gerryflap

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

Idk, it doesn't really bother me. I've never been a picky eater. I used to just buy microwave meals basically every day, maybe cooking some simple pasta in the weekend. But I've become a bit more health minded and since I'd basically eat everything anyway I might as well throw some simple stuff together with a lot of vegetables and as little processed food and added sugar as possible.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I cook for multiple days, so the same as yesterday and the day before. I was lazy so I bought some pre-cut vegetables (like 800 grams), some vegan chicken replacement, and a red pepper, cooked some rice and added soy sause and some spices. It turned out very nice, apart from the red pepper which is a bit too spicy for my very Dutch tastebuds. Eating this is like russian roulette, every bite will either be very nice or will put my mouth on fire.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Oh this is useful information, thanks!

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Forgot the number, but one of the most common Logitech ones. Right now I'm not even getting past the first hurdle though, which is getting Assetto Corsa with Content Manager and mods to start. I spent a few hours on it and then decided that I had better things to do with my time

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Both. I'd prefer Linux because it respects me as a user, but unfortunately too much stuff constantly breaks to fully convert. The moment I can play Assetto Corsa with all my mods using my wheel in VR I'll consider fully switching. Many other games already work though, so I'm slowly converting to using Linux as my default and Windows as the exception instead of the other way around.

(I use Arch btw)

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly. I used to think like this when younger, but I now see how stupid this mentality is. Basically anything we care about as humans is "non-productive". Music, art, video games, musicals, movies, sports, etc. just because I don't care about something doesn't mean that it's not important to someone else.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

Not really. It's just as irrational. Why destroy something because you lost a video game? I've been frustrated before due to a game, but never anywhere near frustrated enough to destroy something that I paid a lot of money for and am very happy with. At most I'll slap my desk or something, but that's nowhere near hard enough to have any effect.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

I think it'd because the Trackmania arcade mode doesn't really let you affect anyone else. Everyone in the server is obviously trying to go as fast as possible,and to a degree also get as high up on the session leaderboard as possible, but you can't ruin each others laps. And while finishing high on the session leaderboard is nice, the overall goal for everyone is to get a good enough time on the map in general. To beat your own PB, to get all medals. So essentially the real opponent is your past self. This leads people to get quite cooperative. Having discussions about how to tackle certain parts of the track, congretulating each other with setting a new PB, etc.

Playing against random people and especially with random people in other competitive games seems to generally get toxic. People blaming you for ruining their game, people getting mad. To me it's very stressful. Even if I know that it shouldn't affect me, and I'm never going to meet them again, it still does affect me negatively

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At the moment basically anything competitive/ranked. I don't want to compete online anymore because I know that I'll have to go on an insane grind to get good. Only exception is trackmania because it somehow doesn't upset me quite like other ranked online games. But even then I only play the "arcade" mode and not ranked

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

Interesting how experiences can be so different. To me Jedi Survivor was an improvement over the first game, which I already enjoyed a lot. As far as I can remember you keep most (if not all) of your abilities. In the first game Cal has almost nothing after he essentially cut himself off from the force after the trauma of order 66. It's and entirely reasonable explanation of Cal not having most normal Jedi abilities.

Survivor also has better combat, because of the new abilities and weapons, better graphics, and better traversal (looking at you, Zeffo). While I really like the story in Fallen Order as well, I also think that Survivor is better overall. It's not as clear cut as good vs evil. There's many different factions and people with different goals. In the end, it's about everyone just trying to survive the tyranny of the Empire, whatever it takes.

The games definitely does feel very "gamey" though. There's a lot of places where it's clear that things are only the way they are because this is a video game. But to me that's okay. A game doesn't always need to be the most realistic and life-like experience. I don't mind that a specific puzzle is totally unrealistic and clearly only there to force you to solve it. I can imagine that some people will not enjoy that though, and that's okay.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lemmy generally attracts the same kind of person that would also use Linux. Both of them are open source and community driven alternatives to software otherwise provided by large corporations and milked for every last cent. Both of them require just a bit more knowledge in order to comfortably use them. Linux with all the distro's and desktop environments, Lemmy with all the instances and apps/front-ends. We're very much a bubble here.

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