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hk

@hk@mstdn.games

Vintage gamer, father of two, metalhead. I post mostly about metroidvanias, soulsbornes, JRPGs, and retro gaming. Interested in neurodivergences, lifting heavy things and putting them back down, and socialism the means of production.

"That's my secret, cap. I'm always tired"

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hk, to random
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Apparently there's going to be a reboot of the Naked Gun movies...

Because capitalism can't let things die, they need to keep squeezing every single bit of beloved IP until it becomes an empty shell of its former self, devoid of everything that made it great in the first place.

hk, to random
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This is the kind of thing that annoys me the most in .

I'm sorry, but how is this any good or fun? It's just cheap bullshit. I had just entered the arena.

https://youtu.be/oKoaFfC_fL8

hk, to retrogaming
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I've stumbled upon a video elaborating over the idea of "Videogames are meant to be played, not looked at" discussing that graphics don't need to be awesome but the gameplay needs to be fun (case in point: Minecraft is the best selling game of all time), and I've realized that that's one of the main reasons I do so much #retrogaming. As long as the gameplay is engaging, graphics are just a means to an end. And old fun games don't require a latest-gen £1000 NVidia GPU to run decently.

hk, to random
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It's sad that not only large companies go through the #enshittification cycle, I'm starting to notice it in many content creators too.

I started following their feeds, YouTube channels, newsletters, etc. because I enjoyed what they said, the topics they brought up, and the way they discussed them. But as they gain traction, the quality of their products take a hit as they all inevitably veer towards self-promotion of courses, seminars, books, etc.

It's exhausting and quite depressing, honestly

hk, to random
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Credit where credit's due, I think #Nioh is the most infuriating soulslike I've ever played.

Basic enemies two-shotting you. Everyone tracks and follow you from kilometers away. And the "active reload" thing for the stamina sucks.

hk, to random
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"Twitter has stopped working on Firefox!"

hk, to random
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Remember that comparison between Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, specifically the but that went "Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."?

The way LLMs are flooding every single corner of the internet with garbage is Huxley's fear, on a scale even he could not have predicted.

hk, to Steamdeck
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Lovely that the buttons on my Steam Deck have decided to stop working at all (even on the BIOS menu!) right now that I'm out of the house and without access to a keyboard to try and figure out what's going on. I suspect a bogus update, hopefully nothing serious.

#SteamDeck

hk, to random
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It may sound silly, but this actually annoys me a little bit...

I have F2A for my stuff at work, and whenever I'm asked to introduce the code generated by my phone, I get this screen. What's wrong with it? That it specifically talks about Google Authenticator, immediately setting a preference towards one specific app (from Google, no less). I use Aegis Authenticator (free, open source, https://getaegis.app/), at it works perfectly.

Why the need to veer you towards Google apps by default?

hk, to privacy
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I just ran a little #privacy experiment.

I have Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, and Ghostery installed in my Firefox, so I decided to access a few sites and see what happened. These are the results.

Does anyone notice the outlier?

hk, to random
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Now that I am a handful of months away from turning 40, it is true that I look back at the person I was then I was in my 20's and I wince.

But on the other hand, me in my 20s would have probably winced too if he had known the person I am nowadays, so I guess we can call it a draw.

hk, to random
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#offtopic I'm trying to debug an issue in my code at work, and my brain is just not helping.

It is like trying to solve a crime using these boards on the wall full of pictures, newspaper clippings, and post-it notes, all linked by red string. But the pins are 1/4 mm long, so when I pull from the thread to link another clipping to the case, two pins fall down, the string and the clippings they were holding go along with them, and the cat keeps playing with everything that falls to the floor.

hk, to DarkSouls3 Spanish
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Here's the video for my fight against the final boss in #DarkSouls3.

It is not particularly pretty, I've been quite reckless because I was not really expecting to be able to beat it on the second attempt, so I was going into the fight kind of in a "let's get a hold on the moveset" mentality... Then as the fight progressed I realized I had chances and took it more seriously 😅😅

https://youtu.be/vQd5gje7gNY

hk, to DarkSouls3
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With Slave Knight Gael dead, I guess this is the end of the second #DarkSouls3 DLC, it's time to check out that final boss!

Gael has been a challenging boss, but not as much as Nameless King or Sister Friede. The extremely open space of the battle arena makes it very easy to get away from the most punishing attacks, each movement is very clearly telegraphed and have enough reaction time, so it was very easy to read (not so much to dodge!) and super fun to play

https://youtu.be/AOu_xUTLJhk

hk, to DarkSouls3
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And that's credits rolling for #DarkSouls3!

Have I earned my souls veteran badge? Will I get a card in the post? Can I include it as a tax relief in my next HMRC self assessment?

hk, to random
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I'm glad techbro trends only happen one by one, with new stuff only picking up once the previous bullshit has died.

Otherwise the internet would be full of guys trying to sell us NFTs of AI-generated images.

hk, to random
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YES! I GOT HIM!!

hk, to DarkSouls3
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Ok, I've thrown fists with the Nameless King a couple of times and it hasn't ended well for me. I'm getting the hang of the first phase, but I'm still getting pounded in the second one.

But the guy doesn't seem completely unmanageable. I just need to be patient and time my actions carefully. I've dealt with worse.

#DarkSouls3

hk, to DarkSouls3
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Yet another boss bites the dust in ! This time it's been the Twin Brothers.

All I can say is... I don't know how I managed to beat them. I did play poorly, I got too greedy too often, and received a lot of hits that could have been avoided. But I was careless. Still, I managed to inflict enough damage to get me to the end of the fight, and with that the last Lord of Cinder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg9DHXgHdSU

Next, time for optional areas and the two DLCs.

hk, to random
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There is something incredibly beautiful in the world of gaming, and it's the community effort. As in, I downloaded Arx Fatalis the other day for my Steam Deck, and it works like shit. Transparencies don't work, textures and models look horrible and don't align properly, configuration options are limited.
But it turns out there is a fan effort called Arx Libertatis that reworks so much of the technical side of the game that, once installed, allows you to play without problems.

hk, to random
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Just came back from watching Ghost in the Shell in IMAX. I still love the movie after all these years, and being able to watch it on the big screen (originally I watched it more then a dozen times from the VHS tape we had at home) has been such a treat 🥰

#GhostInTheShell

hk, to DarkSouls3
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All right, Aldrich, Devourer of Gods is dead! As with many other FromSoft bosses, once you figure out the "trick", it's reasonably manageable.

For Aldrich the key turned out to be going full Leeroy Jenkins on it, dashing like mad towards the boss, maybe dodge one or two close-range hits, tank some damage, and punish before it teleports to the furthest corner of the room. Rinse and repeat... and here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMptauchkxw

#DarkSouls3

hk, to DarkSouls3
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People: "Elden Ring's bosses are badly designed because they are way too aggressive and leave very little time for the player to counter-attack"

Me: I've just reached Pontiff Sulyvahn in #DarkSouls3 and... WHAT THE FUCK?? ER bosses are piece of cake in comparison to this!

hk, to random
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#Souldiers does several things right. The combat is good, the affinities and weaknesses system is fun...

But it does one thing terribly wrong, and it is too overstay its welcome. Each of the biomes is massive, but there's only a few ideas explored in each of them. You could cut back 30% of each biome and the game would work so much better.

By the time I complete an area, the feeling is relief at finally being done with that and being able to move on. Which is not a cool feeling to have.

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That's it, I give up on #Souldiers. I haven't beaten the final boss, and it's not a skill issue. The boss design is just bad, and it saddens me. Despite its flaws, I have been having fun with this game, and the pixel art is one of the best I've seen.

But this boss design leaves me with a very bitter sensation.

Anyway, credits rolling for Souldiers (on a YouTube video I'm watching), and on to the next adventure!

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