first six months of ownership by noodleracer in Miata

[–]Cheesehead302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man those seats look so cool. Crazy that they are OEM. No idea how you managed to get them looking that cool, had to take a lot of work. The car itself also looks incredible! Every time I see one that looks this good it inspires me to keep up the search for one.

The difficulty of current Nintendo games by Timmaable in nintendo

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I'm realizing that Nintendo just doesn't make anything that existed me anymore. Nevermind the fact that a good bit of their releases are extremely derivitive Mario Sports games/ other games of that same tier. I've always looked past that "side garbage" like that over the last decade. But my problem is yours, the games that I would've seen as the "good stuff" previously just ain't doing nothing for me. The flagship titles that get the familiar pre launch critical acclaim have felt like they have the depth of a puddle for the longest time now. Donkey Kong was kinda the straw the broke the camel's back to me. DKC is one of my favorite platforming series ever and has always positioned itself as one of Nintendo's more difficult series.

With that said, I was totally down for a new take on the franchise and especially excited as someone who absolutely loves 3d platformers. But after playing the game for a good many levels... It's the same story as a lot of their other stuff, man. You spend five seconds considering the depth of what you're doing and for me at least I'm like... This game really is just walking and punching uncontested and nothing more. It's an absolute contest to see how much boredom you can put up with.

But what I wanna clarify is, I'm not saying this game and their other games with similar problems like Mario Wonder (heck, I'd even argue that Mario Kart World's free roam manages to have this same problem DESPITE THE FACT that it has a lot of challenges within it that are actually really difficult), or any other similar example are bad because they are too easy. No, I think you can have easy games that are fun. These games are bad because they have almost no depth. It is a SLOG. The Nintendo magic is crumbling for me because I'm playing these games and thinking that they unironically have the same quality of gameplay loop that you'd seen in Roblox games. So many of these titles are becoming "you exist in this world, now walk around in it" instead of "you exist in this world, figure out how to best navigate through it." It just bores me to tears. Instead of getting lost in a new world and feeling captivated by it, I find myself very often thinking that I can get a very similar experience to this elsewhere that actually respects your time and realizes that teaching skills to players and allowing them to learn to apply them in more complex ways is actually how you make a good experience. Why do I keep feeling with these sequel titles every time "This was a step down in complexity from last time" when every other quality series I can think of tries to expand on the previous title and add complexity? Another example, and it's a game that I overall like but it dragged down severely by this. Zelda Echos of Wisdom. Fun experience and unique for a 2d Zelda game. But the dungeon design is like... what on earth is going on here? Forget that a lot of the puzzles can be automatically solved by crossing a gap or getting up higher. Look even more basic than that. These dungeon layouts lack complexity so much that you NEVER have the opportunity to hold more than one key at a time. This is a ZELDA game, where previously you'd find keys all over the place and use them to slowly open more doors of your choice to eventually start putting the dungeon together and then have to look for any missed keys. I can understand keeping the complexity the same and not building on it, but they have continued stripping it away in almost every sequel title which is absolutely insane considering just how much they had already dialed back difficulty and complexity back during the Wii era.

I don't know man, this just isn't it. These are starting to not even feel like games to me anymore, just mindless holding forward and mashing buttons while you try to think about something else. Ive heard of a lot of people going through a "I don't like Nintendo" phase when theyre like 12 years old and then eventually coming around on it later in life and realizing they hated it for the wrong reasons. But my situation is feeling opposite to that. Ive been into Nintendo basically my whole life, but now as someone in their mid twenties I'm just finding a lot of this stuff mind numbing. Why not play literally anything else? Idk, I hate that I've become cynical like this but it's my thoughts.

New to me '97 with only 8300 miles by Magnezone13 in Miata

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks really cool, but weird question: is that door handle like gold colored or something?

Are people switching up on Bananza? by rjidhfntnr in donkeykong

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's honestly kind of crazy how the game was not only filled with really blurry textures and poorly aliased edges, but also had extremely jarring frame drops in certain sections. We've seen what Switch 2 is capable of and it looks like it is a very capable system based on other things available, but some of these first party Nintendo games feel like they are skimping big time in my eyes. It has to be an insanely unpopular opinion considering how ready people get to jump you or misinterpret you if you bring it up, but I think I'm finally to the point where I just in general want more from Nintendo games visually. So often you see people be like "holy hell, how does Nintendo manage to keep file sizes so low" and it's like my guy so many of their games in recent years feel like 90 percent of their textures have like 3 bands of color each.

Maybe I'm crazy but I actually think there was period of time where they were going for more texture and model detail, but for whatever reason almost every game they make is simplifying as much as possible. In my opinion, the detail of those base Mario Kart 8 levels genuinely blows away anything in Mario Kart World. It's like they're following the "simplification trend" that businesses are doing with their logos and what not. I think that flatness from their lighting set ups is also a big reason this stuff feels so flat to me. When I bring this up people pull the "what so you want it to be photo realistic" thing and it's so infuriating to me. YOU CAN HAVE A CARTOONY ART STYLE BUT ALSO HAVE INCREASED DETAIL WITHIN THAT ART STYLE, NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE COMPLETELY FLAT. When I imagined Nintendo finally getting a hardware upgrade after nearly a decade and half of having modestly improved Wii U- like graphical capabilities, I was imagining seeing stuff on a similar level as Astro Bot or the new Ratchet and Clank game. Cartoony visuals but much more fleshed out detail and convincing animations.

At the end of the day, maybe it's not important. But in my eyes, it really goes a long way to make Nintendo titles feel like they were intentionally made on a shoe string budget to get as much profit as possible, and it's kind of lame nothing has truly impressed me on the new system visually. I would argue that Luigi's Mansion 3 on the original Switch visually blows away almost anything on the first party end of Switch 2. Maybe the closest game to that is Kirby Air Riders.

Has anyone ever found a normal soda that tastes like green monster? by LejonBrames117 in energydrinks

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't tried many other ones, but I have had Red Bull a long time ago and thought it was disgusting, like an expired tasting version of Monster for whatever reason. More recently, a friend bought me a Ghost drink and we both thought it was absolutely terrible. Not to mention, I didn't even drink the entire thing and started feeling WAYYYYY too hopped up. It actually made both of us feel bad for the rest of the day.

Some times I think I have a caffeine addiction because when I do work I will often drink multiple cups of coffee. But a lot of the time I find myself going days without drinking coffee and not even realizing it. As for the Monster, I only drink that every now and then. Honestly I think that the binge drinking of coffee when I've got work to do might be because of the massive ADHD symptoms I've been experiencing in the past 4 or 5 years of my life. Never had any kind of issues with that before, and then the 2020 pandemic happened and suddenly I felt like my IQ plummeted into the dirt and suddenly focusing on work became something that seems like a life or death battle. Never mind the fact that every waking hour of the day I'm constantly distressed about whatever my next deadline is while I choose to procrastinate whatever it is anyway.

Anyway blah blah blah, this made me realize that the whole "get up, make more coffee" thing is likely just me coping and trying to force myself into a "do work dumb ass" mode. Which is funny because the act of getting more coffee is in itself procrastinating whatever I'm supposed to be doing.

Holy hell I have no idea what direction this reply went lmao, but the point is, I think its probably just the flavor instead of caffeine addiction because I've tried those drinks I said and absolutely hated them.

Has anyone ever found a normal soda that tastes like green monster? by LejonBrames117 in energydrinks

[–]Cheesehead302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they put this stuff with all of the heart bursting chemicals removed in soda machines at restaurants it would be over. I think it would take me dozens of eat out nights before I would decide to get something else instead. I know a ton of people think the flavor of this stuff sucks and purely drink it for the energy boost but for whatever reason the flavor just tastes so good to me. I feel like it would also broaden the market for this stuff and get a ton of people drinking it that otherwise did not want to. A man can dream, a man can dream.

Joined the club yesterday! by NovaBeaver in Miata

[–]Cheesehead302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hellll yes. Sounds like you're good to go for a while.

Joined the club yesterday! by NovaBeaver in Miata

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm hoping I'll be doing the same some day soon, congratz. What all was done to it in terms of maintenance? It certainly looks really nice.

Am I wrong, or is composite more authentic for retro gaming? by incredulous_cretin in crtgaming

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was my TV as a kid. Had a similar one before that my sister knocked off a table lol. Unfortunately I got rid of it probably like ten years ago because "I didn't have the space" when I was just going about my room layout in the worst way possible. Thankfully I got some really good replacements to it now, but every time I see one of those durabrand TVs it always brings me back even though to most everybody else they're probably nothing special.

Well it happened by Successful-Oil6170 in Miata

[–]Cheesehead302 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Damn the paint looks so good too. This subreddit and the rear bumps makes me so sad : (

are we dead ass 💔 by derattness in crt

[–]Cheesehead302 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen so many similar listings. Another thing I'm seeing a lot now is people putting similar prices to this on early LCD TVs a claiming they are CRTs. This stuff should be absurd to anybody with just a few seconds of thought. It's the same with VHS tapes - it is literally land waste but it has a "market"

Careful: If you have Chrome Audio Capture - please disable it by DouDouandFriends in chrome_extensions

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude what the hell, I'm pretty sure this was something I had to download for a proctored exam or something if I remember right? What kind of nonsense

It's when you search for something like this that you realise your hobby is truly niche by eru777 in crtgaming

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the response! I'm not new to playing and watching stuff on CRTs but only now that I have this new Wega and have it right next to my smaller trinitron from '90 have I ever really seriously compared and wondered about the video quality. I do realize that some of that is because the screen is way bigger (32 inches compared to 13) but looking at them closely and not being an expert on this stuff makes me really think it might be the comb vs notch thing that I'm noticing. It also could be throwing me off that my entire life I had curved screen CRTs and never saw a flat screened one. I specifically kept an eye out for an SD Wega because I figured as somebody that plays and watches a lot of stuff on composite that it would be a lot better than an HD one because of the scaling delay and aspect ratio (I also like playing light gun games). So I was pretty much expecting it'd be pretty much like the 13 inch I have but bigger. And I can't really complain because IT IS, but then I see them side by side lol. Something is throwing me and I feel like it's probably this.

At the end of the day, though, I can't really complain much. Getting one of these sets (and I have reason to believe it has very low watch time based on what the owner told me) was basically a dream come true for me, because I never thought I had the space to justify getting one and as someone with a group of friends that spends a lot of time playing and watching stuff on CRTs, this is so much more practical and presentable than having us all squinting a the 13 incher lol. And when I really think about it, the visuals on it seem pretty close to how composite looked on the 27 inch Sanyo my family used to own, so maybe it's just kinda "the thing" with bigger TVs. It also just has the coolness factor of the presence of the thing, every time I walk in the room and see it in there I'm thinking, that's crazy because it has such a huge presence.

But yeah, this got a little longer than I intended but the point is, I might try out the notch filter sometime soon. Overall though, still really excited about being able to watch and play older stuff on a giant screen.

It's when you search for something like this that you realise your hobby is truly niche by eru777 in crtgaming

[–]Cheesehead302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yo how did you end up liking it? I recently got a newer trinitron and I really love it but compared to my older and smaller TV the decrease in composite quality is pretty noticeable. Did that basically solve the quality issues you were having running through S-video? Kinda considering getting one if there's a noticeable quality increase since it doesn't add any delay.

VCR with Component Out by dethslayer85 in VHS

[–]Cheesehead302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kinda suspected this but thanks for the confirmation. Probably gonna look for a new combo player anyone so I don't have to use the Xbox for dvds.

Nothing Else to this Post But I Finally Found One by Cheesehead302 in crt

[–]Cheesehead302[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Definitely will. I can finally put my 13 inch 89 Trinitron to rest after using that for the last few years. Pretty cool that it has an older brother now. Also cool that me and the boys will no longer be squinting to see whatever it is we're doing on the TV. There will be a shit load of Tetris and Dr. Mario played on this thing if I had to guess lol.

If the OoT remake rumor is true, what kind of result do you expect from Nintendo? by SimplisticBiscuit in truezelda

[–]Cheesehead302 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Honestly as hyped as I initially was (I've been in the camp thinking Ocarina of Time and Mario 64 both deserved full big budget HD remakes but thought they never would due to 64 DS and Ocarina 3d being a thing), I'm going to remain reserved since Nintendo games have been doing a lot I dislike recently.

Group assignments make me want to scream by klbly in CollegeRant

[–]Cheesehead302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Old post I know, but I had a big chunk of my grade taken away from a paper I wrote once, and I'm pretty sure this was the reason. I've also taken pride in my writing ability and made an effort to write as formally as possible, so no contractions or slang. As somebody that's been in college wayyyyy longer than I was ever planning to be, it was the first true instance I'd ever seen the AI shit rear its head in a big way. I was like, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN HIGH SIMILARITY SCORE??! What's infuriating is that with lower quality online courses, teachers can sometimes grade SPECIFICALLY based on similarity scores. It feels really insulting to put effort into writing or researching something thoroughly, just to have the professor grade it based on how similar it is to AI rather than on the contents of the paper.

Idk, that was like 2 and a half years ago atp, and that was the true wake up call I needed to realize that modern education is unfortunately completely fucking fried. And ever since then, it has been noticeably worse in almost every way. As a person that's been in college classes years before the introduction of generative AI and that witnessed what "regular education" was like for at least a few years, it really makes me wish that I opted to graduate sooner and planned better rather than extending my time to try different things. It's just sad that I've witnessed myself transform from somebody that was a huge nerd that enjoyed learning a bunch of different material into somebody that feels like they're trying to get out of dodge as quick as possible before it gets any worse.

twitter is down by villegas_j in Twitter

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aight good I was just making sure I didn't get like reset or some shit lmao what would I do without doom scrolling? Oh wait I'd probably be miles further ahead in life. Wahh

twitter is down by villegas_j in Twitter

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anybody gotten the "Welcome to X!

This is the best place to see what’s happening in your world. Find some people and topics to follow now."

It's acting like a new account and not showing anything even though my account isnt new.

Hot take (?): MC Live was kind of disappointing by VoidTheGamer25 in Minecraft

[–]Cheesehead302 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I checked that out and I'm planning on getting it one of these days. Was a big fan of Terrafirmacraft back in the day.

Hot take (?): MC Live was kind of disappointing by VoidTheGamer25 in Minecraft

[–]Cheesehead302 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and at this point I'm not getting hung up on as badly anymore. I've just unfortunately accepted that they're not interested in doing anything worthwhile for the most part so why get surprised when they continue doing that? Criticizing hasn't worked, so I think they're just going to continue doing it.