Aielman15

Aielman15, 1 day ago

They’ll do anything except my beloved Medieval 3.

Aielman15, 1 day ago (edited 23 hours ago)

Still the most glorious piece of homebrew I’ve ever laid my eyes on.

Still haven’t been able to play it because life is a bitch.

Aielman15, 1 day ago

…bandcamp.com/…/no-ruidar-da-mata-que-mirra

vauruva.bandcamp.com/album/por-n-s-da-ventania

Aielman15, 1 day ago

Maybe you’re thinking of Xbox All-access, which allowed users to buy Xbox + Game Pass Ultimate and pay them all over one year (or three, can’t remember).

Aielman15, 1 day ago

Well, magic comes from the heart, so they are not completely wrong <3

Aielman15, 2 days ago

I once tried to read F.A.T.A.L.'s rulebook. Not because I wanted to play it, of course. I just thought it would be fun.

I was wrong. It was fun for, like, ten seconds. When literally the first page of the book throws you into a scenario where you have three or four different reasons to have sex/sexually assault a woman, the book loses its charm pretty fast.

It then quickly spirals into a gross, demeaning, disgusting pile of misogyny, gore and ignorance, all in the name of “historical accuracy”, hiding their distasteful opinions behind “prominent philosophers” and hand-picked statistics.

I applaud anyone who is able to read more than ten pages of that abomination and survive long enough to write a review. Had I continued reading past that point, my brain would have liquefied.

Aielman15, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Sequels are made when creators don’t have faith in new ideas and want to attract customers using existing IPs. This is especially true for sequels to stories that are already complete: there was no need for a sequel, they are just making it because the IP is popular.

Exceptions to the rule exist (Toy Story 2) but I wouldn’t hold my breath. Looking at the list of upcoming Disney/Pixar movies and seeing just a bunch of sequels (Inside Out 2, Zootopia 2, Frozen 3) just speaks of corporates choosing the “safe” route of betting on popular pre-existing IPs instead of new stories and original settings.

Aielman15, 4 days ago

Hooty truly is the expert of romanticism.

Aielman15, 4 days ago

Non-european settings are always nice to see. Heck, I’m European and I’m tired of how little variation there is in fantasy. It’s always a copy-paste of tired tropes and familiar landscapes. People should be allowed to go nuts with their fantasy setting.

Best of luck with your project!

Aielman15, 3 days ago

From the source:

Hulst is CEO of the newly named Studio Business Group, which includes all of PlayStation’s first-party teams, plus covers the development of PlayStation IP onto other mediums, such as TV and film. Hulst was already head of PlayStation Studios. He was previously the co-founder of Horizon and Killzone developer Guerrilla Games, which was acquired by Sony in 2005.

Hideaki Nishino will lead the Platform Business Group, which includes console hardware, technology, accessories, PlayStation Network and third-party relations (covering major publishers and indie studios). He was already SVP of Platform Experiences. He’s been part of the Sony business since 2006, holding numerous roles at Sony Network Entertainment, Sony Corporation and SIE.

Aielman15, 5 days ago

Weirdos stick together :)

School bullies are the worst. So glad that period of my life is over.

Aielman15, 5 days ago

SE releases have been all over the place recently. Sometimes it’s PS exclusives, sometimes Nintendo exclusives, sometimes console exclusives, sometimes they release on PS and Nintendo but not Xbox…

I was an XOne user a few years back and it was exhausting. PC side it’s a bit better, except that their flagship series is locked on PS for who knows how long, and then locked on Epic Store for one more year.

As a potential customer, I didn’t feel exactly welcomed. I was interested in FFXVI, but didn’t have a PS5 (I still don’t). Now I don’t have the time to play long-ass games anymore, which means that by the time it will finally be released on PC, I won’t probably buy it.

I was someone who was willing to give them money, and they refused it time and time again. I’m sorry for their difficult situation, as Square has created some great games from my childhood that I will forever cherish (both as Square Soft and Square Enix), but let’s be honest, this is their fault.

I hope they follow through with this decision, though. I doubt I’ll be a customer, but maybe they’ll make some kids as happy as I was when I was their age and playing those old FF titles. People deserve to play those games without being told to buy two different consoles and/or wait an eternity and a half for exclusive deals to expire.

Aielman15, 6 days ago

I’m seeing a lot of former flash games coming to steam lately - I even grabbed a few, such as the Epic Battle Fantasy collection.

The Flashpoint Collection is great to relieve my childhood one flash game at a time, but it’s nice seeing that some of those devs are still around, and having the option to support them for the fun times I had for free as a teenager.

Aielman15, 6 days ago

Season 3 is wonderful and the ending made me tear up. Go watch it immediately, it’s really really worth it!

It’s free to watch on youtube, so it’s a no brainer if you have watched S01-02 already.

(I also recommend not reading these comics until you’ve watched S03, because they may contain heavy spoilers for the finale)

Aielman15, 8 days ago

It’s not the devs’ fault, it’s Sony.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were told one thing three days ago, and another one now.

Aielman15, 8 days ago

Papa Titan: “Goodbye, Luz”

Turns around

Viney: "Yo. You got any more of that Titan powers?

Aielman15, 10 days ago

In just four months, they have lost Toys for Bob (developer of Spyro Reignited and Crash 4), Arkane Austin (Prey 2017), and Tango (Evil Within, Hi-Fi Rush). I wish I had the money to casually buy some great dev studios, including the makers of a GOTY contender, and casually kill them off a few years later.

I know they are in panic mode right now, but I honestly don’t know what their plan is at this point. I doubt even they know. Watching the situation from the outside, it’s almost comical how MS has mismanaged everything for years. I live in Europe and I’ve never seen Xbox marketed anywhere. GamePass is supposedly their priority, and barely anyone I know who is interested in gaming knows that it even exists. The whole deal with the service was delivering first party games day one, yet failed to deliver anything worth buying four years into the new generation, while most of what they actually released was already in the works prior the acquisition. They bought dozens of studios, and mismanaged every single one of them. Fuck, they couldn’t even settle on the cover for their game cases for half a year after their new box released.

The only good thing out of this debacle is that people have finally realized how utterly incompetent Phil Spencer is. I remember the days when fanboys were parroting his lies and kept talking about how “Phil is a gamer just like us”, just because he showed on the stage in a shitty t-shirt. Too bad it took xbox fucking dying for them to realize, but I guess it’s better later than never.

Aielman15, 10 days ago

I’ve spent far more time than I’m willing to admit on this thing. It goes much deeper than I thought at first.
I don’t get why this is a free browser game - I wouldn’t mind buying it on Steam or GoG. It truly is a wonderful experience, it reminds me of the time when I used to play flash games, but done better.

Aielman15, 11 days ago

Mark, I love you, but please, stop creating new timelines and write an ending for those that are still ongoing lol

Aielman15, 10 days ago

It depends on how thorough the blacklist is, but I usually avoid using those, because I fear I may be losing interesting discussions that only tangentially mention the topic I’m blacklisting. Or maybe they are discussing that topic from a different perspective that I may find interesting.

It’s not like Lemmy has so many discussions to choose from, anyway. Among the communities I’m subscribed to, the most active ones only have three or four discussions per day, at most. I don’t feel like a (albeit temporary) blacklist is useful when there’s so little content to parse through. If there were a hundred posts per day, and I was interested in hiding half of them to better highlight the ones I’m interested at - but with so few posts, I can ignore them just fine without the help of an automatic blacklist.

Aielman15, 13 days ago

It’s not just about losing history, but also mixing it with incorrect/wrong retellings of the story and fake news.

For example, you mentioned Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey who lived 3000 years ago. Homer’s existence is hotly debated, and even if he did exist, “he” probably didn’t write both poems. It’s far more likely that the Iliad and Odyssey were created as part of an extensive oral tradition by multiple travelling bards, who independently added, changed or removed verses; the story we know today as the Iliad is just one of many who happened to survive for a variety of reasons.

We also know very little of the broader trojan cycle (Cypria, Little Iliad, Sack of Troy, etc…) of which only fragments have survived. It would be as if, 1000 years from now, only the original SW trilogy survived, and only pieces or fragments of the other movies/TV series in the expanded universe remained - And to be fair, even this example is wrong, because it compares the Iliad/Odyssey to the “original” trilogy, but there’s no consensus about the relationship of the two Homeric epics with the broader epic cycle: as far as we know, they could have been created independently, and later edited to flow from one to the other seamlessly.

Aielman15, 12 days ago

It doesn’t matter though whether Homer is a single person or many, real or fictional. What matters is that we’ve not lost the context of the story.

We literally did. We don’t know how much - if anything - written in the Homeric poems is true. If it did happen, we don’t know when, only rough estimates.

For hundreds of years those poems were thought to be an accurate retelling of history, to the point that political diatribes between ancient Greek cities could be settled by consulting the Iliad.

If our civilization falls, there’s no guarantee that our common knowledge survives. It could very well be that people see a lightsaber and think that we had the technology to build one.

Aielman15, 14 days ago

Hunter is living the dream.

Aielman15, 17 days ago

Ah, yes, my gamer instincts™, very similar to a soldier’s.

You have posted cringe, Master.