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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Divinity 2 Ego Draconis (not to be confused with Divinity Original Sin 2) had a quite similar feel to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advertising⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m jaded but with the brand still being visible, I’m not sure this isn’t a marketing ploy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My 80+ year old parents don’t care about ads or AI. They just want a working PC, and W11 won’t install on the cheap machine they got a few years ago. They’re not going to buy a new one because this works perfectly fine.

  And yes they tried Linux for several years, but went back to Windows because it was just too much hassle and not compatible with too many things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Box art back then was more akin to book cover art: an artist’s interpretation of the content. It never disappointed me. I even miss it sometimes. I used to collect images of box art even without the games, because it really was art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was very excited when they announced GW2. Sadly it is a very different game from the first one, and while I can still enjoy the story, it is not really a game for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Horses are relentless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But I would argue that the rest of the world also uses primarily English online. And just by virtue of being the rest of the world, outnumbers the Americans.

  In other words, of all Internet users that use English, the vast majority is likely not American.

  Of course I don’t have data to back this up, except anecdotally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but this is nonsense. I’m in a lot of online communities where everyone uses English, despite it being nearly nobody’s first language. It just happens to be the only language that everyone there knows. Language is no indication of nationality, especially online.

  And to be honest, in those places the assumption is usually that everyone is European, which I can imagine is just as annoying for the stray American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People like your art director are the reason people like my product manager want us to write code to verify QR codes, so that our clients can tell their clients that they forgot the quiet zone and their client’s clients may have trouble reading the code.

  Damn that’s a lot of levels of clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (b) will just lead to free up and down votes, i.e. less engagement. That in turn could lead to slowly bleeding out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Australians can’t attack Earth, they’d fall right up into the sky without some reverse reverse gravity system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’d rather buy the slaves. And set them free of course. Yes, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skipping ads violates YouTube’s terms of service!

  • Video playback will be blocked until you allow us to shove ads down your throat.

  • You can also opt for YouTube premium, where we’ll allow you to skip the last 5 seconds of any ad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Opinions will differ, but generally people really like the first and/or third. The second was rushed, and it shows, mostly by a ton of reused assets and locations.

  The first is more loved by hardcore or oldschool RPG fans. The third is more action oriented, generally a lot more colourful, and very much larger. Its combat is generally liked more than the first (except, again, by CRPG fans).

  All three have memorable characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can save whenever.

  The world is dark - especially in the first game. There is slavery, racism, demons, and a few even darker topics. There are optional sex scenes, but they’re rather clean. One of the demon models is rather skimpy. But in the third game you can pick your time in the game while kids are watching to be mostly fun with bright colours and some fantasy fighting. That might be harder in the first.

  There are similarities with Mass Effect, but they do play very differently. The dialog system is very similar in 2 and 3, as are the companion interactions in all three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently finished Mass Effect Legendary, a very nice experience. I’m now starting Andromeda and so far I’m enjoying it a lot. The game is gorgeous! Its flaws may start showing later, but for now it’s great - and it’s not like the other ME games don’t have flaws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay on the designated path⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one who’s more bothered by “wyd” missing a second w than by the picture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gothic 1 is my all time favourite RPG. 2 is everything a sequel “should” be: bigger, some mechanics improvements without losing the core, and (with the expansion) callbacks to 1 and familiar characters. And yet it also lost some of the atmosphere. This is why 1 will always be my favourite.

  Despite that, it’s still a great game, and many people’s favourite. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should really ask the same question - or its inverse - in a conservative forum. If you only ask it here, you’ll get a very skewed answer.

  And to be honest, the question itself and the wording shows your bias as well. Whenever something about US politics is posted on Lemmy, there are always comments about how “they” are hate-filled people, how “they” are projecting, how “they” want to rape children. It’s a different expression of that hatred, but it is the same hatred.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened to Lord Buckethead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Assassin's Creed 2 hold today?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started playing through the series a few years ago, having never played them before (I finished Origins a while ago and am now on a break).

  AC2 is quite playable still - in fact all of them are. But there are some things that I would’ve liked to know beforehand.

  The keyboard and mouse controls are bad. Unity is the worst here: I’d try to run from an enemy and suddenly the character would decide to jump onto a fountain and run around on top of it. AC2 has less of this, but the parkour can feel clunky.

  There are too many collectibles, and they all get icons on the map. It’s hard to ignore these, but in trying to collect everything I started to resent the games. To a lesser extent, the same is true for trying to get perfect scores on missions, or doing all side content. The problem is that some of the side content is actually good, but some is just filler and you can’t really know in advance.

  Something that bothered me a lot: often you’d get a new mechanic thrown at you looong before the main story introduced that mechanic.

  Overall my advice is to play the game - and others in the series - by picking and choosing what you want to do, not by trying to do or see everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going through Mass Effect 3 now. When I started the series I thought it seemed good, but I didn’t really understand why it was so very popular. And then the story picked up, and I understood.

  Then the opening scene of 2 came, and that was amazing. What a way to start a sequel.

  Now in 3 I feel like they nailed the atmosphere. I can’t wait to see where the story goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for The Talos Principle, it’s a very good game - but be warned it is less accessible than Portal. Where Portal gives visual clues to solutions, The Talos Principle actively hides them. Especially the bonus stars can get very hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨utterly bamboozled⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He was using a decimal comma. The counter offer was 1000 times more than he wanted to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t count them, but wired itself has a very impressive list of “partners” in their cookie disclaimer too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy helping Lemmy World - Youtube without Ads⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vivaldi with built-in ad block. Every once in a while YouTube changes something and ads get through for a couple of days. Then a Vivaldi update fixes it again quickly. I assume Vivaldi is too small a target for YouTube to care more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking at this the wrong way. Why would you want a KVM? What you want is a genuine Apple ™ Mighty ™ Magic ™ Mouse ™ with a single button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is on your to-play list for 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m finally getting around to Mass Effect. So far I’m really enjoying it. The first time you get to explore what I assume is the main hub, it’s pretty cool.

  I also enjoyed The Witcher 1 a few years ago, but was thoroughly disappointed with 2.

  Last year I played Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 and enjoyed both, though I prefer 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll join the others in saying it’s definitely worth a try. The main character’s actress does a phenomenal job.

  As for the hardware, I think it will do fine, but be sure to try it within 2 weeks of purchase (and not play more than two hours) so the Steam refund policy can protect you if needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gastronomical Masterpiece⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good rice, well prepared, needs no sauce. Ketchup wouldn’t even enter my mind.