Aielman15 @ Aielman15 @lemmy.world

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SE releases have been all over the place recently. Sometimes it's PS exclusives, sometimes Nintendo exclusives, sometimes console exclusives, sometimes they release on PS and Nintendo but not Xbox...

I was an XOne user a few years back and it was exhausting. PC side it's a bit better, except that their flagship series is locked on PS for who knows how long, and then locked on Epic Store for one more year.

As a potential customer, I didn't feel exactly welcomed. I was interested in FFXVI, but didn't have a PS5 (I still don't). Now I don't have the time to play long-ass games anymore, which means that by the time it will finally be released on PC, I won't probably buy it.

I was someone who was willing to give them money, and they refused it time and time again. I'm sorry for their difficult situation, as Square has created some great games from my childhood that I will forever cherish (both as Square Soft and Square Enix), but let's be honest, this is their fault.

I hope they follow through with this decision, though. I doubt I'll be a customer, but maybe they'll make some kids as happy as I was when I was their age and playing those old FF titles. People deserve to play those games without being told to buy two different consoles and/or wait an eternity and a half for exclusive deals to expire.

I'm seeing a lot of former flash games coming to steam lately - I even grabbed a few, such as the Epic Battle Fantasy collection.

The Flashpoint Collection is great to relieve my childhood one flash game at a time, but it's nice seeing that some of those devs are still around, and having the option to support them for the fun times I had for free as a teenager.

It's not the devs' fault, it's Sony.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were told one thing three days ago, and another one now.

In just four months, they have lost Toys for Bob (developer of Spyro Reignited and Crash 4), Arkane Austin (Prey 2017), and Tango (Evil Within, Hi-Fi Rush). I wish I had the money to casually buy some great dev studios, including the makers of a GOTY contender, and casually kill them off a few years later.

I know they are in panic mode right now, but I honestly don't know what their plan is at this point. I doubt even they know. Watching the situation from the outside, it's almost comical how MS has mismanaged everything for years. I live in Europe and I've never seen Xbox marketed anywhere. GamePass is supposedly their priority, and barely anyone I know who is interested in gaming knows that it even exists. The whole deal with the service was delivering first party games day one, yet failed to deliver anything worth buying four years into the new generation, while most of what they actually released was already in the works prior the acquisition. They bought dozens of studios, and mismanaged every single one of them. Fuck, they couldn't even settle on the cover for their game cases for half a year after their new box released.

The only good thing out of this debacle is that people have finally realized how utterly incompetent Phil Spencer is. I remember the days when fanboys were parroting his lies and kept talking about how "Phil is a gamer just like us", just because he showed on the stage in a shitty t-shirt. Too bad it took xbox fucking dying for them to realize, but I guess it's better later than never.

I've spent far more time than I'm willing to admit on this thing. It goes much deeper than I thought at first.
I don't get why this is a free browser game - I wouldn't mind buying it on Steam or GoG. It truly is a wonderful experience, it reminds me of the time when I used to play flash games, but done better.

It doesn't matter though whether Homer is a single person or many, real or fictional. What matters is that we've not lost the context of the story.

We literally did. We don't know how much - if anything - written in the Homeric poems is true. If it did happen, we don't know when, only rough estimates.

For hundreds of years those poems were thought to be an accurate retelling of history, to the point that political diatribes between ancient Greek cities could be settled by consulting the Iliad.

If our civilization falls, there's no guarantee that our common knowledge survives. It could very well be that people see a lightsaber and think that we had the technology to build one.

It's not just about losing history, but also mixing it with incorrect/wrong retellings of the story and fake news.

For example, you mentioned Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey who lived 3000 years ago. Homer's existence is hotly debated, and even if he did exist, "he" probably didn't write both poems. It's far more likely that the Iliad and Odyssey were created as part of an extensive oral tradition by multiple travelling bards, who independently added, changed or removed verses; the story we know today as the Iliad is just one of many who happened to survive for a variety of reasons.

We also know very little of the broader trojan cycle (Cypria, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, etc...) of which only fragments have survived. It would be as if, 1000 years from now, only the original SW trilogy survived, and only pieces or fragments of the other movies/TV series in the expanded universe remained - And to be fair, even this example is wrong, because it compares the Iliad/Odyssey to the "original" trilogy, but there's no consensus about the relationship of the two Homeric epics with the broader epic cycle: as far as we know, they could have been created independently, and later edited to flow from one to the other seamlessly.

There are two types of dnd players.

Those who want to live the fantasy of being able to afford rent.

And those who want to fuck monsters.

Seriously. Why do gamers spend thousands of hours on games they hate. Life's full of shit to do. Go play something else. Or, God forbid, touch some grass. Why waste the little time you have on earth doing something you don't like.

Every character I play is secretly asexual, and I don't think anyone has realized yet.

The closest I went to come out of the closet was when my Undead Warlock married his Unseen Servant. It was his best friend, they looked up to one another, respected each other, and shared an exclusively platonic relationship.

He prepped the entire ceremony in secret as part of multiple sessions:

• He asked his mentor to put a 6th level Major Image inside his spell storing trinket, which he used to create the perfect setting for the altar.
• He took a dragon scale from the corpse of a dragon the party slayed, and spent money to have an engagement ring crafted out of it.
• He had a dress made out of very expensive material for the Unseen Servant.
• He put the Unseen Servant spell inside a custom wondrous item that gave him infinite casts of a 1st-level spell.
• He asked the party's cleric to cast Ceremony.

He then waited for the final battle, and the night before, he gathered everyone without telling them why, cast Unseen Servant, took out the ring and proposed to it. There were a lot of happy noises that evening, especially from the party's cleric :)

The character I'm playing now is a lawful good city watch who is "married to his job", and the Paladin has joked multiple times about taking him to a brothel. Bruh, take the hint.

If you're talking about Unity and Godot, the main difference is that one tried to scam their customers by unilaterally changing the terms of contract and requesting an asinine amount of money based on downloads (not purchases) of games made with the engine, without even having a system in place to keep track of them.

The other is Godot.

A warforged that escaped the war, met another defector, and together tried to start a new life. Unfortunately, the kingdom sent assassins after them in order to silence them and make sure that they would not switch sides. The human died, but the warforged lived on, carrying with it the remorse of not being able to save them. To honor its friend, it kept the nickname that the human gave it - Hector, which was a pun based on its model name (Tactical Heavy Operations Robot, model H -> H, T.H.O.R. -> Hector).

Survivor's guilt was the main idea behind the build: It was a Fighter Rune Knight built to tank damage and protect its allies as better as it could (Heavy armor master, Interception fighting style, Cloud rune).

Tanking damage is not optimal in DnD (killing the damage dealer is always the best choice) but it was meant to be a low-level one shot, so it was fine. Unfortunately work, family and other real life issues got in the way and the party wasn't able to convene on a date where everyone could gather and play for four hours straight.

I wrote my opinions here:

https://lemmy.world/comment/4184181

Long story short: i like the idea, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired, and it's basically unusable at this point. It's very unbalanced, some buildings are clearly more useful than others, and having one bastion for each player is overkill. It also requires the campaign to stick to a very specific time schedule (a few weeks per level) that I honestly find very difficult to fit in any of the pre-existing modules, and certainly not any of the homebrew campaigns I've played with my friends.

People were bitching and moaning twenty years ago about midichlorians, a one-off throw away line that nobody knows it even exists, outside of huge Star Wars nerds.

As for the racism and sexism, it's despicable, but nothing new. The "new" thing is the internet giving a place and validation to all those deranged individuals, who share controversial takes and create circlejerks and echo chambers where those controversial opinions are upvoted.

I'm a very early Gen Z and I feel like a boomer lol

I do nerd things alone at home or maybe with a friend or two. DnD live shows, people traveling to play/watch e-sports... It's all so foreign to me. I don't feel resentment, but shock and disconnection are always present when I read headlines such as these. Like, I wouldn't dream in a million years to pay money to watch someone else play DnD, but then again, video game streamers exist. I can't wrap my head around this!

And just to be clear, I'm not bashing the people enjoying this form of content. I'm just expressing my disbelief at the fact that it exists at all. If I didn't know better, and saw something like this in a movie, I would call it fake and detached from reality. When in fact, I'm the one detached from my generation. Then again, I don't have any social media and I'm writing my thoughts on Lemmy, so I'm clearly not an example of what my generation looks like.

"Guys, homebrews are allowed, but please, choose something that's viable and not too abstruse."

"No worries! By the way, I found this homebrew class in DanDWiki and it seems really cool, can I use it?"

DM screams and cries

When I was a child, I was the one pirating stuff for my parents.

I would pirate music and movies, and then we'd listen to/watch them during our long vacation trips. We had a small cd/dvd reader with a very, very small built-in screen, and we'd watch the movies on that thing.

I also used to pirate all kinds of stuff for me and my brother. Videogames, animes, movies, you name it. Nowadays I've legally bought most of the stuff I pirated when I was a child (everything that can still be bought legally; I won't give money to greedy second hand sellers).

I thought technology was becoming common knowledge, yet I was surprised to see how many friends and people of my age still don't know how to open a .zip file or play a console game on an emulator.

Azura is just Tasha from another realm, change my mind.

Aged like fine wine.