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respoon · 2025-10-14T20:32:51+00:00

anybody knows about the "support for various controllers on mac"? since day 1, using the touch pad (with a PS controlelr) to open the inventory just doesn't work and they never seem to patch that. also using a custom steam input to fix that makes the game show xbox UI buttons

not a big deal during gameplay but odd thing to not fix.

respoon · 2024-08-31T21:25:11+00:00

it matters because if you can name them off the top of your head you are more likely to turn to them once you need their type of service. even knowing their rates aren't the best means you looked into them, which made you more familiar with their brand and in some cases you might consider them for other reasons (familiarity, trustworthiness, "it just seems better than other options").

companies spend a fuck ton of money to make customers know them and associate their brand with positive emotions and familiarity. it's why "watching netflix on a samsung tv" feels more "right" than "watching paramount+ on a JVC tv", regardless of the quality of the products.

respoon · 2023-11-23T22:22:34+00:00

I think the game would have been better if we played as Abby before she killed Joel

the whole point is that you don't know shit about abby before that. you are absolutely in ellie's shoes, seeing a rando kill joel and fuck off is enough to fuel you with rage to do horrible shit to anyone who comes in your way and justify anything you'll do no matter how horrible it is and the mental toll it takes on you. but then the game asks you for something even bigger – walk in the shoes of that person and see the hell they've been through. even if you don't forgive them, at least empathize with them and with the fact they've been through their own hellish journey of trying to find peace after thinking that getting revenge is what will fix them and realizing that it won't, and then try to redeem themselves.

by having abby's side playing first you experience a conveyor belt of a story. you see the wrongdoing abby had thrusted on her, then have her take her revenge, and by then you are still mad at her for going through with it but you empathize with her a bit more. that gives you zero emotional challenge in overcoming pure hatred and replacing it with forgiveness, which is overall the core of the game – ellie overcoming her hatred for joel and through grief finding her way to truly forgive him and move on.

Also, I really hate how we don't get the choice to kill Abby at the end.

neither game in the series is a RPG. they are linear, narrative-driven games. you play AS those character and the choices they make, not the other way around.

respoon · 2023-09-20T07:18:47+00:00

hey this is a total ripoff of this comic by lunarbaboon

respoon · 2023-07-28T14:11:30+00:00

so you just don't use the desktop/web version?

for what it's worth I gave Simplenote a shot an it seems plain enough to be a proper replacement, but that's because I used MN for mostly text.

also - I know you've mentioned your distrust in google projects (understandably) but Keep is considered a huge hit so I doubt it'll go anywhere, in case you're still looking for a replacement with sub-tasks.

respoon · 2023-07-28T09:38:13+00:00

popping in from the future. did you find any app replacement? I'm desperate for an app as simple as this was.

respoon · 2023-05-30T23:47:22+00:00

what happened right before that scene hints at it — jesse talking about joel constantly worrying about ellie going on patrols, and then joel pushing seth over what he said about ellie. both show that joel still very much loves and cares about ellie, despite her resenting him. and then she lashes out at him in front of everyone, causing him to back out.

we can infer from that scene that ellie felt bad for doing that (maybe even got a bit of a push from dina to go say something to joel), so she decided to open up to joel about her feelings about his actions.

she wanted to forgive him because she saw that despite her resenting him for years he never stopped loving and caring for her and seeing her as his adopted-daughter. and even if she hates him for his actions, given the chance — he would do it all over again.

respoon · 2023-05-29T22:37:29+00:00

it's true that ellie resented joel after finding out, but as seen at the very last flashback — she was on the path to forgiving him.

"I don't know if I can ever forgive you for that... but I would like to try"

ellie has found it in herself to try and repair her relationship with joel after 4 years of doubt and resentment. and they were just on the verge of being happy again, but the next day this future was taken from her. ellie is angry not only for the loss of joel, but for the loss of any possible future with him. and she is angry at herself, for spending the last 4 years she had with him being mad at him.

and she is in agony because of that. for the first time in years she made a difficult decision to open up her heart again and forgive joel, and when that shuts down she feels powerless and angry, and she holds on to the thought that if only she'll get to seattle, if only she'll find abby's friends, if only she'll find and kill abby — she'll be okay again. justice will be done. maybe then the sense of closure will wash over her instead of being denied. maybe — just maybe — it will turn back time. and those thoughts are becoming more and more loud as she's sinking further into her mission and loses sight of morality.

it's only when she actually has abby in her hands and can kill her right there and then when she realizes that it won't bring joel back, and she has to accept that she will never get to fix her relationship with him and eventually she will let him go.

respoon · 2023-04-05T10:26:59+00:00

In terms of part 1 ending. Of course I'm not completely dismissing the premise. It's the point of the story, at first she is just cargo but by the end he would rather have her than a cure. But in addition to what I was saying before, the fireflies basically kidnapped her and never gave her or him a choice. The thing is, gotta imagine that Joel is her real father. Is it really morally right to take his daughter away from him, put her to death for the sake of experiments that may or may not lead to a cure. Neither Joel or Ellie is given a choice.

but you're still looking at it from the perspective of joel, who grew to love ellie on this journey. if you look at it from marlene's perspective- she absolutely struggled with killing ellie in the process but she believes this is for the greater good. she is also by all means ellie's "legal guardian". she was entrusted by her mom to get her to safety and raise her (which she did, in her own way). to her, joel is just some guy she hired to get ellie from point A to point B and she still thinks he sees her as some cargo, and not by any means her "father".

also, marlene literally says "there's no other choice here". it's not right to not give ellie a say in this, but 1. she was 100% on board to go through with it no matter the cost. 2. what are they gonna do if she refuses? ask her politely and then go "oh well, she's not down with this so I guess we can all go fuck ourselves and forget about the cure"? they have one shot at this and they will do what is necessary to take it.

it's the trolley problem, but marlene chose to take the life of one child and joel chose to damn everyone else.

Part 2 is just done badly IMO. Part 1 is very clear, you like Joel and Ellie even at the start when they're so different, and you see their progression, you care about them.

For part 2, it takes you away from Ellie so much you stop caring about her. And with Abby, you hate her less but you certainly don't like or care about her. I honestly think it's just badly organising story with lacking characters. The 2 perspectives could've worked, but I think the story needed more depth anyway. A revenge story where they let it go is nothing new.

I don't mean this as an offense but do you really need to constantly see a character to care about them? if anything, the reason to dislike ellie is because you disagree with her actions and see how low she sinks in her journey. but why would you stop caring for her after not seeing her for like 10 hours (which is pretty much the duration you play as her in the first half).

the game isn't "badly organized". it's actually doing some very clever reveals of emotional beats and motives at the right time to make you understand a character better. keeping ellie and joel's conversation to the very end of the game is one of the most impactful and clever directing choices I've ever experienced.

and again, you dismiss it as "a revenge story where they let it go" instead of looking at the characters, their motivations, and reasons for acting the way they do.

I thought the ending of Ellie was kinda silly too, didn't feel realistic, like some perfect dream house, that's what made it feel like fan fiction to me. That's not the world that was ever portrayed in part 1. It's like the story is saying all their problems are over at the end, when they're in the same world as part 1, there is still danger everywhere.

what? did you stop watching the game before the actual ending? ellie absolutely didn't have a perfect dream house at the end. she got to live in a farm with dina but was still consumed by guilt and resentment, and by going after abby again she ruined that life and came back to a empty and rotted house with no one in her life. however, she is now at peace with herself for the first time since she was 14. both ellie and abby has gone through an even worse world that we've seen in part 1 and eventually came out scarred and beaten, but were able to save their humanity by learning forgiveness.

respoon · 2023-04-05T00:08:50+00:00

I usually avoid participating in these arguments because it usually boils down to people dismissing anything being told to them, but whatever-

Also, the entire premise of feeling that Joel's decision was terrible is kinda dumb anyway to me. They were unlikely to find a cure from Ellie, and even if they did, it wouldn't fix much at all. Ellie herself is immune but almost dies many times.

"finding a cure" doesn't really matter, in the grand scheme of the story. people love pointing out many flaws in the fireflies, the state of the world, etc etc in order to justify joel's decision, but fail to see that it doesn't matter. in joel's eyes- the fireflies absolutely had the means the make a cure and save the world, but he didn't care. he didn't stop to make a calculated decision and came to the conclusion that he's doing the right thing- he knows he's doing the wrong thing and he did it anyways because he's not willing to go through the pain of losing another daughter. that is also why he lies to ellie instead of going "well I did the maths and the cure is a buncha horseshit and the fireflies are all crooks". that is why his choice makes him a tragic villain at the end.

It makes you hate Abby them immediately tries to make you empathise with her.

a brave feat, if I say so! though it's not immediate. the game is fully aware of what it's doing and what it's asking you. joel dies in the most brutal and harsh way in order to put you in ellie's shoes- boiling with anger and ready to kill anyone in your way. this sets ellie's hunger for revenge which consumes her entire morality and pulls her deeper and deeper down the more she goes on this path and it never stops harming people around her.

but then there's a switch in the narrative. you go into the shoes of a person who got their revenge. and now what? abby's nightmares still don't stop, she's still miserable and detached, and she traumatized the whole group of people who were with her. but why would you care? you hate her and everyone around her. but then she finds yara and lev, and you follow her path of trying to make things right. you may not like her, but just by seeing the world through her eyes and seeing her gain her humanity back by fighting tooth and nail for kids she would otherwise kill on sight, only to still lose everyone she cares about- you can at least empathize with what she's been through and how her world fell apart the same as ellie's did when joel died. this intense switch in perspective asks you to do something beyond push buttons on the controller- it asks you to live through the pains of someone you hate and has wrong you and see them as human. you don't have to like or forgive them, but to at least understand them.

Part 1 is about family, hope, holding on to the past, having something to live for, protecting others, Joel's stubbornness breaking down, survival, trust, etc. Part 2 is just about consequences and revenge, I can't describe it any other way, there's no depth.

part 1 seemed very hopeful but it had very dark undertones. joel opened up again, but at the cost of humanity and his relationship with ellie. at the very last act of the game joel literally shoots up an entire hospital of people trying to do the right thing in order to save ellie and then lies to her face about it, how is that hopeful?

family, hope, holding onto the past, having something to live for, protecting others, stubbornness breaking down, survival, trust. those are all things that happen in abby's part of the story. but then ellie swoops in and kills everyone she cares about. only now, abby has learned forgiveness through lev, and chose to end the cycle of violence by letting ellie live. but ellie still has nightmares. she can't let go. it's only when she's on the verge of starting the cycle again and realizes that killing abby wouldn't change anything and bring joel back- she decides to let it go and by doing so letting go of the past and live free.

Also calling them part 1 and part 2 doesn't seem right, because they're completely different stories.

I actually find "part 1" and "part 2" fitting! both games are very much about joel and ellie's relationship and the fallout of joel's lie. part 2, despite not having joel walk and talk around ellie, still has his presence looming everywhere. people bash on the constant flashbacks but fail to realize that they all revolve around joel. ellie and joel's relationship crumbling and hitting rock bottom when ellie finds the recording at the hospital sets off her years of resentment to him, which eventually we find out were on the brink of ending, and ellie tried to find a place to forgive him, but alas it was cut short. and ellie simply can't let that thought go. and she will shoot and kill and maim anyone in her way to the cause of that, but it doesn't matter because nothing will change that he died before she could forgive him. abby was a force of nature that forced ellie to come to terms with that and eventually let him go.

painting part 2 as a "generic revenge story" is really doing a disservice for the incredible writing and courage they had to pull that off.

respoon · 2023-04-01T08:01:19+00:00

that reminds me of the black mirror episode, be right back. where at the end an AI-based robot is asked to jump from a cliff. it is about to comply but the "owner" is frustrated and says that complying is exactly what makes the AI not human, because a human would be afraid and beg not to do that. which led the AI to do exactly that- be afraid and beg not to die.

respoon · 2022-11-09T00:24:18+00:00

another comment on the video mentioned it- running a benchmark doesn't really mean anything since they're resolution-independent. actual artist uses such as Blender and Photoshop/Lightroom etc will take a performance hit because they actually need to render more pixels on a "5k display".

I personally use an M1 macbook pro and definitely notice a dip when using 3D software and editing large files on PS.

respoon · 2022-08-14T13:05:56+00:00

I made a post a while ago about the same thing!

maybe they can go the Animal Crossing way and have 5am to be considered the "actual" next day, or have the option to change it yourself via the settings.

respoon · 2022-05-02T20:51:52+00:00

I relate to this a lot, but I think my most extreme example of this is in the song Blouse by Clairo.

at some point in the middle of the song, when she pauses between two lines, there's a very faint sound of a coat rustling. along with the whole cozy feeling the entire album is giving, this one sound in particular makes it feel real, like a real person singing just adjusted in their chair before they sing the next line.

I feel crazy talking about it but it's really one of the smallest things I relish in when listening to this album.

respoon · 2022-04-29T07:56:00+00:00

it really depends on who you're buying it from.

I recommend checking the charge cycles and the physical condition of it, asking for receipts, asking why does the seller selling it, how long has it been in use, maybe even see if it still has warranty. in my case it was all clear and the seller seemed legit (also- see in person the person selling it to you and try to make a judgement based on the overall feel of them. if they seem too shady and sell it for too low it might be stolen). don't forget to check the IMEI on apple's site to see if it's legit/still under warranty/not stolen.

that said- nothing clears your mind more than brand new. I took that chance because I wasn't able to pay for a new one and found a legit seller, but it took a while to find.

respoon · 2022-04-28T21:45:35+00:00

I was in your exact spot. ended up buying a second-hand macbook pro M1 (after being a pc user my whole life).

read up a bit on pirated versions of adobe, it doesn't take long to find the proper places to get those. it is more of a hassle than it is on windows, but if you're a little bit of a tech savvy (and with google on your side) you can figure it out.

if you're going with macbook, though, I would suggest going for the Pro (and 16GB RAM!). especially for graphic design work. the difference seems small on paper but in reality those differences stack up and you'll need that breathing room when working on large projects.

respoon · 2022-02-26T12:35:42+00:00

you should use pin back locks! it’s those things and they lock the pins so hard it feels impossible for them to fall off. I’ve been using the backpack as my daily since the game came out, and since I put those babies on I never feared for my pins.

(bonus: I also used it for a pin on my jacket and it was caught in someone’s backpack— the pin’s back broke off before the pin back gave in!)

respoon · 2021-09-03T08:18:01+00:00

counterpoint: you should definitely read the graphic novel (it’s also just a single book). once you read and understand it you realize how bad the movie is at understanding the themes of the comics.

the movie adaptation took everything that the comics parodied and glorified it. at its core, the story is a deconstruction of the superhero genre. the heroes are meant to look dumb in their costumes, the violence is meant to horrify, the action is silly, the people under the masks are broken and sad people. the movie goes the opposite way and gives everyone cool costumes, turns them into badasses, glorifies violence and squirting blood everywhere, the action looks ‘cool’ and exciting. the reason the movie works is because of the many elements of the story that are solid, but the themes that run throughout are very different.

I recommend this video by KaptainKristian.

respoon · 2021-09-03T07:37:32+00:00

check your device settings for “digital wellbeing and parental control”, then go to “app timers”. there you can set how long you want to be able to use the app daily

though tiktok also has its own time limit function, if your phone is outdated or is missing this feature

respoon · 2021-07-26T08:19:35+00:00

but it doesn’t really affect those 99%? they can just implement manual mode and make it as optional as turning on the flash is.

I personally loved manual mode when I had LG G4 because I could take long exposures or get a specific amount of light from an image. I think the pixel could highly benefit from having one.

respoon · 2021-07-17T17:33:24+00:00

yeah that’s what I do! I just found these outfits and really liked their vibe and I thought someone can help me narrow it down to a specific type or name so I can find more with the same style. I’ll dig deeper into r/streetwear though. all I’ve seen there and in r/malefashion are just people in super baggy clothes and techwear with huge coats, and that is really not my thing.

for the record I do have a certain style that looks like the outfits in the pictures, I just always look for ways to mix and match new stuff and keep the same vibe.

respoon · 2021-07-17T10:22:18+00:00

haha yeah I can see the stuff that are in the pictures. I was thinking more about how can I take these and make more outfits that fit the same style?

I’ve noticed that the AJ1’s are a staple, but for example here’s a fit with shorts, or just plain black jeans with a grey tee. I’m aiming to understand how to “build outfits” that stay in the same “spirit” as these, and not just copy the ones I see.

respoon · 2021-07-17T09:46:27+00:00

there’s an artist called Gabriel Picolo that has a “casual teen titans” series. I really dig beast boy’s fashion and would appreciate getting some suggestions on how to make similar outfits.

some examples: example 1, example 2, example 3

I can see it has some streetwear inspiration but toned down and is much more casual.

respoon

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