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Oh god, please don’t make me talk about myself.

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Back when I was about 15, I was invited to a Christmas Eve gathering by a friend of the family, who had a young kid, maybe 7 or 8, and I had a gift picked out for everyone but him. I spent a long time combing through gifts at the mall but I really didn’t know all that much about him. I settled on one of those 3D wooden puzzles, a roadster.

Come Christmas Eve, and I’m anxiously awaiting people opening my gifts hoping I’d chosen well. The kid gets to my gift and turns to his parents and says “Wow, you got it after all!” They were dumbfounded. Turns out he’d been asking for that exact kit but they had passed it up. I felt like a million bucks that night.

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Make a diorama of kids getting mauled by bears because they made fun of that bald guy in the Bible.

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Wow, that’s a lot of words. Too bad they don’t make any sense.

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You have my condolences.

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

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Well I don’t know how to make a game, but I do know how to write interesting characters and stories, and Emil clearly doesn’t, so something something glass houses, Bethesda.

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Christ Almighty, they used to have to give the first hour of a completed game to us for free, now people are paying to betatest the most dogshit asset flips. How did we get here?

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Sponsored by Monster Energy and Ride with Norman Reedus?

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Like, could I just have the aux jack back please? I can frig with my phone before I put the car in drive and just push audio through the speakers, I don’t need to be able to sort through my playlists or make calls from the steering wheel, I’m distracted enough by billboards, for chrissakes. The only thing I like about my phone being connected to my car is that I can skip forward and back, that’s it.

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Fuck uWu I won’t do what uWu tell me!

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“I hope this has been enlightening for you.”

“But I must-”

“Thank you, come again.”

“But-”

“Thank you, come again.”

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Orchid Mantis - Flashbulb Memory

I’ve got a whole fucking playlist for real sadboy hours on rainy drives home where I want to get lost in the back of my mind and it’s like 50% this band.

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Hold up, does someone know how to save an entire site? I would really like to get the 5e wikidot archived in case Hasbro or whoever wants to shut it down for good.

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dnd5e.wikidot.com

Honestly it’s not the information so much as the way it’s organized that I’d like to save. It is the best resource for putting together characters, currently.

Players who don't like survival games as a genre: Which survival games are your personal exceptions, which ones have you enjoyed nonetheless and why?

Personally, I really don’t like most of these games due to the tedium and frustration that comes with hunger/thirst mechanics. Most of the exceptions that I do actually like either make up for it through something else that elevates the experience enough - or they either don’t have these mechanics or allow for players to...

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Of the OWSC-type games that I’ve played, the one I’ve enjoyed most is Raft, and even then I get burnt out on it pretty quickly. I think it’s because, at least until you get your raft surrounded with metal plated platforms, there’s a very direct relationship between the materials you pick up and the amount of ‘base’ you can build, and so you’re pretty constantly engaged with collecting, refining, and using most of your supplies in a very straightforward and immediately gratifying manner.

The thing in these games that burns me out is, it seems to be a neverending parade of collecting materials and recipes to get better materials and recipes, to the point that you’re thumbing through like eight different pages or tabs of schematics looking for what you need to make, then digging through some arcane storage system to get the shit you need to make the shit you need. After a certain point, it feels like having a second job.

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The character art and animation look quite nice, but the environments lack the same aesthetic in places, and the greys kind of blend in with one another. I almost wonder if you could put outlines on the object edges without it getting distracting?

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Maybe it’s just me getting older, but since Skyrim, Bethesda games have failed to capture that magic for me. They’ve been leaning on the creation engine for too long, to the point that so many of the features, not the least of which being the goddamn shouts, are all carbon copies of one another, the base building is literally just a fucking resource sink, the gunplay sucks and the enemies are all bullet sponges unless you dip into late game planets and filch a late game gun, the jobs are 90% basic bitch fetch quests, and the core gameplay loop of “go place --> grab shit --> sell shit” has not evolved since Morrowind.

I stop playing games when they start feeling like a second job, and for me that point in Starfield was about three hours in when I was trying to complete survey data for the homesteading program and I was wandering around this deserted planet, looking for samples of flora and fauna, and I scoot back from my desk as I realize, for 20 minutes, I have done absolutely nothing meaningful or engaging. The closest I’ve come is, I’ve pointed a scanner at a bunch of procedurally generated animals hoping they don’t land a hit on me because they’re too spongy for me to kill, so I can fill a meter, so that when I’m done filling meters I can go back to BDG and tell him this place is suitable for people to live. That’s not fun. It barely qualifies as gameplay, and it is an aggressive waste of time.

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I don’t know what I expected.

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Honestly, I could be convinced that it was all a ploy to get the Elon jet tracker guy off the platform.

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Yeah, it’s happened to me a couple times and I hate it so much when I finally wrest myself out, on top of the anti-adblock shit, that I’ve basically stopped browsing YT altogether. If I get a link I’ll watch a video but the quality of the experience has dropped so drastically since the early days. I actually lament the fact that because of how the algorithms are tuned, it is impossible to get to the weird part of YouTube organically - You have to already know about the weird shit in order to see it.

Not 100% related, but Chrome is crashing my computer. Started happening like a month ago, I would be dinking around on the net and everything would suddenly become unresponsive, can’t even open task manager, have to power cycle. This would happen anywhere between three days or thirty minutes apart. Nothing shows up in the event viewer before any of the crashes, all the hardware I can test comes back clean. I have a friend who said he was having the same issue, he switched to Firefox, hasn’t had it since. I’ve had a week of uptime now since I did the same. I’m beginning to think Alphabet just makes bad products now.

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What’s to dream about? Living these days feels like being in a game of monopoly where someone started with hotels on every property. The fascists are winning, the planet is burning, we’re in the middle of two wars, the capitalists are talking about putting shock collars on their vault slaves when the apocalypse begins, and all signs point to everything getting worse as time goes on. In light of all this, my dream is dying peacefully in my sleep before the water wars begin and I get pushed into Nestle’s torment nexus to make the stock price go up a fraction of a penny.

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Regenerate is also a 7th level spell - depending on the setting, the number of people capable of that kind of magic might not even exist outside of the confines of the party, or if they do, they’re more preoccupied with the stuff worthy of NPCs with at least thirteen class levels.

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Oh man, I envy you, this comic has evolved so much over the years.

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It depends on the disability, the magic, and the DM’s interpretation, I suppose. Lesser restoration is kind of a cure-all, gets rid of disease, poison, blindness, deafness, and paralysis, and ‘disease’ in particular might cover a pretty wide swath. Greater restoration can end effects that reduce ability scores or hit point maximums, which might include chronic conditions or congenital birth defects not directly linked to a disease. Regeneration can grow back missing body parts. Anything that these spells don’t cover, Wish (and Divine Intervention) almost certainly would, but you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who could and would cast it.

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20 seconds of furiously chopping a hole into a wall

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Can’t be comfortable to be one of the focii of the first half either. Finding out Internet Historian is a plagiarist is how I found out Internet Historian is also a straight-up Nazi.

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I mean I’ve had my Brother long before I knew about Lemmy. I have never had it not print the thing I wanted it to print. Before that I had about half a dozen inkjet printers that worked maybe 40% of the time in the first few months and then dropped steeply when the print heads got gummed up, or the feed got jammed. But the Brother has been working a treat for five years and counting.

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Zelda II: The Adventures of Link is a better game than most people give it credit for, and it deserves a remake.

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Admittedly, I see why people hate it, it is frustratingly difficult, even unfair at times (and death mountain can fuck right off, straight to hell.) But there is fun to be had here, if you can forgive some transgressions. Weirdly, it feels like the first real metroidvania in Nintendo’s library, even past Metroid itself, which seems almost a proto-game in light of how the medium and the genre have evolved over time.

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Congratulations, yours is the first that makes me think you understood the assignment. Also you’re wrong.

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I dunno, I think it makes sense. B/S/P all imply a physical impact of some sort, force is just a wave of energy, magic or not. Like a nonmagical example would be microwaves or radiation from nuclear materials (I know sickening radiance says it does radiant damage but that’s 100% wrong, radiant implies holy or positive as the inverse of necrotic, which is unholy and negative, I will kill on this hill, the devs fucked it up just like they fucked up T3/T4 play.)

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Imagine thinking the company will care enough about a corpse that generates zero income to buy you a plot and headstone.

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Hey, don’t hate on people’s coffee choices.

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"…And I took that personally."

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Shhh, let us pretend everything is okay, we can’t fix it.

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Also, trees that get too big have roots that damage infrastructure and have to be cut down. I’m not saying I like the dirty fishtank look more, but I can see how this might be easier to maintain in urban spaces.

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The sex that god can’t see

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Lucky motherfucker.

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That day is every three minutes if you’re on the internet.

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You know, I used to think that about myself. I’ve found that I actually enjoy intermittent periods of doing things that are valuable and could be construed as work, when I’m well-rested and the impacts of trauma are minimized. But the problem is that state so rarely exists in life for so many people because we are forced to do this shit day in and day out, and they call us lazy and entitled when we no longer have the capacity to handle it. I’ve been in a near-continuous state of burnout for so long that I cannot imagine myself happy even if I never had to work again. My anhedonia is so bad that when I get home from work, all I do is eat and sleep, even on the weekends. I put some shit on YouTube to pass the time and I can’t even remember what it is I watched, it’s more or less just a grey noise generator. Deep in the back of myself I remember a person who once enjoyed things and had goals and dreams, but about the same time I start feeling like that person again, I have to go back to work, and it starts all over. This is no way to live.

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That sounds like a pacing issue. Out-of-character the group might agree that there’s a desire to do side plots, but in-character a (heroic) party that is aware of a great evil is going to take actions in the interest of stopping that evil, even if they’re knowingly unprepared (plucky young heroes who win against overwhelming odds are the stuff of legend, after all.) This is why it’s important to keep scope small at lower levels - as tempting as it might be to daisy chain a much bigger bad to a smaller one with a cryptic note or mysterious secret symbol so that you can do an “all according to plan” speech later, if you drop a plot hook, the players will bite on it with the force of a million industrial hydraulic presses and not let go until the whole mystery is unraveled.

Also, don’t pull a grey-and-black gambit on the party unless it’s what the plan was all along and the party has been aggressively ignoring the other bait. As a player, one of my biggest pet peeves is catching shit for doing what I thought the DM wanted us to do with the narrative they laid out. It’s right up there with a “mastermind” villain who is obviously ass-pulling contingency plans when the players do shit the DM didn’t account for. Protip to anyone reading: if your villain needs to have plot armor so the plot can continue with zero hitches, they’re not a very good villain, and it’s not a very good plot.

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Tuesday’s coming. Did you bring your coat?

How to get cigarette smell out of my apartment?

So my roommate is a habitual cigarette smoker. He doesn’t smoke indoors (thankfully) but he does smoke about every other night outdoors. I don’t think he realizes that when he’s done smoking the smell sort of… lingers on him and his clothes. Last night after he was done he was in the kitchen for a bit cooking. I came in...

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An air purifier is never a bad idea in any home, pulls a lot of dust and shit out of the air.

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When the gout hot the food of gout cold in eat the food.

How do you prevent burnout at work?

I have a friend with ADHD who is struggling with burnout at work right now, and I realized the same thing has happened to me (autism) at pretty much every job I’ve had before my current one. After a while (a few months to a few years) the workplace politics becomes unbearable, or culture becomes too toxic, or managers straight...

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The Simpsons has your back.

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"The game’s actually really good! Trust me guys!"

  • Average everyday game player Hodd Toward
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Man, someday you’re gonna have a blast watching the Terminator movies for the first time. Maybe even today!

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This couldn’t possibly be in America because there’d be a $50K+ bill in there somewhere.

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I thought that at first but that seems too artisanal.

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