Maybe heās trying to do some deadpan humor. I say obvious shit like this to my daughter all the time. Like the thing heās ācorrectingā here is that metaphors shouldnāt be taken literally. Itās so obvious that I have to conclude thereās a high chance heās just trying to do a self-parody here.
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I slept on Risk of Rain 2 for a long time but finally tried it out and damn, they did a great job converting the original from 2d to 3d.
Still picking away at Hades achievements, too. Iām at over 90% now and will trigger another one once I get back from my current run. 3 more after that: one grindy one, one gifty one, and one with a lot of heat. Might also go for 100% on the relationship bonds.
I somehow didnāt realize there were 3 of them lol.
But yeah, these are definitely games you need to stick with and unlock stuff for progression. I didnāt make it past like stage 2 or 3 until I had unlocked a couple other characters.
And with the way the items stack, you lose versatility but gain power if you use the 3d printer to convert all of your powerups into a single one (though not every powerup is worth it, at least I think). I still havenāt beaten the game for the 2nd one, but Iām making it to the last level more consistently now.
On the bright side, this is an el Nino winter, which are typically milder than normal (at least after its been going for a year, the transition ones like last winter arenāt as affected), so this isnāt necessarily the new norm and next winter might be more snowy.
But on the other hand, this is by far the mildest winter Iāve ever seen, and the last few winters have all been milder than the previous el Nino winter, so this could be the norm within a decade. And we still have an el Nino summer coming.
Ok, new bright side: itās an interesting time to be alive!
Also the part where his partner, who was talking to others across the street, rushed over all like, āwhat are we shooting at?ā and also opened fire on the police car with dude handcuffed in the back, though she didnāt dump her whole mag like the first one did.
Itās not even a āsteals your GFā. Itās more like āis in a poly relationship but will wingman for you with his partners even if he knows you arenāt poly and will try to get his partners to leave him. But they arenāt very interested, especially when you try to act like running Windows is a feature.ā
Another interpretation is to have sex (with your partner) nearby a condor having sex (with their partner). If thatās what they are asking about, I would advise against it, because birds are pretty quick at sex and you donāt want to be distracted with having your own sex when two condors get hungry after having theirs. Theyād probably even eat you all romantic-like and share both you and your partner Lady and the Tramp style.
Though for the āhaving sex without a condorā, it could just mean having sex with anything other than a condor. Which I would also advise.
Iāve played Kingās Quest V, so Iām something of an expert on condors. My general advice is āPrefer to do everything without a condor.ā Even if your best friend is an owl, they donāt gaf.
Iām just glad she lived in a time when a couple of people who had no prior experience with video games could just say, āLetās make a gameā and do it.
Though apparently it was the new corporate ownership of Sierra that frustrated her (though it could have been directly linked with the flopping of the game).
And apparently she was a part of a 3d remake of colossal cave adventure that was released in Jan 2023.
Yeah, at this point, AAA is a negative rather than a positive for determining if Iām interested in a game.
Though with how regular steam sales are and the size of my backlog, even an AAA game that looks good needs a steep discount for me to consider it. Iām ok with not trying 2024 games until 2034, Iāll just add it to my wishlist.
Hell, even if I see it at 90% off in 2028, I might just buy it and have it sit in my library until 2034 before I try it, anyways. Especially now that Iām pushing myself more to finish games rather than let myself get pulled in by the 20 next shiny things I see.
Not to mention seeing a AAA game at a AAA price with MTX on top of that makes me assume itāll be a shitty experience, even if they leave an in game way to get all of that stuff because I know that itās going to be tuned to incentivise people to just pay the money (aka grindfest). A lot of that psychological shit that pulled me into WoW so hard doesnāt work on me anymore because the first sign of it turns me off. Daily quests to ākeep me interestedā? I donāt want fucking video game chores to do. I now recognize the whole āhow do we keep players coming back to our game?ā question as inherently toxic, just like website engagement mechanisms.
The AAA market is filled with high-budget low-inspiration cash grabs. And the more influence investors have over companies to push them to make more money quicker, the worse the game is going to be. Investors need to be more patient than gamers.
I know Ubisoft likes to claim AAAA, but I interpreted that as them assuming the number of Aās is relative to the goodness of the game and using that to say it is a really good game.
The way I see it is that once the production quality gets to a certain level, the higher the odds are that the people who have the power to determine what that game will look like are out of touch with what makes good games.
And that pirate game sounds like a good example. The choices that ruined the game were likely made at the upper or middle management level by people who had only, at best, a passing interest at playing the resulting game.
Or parents/grandparents buying gifts for kids. As a parent myself, thereās price targets for gifts that AAA games fit right into. I deviated from it this past year and gave my daughter a cheaper game that I figured sheād like. It was a dinosaur-themed Harvest Moon called Paleo Pines. The bet paid off since sheās actually put down Minecraft to play this one rather than playing it for a bit and returning to Minecraft. Oh yeah, Minecraft itself isnāt AAA. So Iāve got decently high hopes she will avoid wasting her money on the polished turds a lot of the bigger studios are putting out now.
Itās funny because I came here wanting to make a comment about how that aspect of Indiana Jones didnāt really age well because itās emblematic of the West thinking we are custodians of the world.
Itās a shitpost intended to troll metal fans. But I think most instead got distracted by the question and arenāt paying much attention to the troll itself. The values might be another attempt at inducing rage.
Sorry, but my rage is being saved for the machine.
Can only see them once because Ticketmaster adds another $36 in fees, but this only shows up after youāve managed to get through the queue and if you think about it too long, youāll lose your spot.
Ah shit, sorry, they accidentally sold your tickets on their scalper site for $1244 (plus fees and taxes), but donāt worry, youāll get a refund.
I like to call them deadpan instead of sarcasm. Sarcasm has a tone to let others know that it isnāt serious, while deadpan relies fully on the content itself.
I had a lot more deadpan comments crash and burn on Reddit than here. And even in this case, someone just questioned the comment while it had overall positive reception. I think Lemmy generally gets deadpan.
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Disagree. The fact that Iām only hearing about it now that itās flopped is a good thing because I might have given it attention before. Well, probably not because itās EA.
I just hope that companies that arenāt EA donāt take what they say about single player games at face value. EA games probably need friend group hype to succeed at this point. Or maybe thatās just wishful thinking that there are many others like me who want to avoid anything from that company and thus would only play when pressured by friends.
But if EA does fail, there likely will be a period where they try to talk about it like experts and will just say, āoh, gamers must not like x genre anymoreā, when gamers really just donāt like overproduced garbage games that are clearly tuned to sell MTX rather than be fun.
When I first tried guitar hero, for some reason I thought I should strum using the side of my thumb. Iād have this swollen bump (thereās a word for this but it escapes me) where I made contact and thought I just needed to get used to it to get past that. It made sense to me because I knew there was toughening of the fingers involved in playing a real guitar (never mind that it had nothing to do with strumming).
I was doing double strumming and practicing for expert level that way.
When I realized I could instead use my thumb pad to strum down and finger pad to strum up, it was game changer. You treat it like itās a pick. Duh.
Or they want to bring it about faster because more problems mean more potential for profits or the chance to be a dictator of a dome city that probably wonāt be as stable as they are imagining theyāll be.
For every Keanu, thereās several Oprahs (someone who chases success no matter what awfulness it enables), Ellens (sociopaths abusive to their staff but friendly in public), Harveys (people who abuse their gate keeping of a pathway to celebrity to extort those who want to go down that path), and Christians (celebrities whose ego tells them they are superior to others who they work with).
And thatās not mentioning the Quentins (abuse actors in their search for perfect shots, assuming the abuse itself isnāt the reason), Alecs (producers who run such a lax safety environment that someone ends up dead), OJs (celebrities who literally get away with murder because of worship by law enforcement), Britneys (celebrity abused by those who were supposed to be protecting her at the cost of their mental health or even freedom).
Or the potentially worse kind of all, the Ronalds, or popular celebrities that take a role as the face of a political group so that their celebrity status and what people think they know about them because of their characters to greatly accelerate the consolidation of the economy under the wealthiest and social tools used to control those they deem ālesserā.
I had to replace my kitchen faucet and got a nice one. I installed it and was liking it until I looked at the insert that advertised some other products they had and then I wanted a whole new sink as soon as I saw a picture. Their sinks had ledges along the front and back so that you could place add-ons like strainer baskets or grills that would sit flush with the sink and could slide around. It also seemed so obvious that I canāt believe these crappy sinks are the norm.
Though I do prefer having a double sink (kinda wish I had a triple one tbh). Then you can do dishes in one and use the other to rinse instead of slowly filling the single sink more and more. Or let dishes pile up a bit in one sink without having to work around those dishes to do other things before you get to cleaning them. Plus it takes more water to fill a giant sink to the same depth as a smaller sink.
Though a bowl inside a giant sink also works. Just give me those ledges and add-ons for whatever my next sink is.
But what if you have more dildos than you have orifices? If itās a suction dildo, yes, it belongs stuck to a window, preferably a ground floor front one, but if itās not suction or you run out of window space and already have a centerpiece for your kitchen table, then a bookshelf is the next most natural place.
My guess is that WWII caused pretty much everyone in Europe to experience how horrible machine guns are for both the winners and losers while it still remained a bit abstract for those in the Americas.
Also, USA hasnāt been screwed over by an arms race yet, while Europe has.
Cāmon, youāre making Canada sound backwards like that. We have banks and they have safety deposit boxes large enough for several cartons of eggs.
I also keep eggs hidden around the house in case I get a midnight craving for an omelette and donāt feel like doing a midnight heist on my own eggs. Though I do regret the ones I hid under the couch cushions.
That style of censorship always struck me as ridiculous, too. It didnāt really avoid the word itās trying to avoid at all. It just avoids saying it outright while still making clear that the word is āfuckedā. Itās like someone wants to be edgy but is afraid of getting in trouble for it.
Then donāt buy games on release. Thereās no rush. Iāve been pretty satisfied just buying games I want on sale and have still built up quite the backlog mainly getting titles at 75%+ off. No Manās sky and subnautica were both just awesome games for me because the period where they were unfinished and disappointing was long past by the time I tried them.
And in my experience, toxicity doesnāt really encourage improving something so much as it encourages stopping to care how the toxic person feels about anything at all. Sometimes that caring even goes negative and the target of the toxicity can take pleasure in how much grief theyāve caused the person spewing out the vitriol.
Toxicity is for burning bridges, not encouraging better behaviour.
If someone is using a wish spell to make a better map, do you really think theyād just proceed to make that map freely available to everyone?
Also, even our maps have issues. Like projecting a sphereās surface onto a 2d image, you end up with scaling issues that make Greenland look as big as South America. You canāt take a string representing 100 km or something and accurately determine the distance between points in any global map. Some do it better than others (like the projection that tries to peel the earth like an orange and then flatten that peel in 2d), but even they lose some accuracy (you can only measure accurately if you donāt need to cross a tear in the āpeelā).
Adding a bit more to the discussion on whether game subscription can be āthe futureā, it looks like despite the heavy push made in the past decade, subscriptions only make up 10% of total video game spending in the US....
Any time I see someone use the term āfear mongeringā sincerely, I add a general heaping of salt to whatever they are saying. Itās often an attempt to turn the topic to the āevil motivesā of the āother sideā before the original debate is settled.
If thereās nothing to fear, that can be said without accusing anyone who thinks there is something to fear of trying to generate it for selfish reasons. In fact, Iād think that showing someone is fear mongering will be a greater burden than showing any particular thing they say is untrue, let alone a deliberate lie. But it gets thrown around so much lately as if itās an argument on its own.
I did have a honeymoon phase with gamepass. Now itās just a thing that keeps charging the monthly fee in the background but also reminds me of the list of games Iād like to try that it has each time I open it up to consider cancelling.
Theyāve figured out how to make money from me having a backlog, I just realized. I might have to open it again and compare the amount Iād pay for x months vs the expected sales price to just buy all of those games where x is how many months itāll take to clear my backlog. I donāt even have to open it to see that I should cancel, because x might be infinite. Hell, I could even just cancel it with the intent of starting back up if I manage to clear my Steam backlog if I want to lie to myself about eventually getting through my backlog.
I think heās saying that neither extreme is right. Subscriptions arenāt going to take over the entire market but they will likely continue to play a role going forward.
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If you liked the concept of captain forever but wanted more of a full game than an experience, try this one out. You build your ships with similar blocks but thereās factions with their own hull piece shapes and weapons and you can use a single ship or a fleet.
A warning though: itās like civ or grand strategy games as in youāll sit down to play for a few hours in the evening and suddenly the sun is coming up so I should save and exit right after I conquer this block over here.
At this point, I donāt know if Epic can get better than Steam in the ways that matter simply because they are clearly trying very hard to gain a dominant market position in ways that make it seem like they would abuse such a position, while Valve has had that dominant position for decades without abusing it. Valve is one of the few companies I trust these days. That trust is Valveās to lose, not any other competitorās to gain, though I am open to other adjacent providers (like Iāve got an xbox game pass sub, a ps5, and switch).
Copernicus deserves a mention. Galileoās problems resulted (in part) from him being a proponent of Copernicism after the church had declared it heresy.
Heliocentrism was suggested by Copernicus and Galileo built on that, including developing physics to the point where he couldnāt believe otherwise.
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