Different genre but it reminds me of Pillars of Eternity in the way it trades on nostalgia, and then ports the old gameplay systems - warts and all - to modern consoles
PPSSPP has to be the best emulator I’ve ever used. It never crashes regardless of being used on Android or various desktop OS’s. Performance is great while maintaining accurate emulation of the games.
Tohou Artificial Dream In Arcadia is hands down the best SMT-clone I’ve ever played. It’s extremely cheap, got it for a fiver. Devs are regularly updating it. The gameplay is closer to SMT1/2 than anything else I’ve ever played. Clearly a labour of love from the devs.
EIF tickets are so much more expensive this year. They used to be cheaper seeing the opera during the festival than during the rest of the year due to subsidies from the arts councils. This year it is more than double the price! A ticket for Carmen in the upper circle with a restricted view was more than £100....
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
Definitely the best combat From has ever created in a game. I think the worlds of Dark Souls and Bloodborne are more interesting to me but Sekiro gives good universe too.
This isn’t me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine....
Potentially SteamOS might be an option for you if you are wanting a gaming oriented distro. I believe you can boot it into desktop mode and it ships with KDE.
Tuipulotu is such an asset. Great interview with him and excited to have his brother joining Edinburgh. Hope they got that supposed nonsense with Dave Cherry sorted out!
I’ve still never been to minifield! Was supposed to be there for the Bayonne game last month but they moved it to Murrayfield due to the weather last minute.
Certain parents are asking for this but the government is dumb/opportunistic for listening to them. Also seems strange to have a blanket ban when the complaints I’ve heard on the radio are about the teaching resources being used. Suspect that a blanket ban is an easier headline to understand for the people they want to pander to.
My wife used to teach primary school in Scotland and the type of sex education they get before 9 is pretty simple consent stuff. The lesson would use an anodyne example like making a cup of tea: “If someone asks for a cup of tea it is nice to make it for them but making a cup of tea for someone when they don’t want it is not respecting their wishes/consent.”
I believe there was also a lesson about how people don’t need to like things stereotypically associated with the different sexes. For example girls can like football; boys can like the colour pink. That kind of thing.
Despite the cirriculum being those kinds of things she still had certain parents opting out 🤷
Popularity boost due to being marketed/published by a popular youtuber. The game is very good though! I was initially put off by the publisher due to being wary of it being a gimmick but picked it up after the reviews landed.
From what I can tell the whole point of these protests is just iconoclasm. These presumably well meaning people have been told that the world is literally ending and that they need to make a statement by (mainly symbolically) attacking objects that other people value.
The climate crisis is genuinely a crisis but it’s not going to be a cataclysm event like Roger Hallam is describing. It will likely play out as a gradual worsening in living conditions as certain occupations become unviable, increasing numbers of freak weather events, and then finally warmer countries becoming unliveable.
All of those outcomes are awful but shock tactics like this aren’t going to convert anyone to the cause.
Having a nuanced opinion means - to me - that understanding that climate change is bad but also understanding that there is a limited amount that we can do as individuals or a country to resolve it.
When I see JSO doing these stunts I worry that they are delegitimising the entire cause of climate change by taking such a hardcore stance. (And seemingly not caring about other societal norms in their protest.)
Edit: Having a right to protest is part of democracy; threatening cultural artefacts most people value is anti-democratic.
JSO are literally employing cult like tactics where their followers are being told that it’s them against the world (and they have exclusive access to the truth).
No one is denying climate change is an issue the needs addressed. The only thing that is being debated is whether our response is proportionate to the threat. There’s no way that offending ~80% of the population by threatening sacred cows like beloved art and legal documents is a productive approach.
I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
Yooka-Laylee: A Patient Gamer Review (lemmy.world)
Summary...
Saints Row’s reboot was likely the lowest selling in franchise history (www.videogameschronicle.com)
PPSSPP is approved for the App Store (www.ppsspp.org)
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia (lemmy.world)
Tohou Artificial Dream In Arcadia is hands down the best SMT-clone I’ve ever played. It’s extremely cheap, got it for a fiver. Devs are regularly updating it. The gameplay is closer to SMT1/2 than anything else I’ve ever played. Clearly a labour of love from the devs.
Edinburgh International Festival ticket prices
EIF tickets are so much more expensive this year. They used to be cheaper seeing the opera during the festival than during the rest of the year due to subsidies from the arts councils. This year it is more than double the price! A ticket for Carmen in the upper circle with a restricted view was more than £100....
I'm finally getting the hang of Sekiro
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
Crapped my system
This isn’t me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine....
BBC Radio Scotland Rugby Podcast - Tuipulotu on rugby, fatherhood and family ties - BBC Sounds (www.bbc.co.uk)
Tuipulotu is such an asset. Great interview with him and excited to have his brother joining Edinburgh. Hope they got that supposed nonsense with Dave Cherry sorted out!
Plan to ban sex education for children under nine (www.bbc.co.uk)
Mandela’s grandson calls Lammy ‘apologist for genocide’ (skwawkbox.org)
Man pivots seamlessly from criticising trans rights as ‘a threat to women’s safety’ to defending Russell Brand as ‘no threat to women’s safety’ (newsthump.com)
Nintendo president: “Game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated” (mynintendonews.com)
ANIMAL WELL – Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch (youtu.be)
Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s target Magna Carta (news.sky.com)
Cool distros to try
I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
What is the point of Xbox? (www.eurogamer.net)