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  • Also, a prolonged sun exposure makes them poisonous with arsenic-like chemicals unless you hide them indoors or cook them. You can tell by seeing them turning green, like poisonous potatoes in Minecraft. It's not THAT lethal, but can teach a human or an animal a lesson that even if you see a potato on the surface, don't feel lucky about it, don't dig, it'd fuck you up.

  • Why take sides if both are shit. Apple with their stupidly controlled walled garden VS Epic thinking they can buy their way into infinite reach everywhere. I'm rather pleased they didn't agree with each other, because their cooperation seems even worse than them acting as separate entities.

  • First Mount&Blade for me. It was hard capped so you straight up can not play after some level (?). I wonder how many times I rolled a stone on top of that mountain, only to gleefuly repeat the process after it felt back.

  • As you put these quotes side by side, I grew less convinced by what's told in the article. Two quotes are sourced by what 'people said', the third one is an inquiry that led to nothing and the forth is a conclusion based on all these, WSJ isn't the shining beacon of journalism, but what the hell lol.

  • The argument would probably start with defining what RPG means. My local gaming journos for example used 'rpg elements' to describe multiplayer progression in CoD: MW games. Some people call Far Cry 3+ a sandbox\RPG.

    In a sense, topping the numbers may be seen as a sign of an aRPG like Borderlands\Diablo that do no involve roleplaying, but rather a munchkin reduction of the genre to stats, loot, etc. There are a lot of these numbers to empower your MC, including solid perks to acquire - like better weapon handling or rewards for working as a first responders. Nothing we haven't seen in arcade or action games, but either way people do consider this as a RPG influence at the very least.

    Actual roleplay, or rather choices defining your journey, like in choose-your-own-adventure books, are seemingly non-existent. You don't pick your character like you don't pick Geralt, but at the same time, you have little to no agency over what happens, unlike what's seen in Witcher. There are strict win and fail conditions, you can sometimes equip yourself better or pick your route from A to B, but from that understanding of RPG, it isn't one.

    What gives it a fleur of freedom is it being a big ol' sandbox where you can play with multiple toys and bend it's rules.

    I, therefore, would insist on calling it a sandbox action game with rpg-lite mechanics.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

  • Awful tanky controls (understandable) didn't stop me from getting 100% genitals shots in some of it's missions. Local deathmatch was kinda better because both of you struggled with them. 7\10 for me as a kid, but if I'd play it now as it was back then, I'd quickly drop it in favor of something with a third person perspective. It wasn't just there yet, and devs did the best they could.

  • It depends, that's why I said it requires reruns with some slight modifications. When I was looking for a FOSS or at least Linux-friendly software for some live video visuals manipulation, VJ and everything with 'video' triggered a wave of slop, but 'projecting software' lead me to a rabit hole of actual list of choices, albeit most of them were paid, proprietary and Windows only.

    It's counter to my previous expirience of including certain words to narrow the search: now I watch for what keywords bring most AI articles and drop\change them.

  • Some search queues return me pages of word-to-word copypastes of one 'original' AI gen article. On top of existing power-googling, you need not to include words that are particularly popular in slop. It brought a need to rewrite a queue a couple of times before it gets to the point.

    They learnt on the worst examples of SEO, and then intertwined with it.

  • Dess had his mouth running further than him, saying stupid shit, but I can downplay that and keep donating to him for the future of Lemmy as a whole. The Lemmigrad donation stream may be his own choice, but if he does that, we therefore can ask for a total detalisation of his income and spendings. We deserve to know, if he does that from his own paycheck himself, or if our donations directly support this one stalinist resource.