starbreaker
@starbreaker@kbin.social
writer by choice, programmer by necessity, metalhead by the grace of the witch
personal website: https://starbreaker.org
main fedi account: @starbreaker
I know I could post to Kbin from my Friendica account, but I created this account for convenience.
- Comment on Most "simulation" games aren't simulators 11 months ago:
Since 14 is an MMO you’ve really only missed two main-series games
You can play most of it solo, aside from some of the major boss fights, and it's both a "greatest hits" nostalgia trip and a damned good FF in its own right once you get into the Heavensward expansion and beyond.
- Comment on Most "simulation" games aren't simulators 11 months ago:
What are the new Final Fantasies like? 8 was the last one I “beat” and then I never played 9 because the characters looked so cartoonish.
With its protagonist Noctis as the chosen lightbringer, Final Fantasy XV was just an Andrew Lloyd Webber song away from being Lucifer Christ Superstar.
And Final Fantasy XVI is basically Devil May Cry with a story that resembles a George R. R. Martin fanfic only if you aren't familiar with Michael Moorcock's Hawkmoon stories.
- Comment on Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem 11 months ago:
If you've got time to be needlessly pedantic about shitposts, you've got time to practice your gun kata. Piss off.
- Comment on Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem 11 months ago:
pics aren't streaming video
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
Hell, it's in my will: funeral roast, weenie roast, Judas Priest on the boombox, and public bisexual fornication for all willing adult participants.
- Comment on Most "simulation" games aren't simulators 11 months ago:
Marketers gonna market. If "simulation" is a hot-selling category, then games are going to be sold as "simulations" if they bear even a slight resemblance to an actual simulation. This the same industry in which the customers con themselves into thinking that Final Fantasy is still a role-playing game.
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
Why do it? For the same reason Mt. Everest is littered with human corpses, shit, and garbage. For the same reason there's an American flag and a plaque immortalizing Richard fucking Nixon on the goddamned moon.
Because it's there.
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
When I die, roast weenies over my funeral pyre and blast old Judas Priest albums out of a boom box.
- Comment on Laundry day 11 months ago:
Even if I was into sounding that would be too hardcore for me.
- Comment on Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem 11 months ago:
Maybe you remember what the WWW was like before it became cable TV with a comments section?
I posted this elsewhere, but you might like it...
The World Wide Web...
A communications medium barely alive.
We can rebuild it.
We have the technology.
We can make it better than it was.
Better... Stronger... Faster... - Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Upside of being a GenX latchkey kid, even if I was born in the tail end of that generation. My parents didn't really give a shit what movies I rented as long as they weren't pornos. Not that they looked too close. I got away with renting Caligula by passing it off as a sequel to Masterpiece Theater's I, Claudius.
- Comment on Streaming Platforms Have a Profitability Problem 11 months ago:
Streaming platforms have a continued existence problem. The internet is for text.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Here were mine:
- Spaceballs
- They Live
- Escape from New York
- Hellraiser
- Heavy Metal
- Comment on Hey, Asimov. Bite me. 11 months ago:
The basilisk can eat my meaty ass. The nerds at LessWrong plagiarized Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and they're too fuckin' ignorant to realize it.
- Comment on The Envy Office: Can Instagrammable Design Lure Young Workers Back? 11 months ago:
No kidding. I can't just go downstairs and steal a quick kiss off my wife if I'm working on-site.
- Comment on The Envy Office: Can Instagrammable Design Lure Young Workers Back? 11 months ago:
Double my pay, give me a private office with a locking door, and let me bring a cat. Then I might consider it.
- Comment on In the age of public salary-range listings, some jobseekers feel duped 11 months ago:
tl;dr: the upper bound of the range isn't actually the upper bound for new hires. So if the lower bound isn't high enough, don't bother applying.
- Comment on Why Your Office Holiday Party Is A Secret Evaluation — And Possible Job Interview 11 months ago:
I've known this for years, and I refuse to play the game. Any workplace that attempts to force me to attend social events after hours isn't a culture fit for me.
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 11 months ago:
Because From Software games aren't hard anymore.