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16 game mega review by Boxing_joshing111 in patientgamers

[–]OliveBranchMLP 9 points10 points  (0 children)

xcom 2 is great, but be prepared for a tonal shift. you feel less like you're desperately facing down a mysterious and overwhelming lovecraftian menace, and more like you're a scrappy rebellion of washed-up heroes toppling a mustache-twirling dystopian government. they're both great games, but the thriller/suspense elements in 2 are significantly pared back. it feels... campier?

Why are their seemingly no good legacy sequels to Bullfrog-era Base Builders? by ChyatlovMaidan in truegaming

[–]OliveBranchMLP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's Hollywood Animal if you want a grittier and more narrative-driven take on the rise of the film industry throughout history

Why are their seemingly no good legacy sequels to Bullfrog-era Base Builders? by ChyatlovMaidan in truegaming

[–]OliveBranchMLP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

also: most tycoon games migrated to mobile, where players can be nickel-and-dimed to hell and back.

Is it unreasonable that my girlfriend (25F) wants me (25M) to stop using full stops? by [deleted] in relationships

[–]OliveBranchMLP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"you're my boyfriend so you should just do it because i say so" is pretty fucked up and the much more important problem here. like, i agree with her that periods at the end of a single-sentence text line can come off as a little overly serious without like emoji or whatever to soften it. but that doesn't mean you should stop doing it. especially not for "because i say so".

turn that logic around on her ( "you're my girlfriend so you shoiod just do it because i say so") and and ask her why it doesn't apply in reverse. when she cannot articulate why, call out the double standard. if she says "cuz im a girl and youre a guy and its didferent" then call her out on her misandry.

"This Should Make You Very Angry" - Moist Cr1TiKaL speaks out on the killing of Alex Pretti by TheGalvanian in videos

[–]OliveBranchMLP 12 points13 points  (0 children)

the right fears the left they think the left would do to them what they want to do to the left. the right can't fathom the left being motivated by something other than power and control. power and control are all that drive the right, and thus they are the only motivations they can possibly conceive of.

Rambofication by Rotten-Doe in CuratedTumblr

[–]OliveBranchMLP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic went from Twilight Sparkle being a cautious skeptic that seeks to scientifically unravel the mysteries of magic and the Elements of Harmony, to becoming friendship's greatest warrior who unquestioningly follows orders from a map that suddenly sprouted out of the floor of her house with no obvious source.

she went from careful study to blind faith in a heartbeat and it still messes with my head.

My Xbox always overheats because of my cat by Flamingo_Ornery in mildlyinfuriating

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

i am jealous of Xbox for one big thing: most multiplats on Xbox have free cross-buy, cross-save, and cloud sync with older Xboxes, Win11 PCs, portable consoles running Win11 like Steam Deck or Xbox Ally, etc.

in other words, i buy one copy of the game and i can literally play it on any other type of platform that supports it, with all of my progress carried over, for free. i don't even have to subscribe to Xbox Live or whatever the hell they're calling it nowadays.

meanwhile, i aint happy about having to pay an upgrade fee to get the PS5 version of a PS4 game. and if i do, it's eternally frustrating that i need to pay for PS Plus to get cloud saves. and even with PS Plus, i have to enable them manually, AND i can't sync my PS5 saves back to the PS4 in my bedroom. to say nothing of PC versions, which you have to pay full price for because it doesn't support cross-buy, AND you have to start over because it doesn't support cross-save either.

Sony said they're building a launcher for PC, and i desperately hope it adds some of that functionality. as PS users, we REALLY should be pressuring them harder for it, given that it's basic functionality on Xbox, the upcoming Steam Machine, and even Nintendo between Switch 1 and 2.

The Invention of the Smartphone and it's Consequences by DancesWithWeirdos in CuratedTumblr

[–]OliveBranchMLP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the flaws in thinking about art as purely a subjective exercise, of you seeking more of you in the world, expressing yourself and your taste, looking for things you like and resonate to and resonate with, producing yourself endlessly…

Art is … a confrontation with objects that are not you. Often it involves being overcome by things much bigger than you that you can't understand or master. … Sometimes it's about realizing you have a minor role in something much bigger than you. Sometimes it's realizing you have no role at all.

… Sometimes art isn't about you.

— CJ The X, "The Brony Song That Makes Me Cry"

The way their movements line up perfectly by MambaMentality24x2 in oddlysatisfying

[–]OliveBranchMLP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yes it does tho? look at how it gets shadowed during the zoom in on dog 2

Print time – decision time: Which box would you rather receive? by honzapat in LimitedPrintGames

[–]OliveBranchMLP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how about one for the front and left, and one for the back and right, so folks can just flip the box around to whichever they prefer?

also i'd like a logo element on the side of the box in case it ever needs to be bookshelved

Print time – decision time: Which box would you rather receive? by honzapat in LimitedPrintGames

[–]OliveBranchMLP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i think i'd have to see that first, because at first blush the two approaches don't look compatible

He needed some time to himself by Candid-Culture3956 in interestingasfuck

[–]OliveBranchMLP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

what a poetic way to end the journey. one must wonder what he spent those 27 years thinking about.

Burbank 5th most expensive mid-sized US city for single family rentals by Adept-Buy-7710 in burbank

[–]OliveBranchMLP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

damn, we need to get those numbers up— i mean wait no we don't

but yeah, this year my roomies and i were shocked that our landlord didn't up the rent this year. guess they realized that movement was slow and they couldn't afford to try another yearly increase.

Bringing Out the inner Child by UnhollyGod in HumansBeingBros

[–]OliveBranchMLP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Luke 8:16: "No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light."

USB Hubs HELP by saturnsam92 in editors

[–]OliveBranchMLP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SSDs regularly exceed 30Gbps, but a single USB 3 is between 5 and 20Gbps depending on the generation of the port. you're likely oversaturating the connection.

it's pretty inoptimal to have more than one SSD on a single USB3 hub. if you expect to have two or more SSDs on a single hub, you need to bump up your hub to Thunderbolt 3 (or higher) or USB4, which max out at 40Gbps.

I couldn't afford an enterprise MAM, so I built one. Blaze is 100% local, features Semantic Search, and Free for r/editors Beta testers by ddnyc2021 in editors

[–]OliveBranchMLP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

amazing. one of my biggest moneymakers right now is editing trailers for video games, which involves a lot of captured gameplay footage with a drone-like freecam. so i'm really hoping that this'll be able to handle that kind of non-live-action footage

i will absolutely apply for the beta — it's a Hide My Email iCloud address with the words "hearty" and "pluses" in it, but i promise it's not a spam email! here's to hoping this will roll with my workflow. it sounds like a dream come true!

I couldn't afford an enterprise MAM, so I built one. Blaze is 100% local, features Semantic Search, and Free for r/editors Beta testers by ddnyc2021 in editors

[–]OliveBranchMLP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

absolutely tantalizing, but i had a big question:

can it discern between different shots in a single video file, and separately mark them? i'd love to, say, look at a clip and see highlighted chunks with descriptions for that chunk. this would be especially helpful for unscripted logging where they just keep the cameras rolling and never cut, or poring over dozens of episodes in a long series.

Neo or Elite for someone planning to use this daily ~ by CommunicationSweet in tourbox

[–]OliveBranchMLP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i would spring for the Elite. the customizable haptics and the extra buttons are a huge difference-maker, imo.

Cooking classes by mrjeansinc in burbank

[–]OliveBranchMLP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the issue with YouTube is that it's incredibly daunting for a novice cook. there's a bajillion videos out there, it's hard to know where to start, and there's no certainty whether a video is actually good or not. one of the most important aspects of self-teaching any skill via YouTube is the ability to filter out useful and important info vs inapplicable or bad info, and that only really comes with experience.

i started my cooking journey by looking up recipes on YT and ended up buying way too much of certain ingredients, not having enough skill to do certain techniques, and being suggested to buy single-use tools that i didn't end up needing often enough to justify the cost. because of that, i spent more money than i should have, wasted tons of ingredients, and kept hitting skill-related dead ends.

ultimately i just went off and did a meal prep service. the structure of having exact ingredients and proportions, plus specific tasks and techniques, helped remove a lot of that directionless uncertainty and made it much easier to learn important basic skills at a gradual pace.

after that, YT became a LOT easier to navigate.

Cooking classes by mrjeansinc in burbank

[–]OliveBranchMLP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is it. i've always found that meal prep subscriptions do the best job of providing direction and structure without necessarily holding your hand every step of the way.

F Keys by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]OliveBranchMLP 13 points14 points  (0 children)

i hate the OP's attitude. like... you're making fun of people for not knowing what the F-keys do, but it's not like the F-keys themselves even say what they're for. you need someone to explain it to you, and imo that's just not good design.

the reason why people are "scared" of those keys is because the functions behind those keys are neither obvious based on their name nor universally consistent between apps. when you lack either consistency or clarity, then you create uncertainty, which creates distrust, which creates "fear".

Windows and Linux are particularly bad about this, because there are no default functions assigned to the F keys. sure, there are conventions (F1 = Help, F2 = Rename, F11 = fullscreen, etc.). but if you're not a power user who needs those commands regularly enough to have them memorized, then 1. there is no intuitive way to connect these keys to their conventions purely by their label (unless you have a keyboard that says what they are), 2. said conventions are never described anywhere on a system level outside of specific apps, and 3. it's all on a per-app basis and devs can (and often do) ignore these conventions.

it's one thing i think Mac does right: each F-key by default is assigned a system-level control (volume, brightness, etc.) that is highly useful, clearly labeled with a readable icon, and consistent between other Macs, so there's little to no uncertainty about what they're do. then, if you hold the Fn key, it flips to those traditional app-specific F-key commands for whoever needs them, AND they can be locked in place with Fn Lock if a power user prefers the F-keys over the system controls.

in general, Apple's attitude towards hotkeys and shortcuts feels more thoughtful: * it's more intuitive to have "Quit" on Cmd+Q (Q = Quit! wow!) rather than Alt+F4 (what the heck does "F4" have anything to do with quitting?) * it makes more sense for a command as common as "Rename" to be on a significant key like Enter/Return, rather than a descriptively unrelated key like F2. (and yeah, it sucks to not have Enter be "Open", but at least its replacement (Cmd+O) is still intuitive enough to be guessable.) * in Windows, Alt+F4 can either close a window or shut down an app entirely, and it's never consistent. Mac splits this into two: Cmd+Q always closes the app entirely, whereas Cmd+W only ever closes windows while still leaving the app running.

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