Arotrios

@MargotRobbie I’m getting PTSD from this post, and an urge to say “this”. You’ve officially become my favorite version of Margot Robbie (although Harley Robbie is close on your heels).

No worries & thanks for the suggestion.

Pretty much, although these days a lot of folks find it more convenient to have the rules in .pdf for easy access. There’s hundreds available. Here’s a listing I had posted last night on the @13thFloor magazine I run over here on kbin - happy to crosspost if you feel it fits.

Oh boy, have I got some treats in store for you…

Question - is it just video games, or are you looking for tabletop RPGs too?

I buy games based on the following tier scale:

Gameplay > Performance > Price > Expected time playing > Graphics

I agree with your point in the post, especially after playing Darktide, which chucked performance out the window for fog and lighting effects. It doesn’t matter how pretty your game is if it’s rendering at 3fps.

This reduces the minuscule interest I had in replaying Paladins to a negative number. Smite’s been nothing but frustrating garbage, but I thought that with a bit of polish and a lot more character development, Paladins had promise when it came out. Starting a labor dispute to begin a practice that will degrade the overall quality of the game means it’s not worth my hard disk space to install their products - it’s clear things are only going to get worse for Hi-Rez titles from here.

Absolutely agree with you there, on both Italy and Reddit. I pretty much stopped posting anything remotely interesting due to the arbitrary mod and soft alt-right admin temper tantrums. In comparison, here in the Fediverse, my creativity has been unchained, and I’ve already contributed more here than my previous decade + on Reddit.

Dunno about you, but I’m here so I can run a community as unprofessionally as possible. If I can’t tell a troll to fuck off with a good banning, then what’s the point of modding?

You get what you pay for.

Professionals get paid. Reddit has never had professional mods.

No more Githankypanky?

Yeah, I know, it’s just not really worth the time, as it’s gonna be a completely unscientific poll anyway. Plus, looks like they’re tying your vote to the email address via the submission form - I’m guessing that’s a single post to the database, so not terribly convinced they have privacy in mind. That they’ve got a checkmark to confirm that you’re not an EU citizen means the submission form doesn’t meet GDPR privacy standards.

Heads up that they’re running the poll to get the email addresses of the recipients - can’t vote without giving them your info.

And of course, it’s a political stunt to please Edrogan:

The Kurdish refugee journalist Vedat Yeler has called the eviction and destruction of the Lavrio camp a “NATO gift to [Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan.” The eviction took place only a few days before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on July 11 in Vilnius, Lithuania, where both Greece and Turkey were to be present. The two NATO members have wrangled over the Cyprus conflict and territorial disputes in the Aegean Sea for many decades. In mutual populist slander, Turkish politicians have been accusing Greece of harboring “terrorists” in the Lavrio camp and pressuring the Greek state to close it down for years. However, since the re-election of both Erdoğan’s Sunni-nationalist regime in Turkey and Mitsotakis’ New Democracy government in Greece in May and June, 2023, respectively, there has been a shift in bilateral relations between the two countries. During a visit in Cyprus a few days before the eviction, the Greek Foreign Minister expressed a commitment to improve relations with Turkey. The attack on Kurdish political refugees in Greece can be understood as an attempt to showcase these efforts before the NATO summit.

Greece should be ashamed of itself - evicting innocent families at gunpoint to appease a foreign autocrat. I’m not familiar with EU law, but I’m hoping someone in the comments has an analysis and legal case for the Lavrio residents - given that the camp was established community for over 50 years, there has to be some legal recourse they can use to push back.

Go read my original shitpost to get the context. It’s an analogy.

I agree with you on this point - there could have been more effective messaging, but I’ll take what I can get - it’s a significant step up from “fuck Spez”.

In my original post I suggested the more recognizable and iconic Lemmy and Mastodon logos as they have wider recognition than the concept of the Fediverse, and would draw people to specific instances as well as making a statement.

This is a vanity project, nothing more nothing less.

Yeah, but lets be honest now - 95% of social media falls under that classification. The 5% that isn’t is mostly found here, so I view this particular vanity project as a mission of mercy for those who are unaware of the excellence of the alternative in the Fediverse.

I fully support this action, having been a cheerleader for it in a previous thread. For those saying this is driving traffic to Reddit, I’d like to repeat the counterpoint that:

I agree with you in principle, but speaking from strictly a strategic perspective, /r/place presents a vulnerability that can be exploited without contributing what Reddit really needs to regain its status - content.

In the context of a social media war, this means we can use the space to peel off users who wouldn’t have been introduced to the Fediverse otherwise, with no risk of harming ourselves or providing Reddit more than a temporary moment of attention. There’s been a concerted effort to remove links to Fediverse resources in many subs, and for a great deal of redditors, they’re in the dark about what the Fediverse represents and how much better it is than Reddit.

Plus it’s just cool to fuck with Spez, and the Fediverse is so cool in general that I’d love to see what the effect would be if we united against a common enemy.

You might want to give Dauntless a shot. I haven’t played it in a while, but it’s basically a free monster hunter clone. The graphics weren’t up to MH levels, but the combat is solid and the crafting system is pretty fun.

Ooof…

Haven’t played it, but honestly watching the video, it basically looks like a Doom clone built on the Source engine with worse music. Note I support indie devs, but there are a number of glaring issues just in the video that would cause me to stop playing, the first and foremost of which is the “enemies appear out of nowhere” dynamic followed closely by the “forcefields go up and limit your fight area regularly” dynamic. Both are an excuse for shoddy programming and bad level design.

This one would need a lot of work before I’d drop money on it, and I’m a big FPS horde shooter fan. Hard pass.

No worries - thanks!

Bummer - doesn’t work for kbin… might be something as simple as the change from /c/ in community urls on lemmy to the /m/ magazine urls on kbin. Any chance they have a github or a contributor page to report a bug? Not seeing any on the initial interface.