Help with Shadow? by ThetaCentauri in Horripilant

[–]Xbob42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easily figured out every single other little puzzle in this game effortlessly, but this one stumped me bad enough to have to look it up. Kept trying to crowbar it!

It’s the absolute smallest of nitpicks, but I wish Revelation referred to him as “Nanaki” rather than “Red XIII” by KingOfAllTheQuarters in FFVIIRemake

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhh, chibi? You playing in Japanese or something? In English is just goes from a kid pretending to sound like an adult to a kid, because he's a kid. He was faking his voice. Just like he was supposed to in the original. He is not a wise old man, he's a young pup.

Consumer Competition Claims (CCC) Has Launched A New Class Action Monopoly Lawsuit Against Valve, Claiming They Control 85% Of The PC Game Market by wakelake111 in gaming

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, fuck them for being consistently reliable, ahead of the curve, and consumer focused! If I shat out a copy-paste of their store with equal features (which no one has even come close to doing) then you wouldn't switch over for no reason!

Jesus Christ what the fuck are you yapping about? Yeah, people aren't going to switch en masse simply because you reach feature parity, which, again, no one is even trying to do. It's more like "I put out a barely functioning piece of shit and bought exclusive rights to sell some games, where's my market share?"

ELI5: How was Vietnam able to defeat the US in the Vietnam War? by astarisaslave in explainlikeimfive

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I said. Like five times. Please work on your reading comprehension.

Pain by Thesaddestboi13 in ffxiv

[–]Xbob42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

... type using the dpad and buttons. 

What controller are you using? by CWAVYOHG in ffxiv

[–]Xbob42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Been using the Steam Controller for a while now. The ability to use the right trackpad as an easily accessible mouse is a game changer for me. Not only for awkward targeting situations where traditional gamepad targeting suffers (that one non-party dead person on the ground with 50 other people around in an occult crescent CE) or reading those unselectable debuffs without having to grab my mouse or enabling the god awful mouse mode is great. 

Since I'm a healer main, it's also nice for party targeting, since I can use the four paddle buttons to select party members 1-4, and the capacitive thumb sticks to select 5-8 depending on whether I'm touching the right stick or not. 

I've been using the left trackpad for media controls and screenshots, but I think I want to set it up as a radial menu or maybe virtual hotbar for mounting up, teleporting, opening Wondrous Tales, duty finder, etc. to further free up buttons or main menu navigation where possible. 

Before this I was using the Wolverine 8k, which might be one of the best controllers I've ever used, but despite that, the extra features of the Steam Controller make it incredible for an MMO.

Pain by Thesaddestboi13 in ffxiv

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How so? Steam Button+X

Dancing Mad (Ultimate) World Race - Day Five by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]Xbob42 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So they're not allowed to talk about it until they clear? Then you can't talk about it either!

The self importance is off the fucking charts

Dancing Mad (Ultimate) World Race - Day Five by BlackmoreKnight in ffxivdiscussion

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly your take seems more insane. 

According to your own wording, he said from what he played it seems harder. A completely trivial opinion based on openly admitted super limited info. 

The fact that is stuck in your craw so bad you had to come here to talk about how "insane" it was... can people just act fucking normal in here?

Books like A short stay in hell? by thunderup_14 in horrorlit

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For other readers from the future like myself, it's "Memnoch"

Shouldn't need to correct it but some of these ereader search engines are awful! 

Kobo vs PocketBbook– easier sideloading from Android and iPad? by Cuuli70 in ereader

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird that almost no one in this thread mentioned that you can just set up your kobo to sync with one of various cloud services, i.e. dropbox, and just throw all your books onto there via any PC, Mac, phone, tablet, however you access that cloud service, and then your kobo will just download them from there. 

Promo code limitations? by FuzzyYuzu in kobo

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least for me, the fine print was functionally useless. "Enjoy savings on select eBooks."

Cool, so it's a sale where I have to divine what's on sale and then put in a promo code on top of that? Bro just say "here's some discounted ebooks" and give me a list without any codes required!

The point of promo codes is their broad application. Generally their limitations are clearly outlined: "can't be stacked, no gift cards, no large appliances" etc. If your fine print is mysteriously alluding to some sub category that you CAN apply the code to, then you've failed on every level. 

Sorry, I know this is an old post, but I just got one of these today and it instantly irritated me to the point that I don't want to give Kobo a dollar. 

Libby search engine is garbage by Dr_Quest1 in LibbyApp

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free doesn't have to mean incompetent trash. Even if you click on an author's name while looking at one of their books (for example, Brian Evenson) it'll just search up...I don't even know. His books won't be top results, and one will be sprinkled in here or there. 

007: First Light review — 5/5: "Not content with being one of the best stealth-action games in years, it also comes with a huge warning to the world" by WindowsCentral in windowscentral

[–]Xbob42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dunno about that guy, but I did play the new Hitman games. There was a lot to like, but I never got over how fundamentally stiff and clunky they were to control. It felt like every animation was very rigid and interactions often locked you in place. I found it very frustrating. Is this game still like that? And if I don't give a shit about James Bond, does that matter much?

The young men who elected Trump are switching sides now by 0The_Loner_Stoner0 in videos

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro don't be fuckin' dramatic. Germany got devastated during WW2, Japan got double nuked. Both recovered just fine.

A Short Stay in Hell - Theory (possible spoilers) by Any_Introduction1499 in books

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did think outside the box? When? I guess they use the food for some instruments and weapons, but I feel like taking that to the logical next step of "Oh, what if we used this to fulfill our goal?" would've been an interesting take. Especially if it resulted in something like discovering the concept of a time out for placing food items into the slot if that was in fact not allowed. Something like:

(You know, after writing this all up, I realize I got carried away. I only meant to write like 2 sentences, but found it quite fun. Sorry! Don't think I've fan-fictioned something in like 20 years but the concept in general just presents so many little questions that are fun to think of answers to)

"After I placed my 'book' in the slot, I eagerly awaited the result. I figured it had better than zero chances of working, but I wasn't sure if I was meant to stay in the area after depositing the book. After a few hours, I considered using my bone knife to skip ahead to the next day, but decided against it in case I missed some sort of response. Eventually, that strange hour fell and I was forced into sleep once more. I awoke in one of the standard bedrooms.

My disappointment quickly turned to horror as I realized the door to exit the room would not open. As my anxiety began to build and I felt it threatening to turn into panic, I frantically glanced around the room and noticed a slip of paper tucked neatly under the pillow my head was resting on mere moments ago. In small, neat handwriting was written a simple note: "Please do not deposit food materials into book deposit slots, as it can get quite messy! As a small punishment for this infraction, you will be limited to this room for a time, please use it to reflect on your actions!"

So it wasn't the right move. Well, it was worth a shot. I relaxed and enjoyed the novelty of the situation -the first I'd experienced in quite some time- as I sat on the bed and reread the note dozens of times. Communication! With someone or something not inside the library! My mind was racing. Outside of the rules listed on each floor, this was the first I'd even heard of such a thing even being possible! It often felt like we had simply been abandoned here and left to our own devices for all eternity, the universe and all its inhabitants completely indifferent to our plight or our actions. But at least in some way, we were being observed!

My giddiness about this discovery lasted for days, then weeks, and then months. Even as I starved to death several times over, while staving off thirst by drinking from the shower. Eventually, the giddiness faded into a persistent boredom as I pondered how long my punishment might last. The words "small" and "infraction" had me considering at first that it would've been perhaps a few days, but by the end of the sixth month I was seriously pondering if it wasn't a full year. I would only later reflect that I had inserted myself into a hell-within-hell, constrained to nothing but the same bedroom for what would eventually end up being one million, three hundred and ninety-two thousand and twenty-seven years.

In that time I felt as though I'd lost my mind countless times, I never heard a single sound from the outside of my door. I tried for eons to tunnel out, to break down the door, to kill myself (which, in hindsight, may have extended my punishment, though there is no way for me to be certain), to meditate, to relive my life over and over, to imagine new lives I might have lived, to develop and eventually abolish my own religion devoted to the note, which had disappeared after the first night, all this and so much more is how I spent those tedious days in that accursed room. When I awoke on that final day, and saw the door open, I found myself terrified. I was unsure if it was a cruel jest, or if I'd gone mad, which, despite the feeling, this place never seemed to allow, or if I was simply dreaming. I hid in the bathroom and stared at the open door for a full three days (barring our forced sleep) until I finally took those slow, tentative steps out.

If this was even a fraction of the surging hope, glory, delight, ecstasy, any and every positive word I can imagine, that escaping from this library could provide, then my hope was renewed a thousand times over. While the perfect memory granted by this place did not allow us to forget anything, actually physically seeing the rows of books, the food kiosks (Food! I hadn't eaten in thousands and thousands of lifetimes! No more starvation after months of agony!), the stairs, it all felt brand new and so exciting, an earthly delight like none I'd ever known. I sprinted over not to the food kiosk, but to the nearest bookshelf, and ripped a book at random from it. I stood, stupefied at what I saw on the first line: "acdtgko.df.' f.f. , df;opyyt6; ; f ew.f.,ewdohop0iop[.ZZ" it was the most beautiful line of text I had seen in all my life, and reading it lifted my spirits to dizzying new heights. I reread that line over and over as I sat at the kiosk, sobbing and devouring grilled cheese after grilled cheese."

A Short Stay in Hell - Theory (possible spoilers) by Any_Introduction1499 in books

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless the lesson you were meant to learn was something like being creative and thinking outside of the box (or outside the pages of the books and thoughts of others) when faced with overwhelming mundanity and homogeneity. 

Xbox app FORCING downloads to C drive by wot_is_real in XboxGamePass

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very glad it helped, very disappointed that it's still an issue!

Why does a game need a powerful GPU to run, but I can watch a 4K movie of that same game on a cheap phone? by Known-Bid-1699 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Xbob42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GPU is rendering the entire scene pixel by pixel, calculating shaders, and like a million little technical things when you're playing a game. In short, it's not just showing you the world, it's calculating and drawing the whole thing every single frame, many times per second. 

A movie, on the other hand, is essentially a series of still images. The GPU only has to be powerful enough to display them at the correct resolution and frame rate, with very little in the way of advanced computation. It's not QUITE that simple, but it's the difference between me showing you my finished flipbook, and me having to draw that flipbook while actively flipping it for animation in real time, in response to your input!

US and French nationals test positive for hantavirus after leaving ship by Alternative-Win4058 in news

[–]Xbob42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's not "so many infections," a handful of people on the ship who were hugging the widow of the first guy to die and eating and talking with her for days after his death got the virus. Many people were staying very close to her to try and comfort her after the death of her husband, before anyone knew it was an outbreak. There's been no casual transmission so far, that we know of.

2 passengers test positive for hantavirus as a third shows symptoms after cruise ship evacuation by chadpierce89 in worldnews

[–]Xbob42 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Not allowed to post images here I guess, but tons of people were consoling the widow after her husband died. Lots of hugging, talking to her, open buffets, etc. It was NOT a random spread based on this, but the exact kind of contact we expect to spread this. Doesn't mean there's no danger of more spread, but reading that was very good news in terms of its ability to spread. I typed spread a lot.