TheSambassador @ TheSambassador @lemmy.world

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Wait so an actual human person beat the level without TAS assistance? That's insane, I thought that they'd omitted the level because it was uploaded with a TAS, but the fact that a real person beat it is insane.

The world where America has a two party system and the other candidate is openly fascist and awful?

Also... "Every campaign promise broken" is such hyperbole that I have to think that you're either a troll or just ignorant. Whenever people say stuff like this they never provide examples or they conveniently ignore all the places where a campaign promise WAS kept, or is in the works.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/

Until we can reform our voting system to something like ranked choice, approval voting, or STAR, we have a two party system with one party generally maintaining the status quo with some nice social progress and the other party actively trying to make people's lives worse. That second party loves this shit and maybe you should consider why so many of their efforts are about trying to convince people not to vote.

I could see the login part being nice, but I still don't really see the value in federating chat text. Honestly that would be a negative to me, I don't really want my chat messages copied and federated out to other servers forever. Similarly, why would I want to view a chatroom through Lemmy? Why wouldn't I just want to go to that community through it's app or site or whatever?

It just feels a bit like blockchain all over again. Federation and activitypub are great tools for some purposes but people seem to want to use them for everything.

How would a Discord-like application integrate with Lemmy? Are chat logs federated to posts in Lemmy? Do posts in Lemmy get federated to this other chat thing? Can you just sign into chat with your Lemmy username and that's it? Is it just a chatroom that's associated with a community?

I feel like people here are like "everything should be federated" but sometimes I don't really follow the thought process. I get it with Lemmy and Mastodon, but maybe someone could explain what a Federated Discord looks like.

The place where it broke down for me was a moment where, as part of the main quest of the game, a character asks Aloy to help with a very emotionally personal request (help figure out what happened to his dead sister), and Aloy starts off with "that's your war, not mine" and is super reluctant. Then, not 2 minutes later, I talk to a side quest NPC asking for help investigating a stolen heirloom, and Aloy is like "yeah sure, I have time for that and also maybe I could run and get your grocieries and do your dry cleaning and whatever else no problem."

The world of the first one is 10/10, and maybe the "story" is fine, but the actual writing in the first was awful. The sidequests were especially bad.

I think this recent video by Raycevick covers the "cool" parts of the game and a bit of the background of getting the game re released. I never played it, but it looks like it had some cool ideas on conversation mechanics, reactive NPCs that actually comment on your clothing choices, and a complex branching story. All that with some pretty janky combat gameplay.

Thank you for reminding me of that song and giving me a reason to think more deeply about it. It already was a gorgeous moment in the show but I didn't dig into it too deeply until your comment. The "looking at your thoughts without judgement" part is the hardest part for me.

It helps, but you can't do that to talk to people. Some of the shop keepers are surrounded by so much stuff you can pick up, and even being very careful I accidentally triggered at least 4 fights. My wife missed out at talking to Rafael at last light because she accidentally picked up the chess board that he's playing (he literally just disappears).

I do think BG3 is a very impressive game and deserves a lot of the praise it gets.

That said, it sucks how finicky it is to run away from a fight. There's way too many fights that just sort of happen with very little explanation as to why they're attacking you. It's also waaay too easy to accidentally steal things and trigger fights, especially on controller.

You basically do have to save scum a little, because one accident can lead to an entire town being pissed at you. If the game had better ways to de escalate combat and some better signposting of consequences, it'd be a 10/10 game

Epic building a launcher that has equivalent features to Steam would do nothing. Everyone wants all their games in one place, and everyone already has their friends list there.

Getting exclusives and giving away games is probably the only way they could even enter the market. Yeah the launcher kinda sucks, but Valve has decades of development that they've poured into Steam, it isn't simple to just copy everything. There was a time that Steam sucked.

Steam is a de-facto monopoly. They luckily don't really do anti competitive practices, they just focus on having a great product, and that's why people (myself included) love them. But I don't think another company can ever really enter the PC market without a few tricks like exclusives or free games.

It's almost like teachers have developed new ways to teach that are different but maybe a more effective way for kids to learn.

People always get so weird about newer math teaching techniques. I get that it's new and doesn't make sense to us because it's not how we learned, but the kneejerk reaction of "this is obviously worse than how I learned" without any understanding of the method or why it might teach better fundamentals is... Silly

Always love when I spot a fellow Monkey Island player.

Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/Fc1P-AEaEp8

I pre order from small studios that have a proven track record. Even if it ends up bad, I'm happy to have supported the studio.

Pre ordering AAA games is always a dumb idea though.

Messages is the default texting app. It doesn't require any sort of login.

If its not on the medication, there might be a number on the actual pills that you can look up.

Do you wash only a single fitted sheet or duvet cover at a time? Because the problem still happens when I wash my fitted sheet and normal sheets in the same load.

I've never found similar artists to be helpful. Most of the time it's just a worse version of the thing I like. I don't really like stuff that sounds very samey though.

I'm pretty squarely an introvert, but it feels like nowadays I have to do all the dragging. It's so hard to find other people who are willing to do the inviting.