The end goal of every authoritarian entity is to control currency. Your access to food, entertainment, medical care, quality of life, etc. all go through your exchange of currency. If they control the currency, they control all of the above. NSFW video games are just a small foot in the door, I can see this encroaching onto every aspect of society soon
Me reading the Epic of Gilgamesh 4000 years later
For me it was NordVPN>Windows Privacy>Signal>Mullvad>Fediverse>CalyxOS>Linux. Surprisingly similar.
Tracing it back I think I learned about Nord VPN from an Internet Historian ad, and went from there.
In general I agree, I love me some appimage, but Flatpak is good when you need sandboxes and repo packages are super easy with apt or dnf
I think I fixed it; I use Jerboa and put the image link in the wrong field. Whoops!
Me when you’re simply scrolling a shitpost feed and come across an otherworldly nugget of deep wisdom only to question your own perspective on a commonly occuring subject of decpetive simplicity
Idk, I think it depends on their angle
BREAKING: the entire moon has less crime than South Africa! That’s 38 million sq km of no crime!
/s
For real, they picked the most barren places on earth (except Europe). Most of the land mass of Canada, Australia, and Greenland are deserted. Midwest US is all farmland. No one lives in Siberia
I find them really boring, especially in RPG contexts. The difference is night and day when you walk into a handcrafted dungeon that has situational storytelling, creative direction, and ambiance that conveys a specific feeling. Bethesda games do this exceptionally well, for example.
Handcrafting a world also gives meaning to exploration; when I explore a procedurally generated world I feel like I’m just walking around aimlessly, looking for just another treasure chest or enemy to fight. But in a hand-crafted world, there are specific things to look for, situational stories to be told, or even secrets to find that the creator hid. That’s a lot more fun to explore than walking around in a glorified geometric algorithm
I hate that they tried to blame the developers here. I feel like they are just as exploited as the consumers. Many times have I tried to be passionate about my own work only to have it crushed and expunged by greedy upper management. I’d hate to be them working years on a passion project only to have it degraded by corporate grifters sending it into microtransaction hell
Microsoft is quickly becoming the worst company in gaming, which is saying something when you have the likes of Nintendo and EA. They bought up a bunch of quality companies making good games just to fire everyone and shut them down so their crappy flagship titles have no competition. Companies want to kill and destroy all games old, new, and even hypothetical so that their glorified slot machines get the spotlight. This is the beginning of the end for mainstream gaming. (Indie gaming is going strong though).
Genshin Impact in a nutshell
This. In recent months I’ve seen more and more hostile interactions and political strawmans than I can count. Been on Lemmy for over 2 years, and it hasn’t changed for the worse until recently.
I love how you wrote this like a counter-ad. Hard agree, jamocha shakes are the best cheap shake and Arby’s gets a totally bad rap. Just add Arbys or Horsey sauce to whatever you get to make it 10x better
Bro really wanted his chicken well done at 400°F
Those PC-88 pics look really cool. Just goes to show that you don’t need a cutting edge PC for good graphics (or even a GPU at all in this case).
Also speaking of Michael Jackson, his Sega Genesis game Moonwalker is definitely a hidden gem worth checking out. Smooth gameplay and criminally underrated
All of my favorite Star Wars games are on sale. When star wars games were good; “before the dark times, before EA.”
Knights of the Old Republic I & II
Dark forces
Empire at War
Jedi Academy
Jedi Outcast
Republic Commando
Battlefront I & II (Lucasarts ones not EA)
Shadows of the Empire
Bounty Hunter
All great games worth playing imo
As a personal philosophy, I like to learn how something works before I allow myself to take it for granted. As a few examples: I can do math by hand, wash my own clothes with homemade detetgant, write a short story or poem, draw/illustrate with pencil pretty well, and I can even build a log cabin with hand tools. Only then do I allow myself to use calculators, washers, generative AI, and modern power tools to perform those skills for me. I can now embrace these new technologies form a standpoint of knowing what they made easier, AI included. Of course many will not think this way ingeneral society, but this is how I tackle the problem from an introspective angle