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Self insert power fantasy recommendations? in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not an RPG but how about Lollipop Chainsaw?

It has hordes of enemies you can slaughter (which provides a certain kind of relaxation, to be fair) as a pretty girl who possibly looks like you maybe, and you can see boobs.

I never actually played the game (although I'm interested in playing it) but it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Roll call.... what country are you from? in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Portugal.

Parrying Is The Best Thing In Video Games in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Just wanted to add a couple of things: the game is Street Fighter 3rd Strike, where you can die due to chip damage. What this means is that even if you block special moves (like Justin's Chun-li did) they still do damage, the aforementioned chip damage.

So Daigo Umehara, the Ken player, had no option other than parry or he would lose the game and Justin Wong, the Chun-li player, would advance to grand finals. Parrying in 3rd Strike is done by inputting forward as opposed to blocking which is done by inputting back. More specifically you have to press forward in a 10 frame window. Since 60 frames equal a second, you have a window of 1/6th of a second to input it and you also cannot hold forward, otherwise you won't be able to use parry for the next 23 frames.

So if Daigo had held forward to parry the remaining hits of Chun-li's attack, he'd die from chip damage (I think). What he did instead was manually parrying every single hit of the attack AND he also parried the attack in the air, which is even harder to do because in the air the frame window is halved (so you have a 5 frame window, or 0,5/6th of a second if my math doesn't fail me), which doubles the difficulty.

And just to add to this: Daigo had actually done it in a match before but it wasn't recorded. Also, the number 37 was chosen at random to make it seem as if there were a lot more hype moments like this. Also also Justin Wong, aside from being one of the best fighting game players of all time, has always been (as far as I know) a cool sport about this, even encouraging people online to do the Daigo parry whenever he plays 3rd Strike just so players (the ones who know how to do it at least) can sort of be a Daigo for a moment.

If you want to know more, I suggest this video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36m-teYaQmE

P.S.: Daigo would go on to lose in the grand finals. But nobody cares about that, to be honest. I don't even know who won it.

Parrying Is The Best Thing In Video Games in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

One of the most iconic moments in video game history.

Catchiest video game song? in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hell March! The Red Alert 2 version is the best one to me, maybe because it was the first I heard or because it just feels punchier.

Catchiest video game song? in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

I can't pick just one, honestly. Aside from the Tetris theme and World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros., I consider these to be not only catchy but also iconic:

What's your favourite comedy show atm? in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I actually watched the first episode of The Inbetweeners yesterday and I loved it. I saw my teenage self more times than I care to admit in that episode.

Looking for mellow covers of heavier music in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

You can switch backends if one isn't working for you.

As for Tori Amos, this cover is off her Strange Little Girls album, a cover-only album she released in 2001. I've read it's a bit inconsistent though.

Looking for mellow covers of heavier music in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Tori Amos did a fantastic cover of Raining Blood.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/europe@feddit.org

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For those who aren't familiar with this wank stain, the first time he was in the hospital, he was moved to a special care unit because, in the words of another member of his party, "you wouldn't want him to be placed in the same room as a gypsy, would you?!" ( source in portuguese).

Then again, the "gypsy" would probably beat the shit out of him as soon as they could, which is fine by me. Chat shit, get banged, and all that.

How come nobody has forked Mumble to create a better Discord alternative? in c/foss@beehaw.org

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Okay, what's the biggest and most active gamer community on Matrix?

As far as I know, https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/ . I'm sure it's not as active as whatever Discord communities you're in but it's fairly active and actually friendly.

[SOLVED] System freezes at boot and I'm not sure if it's a software or hardware problem in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I use mkinitcpio. You mean regenerating the initramfs? If so, yeah I've done that a few times without much success. I suppose reinstalling the bootloader could be an option but I've tried using a live ISO from another distro (Ubuntu) and the problem still manifested itself. But it is something to keep in mind, so thanks.

Anyway, so far it seems to be a faulty PCIe slot, so I changed the GPU to another slot and things seem to be working fine. But I'll wait until tomorrow to do a final edit to my post.

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[SOLVED] System freezes at boot and I'm not sure if it's a software or hardware problem (europe.pub)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi!

I've already posted in the Arch Linux community on lemmy.ml but I'm also posting it here for additional visibility. I'd cross-post it but I don't think PieFed has that option yet. Hopefully it's okay.

Anyway, a few hours ago today, when I turned on my computer, went to the systemd-boot boot loader, chose "Arch Linux" from the list of boot entries, I was faced with a system that is stuck at boot as seen from the image I uploaded.

So far, I've tried disabling Overdrive by editing the kernel parameters at boot, and by booting an Arch Linux live ISO to no avail. As in, I'm stuck at the same stage of the booting process, even when using the aforementioned live ISO. Which means I can't really boot into the system.

This happened before, like, a few months ago. I either booted with a live ISO and executed mkinitcpio -P, or just did a hard reset, as I waited for a kernel, GPU drivers or mesa update. About a month ago, it stopped happening and the system booted fine. I don't really know what fixed it, sorry. Until today, that is.

I'm at a loss of what to do aside from either reinstalling Arch Linux or installing a different distro. I really don't want to do that, though, as I haven't really done any backups of my config files, and I'm generally happy with how I've set up my system. The fact that the live ISO didn't work also made me think of a hardware problem, namely the GPU, which complicates things even more, as I don't have a spare one.

Some information about my hardware:

GPU: Radeon RX Vega 56
Motherboard: ASUS Prime X470-Pro
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

I ran # pacman -Syu last night so everything is up to date. Not sure how relevant this is but I'm using the radeon open-source drivers.

Hopefully all of this was somewhat clear and if there's something I missed, please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Changed the GPU to a different PCIe slot and everything's working fine so far. I'm not celebrating just yet because when this first happened a few months ago, I'd hard reset the PC and everything would work fine. But if I shut it down and let it pass like 12 hours before I'd power it on again, the problem would reappear. So I'm just basically waiting for tomorrow now.

Final EDIT: Yep, it was the PCIe slot. Left it powered down for about 12 hours, booted it up and everything works fine. Thank you again to everybody who chimed in with suggestions.

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[SOLVED] System freezes at boot and I'm not sure if it's a software or hardware problem (europe.pub)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by HarvesterOfEyes@piefed.social to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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Hi!

Half an hour ago today, when I turned on my computer, went to the systemd-boot boot loader, chose "Arch Linux" from the list of boot entries, I was faced with a system that is stuck at boot as seen from the image I uploaded.