Same here, and speaking of the OST, I’ve essentially had it on a loop since seeing it. Daniel Pemberton is a name I wasn’t familiar with before Into the Spider-Verse, but I’ll damn sure be watching out for him now. Across was fantastic, but not quite as good as Into, except for the score. Across’s score is leagues better and that’s SAYING something.
Holy shit. That’s actually pretty huge. I have a feeling a lot of companies are going to realize how hostile reddit can be and stop officially supporting the subreddits. How much longer will /r/DestinyTheGame be supported? Ninja Kiwi only posts the full patch notes for BTD6 on the /r/BTD6 subreddit, will that go away?
For me, it’s anything- All, Local, Subscribed. Going to the communities themselves load within the Vlemmy instance, but the Vlemmy home page itself is errored out.
Mods. I know that’s not really helpful, but it really is how many of us continue to enjoy it. That said, there are still things you can do to spice up your gameplay on vanilla. The biggest one is this- try a different playstyle. Archery is incredibly effective, so try making a character who absolutely refuses to use one because his whole family was slaughtered by a rogue sentient bow that laughed at him while it did it. Recruit different companions and try to keep them alive in different situations. Be an absolutely evil sonofabitch and kill everyone the game allows you to. Try Oblivion, for a similar, but distinctly different (and in my opinion, slightly superior, despite Skyrim’s many advantages) experience. Or, most simply, stop trying to get blood from a stone, and put the game down until the itch actually returns, not until you feel like it should’ve. Best of luck to you.
That was... Not great. Despite everyone having dealt with Skrulls, they sure don't bother confirming anyone's identity. I kept waiting for Fury, Hill, and Talos to have some sort of code words or something, but no. Plus, Fury both didn't question that his old friend Sonya forgot his preferred drink (Skrulls, to his knowledge, can't copy memories, it was a pretty big plot point of Captain Marvel) and how the random guy in the bar knew who he was. Even a bit of suspicion and boom, they got the bad guy. I also feel like they wouldn't have trusted Gaia so easily, but I guess it's Talos's daughter, he'd think the best of her.
But that ending. You cast the amazing Cobie Smulders for Avengers, have her be a side character with almost nothing to do for over ten years, and kill her one episode into the first story she's actually a part of. Why? What a waste of not only Cobie, but Maria Hill. One of the only other movies she had anything to do in was Far From Home, and that wasn't even actually Maria (speaking of, where was real Maria during FFH? Real Fury was in space, but real Maria was presumably on Earth).
Moin Moin (That’s “Hello” in German), Guardians. This week in Destiny, we are going fishing! All over the world, Guardians have fallen in love with those little fishies. So, this week we have something special for you! But first...
In case you missed something, last week we talked about:
Pride at Bungie 2023 recap and a free emote. A nice little sandbox Q&A to dive a little bit deeper into some of the most frequent burning questions. Iron Banner is back with Eruption. Fashion contest picks for #DrownInTheDrip. PlayStation x Destiny 2 crossover art roundup. So, this week we will dive in the following stuff:
Throne World fishing rally. Bungie Day Giving Festival announcement. What’s new from our Player Support Team. Weekly #Destiny2AOTW and #Destiny2MOTW picks. With no further ado, let´s get into it: GET THE FISHIES AND THE LOOT! To start this TWID off we have a tip for all who haven´t found out yet: you might want to visit Hawthorne. We heard that her people found something in the fishing ponds in the Throne World.
Go and spend some time there and see what bites! Remember you gotta catch ´em all. Have fun fishing, Guardians!
BUNGIE DAY GIVING FESTIVAL Bungie Day (July 7) is right around the corner, and we are excited to welcome back the Bungie Day Giving Festival for its fourth edition. This year’s campaign returns with some of our biggest incentives, prizes, and surprises yet! The festivities kick off on Thursday July 6 at 10:00 a.m. PST with our first featured stream and the fun rolls through July 23.
There will be more ways than ever to get involved this year with the campaign. Stay tuned for a special blog post next Wednesday, June 28, for full details on how to register, what you can earn AND win, and to learn about all the ways your continued support has created real, impactful, tangible good in the world. Don’t miss it!
PLAYER SUPPORT REPORT
The Player Support team is back with another report about known issues and aspects of the game that players should be aware of in the coming weeks. Here’s their report:
Known Issues List | Help Forums | Bungie Help Twitter
KNOWN ISSUES While we continue investigating various known issues, here is a list of the latest issues that were reported to us in our #Help Forum:
We are aware of an issue where the "Battle Rhythm" Seasonal challenge incorrectly instructs players to defeat targets anywhere in the system. This challenge can be successfully completed in Crucible, Gambit, or Vanguard Ops playlists. The Strand Slayer Crucible bounty is not progressing from Strand Primary weapon kills. Players can die from finishers if the enemy dies before the finisher animation completes. The “Efficient Angler” Seasonal cChallenge is progressing inconsistently. The Crucible Competitive placement series does not drop the Mercurial Overreach Sniper Rifle. Due to an issue, the Kephri’s Horn Exotic Titan Helmet has been temporarily disabled. The Helm of Saint-14 Exotic Titan Helmet is not functioning as expected. Players can get stuck outside of the final boss arena after self-reviving in the Ghosts of the Deep dungeon. For a full list of emergent issues in Destiny 2, players can review our Known Issues article. Players who observe other issues should report them to our #Help forum. FROM TWAB TO TWID
Hippy: From TWAB to TWID, there’s a journey behind every blog post. If ever there was a more accurate representation of what that process is like, it’s this. Please, take this 100 percent seriously. It’s very serious, OK. OK?!
Movie of the Week: Where TWID?
FISHING IN COMPANY
Bruno: Fishing, what a great thing, right? EsSpecially in good company.
So, that is it for this week's TWID. I hope you had fun reading and now go catch some fish! Get ready for the upcoming Bungie Day Giving Festival, and keep an eye out for a preview of our mid-season weapon tuning updates in July. See you next time and haut rein (That’s “Let´s go” in German)!
Cat: so, for context, we're a plural system; a group of multiple people living in the same brain. We're wondering if there's any other systems on Lemmy at the moment. Also could be considered an AMA for those interested....
Damn. Those reviews are way higher than I expected. Diablo might have some stiff competition when it comes to what I spend my time on in the near future...
That's more than fair. I am just refusing to interact with the shop or battle pass and it's going fine so far, though I will admit, I didn't get as immediately hooked on it as I did with Diablo 3. Then again, I bought D3 years after launch, so a lot of the shittier aspects had been fixed by then.
I replay Final Fantasy 7 in its entirety (including Gold Chocobo and both WEAPONs) every few years. Other than that, I pull out the old NES and fire up some Tecmo Bowl every once in a while, too.
Audie Murphy is without a doubt one of the greatest men to ever live. Here's a full list of his awards:
Medal of Honor
Distinguished Service Cross
Silver Star w/ cluster (two awards)
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star w/ V Device & cluster (heroism instead of distinguished service, two awards)
Purple Heart w/ two clusters (three awards)
Presidential Unit Citation w/ cluster (two awards)
Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal
Good Conduct Medal
American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal w/ silver star, four bronze stars, one bronze arrowhead (nine campaigns in European theater)
WWII Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal w/ Germany clasp
Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Combat Infantryman Badge
Marksman Badge w/ Rifle Component Bar
Expert Badge w/ Bayonet Component Bar
French Legion of Honor- Grade of Chevalier (Knight)
French Croix de Guerre w/ Silver Star
French Croix de Guerre w/ Palm
French Liberation Medal
Belgian Croix de Guerre w/ 1940 Palm
French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre
Texas Legislative Medal of Honor
The Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest honor available after the Medal of Honor, was awarded for his actions in Anzio. After killing two Germans with his carbine, Murphy ran out of ammo. He retreated back down the hill, took a light machine gun from a soldier unwilling to advance, and used that to destroy multiple German machine gun crews, along with his best friend, Lattie Tipton. Tipton was killed when a German machine gunner pretended to surrender. Now alone, Audie killed the gunner, the rest of the gunners crew, then pretty much everything else on the hill unlucky enough to be wearing the wrong uniform. When the rest of the platoon finally caught up, Audie was sitting guard over Tipton's body.
Here is his full Medal of Honor Citation. Keep in mind as you read that Audie had malaria for the entire duration of the war:
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company B 15th Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division.
Place and date: Near Holtzwihr France, January 26, 1945.
Entered service at: Dallas, Texas. Birth: Hunt County, near Kingston, Texas, G.O. No. 65, August 9, 1944.
Citation: Second Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. 2d Lt. Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him, to his right, one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. Its crew withdrew to the woods. 2d Lt. Murphy continued to direct artillery fire, which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, 2d Lt. Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its .50 caliber machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. For an hour the Germans tried every available weapon to eliminate 2d Lt. Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad that was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards, only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound, but ignored it and continued his single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way back to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack, which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he killed or wounded about 50. 2d Lt. Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective.
During the event that earned him his Medal of Honor, an officer asked Audie over the radio how close the Germans were. He responded, "Hold on and I'll let you talk to one." After returning from the war, Audie Murphy suffered heavily from PTSD and got addicted to pills, at which point he locked himself in a hotel room for a week until he got over it. He became an actor after writing his autobiography, To Hell and Back, and starred as himself in a film adaptation of the same in 1955, which remained the highest grossing film up until Jaws. He downplayed significant elements of the Medal of Honor citation event in the film because he thought people would accuse him of making it up. When he was shooting a film in Vietnam in the fifties, he was so horrified by the conditions there that he emptied most of his earnings into an orphanage in Saigon. He became involved in the drug war when he visited an addict's home with a policeman friend and saw the addict's two young daughters playing on a dirty floor. He helped bring about more than twenty convictions. In 1970, he was tried for attempted murder after getting into a fight with a 6'3" man who had abused a dog belonging to Murphy's female friend, and who had also sexually harassed the friend. The man claimed Murphy had fired a gun at him after a scuffle, Murphy's response to which was, and this is a direct quote, "I think it is injurious to my reputation to think that I could fire a shot at a target as large as Mr. Gofstein and miss." He was acquitted after the rest of his defense boiled down to, "If I had wanted to kill you, Mr. Gofstein, you would not be here now."
If I could spend one hour with anyone, alive or dead, it would be Audie Murphy.
Well, he was acquitted after five hours of deliberation, so it must have been pretty convincing. As for how they responded to that specific quote, I'm not sure, as that- while a true quote- didn't occur in the courtroom. I looked into it further and the first mention I can see of it is in the San Bernardino County Sun on Friday, June 5th, 1970, and he said it to reporters.
I really hope this leads to actual change. Subreddits are becoming meaningless to visit and frustrating for normal users, so hopefully they just stop using reddit altogether.
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
Nah, there are still a lot protesting, they just know that if they don't do things a certain way they'll be replaced with bootlickers. Pics, gifs, aww, interestingasfuck, iOS, wellthatsucks- all are bringing attention to the admin's bullshit while technically doing as admins asked.
If you go to Reddit, you will still see their ads, be they obvious or hidden through disguising as user interaction (bots are more or less obvious, AI is at the stage where they can fake users). You drive engagement and site traffic. The only way to do anything disadvantegous to Reddit is to stop going to Reddit (if you also...
Yes and no. It is true that going to reddit to troll reddit benefits reddit in the short term, but I think it's harmful in the long term. By making /r/pics, /r/gifs, and /r/aww John Oliver themed, /r/wellthatsucks becoming vacuum themed, and /r/interestingasfuck and /r/iOS becoming essentially unmoderated, it is making those communities ultimately pointless, irritating users away from the site, and raising awareness. John Oliver even tweeted about it and provided dozens of pictures for their use, and it's likely at this point that LWT will do something on the situation when the writer's strike is over. I've only gone to reddit to vote in the troll polls- I don't think that's the kind of engagement reddit actually wants at this point.
Update: Relay will continue to operate from July 1st. It will be moving to a subscription model in the coming weeks (libreddit.hu)
Hi all,...
Minecraft is leaving Reddit
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When going to the vlemmy.net home screen, I get the following error:...
How do you continue to enjoy Skyrim after 1,000 hours?
(I imagine the short answer for many is “extensive mods,” but I’m on PS4 so my choices in that area are a bit limited.)...
Secret Invasion Episode 1 Discussion
Discuss the first episode!
This Week In Destiny - 6/22/2023 (www.bungie.net)
Not much to talk about here.
~~Almost~~ OVER 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!!
Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031...
Any other plural folk about?
Cat: so, for context, we're a plural system; a group of multiple people living in the same brain. We're wondering if there's any other systems on Lemmy at the moment. Also could be considered an AMA for those interested....
"Fatorio" in title
Just a quick post to let the mod know to check the title of the sub and C what he's missed.
Final Fantasy XVI Review Thread
Game Information...
Which childhood videogame is your playing tradition?
Every year, I will put christmas music and sit to play Super Mario Bros on the NES at least once, since I grew up with it.
[META] reddits r/shittylifeprotips is now without rules and posting porn is being encouraged to make reddit less desirable to advertisers.
Spez is a greedy little pig boy
I'm sure we'd all love for the coffee community to migrate here, but no one is posting any content. So here's another photo of my latest latte art attempt.
/r/interestingasfuck forced open, lowers its standard of what qualifies as "interesting", gets flooded with adult content [NSFW within two clicks] (www.reddit.com)
I think the title speaks for itself....
One thing that's surprised me about the Reddit shitshow
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
Trolling Reddit by using Reddit doesn't troll Reddit
If you go to Reddit, you will still see their ads, be they obvious or hidden through disguising as user interaction (bots are more or less obvious, AI is at the stage where they can fake users). You drive engagement and site traffic. The only way to do anything disadvantegous to Reddit is to stop going to Reddit (if you also...