I’ve never heard anyone else mention Dungeons of Dredmor! That’s the game that taught me how much I loathe total randomness in roguelikes. Without it I wouldn’t have discovered Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm, and a host of others where your skill actually matters, so even though I hated DoD I’m glad I picked it up after TB’s video.
(And the artist of Dredmor later ended up on the development team of my literal favorite game ever, Starsector. Weird how things turn out.)
I followed Shamus Young’s blog in 2007, and kept following him long after I dropped every other blogger. I didn’t always agree with him (*cough* Dark Souls *cough*), but his reviews were the best and most in-depth in the business (seriously, his Mass Effect retrospective covers the entire trilogy and is longer than most novels). He had a way with words where even when he was arguing for/against something you hate/love, you’d still be entertained by the read.
His death left a void in my consumption of media criticism. I don’t think anyone I follow is as articulate or entertaining as Shamus was. RIP Shamus.
The power grid does have a major point of failure, in that vital components are on backorder for years out so most places don’t have the spare parts to get back up and running if widespread attacks on the grid occur.
Burger King chicken nuggets from the 90s, before the recipe changed to crap. If I had to pick a flavor that I associate with my childhood, this would be it.
The Angus Mushroom & Swiss burger from McDonald’s. The Angus was the closest thing they ever had to a real burger, but they were too expensive for most people and were eventually discontinued. Fun fact: wages have stagnated yet their basic burgers now cost more than the Angus did.
Runza used to sell frozen dark chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick. They were delicious, and small enough that you wouldn’t feel guilty about ordering one.
It was also the only time I can recall them having a swiss and mushroom burger on the menu. It was delicious.
What are you talking about? Dragon Age already had two sequels.
They just called them Pillars of Eternity I and II for some reason…
There’s a much cheaper model, the Zero, that’s good enough for messing around with and performing simple server tasks like PiHole. Even it has had its price increase multifold over the years, though only to fifteen bucks from an original price of five.
It’s also much smaller than the already tiny Pi, being able to fit in a standard orange pill bottle. Though the downside of that size is smaller and fewer ports, so you need a USB OTG adapter (preferably a hub) and micro HDMI adapter to plug things into it if you don’t want to run it headless.
Pets are family, so people have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone badmouthing their pets even if the other person has a point.
My sister has a rescue pit. He’s the sweetest dog ever - he was afraid of men for a while due to his previous owner, but gradually warmed up and now runs up to everyone he sees for cuddles.
However, when they took him to visit someone in a nursing home he ran off and bit one of the staff unprovoked. It turns out how a dog behaves around family versus around strangers are two completely different things, and dog owners rarely see the latter so judge their pet’s personality based on the former.
A dog can be an absolute angel around people introduced to them by someone they love and trust, but if their little doggy brain registers someone as a threat (or even just an intruder in their space) things can go very wrong, very quickly.
It’s still there, but hasn’t worked in ages. The Play Store rebuilds its app database multiple times a day, which finds the detached apps again.
Go to https://lemmy.world/settings and turn off “Bot account”.
I love Games Workshop
It just struck me that I’ve never heard a fan say that before. It’s always “I love the games, but hate GW’s cash gouging/trigger-happy legal team/handling of new editions”. Have they gotten better in recent years?
Bethesda has the worst difficulty settings. If they’re going to make it a lazy enemy stat multiplier, they should copy what Metro did with Ranger Mode and make both sides deadlier and more fragile, while lowering ammo drops/increasing ammo prices. Combat becomes harder but way more satisfying, instead of Bethesda’s method where every enemy becomes a damage sponge and hard mode turns into a miserable slog.
Need to light the campfire? Prestidigitation! Also works to extinguish it.
Dropped a spoon on the ground? Prestidigitation! It’s clean again!
Lost the spoon? Prestidigitation! You have a new one for twelve seconds, long enough for a quick stir.
Forgot a spice and the flavor is off? Prestidigitation! Your meal now tastes exactly how you want it to.
Need to call the party to eat? Prestidigitation! You create a flare, the sound of a chime, or just spread the smell of cooked food around.
Left the food out too long and now it’s cold? Prestidigitation! It’s the perfect temperature again. Also works for chilling drinks (your booze hounds will thank you).
Post-meal cleanup? Done in under a minute no matter how messy the barbarian eats, thanks once again to prestidigitation.
Temporary hit points don’t stack. You can choose to replace them with the new source though, so you could keep eating cookies until you hit the maximum health roll.
“Finally, the Big Bad has been slain and the adventure is over! Time to leave the party and go back to my wife and kids!”
“… Leave?”
Ah, Pass Without Trace. A spell that ranks alongside Goodberry for outright negating entire types of challenges.
I may or may not have made my DM cry by playing a druid with those two spells in a survival campaign where the party was being hunted.
That was my first thought, but I remember there was some rights snaggle that kept B&W from appearing on GOG. Looking it up, according to an interview the source code and IP are owned by Microsoft but EA still has the distribution rights.
There are a few games like this. Natural Selection 1 & 2, Nuclear Dawn, Angels Fall First, Allegiance, and the old old Battlefield games come to mind.
Day one patches exist because the devs continued to work on the game after the physical editions went gold, so the data on disc versions will be behind. They’ll stick around even if the industry goes entirely digital due to online stores offering encrypted preloads that won’t have the patches either.
Day one DLC usually (fuck Capcom) exists for a similar reason - the art and asset pipelines finished their work months before launch, so rather than lay them off or pay them to do nothing, the studios have them work on DLC for the last few months before release.
No arguments about P2W. That and the death of persistent lobbies in favor of matchmaking destroyed my enjoyment of multiplayer games.