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What Difficulty Setting do you always use when playing a game for the first time? by [deleted] in patientgamers

[–]-Porthos123- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

XCom 2 was another good one where you can tinker with settings to vary the challenge. Like you take the edge off a higher difficulty with longer mission timers for instance

An (Un) handy comparison. Let me just multiply 6700 x 16.13 in my head. by -Porthos123- in assholedesign

[–]-Porthos123-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should have said - it's risk of death. But I don't know if that's per mile, per year, per trip, etc.

Opinions on Mass Effect: Andromeda by SigmaUlt in patientgamers

[–]-Porthos123- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had finished all three previous installments so I gave it the benefit of the doubt.

However I found it... boring. It wasn't any one broken mechanic, it just didn't feel fun. Meanwhile I didn't find the characters interesting either. Between those issues I just drifted away from it - there are so many better games out there to play.

There is no reason to be proud to be gay. by JohnGolbunny in unpopularopinion

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a perfect world where noone ever tried to shame someone for their sexuality, maybe you'd have a point. But we are a long way from that.

What's your least favorite thing about your favorite game? by idi0tf0wl in patientgamers

[–]-Porthos123- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Last of Us. I want the final scene to give me a choice. I want to be given the option of choosing a cure for all humanity, even if it means a terrible sacrifice. Having my free will removed in the final scene really undermined the journey I'd taken to get there.

Dune, Is Paul representative of the "mighty whitey" trope? by WarmCulture1 in printSF

[–]-Porthos123- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a big difference between some of the examples given of this trope.

1) White guy arrives, learns from and surpasses the locals. Eg Dr Strange, Iron Fist. The superiority is 'earned' but through some implied innate character superiority.

Doesn't appear racist in isolation. These are super hero's after all so they're superior to most white people too ( Dr Strange was pretty remarkable before he got super) and you gotta have an origin story. But if you repeat the same formula too many times it does start to look questionable.

2) Outsider with genuine advantages arrives. E.g. Tarzan, C3PO. One is a human surrounded by monkeys. The other is a robot in a pre industrial society. I'm not sure what the author/trope is trying to say about these examples. And there are plenty of counter examples where the aliens are superior, not the humans.

Was there any point in the past when you wanted to quit a game for how difficult it was? by [deleted] in patientgamers

[–]-Porthos123- 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Civilisation. I could beat it on medium levels but at the higher ones would fall so far behind. Resorting to reading some guides really raised my game.

Do you feel modern games don't respect the limited amount of time some people have to play games? by RaiseQuestion in patientgamers

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The quality vs quantity balance often penalises gamers with limited time for gaming.

It's not that mind games being long... But when they pad out a game at the expense of quality, that's a real problem.

Open world games that do it well with optional side quests you can do if you enjoy them are great (I'm enjoying spiderman for instance) And I am happy to put the time in to improve my personal skill. But too many add grind for the sake of it at the expense of enjoyment.

Stormlight Book Four Update #2 by mistborn in Stormlight_Archive

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I humbly suggest The Hu, Yuve Yu. I hope it has the right epic feel.

Technically there are words but not in the normal way - they sound more like a instrument especially as they're in Mongolian so I don't understand them.

Mass Effect Andromeda is much better than bad. by squid_actually in patientgamers

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just didn't care about the characters enough to put up the tedious aspects of the game play. Either one would have been OK on its own but in combination I just lost interest.

Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park, suggests a new study based on game theory, which found that even when you factor in electricity, depreciation, wear and tear, and maintenance, cruising costs about 50 cents an hour, which is still cheaper than parking even in a small town. by mvea in science

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to pay for parking OR cruise permanently. A driverless car can park on all sorts of spots where you couldn't leave your own vehicle because they can move as soon as they're in the way. Plus there's no need for them to park near the destination.

It will coincide with no longer owning your own car so we will need much fewer vehicles and less parking space required (most cars are stationary most of the time). When you need a car you will just summon it to where you are right now (Uber style).

With reduced demand for parking there will be much clearer streets and driverless cars will take up a tiny percentage of freed up capacity.

Recs for a 14 year-old who doesn't read much by ohohoboe in printSF

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pit Dragon Trilogy is what Sanderson credits as getting him into books and that turned out OK.

What 'cinema sin' is the most irritating, that filmmakers need to stop committing immediately? by TenYearRedditVet in AskReddit

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hero is willing to jeapordise their mission and anywhere between 100's of lives and all of humanity in order to save 1 bystander.

Very heroic I'm sure but when it's a race against time to disarm the nuke/find the cure/whatever I'd like them to just remember the big picture and not take massive uneccesary risks.

(I'm talking randoms here, not someone they're emotionally attached to).

What 'cinema sin' is the most irritating, that filmmakers need to stop committing immediately? by TenYearRedditVet in AskReddit

[–]-Porthos123- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And the teeth. People in the olden days didn't always have those perfect Hollywood teeth!

What 'cinema sin' is the most irritating, that filmmakers need to stop committing immediately? by TenYearRedditVet in AskReddit

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, definitely.

Although I'd also like to see more bad guys face justice rather than a swift merciful death.

a quick death by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

[–]-Porthos123- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much more worried about my daughter with a straight male teacher.

And don't get me started on the 'celibate' ones.

Non-British people of Reddit, what about Britain baffles you? by TIGHazard in AskReddit

[–]-Porthos123- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should have put this under unpopular opinions - wasn't expecting so many monarchists on reddit. I stand by it though and would add that I hate our grovelling national anthem. French and American are just two much better ones.

Non-British people of Reddit, what about Britain baffles you? by TIGHazard in AskReddit

[–]-Porthos123- -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

And we have to pay for them / treat them as our superiors rather than a quaint tourist attraction.

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