Mnemnosyne

@Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I think games that have the greatest possibility between them make the best choices. So…

  Stellaris. - I want a 4x and grand strategy and this one is a bit of both. Also considering how much it’s changed since 1.0, the various versions of it provide a lot of variety in themselves. Also it’s got great mod support. Its core systems have also been rebuilt a couple times, so I know it has a good deal of potential and isn’t locked too hard into certain mechanics.

  Conan Exiles. - This is a really weird choice cause the game isn’t amazing in and of itself, or even all that good, and it’s pretty buggy, but it’s one of the most customizable, mod supported multiplayer games I know of. Maybe there’s a better choice and if I had time to research it I’d pick that one. I know there’s a multiplayer mod for Skyrim, for example, but I’m not technical enough to know if that has better possibilities than Conan.

  Elite: Dangerous. - This is another choice I’d like to research a better option for. The thing is I want a flight/space game, but I don’t know enough about the genre, and this is the only one that immediately comes to mind. Its kind of my one mostly unselfish pick cause I haven’t played this type of game in a long time.

  Baldur’s Gate 3. - It’s not actually my favorite rpg or even my favorite Baldur’s Gate, but Larian designed it with good mod support and tools. Also it can support multiplayer very easily. Like the others on this list, it’s here for future adaptability; if we’re never getting new games, mods of these 5 have to be as much like new games as possible.

  An MMO. - This is the toughest one to answer myself cause I don’t know enough about the back end of them. The trick is choosing the one with the most broadly applicable technical side. I want as much possibility in future development as I can get, and I’d really like one that isn’t inextricably linked to the target based gameplay we currently know from most of them. If required to pick without research, I would reluctantly choose Guild Wars 2, cause it at least isn’t tied to tab targeting, but I have no idea if it’s good with my other criteria.

  Now, you’ll notice I didn’t pick any games without multiplayer, and that’s cause if these are going to be the only 5 games left until the end of time they should all support multiplayer. No single player only need apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At 77 I think it’s gone past normal and into a completely different weird niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon certainly talks a good line, but his actions don’t really follow. Like, I agree with this, eliminating intellectual property would be great. I am sure that whatever actions he tries in regards to this won’t actually follow through and will instead somehow be twisted to benefit him at the cost of others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is absolutely not a free feature on Steam. Some publishers like Paradox leave old versions as ‘beta’ branches to allow us to reinstall them, but Steam as a whole is very against you playing anything but the latest version.

  You cannot instruct Steam to not update a game. When you launch a game, Steam will update regardless, unless you have gone offline, or you launch it in a way that bypasses the Steam client. If you ever forget to go offline before launching a game, Steam will forcibly update it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai can combine two things. It can train on completely normal pictures of children, and it can train on completely normal porn, and then it can put those together.

  This is the same reason it can do something like Godzilla with Sailor Moon’s hair, not because it trained on images of Godzilla with Sailor Moon’s hair, but because it can combine those two separate things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canceled Wonder Woman 'Was Gorgeous and Expansive,' Comic Book Writer Who Consulted on the Game Says⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One problem is people can’t keep secrets. This involves too many people who would have to keep the secret. And when it comes out that it’s just a marketing ploy, some portion of the customers would be even more upset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this green or blue?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too much light for it to be a grue, it has to be pitch black for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since at least the 1970s and probably much earlier, any and all non-heterosexual people have been painted as pedophiles by right wing / conservatives.

  Indeed, a lot of the pedophile panic these days is driven by those people, because it is one of the few things they can get everyone to hate, and that hate often shuts down nuance and reason, and while real pedophiles are a problem, they want to expand that unthinking hate, that knee jerk ‘burn the heretic’ reaction to more people.

  This is the reason we now see people attacking even completely fictional media, because they’re trying as hard as possible to slippery slope it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s possible to. Are they? Correct me if I’m wrong, but they’re not. They’re going after Microsoft and not Google.

  Not that it makes any difference since Edge is just reskinned Chrome now anyway. If it was still it’s own thing I’d be rooting for Microsoft, at least up until they start to become bigger, then I’d turn on them.