Katana314, katana314@lemmy.world

When I played Trails in the Sky, I felt a lot of my FF7 nostalgia coming back. It got a remake which has been very faithful to the original; while you start combat with some dodges/swings in the overworld, most fights inevitably come back to turn-based.

This might be too pointed a memory, but I remember trying a demo for that game, and somehow having the basic attacks involve cat-like repetitive swatting from the chibi characters put me way off.

I also want to feel really intrigued and connected with a story to play a JRPG. “Generic lore” doesn’t do it for me.

Dead by Daylight.

The idea evolved out of turning horror games into multiplayer. As balance adjustments were made over time, the horror element was depleted and most of it is based around pathing between obstacles as a slower character, against one very powerful melee-based character.

It’s certainly fun and bearable in its current form, but: The objectives based around “escaping the killer” tend to result in lopsided results (*eg, one player that hid and escaped feeling proud, while a very good chaser gets few points since they died). The game is not accessible to players intimidated by horror, and some effects even trigger certain phobias or bodily resistances (eg, The Plague causes some empathetic vomiting issues to some people) Plus, some players taking the killer role sometimes associate a bit too much ego to their result (they do badly in matches, and blame the game, stating “I’m Michael Myers, dropping bits of wood and puny flashlights shouldn’t phase me"*)

I tried the demo for this game, and it was a lot of fun. Capcom is one of few that can still get those basic creative formulas out well.

I could be biased towards it for being a fresh IP in a world of remakes. It’s still hard to justify a $70/$80/$9000 price tag but I may be ready for this one.

A games launcher that allows you to log into an Epic account. Supports GOG too.

It mainly exists to make playing on Linux easier but I think it’s available for Windows.

I’ve used them for a bit, but literally never installed their launcher. Heroic saved me from those claims going to waste.

Ironically, I think a lot of people expect the allure of “Oh wow, you have an F-150! What a beast! What an American icon! You are so big and strong.” Yet they’re so common now, it often gives a distorted inverse image.

If you don’t mind some spoilers for Jedi: Survivor

I actually wasn’t even trying to criticize NASA. “The people personally funding rockets” refers to private companies like SpaceX.

My only criticism to NASA isn’t really on their funding, but on their general goals of spreading joy through their accomplishments; of having Hollywood movies where we see the whole world unite around a shared cause.

The sad reality is, that reality could be as simple as “our planet doesn’t blow up” and we’d have some people remark “MIGHT BE WORTH IT TO KILL THOSE EVIL LIB’RULS” or “Finally, we achieved Armageddon! And here I thought we needed to purge the West Bank first! Where’s Jesus and the risen army?”

If Iran killed 400 trillion protestors, bombing them still doesn’t appear to even follow the beginnings of a plan to help rescue that country from an oppressive regime. You’d want international relations and spycraft that develop confident dissent in their government, and show them a better way of life.

This is why I get a bit pissed at opponents to the death penalty.

Yes, I think they make a good case for uncertainty of guilt. If the defendant in any way still protests the evidence or there could be any room for jury bias or any “UNreasonable doubts” over the murder, especially when it was only a single person, yes, I think it’s safer to avoid the Death Penalty.

But in cases where it was overt, repeated, caught on video, clearly intentional, and/or took advantage of a position held to a higher standard, I think yes; certain bad people really should die.

And look at how many evil people wanted him freed; if he was simply given a life sentence, the campaign to release him for “just doing his job” would be perpetually huge.

Meanwhile, the campaign to release Charlie Kirk from prison has gone quiet.

I literally don’t even want to watch Project Hail Mary.

I think of all those space movies where the Earth has to do something together. Where it cuts to listeners in Paris, Beijing, Zimbabwe, New York, and Moscow before going back to some Mission Control center saying “We’re counting on you.”

Then I realize, in reality, there would be American cultists actively fighting any kind of effort to save the world, or run a giant “DEI WILL DOOM US” campaign because one of the astronaut crew is part Asian.

I want these stupid fanciful astronauts to see that we actively don’t have the circumstances to create these wonderful worldwide moments of joy anymore because of the overwhelming levels of sick hatred they’ve created in bankrupting our world of empathy and flooding it with religious propaganda.

The people personally funding rockets could have cured cancer everywhere with their savings. I honestly think if a lethal meteor was headed for the Earth, they’d want to live, but they’d invest everything into trying to save themselves rather than trying to save everyone.

Something I always had strong opinions about was cameraman intent. Like, plenty of media has very attractive characters, due to author appeal. But when the media’s cameraman, its writers, and costume designers, are all obviously gooner-brained, that can push the idea that I’m looking at a specific person’s intentionally-advertised sexual fantasy, not just letting my own gaze naturally wander.

So yeah; players can, and will, push their cameras up against characters’ asses. The more a media pushes that intentionally, breaking from any in-media fictional premise (like suggesting that Tracer turns tail, since she enjoys people’s attention on her tight pants) the weirder it sometimes feels.

“Fuck cars”, like “ACAB”, is often a quick tagline to a problem people understand is more nuanced. I don’t think so many people here would literally like all cars in existence to be crushed in a heap.

Sounds like trend-chasing. Rushing a game out to meet a current popular genre generally spells doom.

Pass a law that any government shutdown over a week causes all of Congress to be fired, and I may consider it.

I know it’s not popular, but this is how I view it too. To be clear: There is no reason - none - for the Republican party to exist. I almost think some major Democrats might fund them just so that they can have a clear “You gotta vote for us, or you get these lunatics” vibe.

They do nothing for any part of America, and I am personally disappointed in every single individual allegedly-sane allegedly-human consciously voting for them. In a sane world, they would get zero votes anywhere, and I am not okay with a handwave of “yea but you’ll never get Joe Redneck in Montana to vote against them”.

When the vote is 100% democrat, then some intense primarying can happen, fracturing the party into people who actually DO want to help the country. We all know there are at least some of those in the party.

I mean…it sucks to envision phantom insan-o scenarios, but given three years ago I didn’t think we’d be in this one, I’d say yes: If my other choice was a candidate who literally promised day one nuclear war, then I’d be terrified into the choice of voting for Trump. I’d be appalled that those are the choices we’re built to, and would actively seek retribution on everyone involved in those primaries, though.

Gentle reminder that their main concern is not having enough targets to rape.

The fallacy above is the Tolerance of Intolerance. Democrats, up until this presidency, generally respected the rule of law. There has been nothing close in any of their behavior.

When the “other” is an identity formed through place of birth, race, or cultural upbringing, I agree that extermination is a horrific thing that serves as a warning bell. But when the “other” is an intentional ideology formed through mature, conscious decision as a functioning adult, especially when it originates from boundless hatred, I don’t see any particular issue in full, total extermination of its source.