KoboldCoterie

@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need an EA key, and I’m not really one for jokes, but for some reason you just reminded me of this wild article I read recently - you might have seen it; apparently there was a short-term art exhibit featuring Salvador Dali’s works at some museum a couple months ago. The arrtwork had been displayed for two or three weeks already when it was discovered - by a patron, no less - that every single one of the works on display were forgeries. Absolutely wild. Apparently nobody inspects the Spanish exposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet they’re going to get a ton of sales off of this, because the campaign - especially the beginning of the campaign - is a masterpiece. Absolutely fantastic gameplay. It’s not until you get most of the way through and into the endgame that the cracks start to show, but oh boy do they show.

  Strongly recommend that anyone who plays this this weekend and enjoys it give the reviews a good read if you’re considering buying it. Also, you should know that the game will be free to play once it’s out of early access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all ‘pasta’ in my house. Including the spaghetti.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Gets September Release Date After Seven Years in Development (Gaming News Roundup)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they didn’t want to over hype or give false hope on development for the game, maybe they shouldn’t have hyped the game off the back of their first game more than 6 years too early, idiotic choice imo.

  Hey, just in case you’re unaware, they kickstarted the original Hollow Knight, and one of the stretch goals (which was met) was a second playable character (Hornet) as a DLC that backers would get for free. While they were making that DLC, the scope just expanded to the point of it being an entire standalone game (Silksong). They had to communicate to backers that they were forestalling the promised DLC in favor of a sequel; the cat would have been out of the bag then whether they wanted it to be or not. Better for them to announce the sequel publicly at the same time, rather than have it leak via their Kickstarter update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hawk alignment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anyone could argue that Tony is a Hawk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says US air support possible for Ukraine security guarantee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to think that’s why they do it. It’s not “US offers possible air support for Ukraine’s security guarantee”, it’s “Trump says…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dreaded police station interrogation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We desperately need an active Boomer Humor community, so all of this stuff can be corralled into one easily blocked place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A dedicated section in my Steam library⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you can’t just make a statement like that without showing us which one. That’s against the internet law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A dedicated section in my Steam library⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy more ‘favorite game’ showcases (with the Steam ‘points’ you get when you buy games, not actual money), so if you wanted, you could have them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A dedicated section in my Steam library⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a ‘Favorite Game’ showcase that highlights a single game!

  View your profile, then click ‘Edit My Profile’. Click down to the ‘Featured Showcase’ item on the left nav, choose ‘Favorite Game’ from the dropdown, choose the game you want, and click Save. Voila!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A dedicated section in my Steam library⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not a dedicated showcase on your Steam profile? Arguably even more prestigious, since they’re limited in quantity.

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

  If you enjoy the old school vibe, City of Heroes has been revived through a community effort, and is free with all of the original content plus some new stuff. This has been given official blessing so it’s not going to disappear suddenly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True equality!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The term is connected to misogyny. If someone just wants to give up dating and that’s the end of it, there’s no reason for anyone to be ticked off by that idea. It’s the doomer attitude surrounding it and the effects of it that cause problems. You used the term ‘black pill’, which has specific connotations - it’s not simply choosing to give up dating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The term black pill, first popularized in the 2010s on the incel blog Omega Virgin Revolt, refers to accepting the futility of fighting against a feminist system. Blackpilled incels are encouraged to either commit suicide or “go ER”/be a “hERo,” referencing Elliot Rodger’s 2014 Isla Vista murder spree that has been called an act of misogynistic terrorism.

  (Source: Britannica

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grandma is on her own⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said this before (and caught flak for it) but I think the solution to this is to apply a heavy additional tax to vacant homes (as defined as any home that isn’t occupied by a permanent resident for more than 6 months a year), and increase the tax exponentially for each residence beyond the first owned by the same company or individual.

  At some point, you make it so expensive to keep unoccupied properties that they’re better off letting people live there for free than continuing to let them go unoccupied. Use all of the proceeds from this tax to assist homeless people or build new dense housing developments.

  “But Kobold, what about soandso with their summer home?” If you can afford a second home, you can afford to pay a bit more tax on it to benefit the public good.

  “But Kobold, a lot of those homes that are vacant are run-down, or are in places nobody actually wants to live!” Doesn’t matter. If they’re vacant, tax them. Use the money to build dense housing in the places where people do want to live. If the place is too run-down to be occupied, the owner can tear it down and do something else with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's Humanoid Robot Soccer League Kicks Off with AI-Only Matches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a novelty that people would watch one time and then promptly forget about. Where’s the appeal in this at all? Not even from an “AI BAD” standpoint, but just, like… why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, Primer, then? Where you turn on the time machine at the point you want to return to, and when you get into it in the future you’re returned to that point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My real wonder would be if the majority of Americans would okay the amount of money it would cost to save that one man?

  Depends where the money is coming from. Military budget? Absolutely. Being taken from social services and whatnot? No. The amount of money that would cost could save so many more lives if it was used for things here. Choosing to spend it on saving an astronaut rather than on, for example, feeding homeless people and distributing medication and disaster relief is like a version of the trolley problem where the trolley is already heading for the 1 person, but you have the option of switching it to the other track to kill more people if you want to. I’d have a really hard time calling that moral by any metric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam summer sale going on... This is my haul (from GOG)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also some absolutely great dialog / voice acting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is America in a New Gilded Age? Wealth, Power, and Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give that the gilded age was characterized by a massive spike in wages… No. No, we aren’t. Or rather, yes, we are, but only for a very select few people. For the rest of us, we’re entering into a new depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Cause I been drivin’ and puttin’ so long,

  I didn’t realize the water is gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corruption fetishists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Terraria

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but a multiplayer game which starts with, for example, 4 players could be reduced to 2 players before it ends, so they have to specify ‘begins with’ to keep that multiplayer game from also being a two-player game at that point.

  And this really sums up the level of semantics and minutia that requires a 299 page comprehensive rule PDF for a card game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or any interaction that requires understanding layers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all fairness, the instructions you actually need to know to play the game could be summarized in a single page (with the caveat that there will be a lot of edge cases that won’t be adequately explained there); tournament judges and, to a lesser extent, tournament players are the only folks who need to know the majority of what’s in that PDF.

  That said, the game is super archaic and hard to learn, and any player who thinks otherwise is probably either playing only at a super basic level, or just isn’t considering how long they’ve been playing and how much nuance they’ve accumulated. Sorry you had a shitty experience; your friends absolutely should not have tried to throw you into the deep end like that. You sound like you already know, but to reiterate it, this was absolutely not a failing on your part and was 100% your friends’ fault.

  If you actually want to try the game (and I completely understand if you don’t), you can go to a game store that sells MtG products and ask for a (free) intro deck. They’re small decks with simpler cards and a booklet explaining the basic game rules that can be helpful to learn the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. If you told me this was satire, I’d 100% believe you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I honestly think they're impossible to understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Here, just use this easy quick-reference PDF.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Come in with some bolt cutters. Free the milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really, the whole basis for the anti-AI arguments seem to boil down to “It feels wrong that a billionaire’s corporation should be able to take the work of artists and writers and, without paying them for it, use it to create a tool that is then used to put them out of work.” And that’s absolutely 100% true, but it unfortunately doesn’t hold any legal weight, and the terms we currently have to describe intellectual property theft simply aren’t sufficient to describe what’s going on here. Until new laws are passed, I don’t see any of these attempts to stop AI going anywhere, but I’d love to be proven incorrect.