justdaveisfine

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to wear some tinfoil but I’d 100% be unsurprised if Bungie or Sony were doing ‘marketing campaigns’ using stuff like astroturfing to promote their game. Its not really uncommon on Reddit and I have seen small/medium sized companies attempt stuff like this in an attempt to go viral.

  All that being said, there’s absolutely no way bigger companies like that would 1.) be using Discord to conduct this and 2.) paying randoms to do so. There are much easier ways to go about doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got to admit - I only played Firewatch briefly (~20 minutes). I just remember walking around and replying to a lady on the radio before stepping away and never jumping back in.

  It seems I missed what the reactive storytelling was supposed to be about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody else do this today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not today, but yeah I’ve been there.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my own experience, if you pick up another language but don’t use it on an at least a semi-regular basis, your skills in it get real rusty real fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Star Trek Resurgence and Across the unknown has bad graphics?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this particular screenshot, it looks like its an unfortunate case of lighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make a dog mean? Not that I want that but would kind of like for him to also be our protector much as his. I don't want to hit him or deprive him though he is just sometimes tooo nice.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dogs generally have a good sense if something is wrong or if someone is being aggressive towards you. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) make a dog “mean”, he’s perfectly capable of it if he feels something is up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was specifically thinking of books with sexual violence, suicide, or promoting toxic behavior, and even then it does go down to the book’s context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds kind of ridiculous but this is actually pretty smart. I’d prefer to know what my kids are diving into and maybe set up guardrails or at least warnings if something they were interested in was funky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d probably argue games that ‘can’ do this well is JRPGs because they tend to be a slow burn and have a lot of small side conversations that are not directly plot related, which allows the characters and relationships to get fleshed out.

  The ones that immediately come to mind are FF 8/9/10 but I’m certain there are others.

  In games where the romance is like a mechanic and not a part of the story? Hmm that’s a tougher question because I think mechanics/gameification tend to ruin the human part of relationship building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found store bought ones are usually bigger but blander. Wild or home grown blueberry is quite a bit better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Reportedly Cancelled A Co-op Multiplayer Assassin's Creed Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cowards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m uncertain on this as its being made without Larian and likely has more involvement from Hasbro, now that the latter is realizing BG has turned out to be a golden goose despite their attempts to wring it for cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to wait for Steam reviews to see how crunchy the performance is on PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Baldur’s Gate 3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most anything PvP.

  I just can’t do anything with games that don’t allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.

  It doesn’t help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you’re not reading up on forums or discussions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I somewhat agree. I think Morrowind would need a proper remake (not just graphics remaster) to iron out some mechanics but also expand on some of the content/areas where stuff got a little thin.

  Even so, there’s a 95% chance they’ll face a lot of disappointment unless they nail it perfectly, and I don’t know if they can capture that lightning in a bottle again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently I'm into Web3, says Netcup 🤷⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of hosting service doesn’t have afterhours support?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there i fixed it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gail the snail?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect if you were the equivalent of crumbs in the bed, you would not stop and consider if you were the crumbs in the bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Immersion for me is when you can interact with the world in a realistic or internally consistent way.

  This sounds dumb, but if you can walk into a bar and order a drink, that’s a level of immersion. If you can steal the beer off the shelf so ths bartender can’t serve you, that’s even more immersive because even the NPCs are bound to world logic.

  That’s great immersion to me.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC game recommendation for my partner and I⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing Factorio co-op was one of the games that got my wife into gaming. She couldn’t do quick reaction time shooters, but Factorio at its most basic is essentially a ‘puzzle’ game.

  … But yeah we lost a few weekends or weeks or months to it. The factory must grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC game recommendation for my partner and I⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Semi-casual games that run well on older PCs and linux? Plus no launchers? Let’s see. I got a few but there may be splitscreen ones in this list too. (If that’s ok)

  Battleblock Theater Biped (maybe?) Cassette Beasts Castle Crashers Children of Morta Don’t Starve Together Dinkum (If Australian Animal Crossing sounds interesting) Factorio A hat in time Guacamelee Human Fall Flat Hyper Light Drifter ibb & obb KeyWe Kingdom Two Crowns Knights and Bikes Like, all of the lego games (They’re all similar mechanically, so pick one of the newer ones that look good) Lovers in a dangerous spacetime Magicka (I like the first one but the second one isn’t bad) Monaco Moon Hunters Necesse Peak Resident Evil 5/6 (Yes, really, its a great time in co-op) Satisfactory Secrets of Grindea Split Fiction (This one may be graphically harder to run?) Stardew Valley Spiritfarer Terraria Trine games Valheim (At least until mistlands)

  I’m kind of going off of semi-casual meaning not high intensity shooters or things that require crazy skills. Most of these are pretty easy to pick up and are generally forgiving. They shouldn’t have launchers but if they added one in a later update, then dang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be a poison pill prompt meant to lure out bot responses that wouldn’t realize its bogus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Excitement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were based on gorgons, specifically gorgoneion which is the image of just the head of a gorgon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a dreamy guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Joklahoma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the argument that if you’re generating an image and making some edits, you’re robbing yourself of original concepts. Even if human hands do the editing you’ve already outsourced one of the most important parts.