The special grand jury in Fulton County investigating the 2020 presidential election in Georgia recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, according to the special counsel grand jury report released Friday.
Starfield, the space role -playing gamefrom Bethesda Game Studios, has concluded its second day after theo fficial launch date with more than six million
Earlier on Thursday, Rolling Stone published allegations from two current and 14 former employees, including production crew and writers, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Rolling Stone claimed they had approached an additional 80 current and former employees, but “not a single one agreed to speak on the...
You probably already know what I'm talking about here: that thing where you're in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It's a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can't get enough of it....
I have no clue what people are talking about? I have beaten it twice and surveyed an entire solar system and there was plenty. You can fly around to any point in most planets and moons and have stuff generate at each landing, within hiking distance.
I feel like the game is so big and good, the haters are just hating and being stupidly immature about it.
I just wrote a rant on some random post on another instance about Trump not liking EVs where I said that EVs are dumb, and I’d like to share my thoughts here....
I know that we’ve already pointed to a whole bunch of studies, using a variety of different methods that all show no evidence of any link at all between social media and teen depression, but it’s time to highlight another one....
It’s game of the century in my book. These complaints are shallow. I spent 20 hours exploring and these complaints hold no weight. There is plenty, go find stuff. I have 2 huge ship’s just from exploring planets. I have full legendary gear. All from planet hopping.
Exploring planets is cool as fuck especially when you go across environments.
Moons are especially fun and hold all sorts of secrets.
If you find a note about a secret base, pursue it.
Bethesda did a good job. I have played SC and SB2 and while I like how they do space travel, the rest of their game sucks by comparison. Bethesda really knocked it out of the park.
The Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. routinely uses fake social media accounts to collect information about people, according to over 3,000 pages of document. The internal records include guidance for agency personnel and emails — but there is little or no evidence of adequate rules to protect Americans’ privacy...
Well yea it’s a site full of weirdos trying to ruin the peaceful transition of power.
Let me put it this way, you’re either on FB because you grift, you have no life, you’re a millennial parent who just posts family pics, you’re an idiot, you’re old asf, or you are involved with a ws group.
That’s basically it and by the looks of it the other posters in here are part of the latter.
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come....
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
I7-11/3070/32GB and I have been having a lot of fun. I play all games on very hard and this one I was thinking maybe I should tone it down. I didn’t and I didn’t regret it.
30+ hours in and after reading this thread I feel like some people just got unlucky or were expecting something like SC or SpaceBourne 2. This isn’t those games and weren’t promised to be. I play both of those games and SC is a mess 12 years and $600k later and SB2 is awesome and only made by one guy! But this game is way polished and ready by comparison. By far imo.
I was maybe 4 hours in and got sidetracked in a solar system surveying everything. I forgot about the original quest to scan a moon and just traveled to every planet and not only had a great time scanning and scouting across different moons and planets but was also helping randoms with distress calls and 3 on 1 battles against Spacers in spaceships. By the time I was done with that solar system I was 18 hours in.
I would scan a planet, find a spot to land and drop in. Scout every place that popped up and then set another course on the same planet and repeat. Never did I feel bored or that I was going to see the same assets. Every spot felt unique and well designed. One planet felt like the American Southwest, it was so beautiful.
I highjacked a landed vessel during my surveying mission and upgraded and redesigned it for more maneuverability and storage and I have to say that the ship editor is so well done. I have 1000+ hours in FO76 and the camp building in that was really great and Bethesda has made the industry standard camp building format in SC. It is really an improvement from FO4 to current. I cannot wait until the mods really open this masterpiece up.
I haven’t even touched the base building yet btw.
The space combat is solid. From what I gather people don’t really know how to do space combat. Especially when in bulk freight ships or similar. You have to boost right at them guns blazing and then hard turn when you pass them so you can get behind them. Watch your throttle as you will only turn fast when it’s at halfway (within the white lines). I can take on 3 Spacer attackers on very hard difficulty with this method. If you can track the enemy (perk i think?) do it and just kill their shields and weapons. If you just kill their engines they love to just tumble in space and shoot at you. I usually kill two and then disable the third and board. It’s hard af and fun af.
I would like to be able to spacewalk but also see why it’s not included in Starfield. It’s fun but as I have experienced it in SC all of that extra functionality doesn’t really add to the game. It’s a pain to get out of your ship and fly over to the enemy ship and then try to gain access. I like the way Bethesda did it. Super easy.
Also the space travel is super easy. Fast traveling is great and keeps the game going without having problems finding where you want to go. SC has this problem. Their map of one solar system is terrible and doesn’t work half of the time. It’s only 1 solar system and barely works. Not to mention the navigation in SC and SB2 typically bug out and don’t work which calls for a reboot. Bethesda said fuck that and did better. Sure it’s not as immersive but immersion really has potential to take away from the game and progress.
The overall look and feel is what I was hoping in FO76. Vast improvement. The gunplay is on par with what I want and expect. Fighting on moon bases is fucking awesome. On very hard the enemies are harder, their tactics are okay, not great, but challenging enough to keep you guessing. Abandoned bases are always fun to attack. Loot is everywhere.
Some NPCs are bugged. It’s annoying but infrequent enough to not be a game breaker. The NPCs just talking to you randomly is weird, especially when you are walking through a city and your companion is already talking to you. Needs work.
I caught Shrouds stream and it looks like this game just gets better. I can’t wait to jump back in.
CoD has a Nazi problem. They literally setup honey pots and groups in the game.
For example, 2-3 people who pretend not to know each other but somehow play a bit too well together. Then you have some random invite from some random you never played with 88 in their name and a group invite with a bunch of people with names that are clearly Nazi lovers.
It’s not because of the shit talking. Every game has that.
The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks....
Apple executives don’t need CCWs. I need a CCW because my subs liked to be paid in cash so $50k in cash in my car was typical so a firearm was necessary because contractors get robbed. Apple executives don’t because they’re little soft bitches.
The billionaire founder of tech giant Foxconn, Terry Gou, has announced he will run for president of Taiwan as an independent candidate, pledging to fix cross-strait relations and boost Taiwan’s economy....
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of...
The people I know that wish for collapse get real quiet when I loudly say to them so you want your friends children to starve to death? Because I was in a combat zone and that’s what happens.
Microsoft is poison. It’s the bully in school that gets bullied back and instead does underhanded shit that it sometimes gets away with because daddy owns the principal.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations...
Advertising and marketing are mind poison and everyone hates them and we should retaliate against them politically and economically. Destroying the advertising market is something global society should do.
Hours before a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio and erupted in fire in February, a judge ruled a former railroad employee could proceed with a lawsuit claiming he had been harassed for years by managers who said he reported too many flaws in rail cars he inspected and had his job changed after reporting an injury.
Americans will likely deplete the rest of the excess savings they accumulated during the pandemic this quarter, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco....
Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?
In 2015 I was in Niger doing NGO work and the founder of the NGO said to me that the most important thing about America is the peaceful transition of power. That next year that transition of power came under direct attack and then again in 2020.
From my travels and the people I talk to, we have been under attack since at least 2008. From domestic terrorists working with foreign governments. Factions in spy agencies actively engaged in domestic espionage to help elites take more power. Cultist religious mega churches spreading misinformation and conspiracies in rural areas for decades priming for a “revolution”.
Billionaires that you hear about daily are also in on it.
You better fight for your democracy by showing up to every town meeting you can America because you will absolutely lose everything. Support unions and delete that extreme individualism in your programming that capitalist America wants to instill in each person so you never organize against them.
This is the time to get out in front of 2024 and fight for your rights and a reasonable society not this psycho bullshit we are stuck in right now.
Fulton County special grand jury recommended charges against Lindsey Graham and 2 Georgia US senators | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
The special grand jury in Fulton County investigating the 2020 presidential election in Georgia recommended charges against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, according to the special counsel grand jury report released Friday.
Starfield has the best release in the history of Bethesda, surpassing Skyrim (gamerkick.com)
Starfield, the space role -playing gamefrom Bethesda Game Studios, has concluded its second day after theo fficial launch date with more than six million
Jimmy Fallon apologises to Tonight Show staff after toxic workplace allegations - reports (www.theguardian.com)
Earlier on Thursday, Rolling Stone published allegations from two current and 14 former employees, including production crew and writers, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Rolling Stone claimed they had approached an additional 80 current and former employees, but “not a single one agreed to speak on the...
Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me (www.pcgamer.com)
You probably already know what I'm talking about here: that thing where you're in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It's a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can't get enough of it....
Harris launching college tour to try to mobilize young voters in battleground states (abcnews.go.com)
The vice president is the face for the administration's work on abortion, more.
Google starts testing instantly playable online games on YouTube (www.eurogamer.net)
Back in June, reports began circlating that Google, fresh off its Stadia streaming flop, was looking to incorporate pla…
AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)
Sure Todd, lol
It looks exactly as sane as it ever did though (lemmy.world)
Which it’s to say, not.
[Opinion Analysis] Meet the white Trump official behind the launch of Black America for Immigration Reform (www.politico.com)
The new effort will look to advance the argument that more immigration is bad for Black workers.
Apple and Microsoft reportedly want iMessage and Bing off the EU’s tech ‘gatekeeper’ list (www.theverge.com)
A list of services that are covered by Europe’s new Digital Markets Act is due on Wednesday.
EVs are dumb, especially in Brazil Portuguese
I just wrote a rant on some random post on another instance about Trump not liking EVs where I said that EVs are dumb, and I’d like to share my thoughts here....
Yet Another Study Shows No Link At All Between Social Media And Teen Anxiety And Depression (www.techdirt.com)
I know that we’ve already pointed to a whole bunch of studies, using a variety of different methods that all show no evidence of any link at all between social media and teen depression, but it’s time to highlight another one....
Starfield's planets are an illusion: you can't land on them (www.vg247.com)
If you were wondering if you could fly to a planet's surface in Starfield, the answer is technically yes, it'll just ta…
Burning Man Revelers Begin Exodus (time.com)
Burning Man organizers said they started to let traffic flow out of the main road around 2 p.m. local time.
Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design - but that’s not boring, Bethesda insists (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Starfield's planets aren't all interesting, but they're not all "supposed to be Disney World" (www.vg247.com)
You'll probably find that a lot of planets in Starfield are pretty boring, but Bethesda says that's kind of the point.
Documents Reveal Widespread Use of Fake Social Media Accounts by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (www.brennancenter.org)
The Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. routinely uses fake social media accounts to collect information about people, according to over 3,000 pages of document. The internal records include guidance for agency personnel and emails — but there is little or no evidence of adequate rules to protect Americans’ privacy...
Revealed: US pro-birth conference’s links to far-right eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)
Natal conference, to be held in Austin in December, promoted on far-right podcast circuit and set to host self-described eugenicists...
Rant about something and I'll join you! (hexbear.net)
Anybody want to commiserate on something that sucks?
Pope, quoting Buddha, urges religious dialogue to fight fundamentalism (www.reuters.com)
With DeSantis absent, Biden surveys storm damage in Florida (www.reuters.com)
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come....
PSA incoming (discuss.tchncs.de)
[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com)
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
Call of Duty will get a new AI-powered voice chat moderation system (www.gamescensor.com)
“My Brother Is So Far Gone”: How Male Influencers Turned The Men In These People’s Lives Toxic (www.buzzfeednews.com)
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (www.sustainableplastics.com)
Racist Jacksonville shooter wore Rhodesian army patch, a symbol of white supremacy, law enforcement sources say (www.nbcnews.com)
The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks....
Idalia has strengthened into a hurricane as it moves toward Florida, where it is expected to make landfall with powerful winds and a life-threatening storm surge (www.cnn.com)
[Breaking news update, published at 5:02 a.m. ET]...
Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits (www.idropnews.com)
Foxconn founder Terry Gou announces run for Taiwan presidency, pledging to fix China ties (www.theguardian.com)
The billionaire founder of tech giant Foxconn, Terry Gou, has announced he will run for president of Taiwan as an independent candidate, pledging to fix cross-strait relations and boost Taiwan’s economy....
Florida Governor Ron Desantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings (apnews.com)
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of...
Today I learned that Arnold Schwarzenegger was California's Governor in 2003 (www.history.com)
Will youtube eventually run out of storage?
Edit: To clarify:...
Andrew Tate prosecution files reveal graphic claims of coercion ahead of trial (www.bbc.com)
Warning: This lengthy article contains disturbing language and details of graphic evidence.
US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network (www.theguardian.com)
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Satellite images capture a look at Tropical Storm Hilary's flooding in Palm Springs (www.nbcnews.com)
The desert community got more than 3 inches of rain, the most precipitation recorded there on a single day....
Female soldiers in Army special operations face rampant sexism and harassment, military report says (apnews.com)
U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations...
toppings (lemmy.world)
Bought these from a book fair, thoughts? (lemmy.world)
Ad firm plans to use people’s data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill (www.politico.com)
Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals....
Rail whistleblowers fired for voicing safety concerns despite efforts to end practice of retaliation (apnews.com)
Hours before a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio and erupted in fire in February, a judge ruled a former railroad employee could proceed with a lawsuit claiming he had been harassed for years by managers who said he reported too many flaws in rail cars he inspected and had his job changed after reporting an injury.
Americans will likely run out of excess pandemic savings this quarter: study (thehill.com)
Americans will likely deplete the rest of the excess savings they accumulated during the pandemic this quarter, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco....
Is America Really That Bad?
Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?
'Hell on wheels': Teen convicted of crashing car at 100 mph, killing boyfriend and friend (www.nbcnews.com)
“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla’s verdict Monday afternoon.