Argurotoxus

@Argurotoxus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone here play Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel? If so, do you know an easier way to build a deck?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With pretty much all of these types of games there’ll be a cheap deck that’s really powerful. You can build that and then spam it to climb the ranks and get more resources to buy another deck. Back when I tried out Master Duel it was the Salad deck. It was pretty fun; I liked it a lot and I had it made on day 1. No idea what it would be currently.

  However the games are absolutely designed in a way to entice you to spend money. They will always be slightly frustrating to play without doing that. It’s hard for me to recommend any of them if you’re not wanting to spend money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 + 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah not anymore, now you spend a day or so building some convoluted excel calculator once so that you never need to do the calcs again.

  Then, 3 years later when you go to add or change something in that calculator, you have absolutely no idea how it works and decide the change wasn’t that important anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1 + 1⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Engineer: 2, but 3 to be safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel people are way too quick to jump down Biden’s throat for the rail union.

  First off, it’s worth noting he continued to worm with the railroad to get the employees the sick pay they wanted on the back end.

  But in the midst of the situation… I’m not going to pretend this hypothetical is completely correct. But I don’t think it’s crazy.

  Imagine you’re Biden and you hear about this railroad strike. Your advisors are telling you if the strike goes through how many rail passengers are stranded in the middle of nowhere, how much food is just going to go to waste and not make it to various towns, which factories manufacturing hospital equipment will be without material and unable to continue production. On top of a gigantic economic impact there could be deaths associated with the strike.

  Imagine you’re that guy and have to make the call to say nope, I don’t care, the strike continues.

  I’m super pro labor and anti corporation and even I would struggle to make that call. Especially if someone proposes the idea that on the backside of forcing the railroad workers to work we could pressure the railroad to give into the demands.

  I’m not saying he’s perfect and I’m not saying there wasn’t a better way. But I think that hypothetical is plausible. And I think people are too quick to forget that often times these decisions are which tragic situation would you rather allow to happen, and it’s not as clear cut as it sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for good YT channels exploring lore and stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr. Happy if you like anything Final Fantasy! Excellent stuff and he goes deep into all lore.

  Josh Strife Hayes also does a good job just in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you enjoyed FFXVI, it’s worth considering FFXIV.

  It’s currently free to play through its first expansion and the second expansion will be free next year. So it’s a safe game to try from that perspective.

  The producer of FFXIV is the same as FFXVI. His mentality has been that he’s wanted players who don’t want to play an MMO to be able to play through FFXIV’s story as if it were a mainline FF game. I’d say 95% of story content can be soloed at this point.

  The two caveats are these: This is like playing through five full length JRPGs. To finish FFXIV’s story takes months. It’s easily 400+ hours of playtime imo.

  The initial base game story, called A Realm Reborn or ARR is mediocre. It’s not bad, but the story quality spikes up in a big way at the first expansion and then never backs down. Even the end of ARR is really good, but it’s only decent up until then. However, after ARR is some of the best story writing I’ve ever had the pleasure to play. Shadowbringers and Endwalker in particular still bring tears to my eyes when I hear certain songs or rewatch some cutscenes. Truly a beautifully told story.