homoludens
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- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Hard to describe. I started to feel the same way about the real world as I did about the world described in the books. Like the high tech, low life concept - just because we have shiny things does not mean we have a good life. And developing a tendency for rather diverse and/or weird friend groups who band together to fight for our place in this world. I mean, the books obviously crank everything up to 11, but the prower structures seem very similar.
I was reading Shadowrun books about evil megacorporations who are mightier than nation states and indigenous liberation movements against them, so I paid a lot of attention to real world politics when I read the news about stuff like NAFTA and the EZLN or the MAI agreement.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Shadowrun - it had a tremendous effect on my actual worldview (as did other cyberpunk works). The near-future cyberpunk setting offers plenty of opportunity for satire, being rooted in this world makes some geography and history relatable and mixing it with fantasy elements does not only make it more colorful and varied, but also prevents unrealistic stuff from breaking my immersion, because it does not pretend to be realistic.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 months ago:
Its too bad if the game collapses at some point since it really has promise.
No one denies the game has promise. The problem is that it does not have much else. Having ideas is the easy part in game development.
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 2 months ago:
For me, “primitive” is not the main problem (though I’m getting a bit sick of pixel art), it’s more blue-green hue is off-putting. It might match the theme of an alien planet, but it lokks like it would give me headache or something.
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on ‘Gen V’ Season 2 Release Date Set at Amazon, First Trailer Addresses Chance Perdomo’s Death 5 months ago:
The first three episodes of Season 2 will debut Sept. 17. Additional episodes will drop weekly on Wednesdays through the season finale Oct. 22.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 5 months ago:
there are equally whimsical, better written series
Which ones can you recommend? I mean, my reading list isn’t already too long but…
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." 5 months ago:
Shit people can use.
Sounds like people could use unions.
- Comment on John Oliver faces defamation lawsuit from US healthcare medical director 7 months ago:
Plus the use of “allow” is interesting when the patient is actually forced to live in this condition.
- Comment on I'm rich and powerful so I can violate laws and brag about it on social media 9 months ago:
This is a lot of things, but not mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 11 months ago:
It would be very nice if we could not copy literal 4chan behavior here though, not even ironically.
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 11 months ago:
That’s why I like the series Heartbreaker so much. It shows healthy relationships, and it also shows how hard relationships (and life in general) can still be.
- Comment on Mine was the fact that Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929 😭 1 year ago:
If you were born in 1974 or earlier, your birthday is closer to the production of the Ford Model T than it is to today. Have a nice day :)
- Comment on ouch 1 year ago:
Super green!