Jeffool

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I sometimes think of "who bought these?" I mean, I'm a little bit of a data hoarder. I never want to lose those Google chats and emails I'll never look back on. I downloaded my Twitter data (that I'll never reference) before deleting my account. But what nerd mother fucker like me, has the money to pay hundreds of dollars on this, and a subscription fee, for a service to take data I'll never own?

If I had that kind of money to waste, I'd just use that extra monthly subscription money to buy media to fill up servers (that I bought with the cost of the Pin,) on my home network.

And I don't even have a home network or a house, but bet your ass I'd have those and a million other things before this became a remotely attractive option.

This is like Quibi. You see it and you can easily understand it on one, far-off, level... But here in reality I'm just left confused. "What were they thinking?"

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I couldn't pick a single one, but I got endless joy from all the Quake mods back in the day. Not just level designs and sprite replacement, but complete weapon changes that made everything different, Quake Kart, Cujo, etc. It seemed the sky was the limit.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I had genuinely forgotten about it without playing it. Thanks for mentioning it.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hence the power of the shout "sudo rm -rf*"!

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm just picturing big chambers like Super Metroid, and the characters moving around testing things to see what happens, then putting it together. (Maybe a zoom out button, or the map screen being relatively detailed.) So it could be very similar to the original, just "more". You'd just need a few sets of puzzles in every chamber, for when they backtrack and revisit areas. Mind you I'm not saying it's easy to "just" design good levels and puzzles, especially in such a large scale, just that it's easy for me to imagine it being fun.

 

If somehow id1 was wiped off of all computers in the world, do we collectively remember the maps well enough to recreate them?

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

A friend linked it in a Discord server recently and I've been enamored since. This recent update last week really made it harder. But like Minesweeper, sometimes you just gotta guess. I like to guess a few random spaces for my first energy bar, apart from the initial orb, so I crash out early if I do.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

When it was new to me I tried ChatGPT out of curiosity, like with any tech, and I just kept getting really annoyed at the expansive bullshit it gave to the simplest of input. "Give me a list of 3 X" lead to fluff-filled paragraphs for each. The bastard children of a bad encyclopedia and the annoying kid in school.

I realized I was understanding it wrong, and it was supposed to be understood not as a useful tool, but as close to interacting with a human, pointless prose and all. That just made me more annoyed. It still blows my mind people say they use it when writing.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're right. I'd already deleted my older comment. I think I read your initial one in the wrong tone, was all. All good.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think you made a typo, and meant to say "races".

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Most of the time I see em dashes and en dashes though should just be commas anyway.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It feels like Taco Bell has a long history of this. My first thought was how as a kid my local one also sold Choco Tacos, and it felt right.

But then I realized the true answer for me was I hate their change in sauce for the Cheesy Gordita Crunch. Instead of the Baja sauce they used to have, a while back they switched over to using a ranch sauce. (Gotta fulfill that stereotype of Taco Bell just being a dozen ingredients in different shapes/amounts.) That sucks.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Jeffool@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

Everyone loves a good Criterion Collection or Shout Factory release. But what's a good website from which to buy digital media? Do you buy digital media? Or do you just buy physical and rip? Or do you just sail the seas?

Games seem to be itch.io or Steam, maybe a Humble Bundle or Epic/GOG exclusive here and there. But what about movies and music? What about books and audiobooks?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Jeffool@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world
 

The current mod of c/gamedev hasn't been publicly active just under a year. I tried messaging them months ago about joining, and more recently about taking it over if they weren't interested in trying to develop it. So now I'm asking here, with the assumption that they're just not that into it.

Figured I'd ask now in case you wanted to look into the person making such a request. If granted I'd probably start putting a little work into it the weekend after this one.

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