Sonotsugipaa

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[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As I was writing the body of the post, that's pretty much the conclusion I came to.
There's not much more I could say with my limited knowledge on philosophy and psychology ~~without spreading misinformation or something~~.

 

Think of the relationship between "optimism", "pessimism" and "realism":
generally, those words are respectively interpreted as "focusing on the good things", "focusing on the bad things" and "ignoring (or trying to ignore) personal biases on the topic at hand".
In a way that makes sense, the universe defines our perception on things, not the other way around.

However, let's suppose you just had a reality check, at least as my terminally online ass knows the term as.
That means something happened to you, that forced you to realize something about yourself - be it your body, your psyche, your knowledge about anything. A realization so undeniable, that, despite your lizard brain's psychological self-defense mechanisms' censorship attempts, made you realize you've been wrong about something.

The reality check brings your mood down in the short term, and possibly pushes you to improve yourself (or, alternatively, to [concoct a workaround to the tyrannical laws of the universe]) in the long run, but... that's not truly neutral, is it?
It may be a "bad" feeling possibly followed by a good outcome (see: cognitive dissonance), but it is never a GOOD feeling followed by a possibly bad outcome. The latter case is a confimation bias, if anything - the opposite of a reality check.

Going back to the first paragraph: if someone says "I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist" you may conflate that person for an pessimist, but not an optimist.


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Are you trying to say that you wantemgon?

You're welcome, though keep up your post chain with the two remaining good ones first ;^;

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't know, actually. Halo 4 is the last game whose campaign I played - since H4 is in the MCC, H5 is not on PC, and H:I costs too much for my opinion of it.

Halo 5 is infamously more book-dependent than Halo 4, and ...

(spoiler block that I should have used in my previous comment)the two things in H:I that follow from H5 are cortana bad and Infinity runs away

... , so IF you want to skip Halo 5, worst case, you may be missing how you ended up where H:I begins.
There may be a reference to a certain Spartan Locke here or there, idr.

I don't want to spoil your fun, so I'd say you should run through H5 if you're planning to play Infinite and if (unlike me) you wouldn't have to buy an Xbox to do so.

To answer your first question: I can't say too much about a game that I only vaguely remember from watching a playthrough on YT, but from what I do remember, H:I is somewhat more self-contained.

[–] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Would've bet my money on that exact outcome *^*

The fact that you didn't really understand the plot is not your fault: 343I Halo games until H:I have an obsession on requiring you to read books to straighten up the story.

If you have questions such as:

  1. Why are the covvies the baddies again?
  2. What does the Halsey cutscene have to do with anything?
  3. Who the hell is the Didact?
  4. Why the hell is the Didact doing things?
  5. Who the hell is the Librarian?
  6. Spartans on the Infinity? Wasn't 117 the last Spartan or something?
  7. Was that ending a QTE?

... it's because none of those questions are answered within the main plot of H4.
Some answers (3,4,5) you can find in books, some (1,2,6) in Spartan Ops (I never even played those), some (7) here on Lemmy - yes that was absolutely a QTE for a final boss in a Halo game.

If it's any consolation for Cortana's death being undone later offscreen, SPOILER AHEAD, her death's undoing is also undone later offscreen.

...

... on second thought, I lied a bit. Halo 4's main story does answer the first question in the list above, and the answer is "A lot can change in 4 years".

My personal minimum is a stable 40/s, which is roughly where I start noticing the lower framerate without paying attention to it.
With 30/s I need to get used to it, and I usually underclock (or, rather, power-limit) my GPU to hit an average 50 unless the game in question is either highly unstable (e.g. Helldivers 2) or the game is so light I don't have to care (e.g. Selaco).

I'm offended by the cliffhanger, the sudden interruption of that whole stream of consciousness

Played against them this evening, fuck that.

You guys do the MO, I'll keep the illuminates warm

Jokes on them, kill without option arguments sends SIGTERM so you are allowed to simply ignore it

SlanderI wouldn't blame you, many people wonder what kinda halo looking game Halo 4 is

No, her boyfriend would be a bold assumption, her boyfriend is an italic assumption

 
 

The single game I "played" on Windows was Helldivers 2, when I Steam Family'd it from a friend before trying it out through Proton.

 
 
 
 

... hold on, "players are unable to emote when flying through the air"?
Is that currently possible or is it supposed to be? Either way I have questions.

 

What does "make other public performance of it" mean? Am I subject to licence revokation if I make a screenshot and post it on social media or something?

 

The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a god damn URL

 
 
 

literally unplayable

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