Essence_of_Meh @ Essence_of_Meh @lemmy.world

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Same here. I actively avoid watching Trump or his administration talk so seeing both him and Vance during this meeting was... exhausting to say the least. I can only imagine what was going through Zelensky's head throughout the whole thing. His face sure said a lot.

I watched some of the transmission and all I can say is my respect to Zelensky grew tenfold with that exchange alone.

Having to interact with these two clowns and still keeping his cool (as much as he was able to) requires A LOT of patience and will. It was horrifyingly stupid in a train wreck kind of way.

After not touching it almost since launch, I've decided to check out The Last Starship again. It's kind of a mix of FTL, Factorio and its own ideas, made by Introversion Software ( folks behind Prison Architect, Darwinia and other titles).
It's developed in early access, with regular and pretty enjoyable updates (just like PA) and is shaping up pretty nicely so far.

I still need to spend some more time diving deeper into all the new stuff added since my last playthrough but it feels just as fun as on launch so far.

We can only hope they won't screw up as well in the future.

I've been using Tuta for more than 8 years now and had one serious issue with their service during this time (longer outage, pretty early on). Other than that I have nothing but positive experience with them.
They're also based in Germany if that makes any difference.

I know, I'm just failing to be cheeky.

Don't diss i7-4790k, you'd be surprised how well it can run some modern titles!

It really depends on how fun do you find exploration and deduction to be. If you prefer games with more... curated direction, shall we say, then it might end up being more frustrating or boring rather than entertaining.
If you like to figure things out for yourself and take pleasure in exploring the world and themes of what you play then there's a good chance OW will click with you.

There's a lot of interesting stuff in this game but it's certainly not for everyone. You'll need patience, curiosity and some out of the box thinking to get the most out of it.

Starfield never really grabbed my attention so I thankfully dodged a bullet with that one.

So glad I didn’t pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).

No need to apologise, people should have the option to play games however they want.

Even if they do, I feel like both projects will have different enough approach to things to avoid making the other obsolete. Maybe... possibly.

I'll certainly take the unofficial remake over the Bethesda one due to lower requirements and lack of Creation Club. That, and I'm just more interested in the fan interpretation of Cyrodiil to be honest.

That's me with every Bethesda game I played. I don't even treat them as games to beat, just worlds to run around in.

That's not really a conspiracy theory. It's a pretty open, two pronged attack from both Russia and United States.
The former does its regular disinformation spam constantly. As for the US recently we had:

• JD Vance attacking European democracies for "being against free speech" (during a freaking security conference).
• ... and during CPAC.
• Twitter and Meta approving propaganda ads.
• Twitter (and TikTok) serving right-wing biased feeds to their German users.
  And much much more.

If we're talking about Musk specifically he:

• Took part in AFD's campaign meeting.
• Kept boosting AFD on Twitter before elections.
• Had multiple comments attacking democratic parties and saying that AFD should be the ones ruling Germany etc.

Neither side is even pretending they're aren't trying to upend democracies and replace them with far-right autocracies.

I think I managed to overcome my dislike towards teen drama in media and started approaching it from a place of empathy, at least to some extent, which makes it way more tolerable. Same with characters making stupid decisions in emotional moments. That doesn't mean I give a pass to every single piece of "stupid" or "illogical" writing but it helps treat what happens like a real event rather than "well they should do X like a perfect logical machine".

My relationship with LiS games is a bit weird. I loved both the first game and Before the Storm but for whatever reason couldn't muster any interest in any of the following titles. I don't know why that is but none of them managed to grab my attention again. Maybe the first two came out at the right time, maybe they struck a familiar cord - either way they became a pretty important part of my life as well. Probably not as my favorite games ever (this honestly changes depending on a day and my mood/headspace) but important nonetheless.

Hope you have fun! It's a pretty great game, as long as you can deal with teens being teens (I know some folks can't stand it).

Please do post your thoughts afterwards, I'm curious how or if your opinion changes after completion.

Yeah, I totally get it. Old (and only mid) games can be a real coin toss between fun and tedium. Quality of the game doesn't affect my enjoyment too much but I understand that it can be an important factor for others (and even that can vary between games).

I can see your point about the story and I would really love to approach it from this perspective, for some reason I'm just unable to do so unfortunately. No idea why, I just can't. I have a much easier time seeing a reason for a third game (rip) considering the ending of Madness Returns but we all know how that went.

Eh, yes and no. There's definitely a spectrum of how well a game stands the test of time. Some titles hold up better than others - whether graphically (mostly due to art style), gameplay wise (some stuff was janky or bad even on release) or in any other way.

Besides the more objective, technical aspects there's also the fact that each person has different gaming experience and expectations to what they play. You can't drop a blanket statement "old game on new platform will be bad, duh!" and be done with it.

Thanks for the write up. I never really thought how these games played on consoles so it's interesting to see this perspective.

While far from perfect, I really can't help but like the first game. I agree it didn't age well in some respects yet I still had quite a bit of fun replaying it not too long ago. Granted, I'm a weirdo who also likes Bungie's "Oni" so I tend to have a decent amount of resilience towards games like these.

I'm a bit torn on the sequel honestly. I do like it as a game (even if it's a bit too long in my opinion) but I feel that as a sequel to the original plot it's a bit... mean spirited (?) towards Alice. Maybe it's just me, but her starting the second game in pretty much the same situation as she was in the original kinda takes out of the ending of the latter.

Guild exclusivity is actually what I had in mind. Sure, there's nothing that significantly changes the main quest in TES games (and I think I misremembered how much blocking is there in previous titles) but that still counts for me personally. Self-imposed role play is fine in general (I do it all the time in games in fact) but I still think that lack of reasonable requirements for some (optional?) content makes the world feel more generic and player-focused than I'd like.

Thanks for the reminder though.

I still can't focus and I'm still jumping between games but I do have some updates so might as well post about it.

The Sims 2 and Euro Truck Simulator 2 kept their place as my primary games, with the latter edging a little bit in terms of playtime. Not much changed here.

Speaking of TS2, I tried playing it on a Steam Deck. Game runs fine, sans some short freezes when browsing through large content lists (clothes, furniture etc.) which is about what I expected from the game.
The big problem for me is controls. I tried playing around with mapping and whatnot but I just couldn't make it comfortable enough to play for longer periods of time. Because of this I'll just treat it as a failed experiment and stick to playing on my desktop.

As for new additions, I played through Umurangi Generation. It's a small indie title about photography in a "shitty future". It's a really janky yet entertaining title, with some pretty emotional moments (at least for me). I've written a longer post with my thoughts about the game if anyone wants to know more.

The last one technically counts as it released on mobile last year even though I tried out the PC demo.
Wagotabi: A Japanese Journey - is an educational RPG about learning Japanese. It's cute, fun to play and seems to have an interesting (and enjoyable) approach to learning. Only demo is available on PC at the moment but it I definitely liked what I played so far. It can be found on both Itch.io and Steam.

Change from Oblivion to Skyrim would definitely affect my question. I do think the former had more "my kind" of role playing so the initial thought would be more understandable for me.

Thanks for the answer. I get what you mean about playing as more defined main characters, it definitely has it's benefits over more open-ended approach.