Word of warning: the game is jank personified, but once you get past the animations, visuals, and weird storytelling, it has a lot of charm. It does quite a lot differently to other RPGs and survival games, and because of that, it has a hell of a learning curve.
Playing it makes me remember how I felt when I played Morrowind, for some reason. Not because it is the same caliber of game though, that much is for certain.
Im having difficulty finding names I like. I need two - three names that roll off the tongue and wouldn’t be out of place with a long hyphenated surname....
Agree. I think that about watches too. Beyond a fashion accessory, I can’t find them useful. I’ve had good watches, cheap watches, digital and automatic. Not only do they feel weird on my skin, my phone can do the job better.
I agree. Honestly the only social media I use is Whatsapp (irl friends), Discord (hobby centric), and lemmy (hobby centric). I used to have a facebook, twitter, and instagram. They’ve been pretty much abandoned for a long time now. Only ever upload art to my instagram every now and then in case I get any new clients but marketing myself is so hard, I’ve put minimal effort in it. I prefer to spend my idle time in things i actually enjoy now.
Don’t use paper filters, but I’d assume to avoid channeling in the coffee grounds. Water will always go through the path of least resistance, maybe by having the entire filter wet you lessens the chances of overextracing some parts of the grounds and underextracting others.
I did read that some people do it to remove paper taste, but that seems a little weird. Edit: i was wrong.
Haven’t seen any lemmygrad users in a while, but honestly the vitriol towards Hexbear is overblown. They’re fine. Bit trolly, and they shitpost a lot, but it’s kinda fun.
Same. I struggle with architectural photography but I took a really nice one on a trip to London. It’s abstract enough you can’t place it due to composition. I’m using it as a background on all my devices.
I don’t know I’d qualify Rimworld as complicated, honestly. It has more moving parts than The Sims, sure, but it is nowhere near how complicated EU4 seems (I haven’t played it, it scares me, but CK is another good example).
Yup. D2 has the worst new player experience of any game I’ve played. But at the end of the day, it’s just about knowing where the daily solo dungeon is, so you can grind Light level. Raids are complicated though, because a lot of them are like puzzles.
Stopped playing it because of how money hungry the game is.
5e might be easier to grasp than previous editions, and even easier to play than other TTRPGs, but even then. I started playing DnD after my second playthrough of BG3, and even having some experience with CRPGs, reading through the DM book, PHB, and all the sourcebooks I totally legally acquired, felt like trying to map a room with my eyes closed. Bg3 streamlines the math, but the complexity is still there.
Half of all the time I’ve spent as a DM has been spent devising homebrews to streamline the game further.
It was sometime in early 2022 that I found myself reading a few romance novels. I remember being mildly annoyed about how most of the books had instant chemistry/attraction as part of the plot. Then I suddenly found myself wondering, how do I feel if and when I feel attraction? I think I have probably never felt instant...
Idk, honestly. I might be ace, demi ace at least. Closest to attraction I’ve ever felt is interest due to vibes. Like, some people look like they could hold an interesting convo or might have cool hobbies. And not necessarily talking about how they dress or look, but because of how they carry themselves. Someone being traditionally beautiful does nothing for me.
Though I consider attraction to be different from chemistry. I’ve had chemistry with folk I’m not attracted to, and I’ve been “attracted” to people I have no chemistry with. The latter is the worst.
Skyrim, after lots of years of not playing it. Tried a couple modpacks and collections and they either have horny mods, bad performance, or are unbalanced in regards to difficulty. Like, I can accept dying a lot, I have hundreds of hours on soulslike games. What I can’t accept is dying because of jank, and as good as a mod might be made, it still interacts with a janky engine. Even scriptless mods end up janky sometimes. I’m building my own modpack instead, choosing simple mods for modularity. Not gonna bash nothing so it will probably end up a little basic, but eh. Playing this to tide me over for whenever an Elden Ring or Baldur’s Gate expansion drops.
Apart from that, Baldur’s gate and Zomboid with friends. And the good ol classic, Rimworld.
Also, I’m a new DM and decided to fuck myself thrice over. I’m designing a whole new homebrew to play in an ASOIAF setting. It requires whole redesigns of classes, weapon systems, mechanics, etc. My players are excited for it though, I’ve been dropping sneak peeks and they’ve responded well.
Same. I love trying out different cultures foods, or trying new things with my own cultures. I’ve had people ask me why I don’t do it professionally but reading Kitchen Confidential killed any potential that idea had. I’ve enough mental issues as a graphic designer.
Preach. For a long time I was given shit for dandruff. No matter how clean my hair was, I’d always have dandruff. Wasn’t until I decided to let my hair grow out to donate it, and thus learnt about how to take care of it properly, that it was the shampoo and conditioner I was using that caused it in the first place.
Now it’s clean and healthy, with no dandruff. Bodies are hella weird.
When I first read the titile, I thought that the US is going to have to build A LOT to triple global production. Then it occured to me that the author means the US is pledging to make deals and agreements which enable other countries to build their own. Sometimes I think the US thinks too much of itself and that’s also very...
Agree. I’d wager the average joe would only invest in personal renewables if it was cheaper to run than paying an electric bill in the short term, was just as efficient, and was easy to install. Otherwise we’d be adding even more e-waste to landfills.
So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....
I vape, so, yeah. It stopped me from smoking, and I’m spending less per month on juice and cartridges than I did on smokes. I don’t smell like an ashtray from 8:00 to 20:00 either. But it’s still something I kinda sorta would like not to spend money on.
I took it up after I developed GAD, and despite doing the rounds on meds and picking up healthy habits, I still can’t shake GAD. Probably won’t be able to kick my habit until that’s over and done with
Don’t really mind the adverse health effects. The city I live in is probably doing numbers on my lungs just with car smoke alone.
I used to prefer physical, because I read on my phone and never really paid attention. Used my phone to read for a year and read a ton of books but don’t remember any of them. Couple years ago I bought a kindle and ever since I haven’t bought a single physical book, opting to buy them instead through amazon.
Don’t think I’ll ever go back to physical, honestly, it’s just too convenient. Digital is less bulky, not just in storage but in my hands, pages don’t wear down from turning, and I can fit my kindle in my front pockets and read anywhere, any time.
Depth is what Starfield is lacking, imo. It fixes a lot of what both skyrim and f4 did wrong (there’re backgrounds, they affect your skills, and they come up from time to time, to mention one), but they regressed so hard on other things. They tried new stuff but the delivery was so limp dicked that everything landed awkwardly, or not at all. Think the game suffered because of scope creep, honestly, if they had limited the game to just a handful of planets, they could’ve tailored the experience and they wouldn’t feel so empty.
And as always, their obsession to let you do everything in one playthrough hurt the game hard. There’s very little reason to go for a second playthrough.
Like, they did a good job with most of the game’s mechanics, but everything else is mid as hell. Very forgettable.
I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...
Live in a third world country sort of famous for its gang violence and migrant caravans, and we have strict gun laws. Used to be you could buy semi auto rifles, now unless you got a good reason (like hunting), pistols are your best hope.
Honestly, at this point I wish we had an easier time getting a hold of them. It might be the help people in some areas need to drive gangs out their neighborhoods, cus I sure as hell ain’t trusting a pig not to take a bribe.
Edit: also, might make the government think twice about fucking with democracy or stepping over the common man.
I agree, in the case of america. My country doesn’t have howitzers, interceptors, or anything close to combat ready hardware. Most jarheads I see walk around with old hardware, galil, fal, m16A1 and M4, that kinda stuff, but most everything is on the older side.
An armed population here probably wouldn’t be immediately decimated by a drone strike, because we don’t have drones.
Same. I’m a new DM (and new to dnd in general, DM’d one one-shot and that’s it, working on a campaign rn) and I use bard to make my narrative ideas fit the mechanics, name homebrew stuff, and clean up the text I’m writing for the players handbook I’m making for this campaign.
Oh yeah, I mostly use it to bounce ideas. If it suggest something good, I modify it to make sure if works like I need it to work. Used it to make simple tables and such.
Last thing I used it for was a battle simulation mechanic, in order to have the same effect a huge battle would have, without having tons of different characters to bog down the combat. Havent tested it yet, but it feels like it should work.
All my life, from when I was a little Republican shitstain to now, I always had a soft spot for the Native Americans. No rationale or so-called “nuance” ever made what the settlers did okay. In school we didn’t learn much about the Native Americans. We learned a tiny bit about their infrastructure and where they would...
Dunno if you can read spanish, but the letters sent between Colombo and the spanish royalty is a great way to get just a bit more pissed off. We read it in the original old castillian, which didn’t click until I was older and understood colonization (read: when I stopped being a lib).
A lot of focus on people like Bartolome de las Casas, and not enough about how much indigenous culture was lost.
Hi guys! For the past… ever, I’ve been putting my health and fitness aside. I tried a few times to get into the habit of exercising to no avail. I’m not overweight or anything but neither am I strong or flexible as I want to be. Mainly because I don’t want to have health troubles later in life. HOWEVER, to get started I...
Hm, interesting. I’ll do some of that recommended reading, Practical Programming specifically. Honestly, I don’t do lifting for athleticism anymore. Lift heavy rock make sad voices go away, mostly. But if I can work smarter, I’ll do that.
What is a video game that you'd love to play, but no one has developed yet?
What should I call my son (due at the end of April)
Im having difficulty finding names I like. I need two - three names that roll off the tongue and wouldn’t be out of place with a long hyphenated surname....
What communities, online or offline, have made you feel most like you've entered/found a parallel dimension in a positive way?
Excluding, say, here or the fediverse more broadly....
What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?
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Stardew Valley Expanded exceeded its creator’s wildest dreams (www.polygon.com)
Why do we wet paper filters?
I’ve seen the pourover advice given and referenced unquestioningly: always pre-wet your paper filter. But why? What is the benefit of doing this step?
Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy?
I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?
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What's the funniest true story you've read on the internet?
Which video game did you bounce off of at first, but then tried again later for it to become one of your favorites of all time?
How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
Just some off the top of my head: Destiny, Deep Rock Galactic, Overwatch, and most recently Baldur’s Gate....
How does attraction feel like to you, mentally, physically and emotionally?
It was sometime in early 2022 that I found myself reading a few romance novels. I remember being mildly annoyed about how most of the books had instant chemistry/attraction as part of the plot. Then I suddenly found myself wondering, how do I feel if and when I feel attraction? I think I have probably never felt instant...
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 19th
What have you all been playing?...
What is the skill/talent you have that you get praised for but you fiercely keep as an hobby/interest with no plans to expand on it?
People that don’t wear antiperspirant…
do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?...
How do games like Sea of Thieves stay afloat?
I think No Man’s Sky is also in the same boat....
Describe a game without revealing its name! (kbin.social)
Let the people try to guess!...
U.S. Pledge To Triple Global Nuclear Energy By 2050 (www.huffpost.com)
When I first read the titile, I thought that the US is going to have to build A LOT to triple global production. Then it occured to me that the author means the US is pledging to make deals and agreements which enable other countries to build their own. Sometimes I think the US thinks too much of itself and that’s also very...
Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?
So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....
Do you sometimes buy things that are unhealthy for you? (Most people do.) Do you feel guilty for it? or have you accepted it's a normal & kinda necessary part of your life?
Do you prefer digital or physical books?
Here Are The Nominees For The Game Awards 2023 - Game Informer (www.gameinformer.com)
Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.
I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...
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Where can I learn more about Native Americans before during and “after” colonization?
All my life, from when I was a little Republican shitstain to now, I always had a soft spot for the Native Americans. No rationale or so-called “nuance” ever made what the settlers did okay. In school we didn’t learn much about the Native Americans. We learned a tiny bit about their infrastructure and where they would...
People of Lemmy! How to get fit?
Hi guys! For the past… ever, I’ve been putting my health and fitness aside. I tried a few times to get into the habit of exercising to no avail. I’m not overweight or anything but neither am I strong or flexible as I want to be. Mainly because I don’t want to have health troubles later in life. HOWEVER, to get started I...