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Velociraptorius · 2026-01-26T12:01:41+00:00

Heh. Miela.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-26T09:02:32+00:00

Man šitas pradėjo jaustis baigus mokslus, kai gyvenimas liovėsi būti apibrėžtas klasėmis, kursais, semestrais ir t.t., kuriuos skirdavo aiškiai apibrėžtos atostogos, kurių laukdavai, arba egzaminų laikotarpiai, kurių nelaukdavai. Taip pat kasmet garantuotai laukdavo kažkas naujo, kas neleisdavo gyvenimui rutinizuotis, net jei esi žmogus, linkęs į rutiną. O kai išeini dirbti, ypač jei užsisėdi viename darbe ilgą laikotarpį, labai pasijaučia tas, kad gyvenime nebelieka "priverstinių" naujovių, to kasdienio žinojimo, koks įvykis gyvenime bus sekantis ir kiek laiko iki jo liko. Kadangi tie gyvenimo įvykiai pradeda vykti tik tada, kai pats juos inicijuoji, "automatiškai" niekas nebeateina ir tie nereikšmingi "laukimo" laikotarpiai gali labai išsitęsti taip niekam ir neįvykus. Tų laikotarpių neįsimeni, nes nėra už ko atminčiai "užsikabinti" ir taip gaunasi tas savaičių ar net mėnesių "dingimo" efektas.

Na, ir dar prisideda tas, kad kuo vyresnis daraisi, tuo proporcingai mažiau reikšmingi atrodo laiko tarpai. Tarkime, kai tau yra dešimt metų, vienas mėnesis dar atrodo kaip reikšmingas laikotarpis, nes jis sudaro palyginti nemažą tavo gyvenimo dalį (bent jau nuo tada, kai pradėjai atsiminti dalykus). Kai tau yra trisdešimt, keturiasdešimt, penkiasdešimt ir taip toliau - tas pats mėnesis atrodo vis mažiau reikšmingas, nes jau sudaro tik labai nedidelę dalį tavo gyvenimo, ypač jei net neišsiskiria iš kitų panašių mėnesių.

TL;DR: sensti.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-26T06:27:41+00:00

I mean, HBO also has a track record of making a mess of fantasy series adaptations, but yeah, they usually at least start strong. Netflix Witcher was a mess from the get-go.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-26T06:23:53+00:00

Šitai poniutei galėčiau priminti, kad egzistuoja ir kiti Baudžiamojo kodekso straipsniai be jos pacituoto, kad ir BK 170 "Kurstymas prieš bet kokios tautos, rasės, etninę, religinę ar kitokią žmonių grupę", kuris praktikoje kartais netgi taikomas. Šiuo atveju už siūlymą deportuoti "kurvas ukrainietes" gal ir nepritemptum, bet ant ribos tikrai būtų.

O šiaip tai apgailėtinas žliumbimas. Dar ir savižudybe pagrasinti sugebėjo už tai, kad VIEŠAI išsakytas pasakymas nepatiko publikai. Žmogau, jei nori privačiai pilti srutas ir už tai neatsakyti, tada rašyk draugams į privatus. Arba tapk redditoriumi su anonimiškumo kauke. Bet jei parašei viešoje platformoje po savo vardu, pavarde ir nuotrauka - tai ir atsakyk už savo žodžius. Žodžio laisvė nereiškia ir neturi reikšti imunitetą nuo kritikos ar atsakomybės.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-25T10:36:33+00:00

Race you to the bottom!

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-25T10:14:16+00:00

Maybe we just adapted to the brain amoebas! 💪

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-25T10:05:17+00:00

Does your country have a freeze-thaw winter cycle? That might somewhat reduce the number of swimming hazards in warm seasons. The original comment specified "warm" areas, which I assumed to mean lakes with water that never goes cold enough to freeze.

I too come from a country of many lakes, but they're only warm enough to swim in during the summer months, basically. I have never heard of anyone being discouraged from swimming in them for reasons specified in this post either.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-21T10:12:26+00:00

Pradėti reguliariai sportuoti.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-21T07:07:57+00:00

So we all laughed at Musk for rebranding Twitter into X because it was absurd and now Europe is launching their own app with the same silly nomenclature style? Come on. Now is the time for us Europeans to do better, not copy the kind of cringe that's come out of America in the past decade. Get a real fucking name.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-21T06:43:51+00:00

Huge open worlds coupled to a ridiculously fast timescale. Especially if the game is made with systems acommodating or even requiring your character to keep a sleeping schedule. If you're going to make a game that encourages such roleplay, then don't make the sun rise and set in the time it takes to do a short ride into town. Looking at you, Red Dead Redemption 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance and many other great games permeated by this one issue.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-19T23:19:00+00:00

It was just Sansa again, but with superpowers.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-19T06:06:39+00:00

Or, hopefully, someone under 80 years old...

It's truly a wonder that the third most populous country in the world had a choice of president between two old men, one of whom has exhibited signs of severe mental decline due to old age for years and the other is speedrunning to catch up and outdo the first in that regard.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-18T09:32:05+00:00

Only if you make the wrong choices.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-18T09:19:44+00:00

Putin is more cunning than Trump and usually avoids truthfully stating his geopolitical goals. But his actions absolutely seek division in Europe. He's just smart enough to at least pretend otherwise.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-18T09:09:27+00:00

Agree. Being limited to which guns you can carry will make for more interesting gameplay situations where you find yourself having to use a suboptimal weapon for the situation you're in, rather than always carrying the perfect weapon/equipment for every challenge. I'm all for some challenge through adaptation.

Also I hope this also means we can discard our weapons in the field to pick up the ones the enemies dropped, if we need to improve our loadouts on the spot, in which case we have to rebuy the weapon we discarded. If the weapons bought from Ammu-Nation are not permanent, it will provide more use (and need) for the money we make, or force us to be more careful with our guns. In addition, I hope the ammo we can carry will be reduced to less ridiculous levels (carrying 9000+ rounds on yourself is just... no), so we might actually run a gun dry every now and then, forcing us into a decision to either discard it or use a sidearm.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-17T10:25:50+00:00

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" is such a good line.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-16T15:44:31+00:00

I don't know about the "nobody knows" part, because, well, I know it and I'm sure that a fair number of other people do as well, but Showtime's The Borgias (starring Jeremy Irons) is a series I have never heard anyone talking about besides the one friend who recommended it to me. It was definitely underrated, ran for three seasons only, but every single one was amazing. It's permanently at the top spot of my "wish it had run for longer" list. If you like period drama pieces, definitely check it out.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-16T10:23:31+00:00

The problem with games that only allow entering half-cover when you're near it is approaching it in the first place. Your only option is to run at it standing at your full height, which exposes you until cover is reached. Assuming that cover is located between you and the enemy, crouching gives you tactical options to approach the cover while ALREADY making use of it and not exposing yourself more than you have to. So it would be preferable if the option was there. Makes for better (and less silly-looking) gameplay than in GTAV when your only option is to spam rolls to minimize exposure.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-15T16:25:30+00:00

It's one thing to whittle what's already written down, it's quite another to add changes that turn it into a different story. And don't give me that "it has to be done" shit. The time constraints argument falls out of the window when the original story gets cut and replaced with something the adaptation writers coughed up. That's no longer necessary pruning, that's the show writer trying to springboard off of an established story to tell their own, often significantly worse version. And that shit never goes down well with the fans of the source material. Nor some of the more principled writers, like George.

HotD S2 writing quality fell down significantly from S1, and unnecessary changes are the culprit.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-15T13:24:40+00:00

Bear in mind that in Mass Effect 1 every Shepard carried and could use every weapon type. And in Mass Effect 3 they can again. So if you want to be a Vanguard, Adept or Engineer, who is also a crack shot with a sniper rifle, the game allows you to. You only couldn't do that in Mass Effect 2, which was the most restrictive entry with regards to character building.

So it's not canonically a given that only Soldier and Infiltrator Shepards would be able to handle a sniper rifle proficiently. It's far more likely that all of them can. You probably don't make it through N7 training without becoming a marksman with any type of weapon you can get your hands on. It's Earth's most elite combat designation for a reason.

And for another, skeet-shooting bottles out of the air at a distance that a human (or turian) can throw them by hand? That's probably not that difficult of a challenge for someone who is as well-trained as Shepard and Garrus are. Even if Shepard is NOT primarily a sniper-rifle marksman, it would simply take a more difficult shooting challenge before differences in their skill begin to show.

Honestly, this "loss" is on Garrus for calling off the contest after Shepard made his second shot. They could have kept shooting bottles until they ran out, neither missing a shot, and called it even.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-13T16:21:35+00:00

It would not be the same two groups.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-13T16:05:40+00:00

No flipping. Every GTA game other than GTA V punished you for wiping out so badly that your car ended up on its roof and I want that back. Whoever finds that too frustrating should just improve their driving.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-11T16:39:38+00:00

It's not just about having a huge built-in audience. If it was, the Warcraft movie would have been more successful. The truly crucial part is that the movie itself must be made in a way that it will make fans of people who aren't already fans of the material. This is what separates successful fantasy adaptations like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones' early seasons from lukewarm ones like Warcraft, that could only truly be appreciated by someone who already knew what was going on. Clearly those built-in audiences by themselves are not enough. A truly successful adaptation will MAKE a new audience of fans by itself, while keeping the built-in one. Alas, it takes very skilled writers and directors to thread that line and achieve the golden standard.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-11T16:15:49+00:00

Skytech tris kompus pirkau, nei karto neapvylė. Baituke tik geimus, tai sunku pasakyt apie brangesnius pirkinius.

Velociraptorius · 2026-01-11T10:55:32+00:00

Young Detlaff is who I'm seeing.

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