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- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 days 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? 1 week ago:
Irish isn’t a race
Well, not any more, anyways.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 ? 2 months ago:
I usually use it to hold a pocketknife or change
- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 3 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? 3 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? 4 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)
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 4 months ago:
Doom (2016) and Wolfenstein TNO both proved that AAA single player story-driven fps can be hugely successful.
They just need to, y’know, not be shit.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 4 months ago:
Once a therapist told me that a lot of the time anger is a secondary emotion; that is, it’s an emotion that comes out of another emotion.
So you don’t necessarily get angry out of nothing, but you get angry because you’re scared, or disappointed, or you feel wronged, or something else.
So their recommendation was to identify the emotion that’s making you angry, and express/rationalize that instead.
- Comment on What's your big "Oh, THAT'S how I do that" moment? 4 months ago:
Angle the your nose down on a straightaway and you’ll see the speed indicator on the right get a red bar that’ll go up to a green light. When that light goes yellow, you can hit the boost key to go turbo.
(On keyboard, the defaults are the up arrow to angle down and shift to activate boost)
- Comment on Do you think that there will be another event like 9/11 in the next decade in the United States of America? 4 months ago:
I don’t know about 9/11, but I feel like the US has been creeping towards another Oklahoma City for some time now.