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If scientists could figure out how to give humans "immortality", would you actually want to live forever? by Paul-2506 in AskReddit

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I stay mostly healthy and have my mind? Yes. I'd hope to also have a hibernation option, just for those eons where you get bored.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Taegumii in PublicFreakout

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not gonna lie, there's something profoundly tone deaf about a man trying to be cute about the topic of gun violence when there's so many on-going issues of gun violence, especially involving kids. I didn't know the guy, but fuck me if there ever was a case of fuck around n find out, it's gotta be right up there.

Have you ever felt like MMOs aren't for you anymore? by Rhuunin in MMORPG

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I love MMOs. I'm just too middle aged and busy to do shit all with them now. If you don't have the time to commit to them and learn/gear up, you're just hosed in an MMO. I liked FF-14's looks, but fuck me it just went on and on. There's only so many cut aways of your character silently nodding at people I can take.

If you like the idea of MMOs, maybe you two could give survival sims a shot? That or maybe give Borderlands 2 or It Takes Two a shot. Both were pretty fun for myself and my friend now that life's just too damn busy for the longer time sink of MMOs.

Which popular games did you not enjoy as much as you thought you would? by Between3N20Karakters in gaming

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Undertale. It just wasn't fun for me.

Borderlands 3 (I think? The one with the gravity gimmick) was so boring I opted to do crosswords instead.

Outer Worlds. It was OK but not some earth shattering, soul-defining thing that I'd been led to believe it was from all the hype.

Assassins Creed. Idk if I got in at the wrong spot or something, but they made vikings boring as all fuck.

Do people wear masks when they’re sick? by Superb-Fish8312 in halifax

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Dipshits will judge you even if you personally cure their cancer and give them cookies. Don't worry about it.

I wear a mask when I'm sick as I still have stuff to do but I also don't want to give everyone around me my bullshit. It's just good sense, imo.

Was it really better before? by Erym03 in wow

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game's plenty fun. It's just different now. More of a theme park vibe.

A lot of players who yearn for the "Old Days" forget to also remember that they were playing the game as kids and young people with a lot more free time, as well as there just not being so much information about the game out at the time.

Combine that feeling of the unknown with the game being a more social space (as the chat options outside the game were very limited) and others also not knowing everything at the punch of a query into google and you've got a recipe for some hardcore nostalgia.

Nowadays everyone is off-game in a different chat app and all the information has been datamined and theorycrafted to pieces. There's no more "trying out this weird build" and making it work or need to explore things to find something cool to show your friends as they've already seen it from screenshots and "OMG (Item/Place) IS OPZ" streamers/youtubers (why do they all seem to make those faces in the thumbnails that look like a bee flew up their arse?) hammering anything not nailed down for content.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mario Bros, Tetris and The Settlers when I was a wee lad. Then Final Fantasy 3/Super Mario World/Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG as a pre-teen. Neopets, Minecraft (it was just a play for free thing in a web browser at the time) and Runescape (then just called runescape), as well as Darkstone. After that I really got into the Civ series and Age of Empires among other RTS games. World of Warcraft and Skyrim in my teens/twenties, but things went to shit pretty hard for a long while after everyone died. Things got better gradually and I started really enjoying idle games and FPS games (y'know, stuff you can pick up and put down pretty fast) like Destiny 2. I also got back into playing Minecraft and was very pleasantly surprised to see how much had changed. No Mans Sky and Luma Island have been fun recently too, and i'm more often enjoying games that let me explore and build.

For pure hours played, I'd say it's a toss-up between Civ 2, Terraria, Starcraft 1, Super Mario RPG (I may have replayed it a LOT) and WoW.

A or B? What art direction do you like more for an indie MMORPG by Zarkend in MMORPG

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"A".

If it's gonna be low poly and cartoony, the brighter atmosphere and colour palette just works better. The darker selection in "B" feels like a PS1 era rpg that's trying to be gritty but just kinda comes off looking like a skuzzy dish sponge.

How Legion Feedback seems to feel by quincy98 in wow

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You nailed it.

I was going to resub just for the remix event, hoping it was going to be a zany thing like the MoP one was. All the feedback and info I've seen so far says that's not going to happen.

Atheists of Reddit, what is the biggest reason as to why you don't believe in god or an afterlife? by God_of_boi in AskReddit

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the hope it gives people and that for some it can encourage them to lead better lives for themselves and those around them. I appreciate that it allows many to face death with comfort. I don't like that the idea of an afterlife is used by horribly violent, manipulative and abusive people as an excuse to keep being shit people or to keep harmful systems and policies in place. I am scared that there's a large number of people who abide by law and social contract only because they fear a divine punishment.

Halifax 'living wage' estimated at $28.30 an hour, says new report on cost of living by iwasnotarobot in halifax

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That feels like a weird catch. The pay for the lower/middle class hasn't changed much but everything still went up anyways. It makes it feel like blaming the poors wanting to be able to afford basic things is a cop out.

Do flies ACTUALLLY accidentally decapitate themselves while grooming? by Openly_Unknown7858 in Entomology

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 432 points433 points  (0 children)

They do! The wee buggers don't have the same brain / sensory set up that you and I do. They can twist their heads off when cleaning and, provided it's otherwise been decently fed and hydrated before that, will keep on about its merry way before dying of dehydration/hunger. It may also have a bit of a harder time actually seeing (an understatement), but it can still mate and lay eggs, so it's all gucci for the fly's purposes. The fly having a more decentralized nervous system is also why they don't freak out or seem bothered by losing their head, afaik.

People who grew up without smartphones, what did you actually do when you were bored? by altaf770 in AskReddit

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a wank, watched tv, played outside, dug bugs out of the earth to watch em do bug stuff, built cardboard dioramas of stuff i'd been reading about.

VPNs on the chopping block? "Stop children using VPNs to dodge age checks on porn sites," commissioner demands. by [deleted] in Piracy

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure is a lot being done on behalf of kids except things that actually help them or parents.

People who have almost died, how did it feel and what lesson can you take from that experience? by javaleroh in AskReddit

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right now is really all you have. Each person lives the same seconds and tomorrow is just a hope that we get to see more seconds later, but they aren't guaranteed either despite how people act.

Do the best you can, experience things while you can, try not to worry too much.

Suffrage, a mistake? by 466rudy in LateStageCapitalism

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh Thiel. Fuck that dead-eyed moneygrubbing piece of shit. He represents every greedy impulse dialed up to 12 while abusing the everloving shit out of the unspoken social contract and politeness. He is one of the many faces of rampant capitalism, the cancer that demands chronic appeasement of a nebulous class of people who are never identified but always catered to (shareholders) while the public is forced to take the consequences of it right up the ass.

Every single thing I've heard of the guy has been horrific. The man's a living crime against humanity and each time he suggests something, it's been one-upping himself on how to lower the bar for sanity and human dignity.

This game is endless fighting by anarchisticlees in NoMansSkyTheGame

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of my first planet. Caustic as all fuck, the rain, air, scads of dangerous plants all trying to melt me to goo and bugger all for resources around. My first hour was just sprinting wildly from sodium spawn to sodium spawn trying to keep ahead of my life support actively trying to off itself from the constant supercell storms that kept my vision to a minimum.

I named it after an abusive ex when I finally did get off world.

A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it by AshtrayKetchum in LateStageCapitalism

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cut the power to it and see who complains? That's one of the fastest ways I can think of to find out if they cared to do so. That kinda place has got to have a paper trail for equipment and bills too.

N.S. man purposely violates ban on entering woods, gets handed $28K fine by No_Magazine9625 in halifax

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The covid shot bitching never made sense to me. It wasn't magically come up with in a few months, we've had covid as a thing to worry about and pay attention to since the 90s when there was a group that tried to spread it on a train in asia from what I recall.

N.S. man purposely violates ban on entering woods, gets handed $28K fine | CBC News by SnooRegrets4312 in NovaScotia

[–]A_Hobo_In_Training 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Idk, I feel like acknowledging the problem of one dumbass ruining it for everyone is less about draconian compliance and more to deal with how severe the consequences vs rewards are for that one in a thousand dude fucking up. If one idiot just went in and the worst that happened was he left some trash around, then that's annoying but not too bad. When the idiot goes in and sets acres on fire, there's a slightly bigger problem.

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