Quibblekrust

u/Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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They definitely are hard to distinguish with low screen brightness. I like that they look like gold inlayed in stone. It just needs to be a brighter color of yellow.

What I don't like about them is some of them look too bold. Like, why is the question mark so fat? Same with the exclamation mark. The star on the stone of enchantment looks like a little person. Like a meeple from a board game, and not like a star at all.

I also don't care for the fat gray border around all the stones. None of the other items have such a strong border. The color of the stones themselves is great, with nice shading, and then there's this flat border around them that just looks off.

on See · c/pixeldungeon · 2 pts · 10d

Do you not use seeds to tip your darts?

Blindweed is S-tier for making blinding darts for blinding ranged enemies.

Same with Earthroot because it makes paralysis darts.

Along with Sungrass Seeds, they're the three best seeds in the game.

on Newborn little sweet · c/cat · 14 pts · 11d

Have you ever cared for such a tiny kitten before? You have to do things like wipe their butt with a warm washcloth to get them to poop. Stuff like that. Make sure you read some guides if this is your first time.

Generally, no, because it's a capacitive sensor and most plastics don't conduct electricity. You'd need to find a pair that says it supports the sensors. Mine don't, for instance, but I never used that feature anyway.

The front-end is called Piper, so I would install that, and it comes with the required library and the daemon. Piper is OK, but the CLI is sometimes better. The UI doesn't default to your active profile, and I always have to change it to do anything, even though it's my only profile.

The only thing ratbagd couldn't do is set a button to be a pure modifier key like Ctrl or Shift. I had to boot up Windows to do that. The macro that the Logitech software creates in order to have the mouse send a pure modifier key is weird. It's a three step macro instead of just the key, and ratbagd doesn't even display it correctly. It might be fixed in the future. Who knows.

on Es geht weiter · c/microblogmemes · -2 pts · 12d

It Continues

In the parallel universe, quite a few things are different. A lot of things don't work. Even though many people exist, you are still completely on your own. It's as if everything is just a facade, and as soon as you want to tangibly grasp someone, they aren't even there. It costs additional energy again. The question is also, "Am I even there for others?". Sometimes I seem to be invisible, and even when I stand right next to someone, they don't notice me... until I tap them... and then the person almost gets a heart attack.

Maybe I'm an AI or maybe I'm just autistic and good at markdown.

When I think retro I’m thinking of Duke Nukem ported to the C64 or something like that.

Well, that's unique. Most people call any game older than PS3 "retro", especially the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.

"To each his own" is why people say "irregardless". It doesn't make it right that tons of people say it. Normally, sure, language evolves, but "irregardless" is just plain wrong. "Retro" and "vintage" are super common terms everywhere else in life. Why can't gamers get it right?

Strictly speaking this is probably more like retro-adjacent rather than truly retro gaming

Thing is, this is literally what "retro" means. Like retrospective. It means looking back at old styles and modeling modern things after yesterday's trends. When people say "retro gaming", what they really mean is vintage gaming because they're playing vintage games from the 80s and 90s, etc.

There's vintage clothing, vintage automobiles, vintage art, and then there are modern versions that emulate the style, and those things are "retro".

It's a hopeless battle, and I'm only bringing it up because I thought it was extra funny that we have an example of something that's truly retro, and you are saying, "Well, it's not really retro, but maybe retro adjacent?" When it's literally retro! 🤣

I just have to laugh, it's funny. Here's a helpful table:

Industry Vintage Retro
Clothing 1970s jeans Any modern bell bottom jeans
Automobiles A 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air A PT Cruiser
Guitars A 1973 Fender Stratocaster A Fender Vintera II
Electronics A 1950s radio A bluetooth speaker designed to look like one
Video Games (wrong) NES Super Mario Bros.
Video Games (right) NES Super Mario Bros. Shovel Knight or Sea of Stars