thedirtyknapkin @ thedirtyknapkin @lemmy.world

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yeah, this is one of those games where there's like 5 ways to do everything.

i got so frustrated watching a friend play and seeing him load all of his packages into the back of a truck by hand. he didn't want to be told how to do things so i just left him to it after trying to tell him he can do it through the menu once. then he showed me that you can use the container repair spray on your own back without unloading the boxes first... i never realized...

more like how many animals eat then and get poisoned.

you can use your binoculars or whatever they are to mark waypoints very precisely that will measure distance on the map. just stand at the zip line tower you're building from and check with that first.

you need line of sight anyway so it usually works pretty well for me.

there's a handful of general directions you could go with both camera and mic then.

you could get a mic that plugs directly into the camera, but then you'll be tethered. to it. you can get a mic that plugs into a little recorder, but you'll need to sync your audio. you can get a wireless mic with a receiver that plugs into the camera, but that starts to get expensive. or a number of different options that can run things however you want. the most affordable option to start and remain convenient in my mind is a mic and a cheap recorder.

something like a used one of these with a cheap lav mic could be a good option.

as for camera, there's two main paths. you could go mirrorless and get something more like the canon you already had, or you could get an actual camcorder.

a mirrorless camera will give you the option of different lenses and will have a larger sensor. it will also allow you to shoot nice stills and give you room to grow. it will generally have a higher potential for better quality video in the long run, but will be harder to learn and use. I think you'd be well served by a micro 4/3rds camera. a used Panasonic gh4 can be had for around $300. that would be able to provide some fantastic quality for the price. it'll also be able to use any m4/3 lenses out there. they have a standard mount used by all such cameras. Panasonic is generally the more video focused brand in the space. a larger sensor with give you shallower depth of field, but that's not as necessary as many like to think you the kinds of content you're looking to produce.

the camcorder will be a much more streamlined out of the box solution. if you want something that will just work and be versatile without needing to spend money on additional hardware and learn all the ins and outs this will be a better option. it will likely have a highly versatile zoom lens and should still shoot plenty high enough quality for some simple explainer videos. it's the less popular option these days, but I will think it has its place. I'm less familiar with these but I'm sure you can find a reasonable one with a little shopping around.

what kind of budget are you thinking?

the lens is likely incompatible with newer hardware.

I would recommend looking used. you can get a few generations old micro 4/3rds camera for very cheap. let me look through options tonight when i get home and I'll probably be able to find you something for under $200 that will shoot modern looking decent quality video.

a mic to go with it would be very important. there's so many ways to go about that.

-you can get a cheap on cameras shotgun that will sound decent, but pick up a good amount of room noise. this will be the easiest to use option.

-you could get a lavaliere of some kind, but that takes a second to set up and will require additional tools unless you want to tether yourself to the actual camera. there's also options that plug in to a phone, but that would require a phone with a headphone jack...

-you could get a usb stick mic to record voiceover after the fact. this would give the highest fidelity Audio bang for the buck, but is the most cumbersome to use.

additionally, a light will go very far for making things look nicer. most homes are not set to to have good video lighting at all. you can totally get away with a cheap lamp that you bounce off the wall or something. as long as you don't have a lightbulb directly shining on you creating hard shadows.

oh, i guess you're right. they're just a privately owned corporation. regardless of specific terminology the point stands. they aren't publicly traded and certainly aren't a megacorp. and i also don't agree with evening they do. i generally like gog better.

people are just always painting things like this with way too broad of a stroke. there's a serious problem with conglomeration. Sony is a megacorp in the gaming space. a true megacorp that makes and has a gigantic hand in almost everything. from tvs to music to books to weapons of war. they exist solely to absorb wealth from any and all spaces they can. I'm real bummed about them acquiring kadokawa recently... it will not be good for games, anime, manga, or light novels.

that is not valve. they are not part of that problem and this point is weakened by people saying that they are.

like... company or business. they're not actually very big compared to true megacorporations. like Amazon and ge are megacorps. they make many many things across thousands of facilities with millions of employees. you cannot live in modern society without encountering them. be it amazon Web services or the light bulbs in the street lights outside. valve is just a company. they do one thing and do it well. there are alternatives that you can easily use. it is not hard to avoid them as a company and most people don't actually use steam. sure, most Western pc gamers do, but that's a small percentage of the global population.

valve is just a company. not even an especially large one. not every successful business is a megacorp. some aren't even that bad. the world is shades of grey, some big businesses are much much less bad than others. valve doesn't do much harm. megacorporations always do.

that's probably because it's not a megacorp, but a private company owned by a single person. not a corporation at all.

there's a big difference. a corporation is owned by a board of investors. those companies are legally obligated to provide maximum return for their investors. corporations have been sued for being "too charitable to their customers" rather than maximize profits. a private company can do whatever it wants at the whims of it's owner. in this case Gabe Newell actually kind of wants to create a decent experience because that's what he believes has created their market dominance. he's right.

corporations like Ubisoft and ea are legally obligated to squeeze you for every penny in their platforms.

this is why left vs. right isn't nuanced enough for real political discussion outside of a two party system

as someone who lives in a place where they lock the bathrooms to avoid people doing drugs and overdosing in them this seems like a strange luxury that would never happen here.

totally spies, wonder woman, any Quentin Tarantino movie, literally just scrolled past an article about Neil gaiman being kinda fucked up and people talking about seeing that in his work, icarly...

nah, never happens.

i have an extension that fixes the first one. it's called fb purity. let's you control what content is on your feed and how it's displayed.

i don't post to Facebook anymore, i just browse it to see what friends and family are posting. it still works quite well for that with this extension.

fate was originally a vn. which part do you know?

oh Christ, please. it really is just the lack of spaces that make them a nightmare.

sorry, i think you had typo or two. what did you mean to say?

isn't really a Republic at that point is it.

i know the meme, but he did eventually transition fully over to a galactic empire.

the game has no gambling whatsoever. it only has poker aesthetic. it uses the term "ante" to mean "level", it uses traditional poker hands, and it uses chips to define points. otherwise it's just a non gambling card game. it would be like putting this rating on go-fish, or solitaire because they use the same cards that poker does. this game could not teach you how to play poker.

the association with gambling is entirely superficial. what has everyone up in arms is that there are many games with micro transactions that are essentially a roll at the slot machine, and intentionally designed using gambling psychology, that people lose thousands of dollars at every day. those games don't have their gambling mechanics considered at all by ratings boards. it shows that pegi doesn't put much work into their ratings. one game that looks like gambling but isn't gets and 18+. the many games that have real predatory gambling tactics but hide them are free to do so with impunity.

hell, do you remember when half of twitch was people "rolling" for cs:go skins and trading them for real money. that was just straight up regular gambling that streamers were faking numbers for to show them making a profit. they used dishonest third party sites to trade the items and broadcast themselves getting unrealistic results. the only reason it stopped was because of the dishonesty of the third party sites coming out. not because of the underage gambling for a promise of actual financial returns. that still happens in many games. most of which have a lower pegi rating than cs:go or balatro.

lh i forgot hades 2 came out this year. none of the others appeal much to me. i just tend to like the genres that are hard to do on smaller budget. story driven rpgs and action adventure games that aren't souls like. not platformers, not craft survival, not extraction shooters, not bullet hell. there's plenty of indie games i can enjoy, but few that i love. and sometimes it's annoying when indie game fans just assume it's because I'm ignorant that i don't live their favorite games.

i hadn't heard of doronko wanko or another crabs treasure. i might check those out

i am however looking forward to many of the games announced at the game awards this year.

I always hear that, but then i struggle to find indie games that i like. the genres that i like are hard to do with a small budget.

such as?