I’m very unhappy with Biden’s stance toward Israel. What strategic significance does that state have that outweighs what increasingly looks like genocide? It has to be something so important yet unpalatable to the voting public that it’s worth appearing to come down on the wrong side of history.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is having a western democracy in the middle east that we can work with worth giving said government carte blanche to exterminate their neighbor?
I really appreciate the insight. I don’t think those things are worth US maintaining power in that region, but I imagine if I’m in the shoes of a world leader I might see things more ambiguously.
I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds
What is the consequence of allowing the daughter into the country? Favoritism toward an individual over others applying for VISAs? It doesn’t seem like a jump the line issue—the child was rejected outright?
I love the atmosphere of the game, and the first one is reminiscent of the Wizardy games in terms of building a party and having them die. I would probably never finish it, but I do play it from time time even still.
I hadn’t played the second game. I don’t know what this DLC is about, whether it furthers the game in the same way or changes the fundamentals. I would be interested in a more traditional RPG in this world though.
With that, all the Leviathan characters are complete!
Fun to do Blood Angels in another color than red. Maybe I should do some Death Company to keep up the variety. I feel like I neglect the special BA units in favor of a BA themed army of normal Astartes units.
I’m scared they’ll go the gta route and abandon the single player for a long time so they can focus on mtx bullshit. Whatever they’re doing is almost certainly taking time away from TLOU 3
Yup. Unless this is going to be used in the third game as well, move on I say.
There’s a lot of room for improvement. The physics change from each major entry, and I’d like to see more realistic inertia to everything, and less floaty. Having to generate speed (or control it) to make a jump or stay on course would change the feel of the game and make things more interesting.
I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Is it enshittification, or how the Internet should work for commercial services? Youtube isn’t publicly funded. You either pay for the product or become it in exchange for use.
Unless they sign a business agreement with you that puts them in legal jeopardy of collecting/sharing/selling your information. This is a standard agreement between companies that use tech products and the companies that provide them.
Some people want to be able to watch a movie “for the first time” all over again. Others want to forget a rubbish one. If you could remove just one movie from your memory, which would it be?
Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....
Some people say that it is fun, witty, and action-packed, while others say that it is repetitive, unrealistic, and boring. What do you think? Do you recommend it or not?
I believe it is MY prerogative, and no one else’s, to decide what I am or am not allowed to see. I curate my own feed by blocking or subscribing to instances I don’t or do want to see, respectively.
What about abusive users that post in communities outside of their home instance? I think that’s what we’re talking about here. I can block instances, but there are communities in Lemmy.world that I enjoy and I appreciate the admins effort to keep abusive users out.
Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it’s already been discussed!)...
If you use a company’s service without agreeing to pay them with money, you likely agreed to share your information with no strings attached. Problem there being once that’s done, your information is liable to be resold ad infinitum with no legal protection for you. What should happen is legislation that federally declares that agreement null and void, and put in its place nationwide law that dictates what companies and citizens can and can’t do with intellectual property as it pertains to someone’s personal information.
This is great. I seem to be less into social media since Twitter died and Reddit became whatever the heck it is now. I do occasionally go back there but it feels weird. I feel disconnected from it. I can see people still using it, but there’s a pall over everything, a frost. Lemmy on the other hand may not be as active, but its smaller community feels more personal.
Over the years, there’ve been various red flags in gaming, for me at least. Multi-media. Full-Motion Video. Day-One DLC. Microtransactions. The latest one is Live Service Game. I find the idea repulsive because it immediately tells me this is an online-required affair, even if it doesn’t warrant it. There’s no reason for...
It used to not be. FPS games were run by players, not corporations. The ability to run your own dedicated server was baked into the game. Today you can still setup a Quake 2 server without having to rely on the publisher or a 3rd party. It doesn’t have to be that way today, but people accept it.
“in some form,” being the key part of that. Someone mentioned Diablo 4. It doesn’t have to be always online. Gran Turismo 7 is another example. It’s a trend.
I absolutely will accept it because it brings better gameplay. FPS games are more fun when there’s constant balancing changes and new content on a schedule. It’s infinitely better than older game models where if one thing is broken you’re stuck with it for the entire lifetime of the game.
How is this different than Valve continuing to patch Team Fortress 2 decades after its release? There’s no Live Service model here.
Being able to run my own dedicated server isn’t even something I’d want to do, nor would I want to play on player hosted servers.
I think that’s true for most people, but a small number of a community can support the vast majority. It would ensure a game isn’t dependent on a company to exist, either.
When games go EoL, sure, require them to open source the multiplayer engine. But really, it’s not a big deal that an individual can’t host a Battle Royale server.
If that was an actual practice that’d be great. There’s no incentive for the publisher to do this, however, and they’re profit driven.
Multiplayer games are great. I think the upsetting part is that from the word Go, whether it warrants being a Live Service Game or not, it implies an expiration date and an online-only requirement. When I bought Overwatch, I never heard them describe it as a LSG. Maybe they did and it just didn’t register. What I know though is that having bought 2 copies, one for PC and the other for PS4, I cannot play those games now and in their place is a reportedly substandard product (one I didn’t pay for or ask for).
So now I have this game which I loved and still played occasionally is gone because the publisher made a decision to expire it arbitrarily (read: to get people to pay them more money).
Overwatch could’ve run on player driven servers. Much of this stuff can. That might only serve a few thousand or few hundred people 10 years after launch, but that’s the right thing to do.
I’m grateful for activists, particularly those with a focus on archiving gaming. That’s another area where I think supporting Live Service Games might be shortsighted on the part of the consumer. By accepting it as a practice, ownership is ceded toward the publisher or creator. We’re less owners and more renters when it comes to gaming property.
I remember when I bought Street Fighter 2 for the SNES and realized, I no longer have to go to the arcade to play this game. I no longer have to submit an endless amount of quarters to play what I can play endlessly at home for a one-time fee. It was an amazing feeling. And with LSG it’s like we’re coming back around.
Context: I currently have a back injury and as such my sleep schedule has been destroyed. There are days that I simply cannot get comfortable no matter where I sit/lie....
It is not typical, expected behavior by most peoples’ standards, partly because the majority of people at that time of night are sleeping.
You’d be hard pressed to find support for this as being normal behavior. What’s important is whether or not normal matters? If it’s considered criticism, why? Is she being awoken by your behavior? If so, then that’s probably warranted. Otherwise, if it’s just a characterization of what you’re doing, so what?
I don’t know Jimmy Fallon, but back when I had the ability to watch his show I did occasionally. It was light and easy to fall asleep to, but interesting enough to entertain if I had trouble doing so. I think all the late night shows to some degree understand this is their audience, and Fallon’s was especially good at keeping it inoffensive.
If I were watching it midday or in the evening, I’m sure I’d find it less valuable but as a late-night show, it foots the bill well. I don’t know the truth of this matter, but I hate it for him if he’s struggling personally and adversely affecting those who work for him.
I just watched this review the other day and it reminded me that this game existed. I played it back in the day I’ve been playing it with an improvement hack that cleans up a lot of it, and I’ve been loving it. I highly recommend it to people who like dungeon crawlers and turn based RPGs....
I have a 3080 ti w/ 16 GB of RAM and an 4+ ghz processor. It generally chews through any game at the moment and I was wondering what if any mods exist for Fallout 4 that can improve upon the base game in a way that makes it feel more modern/exciting. I’ve done some Googling and found some modifications for things like weather,...
My experience hasn’t been great. Fallout 4 crashes on the regular and really killed my interest in modding it! I’ve wondered if the unofficial patch would address problems such as this but looks like I need to buy all DLC to apply it.
Which sucks, because this suggestion sounds great as well!
Biden’s Israel Policies Are Still on the Wrong Track (www.thenation.com)
What is your unpopular flim opinion
I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds
Outgoing Netherlands PM’s party rules out Geert Wilders coalition (www.theguardian.com)
Talks begin with liberal leader warning people not to be fooled by Wilders’ ‘Mother Teresa’ act
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‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter (www.theguardian.com)
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
Darkest Dungeon II - The Binding Blade DLC Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Prison City is an NES-inspired action romp in the style of Power Blade (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The Last of Us Multiplayer Project Still in Development Assures Naughty Dog Game Director (mp1st.com)
Skyblivion trailer | Our Scariest Update On The Road To Release (www.youtube.com)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass Wave 6 - Course Overview (www.youtube.com)
I forgot that these are still coming out.
Stop using Fandom (www.youtube.com)
Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)
What book series would you like to see made into a movie trilogy or a show with multiple seasons?
I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?
Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
You can remove *any* film from your memory. What do you pick and why?
Some people want to be able to watch a movie “for the first time” all over again. Others want to forget a rubbish one. If you could remove just one movie from your memory, which would it be?
Resident Evil 4 for iPhone Will Cost $60 (www.macrumors.com)
Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....
Is "Burn Notice" worth watching? (www.imdb.com)
Some people say that it is fun, witty, and action-packed, while others say that it is repetitive, unrealistic, and boring. What do you think? Do you recommend it or not?
Defederated from Feddit.nl. Update: Refederated!
Lately we have been dealing with a few abusive members from Feddit.nl and we were unable to get in touch with the instance administrator....
Companies that obtain and sell your user information should have to pay you royalties. Agree or disagree?
Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it’s already been discussed!)...
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
Do you find the description Live Service Game off-putting?
Over the years, there’ve been various red flags in gaming, for me at least. Multi-media. Full-Motion Video. Day-One DLC. Microtransactions. The latest one is Live Service Game. I find the idea repulsive because it immediately tells me this is an online-required affair, even if it doesn’t warrant it. There’s no reason for...
My wife says standing over the sink at 3am cleaning tea infusers with a brass tooth brush, dremel tool, and dental picks is not normal. Is she right?
Context: I currently have a back injury and as such my sleep schedule has been destroyed. There are days that I simply cannot get comfortable no matter where I sit/lie....
Starfield, is it getting review bombed? (youtu.be)
Seems kind of like the game is just suffering from reactionaries, but I definitely don’t put that much stock in critic reviews these days either.
Chaos, Comedy, and 'Crying Rooms': Inside Jimmy Fallon's 'Tonight Show' (www.rollingstone.com)
Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom (www.eurogamer.net)
It’s real. After all those years.
Arcana for SNES - A Review | hungrygoriya (youtu.be)
I just watched this review the other day and it reminded me that this game existed. I played it back in the day I’ve been playing it with an improvement hack that cleans up a lot of it, and I’ve been loving it. I highly recommend it to people who like dungeon crawlers and turn based RPGs....
Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall (www.gamescensor.com)
☢ Have a high-end PC now, interested in Fallout 4 Mods
I have a 3080 ti w/ 16 GB of RAM and an 4+ ghz processor. It generally chews through any game at the moment and I was wondering what if any mods exist for Fallout 4 that can improve upon the base game in a way that makes it feel more modern/exciting. I’ve done some Googling and found some modifications for things like weather,...