kyle

@kyle@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s fair.

  It feels bad to see this giant wall of DLCs, just feels like a cash grab. I appreciate the transparency anyway, and I don’t have to participate to enjoy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on year 2 of the game, and rarely notice bugs. There’s this arena boss fight you can do, my wife died and teleported outside the area, but her crossbow shots traveled infinitely and could still damage the same boss I was stuck in the arena with. Random stuff like that, certainly nothing game breaking, no crashes or anything.

  Compared to Stardew Valley, it’s much more heavy on quests. SV has some basics, but it’s pretty much just build the community center, upgrade your house, get married, etc. It’s also much heavier on skill progression. You’ll eventually use magic for nearly everything if you (mining, tree harvesting, watering, fishing, etc.).

  Sun Haven also has 3 different towns, all roughly the size of Stardew Valley (the main town is bigger though).

  Which leads me into my only real complaint. You will have a farm in all 3 towns, with their own houses, crops, barn animals, and quests. If you play alone, it’s kind of a lot to manage. It’s just my wife and I that play, but if I played on my own, I would probably only focus on one town at a time, which feels weird. I’d rather the game introduce something like a familiar that can slowly take care of things while I’m gone doing other stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it matters they’re all skins that don’t really matter, purely cosmetic. I bought and played the game, on year 2.

  If you’re opposed on principle, I get it, but IMHO extra cosmetic packs aren’t predatory. What you get for your money is clear (unlike loot boxes) and you aren’t paywalled behind new content (so no FOMO).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know PII is protected, and a company like Riot is audited. I’m sure something in their TOS says they can collect the information, as BS or unenforceable as it is.

  They’re probably multi-cloud, but I know they are a huge AWS customer because they have a giant booth at re:Invent every year. AWS has pretty easy ways to encrypt data and even detect if it has PII. They’d encrypt or redact the images because the potential of capturing HIPAA or PCI information is too great a risk.

  If anything, trust that the company is profit driven and will avoid that risk. They’re still garbage and kernel level anti-cheat sucks, but we shouldn’t be spouting that unencrypted stuff as fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The screenshots are awful, but your statement is pure speculation, and likely just wrong. It’s pretty easy to encrypt images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just more ironic than “taking it back”. I don’t think anyone worth respecting would call themselves “a Chad”.

  So in context for this, a dude doubling down on his gay love story is certainly not what an incel would attribute to “a Chad”, but the rest of us could look at Nick Offerman and say “damn, I respect the hell out of that guy, what a Chad”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did anyone else watch Alphas? Stopped abruptly after 2 seasons.

  Could not make it today with all the superhero fatigue, but in 2011 it was awesome.