fartsparkles
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- Comment on Heroes of Hammerwatch II Launch Trailer 3 days ago:
This is the review I was looking for. Huge H1 and HoH fan but H2 was a big swing and a miss. So glad to hear HoH2 is a return to form. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Arma Reforger has amazing community servers that mean you can always find somewhere to hop in and have fun.
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 2 weeks ago:
My guess it’s to test out what they’re building for TESVI by getting a smaller studio to test it out in something they’ve already got design docs and scripts for.
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure Fallout London feel the same way too!
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 2 weeks ago:
I completely agree with you! But I am worried they’ll get overshadowed by Bethesda/Microsoft’s marketing budget…
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 2 weeks ago:
They’ve gotta push hard because the official Oblivion remake in Unreal is supposedly due out sometime in 2025.
- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 4 weeks ago:
What made it so special and unique? I missed out on it back in the day and it feels a little late to try and solo it (if that’s even possible).
- Comment on Sony Adds Classic Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter Games to PlayStation Plus Games Catalog Today 5 weeks ago:
That blew my mind at the time. I replay it every few years and it still brings so much joy. If only they still made games like that!
- Comment on Sony Adds Classic Sly Cooper and Jak and Daxter Games to PlayStation Plus Games Catalog Today 5 weeks ago:
Jak and Daxter was incredible. Still holds up to today, too.
- Comment on New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got leaked 1 month ago:
I’m going to miss those concave trackpads from v1 but fuck yes, this is really happening!
- Comment on Bat Identification Guide (by @bedupolker.bsky.social ) 1 month ago:
You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 month ago:
Story generators. Best kind of games, in my opinion. It’s truly amazing how the interconnection between numerous systems can result in totally unexpected and memorable experiences no scripted game could provide.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
Live service? More like dead service. Am I right, guys? I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
Pick up Black Mesa or see if there is a demo. It’s a fan-made remake made recently that might be easier on your eyes. Additionally, you can open up the developer console and enter:
sv_friction 6This the movement friction from the default of 4 to 6 to make the game less slidey.
The motion in HL1 is quite odd as you somewhat slide around rather than walk. It was quite normal back in the old days of Quake but if you’ve played mostly modern shooters, I can totally get how odd (and potentially motion sickness inducing) it is.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 2 months ago:
No no no, OP told us it’s been ages now so we’re in the “dogmatically apathetic” stage, right before “crywank”.
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 2 months ago:
Why anyone would downvote this is beyond me. More than ever, we need to strengthen regulations across the board when it comes to knowingly spreading misinformation, failing to do due diligence if you’re in a position of power and spreading unverified information, privacy and right to be forgotten with AI, and so much more.
- Comment on Ryan Reynolds Writing Non-Marvel Project to Reunite With Hugh Jackman and Director Shawn Levy After ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ 2 months ago:
Isn’t that his entire career? He’s always played the cheeky but endearing person.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 months ago:
My bad. Must have made a slip up on the swipe keyboard. I meant “years”. I’ve edited my post to correct.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 months ago:
That rear projection beast was the best darn television for tests until Pioneer made plasmas. I miss ours deeply and wish we’d had the space to keep it (especially for retro gaming and the yearly playing of the Star Wars laser disk).
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #40 - The Invincible 2 months ago:
Love your posts and your little insights and review you share with the screenshots. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 2 months ago:
I’d gladly take a single functioning system rather than wait another 12 years of my life for this Kickstarter project to deliver.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 2 months ago:
Next it’ll be 1000 star systems while we’re still waiting on Squadron 42.
- Comment on Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon 3 months ago:
That’s ridiculously cool. Really appreciate you sharing that.
- Comment on Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon 3 months ago:
Impressive! I thought emulation would be embarrassingly slow - my attempts to get Windows VMs running on macOS on Apple Silicon resulted in single-digit FPS just rendering the desktop. What dark arts are they conducting?
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 3 months ago:
Just an FYI, Lemmy supports spoiler tags
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- Comment on Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Launch Trailer 3 months ago:
I wonder if you have to complete the base game before you can do this expansion?
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 3 months ago:
It’s like the PHB. You don’t need to read it cover to cover but there’s a couple of chapters you’ll want to read entirely up front and then it’s just a resource with suggestions on how to adjudicate various scenarios.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 3 months ago:
Which I always find kind of hilarious since it’s basically expressed on the first page of the DMG.
- Comment on New Pig Race Track - The Forest Racecourse 3 months ago:
Team Ginger all the way!
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 3 months ago:
Not entirely. Yes there was blight affecting crops but there was more to it than that.
Huge volumes of unaffected produce were exported to England for profit - the decreased yields only impacting the market for locals. Previous famines has seen the British ban exports to ensure the local population had access to food (which also decreased the prices) but not this time around.
English landlords of Irish property were evicting their tenants who weren’t able to pay (since the blight impacted many people’s ability to work) with zero notice or rights for the tenants. Absentee landlords were extracting huge amounts of capital out of the Irish economy, owning vast swathes of the entire country.
The Irish were widely dependent on the potato as a primary form of sustenance but it was due to the potato being high in calories, cheap and easy to grow, and high density yields from relatively small plots of land (landlords dividing up the land into incredibly small divisions whilst simultaneously extracting the highest rent possible for the land).
The Irish were, in essence, forced to eat potatoes due to the extreme economic exploitation they were subject to.
Yet there was no aid from England; she simply sat by reaping profit and leaving things up to the divine - “the market will provide”. There had been efforts to change tariffs and laws but the contention in the governing party about providing aid caused the Prime Minister to resign and the subsequent government threw out all efforts (except those such as offering relief to those without land which forced many Irish to sell what land they had to gain relief and aid).
A Prime Minister at the time launched a commission to investigate and it was found that the absentee landlord system was abhorrent and principally responsible for the famine.
Sadly 1/4 of the population perished, and another 1/4 simply left the country. In some ways, Ireland never recovered.