SturgiesYrFase
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
Canadian, Stone Mason, Ex-Pat living in the UK.
- Comment on Looking for coop RPGs 3 weeks ago:
They’re quite dated now, but Neverwinter Nights 1&2 have a pretty robust multiplayer element.
Best description I could find is from this steam post reply by DrLoboto:
AFAIK, there are three different possibilities to play multiplayer:
- You and your friend play through the official campaign and/or and the first expansion Shadows of Undrentide, or a user-made adventure that specifically allows for multiplayer (not all of them do). The second expansion Hordes of the Underdark might be possible to play through in multiplayer, too, but I heard there are some issues. Of the DLC, I think only Pirates of the Sword Coast and Infinite Dungeons officially support multiplayer. 2. You and your friend log onto a so called Persistant World (PW), which is like a mini MMO, an online world created and hosted by users which is usually accessible to everyone, so you might run into and interact with other players. Some of these are more action-oriented with pre-scripted quests, others are strictly roleplay, meaning you are meant to stay in character and not talk about meta stuff while playing. Sometimes administrators may take on the role of NPCs or monsters and entertain you. 3. You and your friend either join another group or run your own game in which one of the users assumes the role of a dungeon master, taking control of NPCs and monsters and creating an adventure for the other player(s).
The more common options would be 1. and 2. In those case, you will both control your own character and you can form a party and fight together, but theoretically you can also split up whenever you want to (even while remaining in the same party) and explore on your own. In case 1. one of you will open an online game and host it for the other player to join (anyone who owns NWN can do this, you don’t need anything else or any particular knowledge), in case 2. you will both join the server of the according PW team. Note that in case 1. the pre-written adventures will often assume that the NPCs are always talking to the same character as the hero of the story; it’s not perfect but it works if you agree that one of you is the main character doing most of the talking for the main quests, or if you can live with the occasional confusion now and then. ;)
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 1 month ago:
OMFG! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
- Comment on Is it worth it?? 2 months ago:
That’s just a saying.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 2 months ago:
In the UK you’re limited to 32 pills of paracetamol(acetaminophen in NA) per purchase. Less if they’re high dose.
- Comment on Life Is Strange: Double Exposure's Cat DLC Is, In Fact, The Worst 2 months ago:
Thanks Bethesda…
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 months ago:
Yeah, not sure what the actual options are, but hopefully they get it sorted.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 months ago:
Depends on what medium it’s on. Some are far better than others, so as a generalisation I said what I said. A majority of folk these days, when they think digital media storage, think solid state. Which is, in fact, not suited for long term storage. A piece of paper stored correctly is going to outlast a usb drive, SD card or SSD.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 months ago:
The possibilities are endless.
I gotta get offline now. This morning hasn’t been too great for my mental health.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 months ago:
It’s all hypothetical for now. But with control of the house and senate, there’s not a single thing actually stopping them as long as the rank and file of the GOP stay in line and push everything through. Hopefully there’s enough liberal and further left inclined “Well organised militias” to fight back against anything super fashy…
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 months ago:
As @hollyberries pointed out, archive’s servers are on American soil, if there’s a federal ban on improper(“fake”) knowledge, their assets could easily be seized. No laws would have to change from today for them to do this, they’d just have to think up a somewhat reasonable excuse…
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 2 months ago:
And also good to keep in mind is that digital storage is volatile. Yes it’s impractical to have a few terabytes printed out, but if stored properly, it’ll last longer than digital media storage.
Another thing to consider:
If things go full on crazy, like they seem likely to do, being in possession of improper knowledge could be a capital offence when the thought police come knocking. - Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 2 months ago:
I never was arguing against that. Also I’m pretty sure their moral compass was pushed by the feds until he topped himself, so nothing about their bullshit has surprised me since.
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 2 months ago:
Pffffffffffff…since when is it a good idea to get financial advice from randos on the internet?
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 2 months ago:
I mean, to be fair, I’m nearly positive that the Reddit T&Cs will have said they retain rights to anything posted there for ages. And the AI bubble is already showing signs of deflation or bursting coming not too far down the line. Let them enjoy their first and hopefully only profitable year.
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 2 months ago:
Touché
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 2 months ago:
But admittedly, I can understand that you don’t want to create something where you are pretty sure enough media illiterate idiots will not get that the fascists are NOT supposed to be the good guys.
Just look at Helldiver 1/2, couldn’t be more in your face about it, and yet there’s still people not getting it.
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 2 months ago:
Hollis-Leick and narrative director Craig Sherman pushed back on some of the “do’s and don’ts” they received from Games Workshop about Space Marine vocabulary. They deviated from the suggested phraseology to make Titus and his comrades sound less “strange and antiquated”, less like the Spanish Inquisition, and more like soldiers from real-world present-day militaries. “Space Marines don’t necessarily say things like ‘dismissed’,” Hollis-Leick observed. “There’s a line in the game where Acheran says ‘company dismissed’ and they really wanted me to change that to ‘brothers, attend your duties’, or something. But it’s three words instead of one, and if that model was applied to all of the language in the game, I really strongly felt that people wouldn’t get it.”
Gonna be a whole lotta really peeved 40k ultra fans…
- Comment on How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed? 2 months ago:
Folks can underestimate how hard digging
narrowholes in the ground can be. - Comment on Please don't crash. Please don't crash. Please don't crash. 2 months ago:
Idk, feels like we’re doing a pretty good job of curing the planet of it’s infection
- Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 3 months ago:
Since it was taken, clearly.
- Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 3 months ago:
o7
Yer doin god’s work son… - Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 3 months ago:
But if they don’t do everything they can to obfuscate the ramifications of voting No then everyone would vote Yes!
They know what they’re doing is against the wishes of the majority, otherwise they would put the choices in plain language, or weight the obfuscation the other way…
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 3 months ago:
Wait til you learn about Gerrymandering. I’ll not get into it in depth, but essentially the local/state government in the US will set up voting regions to guarantee that one party has a massive advantage.
- Comment on Why am I seeing "plan your voting day strategy" so often? 3 months ago:
To discourage people from voting. As was pointed out elsewhere, the Republicans only really flourish when a small number of people vote. So they make it as inconvenient as possible for people who are lower income, usually people of colour.
- Comment on Agent of Happiness (2024, Dorottya Zurbo) 3 months ago:
Thanks! Definitely going to watch this
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 3 months ago:
Exactly! There’s no reason to be that way, other than to feel superior to someone. And that’s just kinda a shit way to be!
- Comment on Proton is the Future of PC gaming. But how does it work? [Gardiner Bryant, YouTube] 3 months ago:
I had an argument shortly after the great migration. Someone had posted a video essay on something gaming related and the person I responded to was adamant that a video couldn’t be an essay. It was a two hour deep dive into the topic, with graphs/journalistic photos/news video snippets, and the video info section had a citation list longer than your arm.
This person couldn’t understand that just because the creator had decided to present their essay in video format, didn’t mean it wasn’t an essay. All they had to say basically boiled down to:
only stupid people watch a video this long when you could read the equivalent amount of information in less than half the time.Needless to say, that got my hackles up a tad.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 3 months ago:
This is a very common term. I encountered it back home in Canada frequently, and just as much here in the UK.
- Comment on I can't where the stupid "I voted" sticker. Because they stick it to the mail in ballot instead. 3 months ago:
Not much of a story really, just about a decade of it suggesting something completely different from what I was trying for.
- Comment on I can't where the stupid "I voted" sticker. Because they stick it to the mail in ballot instead. 3 months ago:
That’s why I call it autoassume