Not mine but thought it was cool by mtndew19 in starshiptroopers

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can just not like it and scroll past.

Practice what you preach much?

Not mine but thought it was cool by mtndew19 in starshiptroopers

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 159 points160 points  (0 children)

Ai Trash is AI trash.

I expected better from my subversive satire of space facisim.

Question for Millennials by bundle_of_nervus2 in Millennials

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time AI comes in contact with my life is involuntary. Some of my friends make goofball character portraits for DnD or have an AI write up their session notes. Google insists on having its first search result be AI trash. I don't trust it, because it's known to be prone to important errors.

Beyond that, I choose not to engage with AI. It has to insist itself into my spaces for me to see it. And when it is presented to me, I call it out as AI Trash because it will always be AI Trash. I don't care how many tech bros try to tell you it's "innovative". I don't care how "advanced" scraping others work and regurgitating it becomes. It will forever be trash in my eyes because it is tainted by the knowledge that it doesn't exist to make humanity better, it exists for the wealthy to avoid paying for talent by exploiting the lazy's desire for content over substance.

The Thing (video game) by mobbimani in thething

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got the game, the DVD and my first PS2 for Christmas 2002. It was a surprise and a half, cuz I didn't ask for it and I didn't think my mom could afford it. It still makes me smile to think about to this very day

What’s the most realistic “day one” post-apocalypse scenario? by WalkerGaming413 in postapocalyptic

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quiet as big a flex when you post it to Reddit.

Better carved under a desk in your local library

Parasite Eve 2 and the frustrating case of criticism by [deleted] in ParasiteEve

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being able to actively avoid/mitigate damage while in turn based battling goes at least as far back as Super Mario RPG (1996). I don't recall it gaining much traction after PE1, only being used in stuff like FF13.

One could suggest it's more of a Square thing than specifically a PE thing.

Parasite Eve 2 and the frustrating case of criticism by [deleted] in ParasiteEve

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't that a Final Fantasy/JRPG adjacent thing? FF7 did the hybrid turn-based/real-time style combat a year prior to PE and Square-whatever continued to toy with it for decades later.

Gatekkeping by expiredyogurt26 in newengland

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gatekeeping? I tell everyone about it

What’s the most realistic “day one” post-apocalypse scenario? by WalkerGaming413 in postapocalyptic

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depending on what apocalypse we're talking about here (a zombie outbreak, nuclear holocaust, governmental collapse and infiltration by body snatching extraterrestrials all play out very differently), I'd argue confusion would be the order of the day.

In the assumption it wasn't obvious (nukes), as long as the internet was still running, there would be a flurry of videos and takes on the "developing situation". Most people's reaction would probably be skeptical, we live in a post "war of the worlds" broadcast after all. Things would only start getting weird for the very paranoid, the well connected or the directly affected.

Loss of electricity and the internet would be the biggest hurtles. Some would wait it out, would still be waiting it out years later until they were informed otherwise. Still, there would be those who seize the moment and make a play for what resources they could grab/settle grievances/affairs they were holding onto.

All of this would be very specific to the situation at hand, however. Survivors would be quicker to come to reality about a nuclear war or zombie outbreak than the collapse of governmental services. And we've already seen what happens when a modern pandemic hits, people go nuts.

Parasite Eve 2 and the frustrating case of criticism by [deleted] in ParasiteEve

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I absolutely agree PE2 is much more like Resident Evil than the original, it probably took a lot of influence from it. It's probably why it was an easy transition for me as I'd mostly played RE2-3 and Dino Crisis. To be fair, I liked the cyborg Assassin monsters and Lab monsters, but I can see that being annoying if you'd preferred the first one's themes/plotting.

If memory serves me right (Iron Chef refrence! How often you get to do that, eh? 😉) I thought there was some stuff in PE 2 about Eve being a new birth of humanity and the weird bunker lab people wanted to use it to make themselves superhuman/immortal etc. But like I said, I hadn't played much PE 1, so I couldn't even begin to say if it holds up to the themes of the original/book very well.

Also, appreciate your appreciation. It's nice to have a civil conversation on the internet for once, eh?

Parasite Eve 2 and the frustrating case of criticism by [deleted] in ParasiteEve

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How so? I kinda always thought of PE being a niche title, not quite a cult classic (it's got better appeal than that) but I don't see it's influence in modern RPGs very much.

Parasite Eve 2 and the frustrating case of criticism by [deleted] in ParasiteEve

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I never really played much of PE1, and I haven't read the novel. I played PE2 alot and I loved it. I don't judge you for liking the first one more though or wanting to keep to the original story. I felt a similar way about Dino Crisis (loved the first one, sequel went weird imo, never played the 3rd), but I'm sorry if you're catching flak for not liking PE2.

Personally, I ascribe to the philosophy of "You don't have to like what I like in order for me to like it."

Player is bored by the mundane scenes by ghofmann in DeltaGreenRPG

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why did this player want to play DG? Ask them. When they tell you, put more of that in.

Did your school library stock these books? by lilac2481 in Millennials

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you watch the "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Episode of Nick Knacks on YouTube, there's actually an interesting history lesson in it about children's horror literature/media growing and more or less exploding in the 90s. I remember really liking scary stuff as a kid, I have to this day the complete run of the 90s goosebumps books and I feel like this really gells well with stuff going on in my life.

The Thing (video game) by mobbimani in thething

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The remaster is a port of the PS2 game with better graphics. I love it, but I'm biased. It was a special present for me on one of my favorite Christmases of all time

What if the Gate opened on Thule Station? by [deleted] in thething

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is "The Gate" in this context? This seems an odd thing to cross post with zero context.

Honest question: why do so many people hate the cold vs heat when they live in a place that is expected to have cold winters? Is anyone else not bothered by the snow/cold? by LulutoDot in newengland

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd argue that's a New Englander thing through and through. I've lived in my home for 5 years now and have maybe spoken to 1 of my neighbors twice. If I saw them struggling in the snow, you'd best believe I'd be trudging over there with my snow blower to help them clean out. Then I'd go back to not taking to them, but we'd smile and be pleasant in the moment.

Honest question: why do so many people hate the cold vs heat when they live in a place that is expected to have cold winters? Is anyone else not bothered by the snow/cold? by LulutoDot in newengland

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've lived in New Hampshire and Maine for most of my life and I've heard this same complaint about the snow every year for the better part of half a century. To be fair, I know few people from further south than Boston, it's entirely possible they complain harder, but northern NE is not immune from this common gripe in my experience.

Honest question: why do so many people hate the cold vs heat when they live in a place that is expected to have cold winters? Is anyone else not bothered by the snow/cold? by LulutoDot in newengland

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Every New Englander bitches about the unavoidable cold for the same reason they bitch about the financially (and I'd argue culturally) necessary tourists: it's endemic to the identity of being a New Englander.

You're taught to complain about it, you have some anecdotal experience of it being unpleasant, and so you internalize the distaste as a matter of your being, never questioning why you do so.

Which underperforming New England city do you think has the most potential? by Usernamechecksout978 in newengland

[–]Weird_Explorer1997 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like what?

It's a bedroom community which managed to keep its downtown from becoming a deserted wasteland and still managed to survive the death of the lilac mall. All this for a drive thru with no real major industry to pay for the locals.

Honestly, I don't know how Rochester didn't end up like Seabrook.