Archelon
@Archelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on do any alternative frontends for twitter still exist? 2 days ago:
I sometimes use nitter.poast.org, it works fine for me.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 days ago:
I’ll give a shout out to Fictorum, which is kinda janky but is a physics-heavy wizard simulator with on-the-fly spellshaping and some real wild spellslinging combos. Between the combat levels, there’s a travel/encounter-type rpg thing vaguely similar to FTL as you try to stay ahead of a wave of Bad Things^tm^
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
If your own neurotransmitters aren’t working right, store-bought is fine.
- Comment on MSM launders Israeli smear campaign against ICC prosecutor without any evidence. 2 weeks ago:
True enough. In this case, the article’s from The Guardian. Spotted it elsewhere. I agree that identifiers should have been on the post for legitimacy’s sake.
- Comment on MSM launders Israeli smear campaign against ICC prosecutor without any evidence. 2 weeks ago:
(Assuming this isn’t facetious) MSM= MainStream Media
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 3 weeks ago:
Not political
- Comment on [Opinion] Why do so many cozy games suck? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 month ago:
Disagree: if you start at the top and work down, then the wet spots don’t drip down onto the parts you’ve already dried.
- Comment on How many comics need to be sold for a story to be considered a success? 2 months ago:
So with adjustment:
If the goal is to make a living wring a serial comic, success would be having C>=A so you can afford to keep making and publishing more comics.
- Comment on Blackjack Game Development Company 2 months ago:
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Man, I remember I got Minecraft right after the Nether’d been introduced. Played pretty constantly until right around the oceans update, and then I got distracted and fell off.
Now looking at it there’s so much it seems almost unrecognizable.
- Comment on After three hours of Bloober's Silent Hill 2, it's unclear who is remaking who 2 months ago:
Later in the article:
I’m writing about the Silent Hill 2 Remake in this scrambled, back-to-front, obnoxious way partly to piss off whoever edits this (to be 100% clear, Team Silent are the creators of the original Silent Hill 2, which Bloober are remaking), and partly to make a point about remakes: that they tacitly or openly position the original game as an “obsolete” museum piece in need of replacement, dismissing the old artistic choices as primitive and incomplete, re-defining the old creative parameters as constraints that need to be lifted. It’s all in the service of the market’s cannibalistic mania for the new, its structural need to ceaselessly bury “the past”, often by directly obstructing non-commercial preservation efforts, and sell you Progress that starts to wither and fade the second you peel away the cellophane.
- Comment on There are 27 Empty Homes for Every Homeless Person 3 months ago:
See, I figured the point wasn’t so much computing the ratio, but the simple idea that homeless people and empty homes shouldn’t co-exist.
- Comment on Why won't companies release old games or at least make very old ones free? 3 months ago:
In fact, you can copy and paste this for pretty much any business large enough to have shareholders.
- Comment on Can someone define "liberal" (in its use as an insult) for me? 3 months ago:
Basically liberalism tends to be capitalist, whereas leftism tends to be anticapitalist. Historically, there’s been a pattern of centrists and capitalist allying with authoritarians and fascists against leftists, so the insult boils down to “you’d support a fascist before you went against capitalism”
- Comment on Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These 3 months ago:
- Comment on Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN 3 months ago:
Quoted in the article:
“i propose a new fortnite rule: if you see someone in a cybertruck, you are now in a truce with everyone else in the lobby until they’re taken out. this repeats as many times as necessary until everyone that bought this stupid thing is gone. normal gameplay proceeds.“
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
Also it very much as a summer camping vibe, what with the banjos and marshmallows and rickety wooden cabin-spaceships
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 4 months ago:
The other misogynistic element is the Madonna/Whore complex, in my opinion.
Mothers are often classically viewed as the Madonna (it’s in the name), so they’re good and kind and virtuous.
However, I’ve insinuated that I fucked your mom, and if your mom has fucked, that means she’s a Whore because a Good Woman^tm^ doesn’t have a sexuality. By claiming that I’ve fucked your mom, I’m claiming to have defiled the sacred Madonna and turned her into a profane Whore.
In other words, saying “I fucked your mom” is basically saying “your mom’s a slut”, and in a worldview where women wanting to fuck is a sign of evil, that’s an insult.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 months ago:
Re: #6 prior to the invasions of the Angles/Saxons England was invaded by the Romans and a number of cities sprung up in the south populated by latin-speaking peoples. When Western Rome collapsed, the state capacity needed to maintain large urban centers went with it. The Roman inhabitants didn’t leave, though, but instead mixed with the local culture and dispersed into the general population of England.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 4 months ago:
Irish isn’t a race
Well, not any more, anyways.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 5 months ago:
The change that I always notice whenever I jump between earlier and later TW is the addition of hit points and how it really feels line it blunts a lot of impacts.
I mean, compare a heavy cavalry charge in Medieval 2 to one in Total Warhammer. A properly formed unit of Teutonic Knights is a devastating hammer blow that can shatter an enemy army since the charge bonus massively increases the chance to kill. Meanwhile, Empire Knights can get a proper rear charge against basic infantry and despite how far those rats get flung, they’ll all get back up because all the charge does is make the line go down faster.
The other big impact I find with this change is it makes the rout really annoying to deal with. In early total war, you always want some cavalry to pursue fleeing enemies since once they’re broken it won’t take much to capture or kill them and preventing those armies from regrouping really matters. Meanwhile, in modern total war, pursuing fleeing enemies never seems to result in significant damage because instead of capturing fleeing enemies you’re just making the line go down again.
I dunno, it just feels weird.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 5 months ago:
Well, maybe take the land battles into more of a Dawn of War or Tiberium Wars direction. Other than that, make everything bigger and more detailed.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 5 months ago:
The Battles of Naboo and Geonosis basically play out as line battles with massive groups marching in formations at each other, not to mention most of the Tartakovsky clone wars, so I could see CA approaching it like Empire Total War with hover tanks.
Honestly, I doubt whether CA are even willing to adapt their formula enough to actually have small teams of shooters flicking into cover positions.
- Comment on UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government 5 months ago:
Ross and the team have been very specific about not wanting to force companies to pay for server infrastructure.
They’ve said quite a few times that what they want is for game companies to at least patch their games so they can keep running without the online connection or provide players the tools to host their own servers so that the company can end support without the game becoming a brick.
Hopefully by requiring games to be playable after support ends and the servers shut down it will also change the way games are made so that they no longer require the constant connection.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 6 months ago:
Been using voyager too, made the jump to Lemmy easier when Apollo shut down.
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 6 months ago:
I usually use it to hold a pocketknife or change
- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 8 months ago:
Hell, Steve Bannon got his start using WoW gold farms to find and target lonely young men.
- Comment on What are the best Samurai period games? 8 months ago:
Seconded. And then for seconds you can play Fall of the Samurai while watching The Last Samurai.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 8 months ago:
And it’s good to recognize that! It means now you know to work on self-compassion (which is really hard but really worth doing)
