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- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 8 hours ago:
Funny in that it has moments of levity. It's not wall-to-wall misery even if it's filled with tragedy.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 day ago:
Given that this is Lemmy and we have advanced technology - I hope OP edits the title to fix it.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 day ago:
Probably:
- Fallout 2
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
Fallout 2 isn't as refined and tight as Fallout but I personally enjoy it more. It's arguably far too big but as I've played it so many times (unusual for me - I'm usually a one-and-done person when it comes to time sink RPGs) that isn't a bad thing. I enjoy the writing, mechanics, and atmosphere. Also I voice a robot dog in a mod for it.
Red Alert 2 is the best C&C game ever. I do not care for any of the 3D ones and Red Alert 1 is rather too difficult for me. However RA2 I have finished on hardest difficulty several times. I've never really bothered with the multiplayer for it outside of co-op because I don't play to be competitive. I tend to take my time and like it that way.
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is maybe my favourite point and click RPG. I go back to it every few years and it always sucks me in. I know most of the puzzles off by heart but I'm more there for the sense of escapism and gentle humour. There's other amazing point and click games but for whatever reason this one really speaks to me. It's not even a nostalgia thing - I've only ever played the 2009 director's cut! I'm old enough to have played the '90s version but never did.
Honourable mentions:
*Startopia
*The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
*Theme Hospital
*What Remains of Edith FinchStartopia's music, humour, and gameplay are all top notch. Runs on a potato, makes me laugh, and features my old pal, Arona.
BoI:R is great. I've put a ridiculous number of hours into it. The latest DLC has made it a bit too big for my tastes but in general I enjoy it a great deal.
Theme Hospital is like Two Point Hospital but tighter, funnier, and prettier. Lots of fun.
What Remains of Edith Finch is art. It's funny, moving, tragic, and beautiful. I encourage everyone to play through it. It won't take that long - a few hours. Such a fantastic experience. Gone Home is pretty damn good too.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 day ago:
I gave Chrono Trigger a fair whack and just got bored. I suspect JRPGs just aren't for me.
- Comment on Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on 1 day ago:
It's a great way to tell whether someone has empathy or not. Lots of drivers either cannot or will not entertain the notion that there might be other people around them who they share space with.
To them having to slow down in built up areas is an affront. Anyone else on or near the road is an inconvenience, not another person with equal or greater need than them.
Why should they have to slow down? Children shouldn't be on bikes or walking! They're going to get hurt! Dog walkers? They should be somewhere else - who cares where, just not here! Adult pedestrians? Why don't they have cars? Or probably more accurately they don't think about them at all, because that would require a level of self reflection that they're not well practiced in.
Entitled fucking toddlers. We devote vast resources and space, more than any other means of transport, but that's not enough. They should be allowed to drive wherever they want, as fast as they want, in as large a vehicle as they want. Anything less is oppression, apparently. Me me me me.
It particularly irks me how often I see people speed in my town because the average speed is about 15mph. They'll shoot off and I'll trundle along only to find them waiting at the next junction. There's literally zero point in going faster - it's more dangerous for those around them and it's less fuel/energy efficient. There's a reason I regularly get 4.4 miles per kWh - because I'm not constantly gunning it to the next set of lights.
That said we really need to rework some of our roads to discourage these dickheads. Add cycling paths and narrow the roads, put bottlenecks in, etc.. A bit of enforcement wouldn't go amiss either, particularly around areas like schools and suburbs.
Perhaps there's no one else sharing the space at the moment but if drivers can't behave themselves then there never will be. You cannot always be in that much of a fucking rush - if you are then sort your life out and stop making it everyone else's problem.
- Comment on Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms 3 days ago:
Jesus, that's been allowed all this time?
Have we no shame?
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 3 days ago:
Disc only for me as the digital pricing on the MS store is rubbish compared to second hand discs.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 3 days ago:
I'm still waiting on a reason to upgrade from my Xbox One X.
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 3 days ago:
We had extensive criteria so Lilith was chosen based on that (it's a pre-existing name, it can be as formal or informal as she likes, etc..). The goal wasn't to have a unique name but I'm tickled that there'll probably be a load of Lilys in her class!
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 4 days ago:
We were going to name our daughter Amelia but decided against it due to it being so popular last year (who wants to be the fourth girl in the class with the same name?). Instead we went with Lilith.
Looks at list
Damn it.
- Comment on Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK 4 days ago:
When I was over in New Zealand in 2018 I was shocked to find that Domino's didn't cost the earth. The prices in the UK are insane.
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 5 days ago:
In my lap?
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 6 days ago:
As if I couldn't hold them in lower esteem.
- Comment on High street banks lose £100bn in deposits as UK savers shift to online rivals 6 days ago:
I'm not surprised. I don't remember when a branch was actually helpful. I always felt like I was an inconvenience for them, getting in the way of whatever it was they were really supposed to be doing.
I used to use Lloyds for business banking and their branch support got worse to the point of having no one to speak to in person at all.
For my personal accounts I tried to change my name and found that they had their own, unpublished, rules for how deed polls work (that didn't align with the government - various extra requirements on who the witnesses could be). They had the gall to act as if **I was the daft one.
My business account was actually with TSB for a while following the split with Lloyds and I tried to move it to Lloyds. They needed it in writing but told me handing it in at a branch was fine. I found some months later that they'd ignored the letter completely!
I remember Halifax being wildly unhelpful when I wanted to withdraw some money from a special account that only allowed two withdrawals a year. Pissed me off enough that I withdrew everything from the account and closed it because of their attitude.
NatWest were also impressively shit when I was a teen. I bounced a check by about a quid and they fined me for it. Then they fined me because the fine left the account overdrawn. Never paid them back after that, unsurprisingly.
Santander... Yeah, not great. I have an organisation account with them and they're just a huge pain to deal with.
So if as a personal customer and as a business customer they've no interest in dealing with me, why would I continue to be a burden to them?
In the dustbin of history with you, you uppity twats.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
I could see what it was going for but it felt like a chore to play so I stopped.
The term "over-embroidered" springs to mind.
- Comment on Regret, resentment and Reform UK: jailed Rotherham rioters one year on 1 week ago:
Looks like a pattern of poor critical thinking skills.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 1 week ago:
There have been some great games with development times that long.
Can you name some? I don't mean to be derisive, I just literally can't think of any right now.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 1 week ago:
Unfortunately they're not significantly more fun despite that.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 1 week ago:
Yeah, I've been watching from the sidelines and still haven't seen anything that moves the needle sufficiently.
Where are the games?!
- Comment on Xbox players in the UK must verify their age to keep access to social features - Dexerto 1 week ago:
I was honestly just being flippant.
I do find it quite obnoxious how Microsoft handles Xbox stuff. There's a lot of "because fuck you" to their interface design.
- Comment on Xbox players in the UK must verify their age to keep access to social features - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Finally a way to be rid of that crap? Amazing.
- Comment on pragnent 1 week ago:
A colleague titled a slide "how is babby formed?" at work a few weeks ago. Still makes me laugh.
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 1 week ago:
To steal a joke from Milton Jones:
My sister suffers from hayfever, diabetes, and vertigo. I try my best to be supportive but I'm not sure whether my efforts are going down so well. I've sent her flowers, chocolates, and sometimes I just give her a call to say hi(gh).
- Comment on Wes Streeting says striking doctors ‘will lose a war with this government’ 1 week ago:
That doesn't sound like something someone in a favourable position would say.
- Comment on Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows 1 week ago:
Teenagers making poor choices? That doesn't sound right. Why back in my day we were all sensible!
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
You're taking this extremely personally for some reason
I think that could be said for your entire response to me. I've no interest in further interacting with you. I've attempted to relate to you, be friendly in disagreement, and be clear in my position. That's not working and this interaction is just proving a source of needless stress. Goodbye.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
I mounted some speakers in the ceiling (I think they're ceiling mid rather than ceiling front or ceiling rear) and whilst there's not that many things that really take advantage of them, some stuff is fantastic.
The voices in Max's head in Fury Road are great and the sounds of below decks in Master and Commander stood out too.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn't that mean you have a 5.1.2 setup, a valid Atmos configuration?
The rear ones don't have to have any upfiring capabilities.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
Some games do this - often called "night mode". Seems like a lot of people would benefit from it in other mediums!
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
But Atmos is a receiver level technology?
How does a speaker "have Atmos"?