darkmode

joined 2 years ago
 

Pasting this here from a comment I made in a tangential thread:

I played through this game hoping for the best this past weekend. The highest praise i can give is that while the presentation is perfect, the gameplay is half baked at best and frustrating at its worst.

The echoes are a great idea but they’re seriously lacking in depth. Maybe 5 of them can be used for almost every “puzzle”. The stronger combat echoes trivialize the combat. The dungeons are too short and simple save for maybe one or two of them. Thinking i liked gerudo, zora, and faron the best.

I was totally mesmerized by being able to traverse a “2d” zelda map in the manner that some of the more vertically inclined echoes. They even present you with some classic zelda dungeon rooms that can be maneuvered in the classic way or be completely subverted by the player if you remember you’re playing the new game. which is very satisfying the first few times. However, by hour ten and in the last few dungeons that novelty wore off and it became very clear they forgot to make any kind of challenging puzzle involving clever echo use beyond flying tile + platboom or water tile. i don’t think zelda games have ever been or have supposed to be “challenging” but I don’t think i’m off base asserting that some puzzles aren’t immediately solvable in older games.

The menus are dogshit and waste you time. The dialogue boxes waste your time. Resetting mini games waste your time. Making smoothies wastes your time. Sorting through your 127 echoes wastes your time. I’m not sure why this is acceptable but the only answer is that ppl buy it and complaints don’t have to be heard after they have your money so fuck it i guess. The only way to get a solid game out of these stooges is to force system memory limitations on them again.

Oh did you want to play in the old style? don’t worry we put that on a timer and you can go into link mode and feel what it’s like to play a tight lovingly crafted game for a few fleeting moments before your juice bar hits 0.

The dialogue itself is good. the tutorials aren’t annoying. tri is a good companion. i adore the art style. There is a lot of observational skill involved with some hidden items and heart pieces. I had fun, but I feel like they stopped just short of making a 10/10 to intetionslly a 5/10 baby game. Games are for children. just go play Tunic

WdyT?

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

It’s means state mandated no work on one of the weekends right ? anakin-padme-2

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One hot take I’m always mentioning to my uninitiated friends is that I’m over the moon when the second sons and daughters of our nobility use their money and power to become artists instead of executives and that line of argument has appeared compelling, effective

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fargo, he’s from that family lol the bank wells-Fargo it took me a decade to notice

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

If I were the crew they’d’ve had to load me into that ship at gunpoint

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

June 10 wasn’t Friday?

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2723840

Hi, I need to read handwriting off scanned documents and then file them digitally. What's the best way to approach this? I've done some searching myself but I'm curious what you nerds think. Ty.

 

Hi, I need to read handwriting off scanned documents and then file them digitally. What's the best way to approach this? I've done some searching myself but I'm curious what you nerds think. Ty.

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

New theory dropping right here:

Push-ups: exerting will upon the earth, active, lifting the entire subject up with their own strength

Bench press: elevated and separate from the earth, reactive, exerting all the subject’s strength upon a singular object

Lenin reportedly chose one. What will you do?

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What’s makes the threat of nuclear annihilation more pressing now than say, the back half of the 20th century?

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I got a job I don’t hate so I’m happy to be up. However, everyday I still awake in the uSSa

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had figured the onion’s been dead since condenast or whoever bought them but this is an unexpected low. A punch in the gut, their website and videos affirmed my nascent concerned-lib phase while I was growing up in a firmly conservative, racist, and overall bigoted suburb

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Something is different this time around media wise, I remain cynical is regards to these types of stories, but maybe they’re indicative of Israel’s fall in the near future

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No I mean, I agree, I’d love it if there were a considerable cadre of radicalizing officers, but that’s not what I’m seeing. I’m also not casting an unforgivable sin or whatever on anybody, I’m just giving them shit. The only issue I have are these pieces about dissenting individuals that never amount to anything

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

"If you are somebody who is really motivated by the concern to protect Jewish life," Mann said, "you should be fighting for [Israel] to wind down the war, to conduct it in a way that does not turn basically the whole world against them. That is not good for the near- or long-term security of Israel."

You can quote the scripture all you want but hardly anyone else who gains a conscience gets a major news outlet story published about them. The quote I pulled from the article here demonstrates, to me anyway, that if Israel was a mere 5% less genocidal he would’ve held on to his post. This guy worked for the Middle East bureau and now I’d wager he’s gonna go work for some private defense contractor of some sort. He does some sort of minor protest that won’t impact anything and now we aren’t allowed to call him a pig on the internet?

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