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  • SmoochyPit@beehaw.orgOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneClearuley
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    4 months ago

    Here’s my best shot at explaining. Unlike my grandma, you’ll know more about video game and internet culture already :)

    The character is Alyx from Half-Life 2. “Source Filmmaker” is an app that lets you pose and animate characters from Valve games and is frequently used for meme videos. It was likely used to pose Alyx’s face this way.

    Here is a picture of this meme that I saw before this one (I think it’s the original for the format).

    This was most a meme from a few years ago, around the time when air fryers were becoming more popular and squid game had recently released.

    The meme pokes fun at the “elitist” attitude many people with air fryers had, as they swore by using them for everything. A key trait is the smirk expression the person in the picture has.








  • SmoochyPit@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemelon rule
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    4 months ago

    Context:

    Façade is an artificial intelligence-based interactive story created in 2005 by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern.

    Façade

    The engine does have some quirks, however; for example, saying the word “melon” at any time will result in the player being kicked out immediately, due to the slang term referring to a woman’s breast, despite other meanings not used in a vulgar way.



  • I’m not sure how or why he would’ve come across that data, but as far as competing companies go…

    There definitely weren’t any widespread virus outbreaks in December 2021 and 2022 which affect the ability to smell, that’s for sure! /s

    Kidding aside, maybe covid was just a really complex form of corporate sabotage between candle companies 🤔


  • These type of thoughts are the kind that could only come to somebody when they’re tripping balls and/or in serious harmony with nature.

    In all seriousness, the first principle makes me think of the many religious people who attribute rights to a god figure or figures. In the religion I grew up in, god was the figure who gave specifically white men certain rights. He is also the one who determined what rights many people didn’t have. I personally find comfort in the second principle, that the universe is “self-referent in its being and self-normative in its activities”.

    Principle five seems ambiguous about the “roles” of Earth’s subjects. I think that’s where many people would disagree with one another, since certain roles are subjective (ex: in national conflict, hunting animals, natural resource extraction/usage).

    The last principle really makes me appreciate our relationship with the universe and what humanity is capable of, despite how dire existence in our world often feels.



  • I bought a Japanese “new 3ds” system about 2 years ago off of eBay and I’ve been using it a lot! I’ve been loving the Ace Attorney Trilogy lately, but I also played

    • SM64 via a homebrew 3ds port
    • NSMB2
    • SM 3D Land
    • Shantae 1 & 2 (gbc and dsiware, but I wanna play the 3rd, which is a native 3ds game)
    • Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (dsiware, originally gba)
    • Pilotwings Resort
    • CTGP-7 (great mk7 modpack)
    • So, so much Picross

    My favorite 3ds game is Pushmo! I played it when I was younger, but it’s still fantastic.

    I also loved the 3ds ecosystem outside of strictly games. Mii maker, Streetpass and Nintendo Video were all really fun extras.

    Also the VB emulator Red Viper just recently released, so if there’s ever a time to try virtual boy games, it’s now! 3D baybeeee!!


  • The difficulty seemed absurd to me, too, the first time I played the game. This time I began seeing the fun once I began discovering a few things the other day, TL;DR at the end:

    • Keeping your cloak stained seems key; blood is good and gives you increased crit chance, but water is usually easier to keep soaked. As long as you have that, you won’t go up in flames in fire or explosions. And water/blood can also wash off toxic sludge, oil, etc. so it’s really important to have a bottle of it on hand to shower yourself with.
    • Adding onto that, if you have a bottle that has empty space and you are holding it in a pool of a liquid, it will fill up with that liquid.
    • Kick everything! It’s super fun to kick explosive barrels or lanterns all over. I bound ‘ctrl’ to kick so I can more reliably kick.
    • Drink everything! You can right click on bottles in your hot bar to drink them, or you can press “s” to drink the liquid you are standing in. There’s some fun reactions, though most just make you vomit.
    • Tapping space to keep upward momentum > holding space.
    • I had the best luck sticking in the first area and getting familiar with those enemies. I like to have 3-4 wands before I go to the holy mountain and as much gold as possible (my best run I had like 600 by the first, bought lots of spells). To the left there are the mines. They have more gold, but stronger enemies.
    • The chainsaw spell is great, you can emulsify enemy corpses for their blood.
    • Chain bolt is really good if you can get it, that carried me in my best run so far.
    • Oh, also read the spells a wand has before using it. Some spells will hurt/kill you if they’re not matched with something that casts them away from you.
    • There’s tons of enemies, loot and areas to discover. The coolest part for me was finding a way to return back to previous layers once I had better spells.

    Anyways, it’s still masochistic in nature. My best run came to an end abruptly and unfairly.

    TL;DR: Be slow and cautious, play around in the first area to get better gear and understanding of the mechanics.


  • I jumped into Noita this past week. I had put about 5 hours in over a year ago, but I was intimidated by the systems and the initial difficulty. But I get it now 😭 The wandcrafting and fluid reactions are so fun now that I am more familiar with it all. I had a good run and I love the game now.

    Played a few rounds of gunfight in Modern Warfare 2019. The official game has a ring 0 anticheat so Linux support with proton/wine is out of the equation. But there is a way (old dev build, offline-only and most maps don’t work).

    Also played some Minecraft with a ship building mod. Here’s what I got so far, I’m going to sail the seven seas!