steeznson
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- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 1 week ago:
Control is a really special game. I only got around to playing it last year but it was a wild ride!
I hope Alan Wake 2 goes on sale later this year so I can scoop that up. I got about halfway through AW1 (after getting it for ~£2 on steam) but the gameplay was too repetitive for me in the end.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
Extinction Rebellion would be the famous example of a group that has publically distanced themselves from JSO’s methods. They believe in protest but simultaneously are wary of alienating people by taking their stunts too far.
Actually I had a friend from uni who was in XR and he helped organise a protest at Canning Town tube station where they clambered ontop of the train in rush hour to try to stop it. He was saying later that he thought they probably made a bad call picking that specific part of the city.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
It’s a dumb copypasta
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
I just downvoted your comment.
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- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
I disagree with their evaluation of the magnitude of climate change catastrophe affecting our lives. There isn’t going to be a Day After Tomorrow “extinction event”. Instead climate change is more insidious and will initially affect people who do not live in the West (as it is already doing). We are going to have global crises due to climate change but it’s not going to be on the same level as, say, a Mutually Assured Destruction scenario with nuclear weapons.
They have also failed to convince the majority of the rest of the public that it will be an ‘extinction event’. Since democracy has not got the result they want they are pursuing anti-democratic means of forcing their agenda onto news segments with stunts that poison the well for other - less extreme - climate change activists.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
This group undermine and delegitimate other climate activist groups by association
- Comment on Yooka-Laylee: A Patient Gamer Review 1 month ago:
Different genre but it reminds me of Pillars of Eternity in the way it trades on nostalgia, and then ports the old gameplay systems - warts and all - to modern consoles
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 month ago:
My first console was an original GameBoy and I probably got the most hours of use out of it compared to any other console. Despite the horrific backlight (lack thereof) and small screen. I love handheld gaming in general. Still play my 3DS all the time.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 month ago:
PS2 coincided with a lot of good handhelds too. Nintendo DS is a strong contender for best handheld ever, IMO.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 1 month ago:
A postal service is vital for a society to function. A couple of things I’ve sent in the past few years: marriage forms to the registry office, returning old drivers’ licenses and passports, sending signed docs to my solicitor when buying a house. Less relevant - birthday cards, thank you cards, xmas cards; I think these things have a “personal touch” value which is lost in an email.
I think the prepaid business envelopes make sense when you are receiving post but private individuals need to be able to send things back without having bespoke, bulk postage deals with Royal Mail. Have noticed that employment contracts are now done with e-signatures if not in person these days but many legal docs require the same piece of paper to be signed.
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 2 months ago:
3DS might be my favourite console. The DS library is amazing - and not region locked - then the 3DS JRPG selection is probably the strongest out of any console.
- Comment on Peter Murrell charged with embezzlement in SNP finance probe 2 months ago:
This investigation has been going on for ages. The case against him seems fairly devastating. Curious to see if they reveal the extent of Sturgeon’s awareness/complicity.
- Comment on Drakengard 3 - It's Trash, I Love It 2 months ago:
I think as a kid I just bought it because ‘dragons’ lol. I wonder what my reaction would have been to the meta weirdness.
Made it through MGS2 around the same time and that was a formative experience. Totally mindblowing.
- Comment on Drakengard 3 - It's Trash, I Love It 2 months ago:
Yeah that sounds pretty dope. Will need to check it out!
- Comment on Drakengard 3 - It's Trash, I Love It 2 months ago:
I owned Drakengard 1 on the PS2 when it came out and I was a kid but pretty much bounced off it after 3-4 hours. I wish I’d kept hold of it seeing the prices that physical copies are commanding nowadays!
Always been curious about trying the series again as an adult. Also loved Nier Automata, and to my understanding there is an easter egg type shared universe with the Nier series.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 2 months ago:
I wasn’t the person but presumably they thought your point of view was reductionist given that the 90s were a time of widespread global prosperity. Like there was a specific context behind all of the investment.
The government investing in public services was definitely one of the key factors in life being better back then.
- Comment on Protect children from smacking in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors 2 months ago:
Technically it modifies some people’s behaviour as adults by validating them perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
The game funnels you into playing as a mage with high charisma so you can avoid the clunky combat as much as possible. Be warned though, the last 20 mins of the game can be quite hard if you’ve only specced your character to be good at speech.
- Comment on Why craft breweries are under threat as closures leap 49% 2 months ago:
- Comment on Fallout 4 2 months ago:
This game ruined my interest in Fallout as a series. I’d played everything in the series from the isometric ones onwards but something about this one made me lose interest in the setting. Some kind of Fallout burnout maybe.
I stopped playing when it tried to force me to engage with the crafting mechanics in order to do the Institute level.
I’ve heard the Far Harbour DLC is good I guess so maybe make a beeline for that
- Comment on Best deal you ever got? 2 months ago:
Picked up Conker’s Bad Fur Day on N64 for £20 when I was 12 in 2004. I thought it was a bit pricey for an “old” game at the time. However in the years since it’s become a rare game (in addition to being a Rare game) and it’s now worth 5-6 times as much 2nd hand.
- Comment on I am Tommy Vercetti 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m playing San Andreas again on the PS2 for like the 4th or 5th time. The radio is peak and the map is an all time great.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 2 months ago:
I posted a question to my hometown lemmy community and wondered why I wasn’t getting any responses. Then realised it had ~1 active user per month… who was probably me.
This community seems pretty jumping by comparison!
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 2 months ago:
Appreciate the detailed reply.
I kind of agree that the physical differences can be worked around in certain sports but I think I need to defer to the governmental bodies in most cases since they will have the best overview for what is relevant in that sport.
Do agree with the Rowling-esque fear mongering with cherry-picked examples being problematic. You see bigots do that for racism, homophobia, etc.
WRT the race comment, I’ve not read her book(s) so I was not aware that she endorsed intersectionality. If she does then your comment makes sense and your original point went over my head!
Was a mistake to go into the weeds on this topic to be honest. My original point was more that you can disagree with someone on one topic without it invalidating everything else they have to say. For example it’s a textbook ad hominen to claim something like, “David Hume is wrong about the existence of God because he was a racist” or similar.
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 2 months ago:
I guess since the thread has been derailed might as ask - is this summation of her problematic behaviour accurate?
She’s not exactly JK Rowling.
Being against trans inclusion in sports puts her in line with almost every sports governing body. There’s a legitimate concern about inclusion on both sides in terms of representation of both women and transwomen in sports, so no resolution is possible that will keep both parties satisfied.
Additionally voicing skepticism about puberty blockers is exactly what the NHS has been doing in recent months.
It looks to me like she’s been singled out for being a centre left journalist who has opinions which deviate slightly from what she’s “supposed” to think. Also it was weird of you to bring up her race in the original comment - her being a white woman is orthogonal to the criticism you are making of her.
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 2 months ago:
Her fairly normal opinions about trans inclusion in sports or whatever aren’t relevant to the topic being discussed
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 2 months ago:
This programme is actually about technology instead of trans issues.
- Comment on [BBC Sounds] Helen Lewis has left the chat 2 months ago:
Whoops! Thanks for catching that. Will update the link if I can
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- Comment on Extinction Rebellion co-founder avoids jail term for drone action near Heathrow 2 months ago:
Agreed! Dude is a nutcase