darlingofinana

darlingofinana, 57 minutes ago to random

Bless the Liberation Theology Muslims, the Zaydi Shias and the Nizari Ismailis

zeldah, 1 day ago to random

antisemites are like “jews appropriated their own food because it doesnt look like white people food to us”

darlingofinana, 2 days ago to random

The whole "Aphrodite is Ishtar but written by men" thing is so funny because... have you actually read Ishtar myths?

dangerdyke, 2 days ago to random

mahjong is bullshit, it gives you bullshit hands for games on end and right when you’re about to give up in exasperation it gives you like 2 good ones that make you want to keep playing. its bullshit

atomicpoet, 3 days ago to random

If retro gaming interests you, in addition to console games, it behooves you to check out the PC side of things too.

That’s because there’s certain games that simply cannot be translated to console. One of them is Haegemonia: Legions of Iron.

To this day, I have not ever seen a good console conversion of a 3D RTS that’s set in space. A 2D RTS is hard enough to translate to console. But 3D? I don’t think this is something a console can do.

And when I say 3D, I don’t mean an RTS with polygonal graphics. No, I mean something that allows you to interact in all three dimensions of space. You don’t just go forwards, backwards, and sideway. You send your ships up and down too.

But on PC, there’s a lot of good 3D RTS that set in space: Homeworld and O.R.B. come to mind. But I’d say that the most accessible is in a pick-up-and-play sense is Haegemonia: Legions of Iron.

There’s a caveat here. Only play this game if you have access to a numpad. Without a numpad, you can’t change the speed of the game. This is important because the default speed is slow.

But Haegemonia probably is the easiest 3D RTS to control because it acts more like a traditional RTS. To start a battle, all you have to do is select your units and point to the enemy you want to engage with. It’s that easy.

Of course, while all this easy control is convenient, you’re giving up the depth that you had with Homeworld – which is absolutely massive. And while Homeworld’s map gives you many options, it takes a lot of learning. There is no such map with Haegemonia because things are much simplier.

The story is no less interesting, though. You are commanding ships in a Earth-Mars war. You can play either the Earth or Mars campaigns. But that’s not all. Once the war ends, the entirety of humanity unites to expand beyond the Solar system to encounter alien civilizations.

Another thing that makes Haegemonia different from other 3D RTS games is the espionage system which, to this day, is not available elsewhere. This allows you to build a ship that’s invisible on enemy sensors. And they’re used, of course, to monitor other planets, ships, or stations. This is a nice feature that gives Haegemonia more depth!

A few PC gamers complain that this game hasn’t been updated for newer resolutions and widescreen aspect ratios. However, it is possible to set widescreen by going into the registry key and setting the values for your desired resolution. I simply don’t do this because I’d have to keep doing it each time I launch the game. But also, this being a retro game, I can live with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Both Steam and GOG.com sell this game. While the Steam version is cheaper at C$5.49, I believe it’s better to buy Haegemonia Gold Edition edition on GOG.com because it also bundles The Solon Heritage expansion pack, HD wallpaper, avatars, and the soundtrack. It also works on older versions of Windows.

If you’re looking for a simpler, more accessible 3D RTS set in space, Hegemonia: Legions of Iron is a good choice – just so long as your keyboard has a numpad.

Hegemonia: Legions of Iron screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Hegemonia: Legions of Iron screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Hegemonia: Legions of Iron screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)

winter, 5 days ago to random

fedi should implement myspace's Top Friends feature so I can more easily find people's profiles without dating them

winter, 5 days ago to random

uh oh! your instance has malfunctioned and fetched fedi posts from 2nd century Babylonia! :blobcatnotlikethis:

@parthian4ever@nisibis.lgbt 1826 years ago
I fucking HATE Romans!!!! :angy:

@eliezer@mishna.social 1826 years ago
DNI if you agree with Beit Shammai about how long before sunset a loaf of bread must be inserted in the oven on Erev Shabbat

@mathautistic@amida.university 1826 years ago
we never should have stopped using base 60 it’s so much stimmier

atomicpoet, 15 days ago to random

When I was a kid, I thought, “I wish I was alive when Elvis and the Beatles were around.”

Now I hear kids say, “I wish I was alive when arcades were around, and there were real Outrun cabinets.”

Time is a funny thing because kids imagine these arcades were neon-drenched in pink and purple, with people casually wearing powergloves and leather jackets.

So it makes me wonder if my entire idea of the 50s and 60s is a caricature.

darlingofinana, 19 days ago to random

A lot of y'all use making fun of America as a proxy for making fun of POC, the disabled (physically and mentally) and the poor and it absolutely shows.

Make fun of our failed systems, please fucking do. But show some god damn compassion for those who suffer under this system. Like, not every person who happens to live in this cursed country is your oppressor.

I hate that I even have to fucking make these posts because I feel like I'm "sticking up for America" when like, no, I hate this country and what it represents. But as a person who suffers from this country's bullshit, I have compassion for my fellow people who also suffer

yassie_j, 19 days ago to random

“Molotov cocktail is an anti-Soviet/Russian slur” has to be one of the most cursed takes I have ever seen on the Fediverse

Bard, 29 days ago to random

So I should probably clarify: all that has happened to me is that I have come to terms with the fact that I'm not cisgender.

I don't know what form that is going to take, all I know is that something inside me has given, and I want to be less traditionally masculine and embrace more of my femininity. I don't think I'm a woman. Just not a man.

He/him pronouns are fine, and I'm okay being referred to in neutral terms or perhaps as a boy, not a man.

darlingofinana, 29 days ago to random

Does anyone know any good Iranology discord servers? I don't mean devotional Zoroastrian servers, but rather, Academic spaces for Iranology?
Basically a place that knows how to differentiate the good shit from the pseudo-archaeology and nationalist stuff

Because Iranology spaces on Facebook are filled with nationalists

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

Wow youtube is now shoving videos of cops using weapons on squatters in my feed

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

I love going for a Geography Purist definition of Europe because not only is it the only one not based in literal racism,

but it also pisses off racists.

Like Pontic Greeks are Asian (Asia is literally the old name for Anatolia) but Tatars and Bashkirs are European

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

ACAB includes Hammurabi

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

Pop History: Lol historians are such dumbasses they call everything a Fertility Goddess

Actual Historians: Can people please stop calling every female deity a fertility goddess???

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

First thing I do when I wake up is argue with a racist spreading the "Russian state organization comes from the Mongols" bullshit,

I am not in a good mood

paninid, 1 month ago to Etymology

In the Russian Empire, there were several political institutions called "Soviets", which were advisory councils to the ruling Emperors.

After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviets emerged as organs of revolutionary power, with Vladimir Lenin proposing the motto "All power to the Soviets!"

#etymology #language #Soviet

18+ darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

"Why do you get offended when people misuse pagan stuff? You're not an oppressed religion like Islam or Judaism, you're just a weird LARPer who thinks they're Babylonian"

FUCK YOU. Fuck you fuck you fuck you.

I am not a "LARPer" (although actual LARPing is really fun and I'd love to try it!)

I think it's perfectly valid to get offended over people using MY religion as a pawn to be antisemitic. I think it's perfectly valid to get offended over people trying to claim the Jewish "Stole" from Mesopotamia. I not only get offended on behalf of fellow pagans, I get offended on behalf of Jewish people for that nonsense.

I get offended when antitheists and Norse pagans use my gods and my religion in their "disproving" Christianity nonsense, because they're always spreading antisemitic Protestant conspiracies that spread so much misinformation about the religions that people actually fucking practice.

Leave us alone. Stop using us as pawns. You do not worship Ishtar, so stop saying she's Easter. You do not worship Ba'al, so stop saying he's Satan! You do not worship Marduk, so stop saying he's Yahweh! Focus on your own gods! Leave us ALONE. Keep our names out of your fucking mouth you assholes

darlingofinana, 1 month ago to random

Kpop culture is so weird. You have these groups that are arguably some of the biggest brands on earth, and yet they treat themselves like the underdogs and that you have to fight for them to get to the top. It's so... weird.