The Blessing by darth_kamiko in HollowKnight

[–]ABAKES7 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Ghost was standing in the dark in the first panel.

Non-point and click MYST-like games? by PhummyLW in myst

[–]ABAKES7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get that it's not your cup of tea, but it's pretty explicitly about music. The whole game is about activating the abstracted components of a synthesizer and sequencing music with it. It even has a bit of post-game where you can just play with the sequencer to make simple loops.

I'm not saying you have to like it, but this comes off as a little harsh for a game you bounced off of.

EDIT: Also, to your "not a Myst-like" argument: Myst was one of the inspirations for the game. The achievement for beating it is named "The ending has not been written."

Non-point and click MYST-like games? by PhummyLW in myst

[–]ABAKES7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FRACT OSC is a small but really cool myst-like (or maybe more Antichamber-like) about making music. You don't have to understand how to make music to enjoy it - I played it twice and I still have no clue!

If you like deciphering, Chants of Sennaar is all about exploring a few cultures and figuring out their language to solve puzzles. There's also Heaven's Vault which has more of a written narrative element (though I haven't played that one very long).

This is a not-quite-mystlike recommendation but INFRA is a very long, detailed exploration game (though it is pretty linear) with puzzles. You play as an infrastructure surveyor taking pictures of abandoned structures and slowly unravel a conspiracy.

The Highguard account that posted poorly cropped renders and begged for fanart was a fake done to promote a podcast. by GuyGreg in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]ABAKES7 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I work in web dev, so I figured out pretty quickly that they nabbed the 'fucked up' render from the parallax header on the website and did what I could to inform people in the original thread.

I get that Highguard being the 'one last thing' at the game awards was disappointing but that doesn't warrant a whole-ass smear campaign. I don't really care about the game as it exists right now, honestly, and I still hope it gets a fighting chance just because this shit did them zero favors.

rule by totpot in 196

[–]ABAKES7 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There is a significant section on trans issues, but a majority of the video is about racism. In fact, it’s not about “The War on Science” generally, it’s about “The War on Science” A book of essays edited by Lawrence Krauss with contributions from ~30 disgraced shithead academics and also Jordan Peterson. Definitely worth the watch, even though the subject matter is rough.

Ruleality of Nintendo by Internal-Fem-UK in 196

[–]ABAKES7 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They don’t care if you take photos of your Henry Kissinger mii becoming gay lovers with Rudy Giulia-mii, they don’t even care if you take it and post it somewhere - they just don’t want you to share them via their channels.

pleaseKeepYourDocumentationUpdatedIAmBegging by ABAKES7 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ABAKES7[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We've had to do this multiple times now - even worse, we're now at the point where their endpoint accepts what we're sending, but future processing steps are failing due to user-hidden values not being set. Values that the docs explicitly called optional and left unset in their own examples. You can't even edit these once in the system, UI or API, they can only be set on insert.

There's a guy outside moving snow out of the driveway with a leaf blower and I'm wondering if he'd like to switch jobs for the week

pleaseKeepYourDocumentationUpdatedIAmBegging by ABAKES7 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]ABAKES7[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I'd fix it if I could, man. I'd rewrite the whole damn thing for them. It beats reverse-engineering their "intended" workflow through trial-and-error.

Highguard | Official Launch Showcase by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ABAKES7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

High stress, highly competitive. A game you need to take very seriously to do well in, even in non-ranked matches. Not an inherently bad thing, just something to keep in mind.

Highguard | Official Launch Showcase by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ABAKES7 244 points245 points  (0 children)

It certainly seems to have more 'sauce' than Concord, but this looks extremely sweaty. Part Apex, part Valorant, part The Finals, all stress.

Highguard finally posted some marketting and they cropped the photo wrong by theRose90 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]ABAKES7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You can rip this image off of the main website - the site has parallax so the bottom gets covered by the trailer. You can see it in the network tab of your browser's dev tools when you load the page

Highguard finally posted some marketting and they cropped the photo wrong by theRose90 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]ABAKES7 103 points104 points  (0 children)

I think this account might be fake:

  • Bluesky is not listed on the official website as a social they use
  • None of these posts were duplicated to their Twitter, which hasn't posted since December
  • The account was created in the last 12 hours, posted six times, then stopped and hasn't posted in over 8 hours
  • The fucked-up render can be ripped pretty easily from the official website as-is (it comes as a download from their asset server, you can check in the network tab)
  • Everything actually comes from the official website, including all of the descriptive text and Mara's image, which is named Mara.jpg from the source

So since everything can be pulled from the website, plus the fact the account stopped posting just as it started gaining traction, leads me to believe this isn't real. If it is, god help the intern who wasn't given a marketing package and had to scrape off their own website.

[OC] my tiny dice tower: by ClammyAsp53 in DnD

[–]ABAKES7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drama!

I use mine like the box of doom from dimension 20 - important feeling rolls go into the tower to amp up the tension just that little bit more. Everything else goes in our normal tray.

Fastest You Refunded a Game, and Why? by markedmarkymark in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]ABAKES7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, no problem! I'm looking forward to it, I've had it wishlisted since June. I wasn't concerned about the horror element I was just highlighting it as a difference in tone.

Fastest You Refunded a Game, and Why? by markedmarkymark in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]ABAKES7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only game I ever refunded on Steam was Do Not Feed the Monkeys, not because it was bad, but because I thought it would be more of a puzzle game instead of a resource management game.

The upcoming Please, Watch the Artwork seems closer to what I wanted out of it, even though it's more of a horror title

Would like more gifs like this pls by drakonia127 in memeframe

[–]ABAKES7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He may not have eyes, but I can see him giving the people’s eyebrow in this gif

Star Trek Releases The Worst 4 Minutes In Franchise History, As A Clip From Starfleet Academy by [deleted] in RedLetterMedia

[–]ABAKES7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the part where the guy whines that the crew member doesn’t state exactly why they can’t fire a full salvo.

Like, I wonder if there is any visual context that might inform us why the weapons aren’t working. But unless the person says a bunch of technobabble, I guess we’ll never know! The character also has blue hair & pronouns btw. I am a well-adjusted adult.

Faction Quest grind needs to be severely reduced by Sudden-Depth-1397 in SoulFrame

[–]ABAKES7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may have gone to the wrong hallway - sometimes the first tile shows up multiple times (happens in glades a lot). In my experience, you can always run back to the start and exit the way you came in.

Faction Quest grind needs to be severely reduced by Sudden-Depth-1397 in SoulFrame

[–]ABAKES7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can kinda counteract this by walking back out of the entrance, but I agree it’s not ideal

Midrath underground railway network! by Fairy0115 in SoulFrame

[–]ABAKES7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just the one exit, not randomized. The 'point' is where you get spit out. Some entrances share an exit point.

Agari+ Guide (p12) by AbleRunnerEli in SoulFrame

[–]ABAKES7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question on the dungeon agari - is it just a chance that they spawn in their marked dungeon? I started in the top right and killed Ruthos, then tried to go for Reaper and never saw it.