In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
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In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I like the disclaimer at the start of The Long Dark, where they say that Canadian wolves, moose and bears are extremely unlikely to attack you irl and creative liberties have been taken to make the game more 'survivally'.
In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
In a world where the Holocene extinction hadn't happened yet it could work. I guess the adventurers would be the initiator of it sadly.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
I played the first couple hours of Genshin and it was okay? Good production value, as long as you don't mind full-tilt silly JRPG/shonen anime aesthetics. I haven't been that engaged by the core gameplay loops so far though. Maybe if I put a little more time into it. This is always my problem with huge, expensively-produced games these days, though. It takes like 3 or 4 hours before it starts getting fun because there is SO much handholding and slow prologue-ish story setup.
My zombie survival life simulator They Don't Sleep is out now on Steam if you want to check it out.
A fantasy world that gradually gets more and more boring as humans "tame" the wilderness, ending with the most banal modern day life would be a pretty effective environmental message imo.
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In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I like the disclaimer at the start of The Long Dark, where they say that Canadian wolves, moose and bears are extremely unlikely to attack you irl and creative liberties have been taken to make the game more 'survivally'.
Presumably this is to discourage people from leeroy jenkins-ing at some wildlife with a stick in the firm belief that they are now inevitably locked into a fight to the death
Pretty cool that the dome printed without interior supports. (The grey was because I wanted to use up that spool before switching to the green)
yo Echo how'd ya do this? Fuse leftover filament onto a new spool?
@Dark Raven X I just snip the current filament and feed the new one into the bowden tube until it's reached the extruder so it can be grabbed on its own. I don't even pause the print to switch.
In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
I mean, that makes sense once you consider this is a world where the woods are flush with bears waylaying trespassers in order to get enough food to survive. Obviously the gold was just from the bears belly, deposited there by previous less-skilled adventurers it has eaten.
Going around murdering all this wildlife is clearly a population control measure.
In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
I mean, that makes sense once you consider this is a world where the woods are flush with bears waylaying trespassers in order to get enough food to survive. Obviously the gold was just from the bears belly, deposited there by previous less-skilled adventurers it has eaten.
Going around murdering all this wildlife is clearly a population control measure.
Oh so a bear can’t earn her pay from a hard day’s honest work is that it
I surprised my mother by choosing robust sturdy and detailed handles for the cupboards of my kitcken instead of the cheapest and plainest stainless steel ones.
I'm downloading Genshin Impact now, and will hopefully spend $0 on it.
What would be really helpful to consumers is the ability to put a lock on your account so you can't spend money on any ftp games. ftp games are manipulative schemes that take advantage of their addict whales so if you have the choice to permanently block yourself before you start, we'd all be better off.
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I'm downloading Genshin Impact now, and will hopefully spend $0 on it.
What would be really helpful to consumers is the ability to put a lock on your account so you can't spend money on any ftp games. ftp games are manipulative schemes that take advantage of their addict whales so if you have the choice to permanently block yourself before you start, we'd all be better off.
I just don't play them in the first place, much easier to not spend money when you're not invested in it!
Or, you know, classify them as the gambling they are and stick them with all the same legal restrictions.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
I'm downloading Genshin Impact now, and will hopefully spend $0 on it.
What would be really helpful to consumers is the ability to put a lock on your account so you can't spend money on any ftp games. ftp games are manipulative schemes that take advantage of their addict whales so if you have the choice to permanently block yourself before you start, we'd all be better off.
I just don't play them in the first place, much easier to not spend money when you're not invested in it!
Tut tut, I have played Hearthstone every day for the past three years doing the tavern brawls and dailies and I have only spent $10 total. I am immune to a ftp's sirens' call.
Or, you know, classify them as the gambling they are and stick them with all the same legal restrictions.
MY FREEDOMS!!
Really, though, you start putting restrictions on games for their playable content, that's a foot in the door. No government restrictions beyond epilepsy warnings and seals of quality, plz.
In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
I mean, that makes sense once you consider this is a world where the woods are flush with bears waylaying trespassers in order to get enough food to survive. Obviously the gold was just from the bears belly, deposited there by previous less-skilled adventurers it has eaten.
Going around murdering all this wildlife is clearly a population control measure.
Oh so a bear can’t earn her pay from a hard day’s honest work is that it
Eating random humans is a hard day's honest work for a bear.
Or, you know, classify them as the gambling they are and stick them with all the same legal restrictions.
MY FREEDOMS!!
Really, though, you start putting restrictions on games for their playable content, that's a foot in the door. No government restrictions beyond epilepsy warnings and seals of quality, plz.
You want epilepsy warnings and seals of quality? Okay chairman Mao.
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OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
I mean, that makes sense once you consider this is a world where the woods are flush with bears waylaying trespassers in order to get enough food to survive. Obviously the gold was just from the bears belly, deposited there by previous less-skilled adventurers it has eaten.
Going around murdering all this wildlife is clearly a population control measure.
Oh so a bear can’t earn her pay from a hard day’s honest work is that it
Eating random humans is a hard day's honest work for a bear.
Oh yeah good point
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based on character art style, genshin impact looks like one of those steam games where you play mahjong or a simple card game against anime characters, but if you go download a patch from the developer's website, you can cram it full of hentai
I just assume that's what it is, plus micro transactions.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
hunniepop impact
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
based on character art style, genshin impact looks like one of those steam games where you play mahjong or a simple card game against anime characters, but if you go download a patch from the developer's website, you can cram it full of hentai
I just assume that's what it is, plus micro transactions.
Nah. It is unusual for a gacha because there is actually a good amount of gameplay and not much "sorry, you don't have enough energy to do anything more today"
There is also a major character who talks in third person AND WHY DO THEY KEEP ON LOCALIZING THEM AS TALKING IN THIRD PERSON WHEN THAT IS NOT A CULTURAL INDICATOR OF ANYTHING BESIDES POMPOUSNESS IN ENGLISH
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In Skyrim a bear murdered a rabbit, then turned to attack me because ?? I guess it decided it was worth just leaving the rabbit instead of eating it to fight a giant cat person? So I shot it several times with fireballs then ran away because it was going to be too trivial.
Eventually I found the shrine I was looking for, with a dragon flying around in the distance that eventually came close enough to fight. Almost immediately, another dragon flew up, so I had to fight two dragons at once. In the middle of that, I heard growling and got hit by something, turned around, and saw the half-health bear from multiple minutes ago. Wtf. Who is in charge of the Skyrim AI, and why did they think bears would be psychotic enough to limp up a mountain to bite someone fighting multiple dragons simultaneously.
Getting into fights with wildlife has always been the silliest part of fantasy games.
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
Or, you know, classify them as the gambling they are and stick them with all the same legal restrictions.
MY FREEDOMS!!
Really, though, you start putting restrictions on games for their playable content, that's a foot in the door. No government restrictions beyond epilepsy warnings and seals of quality, plz.
we literally already do regulate games based on their gameplay content if that content is gambling
the problem is we're refusing to acknowledge these games are, in fact, grossly manipulative gambling
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Powerpuppiesdrinking coffee in themountain cabinRegistered Userregular
Or, you know, classify them as the gambling they are and stick them with all the same legal restrictions.
MY FREEDOMS!!
Really, though, you start putting restrictions on games for their playable content, that's a foot in the door. No government restrictions beyond epilepsy warnings and seals of quality, plz.
This is nonsense
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
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Physically how can you spend that much on a game, does it really take that much to get the best of every type of entity in the game?
There is also a major character who talks in third person AND WHY DO THEY KEEP ON LOCALIZING THEM AS TALKING IN THIRD PERSON WHEN THAT IS NOT A CULTURAL INDICATOR OF ANYTHING BESIDES POMPOUSNESS IN ENGLISH
Elmo.
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blind boxes and gacha games ought to be outright illegal, not just labeled. it's a psychological manipulation tactic with no artistic merit, and no gameplay value, that is used to extract large amounts of money from vulnerable people with impulse control dysfunctions.
if you want to make a loot game or randomize and gate character unlocks, charge upfront one single reasonable price and have the game dole them out randomly at no added cost. if you want to make a free to play game where the business model is buying characters, make a store with straightforward pricing and guaranteed unlocks.
i really have no tolerance for this shit, it's so gross
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Bonus points if it borders a freshwater lake with a potentially lethal thermocline a couple of metres down
I love it when you kill a bear in a game and it drops six gold
In a world where the Holocene extinction hadn't happened yet it could work. I guess the adventurers would be the initiator of it sadly.
Presumably this is to discourage people from leeroy jenkins-ing at some wildlife with a stick in the firm belief that they are now inevitably locked into a fight to the death
That's more then we've spent on all the repairs on the house combined.
@Dark Raven X I just snip the current filament and feed the new one into the bowden tube until it's reached the extruder so it can be grabbed on its own. I don't even pause the print to switch.
I mean, that makes sense once you consider this is a world where the woods are flush with bears waylaying trespassers in order to get enough food to survive. Obviously the gold was just from the bears belly, deposited there by previous less-skilled adventurers it has eaten.
Going around murdering all this wildlife is clearly a population control measure.
Oh so a bear can’t earn her pay from a hard day’s honest work is that it
What would be really helpful to consumers is the ability to put a lock on your account so you can't spend money on any ftp games. ftp games are manipulative schemes that take advantage of their addict whales so if you have the choice to permanently block yourself before you start, we'd all be better off.
I just don't play them in the first place, much easier to not spend money when you're not invested in it!
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
That would require government intervention which thus far has not been present
Tut tut, I have played Hearthstone every day for the past three years doing the tavern brawls and dailies and I have only spent $10 total. I am immune to a ftp's sirens' call.
MY FREEDOMS!!
Really, though, you start putting restrictions on games for their playable content, that's a foot in the door. No government restrictions beyond epilepsy warnings and seals of quality, plz.
Eating random humans is a hard day's honest work for a bear.
Oh yeah I used the Xbox accessory app to swap them
No keybind on game pad is lame
Oh no, I invested thirty thousand dollars in it!
You want epilepsy warnings and seals of quality? Okay chairman Mao.
- Elki in two weeks
Oh yeah good point
I just assume that's what it is, plus micro transactions.
Nah. It is unusual for a gacha because there is actually a good amount of gameplay and not much "sorry, you don't have enough energy to do anything more today"
@desc zero, in fact. I'm doing a completely vanilla run until I get bored.
Then in two years when I come back I'll install 32k textured grass and whatnot.
Mudcrabs be eating rings like whoa.
Genshin does that.
we literally already do regulate games based on their gameplay content if that content is gambling
the problem is we're refusing to acknowledge these games are, in fact, grossly manipulative gambling
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
This is nonsense
Elmo.
if you want to make a loot game or randomize and gate character unlocks, charge upfront one single reasonable price and have the game dole them out randomly at no added cost. if you want to make a free to play game where the business model is buying characters, make a store with straightforward pricing and guaranteed unlocks.
i really have no tolerance for this shit, it's so gross