bionicjoey
@bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Board games (board games, card games, table top RPGs) related active communities promotion post 2 months ago:
I really wish the ttrpg.network munis were more consolidated in general. It seems like the ubiquity of lemmy.world has made it hard for other instances to carve out a niche
- Comment on Board games (board games, card games, table top RPGs) related active communities promotion post 2 months ago:
!osr@lemmy.world (Inactive, but I’d love to see this one get some new activity, I just started getting into more OSR stuff recently)
!pathfinder2e@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Meta] Any category of communities we haven't covered in the recent threads? 2 months ago:
Yeah, you could make it the “traditional/tabletop games” thread, in the spirit of the divide between eg. /tg/ and /v/ on ye olde 4chan
- Comment on [Meta] Any category of communities we haven't covered in the recent threads? 2 months ago:
No. But I’d comment with some of said communities in the gaming thread
- Comment on [Meta] Any category of communities we haven't covered in the recent threads? 2 months ago:
Maybe broaden “video games” to just “games” to let the board gamers, TTRPG-ers, and CCG-ers post about their stuff as well. Right now I feel like those don’t have a great bucket in the categories there.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
If you were to walk this route along the surface of the earth, you would walk in perfectly straight lines apart from the three turns.
- Comment on How come roosters crow but crows don't rooster? 2 months ago:
Moose do actually cow. They are incredibly scary and imposing.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 2 months ago:
Whenever people criticise Bethesda games for their engine, I pretty much assume right away they know nothing about game development. Bethesda’s engine is something they have a lot of control over and can constantly improve and iterate on. It’s not as though Starfield and Morrowind are running on the exact same codebase.
Starfield is bad because of bad game design, not bad game development. Skyrim was buggy on release as well, and yet people loved it because the design of the game was good enough that people were willing to forgive the programming flaws. People overvalue the engine in discussions about Bethesda games and it’s become this meme among people to seem like they sound like they know what they’re talking about, but ultimately the flaws in Bethesda games that determine their success has very little to do with what engine they use.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 2 months ago:
For Oblivion, there is Skyblivion coming out next year.
Not sure what you hope would be added in a “remake” though. You’re asking for something which would inherently do very little and be exactly the sort of cash grab that we normally condemn. You want these games with better graphics or mechanics? Play with mods.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
The Anno games are notoriously hard to run on Linux. Protip: always check Protondb for Linux compatibility.
Also, if you find yourself missing Anno on Linux, check out Tropico or any number of city builders by Hooded Horse. There are lots of great resource production chain city builders out there that don’t force you to use Uplay
- Comment on [Recommendation] Renowned Explorers: International Society 2 months ago:
I’m a big fan of this game. It’s tactically deep and can be fairly punishing while also being whimsical and silly. And I love the fact that encounters can be resolved with or without violence. The characters are all dripping with personality and it has a fun sort of globetrotting vibe.
- Comment on "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" 2 months ago:
So funny when a corpo is forced to seem positive about something where there is absolutely no positive way of spinning it. It has this surreal energy where the person doing PR seems almost uncanny, like some kind of lizard person.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
Funny, that game is by the same creator as the game OP mentioned.
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
If you like Obra Dinn, you’ll love Outer Wilds
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
Honestly I think that if ES6 is to Skyrim what FO4 is to FO3, it will probably be good.
The danger is if they try to replicate Starfield or FO76, ie. cut corners like crazy, be blinded by dollar signs in their eyes.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
If Borderlands 3 had released on Steam, I’d have probably bought it when it came out because I still had a lot of goodwill for the series at that time. Instead, I had to wait until the Steam release when the game already had loads of negative press. Exclusive deals are idiotic
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 2 months ago:
Machine learning is irrelevant to the sort of AI used in a game like this.
- Comment on Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to" 2 months ago:
Same! I still play Civ V all the time
- Comment on Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache? 2 months ago:
You should look up trepanning. It is the earliest form of surgery we have archaeological evidence for. Basically, intracranial pressure would be relieved by drilling small holes into the skull using flint. Something like 5% of all skulls archaeologists find have evidence of trepanning, and it’s clearly deliberate, not a war wound.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Silicon Valley (the HBO show) was joking about this a decade ago. “Making the world a better place through highly scalable caching and consensus algorithms”, “I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do”, etc.
- Comment on Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 2 months ago:
Those who fail history will be doomed to repeat it
- Comment on Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 2 months ago:
Code names don’t need to be good for marketing, they are just for being able to talk about a thing
- Comment on Day 41 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Sea of Thieves) 2 months ago:
Game bugged out or something because they started rendering as skeletons instead of their avatars. So i guess i have my own literal skeleton crew now
You best start believing in ghost stories. You’re in one.
- Comment on What are some video games that you would show up to a local tournament for? 2 months ago:
The only competitive game that I’ve ever been particularly good at was Battlerite (Blossom main), and that was completely abandoned by the devs and community.
- Comment on Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! 2 months ago:
New Theranos!
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to berate you. Just trying to illustrate the underlying assumption of your question
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
This question is basically the same as asking “Are 2d6 capable of rolling a 9?”
- Comment on Masters of Albion trailer, an in development god game x colony builder hybrid with custom crafting recipes (food, armour), custom building design and an optiona third person combat from Peter Molyneux 2 months ago:
Fair enough. I certainly won’t pre order this, but if it comes out and it gets good reviews, I may give it a shot
- Comment on Why Is Apple Working On A Cheaper Apple Vision Pro? 2 months ago:
You’re comparing apples and oranges. It should be like this:
I sell my apples for $1500
People buy them
I sell my apples for $1500 (but they cost me less to make)
People buy them, I make more money
- Comment on Masters of Albion trailer, an in development god game x colony builder hybrid with custom crafting recipes (food, armour), custom building design and an optiona third person combat from Peter Molyneux 2 months ago:
I’m curious why people assume PM is incapable of delivering on promises. Like, I know he has a history of overhyping games, but surely he must also have some games where he actually delivered an awesome and complete game, right? Like the first 2 Fable games were pretty amazing.