Quetzalcutlass @ Quetzalcutlass @lemmy.world

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Make sure to check out the Peacock Project, a self-hosted Hitman server that, among other things, lets you replay any of the old timed content you want. No more FOMO in your single player game!

Actually, large parts of Trump's cabinets in both presidencies were random bloggers and commentators. Not even rich or famous ones, just whoever kissed his ass well enough.

Gives new meaning to ladles getting jammed in your drawers.

I know CachyOS, at least, shows recent Arch announcements during the update process before installing anything. Unfortunately there's been a recurring DDoS attack on Arch's servers for months, so this check tends to fail and you aren't always notified of breaking changes.

Hideo Kojima rewrote parts of Death Stranding 2 late in development because the beta testers were unanimous in praising it. He said something along the lines of if nobody hated it, he was playing things too safe.

nooch

Is that an actual slang term for nutritional yeast? I'm struggling to think of a less appetizing word.

Then again, I can see myself letting out a dumb little laugh while saying "I'm nooching my corn", so maybe it's actually brilliant.

I should log on and see if my old Mesmer/Necromancer is still there. I can't think of a single other game where you could build purely around debuffs and have it be fun to play and completely viable in both PvP and PvE.

NVCleanstall helps with the Nvidia telemetry/useless feature bloat on Windows as well as keeping drivers up-to-date. It's absurd that a third-party program is necessary, but it's a useful program for anyone still dual-booting Windows.

If there's a breakthrough to make the technology cheaper, more efficient, and less polluting, I'm all for it even if I hate AI. It's not like corporations are going to stop while they still see profits to be had. Pushing them towards better/less harmful options is likely the best we can do.

"Have you ever seen the film 'The Prestige'?"

(Side note: this is my single favorite comedy sketch of all time.)

THERE'S NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST US.

"Caramelized" onions. I've seen albinos with more color!

Unless it's Mamdani, for some reason. Remember that weird public crush Trump had on him for a while after their meeting?

The good ol' zero finger discount.

The Little Drummer Boy, a Christmas song.

I'll recommend Escape From Duckov, a parody of sweaty extraction shooters like Tarkov. It avoids the worst parts of that genre by virtue of one thing: it's entirely single-player. There's no camping, no trolling, no meta to follow, just you going out on expeditions to explore the world, bring back as much loot as you can carry, upgrade your character and equipment, expand your base, and unlock new areas. The only two friction points are your limited carrying capacity (you'll be limited by your slots at first, then weight once you have a decent backpack) and that dying twice in a row costs you everything you had equipped - the latter not really being a problem because the game keeps a backup of your last ten saves and lets you jump back in time directly from the load menu, so if losing all the equipment you spent several hours upgrading is a deal-breaker you can simply elect to undo it when it happens.

The looting is the real standout here. Nearly every item you find is used for at least one quest or upgrade, and you continually unlock new places to spend them as you progress. All that food you've been hoarding comes in handy after you unlock a gym that uses them to permanently increase your base stats, for example. You'll also sometimes be forced to make hard choices - say you found an expansion crate that's used for upgrading the warehouse capacity back at base; unfortunately these crates are obscenely heavy, so if you want to haul it back you'll need to drop most of what you're carrying or be limited to slowly dodge-rolling your way to the nearest extraction point.

It's such an addicting experience, and I'm saying that as someone who normally loathes loot-driven games. If anyone ends up playing, I can't recommend these three mods enough. The first shows how many of an item you already have in its mouseover popup, which saves you an endless amount of warehouse wrangling due to running out of space, The second shows how much an item would sell for, making prioritizing loot much less stressful when you're low on inventory slots. The third is a simple luxury mod that adds colored backgrounds to items based on loot rarity.

But whatever happens, it’s all going to good charities.

Says the man whose own philanthropic foundation was forcibly dissolved because he was using it as a slush fund and redirecting donations to his golf clubs.

I can't even imagine a political environment where that line works. Times really were different back then.