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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama didn't raise no quitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not sober, but I have tried some NA beers, and they’re surprisingly good. I have also tried some of the old ones that were pretty nasty. I don’t really know why the old ones were bad, or how we now have good ones, but it’s nice to see.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not really. I played in the first version that had the Mun, which was just a stationary object straight above the launch site, and it’s missing stuff from that even. It does have more than that too though.

You can build rockets now, as of a very recent update, so it is actually something you can play with. Before then, the only thing you could really do was fly around a premade craft with unlimited fuel, so it’s progress. KSP, before career, had more parts and more mechanics for the parts though. It also had reasons to explore, with secret locations all around the system. KSA is just the Solar system, which is cool but also you know what there is to see.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t play it if they’re interested. It’s free, and it’s a cool look at the tech they’re building. It just isn’t much of a game yet, especially if you already have KSP1. I fully believe it will get there though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Done? No. They keep adding content. It may never be “done”. It is feature-rich though.

A cube probably still is the best shape, as it is in real life often. It maximizes the volume-to-suface ratio. However, there’s tons of reasons to build other shapes. Usually you’re expanding organically, so you end up things tacked on all over as you add more features.

You can get to a livable base pretty quickly, and then just stop playing. The game is mostly about what you do beyond that though. Automating your furnace, backup power, mining, farming, etc. is the real goal. Stopping at just the basics is like stopping Minecraft after you build a farm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Probably because it’s not really a game yet. You can play it, but there’s really nothing to do at the moment. It’ll be on a list like this when there’s actual gameplay.

However, the studio also make Stationeers, which more people should play. It is on Steam though, so it’s not for this list. I’m a pretty big fan of their studio. They seem to be doing everything right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
More like Project Zomboid or Warframe. They could be released as version 1.0, but they just always have ideas for more things to add, and they do it in a way that doesn’t make the experience feel incomplete, just that it feels better when there’s new stuff added.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This isn’t an underrated game, because everyone I’ve ever seen talk about it only praise it. It is an underrecognized game though. It’s sad how few people know about it despite how well it’s received.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Alright, this is my last message, but I’ll try to explain it. This is an example of DeMorgan’s law.

Let’s call “support” A, and “50%” B, just so we can move it away from natural language. Not A means “not support” or “don’t support”.

The headline can be expressed as “not A < B”. Using DeMorgan’s law, we can change that to an equivalent statement of “A >= B”.

Now, convert it back to natural language and that’s “support >= 50%”.

Again, I’m not making a claim on the validity. I am only expressing what the headline says. Headlines can be wrong, and the article may even contradict it. That doesn’t affect the headline though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m only discussing the headline posted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t. Unsure is lacking in support. They don’t support him. They are included in the “less than half don’t support” of the headline.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You could be correct, but that’s not what the headline says. People who lack support also “don’t support”. “Less than half don’t support” is the same thing as “more than half do support.” !support < 50% can be converted to support >= 50%.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m proud to say that Lemmy largely does not subscribe to the modern media “all violence is bad” mentality. Everyone with a functional brain knows that’s bullshit. Even the people who supposedly agree with that idea support the police’s use of violence sometimes. The monopoly of violence by the state is just a useful thing they push to keep people in line, and it’s mostly not a thing here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not my favorite actor, but he’s fine. Why don’t you like him? I think he’s alright as Paul. Maybe there’s some unknown person who’s the right age who could have been better, but he’s the only actor I know who was the right age who’s good enough for the role. My issues with the movies don’t really involve him.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
2 will almost certainly be correct. It can be a flaming pile of garbage and people are still going to buy it. It could effect future sales/games, but it’s still going to sell like crazy on launch. People are stupid, especially the ones into this hype.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
One option would be to have this as the default, but have a toggle for an accessibility mode, but the accessibility has to go through something like Anubis that shields the site from bots.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a great resource, but I don’t recommend doing that. Their operations cost is already high. If everyone started using it to bypass not checks then it’d break down. That’s not what it’s there for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It was frustrating to start. I agree. It requires such a different skill set than the Souls games but it feels like you should be good at it already, but you won’t be.

One key to the game is in a quote a character says fairly early on: “Hesitation is defeat.” The way to play is to put constant pressure on the enemy. In the Souls games you’re encouraged to back off and take time to recover when you need to. In Sekiro, you need to keep the pressure up to break their posture. If you back off then they recover and progress is reset. It’s tough, but it’s one of the best combat games once it clicks. It’s why almost every game since has added a posture bar, but they don’t go all the way to the logical end that Sekiro did. Even ER took the posture mechanic, but watered it down.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They definitely turned up the dial on combat challenges for bosses, but I agree, it’s more accessible. There are so many ways to trivialize the combats, and you can even skip a lot of the bosses. It’s so much easier than ever before to come back later with a significant power increase and easily defeat any boss.

Probably the thing that helps accessibility the most though is making it clear there are other paths, and you can come back to a boss later. That was always the intention of the Souls games, but people often slam their head against a wall until it breaks, and they think the games are (too) hard. The tools were always there to make the game easier, but a lot of people didn’t take advantage of them in the older games. ER makes the alternatives so much more obvious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I highly recommend spending some time with Sekiro. It is arguably their best game. It learns most of the lessons from the Souls series, innovates on that, but also doesn’t lose anything, in my opinion.

Elden Ring is good, but I honestly think it’s a worse experience than the older games. Yeah, the combat has been perfected, but that’s a relatively minor part of the gameplay, all things considered. DS1 has the perfect world to explore, with corridors that are crafted to perfection. It’s open enough to feel like you’re choosing where to explore while being closed enough to have good encounters. Elden Ring is so open that it loses a lot of control, which essentially means the only encounters that matter are in the dungeons. Those are a small fraction of the game, so it feels like a lot of time and effort spent to make something that’s experientially worse than the simpler older style. It’s still a master class in open world design, but I feel the game would be stronger if they focused on the classic design.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’d be such an easy PR win to do this, but of course they aren’t. I guess for things they don’t have the rights to they probably couldn’t easily, but they could for older things. They could also create a database of it and release it when they become public domain too, which wouldn’t be that hard.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It wasn’t a request and I don’t care if you believe me. It’s your loss.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I know the history. I owned a SNES and enjoyed it. I don’t care about what they did in the past. I’m talking about now.

I don’t care to spend a ton of time proving that indies innovate far more than Nintendo. If you don’t believe that then you never will. What innovation do they do with their new consoles? The majority are just played with traditional controls, and their games are maybe polished, but they are copying things other games have done in the past. For example, LoZ TotK building is pretty much the same thing Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts did in 2008. Indies have done it significantly better (an example; Space Engineers). Just look up vehicle building games. If you want to find a game innovating on a mechanic, you can search for it and probably find one. I’m not spending my time proving this for every example.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, they do, except usually not selling by the millions, which has nothing to do with quality but marketing. There are indies that do some crazy, amazing, and interesting things. You have to find them though. Nintendo gets shoved in your face.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The issue is everyone else thinks they can game it too, so price predictions are built into the cost, meaning you’ll probably lose. There will be others who can trade faster and have more information who will beat you 99.99% of the time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
To expand on your edited bit, use those words exactly. Don’t use slang or anything else. Explicitly invoke your right to remain silent and leave it at that. The supreme court rules that police “misinterpreting” when a guy asked “for my lawyer, dawg” as “for my lawyer dog” (which you don’t have a right to) as reasonable. They will attempt to ignore your rights if they can. Also, IIRC, speaking after invoking your right to remain silent means you are no longer invoking your right to remain silent, so if you speak then you should invoke it again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I know they make some great IP…

Do they really though? Sure, it’s usually polished, but is anything they do more innovative, interesting, or good than what indies are doing (and at a small fraction of the cost to users)?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
#1 in uneducation!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That example costs them nothing, assuming it was digital. Nintendo may do something good when the price is $0, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them do something good for an actual cost.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The price parity is the big one for me. They have almost total market control, and they use this to prevent competition. We all know no other marketplace can compete on utility, because Steam has a massive head start. Their other option is to compete on price, and Valve has forced this to not be allowed. Somehow some people still defend them for this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
On console, digital only means the only market is them. That’s why this is happening, and it’s the real issue. The ownership thing is an issue too, but that’s been dead for a while, even with physical disks. Very few games worked with only the disk install and no internet, so the disk doesn’t let you play without their support anyway.

I’ve been PC only for a long time now, so I’m fine with digital only. On PC we have some choice of marketplace. Sure, (I’m probably going to get flammed for pointing this out) Valve has used their market dominance to force price parity, but it’s still better than consoles. Console players are about to get fucked, and they’re probably going to turn around and thank them for it.