callous oversimplification of the reality of what’s happening
Kick out the jams:
I (early GenX) grew up with I have not seen an eye opener in the past months.
I don’t see a problem with the phrasing. Jams is saying “this is what I saw” which is really a product of their environment. This isn’t a ban-worthy comment. This is an educational moment. This is an opportunity to say “that’s not what happened, you were fed a bunch of propaganda.”
This may sound dumb, and I’ll google it in a second, but idk what steamdb is.
Edit: ok, it’s a stats website or something? idk why this would be useful to the average player or the dev is upset. I don’t need to know how many people are playing XYZ game. Maybe I just play weird, indie stuff so that player count isn’t ever going to be a useful ranking metric, but why would a player care?
I agree with closed beta, but for a different reason: I hate beta testing software. I don’t have time for that anymore. Maybe if I was in my 20’s or younger. I only want complete games, relatively bug free.
i was legitimately confused why i was getting zero replies in very active threads. and yes this is just a whine post about how horribly opaque fediverse moderation is these days...
He’s right, 100%. None of my friends give a crap. They want the literal lowest effort, at all costs. They don’t care about defederation or a billionaire narcissist in charge.
The Northern Virginia doctor knows at least that much about his situation. He knows he is no longer considered a citizen of the United States — the place where he was born, went to school and has practiced medicine for more than 30 years — and that he also belongs to no other place....
Kinda related, I had surgery a few years back and it required a 3 day hospital stay. It was a glorious, relaxing vacation. No one asked me to do anything, people took care of me, fed me, etc. Recovery pain was worth it. I still remember it fondly.
Comparing it to my regular life is depressing, lol.
I understand a fantasy and a one time thing like tipping on a guys night out at a strip club, but some of these guys think they are in a relationship with someone they will never meet and don’t even know their real name or life details.
I’ve thought about it. It’s tempting because it’s simple. When you spend time and energy on your wife and she doesn’t give anything back, it’s very lonely. A cam girl is simple. Money goes in, attention comes out. It’s not exactly what I want but it’s got a higher success rate that what I’ve got now.
I struggle with boycotting a business for moral reasons, because they’re all fucking garbage. The ones we know about are just stupid enough to get caught.
That said, unless Diablo 4 is half off, or the game gets significantly better, then skip it. It’s very mid. It was good on launch, nerfed to shit about a month later, and barely decent, now. Though the main campaign and gameplay on launch were good, I regret buying it.
My 11 year old spends 50% of his time with an anti-science and anti-vaccine family. Single parent me (in Ohio) doesn’t have a lot of support when I’ve tried to help fight some of those thoughts he’s been brainwashed with in the name of religion. I’m christian, but his other household is extremists. “You believe in...
(Stillwater, Okla.) — In a remarkably rapid verdict, a Payne County jury took only 35 minutes to convict a man, who considers himself a sovereign citizen and represented himself at his trial last week, of child stealing, possessing guns illegally, and obstructing an officer in rural Stillwater.
Child 1 said their friend did a thing. Child 2 then started they did that too, but better. Said friend was not present, but somehow child 2 was still trying to compete with them. Smh
I’m the same. I would like a little more me time or something to lower the stress level. If they’d clean up without me itemizing, or stop arguing over literally trivial things, or stop shouting at their friends on the mic. Ugh. I can handle some of that but it’s just too much. I need a babysitter but I stay and they go.
It’s a bitter sweet feeling afterward, but I love it when a game has characters where, after the game is over, I miss seeing a part of their lives. Be it due to the characters themselves or the interaction they have with one another, exiting their world feels more like a loss than when normally putting a story away....
Runas the Shamed from World of Warcraft: Legion. In summary, he’s a victim of magical addiction that tries to con you into helping him, then you realize he’s not in his right mind, he’s addiction fueled. He is really trying to be a good person, but he’s screwed by circumstance. By the end, you really feel sorry for him because he isn’t majority responsible for his situation. It does not end well.
Stormgate Is a Very StarCraft-y RTS Made By Ex-StarCraft Developers (www.ign.com)
Why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays ? (www.youtube.com)
It’s a video about why the Internet and society itself is so divided nowadays.
Lemmy.ml mods remove "two-sideism" comments on Israel-Palestine conflict on AskLemmy, causing drama
A user posted the question What opened your eyes to what’s happening in Palestine? on !asklemmy....
Röyksopp - Remind Me [Electronic] [2001] (www.youtube.com)
Chet Faliszek (Former Valve employee, CEO of Stray Bombay): We will never do Early Access again. (i.vgy.me)
FYI the game he’s talking about is The Anacrusis: store.steampowered.com/app/…/The_Anacrusis/
it's a puzzling one i'll tell you hwat (lemmy.one)
i was legitimately confused why i was getting zero replies in very active threads. and yes this is just a whine post about how horribly opaque fediverse moderation is these days...
The best roguelikes and roguelites on PC (rogueliker.com)
YouTube is now getting into games (www.theverge.com)
Seriously, so many buff Moons on my front page (lemmy.world)
Speed ship overview by Rasmus Poulsen (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/…/1723645314387616104
Junker Queen from Overwatch by JB (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/breikka/status/1548095072784318464...
EveLuxuria commission, Viera from Final Fantasy by EvaBeeSmith (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/EvaBeeSmith/…/1728113166834438342
Kim Pine from Scott Pilgrim by Blushy Spicy (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/BlushySpicy/…/1728551418938949752
Mastodon Is Bigger Than A Twitter Replacement (urbanists.video)
There is a lot more to Mastodon than “New Twitter”, it’s actually the first appearance of a whole new internet.
A doctor tried to renew his passport. Now he’s no longer a citizen. (www.washingtonpost.com)
The Northern Virginia doctor knows at least that much about his situation. He knows he is no longer considered a citizen of the United States — the place where he was born, went to school and has practiced medicine for more than 30 years — and that he also belongs to no other place....
‘NORMALITY’ [OC] (feddit.nl)
Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them?
I understand a fantasy and a one time thing like tipping on a guys night out at a strip club, but some of these guys think they are in a relationship with someone they will never meet and don’t even know their real name or life details.
Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
Lego bridge (hub.hubzilla.de)
Blizzard nowadays - ethics etc
I just saw a Steam ad about Diablo IV....
Child's other mom is turning my kiddo anti-science and anti-vaccine. Help me fight the good fight!
My 11 year old spends 50% of his time with an anti-science and anti-vaccine family. Single parent me (in Ohio) doesn’t have a lot of support when I’ve tried to help fight some of those thoughts he’s been brainwashed with in the name of religion. I’m christian, but his other household is extremists. “You believe in...
Jury convicts man of child stealing in rural Stillwater [Oklahoma] (www.1600kush.com)
(Stillwater, Okla.) — In a remarkably rapid verdict, a Payne County jury took only 35 minutes to convict a man, who considers himself a sovereign citizen and represented himself at his trial last week, of child stealing, possessing guns illegally, and obstructing an officer in rural Stillwater.
What was this year's dinner argument?
Hardspace: Shipbreaker now on GOG (www.gog.com)
What is the weirdest/strangest thing you find comfort in?
For me its opening the apple weather app and the map in it and watching the temperatures and wind patterns all around the world...
Games with characters you miss most after completion.
It’s a bitter sweet feeling afterward, but I love it when a game has characters where, after the game is over, I miss seeing a part of their lives. Be it due to the characters themselves or the interaction they have with one another, exiting their world feels more like a loss than when normally putting a story away....
Rinkah from Fire Emblem by Astro Wolf (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/Astro_Wolf_Art/…/1725585008008572943
Nessa from Pokemon by BeneceaDraws (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/BeneceaDraws/…/1726678549514616944
D&D character by Neil Gray (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/nrcgray/status/1726788717732405668
Super Dimension Fortress Macross: CVS-101 Prometheus & SDF-1 by Shoji Kawamori (files.catbox.moe)
mstdn.social/…/111449013655380999
More paperwork?? by KunoMD (files.catbox.moe)
twitter.com/KunoMD/status/1727411953923158143
Tokyo Godfathers, Cowboy Bebop, Paprika showing in theaters in the US (www.ax-cinemanights.com)
Tokyo Godfathers - Dec 11-13...
The Loud American (startrek.website)
How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
Just some off the top of my head: Destiny, Deep Rock Galactic, Overwatch, and most recently Baldur’s Gate....