I’ve loved tingle, I’ve read most of his Asexual stories (which do a great job of both portraying ace and satirizing/joking around with it) and also Straight. I gotta say though, while Straight was an enjoyable read, it wasn’t really good as far as being a horror novel went. But that’s fair for the guys first try, and I’m interested to see what his next “serious” offering reads like
Ran out two days ago, had a busy day yesterday, was sure I’d do it today but fell into a FOSS hole trying to setup some stuff and now here we are. Getting the first rushes of anxiety, actual bursts I can feel. It’s only Citalopram, so I won’t be going through withdrawals or anything crazy, but dang this sucks....
Howdy! I’m going to play Witcher 3 again, I had fun with it for a little bit a few years ago but fell off. The main reason I fell off: the hardest difficulty was just… tedious....
Hello myself! I did some more searching, and I found a mod called Enemy Scaling that has what I want! You can directly modify enemy health values, by category even (so I can ramp down boss healths more than regular mobs or w/e). Got it installed, and going to test playing it tonight. Wanted to post my find for anyone else who finds this thread
Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...
Living under capitalism is living under the yoke of devils. You cannot escape them, and you sometimes make deals with them, whether because you have to, or you think the deal will work out for you. But that doesn’t mean you should love the devils, and if you can get away from them you should.
Yeah, most people’s phones or shoes or whatever probably have some dirty pasts, but that doesn’t mean we should just give up on making any kind of good or moral choices. We’re locked into capitalism, and we will have blood on our hands whether we are aware or not, but using that as an excuse to give up on trying to do better is not a coherent moral position.
I think there’s a significant difference between “any shoe I try to buy is shady, and if a wholesome option even exists it is incredibly hard to find/buy/pricey”, and “sure Amazon workers literally die in warehouses, but next day shipping on my random knickknacks is soooo convenient!”
There exists real and valid use-cases for prime, as several other people in this thread have expressed. But just shrugging and saying “eg whatever” because you want to save $1 on random junk isn’t one of them.
+1 for connect, I was originally on Jerboa but it crashed so dang often. I like that switching accounts is easy, makes it a breeze to have my general interests Beehaw account and my niche interests account and swap between them
Hello! I’m looking for any game recommendations on GOG – especially anything that’s on sale! Tell me about your favorite few games that you have on GOG, or maybe some gems in the rough out there. I’ve seen a few threads on Steam lately, so it feels appropriate to me to look for some love on one of the smaller game...
I love RimWorld, and I love DRM-free, but RimWorld on GoG is a mistake.
Instead, buy RimWorld directly from Ludeon. Then you get both DRM-free files from them (to enjoy in the fallout bunker), AND a steam key (so that you can easily enjoy the metric boatloads of modding content on the steam workshop).
I’d hope so. Unlike digital implementations, TTS is literally just the same board game, but on a digital space. Scripting etc can help, but it’s still the same at the end of the day. I don’t count digital apps in my board game tracking app, but I do count plays on TTS, as they really are just the same thing, different place
I feel like this is already filled by "Local" view. It's how I use Beehaw, as my "front page" filled with random nonsense and news, and then I have another instance account that I use for my niche interests
I live in a co-op, we currently have two houses but we unfortunately rent both from landlords. We're hoping to eventually buy properties, either our current ones or something else, but it's very hard with the current market and of course the fact that most of us aren't very high-earners to begin with.
With $100M, screw buying, I am getting a custom designed and built co-op! Features like industrial kitchen, many varied common spaces, and just being able to own our property and be saved from the landlord rent greed. I have to imagine I'd have plenty of money left after, but this is the top of my list for sure
I have a weekly board game meeting and I thought it would be fun to have the difficulty of the games change with every week. So like one week is light, then medium, then heavy. The light and medium week made sense, but then I discovered I had very few "Heavy" games....
IMO two different things can make a game heavy, and having either is enough even if you don't have both.
First, is complication of decisions. This is the classic "heavy" angle, how much thinking you have to do each turn to execute your strategy.
Second, is the actual meta aspects, such as rules, or pieces, or setup. A game that is literally heavy by weight is highly likely to be heavy, especially if combined with lots of rules or pieces or exceptions. Even if the turn-to-turn is relatively simple, the act of setting everything up and having to learn & remember a whole slew of rules can make a game heavy
Looks like I'm finally (FINALLY) going to get my Cthulhu Wars Daemon Sultan expansion, plus a medley of other expansions I ordered with it. Excited to break out the game again, have whole new friend groups who have yet to experience it :D
Oh man, this takes me back. I'm going to share my favorite GW2 memory, because I can.
I was playing my main (a thief), wandering around some zone or another. I happened upon a cool looking elite and tried to take it, but it was too powerful and I had to retreat. After I did so, I noticed another player arrive and also go for the elite, and decided I could jump in with him and get the loot too.
We killed it, I don't remember the loot, but what I do remember is the strange portal opening...
We enter, and are teleported to a bizarre other region. We regroup, and spend some time exploring before accidentally finding a portal out of the place and being teleported to random spots in the region.
We immediately /pm each other and regroup at the elite, both eager to find what's really in that other place. Cue 2+ hours of exploration, solving jumping puzzles, and just camaraderie with this stranger I'd never met exploring a beautiful and mystifying area. Finally we reach the prize, a big chest of loot and an achievement, and teleport out.
I never saw them again, and I don't need to. It was such an amazing experience, just raw human connection and exploration, happening by pure coincidence in a game I played exclusively solo. I enjoyed a lot of things about GW2, but that one memory will always stick in my mind, and I haven't found an experience like that since
I don't think you understand how simple E-bikes are, they are essentially just bikes, and their maintenance and repair vs any car is miles away, even if we only consider the savings vs oil changes, not to mention things like car batteries or tires.
I ride an e-bike exclusively to get around, usually several hundred miles a month, for the past 3 years, and my battery is still at near the capacity when it was new. I don't think a new battery every 10 years (if that) counts as "regular replacements", again comparing to the amount of waste involved in automobiles.
Yes, comprehensive public transport would be better overall, but that requires large amounts of public coordination and money, and still takes away agency from the commuter. An e-bike is relatively cheap, and can be a switch made on a person-to-person basis, so you don't need to fund a billion dollar train to make progress, you just need to get as many people as you can on bikes.
And, crucially, if the batteries all die and we're in the apocalypse... It's still a bicycle. You can still pedal around like normal
I think this video showcases an interesting aspect of gaming that I never really thought about before. In their case, they play more games for a shorter amount of time vs spending a large portion of their time in few games....
I'm a big fan of replayable games, esp things like Roguelikes. I usually have one "main" game at a time, and sink in about 100 hours or so until I feel like I've got the "meat" all eaten and transition to something new. Multiplayer games also serve a great role for me since they are naturally varied, and I'll easily put 200-300 hours in my initial kick, and occasionally come back for shorter stints over time.
Occasionally, a game really grips me. I've got ~700 hours in RimWorld, I was depressed and unemployed and it kept me going. I've also got about that much in Binding of Isaac, IMO still the greatest Roguelike made and has metric tons of content. I also have like 800 in Stellaris, but that's because I used to play it full time during my WFH call center job, I never play it on my own time haha
update: we're compiling them now, new suggestions have about 4 hours to come in before i call it and lock the thread. thank you for all of your suggestions...
A c/Tabletop would be nice, for boardgames/card games (Magic etc)/D&D and stuff. Right now this falls under "gaming", but that community is heavily slanted towards video games (it even has a game controller as it's icon). I feel tabletop games are different enough and have different enough communities irl to be worth their own space.
Edit: derp, I carefully checked every other suggestion before I posted, but missed the list at the bottom of the OP, my bad. Consider this my vote
True, but it is drowned out by video games overall, and theres a significant chunk of the population who loves Tabletop games and couldn't give a care about video games. The two hobbies are separate everywhere else, would be nice to have a dedicated space here
Going to have lunch with a friend on Sunday, so he can draw me a custom token for my commander deck! Then gonna cook house dinner for my co-op that evening, since it's so dang hot I'm thinking something cooling like a quinoa salad
Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream...ish (themillions.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/books/t/223208...
Haha whoops, forgot to refill my meds
Ran out two days ago, had a busy day yesterday, was sure I’d do it today but fell into a FOSS hole trying to setup some stuff and now here we are. Getting the first rushes of anxiety, actual bursts I can feel. It’s only Citalopram, so I won’t be going through withdrawals or anything crazy, but dang this sucks....
Need Mod Suggestions to make Witcher 3 less grindy
Howdy! I’m going to play Witcher 3 again, I had fun with it for a little bit a few years ago but fell off. The main reason I fell off: the hardest difficulty was just… tedious....
Cancel Amazon Prime [2021] (archive.ph)
Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...
What do you use for mobile Lemmy?
I love Mlem and wefwef.app so far. I’ve seen a lot of people mention Memmy but I haven’t really used it yet....
Games on GOG?
Hello! I’m looking for any game recommendations on GOG – especially anything that’s on sale! Tell me about your favorite few games that you have on GOG, or maybe some gems in the rough out there. I’ve seen a few threads on Steam lately, so it feels appropriate to me to look for some love on one of the smaller game...
Good Foss Alternative to Slack?
Hey Beehaw, I wanted to check if anyone knew of any good Foss alternatives to slack?...
Are Tabletop Simulator posts welcome here?
I appreciate that the sub is more for physical tabletop gaming, but I wondered if posts about the game Tabletop Simulator are welcome?...
Reddit had a front page that we all shared
It wasn't always great, but it was something we could check into when we weren't in our niche subs....
If you won the lotto, what would be the first thing you'd buy?
Say you won $100 million USD post-tax. What would you do with your new found wealth?
What makes a game "heavy"?
I have a weekly board game meeting and I thought it would be fun to have the difficulty of the games change with every week. So like one week is light, then medium, then heavy. The light and medium week made sense, but then I discovered I had very few "Heavy" games....
What is the board game you are looking forward to most in the next year?
There's a few options for me, but I'm personally most excited for 7th Citadel after finishing all of 7th Continent over the past few years....
Announcing Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure (www.guildwars2.com)
My first read on this is to be pretty excited; the new dailies system looks interesting, more accessible skyscale will be good for newer players, etc.
Its Time to Subsidize E-bikes (clivethompson.medium.com)
Its an interesting article about subsidizing ebikes.
How many hours do you put into games? (www.youtube.com)
I think this video showcases an interesting aspect of gaming that I never really thought about before. In their case, they play more games for a shorter amount of time vs spending a large portion of their time in few games....
Strait up snoring (beehaw.org)
Dont pet the belly though
soliciting a new round of community suggestions
update: we're compiling them now, new suggestions have about 4 hours to come in before i call it and lock the thread. thank you for all of your suggestions...
What are your plans for this weekend?
What have you got going on? What are you looking forward to?