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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that people don’t like it for a wide variety of reasons. However, there are 2 things I absolutely adore about it:

  1. The combat. Not so much the clunky clicking, but the way it strong-arms you into engaging with the alchemy and bestiary like an actual witcher would have to. Witchers don’t stand a chance against most of the monsters they fight without those stupidly potent potions and acute knowledge of their weaknesses.

  2. The atmosphere. The game may be ugly up close, but every single map, every environment oozes with dreary medieval vibes or swampy fantasy. I don’t even think I can say that it’s good “for a low budget game” because the atmosphere stands the test of time. The developers had an idea for how the game should feel as soon as they started designing it and it shows.

  I went back to play the first 2 games before replaying the third and finally finishing CP2077 a few years ago because I wanted to see how CDPR’s skills changed, and honestly? They haven’t, at least not in regards to making a game immersive. The only thing that’s changed is the budget and scope of their games because holy hell I’ll be damned if every one of CDPR’s major releases hasn’t been among the most immersive video games ever created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Developed in UE5, I’m assuming? That’d be an unfortunate probability. CP2077 was the best looking game and the most immersive game I’ve ever played

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rick’s obsession with McDonald’s’ Mulan-promotional szechuan sauce wasn’t really generation-defining, but it definitely was one of the bigger moments where internet nerds crawled out of their caves and into the social spotlight for a hot minute. Still can’t believe people got violently enraged over that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheers lads an lassies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you recognize your old buddy, Bender?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ehhhhhhh

  I mean Ciri does but she’s a child throughout the books.

  Yennefer and Triss are almost only as independent as their insatiable lust for Geralt lets them be. Kind of like Triss and Shani in the Witcher 1 but I’d argue they’re worse in that game than in the books

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re avoiding the first two Witcher games because they’re somehow not cinematic, you’re sorely mistaken.

  Both of those games are incredibly atmospheric to the point of mastery. (tbf you have to be able to forgive the character models in the first game and that can be admittedly difficult because HOLY HELL ZOLTAN ARE YOU OKAY)

  also wtf do you mean “masculine indulgences?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck thai boils my blood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Colorado last year RCV was on the ballot as part of an initiative. It was shot down easily because both parties campaigned against it. Not sure what to do when the weight of all incumbents is thrown against something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uncultured⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. This is what I was looking for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a bold-faced clearly obvious motherfucking lie.

  Rockstar has released only 2 full games in the past 13 years because everything they’ve done since then has been funded by microtransactions. The price of entry is negligible to them when whales pay for multiple copies of the game every fuckin month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we tolerate it

  The person who ceaselessly bashes their head against a brick wall hoping to knock it down will accomplish one thing, and it’s not knocking the wall down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of fucking Bloodborne. Fast travel is great. Building into the narrative where you don’t tell the story directly? Fuck that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the shapeshifting, intelligent kind of dragon? Because I wouldn’t want it as a pet but as a friend. That’s way nicer than having something that all my neighbors will treat the same way so many bigots treat pit bulls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a helpful answer to your question, but wouldn’t it be better to call him something that’s actually an insult about his character rather than his vanity, like “First Felon” or “First Rapist” or something? Not that he’s the first of any of those but “First” is a descriptor commonly reserved for the White House

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have the answer but I’ve always thought it was interesting that British-English spells the filler words that Americans normally write as “uhh” or “um” as “er” or “erm”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I talked about this a lot with my partner since we had been living together for a couple of years before we decided to get married.

  Marriage, to us, is really just an external expression of the love that we share and the commitment we have already made to each other. The marriage itself is not the commitment, just a statement of it. There are lots of members in our families who disagree and say that marriage itself is the commitment, but then again they’re the same ones who have been divorced or who have extremely unhealthy relationships with their spouses.

  Leaning on a piece of paper with your signature on it as the reason you’re staying with someone is idiotic; paper tears extremely easily. I choose to love my partner, not because a paper tells me that I chose that long ago, but because I wake up every day and make that decision.

  Why get married? I dunno, if it doesn’t mean the same thing to you, then don’t, and I say that with no judgement at all. If you care more about the person than you do about the idea if marriage (like I do) and you gain nothing from a marriage, then don’t worry about it and just focus on the person, yourself, and the relationship you both share.

• Is there a good way to import/export/migrate music playlists between platforms?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨8⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount I’ve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More Than A Feeling In My Ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing more masculine than dominating another man physically.

  ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurrection act — April 20th. Pls read!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Blanketly saying “Project 2025 laid this out” isn’t the most reliable way to cite a source. Can you provide specific citations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you asking if humans have the right to free speech? Because yes.

  Any “government” that doesn’t recognize that deserves the respect of no human being

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen more than 3 of his movies, but Heath Ledger seems to have been consistently great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  THE Harold Zoid!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What actually came first? The chicken or the egg?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The chicken. When it decided to cross the road

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American (not that it’s particularly unique from Europe) living in a city feels much better because I’m not completely tied to my car. Living in suburbs and rural areas makes it far less tenable to walk or bike anywhere. Cities are the only place with any sort of public transportation or even pedestrian infrastructure that is remotely walker-friendly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Schrodinger’s Delayed/Rumored Game: while unreleased it is both the perfect game and the worst game of all time. You won’t know until it’s released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah. Welcome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Call of Duty: World At War Zombies

  Every map in WaW zombies has been re-released at least twice. WaW zombies is cool because of how simple and barebones it is, but holy fucking hell that game was not coded for any sort of melee combat. The zombie bodies are so damn large, according to their hit boxes. Try to run past them but brush up against their pinky? Guess you’re done. Also for some reason the co-op splitscreen is not split vertically, and it’s not split horizontally, each of the two players just gets a quarter of the screen in a tiny box. Who knows why.

  I love it to death but it’s real hard to go back to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Social media is not just a tool; every single major social network has an algorithm with an agenda

  Tools for connecting people cannot make editorial decisions. Tools for connecting people don’t try to manipulate those people into thinking certain ways.

  If social networks were purely tools for connecting people who want to communicate, then we’d be having a different conversation.

  If you ask me, we should recategorize Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc from “Social Networks” to “Content Distributors” because that’s what they are. They take content from the users and advertisers and prioritize what they want to promote in front of the users.

  Signal, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc don’t have algorithms with agendas so their purpose is purely social networking. They are the actual social networks.