lath

@lath@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this thing?! Oh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ay Chihuahua!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A demo for Digimon Story: Time Stranger is now available for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox – Digitally Downloaded⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The "demo" had DRM, so I'm guessing it might be the full-ish game with artificial boundaries set?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arrowhead will target Helldivers 2's "crippling" tech issues now Xbox release is sorted, but would rather not do a "performance-only update"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then do a bug faction nerf update, since it's the bigger complaint than the performance one, that I've seen at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So far, the platforming has been on the lesser side, however the maps seem somewhat large. There's a chance it could pick up later on.
  I do think that the soulslike is the primary gameplay component though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends. Are you skilled in this genre? Can't say that i am, so my experience has limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Streets of Rogue. Dunno. It's fun. But it also gets repetitive.

  Tails of Iron. Artistically nice, but it's a souls-like so it gets annoying to keep hacking at frogs.

  Stranded: Alien Dawn. Played several hours in one go. Built a house. Don't understand everything, like what triggers the flamethrower, but it's a colony sim i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the plan?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. One of us trips and breaks the sound system, the second coughs up a nasty furball in the pool and the last one uses the snack buffet as a litterbox.
  Afterwards, we meet at the backdoor in 5 and fake out a mice chase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨inspirational⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Public toilets are still a thing, for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you know what they say... Mock in the streets, fap in the sheets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the skibidi are you adding skibidi to the Cambridge Dictionary? We think it has "staying power", answer word boffins⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please avoid commenting in everyone's stead.

  Bootylicious is still being used, sporadically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He likes to brag about having candy, but not to share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember to 2FA your kidneys.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say it's a thing. Different bodies, different habits, different rhythms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There's bad blood there, but the original DA team should be completely gone with the last members having been sacked during Veilguard debacle.

  Maybe they'd like to shit on it one more time with a crappy remaster, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 383 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look! A wild Doctor Who reference. Don't blink!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the wide world of indies, no name is too weird to use.

  I did think of Voltaire the person, but I wasn't aware of the Crusader Kings connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The vegan vampire? I can still see and buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that praises the holy Roman empire gets an automatic pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stalker. Tugunska. Rockay City Crime Boss.

  Shooty tooty mood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word esoteric is somewhat esoteric.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds erotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Blend genders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that “the window may be closing” for making AI deals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, the live service FOMO tactic is leaking out. First they fail to protect the children, now they fail to protect themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Age of Wonders 3.

  Most games tend to go the same way. I kindly and peacefully expand my empire by slaughtering mobs while the bot players destroy each other. Eventually i hold over half the map, tens of thousands in gold and stacks of armies on the borders. When the final bot unavoidably declares war on me, I overwhelm their least defended cities, tank their economy and watch it lose its armies due to lack of gold, giving me an easy win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He was a developer with the financial incentive to not put in the work required by this initiative into his presumptive games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In contrast to the other commenters, fuck FFXIV.
  I tried it twice and it's just.. annoying. Maybe because I was already annoyed with MMOs in general by then.
  You should still try it yourself eventually, but it's really bleh for me.

  To be honest, most f2p MMOs don't work as a f2player. You have to end up paying or it becomes stressful.

  Anyway, i don't recommend them, but they felt the least annoying the longest. Star Trek Online and Neverwinter (grindy as hell or expensive pay2unlock), Guild Wars 2 (needs buying the first two expansions to unlock permanent mounts and character specializations) and if you're brave enough to go the private servers route, try searching for private, yet somewhat reputable servers of games you think might've been nice like Wildstar..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it has joystick support... So there's that.

  There doesn't seem to be anything native, but running it through steam can make use of its controller support for most keys.

  Default though, the game is built for a keyboard experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Read or write.
  Writing provides material to amaze for future sessions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sex was excluded from the theme and my thought was using that consideration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind that sexual intent isn't a consideration.

  I'd say that if you think of romance as something ephemeral or fleeting and of friendship as something grounded or permanent, then the two states can be reversed or interchangeable.

  Then romance could be seen as chasing dreams while friendship pursues realism?

  However we should also consider intent. Romantic feeling towards someone elevates them beyond the ordinary. It becomes a pursuit that gives out a part of oneself, in excess one might say.
  On the other hand, in order for friendship to reach that level of commitment or even higher, it's inevitable to pass through a stage of romantic idealization in the literary sense of the other person's attributes.

  Complete intimacy means being a part of another's life and they being a part of yours. And to fully trust another in every aspect is something that can only be achieved through the idealistic view of romance.

  If we were to joke about it... They don't call the intense, almost homoerotic friendship between men a bromance for nothing after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Friendship - separate lives with limited involvement.

  Romantic - shared life, fully involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the reverse for me. Went through a few Cataclysm versions (e, f, g), each with their own style, and Zomboid was mentioned by other players from time to time.
  Someone gave me an earlier GOG version to try and it's interesting to go through both similarities and differences.

  If you do end up playing Cataclysm eventually, maybe try the different graphical tilesets available. Each style can make the game feel better or worse, subjectively.
  Also, I mostly used the keyboard while playing. Honestly, don't even remember if you can play with a mouse anyway...