Am I crazy or did she use abhorrent wrong?
Like, our views can be abhorrent in that they're disagreeable or disgusting or whatever, but they can't to abhorrent to something. I think?
I know everything else is rubbish too and this person's kids probably don't talk to them anymore, but I really like that word so this annoys me.
There's isn't anything particularly wrong about preordering something you're most certainly going to get day-one, although those are few and far between these days. After all, even fan favorites often come with bugs and glitches day one and you can still encourage producers (and raise kpis) by wishlisting a game instead so they know demand exists. Same for downloading a pre-release demo - they track that.
Early access is usually indie with a few exceptions, so supporting them is good too except when you're a big fan and would rather see the finished work without spoilers. None the less, support can still exist in other forms.
I personally do neither, but this is more because of financial reasons and my already stupidly huge backlog. The only game I might have preordered this year would have been Silksong and only didn't because they didn't permit it. I knew it wouldn't be released with... ahem, bugs... and that I would certainly play and enjoy it.
Every other 2025 gem was a surprise after release, though.
It's true what they say: a picture is worth a (couple) thousand ~~words~~ bytes. When indexed properly, anyway.
I love the idea of someone trying this stupid question irl only to realize it wasn't even plugged in. That's ... well fuck, that's most IT work. The convoluted approach is definitely the wrong one. Lol
It's tight timing either way I bet. It's always a surprise when someone thinks they gotcha though, haha.
I think we're all kinda beat down by life, so I don't really judge people on it. I just am not one of them, haha. (But I don't even watch TV or movies much so I'm admittedly a weirdo).
In what universe are green shells the game changer? Do neither of these people drift? Hold a banana to intercept red shells? Use POW to interrupt blue shells?
Gosh I hope those are still a thing in the new one. Lol
Breeze has a day/night cycle now too, haha. Sweet just caught my eye since it has custom icons for discord and steam that match the theme. Lol
And yeah, the experts on Lemmy can probably explain better but there's issues with screens depending on what the distro uses to manage that stuff. I've had trouble before, but I had no trouble last night detecting my ultrawide, and they added HDR support since I last tinkered. I'm using CachyOS (which is arch based), so what they're using might be different. They also seem very anti-flatpak, haha.
Oh, I just fixed my broken partition with a fresh install last night. Haven't played with Linux in a while but I spent way too much time themeing.
If you or anyone else is in KDE Plasma, surprise your friends with something like Reactionary 98 or WhiteSur. It was enough to get someone to try Linux, lol. (I ultimately went with Sweet, though. Lol)
My dad entered in codes for me when I was really little, but that's kind of another thing entirely. I don't think little kids have an achievement oriented sorta version of play, so anything goes with them. Once you're older, that dopamine rush just hits differently, though.
In education you could also consider it a form of scaffolding. Enabling someone to do something they normally can't do is a form of development, like giving handicaps in games and stuff can foster the skills to not need them eventually.
I suppose. When I'm referring to cheats, it's more in regards to invulnerability, infinite resources, etc., which seem to sap the point of having a game in the first place. Like making the fun parts into a grind, rather than the other way around.
That said, I'll also say sometimes part of the challenge is the grind, so it depends. You have to pick your own poison, right?
Like, take Silksong for example. You lose out on the full experience if you mod out the annoying run from bench to boss, it's like a 40 second annoyance built in punishment. But I get why you'd do that-- it's technically there for a reason but I get it. Hell, even the difficulty adjustment mods I can understand.
But making the bosses die in one hit or making yourself invulnerable? Now you've lost me, that's like a core element of the game; you might as well just watch someone else play it because what's the point.
I used to take my friends wax and make cool pen toppers during class because I was bored.