Quetzalcutlass @ Quetzalcutlass @lemmy.world

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It's rare, but putting cooldowns on basic moves.

I've been playing V Rising lately and it does this weird thing where dodging and blocking are equippable spells with (usually) 8-second cooldowns. In return they also get powerful side effects, but I'd rather have a normal dodge or block button I can use at will than have them relegated to yet another move I use whenever I notice the cooldown has expired.

It doesn't help that your basic movement speed is glacial. Winning boss fights come down more to your character's stats than actual player skill since you can only dodge a few times a minute and bosses love throwing out a half dozen AOEs every few seconds, turning them into DPS races.

Soloable games that are balanced for multiplayer. It almost always means that basic tasks take ten to a hundred times the resources they should, and arbitrary timers are added to crafting and upgrading to slow down progression.

It's the bane of survival crafting games especially.

Fixed that for you.

Though to be honest, if it weren't for the awful added borders and useless titles she'd be one of my favorite posters. I haven't filtered out her posts because the content is good, it's just deliberately presented poorly for some reason.

People joke about being reduced to replaceable cogs in a machine, but at least cogs are necessary for the machine to function. A lot of corporate jobs are closer to blinkenlights.

Now ask it if 1/3 is smaller than 1/4.

No, no, you don't understand. They're "nice" and "kind" to their own ingroup. It's impossible for someone to be bad when they act good around us!

Two starting rooks, eight promoted pawns.

Time to bring back the finger command?

If victims are immortal while in the Wishing Tree (seeing as none of the others appear old), I'd totally go for this. There's never enough time to perfect my hobbies.

As a bonus, it looks like it provides all the necessary materials!

This also works with crows and other corvids.

There are open-source programs for configuring Logitech peripherals without the insane bloat of the official app. I can't name them offhand because the last time I used them I had to try three or four to find one that worked with both old and new hardware, but they exist.

That's how it works. A mod provides builds tied to specific beta branches, and a player is given whichever mod build is most closely tagged to the branch they have installed.

The announcement mentions how confusing the nomenclature is, but Steam still refers to branches as "betas" because that's what a lot of the existing documentation uses, even though it's just as common these days for branches to be used to provide access to old game versions.

Zerrikania.

If my memory serves correctly, the province has thus far been mentioned as an exotic locale of rainforests

sudden flashbacks to Oblivion

People joke about companies being too big to fail, but Samsung is the largest of a group of conglomerates that basically run South Korea. They know there's no way the government will allow them to collapse since they would take the Korean economy down with them. Why not take the most profitable route when there's no risk (to them, which is all they care about)?

I'm going to be honest, IOI's focus on massive seamless open areas with tons of detailed, (relatively) intelligent NPCs all running like clockwork is one of the few use cases for massive amounts of RAM that I find acceptable. Improving their systems from Hitman is vastly preferable to making the game look slightly shinier.

Toby Fox is a fan of wordplay and was planning things in his head for years before the first game even started development. There are tons of little details like this.

And 90% of the details that aren't puns or anagrams are hidden in the soundtrack. Leitmotifs pop up everywhere.

Does the open source Gothic engine have any options to modernize the camera and movement controls? That's what killed my interest in the first two despite them being on paper the perfect games for me (and I enjoyed 3 and Risen despite them being considered a step down in quality from the first two).

It's been ages, but I remember one of the first things Gothic 2 has you do is navigate down a narrow spiral staircase that resets your camera and walking direction any time you brush against the walls. It's as if the developers wanted to warn you ahead of time about the control issues.

Objection! That is clearly a cat!

As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than unpleasantly gritty. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as "chocolate" today wasn't invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.

Life? Very unlikely.

Organic compounds necessary for life? Probably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-panspermia