I’m sure it works great for a large subset of gamers. And I don’t hate those games at all, but the story isn’t as accessible to me. That’s alright, I don’t mind spoiling myself.

I can understand where you’re coming from but the ‘background story’ stuff never really works for me because you’re only getting the parts of the story that you find, remember, and put in their context.

Dead Cells is a good example here - great game, story that’s hard to comprehend because it’s locked behind so many expansions, difficulty levels, and randomly generated rooms, plus it makes tons of references to other games, meaning if I don’t get the reference I might think it’s relevant to the plot.

On the other extreme is games that force the story on you, be it unskippable cutscenes, moments during those where suddenly you need to hit a button, or playable memories, all are unsatisfying ways to make the player stop what they were doing and follow a script.

I loved the PS5 Spiderman game and like many disliked the Mary Jane levels. But my reasoning was that my girlfriend is telling me about her day and I AM FAILING.

That makes no sense, I can’t fail at her memory. It’s just an obstacle that keeps me from getting back to the game.

I love story in games.

But it has to be done right.

My friends are metalheads but I’m not. Popped this over to our discord to see what comes up.

First response: “Greenland is a country. What the fuck?”

Chill.

That’s all fair.

But it’s also heavily down voted and refuted.

Some people are gonna be shills and some are gonna be naive. But I’m not going to be a part of any platform Meta is trying to subvert.

The Spoiler probably offset the HailCorporate crowd.

Sorry they aren’t as good. Probably changed the recipe a few dozen times.

Such a terrible, terrible movie that I loved and recorded on VHS.

When I was pretty young I was a little reflexively racist, didn’t trust the black kids in my class kind of thing.

Bill Cosby’s comedy got through to me. I’ll be damned if he’s gonna take back from me the good he gave me.

When I was in your position I was honest about it and detailed what my ‘work’ was in caring for my mom.

I suppose it did help that I was looking to be hired at a group home so the skills lined up.

But showing that you’re motivated, care, and are detail oriented in your personal life can speak volumes about you while also covering for the gaps in your employment history.

Good to know, but thankfully I no longer use that software.

Also romantic in its own way.

We had one application we used (that got retired two years ago) where Control-C had been mapped to bring up a calendar.

There was no need for a calendar in the application. It didn’t enable other features or anything that I could tell.

But the software was also woefully out-of-date. They’d decided not to pay for the updated version.

Until I read the article I assumed it was where they had sex the first time.

There’s a big difference between “Well I see your point and think you’re ignoring x/y/z.” and “LMAO GFY.”

Honestly when people use lol or any derivative in political discussions I just block now.

I fucking hate all these trendy uses of country codes. I just assumed it was based out of Malaysia or something.

I’ve also noticed that users of shit.just.works are apolitical assholes, which belies that they aren’t apolitical in the first place. And it’s a stupid name.

Edit: I didn’t mean for that to link.

It really does.

I try to be calm and provide supporting evidence as well as agree with the people I’m disagreeing with when I can.

I don’t get many replies. Just downvotes, which is annoying as I really do want discussion.

I was in an argument on lemmy.ml the other day and didn’t realize. (Not even lemmygrad.)

They were saying the US must drop charges against Assange because First Amendment.

I was arguing that’s a legal defense to present in court and got down voted and eventually deleted.

Like what, you think you can whine at a government enough and then they’ll just ignore their entire legal system?

They want what they want and they want it yesterday, damnit!

Nothing, because we almost certainly don’t live in a consensus reality.

Focusing is a mind and memory skill.

I consider myself pretty far left and I find a lot of people here both insufferable and unable to hold a discussion without insults. And that’s coming from people to the left of me.

It’s hard, and I’m quickly going back to not talking about politics online. I’d hoped Lemmy would be a little better.

It also annoys me to no end that I have to defend Biden from people who have no political perspective.

Like the crime bill they attack him for that passed both houses with large bipartisan support.

It means NOTHING to retrospectively say the country was on a wrong path. He can’t fix having done that, he can only do better. And by my liberal standards he’s done fine.

So apparently this almost socialist is a moderate here. What the hell?

Suffering is a strong word. Struggle with, maybe.

But I’d say every man should just take a deep breath and message/chat or move on.

It doesn’t speak to your moral character to go with your preferences - only when your preferences become the problem you project onto the person you think is attractive.