christian
@christian@lemmy.ml
I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
I clicked your link not expecting to watch more than thirty seconds but watched the full thing, that was a great lecture.
- Comment on Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Being clichés was exactly it, I would find all of the other things perfectly tolerable if the characters had depth. I think three of the four introductions I saw just felt like “this character has actual values that you, the player, will totally align with” but completely hamfisted. (The fourth came across as a generic oonga boonga beast woman so not exactly reason for optimism.) If the protagonists are going to be the good guys then a story making that clear should be enough, rather than having “being the good guy” be an entire personality at the very start.
I expected they’re all going to be given more depth as the story advances but I didn’t feel excited to wait around to see if that makes them less annoying, especially with four more intro stories remaining.
If you’ve played the second game I would like an opinion on if the second game has a better cast.
- Comment on Octopath Traveler 0 – Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
I tried the first one a few years back and it seemed right up my alley as far as art style and gameplay but I gave up after finding my fourth character because all four of them had personalities and dialogue that were grating on me. I like jrpgs and I can’t remember another one I bailed on explicitly because I found the dialogue annoying.
When I looked through reviews it seemed mostly positive, and even for the critical reviews that did share my complaint it was mostly an afterthought to other concerns, most of which didn’t bother me. If anyone felt similarly and also tried out the sequel I’d really like to know if it’s any better in that regard because I really wanted to like the first one.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 29th 1 month ago:
Yaoling is spectacular. Monster taming RPG (think pokemon) with autobattle mechanics.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This hurts a lot to watch, but I really appreciate the conclusion she draws at the end about showing gratitude for positive impacts even if the experience isn’t great as a whole. A few times I have gotten thank-you emails after a semester that have remained extremely meaningful to me many years later. I wish I could let them know the impact it had, but I’m not going to hunt down old students. I would say don’t feel any need to send something if you don’t fully mean it though, platitudes after a student sees their grade are not the same. They’re not insulting but if it feels like a template the student could send to all their professors with a couple changes it just comes across as networking.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 6 months ago:
I’ve started playing a game called Yaoling, which is a monster taming/collecting game. The battling system is much more like Yo-Kai Watch than Pokémon - you’re not really bossing them around, they kind of do their own thing once you’ve made preparations and started.
Absolutely spectacular gameplay so far, I’m really impressed. Love the artwork and monster designs. It’s in early access right now and it warns you to expect some bugs, but other than a lot of typos in the English translation I’ve only come across a couple minor issues. Official release planned for mid-July I think.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - ADG 6 months ago:
I played this as a kid. I loved the game except for the fights. I would press ‘0’ to sucker punch every time. I don’t even know what Indy Quotient is, why should I care about it going down?
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 11 months ago:
I had a few members tell me that I was part of the evil capitalist elite because I had a job.
Had to be a joke, I’m having trouble even imagining a person who could believe this in earnest, let alone enough to say it out loud.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 11 months ago:
This essay resonates with me, thanks for sharing, the author makes her points pretty effectively. I’m not a historian and I don’t know shit, but I think even if I give the critics the concession that everything is absolute rubbish, I still think there’s no convincing argument that the beliefs are dishonest or malicious or not genuine.
There’s so much bullshit and conflicting views about literally every historical event that I find it really hard to penetrate the context of the discussion and feel confident in anything, but I think the fact that I keep seeing people who hold “tankie” opinions dismissed as malicious propagandists pushes me very strongly towards feeling that the critics have not made any attempt to seriously engage with the ideas they’re fighting against.
I think the realization I’m coming to now is that when part of your ideology is that people who claim belief in a specific conflicting worldview can be dismissed as bots or propagandists, finding out that those people aren’t manufactured makes it a lot harder to take everything else you’ve said seriously.
On the other hand, the guy you’re replying to is correct that the author’s points fall completely flat and are ridiculous once you hunt down that specific paragraph and remove the context immediately before and after. Then it becomes obvious to an unbiased reader that the author actually ignored communist death tolls because it was inconvenient for her argument.
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