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- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 3 days ago:
Re: #6 prior to the invasions of the Angles/Saxons England was invaded by the Romans and a number of cities sprung up in the south populated by latin-speaking peoples. When Western Rome collapsed, the state capacity needed to maintain large urban centers went with it. The Roman inhabitants didn’t leave, though, but instead mixed with the local culture and dispersed into the general population of England.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
Irish isn’t a race
Well, not any more, anyways.
- Comment on Discussions in the past about not being able to access digital gaming content that users had paid for... 2 weeks ago:
Digital media of any sort, really.
- Comment on Biden Urged to 'Put Up a Major Fight' Over Mass Layoffs at John Deere 2 weeks ago:
but the Dems chose Hilary instead
Seems to be implying Bernie Sanders
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Do you think objectification is good and healthy?
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s exactly what you want: a feminist forum that’s specifically for discussing men’s issues (including sexuality) in a constructive and healthy manner.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
See, that’s really interesting to me! The mainstream feminist spaces I’ve interacted with have been very sex-positive, so I’m curious how you’ve experienced this demonization.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Christianity I can understand, but would you mind explaining why you think feminism demonizes masturbation?
- Comment on 'Quit Or Accept Minimum Wage': Chinese Company's Ultimatum To 1000 Autoworkers As EV Sales Drop 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_China
Looks like the lowest as of 2023 equates to about 1.79 USD an hour?
- Comment on What are some excellent free games/total conversions that are worth playing the whole thing? 3 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed The Last Days of the Third Age, a lord of the rings TC for Mount and Blade: Warband.
It takes Warband’s medieval lord sim and focuses hard on the warfare side of things with lots of huge battles on giant maps, but even tiny skirmishes can affect a faction’s strength. (And with so many factions on both sides of the War of the Ring, you need to pick what to focus on)
- Comment on New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters 4 weeks ago:
Oh, don’t get me wrong, minecraft’s art style is absolutely charming and a perfect fit for the “blocky” nature of the gameplay. See how many of its imitators try to look more realistic and end up looking genuinely ugly. But to speak to the top comment’s point, when fancy shaders are added minecraft’s simple style gets elevated so much and it goes to show how simple and effective design paired with good-looking lighting can make even the lowest-poly games look absolutely gorgeous.
- Comment on New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters 4 weeks ago:
Hell, minecraft’s vanilla textures look downright gorgeous with lighting mods.
- Comment on Double chocolate 4 weeks ago:
Might be referring to the percentage of the chocolate itself, denoting how “dark” it is.
- Comment on Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games 4 weeks ago:
Bioshock is most specifically about Randian objectivism, which is a version of extreme laissez-faire capitalism that overlaps with certain versions of libertarianism.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Officially Announced 5 weeks ago:
Black Ops IIIIII
- Comment on Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack? 5 weeks ago:
But seriously this does actually explain why. A taller person’s stomach is closer to a shorter person’s shoulder-level, making it easier to stab.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 5 weeks ago:
The change that I always notice whenever I jump between earlier and later TW is the addition of hit points and how it really feels line it blunts a lot of impacts.
I mean, compare a heavy cavalry charge in Medieval 2 to one in Total Warhammer. A properly formed unit of Teutonic Knights is a devastating hammer blow that can shatter an enemy army since the charge bonus massively increases the chance to kill. Meanwhile, Empire Knights can get a proper rear charge against basic infantry and despite how far those rats get flung, they’ll all get back up because all the charge does is make the line go down faster.
The other big impact I find with this change is it makes the rout really annoying to deal with. In early total war, you always want some cavalry to pursue fleeing enemies since once they’re broken it won’t take much to capture or kill them and preventing those armies from regrouping really matters. Meanwhile, in modern total war, pursuing fleeing enemies never seems to result in significant damage because instead of capturing fleeing enemies you’re just making the line go down again.
I dunno, it just feels weird.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 5 weeks ago:
Well, maybe take the land battles into more of a Dawn of War or Tiberium Wars direction. Other than that, make everything bigger and more detailed.
- Comment on Creative Assembly Reportedly Working On A Total War: Star Wars Game 5 weeks ago:
The Battles of Naboo and Geonosis basically play out as line battles with massive groups marching in formations at each other, not to mention most of the Tartakovsky clone wars, so I could see CA approaching it like Empire Total War with hover tanks.
Honestly, I doubt whether CA are even willing to adapt their formula enough to actually have small teams of shooters flicking into cover positions.
- Comment on UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government 1 month ago:
Ross and the team have been very specific about not wanting to force companies to pay for server infrastructure.
They’ve said quite a few times that what they want is for game companies to at least patch their games so they can keep running without the online connection or provide players the tools to host their own servers so that the company can end support without the game becoming a brick.
Hopefully by requiring games to be playable after support ends and the servers shut down it will also change the way games are made so that they no longer require the constant connection.
- Comment on 'We're Gonna Win': Alabama Mercedes Workers Begin UAW Vote 1 month ago:
I think if you want to Steel-Man an anti-union argument, then two routes you could take would be to look at police unions and the history of organized crime’s involvement in unions. Both are interesting case studies for how the purpose of unions can be corrupted, and worth examining for how to make sure a union does its job right.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 1 month ago:
Been using voyager too, made the jump to Lemmy easier when Apollo shut down.
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 2 months ago:
I usually use it to hold a pocketknife or change
- Comment on CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games" 2 months ago:
Unethical working conditions are never necessary.
- Comment on Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers 2 months ago:
Most safety regulations are written in blood.
- Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 3 months ago:
Hell, Steve Bannon got his start using WoW gold farms to find and target lonely young men.