Ashtear

@Ashtear@lemm.ee

Getting it done with the power of friendship since 1991.

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Some suggested Lemmy communities:

!patientgamers

!jrpg

!letstalkaboutgames

Discord for Japanese-style role-playing game (JRPG) discussion: discord.gg/vHXCjzf2ex

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Ashtear,

Welcome! Hopefully you know about Lemmy Explorer, I’ve found it very useful in finding communities of interest to me.

Ashtear,

That’s my guess too. I figure this had to be just misguided marketing (or even ragebaiting) ahead of the reveal on Tuesday.

Though I suppose it’s possible this is the route they decided to go with for the game with a slave state setting…

Ashtear,

Definitely not Doom 3, lol.

It's been around a year since a lot of us quit Reddit, myself included. I'm happy with Lemmy, but I still feel a bit lost online since leaving the old site. Discussion?

Been thinking of making a post like this for some time, apologies if some of this is not completely relevant: this community seems more like it’s about Reddit the platform/product than Reddit the social “thing”, but I’m sure a lot of people have similar experiences to mine. Maybe on some instances more than others....

Ashtear,

Looking back now that it’s been almost a year, it feels like not a ton has changed for me with Lemmy specifically. I’m still generally not interested in the global feed (I wasn’t often with Reddit’s either) and mostly just poke around it in from time to time to see if my home instance has a community I should be contributing to. !games is solid and probably the most “Reddit-like” out of the communities I follow. I’m still trying to help grow a couple smaller ones, but I guess at least it’s good that there’s still activity after a year?

The other places I’ve tried have been more interesting, in both good and bad ways. I first started in the Fediverse with Kbin, and it’s far worse than it was a year ago. Squabbles seemed interesting for a little while until it got gross, and Tildes wasn’t for me. I’m still getting my feet wet with Mastodon after finally giving up on Bluesky, and I’ve completely left Twitter behind. Leaving there feels good, but the best thing the exodus did for me was push me more into Discord. I’m very active there and joined on as a mod for my favorite server. I’ve started using the platform professionally as well.

Unfortunately, after recently discovering Revanced can patch Sync (my previous favorite Reddit app) into functionality again, I’ve been on Reddit a little bit more. I still haven’t contributed posts or comments since I left, but sometimes I’ll have to go on as part of my Discord duties. It also really doesn’t help that NSFW Reddit is indispensable. A year later, I haven’t found anything that comes close in that aspect.

Ashtear,

How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine

Ashtear,

I had a good time with Before the Storm and True Colors. The Expanse was less exciting (despite it being based on one of my favorite properties ever), mostly because the episodes were too short. That doesn’t look like it’ll be an issue here since it sounds like it’s a one-time release again like True Colors.

I didn’t like them as much as the first LiS but I see that game as lightning in a bottle in a lot of ways, especially for someone like me that used to live in that part of Oregon.

Ashtear,

Haven’t seen any follow-up, but if I’m being honest, what Square Enix Europe did bothers me just as much as the dev. That’s gotta be systemic over there.

Ashtear,

I knew a new Life is Strange was coming from Deck Nine, but I wasn’t expecting a Max sequel. So that’s exciting, even if the recent news about the studio was quite ugly.

Ashtear,

Pretty sure I heard Jennifer English, too!

Ashtear,

The studio head count is under 40, so best not to expect massive production values here. It’ll be a smaller game than Metaphor, for example.

That said, absolutely the highlight of the day for me. I’ll be keeping a close eye on it.

Ashtear,

Depending on what you mean, all of Warcraft’s expansions are “standalone” now. You’ll get all the previous content with a purchase.

It’s the start of a three-expansion story arc.

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    Ashtear,

    I’m waiting on the remake. Preferably with great voice acting and less time spent in the unit builder.

    For me, Stellaris was the sequel to Ascendancy I always wanted.

    Ashtear,

    The AI has never been great in the series for various reasons, but for whatever reason it just did not know how to play in Civ6. I’d either get crushed by the bonuses early on if I played on high difficulty or have the game firmly in hand by the Renaissance otherwise. Easily the worst game in the series for me as a result.

    Ashtear,

    Same reason I never picked it up. They certainly sounded like it was never going to happen in interviews, but this was also Atlus’ best launch for a title ever, so who knows.

    Ashtear,

    If we define the end of the Cold War as the collapse of the Soviet Union, that was over 30 years now. Considering other potential flashpoints (e.g., India and Pakistan), I’d say it’s more nuclear deterrence in general. No one wants to be the first to get into sustained conventional, symmetrical warfare with nukes on both sides.

    We also seem to be seeing a shift in soft power. Now that raw footage of conflict is readily recorded and broadly accessible, regimes aren’t able to control messaging like they used to be. Still need public support to wage war, and it’s that much harder to obtain when people can see the faces of the people you’re killing.

    Ashtear,

    Yeah, a lot of people don’t like them. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a setting/accessibility option for it.

    Ashtear,

    If this means we’re getting more faction building like we did in Inquisition, then the title change marketing worked on me. That was why I loved that game.

    A lot comes down to the cast for me in these types of games, though. I need to want to bug them in camp and do their sidequests or I’m going to feel like I didn’t get a lot of value.

    Ashtear,

    Heh, was just talking with someone recently wondering where this had been since the announcement.

    It’s amazing what a natural fit it seems to be for the genre. Hopefully it’s fun!

    Ashtear, (edited )

    Heavy spoilers for the game, in case it wasn’t obvious.

    I didn’t know that Nomura did these chibi figures. Terra here was also on the back cover of the Super Famicom box. Amusing how the screenshots in this piece aren’t from the Pixel Remaster while it’s advertised at the bottom.

    Also wasn’t expecting this to get me angry all over again for the industry’s sudden move to 3D. So many of the amazing sprite tools like the one Nomura discusses got thrown away in the late 90’s.

    Ashtear,

    I knew I was going to like this when it was announced, and the demo did not disappoint. There’s a fine line between being too easy and getting too puzzly for me with these games, but seeing the Confidence system is a really good sign that the full game won’t get to the latter. The default setting was too easy for sure, though; the boss fight was almost trivial.

    Love the writing, love the absurd concepts at play. This one’s an insta-buy when it comes out.

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