lath

@lath@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 383 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

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

  Stalker. Tugunska. Rockay City Crime Boss.

  Shooty tooty mood.

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

  Sounds erotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 368 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the turn-based style of Cataclysm DDA over this real-time one. Because it was less realistic.
  I had more time to think and less time to "oh shit, I'm dead."

  But I like the tutorial here because it tells you clearly you're going to die a lot, in silly yet believable ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a shame. Once upon a time, Ubisoft helped and sponsored many a young tentative developers and held classes for game development.
  Whatever the reasons and end result, they inspired dreams back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the pre-production is real. Remains to be seen whether production and post-production will be real as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horny🧠⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You're not going to believe this, but it can be both. For different reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horny🧠⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True. A good, safe environment will kickstart your baby making hormones into overdrive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true friend⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Avocado toast enthusiasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because many "players" are refunding after a fap, which is logged and reviewed. Also, suspicious or new transactions are often flagged and reviewed. So a lot of such side content is being pushed in front of the banks and payment processors by horny clients who unwittingly expose their kinks.