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- Comment on Overlord 1 & 2, being the bad guy can be fun! 2 days ago:
For sure I played it. I didn’t recommend the real classics till now, because I wanted to give less well known games a chance for attention. But maybe it’s time to talk about Thief and Deus Ex to get more people talking.
- Submitted 2 days ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 8 comments
- Comment on Community to honor Lemmy users/Fedi users who have passed away 3 days ago:
Because some people are pretty involved in some communities and have people they care about in there. And would like to know if somebody they knew died or they themselves might want to announce it to them after they died. Not everything needs to revolve around you.
- Submitted 3 days ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 1 comment
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 4 days ago:
ICO and Shadow of the Colossus don’t have a lot of dialogue, but what they have is in a fantasy language with subtitles for you to understand
- Comment on Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history 4 days ago:
It was a different time. As you said, it is not a true statement in general, but I can understand where it comes from in the 2000s video game history.
- Comment on King of Dragon Pass, making you feel like a bronze age tribe chieftain 4 days ago:
Yes, that is definitely a gimmick that isn’t for everybody. I also played it by feels instead of carefully strategizing.
- Submitted 4 days ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 4 comments
- Comment on Get a bunch of Cosmic Mysteries and Noir Realities in the new Humble Bundle 5 days ago:
I played Norco and Disco Elysium, are the other games also of that high quality level?
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 6 days ago:
Oh hell yes. There is still a lot to improve, but we shouldn’t forget what has already been gained!
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 6 days ago:
Passports for everyone are a relatively new invention, but passports as sign of being the emissary of somebody important are much older. Paiza is one such example in the Mongols empire. Wikipedia has examples reaching into antiquity.
500+ years ago there very much was border control, at least in certain parts of the world, because every regional lord wants to control what goes into his kingdom and what leaves. I can only speak for Europe, but probably every feudal lord over the world did the same. They levied taxes on merchants transporting goods through their kingdom. That happened on border checkpoints where the big merchant routes where passing through. This is how a lot of regions got rich: by being between a source and a big buyer region and taxing the shit out of merchants.
That’s why smuggling was so attractive. Go through the official road and pay 10% of your profits or pay this nice man with the donkey 5% and he leads you through the woods on a path the lord’s soldiers don’t patrol…
Secondly, in feudal Europe 500 years ago, peasants were still often the property of their lords, they weren’t allowed to leave the country. Another reason why border control existed. So no, most normal people could not just leave and travel to another kingdom.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 6 days ago:
Oh, that sounds very interesting. I have to look into it.
And honestly even more impressive. Because board games rarely had in my experience a great LN harmony, story/theme was mostly atmosphere in my experience. But I have to admit, I’m also not a hard core board gamer.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 6 days ago:
I only block communities for now. And my instance blocks a lot of … debate heavy instances.
Regarding blocking of individuals: feel free to do that, if it helps you having a better time, that is perfectly fine.
But I started tagging strange people if I think that something they said is not correct. Then later I randomly see them somewhere else behaving normally. So my current plan is tag them first to see if I find this one person repulsive again and if so then block them. This way it is less carpet bombing and I accept that everybody can have a bad day where they lash out.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 6 days ago:
The best explanation in Dark Souls for me is the hollowing: players who gave up and left, just their hollow husks staying around without anything filling them, so they are reduced to nothing more than zombies.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 6 days ago:
As somebody with depression: it is dark, yes, but in a hopeful kind of way? That even at the bottom there is a light we create for is and others and we can always improve.
It definitely has dark moments, but the game doesn’t wallow in it. Instead it takes the approach of: this is you at your lowest, now build yourself up.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 6 days ago:
Ah yes, I definitely saw it then but didn’t internalise it.
And honestly, I’m mostly still stumped that the developers decided to make a certain dialogue at the end completely optional. That takes guts. And I’m so glad I got it. It cemented the game as my best emotional game ever. Right next to Outer Wilds.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 6 days ago:
Oh yes. Play the game! And if you have VR, there is a mod to play it in VR, do that!! That’s probably the only way most of us will ever experience floating in space.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 6 days ago:
Nah, I’m always up for more Disco Elysium talk!
And I don’t think I found the White Mourning thought or at least I didn’t realise that connection you explained. So thanks, another great thing to know about this awesome game.
For me the biggest thing was the skills talking to you and having their own personality but still being you. So whichever way you skilled/played your PC, the game reacted accordingly and pushed in that direction or gave you extra information because you realised something because it’s your characters special trait.
- Submitted 1 week ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 27 comments
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
Thanks for taking the time to describe each game, it makes it much easier to decide if a game is up my alley!
I have to see how to play them on a modern system, but if they are fan favourites, those surely ported them to modern systems.
- Comment on Why Scientists Are Obsessed With Finding a Room-Temperature Superconductor 1 week ago:
For long range cable it doesn’t even need to be so cheap. If you can transport cheap solar electricity nearly without losses from the equator to more polar regions, that could be economically feasible already. Doesn’t need to connect every house with that material, just the big distances between generating and using regions.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
You are right, I never did play the first proper Mario game. Will check it out!
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
Hard to say which genres I like most, but I like games which present a good story & atmosphere or do interesting things mechanically. Besides sport games I play nearly everything.
Games which I really enjoyed: Disco Elysium, Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Planescape: Torment, Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, Return of the Obra Dinn, Zelda: Twilight Princess, What Remains of Edith Finch, Pyre, HalfLife & Portal series
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
Interesting, I think you are the first person i met who enjoys games but doesn’t like Tetris.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
OK you got me i forgot to mention that one =D
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
No, you bring it back to where you bought it and they need to take care of it. And it is not for every electronic, but only the big stuff (oven, washing machine). Which makes it a hassle mostly, so people don’t do it.
Smaller electronics you can bring to the communal waste collector, they should do the further sorting and recycling.
So no extra bins, I’m afraid.
- Submitted 1 week ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 155 comments
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 week ago:
Yeah, after writing it I felt it was wrong. What I meant is: most people are not hurt by what is being pushed in the mass media as source of the problem. If that outside factor goes away, they will focus more on what is happening around them. Those in rich countries are more complacent than those on poorer ones.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 week ago:
Nothing prevents it totally. It could 100% be just as bad as Facebook. But only those servers owned by those propaganda pushers. It is harder to take over the whole and push your agenda to all users, when they can simply block your instance and let you stew in your hate. And while I do think there will always be nationalistic fuckwards, I think the big number now and in the past are only possible due to massive propaganda. If that is not possible, people steer more to “normal” stuff. Because most people are not majorally negatively affected by the status quo.
- Submitted 1 week ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 0 comments