kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fingies 6 days ago:
Evolution is not an intentional process. It’s just statistics compounding over time. Simplified example: By random chance this bird grew a 5% longer beak than its peers, which means it can catch 5% more food and raise 5% more chicks than the others. If its descendants have similar success, over time it means that their long-beak trait will become more prevalent in the population, and projected over thousands of years, the whole species will end up having this long-beak trait, simply because those who had it, had more kids grow to reproductive age than those who didn’t.
- Comment on Fingies 6 days ago:
Last time one had twisted intestines or something and had to be put down. Apparently that can happen if a horse moves wrong. It’s what the vet said.
from what I remember it can also happen to large dog breeds
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
I had a few of those in this thread too, plus a ton on my wishlist that I had no recollection of 😅
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
I have it in my Steam library from some ancient bundle, but haven’t played it yet 😅 one day…
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
thanks, looks great :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
for others: it’s on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1574820/Until_Then/
looks lovely, it’s on my wishlist :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
it’s on my wishlist, that jelly mechanic looks so silly :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
for others: it’s on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/…/Bound_By_Flame/
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers - left my favourite for last, a free pixel art PnC horror adventure with beautiful graphics and great writing. I was so blown away by that a game of such high quality was free, that I ended up buying the supporter pack :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
In Other Waters - a fairly unique exploration adventure with timed-puzzle elements and survival mechanics. The graphics are very stylised, so the experience is more like reading a book. I played about 5 hours and mostly enjoyed it, but did not finish it because the survival/timing pressure got too stressful as I progressed through the story.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Home - an atmospheric horror walking simulator with pixel graphics. I remember the story blew my mind when I played it a decade ago.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Monster Loves You! - monster-raiser CYOA RPG with meaningful decisions
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Message Quest - a silly little medieval PnC adventure with a stained-glass art style and a lazy squire as protagonist
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
The Dweller - you are the eldritch monster hidden in the ruins, hunting down archaeologists, mechanically a puzzle-platformer (may have served as the inspiration for Carrion)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Cinders - a low-fantasy exploration of the story of Cinderella, as a non-anime visual novel with many decisions and endings
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Could be a licensing thing. E.g. there are quite a few online Steam games that are not available in Europe, but are in North America.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 4 weeks ago:
yeah I’m not into anime art, but Genshin’s landscapes are breathtakingly atmospheric
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 4 weeks ago:
*it uses Denuvo tho.
and AI-generated art during its development :/
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 4 weeks ago:
Genshin is the only one I know of. Its monetisation is predatory, but it’s a huge open world action-RPG with tons of discoverable chests and environmental puzzles. Also it’s very f2p friendly if you’re not susceptible to hype and FOMO - I’ve been playing for 4+ years with most areas 100% explored (and 70+ characters unlocked) without ever spending a pence.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
haha same, as a sylvari main from my first day, I’ll miss my glowing salads, but oh well, as long as they keep GW2 alive…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how action orriented they will make the game. I saw some speculation that it will be a lot like warframe.
That was my impression too. It will get released on PS5, so the game will deffo need fewer keys than GW2, and I’m betting that GW1’s recent mobile release is another sign that they’ll want to release GW3 on mobile too (just didn’t include it in the first announcement to avoid backlash from the core playerbase).
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s ok, they want to keep developing all three games. GW2’s population will probably drop a bit when GW3 gets released, but then those who prefer GW2’s MMORPG combat over GW3’s action-adventure will most likely return.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Hall of Monuments 2.0 will be released later this year and will connect GW2 and GW3. Since GWAMM was ported to GW2, it will probably make its way to GW3 as well :)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I guess they had to announce it now to explain why we’re not getting an annual expansion this year.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It will probably be quite different from both GW1 and GW2, since they’re planning to continue active development of all three, so they wouldn’t want to target the exact same audiences.
GW3 seems like it will have a more console-friendly action-adventure combat, and dynamic movement that preserves momentum between movement types.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
I looked at the trailer on Metacritic, and jesus those costumes and poses of the underage-looking girls are really uncomfortable to watch
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
I liked Watch Dogs 1 mainly because I didn’t consume any pre-release media about it. Whatever downgrade there may have been, I was unaffected.
My game in this vein was Spore. I enjoyed it for what it was, not having seen any of the pre-release hype.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
There’s a lot of both. No wonder it’s a running joke in the Genshin community how many designs have “coochie flaps”, detached sleeves or thigh straps. Or the ever-present high heels on female characters, no matter if she’s a jungle explorer or a desert warrior.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
Also, just don’t spend money if you don’t want to. It’s not hard. Nobody forces you to spend money on any game with a gun to your head (hopefully). Just have self-control, it’s easy. And if for some reason you don’t have self-control, work on it. Improve yourself.
It’s not hard for you. But many people are wired in a way that makes it exceptionally hard for them to resist these kind of psychological dark patterns. These are innate characteristics, with some overlap with ADHD and other neurodiversity, not necessarily something one can “work on”. And there’s a reason why these dark patterns are in the games, because they work in extracting more money from players than they would otherwise give.
Stephanie Sterling made a video a few years ago where they go into detail how modern games prey on vulnerable people: The Addictive Cost Of Predatory Videogame Monetization (The Jimquisition)
