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UlyssesT , to memes in Another Starfield Post

Surprise twist on an old comic chefs-kiss

ScrivenerX , to memes in Defediverse

Funny how one instance is the one everyone wants to defederate from.

Flinch ,
@Flinch@hexbear.net avatar

people hate getting called out for their terrible opinions shrug-outta-hecks

bigboig ,

Lol is that why hexbear is defederating from so many instances?

Zuberi ,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Any instance not arguing in good faith gets removed normally.

Why so much drama over fed or defed, just change instances if you don’t agree with your admin

DogMuffins ,

You’re right of course, but it’s still something that the fediverse is trying to figure out.

flashgnash ,

I think where that falls down is if a big community is in X instance, the instance admins have control over that instance

Doesn’t matter what instance you switch to if the communities you participate in are under that instance’s control

Not saying that’s a huge problem yet but it could turn into one and then we get powermods all over again

UnicodeHamSic ,

They hate us for being right

Schadrach ,

Currently. Of course in the past it was exploding heads for being Nazis, Lemmygrad for being insufferable tankies, then Burggit for lolicon, now hexbear for being insufferable tankies.

randint ,

Heck I think Lemmygrad is more tolerable than Hexbear, by a lot.

can ,

Do they allow downvotes? Hexbear doesn’t which means everything they disagree with gets a reply with a handful of large emoji.

randint ,

They do. See lemmygrad.ml and see how almost every post has some downvotes. IMO this does make the posting culture there better.

BigNote ,

When everyone you meet is an asshole, you are probably the real asshole.

Funny how this works with social media as well.

PandaBearGreen ,
@PandaBearGreen@hexbear.net avatar

Says person calling people assholes.

Aabbcc ,

“you say you don’t like intolerance and yet that sounds like intolerance to me”

smug face

PandaBearGreen ,
@PandaBearGreen@hexbear.net avatar
UnicodeHamSic ,

We understand what we are.

chepox , to cat in How dare you disturb my slumber?!

This dude looks exactly like my cat.

Facelikeapotato OP ,
@Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ll have you know she’s a lady! Well, she’s female anyway.

Bebo ,

Piercing eyes she’s got. Cute.

BullstrongDVM , to memes in I don't get it
@BullstrongDVM@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like I cheated because I looked at Vanna.

wheeldawg ,

What happens on the fediverse stays on the fediverse.

RoabeArt , to memes in I don't get it

never gonna give you up never gonna let you down?

wheeldawg ,

Obvz

KeefChief12 , to memes in Legit tho ...

Espeon cool

Bluefold , (edited ) to memes in Another Starfield Post

There’s a trait you can pick that exactly explains my problems.with the game. The trait is ‘Dream Home’. It is described as

‘You own a luxurious, customizable house on a peaceful planet! Unfortunately it comes with a 125,000 credit mortgage with GalBank that has to be paid weekly.’…

I thought this was a cool way of adding increased difficulty for myself. I tend not to play at the hardest setting because I don’t have much time to play. But having to plan ahead and work around this limitation sounded like it would add an interesting wrinkle to the strategy I’d have in the game.

However, when you start the game you discover that the loan has to be paid off in full… And you have unlimited time to pay it off. The only way to be foreclosed upon is if you actively go tell the bank to foreclose on you. It’s like they had the idea, but couldn’t be bothered to implement it.

What’s worse is 120k is nothing in the game. You can easily get there within a few hours of play. This is just one example, but it speaks to the game’s complete unwillingness to give the player anything negative or push them any way from their ‘freedom’. The sheer fact you are not locked out of any faction or faction mission is another example. There are 0 stakes in the game and you feel 0 connection to the people you meet or places you visit. Not helped by Sarah potentially being one of the most annoying judgemental characters in any Bethesda game I’ve ever encountered.

Update: I eventually visited this ‘Dream House’. It kinda sucked. The planet it is on is kinda ugly. There is more to this mechanic than I originally thought, however. When you visit you can pay 500 credits for 1 week of access as a ‘payment’ towards the principal. Still very deceptive of the original description.

abbotsbury ,
@abbotsbury@lemmy.world avatar

The only way to be foreclosed upon is if you actively go tell the bank to foreclose on you

Bethesda once again being so scared of the player making a choice, so they lock down anything that actually changes the game behind a giant 🚨 ARE YOU SURE??? 🚨

funktion ,

I mean there are a whole bunch of players that seem to have a problem with actually dealing with consequences. Just look at the bg3 players who are so pissed about “missing content” when they murderhobo their way through the game. Like no shit you killed the people who give you quests, of course you’re going to miss out on their stories.

UnverifiedAPK ,

The sheer fact you are not locked out of any faction or faction mission is another example.

Ah, so Skyrim in space

deft ,

vast as an ocean but as shallow as a puddle

Makeshift ,

I swear every space game is described like this

qarbone ,

I think it’s because so many space games try to dazzle with the unfettered dream of exploring the endless cosmos. But you obviously can’t fill an endless cosmos with interesting things to do. Hell, most of space is just dead rocks and hot gas.

KSPAtlas ,
@KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz avatar

I feel like dyson sphere program is somewhere further, it being a sandbox factory game means you can do basically as much as you can reasonably handle on your computer, although story wise it’s not great since it’s not meant to be a story game

borth ,

So if you don’t pay, they still won’t foreclose on you? So what’s the point of paying lol

Katana314 ,

Someday I’m interested in making an open world game (short on features because I’ll never have giant budgets) that embraces the friction of inconvenience, but finds enjoyable ways for people to circumvent them.

Eg: You can’t easily locate yourself on the map, but you can use a radio to ping towers and triangulate, which gives a breezy interface - or just ask locals. You can’t fast travel, but train stations get you where you’re going - and you might get an interesting conversation or even a whole questline on board.

Zoomboingding ,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a little open world game called Miasmata with that triangulation system! It’s an open world survival horror. It’s pretty short though, and I bet you could get it for just a few bucks on sale. I really enjoyed my time in it, and the world is the perfect mix of dreary and serene.

hellerpop ,

I think Zelda does this pretty good already.

Happenchance ,

When ARMA Reforger released it was chaos, with 95% of the people hopelessly lost at all times. It’s because the game gave you a map, a compass, and nothing else for navigation. Best. Immersion. Ever.

Always on instant GPS with augmented reality waypoints between abstract objectives is what kills player immersion (and developer creativity). If I can just follow an arrow from point to point and complete a game: it wasn’t worth making the game.

Dubious_Fart ,

Yep. Theres no exploring, theres just “run to waypoint. grab thing waypoint is on, run to waypoint, hand over waypointed item, find next waypoint source, repeat”

Cause devs want to dumb games down so any mouth breathing reject can conquer it without any effort, to bring in that sweet sweet idiot money.

Honytawk ,

Not every game mechanic needs to be a struggle.

And not every person can dedicate hours of time each week to play. Doesn’t make them mouth breathers.

But I agree they should at least give you the option to turn it off or on.

At least it is a Bethesda game, so someone will mod it in.

Dubious_Fart ,

Its not a struggle to read the quest text and find a location on your own volition.

If thats a struggle, then you should be playing games that don’t require reading.

TowardsTheFuture ,

Man. Was really hoping to be wrong about it, but I mean, it is bethesda. Can’t expect a full up to date game without gamebreaking bugs or missing features when they could just rely on unpaid mod creators for that.

Ser_Salty ,

There are no (known) gamebreaking bugs

XanXic ,

Why didn’t you pick any of the more negative traits? Like your example is the most basic harmless one. There’s ones with way more downsides. Did you pick the ‘2 loving parents’ trait and are mad they don’t kill you on sight? lmao. Like I picked wanted where I always have a bounty and it’s cool. I’ve had a bounty hunter show up in the middle of a boss fight before. Both in space and on ground. Added a decent complication. A few of the others are pretty long term negatives like weakening aids and food.

I also don’t know if you explored much because the game has a pretty robust ailments system. Like if you pre-plan sure you can have all the expensive cures on hand, but you can get quite a few ailments at once from fucking around. I had a cough for like 4 hours because I couldn’t find an aid for it. I eventually had to go to a doctor to get rid of it.

Bluefold ,

I did pick other negative traits. My problem with this one is it straight up lies to you in the description. You think it is going to be negative but instead it is the most basic boring version of what that trait could be. I’ve explored many hostile environments where conditions are common and haven’t had a situation where I didn’t already have the sure on hand but I tend to loot a lot.

You can’t change your traits after starting. For my play style, this one should have been perfect. Instead it just sucked all fun out of the potential mechanic.

Dubious_Fart ,

its like the trait that gives you living parents.

makes a big deal out of having to send them money every week.

Its little more than a rounding error on your accounts, the amount you end up sending.

And they end up giving you several amazing things or free.

spoiler___ A big honkin awesome ship, Thats got amazing cargo capacity for as early as you get it: Just gotta visit them a few times to get it and a pretty fuckin awesome pistol that, when i got it, was outdamaging everything i had except shotguns by at least a factor of 2.

Seriously, money in this game is a joke. Getting to be a rich removed is easier than building water purifier settlements in Fallout 4.

kn0wmad1c , to memes in Another Starfield Post
@kn0wmad1c@programming.dev avatar

Starfield is fun to me 🤷‍♂️

PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

People keep saying it’s Skyrim in space. Great, I got a good 400-500 hours out of Skyrim.

iheartneopets ,

It’s not. No exploration or interesting story, no ‘wow’ factor like Alduin flying down on you for the first time. Don’t expect Skyrim. Not even close.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

No exploration? Isn’t there a class built specifically around it?

iheartneopets ,

You are mistaking true exploration for unlocking new locations

PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

I guess I will find out tomorrow.

iheartneopets ,

Have you not been watching gameplay?

PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

I don’t really do that anymore. Gameplay footage vary rarely gives me what a actual gameplay feels like.

I seen gameplay for Minecraft and shrugged it off originally. Ended up being the best game in the world a year later.

iheartneopets ,

Fair enough, I guess. I like to know what I’d be buying when I pay $70, personally

PM_ME_FEET_PICS ,

I have gamepass.

Chriszz , to memes in I don't get it

I was looking at the wrong tiles…

Spliffman1 ,
@Spliffman1@lemmy.world avatar

Me too 😂

NightAuthor ,

?? You were looking at the single tiles with variable spacing between them?

Sigh_Bafanada ,

A a a a a

NightAuthor ,

Which 80s song has those lyrics?

averagedrunk ,

Stayin’ Alive was my first guess but that’s the 70s.

Spliffman1 ,
@Spliffman1@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah lol 😂

hascat , to cat in Peak mankind

My neighborhood has a number of friendly outdoor cats. Id say at least half of them will run up to me and let me pet them

zanyllama52 , to memes in I don't get it
@zanyllama52@infosec.pub avatar

Jeeze, it’s everywhere. When does the hurting stop?

PolydoreSmith ,

I don’t know what you mean, he says right in the song he’s never gonna hurt you.

bird ,

That’s our secret, we’re always hurting.

Agent641 ,

Pain is weakness leaving the balls

FARTYSHARTBLAST , to memes in I don't get it
@FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social avatar

I figured this out immediately.

What is wrong with me?

NightAuthor ,

You’ve been on the internet.

Edit: But so have I, only after I got it, did I realize the “80s song lyrics” category.

trippingonthewire ,

I don’t get where people are getting the song from.

DeaDvey OP , to memes in Chads!

Made with GIMP btw!

paperemail , to memes in Defediverse
Viking_Hippie ,

Excellent! It’s exactly what the Dem leadership does 85% of the time (10% starting off just as awful as the GOP and 5% of the time actually holding firm on the only just course of action)!

Catsrules , to memes in I don't get it

How the hell did I solve that just by looking. That is crazy.

UlyssesT ,

You knew the rules.

And so did I. jetstream-troll

MargotRobbie ,

It’s the only thing I’ve ever known.

unionagainstdhmo ,
@unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone avatar

I doubt you would get this from any other guy

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