Okami_No_Rei

joined 1 year ago
[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been playing Hollow Knight this week. Working on Pantheon 5 for the last achievement. Made it to Traitor Lord last night. Best run yet!

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I played it on 360 and again on the Steam release.

It's a better Skyrim, and shares a lot of Skyrim's flaws. Good combat, fun builds, and way too much to do. It was supposed to be an MMO but got cut down to a single player game, so there's boatloads of content stretched over a massive map.

I still go back and play it every now and then. It's fun.

I have the remaster, but haven't touched it yet.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I, too, will still be playing Factorio.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Also playing Factorio.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago

I think the joke is that it's a rating rather than a sample.

So this doctor gets 1* reviews vs the 4.5* doctors.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Swordcane.

I like light, fast weapons with dex builds, and it's the coolest transform out of the starter weapons.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Definitely Corruption of Champions. I still have a copy I fire up every now and then.

The sequel is alright as well, but doesn't quite scratch the same itch.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.

That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies.

You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not.

You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."

  • Hub, Secondhand Lions (2003)
[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

The ball was a colorless wireframe. Color wasn't necessary for the scenario.

The person was genderless. Gender wasn't necessary for the scenario. They looked like a wire frame skeleton of a person.

The ball was roughly the size and density of the smallest size bowling ball.

Table surface was circular wireframe with four legs. Material wasn't filled in as I wasn't trying to model for friction.

My imagination doesn't tend to fill in unnecessary details. Too much wasted processing power. I also don't really envision things. Like, I don't "see" them in my head. I feel out the shapes and weights and other physical properties relevant to the scenario and let my intuitive understanding of physics roll the scenario forward.

Like, I know the ball rolled until it fell off the table, it fell some distance, then bounced off the floor three or four times with a sharp crack, as I filled in that the floor was concrete as soon as I needed to know how it would bounce, and the sound it would make filled in naturally from there.

I genuinely don't know whether how I think qualifies as aphantasia. I don't really imagine visual stimuli, but my imagination is very thorough for sound and feel.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooh. I've heard of Frostpunk and Tropico but never played them myself. If they're similar to Rimworld I need to check them out.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Rimworld is a great Colony Sim if you love the idea of Dwarf Fortress but want a gameplay experience that's much more accessible with a much softer learning curve.

It plays into the chaotic post apocalyptic Mad Max style hellscape fantasy really well, and does not attempt to police your morality. You can love and care for your colonists, meeting their needs and growing to know them as individual people with their own unique stories, or you can play as efficiently or sadistically as you like, throwing ethics out the window and following the Geneva Suggestions wherever you deem prudent.

The base game is good for hundreds of hours of play, and expansions bump that up to thousands of hours of fun, but it also has a very healthy modding community if that's still not enough.

If you're unfamiliar with the Colony Sim genre, the basic idea is that you start with a set of semi-randomized colonists on a randomized map and need to build up a functioning Colony to survive. You the player take the role of a manager or overlord and set tasks for your colonists to complete, which they then take time to carry out while you watch and plan the next set of tasks. You need to gather materials, build shelter, grow or hunt food, defend yourself from wildlife and raiders, and recruit new colonists.

Rimworld in particular has fun building mechanics with an emphasis on building power grids and heat management (air conditioning and heating to keep your colonists comfy and keep food from spoiling). It's a lot like a top-down Oxygen Not Included, but with simpler mechanics and more focus on its (procedurally generated) story.

[–] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, hey! Another Ratchet: Deadlocked fan in the wild!

No wait...

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hello friends!

I made the switch from Windows back to Linux over the weekend, and so far almost everything is going swimmingly. Distro of choice is LMDE, and Steam and Proton are running like a dream.

I am having one minor issue which I've resolved in an unsatisfactory manner. Online games keep disconnecting frequently on loading new areas. This is occurring most noticeably on Guild Wars 2, Last Epoch, and Path of Exile.

I've resolved the issue by switching my DNS from my ISP default to Google's 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 service. No issues since the change.

So, this is not ideal since I'd like to break away from Google services for improved privacy. Are there any ethical DNS providers I can point to for reliable gaming, or are there any alternative solutions I should look into?

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