It sounds like a clever provocation, and he probably made sure it catches attention before they can silently move it under the carpet. He didn’t do any crime, he even proposed compromises to make it seem OK and followed official procedures, so they can’t (now, publicly) presecute him by law, but it offended their homophobia that much they found nothing more clever than dropping him into a mental yard instead of, like, declining his idea for some made up reason. What’s that if not a high-risk high-reward prank activism? At least, we now know that the state of Pakistan loses it’s shit over him touching that nerve.
Oh, and this time you’ve got some fun toys to play with like the Atlan, a “daunting skyscraper-sized mech capable of toppling Hell’s behemoths with titanic metal fists” and a Mecha Dragon to fly around on too.
And Doomguy has a shield (is he a coward?) and a morgenstern-hook like on Ethernal’s shotgun for more scripted actions, and probably more QTEs. And they dive deep into the ‘lore’ of Doom showing us some of his previous incarnation, so await cutscenes and tell-don’t-show about how gorgeous the Doomguy is instead of you actually being him.
Good good boomer shooter genre is here and old games are still accessible. Probably Machine Heads who remastered Quake and added their own episodes are more equipped to do real Doom games than the remains of Id.
One of the weird realization for me as I learnt English and listened to authors who contributed to these games, is that many remastered their tracks to exclude swear words and obvious mentions of drugs, or was it EA specialists? NFS Underground and Most Wanted games were filled with rap and metal, but still got rated for teens...
I know about that, but these are not clean radio-friendly versions that were published on CDs by producers, they are special versions created for these games. That’s what irked me. And with DP’s track they’ve been done noticeably choppy by either artists or EA sound designers. That’s not something very important, but that exists.
One idiotic country blurs ciggaretes in the scene and grays out the rainbow for some reason. There’s probably no limit to censorship shenanigans.
With the clearly stated lack of evidence, I have no problem imagining russian teachers to be worthy of the ЧМО ебаное title. It’s surprising that distribution of the worst people I know is unevenly collected under that profession. I’m still wondering why.
After watching TOS and TNG and being quite meh on every second episode, this show hits me as hard as the X-Files on my first watch. 90s shows are the millenials’ holy grail. I greatly enjoy that we don’t observe one crew, but have stellar, likeable or problematic favs in Ferengi, Bajoran and Cardassians. There the ‘gray moralty’ peaked.
I have identity problems and a low self-esteem ): I dislike my original name-handle, but I didn’t come up with anything better yet.
My favorite episode of it is the Kill Switch, s5e11, co-written by William Gibson, the dad of cyberpunk the genre. If you’d have a movie night, couple it with Field Trip and Via Negativa episodes, but don’t do any drugs because all three episodes are really weird on their own.
But other than big hits episodes it’s just as comfy as ST or SG. Season 2 has some more creepy monsters, but it’s all about dreaming of what if there’s another conspiracy behind the conspiracy and the truth about little green\gray men are somewhere out there. Bonus is that the series are gender-swapped compared to its’ predecessors, and Scully is the source of rational disbelief and practical objections, while Mulder always acts on his feels and values. Thanks to that, it feels somehow refreshing and validating.
I’m surprised Смута’s even been released unlike hundreds of such projects, but instead of dunking on this half-cooked product that can thank UE5 for it’s looks - the only thing reviewers mention in a positive light - one thought captures me more. That this game for some reason took the weirdest period possible for a hyperpatriotic game. I urge you to read about it, it has so much potential for the opposite. In my mind, a set of white subtitles flashes over black:
The mad king is dead.
Moscow is weak.
Would you be dare to take it?
After a stroke of psychotic and delusionary policies of Ivan IV, that country took a nosedive into a violent disorder when a lot of parties, including poles, several fake sons of a dead emperor and nobles taking their turn of establishing their rule, and the new dynasty of Romanovs who won in the end weren’t any better.
That makes an insanely good ground for a macchiavellian powergrab simulator as well as a sim of administrating a rogue land that’s fed up with that bullshit. A medieval New Vegas, if you will. With no laws but the ones you can establish.
That’s the least fitting setting for their imperialistic masturbation.
There are whole businesses around buying stuff on Steam\PSN adverised in every second games-related video on YT. I wonder if they can be specifically targeted. I’m sad I can’t legally buy some titles I followed but, well, that doesn’t even make it to get into my top 100 problems chart. I’m surprised local servers are still there and I’m allowed to dig through my backlog. For some reason, I don’t feel sorry about these 20k.
Steve Huffman is a pissy piggy boy because he killed the API (just to sell this now exclusive data for cheap), like his hero Muskie did. Many of us ended up here not because of our data being sold, but because he gated how we can use the platform, besides other weird decisions. There’s no monopoly on hoarding Lemmy’s data, it belongs to everyone, and everyone can scrap it. What irks me and others is that he claimed it as his property, what is probably right by their EULA, but hasn’t been done in years Reddit existed.
Because they produce it anyway for various companies and then have their specific product lines, equipment, everything they aren’t ordered to destroy and can reuse? Because IP laws are in a weird place there and many international relations are decided by the party, that have local production interests’ in mind? Because they are actually good at R&D but as an economy oriented towards global market they choose to play safe and instead produce X but cheaper, dumping the price, as most of us won’t buy anything original coming from there with that rep you yourself state?
Forgotten Weapons channel (that has a dedicated c/ommunity on Lemmy) reviewed a couple of their old brandless Type-something guns and the thing with them wasn’t that they were blindly copying soviet guns, but tested and mixed components and ideas from different ones to achieve their goals, with one of them being standartization, and using the factories that are already running with small correction to their work rather than starting from the scratch. They adapt what works and produce it in bazillions of units.
I’m not a China fanboy and dislike their regime, but there couldn’t have been a strong chinese economy without western companies chasing after cheap labor there. This golem was on clay feet before, but after a while it gained some independence. Not many companies who entered there balls deep can pull it off without a significant loss.
I know nothing of Chinese, but there should be a common name for their vagina dentata politics that make even pronounced enemies been dependant on them.
OP means Wordpress.com, a hosting website and a constructor using Wordpress.org engine. VPS solves it completely, but they don’t find paying for hosting worth it.
In spite of you saying it’s not for you, I think that finding a cheap hosting for your blog is the easiest solution there. With some effort you can export your Wordpress.com site onto an actual free WP engine they sit above. Then, with plugins, here come autoreposts to other social media and whatever you want. Low traffic means you can choose an options with the lowest price.
As a bonus you can also host your portfolio page, get personalized email addresses, a VPN server to wherever it’s hosted, and basically an environment you can put anything to, even your own Lemmy instance.
On the latter - the population of federated platform is very small but super loyal, and also lacking content. So I feel that even if you won’t consider making or renting your own server, establishing your blog here can get you a lot of interactions. Probably, some admins won’t mind if you make your own /c/ommunity for that as long as it’s not abandoned.
It’s probably they don’t want to dive nose deep into all individual cases and local shenanigans* about that and probable scams that can occur. You can take other person’s account if you have both password and email access, they don’t oppose that under the table, but they don’t want to be a party in account transit because it makes them responsible for that.
Is it legal what’s described in one’s last words, can these games be lawfully transfered as they are under both legal code and game licensing agreements? If there’s no more living relatives, would Steam transfer your purchases to the government? Or if the inheritance is disputable between two parties, should it decide anything there? They let anything happen as long as they aren’t involved.
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I mean, some game studios consult child psychologists and lawyers to better implement addictive gambling-like mechanics without being liable for that. Media does impact the consumer, and the bigger the initial predisposition, the worse the effect, and kids like shiny animated casino boxes. But violent games that do reach the market and aren’t dead on arrival are mild in that and can only supplement other, more real problems like mental health issues, trauma, neglect, bullying. And in 99.9% cases it’s just an excuse to push them under the carpet. Like, from drawing a line to what makes older demographics cause daily mass shootings. Not videogames, not even guns mostly, but the environment and culture as a whole.
We can log active processes and services, windows’ headers and states, their and mouse’s position, integrate it with one’s git versions’ and browser view’s history, history of all file relocations done by select programs or\and by user. If there’s an AI assistant like M$ Autopilot, also log every request and output in a text form, log keys, back up settings and configs. If we talk about screenshots, pure text table is as light as a feather and is easier to work with, so this 3sec delay looks like an overkill, even though they’d find a way to compress it. With enough data, it’s probably easier to take time and reconstruct an approximate screencap than hoard it.
I imagine dragging your position on a timeline across entire months may be a fun novelty. But I don’t see myself having a reason to use it and prefer to lose information over logging so much of it even if it’s secure.
China has begun its second day of military drills targeting Taiwan, in what it says is punishment for “separatist acts” after the inauguration of its new president on Monday....
Playing Devil’s advocate there, but there are probably three reasons: it’s expenaive, they want their best hand picked men and vessels to rattle the sabble without potential fuck ups, they need to toy the line between acting too small and too big so they are scary but no one thinks they are here for real and other countries should get involved.
Beijing say the drills are a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts,” three days after Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te was sworn in. Taiwan has condemned the “irrational provocations.”...
I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...
This also ties back to the survival aspects I mentioned earlier, because I also felt like equipment was much more important in Fallout…
Pretty much agreed with everything and this paragraph is probably why I am picking Fallout and (partially) TES3 for I like the opposite than you and OP, and both sides are valid. My journey is of sharp spikes of interests when I find a new shiny thing or mechanic, even if it’s not my speciality, rather than a smooth gradual progression that puts an accent on a character you nurture. On that distinction, it sound like playing the mechanical part of an RPG like an arcade\action game.
Al Capone was originally jailed for tax evasion. 45th would be jailed for being greedy and not giving up papers when even the first batch was discovered, cementing his intent. Both are criminals, but only one is a federal case level moron.
Ukraine will receive the first delivery of funds stemming from the revenue of frozen Russian assets in July, the European Commission said on May 21....
Right. There were probably battles around that but not giving up any ‘nazi gold’ is a long-standing rule that makes even the worst states keep their money here. Freezing the assets and letting the interest go is bigger than it seems.
As most of us play games, we sometimes encounter elements or routines that suck all the fun from a shipped product. They can be a dealbreaker, so it’s better to be aware of them. I’d exclude platinum challenges and MTX as they are their own beasts, and start with a couple of examples I hated in older titles:...
That’s not small at all. You undid the failing concept that devs there couldn’t see or were too entangled with it to get rid of it. That’s really cool.
Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Russia mocks Macron following EU election defeat (www.politico.eu)
Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election....
controversial rule (lemmy.world)
DOOM: The Dark Ages announced for Steam in 2025 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
The First Borderlands Movie Clip Looks Like An SNL Skit (kotaku.com)
Today, during IGN Live, we got our first real look at the Borderlands movie, and folks, I’m not sure this is going to be very good....
Anyone notice the PS1 and Dreamcast are designed similarly in a way? (lemmus.org)
NFS OST remade for kids
One of the weird realization for me as I learnt English and listened to authors who contributed to these games, is that many remastered their tracks to exclude swear words and obvious mentions of drugs, or was it EA specialists? NFS Underground and Most Wanted games were filled with rap and metal, but still got rated for teens...
Read in Odo's voice for full effect (i.imgur.com)
Crimean students’ grades lowered for not writing 'thank you letters' to Russian soldiers invading Ukraine (khpg.org)
Star Trek's Putln (sh.itjust.works)
Even Quark chose not to follow him.
Nightmare Kart, the Bloodborne-inspired PSX-styled racing game, is out now (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Direct link to the game: b0tster.itch.io/nmkart
month rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
The Russian state spends $10,000,000 to make the worst RPG of 2024 - video by Warlockracy (www.youtube.com)
Helldivers 2 may have triggered a wave of bans for 20,000 Russian and Belarusian Steam accounts (www.pcgamer.com)
Even Spock can't hold it in... (lemmy.world)
Biden gives Ukraine permission to carry out limited strikes within Russia using US weapons (www.cnn.com)
Unspoken rule (sh.itjust.works)
Discovered my rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
China’s military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs (www.cnn.com)
Coming soon to a western military near you…
Need to have my eyes checked Rule (discuss.tchncs.de)
Paghlogh bertlham lut (lemmy.world)
Biden, Trump Die 2 Minutes Apart Holding Hands (www.theonion.com)
18+ What's does "ffmpeg" really stand for? (lemmy.world)
Out shopping, found this: (lemmy.world)
Blogging in the AI era
Is it possible to blog in the AI era?...
You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will (www.pcgamer.com)
SO MUCH DEDITATED WHAM (sh.itjust.works)
lego rule (lemmy.ca)
what the hell does this mean
Food Rule (lemmy.world)
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Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Microsoft Recall takes constant screenshots of everything you do (www.osnews.com)
China testing ability to ‘seize power’ in second day of military drills around Taiwan (www.theguardian.com)
China has begun its second day of military drills targeting Taiwan, in what it says is punishment for “separatist acts” after the inauguration of its new president on Monday....
China holds military drills around Taiwan as a 'punishment' (www.dw.com)
Beijing say the drills are a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts,” three days after Taiwan’s new President Lai Ching-te was sworn in. Taiwan has condemned the “irrational provocations.”...
Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?)
I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...
Additional classified records found in Trump’s bedroom after Mar-a-Lago search (thehill.com)
European Commission says Ukraine will receive first payment of revenue from frozen Russian assets in July (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine will receive the first delivery of funds stemming from the revenue of frozen Russian assets in July, the European Commission said on May 21....
Let's talk gamedesign blunders (pre MTX)
As most of us play games, we sometimes encounter elements or routines that suck all the fun from a shipped product. They can be a dealbreaker, so it’s better to be aware of them. I’d exclude platinum challenges and MTX as they are their own beasts, and start with a couple of examples I hated in older titles:...
I finally found a rule worth posting (corndog.social)
I don’t think my lurking counts as breaking the rules, I’m just fulfilling my commitment late.