Skip Navigation
Skooshjones Sploosh the Water @vlemmy.net

Dive into the Fediverse.

Posts 1
Comments 155
What's your favorite game you never hear anybody talk about?
  • Backyard baseball, loved that game as a kid.

  • Can anyone see this?
  • Vlemmy.net here, loud and clear!

  • People of Lemmy, have you ever had what some would consider a "spiritual" experience?
  • Yes, several. I've never done drugs, I don't drink, I have no diagnosed mental disorders.

    Can't really talk about it super openly here, but I would be happy to DM you. Both dark and good ones, mostly good.

    The good ones were wonderful, made me feel more alive and aware than any other time in my life. Saw people healed seemingly miraculously, some other stuff that is really personal but very lovely.

    The bad ones, especially the worst one was almost indescribably horrific. I'll just say I decided it would be interesting to try and contact beings that shouldn't be contacted, I was skeptical and didn't think it would actually work, and I was horribly wrong. They accepted my invitation, I wish they hadn't, terror followed.

    DM me if you wanna know the details.

  • What's your Google Maps open-source replacement?
  • Just did it, I'll test it out over the coming weeks and see how it works, thanks!

  • What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?
  • I've tried to get into Arma 3 many times over the years. But it's just way too much for me. I like some MilSim, but Arma is so complicated and just not worth it to me. To make it worse, everybody that I've linked up with to learn how to play with always says that the base game sucks and you have to install 15+ mods just to start having fun.

    Sorry, but if a base game isn't worth playing unless you spend 2-3 hours fighting to get 15+ mods all working together just to then get barely 40 FPS, spend another hour planning the mission, and then trying to remember the dozens of hotkeys for the 10 unique ways you can crouch next to a wall, I'm just not interested and it probably isn't a very good game.

    Most people recommend playing Minecraft with like 50 mods, but at least Minecraft is a good fully playable game in vanilla mode...

  • What video game have you played the most, that you think is garbage and no one else should ever play?
  • Sim City for GameBoy. If you're thinking, "how the heck would you play Sim City on a GameBoy?" Exactly, don't do it. Young me wanted to like it, but just spare yourself...

  • Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests
  • It will be ignored by industry, just like all the rest of the suggestions for the last 30 years from scientists. Profits come first, worry about the environment later (never).

  • What’s your white whale?
  • Read my edit, I found it!!! :D

  • What’s your white whale?
  • Read my edit, I found it!!! :D

  • What’s your white whale?
  • Read my edit, I found it!!! :D

  • What’s your white whale?
  • Not that one I don't think. The text was all in English.

  • English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age
  • What a complete knob. That's like saying you didn't know Michael Jackson was a pop star, or that the Pyramids were tombs for kings, pathetic.

  • What’s your white whale?
  • Check my reply a few messages down, those are all the details I can remember about it. I am also pretty sure it was a Gameboy Color game, not advance or OG GameBoy, but I'm not 100% certain.

  • What’s your white whale?
  • Right on! I'll give it a go lol.

  • What are your favorite retro PC games?
    1. Mental Omega, a total conversion mod for Red Alert 2, Yuri's Revenge.

    2. Age of Empires 2.

  • at what point do you draw the line for "retro"?
  • It's a moving target. For me, I would say anything older than about 15-20 years is "retro" and anything older than 30 years is "vintage."

  • What’s your white whale?
    1. Interestingly, my spouse found out that the lead vocalist now works as a graphic artist and has done work for some huge groups like Twenty One Pilots and Underoath. I found his webpage and have thought about sending him a message, but I haven't ever done it, nervous I guess lol. Your prompt might give me the needed "oomph" to actually go through with it tho lol.

    2. It's tough because I barely remember anything specific from it. To make it worse, the game had a saved profile when I got it, (it was second hand.) I only ever played that save file which was already at endgame content, so I don't even remember what the intro/early game was like. Here's all I can remember:

    The color pallet was pretty bland. It had lots of random encounters and when they happened, there was a quick sequence where the edges of the screen spiraled inwards in a kind of striped, spiral pattern. There were lots of odd creatures, like these kind of rock worms/snakes if I remember correctly? You had a party of 3-4 people and lots of different spells/abilities. I remember I got lost for a long time wandering through some ice caves and kept having to fight random monsters every 10-20 seconds. I can't really remember the story or lore even. But I'm pretty confident I'd know the music/sounds if I heard them.