Coelacanth @ Coelacanth @feddit.nu

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Dark Souls will probably be great, and I'm also very curious about Pokémon HGSS as that has a special place in my heart.

Well... kinda but not really. The room-placement is only a small part of Blue Prince though and I think turning it into a roguelite was pretty innovative.

Funny story, Tonda Ros actually hadn't heard of Betrayal until Blue Prince was well into beta testing. These things happen. The true inspiration for it was a choose-your-own-adventure/puzzle book by Christopher Manson called "The Maze". Manson actually contributed with the art for the paintings in the Gallery in Blue Prince.

Pretty sure James Hoffman came to a similar conclusion in a recent-ish video about rinsing filters, surprising himself as it went against conventional wisdom.

No problem. I have it set at 20% and it does the job well for comments. Would be good to have a similar option for posts, though.

It's right there under Posts & Comments in the settings: "Auto-collapse comments under a certain upvote percent".

Okay listen. I know I haven't played it myself but... Isn't Arc Raiders just another fucking extraction shooter? How the fuck does it beat Blue Prince for most innovative gameplay?

It's your funeral, pretty sure the Steam version still comes with SecuROM DRM - if it even launches. No clue how that DRM plays with Linux, either tbh.

Sounds very interesting for if I ever get a Hario Switch, though having to mess about with temperature gauges sounds a little fiddly for a daily driver recipe...

Get it from GOG, download the Echo Patch and make sure to play the first expansion too (which is included), called Extraction Point. I think it's even better than the base game actually. Definitely DON'T play the second expansion, and in fact probably just pretend the series ended after Extraction Point.

The game absolutely holds up, still plays like a dream. One of the best FPSes of all time for sure, great combat with good AI and fantastic gunplay from most of the arsenal (apart from a strangely anemic assault rifle). Also looks remarkably good for its age - some of the distortion effects especially like bullet traces during Bullet Time or shockwave ripples from explosions look surprisingly good for a 2005 release.

You can also jump through some extra hoops to make EAX audio work but it's a bit of a headache.

"Spiritual successor to F.E.A.R." was all they had to say to get me on board, but my backlog is still too large to pick it up unless on deep sale.

Ooh, I haven't watched a Christopher Odd LP in a while! That's nice and short too I think I'll watch that today. Thanks for the suggestion!

There is a setting like that for comments, auto-hide under a custom downvote % threshold. Would be a nice feature for posts for sure.

The new-user filtering I'm less interested in personally as there is a lot of instance-hopping on the Fediverse and I feel like you'd get a lot of false negatives.

That's a much better proposal actually. Would also make especially good sense for regions of Africa, where country lines have very little to do with the distribution of languages for the most part.

Trepang2 is high on my wishlist, but that's about all I'm familiar with on this list. Anyone else can comment on any of the rest of the games? Is this worthwhile?

Still barely gaming as I've been spending my time on my mod making project instead. I've been playing Chaos Zero Nightmare a bit on my phone though and it continues to be a guilty pleasure. Can't say I condone gacha monetisation, can't say I love all the character designs, can't say the story isn't terrible and the English translation is amateurish. All that being said, the roguelike deckbuilder gameplay is actually just really good. The dopamine hits of unlocking rare card variations during runs and making new builds work just keep me coming back.

I did end up buying two new games for myself on the Steam Sale as a Christmas present: Chrono Ark and The Banner Saga. I've had my eye on them for a long time, and so I'm looking forward to getting to a point in the mod making where I can take a break from it and actually play some games.

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is a surprisingly amazing DS game where you hold the DS in portrait mode like a book and control your character with the stylus. I played it this year and was very positively surprised by it.

What would be a better measure for picture three? Language Per Capita? Languages Spoken By At Least X% Of The Population?

Who's gonna tell 'em?

Examples edit According to The New York Times:

• (to) unalive, unalived – to kill; killed, dead
• accountant– sex worker
• cornucopia – homophobia
• le dollar bean – lesbian, as derived from the written form Le$bian
• leg booty – the LGBTQ+ community
• nip nops – nipples
• panini, panoramic – a pandemic, especially the COVID-19 pandemic
• seggs – sex

Other examples:

• acoustic – autistic
• blink in lio – link in bio
• camping – abortion
• cheese pizza – child pornography
• fork – fuck
• grape – rape
• Keep Yourself Safe – whose initials stand > * for 'kill yourself'
• music festival – protest
• opposite of love – hatred
• ouid – weed
• Panda Express – pandemic
• PDF file, PDF – pedophile
• pew pew – firearm
• regarded – retarded
• sewer slide – suicide
• shmex – sex
• tism – autism spectrum conditions
• yt – White people, though yt is also a common abbreviation for YouTube

Have seen most of these, but that doesn't make it any better. The times we're living in are just swell, aren't they?

The amount of fights wouldn't be so bad either if the encounter design wasn't so bad. Especially towards the endgame it just felt like Owlcat absolutely hate their players. Both HATEOT and the endgame sucked, and that's coming from someone who was earned beforehand to put Blind Fight on every single character. That being said there were parts I really enjoyed - the whole Vordakai arc was great I thought.

Shame to hear that about the story. That's the part that always made me hesitant about WotR too - I tend to prefer more grounded narratives over epic godslaying adventures.