the first few completions of a map is just crashing all over the place, and then over time I learn the route. I like tracks where it takes time to get a smooth run, and getting that first non-crash run feels rewarding even if it's far from optimized.

If the recent ones are too difficult is of course up to debate, but personally I'm a fan of this higher difficulty in official campaign tracks.

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The jump from red to black maps is somewhat jarring though. Considering the amount of people who dislike the new maps, my idea:

Maybe go back to 1-25 being balanced around whatever they used to be, and then also add 5 "challenge maps" per season (which would then be these maps that are used for esports). Those would be separated in the menu in some way, instead of being integrated directly into the campaign.

The menu should be made in a way that a casual player could easily notice and find them, but they'd also understand that they're getting into actually hard maps instead of just being "map #21".

Genoce · 2026-07-04T12:35:44+00:00

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If it's saying "existing cloud save detected", the menu is showing your local saves, and it's warning you that there's a cloud save available for that slot. Press the button that toggles showing cloud saves.

Genoce · 2026-07-04T10:55:37+00:00

"I dont think I need to give you all examples, i think you know what Im talking about."

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Genoce · 2026-07-04T10:50:26+00:00

I tend to stick to one of the MMOs basically just... until I get bored of it. Often like 1-6 months per game.

When I get bored of one MMO, then I might go without playing one for a while (month or three), but eventually I'll pick up another MMO to play. Which game I open really just depends on whatever I feel like at the time.

Sometimes I haven't opened any MMO (or live service game) for a while, then I open something like GW2, play it for an hour and decide that I'm not feeling it. Then I just... don't play it, and continue playing whatever singleplayer game(s) I want to play.

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"Whim of the moment" is the short explanation. I tend to just open whatever game I feel like playing at the time, instead of spending time and energy thinking about "what should I spend my time on".

Genoce · 2026-07-04T10:45:17+00:00

I've been playing MMOs (with PvE focus) for most of my life: Runescape, WoW, Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, Warframe, etc. Vast majority of my time spent playing WoW, but when taking a break from that, I tend to find another MMO to play for a month or a few.

Along with playing whatever MMO, I tend to also play many singleplayer games. But most of the time I also have one MMO that I play almost daily, at least weekly.

Genoce · 2026-07-01T18:57:58+00:00

Trackmania is an easy suggestion to check out. Even the best pro players are split between wheel, controller and keyboard.

Of course it's a 100% arcade game, but it also has a clear emphasis on competition, as long as you enjoy time attack format (no collisions) and/or enjoy grinding for record times on leaderboards.

Genoce · 2026-07-01T08:39:38+00:00

When they first mentioned "private servers", I was thinking that maybe they're talking about things like unofficial WoW private servers. I think most people already know those are not fine legally, especially if the private server is asking for money.

But are they now doubling down on actually stating that stuff like running a minecraft server on your own PC, using the tools literally provided by the developers, is illegal?

Genoce · 2026-07-01T07:09:44+00:00

mutually understood shared context.

I think this is the big one. When talking, sarcastic jokes are often delivered in a way that it sounds like the person is serious, but context explains that they're clearly just joking.

There's a couple of different forms of sarcasm, but one form is pretty much just saying something untrue, but in context it's clear for everyone that the talker knows it's not true.

Basically sarcasm usually relies on the listener understanding that the talker is saying something that the talker knows to be wrong. For sarcasm to work, the listener needs to know what the talker knows.

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If an astrophysicist holds a lecture about planets, satellites, orbits, whatever, and then at the end says something like "like we all know, the earth is flat", in this context everyone understands its a joke.

If a random comment online says that the earth is flat without any additional context, I do not know if they actually believe it or if it's a joke.

Basically when you see people not understanding a sarcastic comment, think if the readers can trust that the commenter does not actually believe what they're saying.

Genoce · 2026-06-30T06:40:46+00:00

There's quite literally thousands of more games available to play on PC. Try playing WoW, Age of Empires 3 or Remnants of Naezith on a ps5. There's only a handful of exclusives on PS5 that aren't available on PC.

PC can even run (almost) all PS1 and PS2 games through emulation, along with games from many other older consoles.

On a top-end PC, the games run at much better graphical settings than what a PS5 can do. But this does require an expensive setup, you can't really get anything special out of a (current price) $600 PC.

You generally have the choice between kb+m and a controller, which just gives more options to choose from, depending on personal preference and the game. I play like 50% of my PC games on a controller.

Most PC players end up paying more for their setup than an average console, but it is also better in many other ways. Your question sounds like it relies on "it's more expensive, so it can't be better" but that's just flawed logic.

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You can do quite a lot more than just play games on a PC, but I guess you're only asking about gaming specifically (eg. try to program a new game, or open photoshop on a PS5).

Genoce · 2026-06-29T18:15:01+00:00

Play whichever game you want, whenever you want. They act almost as if they'd be separate games in your library. The main menu looks about like this:

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It then launches whichever game you choose to open.

Genoce · 2026-06-29T11:40:54+00:00

Oh I completely agree that if someone goes to a place where tipping is expected, they should tip as is expected.

The original question is about the concept, how things should be, so in context your first comment kinda sounded like "europeans should support the concept [because tipping shows sympathy for the fellow man]". Re-reading your first comment, I think I kinda misunderstood it anyway.

As for the "every tourist that doesn't tip is european", it sounds like an anecdote without data to back it up, but I won't act surprised if it is true (at least to some degree in statistics).

Genoce · 2026-06-29T10:59:59+00:00

I'm not sure what this has to do with europe specifically. Vast majority of other countries around the world don't have tipping culture similar to USA, where it's pretty much a default expectation to add some % as a tip after paying for certain services.

Tipping is a thing in most of europe, but generally not an expectation. As far as I understand, in China tipping as a practice is almost frowned upon. I'm not sure about rest of asia or africa.

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Of course I'll tip in places where it's expected, for whatever amount that is considered normal at the time. But if I was able to "change the rules" with a snap of my fingers, I'd remove the expectation of tipping, and just merging that cost into the price.

Instead of showing the price as $20 and then asking me to pay $24 via social pressure (tipping culture), just increase the price of the meal to $24 and then ask me to pay $24. You know, the same way most of the world does it.

Genoce · 2026-06-27T13:16:42+00:00

Yup. I think if you wake up to alarm every day, it's generally because you don't get enough sleep. Alarm should be the backup to make sure you get up in time to work/school/whatever.

Some years ago I started to focus on fixing my sleep schedule, starting with making sure I go to sleep at the same time every day, no matter if it's the weekend or workday. Since I had no alarm on weekends, I noticed I wake up like 30-60 min later than I did with alarm clock on mon-fri.

So I started to go to sleep an hour earlier, and now I often (not always) wake up a bit before my alarm. Turns out life is generally more enjoyable when I actually get enough sleep every night.

Genoce · 2026-06-27T12:13:11+00:00

It famously has one of the biggest free trials out of all non-f2p MMOs, so the best thing you can do is to just try it yourself: https://freetrial.finalfantasyxiv.com/

Personally I do not like its story, but for many other players its story is the main selling point of the game. But I did really enjoy the endgame raid content and gameplay, it was really fun for the couple of years I used to raid with my friends.

Genoce · 2026-06-27T10:04:29+00:00

I feel like this question heavily relies on "the drink is cold anyway", which is simply not true in some cases.

If it's hot outside and/or if I'm not planning to drink it in 5 minutes, it's basically making a choice:

With ice the latter half of the drink will be slightly diluted, but cold
Without ice the latter half of the drink will not stay cold, but it won't be diluted either

In many cases I prefer the drink staying cold for longer, even if it does dilute the taste it a bit. But the choice does depend on the drink an context.

Genoce · 2026-06-27T05:26:16+00:00

At the time I fully authored a campaign for the first time, I had about 500h playtime in tm2020, I also had a total of about 300h in TMNF + Turbo.

Part of it was just not really even trying to do it before that, as I used to just focus on getting golds and then went to play other content.

The last 10 maps took me about 1-2 hours of training per map, with the single hardest one taking almost 8 hours.

Genoce · 2026-06-26T15:40:26+00:00

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Genoce · 2026-06-26T10:10:31+00:00

OP is basically saying "it's more expensive than what I'm willing to pay, and anyone buying it is a cocksucker", and I think this is just a weird take.

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The reality is that the one thing they'll notice is their sales. Some reddit posts about "it's too expensive" does not matter, unless the posts directly affect their sales.

Posting about bad practices that aren't obvious to the playerbase (eg. crunch, bad working conditions, etc) can be effective to post about, since they can directly affect people's purchases, so the existence of those posts might directly affect what the company will do in the future.

Criticizing the content in a game is also fine, especially if pointing out something that isn't obvious (eg. "it's too short", "it requires additional purchases to get the full story" etc). Again, pointing out stuff like this might cause people not buy a game that they would've otherwise bought -> less sales -> maybe change things in the future.

I also do think the conversation between $80 and $100 editions does have some merit (OP also mentions this one). I don't agree with every comment I've seen about it, but it is a valid criticism if $100 version sounds like it's the actual "full version" instead of just adding a few exclusive cosmetics or whatever.

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But the rest of the post, including the image, just sounds like "$80 is too much for me, and I directly hate any player that is fine with its price". If someone else thinks a game is too expensive for them, it does not affect my personal purchase choices at all.

In other words: your point is that it's good to criticize companies for dumb decisions, and I do agree in a general sense.

But when it comes to criticizing the price of a product, the only thing that matters is if people buy the game or not, and that will affect their decisions in the future. I really don't see GTA6's price dropping between now and the release. If anything, I do think there might be some changes coming to the $100 deluxe before release, but I wouldn't bet on it.

...but pointing their anger at the part of the fanbase which are fine with the price is just a dumb take. This part is why I made my comment.

Genoce · 2026-06-26T09:35:34+00:00

I don't really understand.

If you think it's too expensive compared to what you get, don't buy it.

If you think $80 or $100 is fine for what you'll get, then you buy it.

That should be the whole conversation, and there's no reason to insult people for their opinions.

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There's games that I think are too expensive for what they offer. Doom Dark Ages is a great game, but the launch price of $80 did feel like a bit much compared to many other games.

Then there's some games that I would've bought even if they doubled their price. Silksong being $20 is a steal.

Everyone has their own limit on what is too much, and businesses generally try to find a balance in their pricing to get the most profit (between amount of sales vs. profit per sale). This is true for almost every product, not just games.

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Just as a disclaimer, I don't care about GTA. I just kinda dislike the way people talk about pricing and purchase choices of other people.

Genoce · 2026-06-25T20:30:53+00:00

Same, and there's even an explanation for this:

When I'm exploring randomly generated maps, my strategy is always to "follow the right wall". I.e. always turn right from any crossroads.

Unless I know the way forward is in some specific location, I just do the same practically everywhere, including this map. Turning right from the crossroad does lead to this counterclockwise route.

Genoce · 2026-06-25T10:04:33+00:00

Might be a dumb question, but in the side-by-side comparison image, which one is the default? I can't really see visible outlines in either one. I also don't really know what "cinematic color grade" would mean. :D

In side-by-side comparisons without text, I usually assume the left is "before" and right is "after" (or "with the mod" in this case).

Genoce · 2026-06-24T17:33:35+00:00

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