Live service games, MMOs, gatcha games, and many hardcore multiplayer games are the worst for this. They love to waste player’s time on some repetitive grind because they want players to keep playing their game. They usually have either microtransactions (often for cosmetics) or a subscription.

Personally, I love MMOs, but I try to avoid playing any grindy content (or at least as long as I don’t think I’ll genuinely enjoy it). So I’ll usually play a game for a few months (they’re really big games) and then quit for years, if not permanently (I have a bunch of MMOs I intend to someday return to, but have not yet).

Single player games are generally much better at being genuinely fun. Especially story driven games. I also love open world games because you largely get to make them your own. It’s perfectly valid to beeline the story missions if that’s all you care about. Or you could do just the side quests. Or you could additionally explore like crazy. e.g., with Tears of the Kingdom, you really can ignore most of the shrines and largely focus on the story quests. None of the side quests are necessary, either. You don’t have to explore the depths except for a tiny few places for the story. The vast majority of sky islands can be ignored. But I personally had a lot of fun exploring, so I explored nearly everything and loved it (except most of the depths – they were way too big, empty, and repetitive).

Some people don’t like long games, though. And that’s fine! There’s tons of short or more streamlined games out there that you can have fun with. e.g., The Last of Us is a fantastic one. The sequel is about 24 hours long for the story and it felt like it flew by in the blink of an eye for me cause I was having so much fun.

If you use WSL or some other flavour of Bash (anyone else remember Cygwin?), that’s allowed!

(The Windows command line feels so awful by comparison. PowerShell, I admit, actually seems quite nice. Though I can’t be bothered to learn it when literally every other system I use uses Bash or a slight variation of Sh.)

Well… I’m not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. We all knew this Supreme Court was not in favour of its citizens. The Supreme Court should have been stacked long ago. Leaving it be with its insane appointments just because stacking it might start a war with the GOP was a short sighted move, as the GOP is always going to play underhanded (that’s how they managed to get so many SCOTUS appointments in the first place). Biden’s insistence on trying to play nice with the GOP has always been his weakness.

This really sucks for those with student loans who were depending on this. We’re already in an economically rough place for the kinds of folks who would have student loans. Inflation has been sharp in recent years and wages have not kept up. In my field of tech, layoffs have been widespread and new grads would be the most severely impacted (they already struggle to get hired and now they’re competing against an increased number of experienced people).

As an aside, it’s also a shame that lawmakers have not managed to pass a law for this debt relief. My understanding is that the strike down is specifically because it’s not a congress passed loan forgiveness. But congress isn’t willing to do the right thing (not in enough numbers to pass a law, anyway).

Honestly, I’d suggest just leaving it be and waiting for an eventual feature change. I don’t think it’s scalable to be manually requesting all these kinds of changes from the (sole?) admin and this isn’t particularly critical. I think Ernest has a lot on his plate just maintaining and developing this site.

I think the main way that could be achieved is if Kbin and Lemmy had a convenient “upload video” option that actually uploaded the video to peertube. Convenience is king. Back before Reddit offered image and video hosting (and you’d usually upload to a site like imgur instead), there’d constantly be people commenting that they didn’t know how to upload their content.

That said, I’m personally cautious of PeerTube. Hosting small images is one thing, but video is something else. I don’t really understand how PeerTube will keep running if it gets too much usage. Presumably, like most of these sites, it will depend on donations. I don’t know if that will cut it for hosting video. My fear is that it’ll be fine with low usage but as soon as it gets too high usage, we might see it going down (and taking a ton of content with it).

Problem is that there’s a bunch of major communities on that instance. They have no affiliation with the server admins and mostly just chose the instance because it seemed like the default very early in the migration to the Fediverse.

Yeah, DeSantis is evil, not stupid. He has degrees from both Yale and Harvard. He knows full well what he’s doing and how things work. It’s all calculated evil.

The whole CSAM issue is why I’d never personally run an instance, nor any other kind of server that allows users to upload content. It’s an issue I have no desire to have to deal with moderating nor the legal risks of the content even existing on a server I control.

While I’d like to hope that law enforcement would be reasonable and understand “oh, you’re just some small time host, just delete that stuff and you’re good”, my opinion on law enforcement is in the gutter. I wouldn’t trust law enforcement not to throw the book at me if someone did upload illegal content (or if I didn’t handle it correctly). Safest to let someone else deal with that risk.

And even if you can win some case in court, just having to go to court can be ludicrously expensive and risk high impact negative press.

Ah, if only all dictators would be benevolent dictators for life like Guido.

Exact estimates vary, but are generally in the ballpark of about 1% of people being trans and non binary (though this is skewed towards younger people).

At any given time, the US federal government has 535 elected seats. The point of this comment is to highlight the disproportionately low rate of trans people getting into politics and being elected. Things are stacked against trans people, whether it’s the barrier from how poor social acceptance growing up can limit opportunities or heightened fear of getting into politics because of how toxic they are.

And we’re talking about a job where their coworkers are sometimes actively campaigning to outlaw trans treatment, acceptance, and protections. Something that in many work places would get you instantly fired, but is permitted in US politics.

Republicans are not championing free speech. Entirely the opposite with how they’re treating LGBT folks currently.

And on that note, the Republicans are so beyond bad that yes, a one party state is actually better. To be clear, a one party state is utterly awful. That’s how terrible the Republican party is. They cannot be even remotely viable when their entire platform is hating other people.

Cyberpunk is soooo much fun. I can’t wait for the DLC. It got a bad rap when it launched, but at least when I played it (on PC about 6 months after launch), it was really great and didn’t experience any major issues.

Though it should be noted for those unaware that it is a very dark and mature game. An NPC is violently raped off camera. That makes the game not for everyone’s taste. Personally, I enjoy when games don’t feel like they’re avoiding subjects like that (which can feel jarring, since it’s a real life concern) and it does add an extra level of emotion to the game. Plus of course, getting to have revenge.

When you do get around to it, you’ll enjoy it! I played it fairly recently. It isn’t quite as hard hitting as the first game, but it still made me cry. More of a “prey on insecurities” kinda hard hitting. The power (because they never want to go back to rewind, do they?) is pretty neat. Second best after the original.

Seconded. And I’d say they’re more than pretty decent. They have amazing level design, particularly with respect to interactions with the level. Eg, you jump on a ledge and the ledge might start to break. Think stuff like that, repeated dozens of times in various ways.

Lara is pretty cool. She has that kinda inquisitive yet “I wanna help everyone” power fantasy that I relate to. They did also try to make it like she doesn’t want to kill bad guys (which is realistic – it’s weird more video game characters have no qualms with the first time they kill someone), but it is a video game where combat plays a prominent part, so it doesn’t really work when Lara is kill people by the dozens.

Specifically the first game (unarguably the best one), its prequel, and True Colours. Life Is Strange 2 has two brothers, instead. They’re all very, very good games that all have made me cry (some multiple times).

They’re also pretty gay if that interests you.

Same for Valhalla. Which interestingly canonically has a female player character for the vast majority of the game (the “real world”), but a male lead for the shorter Norse mythology parts of the game. There’s a lore reason for it. Though the game does let you actually choose whichever gender you want for either part (but it does recommend the canonical choices). The modern day character is also a woman and has been since Origins.

For an older style AC game, AC Syndicate has you play as opposite gender twins in Victorian London. It’s one of my favourite AC games. You do have to play as both twins for some length of the game, but a significant amount of the game lets you choose which to play as (and Evie is more fun to play IMO).

For anyone unaware, Control feels like a triple-A SCP game. Which should appeal strongly to anyone who enjoys SCP.

How about Final Fantasy XIII? The first game has a full sized party, but Lightning is clearly the main character and the focus. Second game costars Lightning’s younger sister and a new male character. Third game is just Lighting.

Of course, that’s understandable. But there’s too many people here that are interested in the reddit drama such that it ends up taking over many subs, drowning out other content.

It’s like how r/worldnews was created, because despite r/news being general, there was so many Americans that US news dominated the sub. We need to do the same with reddit drama IMO.

I’ve also mentioned this in numerous threads, but downvotes also are extremely useful against bigotry. When bigoted comments can’t or won’t be removed (or removed quickly enough), downvotes are reassuring. It sucks to see bigoted comments being expressed and the only thing that can make it better is seeing that the comments are not accepted.