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Uncharted's Tom Holland and Chris Pratt Teaming Up for Jak and Daxter Movie Adaptation

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  • Is this real? Because it sounds like parody.

    • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

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  • Cool! Few games can get underwater movement right, I need to get to it

    • What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?

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  • Is there a reason why the dogs chase you down an entrance but not the other?

    • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 20th

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  • Fontaine is looking pretty nice. I need to start the quest headed there now that I finished the main story in Sumeru.

    • Kinda hard to stay realistic when literal magic exists, no?

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  • And the potion wouldn't heal anything, it would only give you a bonus to natural healing during rests.

    • You cast Testicular Torsion?

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  • This post gave me psychic damage.

    • You can play as a human, you know.

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  • Right? I'm already forced to be a human every single day. I don't need more of that.

    • When you are a history geek and your players asked for new magical weapons

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  • And yet still less awful than a Deck of Many Things.

    • "For you" isn't - The case against corporate algorithmic feeds

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  • Algorithms are incredibly bad for organic relationships, you should see the thoughts and events around the people you know when they happen, not when some corporation thinks you should be more receptive. Direct feeds and chatrooms are much better at being social environments.

    That said, there is an inevitable parasocial aspect to media and that is not necessarily bad. I don't want to build a relationship with actors, even thinking that is a possibility is unhealthy. I just want to see their work for entertainment, and the same applies for many artists and influencers for social media. For that purpose, it wouldn't be too bad to have algorithms, as long as users could tweak them to their own liking. That would help a lot with discoverability.

    The problem is that these algorithms are 100% obscured and driven by company interests, such as getting people to scroll forever (and see more ads) by shoving posts which elicit outrage at their face. Even though there are issues I care deeply about, in algorithm driven social media I got into the habit of just skipping and muting whatever is too revolting, because if I so much as browse it too much, they start to show solely that sort of misery, all the time. It's just bad for people's sanity and it doesn't even help anyone at the end of the day.

    • STOP USING HITPOINTS

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  • Well I for one like being a fierce warrior with a huge number representing endurance, who remains completely unbothered and fights with full power even when covered in arrows, up until the final hit lands. Realism? pfft!

    • Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games

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  • Like people have been pointing out, it's usually indies which don't have an establish audience yet that do this. It's much rarer for triple A games.

    • Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games

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  • They want people to buy before they know what is like so they don't have a chance to reconsider or regret it. This is why they hype preorders.

    • The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

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  • Putting the connotation aside for a moment, is it even accurate to call people who are interested on niche secondary gaming devices as "normies"? Whatever may be their backgrounds, seems to me like they are dedicated gaming enthusiasts.

    • The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

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  • Putting the connotation aside for a moment, is it even accurate to call people who are interested on niche secondary gaming devices as "normies"? Whatever may be their backgrounds, seems to me like they are dedicated gaming enthusiasts.

    • Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Accessibility Features Let You Slow Down Gameplay - IGN

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  • This was great when Celeste did it, I hope more games embrace it.

    • Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Accessibility Features Let You Slow Down Gameplay - IGN

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  • This was great when Celeste did it, I hope more games embrace it.

    • The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

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  • Cringe is a thing, but it's way too common that people use their own self-consciousness as an excuse to try to shame people who are just enjoying themselves on their own corner.

    • Polymorph doesn’t say what?

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  • I always feel like even True Polymorph should require some sort of check or a pseudo-spellbook of studied creatures so that the user can only turn into creatures it knows well enough. Turning into anything the player can pull a stat block for is not only overpowered, it's downright immersion breaking.

    • Polymorph doesn’t say what?

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  • If not for that we wouldn't have story-driven adventures anyway. The game was initially focused on dungeon crawling.

    • The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

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  • Not at all. The number of movies in Netflix has shrunk over the years. You could technically argue that it's trending up again, but it's not even close to how many they had in the early 2010s, and it's not even debatable that many movies and series were taken away so that studios would put it in their own streaming services. There was a lot of Disney and Marvel stuff on Netflix that was taken away, as an example.