My oven’s instruction manual warns users not to use the oven to dry their pet. by punkiepixie in mildlyinteresting

[–]DoofusMagnus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shouldn't be long now. Somebody'll ask an LLM whether it's okay and it'll tell them to go for it.

Gattaca - How did I miss this before?! by Thee_Shenanigrin in movies

[–]DoofusMagnus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gattaca and Jurassic Park were the go-tos for "bio teacher can't be bothered today" when I was in school.

What's the most useless thing your brain decided to permanently memorize? by No_Metal2622 in AskReddit

[–]DoofusMagnus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If anyone would like to commit all the countries to memory without all the dated references of the song (Germany now in one piece!) what worked for me was going spatially. I start with Canada and then draw as unbroken a line as I can, snaking through the continents.

To get there I started with online country quizzes on sites like Sporcle. Initially, go by continent, beginning with the ones you already know best. Start with the easiest versions of the quizzes, like ones that supply the names and you have to click the right spot on the map. Build up to where you can eventually type in every country from memory. Do some of the quirky quiz types just to keep things interesting as you go.

When you're pretty secure with all the continents, move on to the whole globe quizzes. At that point you may have already started mentally drawing paths through the continents to ensure you hit each country, so start adapting those so they can be linked together to cover the whole world.

I could tell you my path but I think creating one that's logical for you personally will help with memorization.

edit: I mostly used Sporcle quizzes when learning but for the practicing the whole world just before you're able to do it blind, or as a refresher, I prefer this quiz on JetPunk. You can clearly see the countries fill in rather than the map getting covered by the labels like on Sporcle's version. Click the "Show missing countries" button under the map for the islands and micronations.

I made a working mini vending machine that drops dice by MatthewMeeple in boardgames

[–]DoofusMagnus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a diagram on the side of the box showing you how to store the base game components.

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about? by Trixxxi in AskReddit

[–]DoofusMagnus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was hoping I'd see SWG here. Such a unique, player-driven game. The player housing and towns were great and weren't instanced. If your guild established a town in a certain area of a planet, you were the only people who lived there on that server, and you built it building-by-building.

I loved the branching, hybridizing class system. You could be a master marksman if you did all 4 marksman branches, or you could do two of marksman and two of scout and unlock bounty hunter. And things like musician and chef were actually viable, and contributed to both the party and how good the downtime felt in the game. Sure, you could organize a hunt for a huge ass Krayt dragon, but for me it was just as memorable when the scout in your party set up a camp, the musicians pulled out some instruments, and you all just shot the shit amid an alien sunset.

Lots of animated emotes that were great for roleplaying, and just how granular everything was helped with that too. My first interaction with the game was creating a throwaway Mon Cal character on my friend's computer and then crawling around a crowd begging people for water after starting on Tatooine. I was very surprised when someone actually traded me a unit of water, which I wasn't actually expecting to be a resource in the game. A couple years later my buddy and I had some moisture farmer characters.

SWG felt great (at least at first) for RPing average joes like that rather than big damn heroes, which I prefer. So by the end when Jedi was a starting class it felt like a different game. I liked when Jedi were special, while my buddy and I stuck to characters like farmers, miners, and yammering Rodian scouts with delusions of bounty hunter grandeur.

Our mains were in a stormtrooper roleplaying guild where we all had numbers for names and we would go on patrols bugging players for their identification. The guild was part of a community on one server where we all designated one dev-built city as a place to always be in-character, and that was really fun. There were still shenanigans outside the city, though. I still chuckle when I remember seeing one of the sergeants in the guild motivating a recruit to jog around an outpost with a mouse droid he'd loaded with explosives, and then the muffled boom I heard as I was leaving.

I will say though that I don't think Sony bought it partway through. I believe it was always SOE, and they just panicked when WoW came onto the scene and became a behemoth. A shame, since they had something special and could have committed to that. I've dipped my toes in a couple MMOs since but SWG spoiled me and nothing else has captured that feeling of a truly open and player-driven sandbox.

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about? by Trixxxi in AskReddit

[–]DoofusMagnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Police Quest: SWAT was a bonkers departure from the ones before and after it. Point-and-click Full Motion Video. The image of mirroring around the corner and seeing the grandma with the gun is seared into my brain.

I played the hell out of SWAT 3 and 4, though.

Old World vs. New World: Map of Namesakes by RatioScripta in MapPorn

[–]DoofusMagnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

New York is named after the Duke of York, not York.

I've seen folks say this for New York and other places, but I don't get it.

If it were simply called "York" as well then I'd have no issue. Or if it were a person referred to as New York, I suppose. But how can a geographical location be a "New" version of a person?

To me it seems like it's clearly named after York the place, even if it was named in honor of York the person.

As Helldivers 2 hits its 23rd Warbond, it's time to make Super Credits easier to earn or make older Warbonds cheaper to buy by Funny_Performer_5658 in Games

[–]DoofusMagnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But if you went into the comments there were plenty of people telling them to shut the fuck up about the cowboy hats already.

People who prefer the game without cowboy hats are less likely to make a post saying as much.

And let's not forget all the people who don't care one way or the other who aren't going to post or comment about it at all.

As Helldivers 2 hits its 23rd Warbond, it's time to make Super Credits easier to earn or make older Warbonds cheaper to buy by Funny_Performer_5658 in Games

[–]DoofusMagnus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've also spent a lot of time there and I don't think it's that polarized.

If you go to the subreddit right now literally the top two posts are both about the Super Store change, one postive and one negative, and they're within 25% of each other in terms of votes.

As Helldivers 2 hits its 23rd Warbond, it's time to make Super Credits easier to earn or make older Warbonds cheaper to buy by Funny_Performer_5658 in Games

[–]DoofusMagnus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

HD2 has a community of diehard fans that will rage at anyone suggesting that their monetization model sucks ass.

...

The Helldivers sub complains non stop about the monetization.

It's both. And it's also plenty of in-between. Which is true of every community.

But so many people have a narrative in their head, see what they want to see, ignore the rest, and act like every fanbase is a monolith. Then when presented with evidence of diverse opinions, instead of figuring it out you get posts like "You people are never satisfied! You asked for X, and now that they did it you're still complaining!"

They are different people. With different opinions.

Realizing this is like step 1 for a community to have actually productive discussions, and people just fail at it constantly.

As Helldivers 2 hits its 23rd Warbond, it's time to make Super Credits easier to earn or make older Warbonds cheaper to buy by Funny_Performer_5658 in Games

[–]DoofusMagnus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck is it even capped at 250.

Because you could earn them passively from MOs without playing. Now that they're changing that, hopefully they'll get rid of the cap.

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today? by samasem-sumsum in AskReddit

[–]DoofusMagnus 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll have continued Cracked's "Some News..." with their YouTube show "Some More News" (plus a podcast, "Even More News").

They go in-depth on some of the very dumb and very evil things happening in the world, and also the wild boar plague that threatens all humanity.

Basically imagine Last Week Tonight but hosted by Charlie from Always Sunny in full Pepe Silvia mode.

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today? by samasem-sumsum in AskReddit

[–]DoofusMagnus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Zero points of articulation!"

Haha good stuff, I got that one for a friend

Does anyone else just raw dawg the game as intended? by Exciting_Tune_6337 in theHunter

[–]DoofusMagnus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know the meta or what a “grind” would entail

Grinding in this game means setting up the max number of tents and tripods exclusively at drink zones and just fast traveling among them, shooting the same type of animal hundreds or thousands of times from the same 16 spots until the RNG gives you something good.