AndrasKrigare @ AndrasKrigare @beehaw.org

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Surprised to see New World in there, I'd thought it had imploded

I feel the same. Something about having agency in the game has never really made them scary for me, but I guess horror movies don't do it for me either so I guess it's just not my thing. I loved RE4, though; horror aside it's such a good game.

Laughs in static compilation

Their username

Heels are my pet peeve

If it were me, I'd find it easier to change the lore so you can do planar exploration at lower levels than to deal with all the mechanics and balancing of level 20 characters

2004 would have my vote. For the lazy:

• Halflife 2
• Halo 2
• World of Warcraft
• GTA San Andreas
• Counter Strike: Source
• MGS3
• Fable
• Star Wars Battlefront

And a bunch of other bangers

Time to add medium.com to the trash list

To reframe it, could you say why you think it would be okay to discriminate against a person you don't know because they share a cultural (and not necessarily political) association with a country they may or may not be a member of? And more specifically, what positive outcome there would be from that discrimination as opposed to protesting the actions and decision makers involved?

I already said, they can't compete on price. Cheaper prices will always be more than free. Same with interoperability, if you have the actual file you can run on anything. Group watching already exists.

More equal promotion of shows/movies and pay distribution don't actually help make the experience better for the consumer, that's more relying on the consumer behaving ethically and that they believe piracy is wrong. It only helps for the people who think it was only sometimes wrong, which I don't think is a huge group (although they are certainly the most vocal supporters of piracy)

Valve's only official said "multiple millions" and estimates are around 3 million

That's easy to say, but what can they actually do that provides a better service than piracy at this point? They can't compete on price, number of shows, or quality of shows with piracy by a long shot. They can potentially provide a better ease of experience with quick downloads and casting, but they already have that and I don't know that it can get any better.

As a general rule, I'd assume more piracy means less money into an industry, and less money in means fewer and less risky products that appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Extended family tired of moving her furniture:

Classic polar bear nimby

Extremely excited for Rise of the Golden Idol. Loved the first one, and one of the few games my SO enjoyed playing

In general, fantasy isn't my favorite setting, but this looks pretty cool and will definitely be keeping my eye on it. I'm curious if it'll keep NMS's general minimalist story structure or do something more akin to GTA with set built story elements/missions, and then a sandbox to explore in between

I get that doing things the "right way" can be difficult when in an existential war, but I'm having trouble thinking of any goals with these assassinations that aren't highly concerning.

I'd personally want to support making the player characters during session 0 (maybe not the full character sheet, but at least personality/background and class).

I've done campaigns where everyone came into the session 0 with their characters all ready to go and the idea of the characters being adjusted wasn't really brought up but more the rest of the aspects you mentioned. Differences and some antagonism between characters can make things really interesting, but at least in one of them two of the characters fundamentally wouldn't ever be in a party together. One of the players felt some cognitive dissonance in wanting their character to stay in the party, but not being able to find a rational reason they would, and kinda had to retcon their character.

I think those are all good points, but I think they're also potentially surmountable ones; I think the key would be to be as restrictive as necessary for which mods are allowed to charge. If only a small fraction of the most clear cut and expansive mods can charge, maybe even hand-picked by the developer, I think that's still a better state than it was before.

Some potential examples: a mod isn't allowed to charge if it has any mod dependency. Games supporting paid mods must support opt-out updates (steam already supports this easily via "beta branches) and mods have at least one version available to consumers that are guaranteed to work. Depending on the mod, it could be possible to do some automated regression testing, similar to how the Steam Deck verification works.

Most sushi places in Japan? At least in the US, I've only ever gotten dyed green Wasabi except in Hawaii.

Edit: Realized I meant to say "dyed green horseradish"