Alabaster_Mango
@Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 6 days ago:
Mostly flesh and steel! I loved the added challenge of that and how it made me rethink my comfortable routes.
In Dishonored 2 you can reject the Outsider entirely and do a zero powers run. That one is fittingly called “Only flesh and steel”.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
Raphael Colantonio, the creative mind behind Dishonored, has started a new studio! Here’s an article about their next game
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
I mean, it really isn’t though. You can totally play it that way, yeah, but that’s only one option. The story reacts to how you play and the decisions you make. I find the low chaos (less or non-lethal) ending to be my favorite. Also canonically Corvo isn’t a raving lunatic murderer, so if you’re looking for the “True” story experience that’s the way to go. He still kills some people, notably the Lord Regent, but spares others.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
And a few comics!
Novels
Dishonored: The Corroded Man This takes place about a year before Dishonored 2, and POV characters include Emily and Corvo. I really liked this one. Especially how it expanded on the relationship between Corvo and Emily. Some neat character insights too. Emily is canonically a beefcake.
Dishonored: The Return of Daud This one follows Daud during the events of Dishonored 2 as he looks for the Twin-bladed Knife. Really cool concept that is once again brought down by Daud and his Daud-ness. “Woe is me, I killed the empress! Who can I push this blame upon to heal the hole in my black heart?!”. I’m making my way through though. It does show a bit more of Gristol that is outside of Dunwall.
Dishonored: The Veiled Terror I haven’t gotten here yet. It follows Billy Lurk after Death of the Outsider, and how she deals with the consequences of the ending of that game.
Comics
I have not read these at all yet, and they may be hard to find.
Dishonored: The Wyrmwood Deciet Dishonored: The Peeress and the Price)
There may be more, but those are the only ones I’ve heard of.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 week ago:
Dishonored is my favorite video game series of all time! I play that thing every year, lol. Love the stealth challenges and all the ways you can approach things. I really enjoy the sequels too, and this year I’ve finally gotten into the books. Fantastic game. Also they leaned heavy into the style, so 13 years later it still looks decent. Not nearly as aged-looking as “realistic” graphics from that time. Those still look decent too, all things considered. But stylized graphics tend to fit their current limitations better than pushing for realism.
- Comment on Slightly Unfair 1 month ago:
I’ve been saying this since day one! It always seemed like a huge scam to me. Just trying to bait racial tension for personal gain. And yeah, it was just a normal digital clock that got taken out of the shell. The news was saying he made it himself, but it was obviously a mass-produced item.
- Comment on Behold, a better mousetrap! 4 months ago:
Demon Core’s got what mice crave! It’s got
electrolytessubatomic radiation! - Comment on Behold, a better mousetrap! 4 months ago:
Radiation made the giant mouse, and it’s the only thing that can get rid of it!
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- Comment on Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title? 4 months ago:
Makes sense still. There are several colors of Power Rangers, and they are always referred to as the [Color] Power Ranger.
Does this sound off to you?
Hey honey, the clown cancelled for little Bobby’s 4th birthday, do you want me to call the Blue Power Ranger to replace them?
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 5 months ago:
And yet you didn’t capitalize Mario. Interesting. Image
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 5 months ago:
Is this now a fight between random internet strangers? Are we supposed to use slurs? (JK, just in case)
Totally fair! Nothing can appeal to everyone, and I would never be accused of having average tastes. Loads of people seem to like Mario Cart, but playing it makes me want to Kyle my way through a wall. I had just played Prey Mooncrash, and was jazzed up on the loop mechanic. If I played again I may feel differently.
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 5 months ago:
I play every Dishonoured game every year, and Deathloop feels similar. It’s more like a new book from your favorite author, but in a different genre than they usually write in. Definitely feels closer to Prey gameplay wise (I also highly recommend Prey).
There is not as much interaction with the story NPCs, and there is less of a focus on stealth. I found myself murdering way more than with Dishonored. That said, I really enjoyed the powers offered in the game, the quick “restarting” of the loop, and the overall story was good.
- Comment on Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games 5 months ago:
I really enjoyed Deathloop, so here’s a recommendation from a random internet stranger 👍
- Comment on Yes, this is 5 months ago:
This is why I only listen to flac versions
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #61 - The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog 5 months ago:
Neat, someone else played this game! I really enjoyed it myself. Dropping a comment so I remember to read the whole post after work.
- Comment on Pope Joan 6 months ago:
Same energy as the boy wolf girl wolf post, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I didn’t say your advice was wrong, I said your mindset was weird to me. I will never knock people going into more manual jobs. The world needs janitors just as badly as it needs doctors.
Your argument was that their lack of drive is caused by their comfort, and the cure is to toil the days off. In my experience I’ve seen plenty of people in all quadrants of the “comfort vs drive” graph. For example: a friend of mine is worked to the bone in a warehouse, but doesn’t have any drive to look elsewhere. Also, at my last job some of the cushiest positions with very little required work were constantly used as a stepping stone for even higher paying roles with seemingly more responsibility. My friend has a surplus of labor but lack of drive, while the ladder climbers at my last job had plenty of comfort and drive.
So, in my opinion, I do not think the amount of labor/exhaustion someone experiences in their job has a guaranteed effect on their drive. Your comment makes it seem like you do think that, so that position is “weird” to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Hello! I also have little drive or ambition compared to the standard portrayal in popular media. Lots of people act like what you’re “supposed to do” is keep grinding, push for promotions, be a type A or whatever. Nuts to that I say.
Back when I graduated high school I didn’t know what to do either. I come from a small small town, and I’m good at math, so everyone said to become an engineer as that’s what all the “smart people” do. The schooling sucked for me, and I didn’t really want to pursue the kind of career that an engineer would have. I ended up flunking out of the first year. That killed my mental health and self worth. I do not recommend.
What worked for me (but maybe not everyone) was to find topics I found interesting, and see what kind of jobs are available in those areas. I ended up going for electronics engineering technology (a technologist is kinda like a diet engineer) because I think it’s cool stuff, it was a shorter two year course, and there are a reasonable number of employers in my area who are hiring. I’ll probably never be “rich”, but I make enough money to not worry about food or housing, and I have time for my hobbies on the side.
My biggest takeaway from my career so far is to not fall for “grind culture”, and to maintain a separation of your work and life. Do not make your job your whole identity. I’ve seen plenty of grinders burn out and hate their jobs/lives. I’ve also seen people who want to change careers, but they’re so caught up in their work that they don’t have the time or energy to change.
If you’re unsure of what to do, shoot for something that will make you comfortable. Reasonable average pay, decent employment opportunities, and good work/life balance. Once you have that you can do some more soul searching over the next few years. Not everyone knows what they want to do at 20. The rest of your life is a long time, so don’t feel like you have to set it in stone now.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
That is a heckin’ weird mindset to me. Comfortable people can still have passions and drive. You don’t need to suffer to want something different. Plus, some people like working hard labor jobs, are they wrong to do so?
- Comment on The Palworld dating sim was supposed to be a joke, but now it’s not 7 months ago:
Yeah, 100%. It’s just that usually when something like this gets a large-ish negative reaction it’s because people associate it with furries or some other “taboo” fetish/lifestyle.
I also find that furry stuff gets way more hate than it deserves (which is none hate). I say boo to that! So long as stuff is consensual and nobody gets hurt (who doesn’t want to, lookin’ at you BDSM), then let people enjoy things.
Side note: It’s hilarious how for years people were cheering on Captain Kirk for banging green alien chicks, but cat ears and a tail is a no-go. Cross-species stuff is cool so long as they’re from another planet? What if it was planet Yiff? On the topic of aliens, do we even know if Superman has a human-like penis? Maybe Kryptonians bust onto egg clutches, who’s to say?
Anywho, people are silly and really like policing other people’s likes.
- Comment on The Palworld dating sim was supposed to be a joke, but now it’s not 7 months ago:
Eh, I say let the furries have their fun. Like, they’re going to do stuff like this anyway. Might as well sell it to them.
- Comment on >meme arrows 7 months ago:
You are right! The funny thing is I was trying to think of it that way and got it backwards anyway. Not enough mental RAM left after work for that kind of thing, apparently.
- Comment on >meme arrows 7 months ago:
Unsolicited formatting help
If you want to see the arrows and not format as a quote throw some backslashes in front of the less than signs.
\> Typing this > Gets this
Otherwise, if you want to get rid of the gaps between the quote lines then put less than signs on the empty lines.
> Typing > > this
Gets
this
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 8 months ago:
Aren’t all adaptations “high-budget fanfiction” though? Like, what about the film makes it more fanfictiony compared to other comic or book adaptations?
- Comment on I choose...you? 9 months ago:
I choose you, Dummythiccachu!!
- Comment on Doppler 9 months ago:
One shift Two shift Red shift Blue shift
- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 9 months ago:
I think if you find all the gnomes is when it gives you gold.
