SimplyTadpole 4d ago • 100%
That really fucking sucks, I'm so sorry you have to deal with this bullshit. Landlords really are the worst.
SimplyTadpole 5d ago • 95%
Oh my god, tell me about it.
Even when you want to rent a place and can afford to do so, landlords make the situation really difficult because many of them put up places supposedly for rent, but make it as difficult as possible for someone to actually qualify to rent it, since they're only doing it to inflate their net worth and having someone living there apparently devalues it. It took me over a year to find a place that actually was willing to let me rent it because most others would cook up bullshit reasons to reject me (my personal favourite being one that got mad at me and put me in their blacklist for... asking too many questions about their property???).
Like... I have money. They are offering a good in exchange for money. I am willing to spend money in exchange for this good. It shouldn't be this hard.
SimplyTadpole 6d ago • 83%
This was a great review, thank you for sharing. I've been meaning to play Fallout 4, but as someone who loved the worldbuilding of New Vegas, the story puts me off.
What I'd really like is a mod that removes the game's main storyline, so I can either focus on the adventuring/settlement-building aspects (thus turning the game into a sandbox), or combine it with good story mods and basically have them replace FO4's main questline. The only mod I know that does it is Fallout London. (I really need to figure out how to run it on Linux...)
Do you happen to know or recommend anything that fits with what I'm looking for?
SimplyTadpole 1w ago • 100%
I never heard of it, I'm intrigued now. Do you remember what it was called?
SimplyTadpole 1w ago • 100%
It's in the Workshop! Here you go: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3293418308
SimplyTadpole 1w ago • 100%
I really need to get more into Project Zomboid, I really love its Sims-like aesthetic and early 90s setting. But the whole zombie apocalypse thing quite scares me since I'm pretty terrified of the idea of being eaten alive by a zombie horde and then becoming a zombie @_@ (the end of the tutorial shook me to my core, lol)
I actually made a little "modpack" collection and sandbox game mode that turns it from a zombie apocalypse game to something more like Silent Hill (replacing zombies with eldritch entities, and making them spawn less frequently and move slower, but be far more resistant to damage), since that ironically makes the game less terrifying for me and more manageable to play 😅 (plus I quite like liminal spaces in general, which is something I wanted to replicate with the mod collection)
SimplyTadpole 3w ago • 100%
This is currently me with modded Kerbal Space Program and Cities: Skylines lol
SimplyTadpole 4w ago • 100%
I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol
SimplyTadpole 4w ago • 100%
I don't know how or why, but I get absolutely atrocious stuttering while playing games on X11 that simply doesn't occur with Wayland, so X is just not an option for me.
SimplyTadpole 4w ago • 100%
It's moreso that they think "by the time shit hits the fan, I'll be long dead anyway, so I don't see why I should care". Ergo, pure, distilled lack of empathy, a "fuck you, I got mine" aimed at the future of every living being in our planet.
SimplyTadpole 1mo ago • 97%
As someone who has a big guilty pleasure for sports/performance cars and racing in general, this comic actually explains really well how I'm able to reconcile that with my dislike of car-centric infrastructure and wishing for better public transportation: without other means for getting around cities for people who don't care much about cars (i.e. most people), everyone will be forced to use cars for basic transport, meaning really clogged highways and traffic jams that directly affect you and your fancy sports car's enjoyment.
Conversely, if infrastructure was more accommodating for bikes, trains and buses to make them more viable, most people would use them, leaving the streets and highways freer for you to have fun driving your sports car the way it was meant to, instead of being stuck in traffic jams most of the time.
I just wish most people who are into cars realized this, instead of raving about how "they want to take away our cars!" and fellating Andrew Tate and other shitheads.
SimplyTadpole 1mo ago • 100%
Now I'm honestly kind of glad that I've been too lazy/depressed to figure out how to get FOLON to run on Linux. I really hope they fix all this...
SimplyTadpole 1mo ago • 100%
I'm fully out of the loop on what's going on, but I really hope the emulator doesn't shut down, I love my PS1 emulation...
SimplyTadpole 1mo ago • 100%
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 is my childhood game and I will always love it. I also like various other games from the NFS series, from the first one up to Carbon.
Not many newer racing games I like, but I do enjoy occasionally playing art of rally, Inertial Drift, Forza Horizon 4 and Wreckfest.
SimplyTadpole 1mo ago • 100%
As a fellow ace, I get your frustrations, I'm sorry you have to deal with this.
SimplyTadpole 1mo ago • 100%
Whoa whoa whoa whoa, WHAT? I don't use RetroArch most of the time (I find its UI rather inconvenient), but I had no idea its main developer was transphobic, can you tell me more?
SimplyTadpole 2mo ago • 100%
Appendicitis. I described it as feeling like a Chestburster from Alien was gestating inside me and ready to chew its way out of me at any second. I needed near-lethal amounts of painkillers while awaiting surgery to not feel like I was about to die.
For comparison, I broke my foot last year and it still wasn't anywhere near as painful as appendicitis.
SimplyTadpole 2mo ago • 100%
I'm not technically inclined at all, so the most duct tapey thing I can remember was hacking Gnome to use Nemo as my file browser instead of Gnome's default file browser once.
SimplyTadpole 2mo ago • 100%
I dealt with that too, sadly. Thankfully there is a mod that can alleviate it. (I'd link it but it'd also reveal spoilers...)
I spent the whole day flashing the MiyooCFW firmware onto it, customizing the menus, and testing which games ran well and which didn't (and constantly trying and failing to get Doom to run on it); I think I'm pretty happy with the end results now.
Hey folks, I've lurked on this community for a while now but haven't really posted anything until today. Sorry if this isn't really the right place to ask questions like this, but since this is a place for old games, I felt it'd be the most appropriate one... I've been wanting to re-live some of the games I used to play as a child, and I remember how, back in 2004-2006, there was this Spider-Man game I used to play as a kid but could never beat. Lately I've been curious if I could finally do it now. All I remember about it were three missions: * The first mission was some sort of "tutorial", where you'd have to use the web ability to swing across buildings and pass through a certain amount of these glowing green spider icons to clear the level. * The second(?) mission was about some robbers/thieves stealing a bank's armoured car and you had to capture all of them. * The third(?) mission was some sort of boss fight against a powerful guy who was apparently helping the thieves. I never got past this fight, he would always grab me - when he grabbed Spider-Man, I couldn't really do anything, he's just keep holding him and grunting occasionally; there might've been a key combination to break free from his grasp, but I didn't know at the time and always assumed it was game over and that I had to restart. I understand this is really vague, but my memories of this game are incredibly vague and I barely recall much more. I remember I played it on a computer at least. I couldn't find anything like it on Wikipedia's pages on Spider-Man games, so I'm wondering if it might've been an unofficial game or something like that?
I'm not joking, I actually hate April Fools and I am NOT looking forward to tomorrow... Sad thing is, I'd actually *like* April Fools if people made actually funny jokes with it, but instead it's always the same thing over and over with Discord mods thinking pinging everyone just for the sake of it is going to be funny
I wanted to play Test Drive Unlimited 2 multiplayer with the TDU World mod, but since I'm not one of the lucky few who owned the game back in the day (I was still a teenager when they shut down the game) I have to pirate it. Unfortunately, the tool required to do it while working with TDUWorld, 80_PA (https://github.com/Blaukovitch/80_PA ), doesn't want to work through Wine as it crashes immediately. It's a long shot, but has anyone here used it?
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