There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Vladkar

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Vladkar ,

Seriously, I went to Kohl’s yesterday and got two pairs of jeans, two shirts, and a pack of socks. The total was over $200 USD, and that includes sales.

I ended up returning the jeans and socks. If I were a fish I wouldn’t have legs anyway.

Vladkar ,

Will the real SLLM Shady please stand up?

Vladkar ,

When I was a freshman in college, I let this youth group convince me to visit their weird church. The “pastor” was a young guy who spent the entire sermon talking about how he squandered his time in college before eventually dropping out. Fortunately, the old pastor took pity on him and gave him a job as an assistant—running errands, cleaning, etc. Then one day the old pastor died, so our hero basically just took over since no one else wanted to.

When it was done he tried to sell us bags of stale coffee.

Vladkar ,

After looking up how much money my local megachurch took in last year ($60 mil) versus how much they spent on charity ($3 mil), I think you were probably justified.

Vladkar ,

Because the youth group was serving it with free donuts—it’s pretty much the reason I went. To be fair, they were really nice; it was just a bizarre experience. I didn’t realize you could just inherit a church and declare yourself a pastor without any formal training.

Vladkar ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9958a7b2-d777-4ae4-b99a-0a48d921a53c.jpeg

Vladkar ,

Surely this AAA-budget live service game with a terrible premise won’t faceplant immediately and force us to close the studio…but let’s make it an MMO, just to be safe.

Vladkar ,

That’s funny, I just watched a Tasting History episode that advised against death by misadventure.

Vladkar ,

Sounds like a rogue black hole

Vladkar ,

Man, I don’t know what I’d do without Aldi. Ironic that the best grocery chain in America is European, when the American Grocery Store used to be such a symbol of U.S. prosperity.

Vladkar ,

You’re not old until the music you don’t consider old becomes old.

Vladkar ,

I had to dissect a bunch of things in high school: a frog, a pig fetus, a cow heart, a cat… I’m still not entirely sure what the intent was. “Yup, the brain is in the right spot. Always good to check, just in case.”

If they want to teach kids knife skills they should do so in home ec. At least make something edible.

Vladkar ,

Sorry, best we can do is a premium (expensive) ad-free tier that still advertises our own products.

Vladkar ,

I recently had to fax a document to the government, which meant I had to print the thing, then pay $12 at OfficeMax to send it. Absolute bedlam.

Vladkar ,

Honestly, I’m not familiar enough with the world of faxing to know which apps are trustworthy, especially since the documents contained personal information. If I ever have to send another fax, I’ll consider it.

Vladkar ,

Mullet with headlights?

Vladkar ,

I have mixed feelings. On one hand, Lemmy seems to be finding its groove, and I genuinely feel like I’m part of a growing community. But there’s definitely something missing, and it’s difficult to put into words.

On Reddit, I tended to frequent specific subs, and rarely doomscrolled the front page. But that’s all I find myself doing on Lemmy. Most of my feed is either politics or memes, and nuanced discussion seems rare. New communities apparently have a hard time getting off the ground, and I think it’s mostly because decentralization makes discovery a hastle.

Reddit’s whole purpose is to aggregate content from other websites, whilst providing a central access point. This is antithetical to the very concept of the Fediverse, which is all about decentralization. I find myself wishing for an easy way to aggregate Fediverse content, so that I could access Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, etc. all in one place, regardless of whether they’re federated. Really, all the drama surrounding instances federating/defederating is obnoxious as an end user.

The apps are certainly better, though, and in general I’m enjoying myself.

Vladkar ,

LinkedIn reminds me of that scene in Men in Black where they discover a weird little society living inside a locker. But instead of a locker, it’s a job board.

What game do you recommend someone who likes the mechanics but not the setting of Baldur's Gate 3?

I saw people going on about how great BG3 is on this site, so I thought I’d check out a let’s play to see what all the fuss was about. I immediately fell in love with the graphics and the mechanics, such as the classes, races, spells, dice etc, but I disliked the emphasis on gore/horror in the game, and I know I wouldn’t...

Vladkar , (edited )

Dragon Age: Origins is pretty gory (for an RPG from that era.) Their whole marketing campaign was basically “look how bloody this game is—even our logo is made out of blood.”

Edit: I would recommend Wildermyth as a whimsical, party-based RPG that doesn’t include stuff like this.

Vladkar ,

Tbh, going outside to reconnect with nature sounds like a great idea for both kids and adults. Instead of investing in office nap pods and pizza parties, companies should start building jungle gyms and bring back recess.

Vladkar ,

If you’re a fallacious gambler, maybe.

Vladkar ,

Remember when Nintendo was panned for the name “Wii U”, and Microsoft saw that and said “hold my beer”

Vladkar ,

B̶U̶T̶T̶E̶R̶FLY IN THE SKY

Vladkar ,

Man, I’m the complete opposite. I find it suffers from the same problem that most of these survivalcraft games do — once you make it past the initial challenge, there isn’t much left to do besides decorate.

I’d really like to see some escalating challenge after you’ve established a base. Progressively difficult raids, bosses to conquer, deeper and darker dungeons. Something of that nature. The temporal storms are a good start, but after a while they become more of a nuisance than an actual threat.

Vladkar ,

An elegant weapon, for a more… civilized age

Vladkar ,

I doubt whatever he did could possibly be worse than wasting so much coloured ink

Vladkar ,

The only Prime show I can even think of is The Boys, which is worth a month subscription once a year or so whenever a new season drops. With so much competition and so little content, you’d think these streaming services would start offering better incentives for long-term subscriptions. Instead, they keep raising rates. Baffling.

Vladkar ,

To be fair, Max changes too. Almost every movie feels like it takes place in a completely separate timeline. Not to mention the 2015 game that’s heavily inspired by Fury Road, but has a different Max.

Vladkar ,

One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that sleep mask. What dreams of chronic and sustained productivity?

Vladkar ,

Their source is a reporter at Giant Bomb? GameSpot and Giant Bomb are owned by the same company.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have much faith in this remake, but citing the opinion of a guy who works for your sister company doesn’t seem like proper journalism.

Vladkar ,

Yeah, they’re both subsidiaries of Fandom

Vladkar ,

Um, ackshually, Tolkien makes no distinction between orcs and goblins, and Uruk-hai just means “Orc-folk” in Black Speech.

Vladkar ,

I always end up with some kind of potato man that looks worse than the presets, then immediately put a helmet on that never comes off.

Vladkar , (edited )

There are those of us who finished highschool, graduated college, and started careers in the games industry since Skyrim was released. I’m sure there are plenty of developers who cut their teeth on Skyrim mods now working for Bethesda.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •