I hate Battle Royale shooters, all of them.

There is nothing I find more unpleasant than inventory management under pressure. I don’t even have time to look at what I just picked up and figure out what it does before people are shooting at me. I say just pick a lane, you can be a competitive shooter, but skip the loot. Or go maximum inventory management, like borderlands or stalker, but not in a competitive multiplayer game.

I love these games, but I totally agree with you. I missed hestu and didn’t find him for probably the first 15 hours of the game. Basically it took someone having pity on me and saying “just go here”, Very frustrating.

Oh man, I love all of it so much! I thought Silverhand was a riot the whole time. And I thought the whole “I’m dying and I need a fix right fuckin’ now!” plot line just fit the world really well.

But you know, just cause I dug it, doesn’t mean anyone else has to.

Well it sounds like you’re not that into this sort of abstract puzzle game. That’s fine, to each their own.

It’s interesting, perhaps it’s something about my personality, but I find that often I’m looking to escape from any sort of emotional engagement, so the last thing I want are deep characters. But interesting puzzles, a complex system with a definite solution, that’s my jam.

I played a game once called Firewatch, a truly beautiful walking simulator style game with a whole lot of story and dialogue. As the story went on your character is building a relationship with a coworker, and at some point she starts to confess about being involved in something truly tragic, like no joke it got heavy as hell. And despite mostly enjoying the game up to that point, I just couldn’t go any further. It was like, it’s a walking simulator, I can’t “lose” this game… but still, this feels too hard to play.

Side note, if these puzzle games aren’t for you, probably skip Return of the Obra Dinn, also Tunic

That’s exactly it though, progress isn’t reset on the timer! The only progress that matters is what you’ve learned. If you’ve already figured out how everything works, you could start a new save, and finish the game on your first cycle.

Here’s the secret to Balatro, there are basically two strategies that work. Focus on flushes, or focus on two pairs.

Also, if you get that joker that makes all red cards the same suit and all black cards the same suit, then a 9 card hand always has a flush.

Likewise, two pair is extremely reliable, it’s hard not to have it. Just get a bunch of blue seals and pump that two pair up to level 20+.

Finally, cards that give you flat bonuses are fine, at least early on. But you really want cards that have increasing bonuses, that get better every round.

You’d be surprised…

Buy a fairphone

Historically, the problem with Motorola hasn’t been their os, it’s been their hardware, it’s just usually not very good when compared to the competition. And often the price is higher for what you’re getting.

Looking back now, you’re right, you didn’t say anything about Apple’s build quality.

I guess you were just arguing that poor build quality of other products isn’t a big deal because you could just fix it. But you wouldn’t be able to fix the Mac if that breaks I guess? I don’t know, that party is a bit confusing.

Uh, good luck with that repair.

I’m no fan of apple’s business practices, or the general non-upgradability of their machines, but i’d take apple hardware over cheap plastic any day. It’s overpriced and it’s locked down, but it’s also well engineered.

You’re free to hate Apple, that’s fine, I’m right there with you. But if you think their build quality is poor, you’re simply misinformed.

I just checked out the specs, that model does not support NVMe. So yeah, there’s that.

Jesus Christ… would you drop the pedantry? It’s childish.

I mean “what is an Ethernet port? Did you mean a RJ-45 port supporting Ethernet?” “What is an ATM machine, did you mean an ATM?”

Don’t be that fuckin guy.

I wonder what he could have possibly meant when he said an NVMe port?

Well I respect that, absolutely. I just don’t think I could do it.

And I don’t know, I guess I have a hard time letting go of reputation, like as a general concept. If you don’t retain some identity online, you lose that aspect of reputation.

God damn, well played.

Well done.

Did you try every letter up to “s”, or did you get it on the first try?

Well I think I speak for the youth when I say

Six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven…

Underated comment.

I think the word “if” is doing some heavy lifting there. I can’t really see it happening.

Does that not strike you as boring?

Like do you identify in any way with that moniker?

I feel like I would forget my username.