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siv9939, in Kbin: What is your all time favourite video game?
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Elder Scrolls III Morrowind. Everything in that game feels so different than anything else, including the other Elder Scrolls.

FistfulOfStars, (edited )
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Morrowind: Nix hounds, kwama, guar... Cities made from the husks of ancient crustaceans... Fast travel networks with time consequences based on the speed of the insect you're riding inside of. Insane lore that feels like a real religion... Are you the chosen one? Is there such a thing? Have you been "chosen" or are you choosing to make it happen? Ash ghouls.

Everything else: Deer, wolf, bear... Renaissance-era European architecture... Instantaneous fast travel with no basis in lore. Dragons.

I'll forgive the cliff racers.

HovringSquidworld97A,

Great choice, Morrowind is incredibly well done. The mix of lore and mechanics made the world feel very real in-game. Being out in the sticks actually felt like being in the sticks.

Itty53,
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Love the instructions too. No quest marker, I'm gonna give you vague directions, find it.

alternative_factor,
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Morrowind is my favorite too. Even all these years later I feel like I'm on a vacation in another world when I play it.

Romdeau4,
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100% Morrowind. No fantasy game has come close to giving me the feeling of wonder and adventure that TES3 has. It’s been over 20 years and I still reinstall it once a year or so to roll a new character and find new things to do.

popekingjoe,
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Yeah Morrowind is so incredibly alien compared to the rest of the games. Everything is so weird and unique in the best possible ways.

WeLoveCastingSpelz,

Morrowind really is something special

FreeBooteR69, in Now that you've used Lemmy and /kbin which do you prefer and why?
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I prefer kbin myself, though it is imperfect. Comment box should be at the top of the thread, and our subscriptions we subscribe to should be more easily discoverable, under profile name/settings seems non obvious from what i've seen of questions asked by others.

HeapOfDogs,

Comment at the bottom makes me bonkers

shadowtux,
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WTFisthisOMGreally,
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I wish I could get that but I primarily browse on my iPhone.

Jezebelley,
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You still can with the Userscripts extension.

supermurs,
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Thanks for sharing this!

lost_usb_stick,

Finding the subscriptions definitely a pain, what does help is going to settings >gear wheel and turning on some of the navigation bars.

SweetAIBelle, in I just found out that the people onboard the Titan submarine are dead. Is OceanGate in trouble?
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Well, "our CEO just died on our submarine" would tend to be a problem for a company...

Photon,

This is the correct answer.

kbity, in Kbin: What is your all time favourite video game?
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Titanfall 2 is the most fun I've had with a video game. The movement is so amazingly fluid, it's like Quake or Unreal Tournament but with more verticality, and then there's the Titans themselves, which feel like awesome weapons of war, yet not insurmountable to a skilled pilot on foot. Everything from the gameplay balance to the mechanics to the visuals and sound design is incredible, and the single-player story was very touching and exactly long enough to satisfy you without overstaying its welcome. I'm gutted that we're probably never getting a Titanfall 3.

Itty53,
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That game is like the gold standard of fps for me. There isn't a better game yet. That level, you know the one, the first time you play it is something kind of magic.

Bendersmember, in Should we be more enthusiastically asking questions to build content on here?
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I've been being a bit more lax with what I'd ask compared to Reddit and what others have been asking too, I can't exactly google especially kbin questions and people have been helpful, and I've tried to be helpful back where I can.
Unless I hear otherwise I'm going to try to engage way more on here than I'm used to, adds content and starts conversations. I may make a cheese ball or bad joke here and there, maybe get an answer wrong but hey you miss all the omelettes you don't swing at.

lackadaisy, (edited )

A journey of a thousand miles begins with breaking a few eggs.

Bendersmember,
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You can't make a shot without breaking an omelet

Dav, in What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
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The real answer is Humans

livus,
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That book The World Without Us makes a great case for that.

Toidi,

The best thing for the continued survival of the planet and all other species would be the extinction of the human race. Sad but true.

Jaytreeman,

Extinction of capitalism. Humans existed/exist for thousands of years in harmony with their environment.

CIWS-30,

Very true and underrated. If the conservationists and scientists had the means to control the government, we could find a way to coexist in balance with nature (while keeping many technological creature comforts) basically forever.

There are many ways, it's just that almost none of them are profitable, and even if some of the mare, they're not profitable enough to be worth it to crony capitalists.

TechyShishy,
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Most other currently extant species yes, planet and life in general, nah. There's too many extremophiles out there that prove that even if we make the planet completely uninhabitable by anything even remotely resembling humans, animals, plants, etc, there will still be life in one form or another. Try and imagine what we'd have to do to screw up the planet bad enough that tardigrades would be unable to survive.

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski, in What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore?

Hard part about being an immigrant. I am permanently detached from all the places from my childhood

Hanhula,
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I feel that. Went back home for a visit last year and so much has changed. It's bizarre, feeling disconnected from where I live and yet like home has moved on without me.

BladeOfIsildur,

What’s preventing you from going back? It has everything changed in your home country?

Doll_Tow_Jet-ski,

The quality of life for my daughter is way better where I live now. I am doing it for her.

jkmooney, in Did you ever have a classmate that pretended to be a vampire or some other supernatural creature? How much did they commit to it?
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No, but I've pretended to be cisgender in order to survive

CaptainPatent, in Kbin: What is your all time favourite video game?

Definitely the original portal.

I'm generally not an FPS guy, but the puzzle game in the FPS format was really cool to see.

And when you finally do beat the game you can't help but think...

"This is a triumph"

ripcord,
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I made a note - huge success.

But yeah, my original playthrough - great puzzle game, then suddenly there was plot, and a huge plot twist, then the ending was crazy, then that song.... So freaking good.

ReCursing,
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Honestly one of the very few games... no one of the very few things that has actually lived up to the hype!

Double_A, in Is anyone using Google search less than before?
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Yeah there is definitely something going wrong with Google. I noticed that the search results got much worse in the last weeks. Either it’s full of SEO Blog Spam, or it straight out doesn’t find anything. Especially for technical error messages it stopped finding results. I have to directly look on Github or Stackoverflow now.

tal,
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The SEO spamming-the-Internet-with-AI-generated-websites crowd has been pulling ahead in the arms race with Google, I think. They've been making up more and more of the results.

paper_clip, in What are some events in recorded history that are extremely hard to believe, but without a doubt actually happened?
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"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

comedy,
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Ugh. You’ve activated my PTSD.

paper_clip,
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Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Really, there are so many moments from TFG that fit into the topic of this thread.

CoderKat, in What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem?
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Oceanic plankton produces like half of the world's oxygen. Trees get too much credit. I'm not sure what the exact impact of losing so much oxygen would be, but... Not good?

TheDeadGuy, (edited )
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Plankton isn't an animal or insect though, it's algae and bacteria

My vote goes to worms. Without them huge amounts (like the vast majority) of land will become dead after a few years. Worms are very underrated

MadCybertist,
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That’s an interesting take I don’t think anybody else has said worms yet

tal,
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You and I thrive in oxygen, because we evolved in its presence, but oxygen is a really potent corrosive chemical that destroys a lot of life. When blue-green algae first showed up and started dumping oxygen everywhere, it in turn was a cataclysmic event for life on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), also called the Great Oxygenation Event, the Oxygen Catastrophe, the Oxygen Revolution, the Oxygen Crisis, or the Oxygen Holocaust,[2] was a time interval during the Early Earth's Paleoproterozoic era when the Earth's atmosphere and the shallow ocean first experienced a rise in the concentration of oxygen.[3] This began approximately 2.460–2.426 Ga (billion years) ago, during the Siderian period, and ended approximately 2.060 Ga, during the Rhyacian.[4]

The sudden injection of highly reactive free oxygen, which is toxic to the then-mostly anaerobic biosphere, may have caused the extinction of many existing organisms on Earth — then mostly archaeal colonies that used retinal to utilize green-spectrum light energy and power a form of anoxygenic photosynthesis (see Purple Earth hypothesis). Although the event is inferred to have constituted a mass extinction,[7] due in part to the great difficulty in surveying microscopic organisms' abundances, and in part to the extreme age of fossil remains from that time, the Great Oxidation Event is typically not counted among conventional lists of "great extinctions", which are implicitly limited to the Phanerozoic eon. In any case, Isotope geochemistry data from sulfate minerals have been interpreted to indicate a decrease in the size of the biosphere of >80% associated with changes in nutrient supplies at the end of the GOE.[8]

Probably be pretty bad for us, but I suppose if you're an obligate anaerobic organism, you'd be having the best situation since a couple of billion years ago.

Naich, in Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?
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IT got worse as soon as I joined. Probably just a coincidence.

threeduck, in Why do some people have a extreme hate for Furries?

I thought hating on furries was a 4chan meme that became a tiktok meme.

But I’ve a few reasons why that meme may have gained traction. Firstly it’s not a sexuality like homosexuality. It’s more of a fetish, and people make fun of fetishes all the time - see feet, or, idk, midget. I’m sure some maintain its not sexual, but the community overwhelmingly is. Second, it has associations with beastiality. Now I’d assume the vast majority of furries don’t harbour sexual attractions to real animals, but it’s certainly on that side of the Venn diagram, which may cause some concern. Finally people involved generally seem to be social outcasts. You don’t see many captain of the football team furries or cheerleader furries. If school kids are already picking on the weebs and the nerds, finding out some of them dress up like animals and hang out is fuel for the fire.

As for calls to killing furries, I’d wager the majority of that is just joining in on the meme. I’m sure furries would get bullied at school, but as for vehement violence I doubt it transcends the bullying that the D&D kids receive. Not that I condone any violence or bullying towards anyone, furries included. But if you were wondering why people dislike em, maybe this helps.

Alexmitter,
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It’s more of a fetish

I would not say its a fetish, but a fetish can be attached to it. First and foremost its simply a liking for antro characters in e general sense.
And about sexuality, which is certainly the point where people show the most hate. Furries are into human based fanatsy characters with a wild mix of features, from nature inspired to completely made up and that with a great emphasis on the human base of the character.

Finally people involved generally seem to be social outcasts.

A great amount of us are aspergers, me as well. We are by nature social outcasts and the target of everyone that can somehow have power over us. So its neither getting worse nor better.

theinspectorst, in Now that you've used Lemmy and /kbin which do you prefer and why?
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I think Kbin, but the lack of an easy to navigate list of subscribed magazines has made me rethink a few times. On Lemmy, it's easier to get to a list of what communities you're subscribed to and the 'local' feed option can be quite useful too (e.g. on feddit.uk I can more easily use this to browse the UK content).

Double_A,

This. I miss the list of things I'm subscribed to that reminds me to check in on some of those communities from time to time.

Naminreb,

You can find that in your profile.

Open your profile, and at least in mobile, there’s a menu showing you your active posts, threads….and subscriptions is towards the end.

I use it for the same reason you describe here.

Hope it helps.

theinspectorst,
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You can, but it takes several clicks and a bit of scrolling, and that only gets you to a non-alphabetical list that is inexplicably cut over multiple pages. It's making it unnecessarily difficult.

On Lemmy, they have a button at the top of the screen titled 'Subscribed', and if you click it you get a drop-down with all your subscribed communities alphabetically organised right there.

oxyeth,

You can go to https://kbin.social/u/YOUR_USERNAME/subscriptions to see your subscriptions. Replace with your own username and bookmark the URL and you can easily get to your subscriptions.

McBinary,
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If you're using a browser, try this userscript. It adds a wonderful list on the side bar.

Jezebelley,
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I use that on my laptop browser. Awesome script.

Rhaedas,
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Wow, thanks for the link. The default interface is why I've tended to use kbin since getting an account for both, but finding user scripts like this for kbin to fine tune things is why I'm staying unless Lemmy changes a lot.

Hanabie,
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I like and use both. There's no reason to just pick one and stick with it.

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