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Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).

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I wonder how many people screaming it will take for politicians to be able to hear them over the sound the campaign money they’re getting from fossil fuel companies and lobbyists.

Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out (boingboing.net)

Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine to acquire a delivery channel and now wears its skin. This is fine for the bigger devs and publishers structured around platform relationships, but for everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… pick a flavor, they're...

Lauren Boebert's Beetlejuice companion owns pro-LGBT bar that hosted a drag show: report (www.rawstory.com)

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is getting some heat after video footage showed her in close contact with a male companion at a Beetlejuice musical from which she was booted after allegedly vaping in front of a pregnant woman. That companion is reportedly the owner of a pro-LGBT bar that has hosted a dra...

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I really do wish the headline had pointed out the hypocrisy on her part and not with phrasing that reads as being pro-LGBT is bad.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Eh, there have been different updates to the story, which is why. In a week, folks will go back to forgetting about her until she does something stupid again.

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He was arrested, and the company the statue belongs to is calling for him to pay the repair costs, not their parents, so maybe early 20s?

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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He wasn’t a kid; he was drunk.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Ahh, thanks. I’m not in that group so I can’t get to it easily from kbin, so feel free to post it there!

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Yup, the @ sign does it.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Oh, that’s good to know.

I like kbin, but ur still really rough around the edges.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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This is definitely a time when it’s important to capitalize the first letters in the name of proper nouns.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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And I’m really sick of people complaining about seeing posts on topics they personally aren’t interested in, instead of just scrolling by.

Looks like neither of us has gotten what they want today.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I have serious questions for anyone who gives a game, any game, a completely perfect score, especially one that is known to have some technical issues.

stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited )
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Then block me. The block button is not hard to get to. Then you will never, ever have to scroll by anything I post again.

The power to control what YOU see is in YOUR hands!

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You as well. Goodbye!

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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It looks like they’ve made a LOT of fixes to some of the base mechanics, so hopefully that’ll make the game closer to what it was envisioned to be. It might make the game feel fresh for a replay.

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Do you think that’s because a lot of the planets are procedurally generated? I’ve seen people saying that since they’re generated, not hand crafted, they feel really same-y after a while, and there’s never anything interesting to find to start you on a quest you could easily miss, like you could find in other Bethesda games by exploring.

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It feels a lot like scores have been artificially inflated for a long time. Like you said, games that can barely run will get a 5, or a 4 at the lowest. It’s like half the possible scores have been lopped off, so there’s no real way to tell what a score actually means. A 7 should be a perfectly serviceable game, but it’s treated like you’ve called a game complete trash for anything below a 8.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Thank you!

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Just block me, bro. It won’t hurt my feelings. Curate your feed as you need to.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Feel free to block me, too. If you don’t like what I post, you won’t need to see it.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I post things that I think can get people talking and spark conversations along with things I think are interesting. I posted this, for example, because of the way it was talking about how gamers can get tribal and make it so you can’t seriously talk about a game when that happens because of how some folks lose their shit when you try.

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There’s literally no one angry in these comments except the folks complaining about this being posted. Everyone else is talking about the game.

But you have a nice day.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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Doing a rerun of the Mass Effect trilogy, and just started ME3. Mass Effect is my comfort game, I swear.

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I’ve played Andromeda - quite a lot, actually, because before I started PC gaming, and after my PS3 broke, the only way to get my Mass Effect fix was to play Andromeda.

I think Andromeda got a bad rap. Or rather, people were a lot harder on it than it deserved, because the game was rough and, more importantly, Ryder wasn’t Shepard. Ryder is a very different character and folks wanted Shepard in a different skin. They wanted Paragon and Renegade when BioWare went with a more Inquisition feel to developing how Ryder can react. Add to that how the beginning act was easily the least polished section of the game at launch, and so people just dragged it. And once The Gamers as a collective decide a game is only fit to be made fun of, that’s it.

Now, Andromeda wasn’t perfect at all. The facial animations are not the best, and I still have no idea why they thought Ryder’s running animation was ok. I also really think the writing needed at least another two rounds of editing. But. The game play is really solid, easily the best of any Mass Effect game, and there was something there in the story (it just needed some rewriting). BioWare also made the mistake of putting in more for the sake of more - Inquisition was too big, and they decided to try to make Andromeda bigger, and there’s a lot of filler quests that shouldn’t be there.

I actually really enjoyed playing Andromeda, for all I got really irritated by a lot of the things I mentioned here - and I got irritated because I could see how close they were to something really, really special, and how they needed more time to get there, but didn’t have because of the mess they made of early development. There were enough things and decisions that I really wanted to see how they played out down the line, and I’m sad I probably won’t get to.

The best way to enjoy Andromeda is to go in thinking of it as less of a “Mass Effect” game, and more as a game set in the Mass Effect universe, if that makes sense.

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I wonder if Bioware will try an Andromeda 2 down the line, I think that universe deserves another shot.

Sadly, with the closure of BioWare Montreal and them deciding to go back to the Milky Way for 5, I don’t think we will. Which is a really shame, because I still think Andromeda 2 could have really been special, because the Montreal devs said they learned a lot from Andromeda and had big plans for 2 and improving things.

A lot of people also compared Andromeda to the entire ME trilogy, which really wasn’t fair to it.

BioWare had a good idea with trying to do something new, but sadly, often times True Fans don’t want something new; they want the exact same thing. They couldn’t - or wouldn’t - let Andromeda be Andromeda.

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All cables will be like that for the 15, because they’re using last year’s pro chip. The 15 pros will have full USB-C speeds.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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Yeah, maybe don’t listen to that dude.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Yeah, I saw it coming and did not regret that death. I earned it, but it was completely worth it.

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Most games should be so lucky.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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A cop is actually going to have to help people. That’s torture right there. This is clearly unconstitutional.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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She. It was a female cop.

“I simply fell short of my values”: Lauren Boebert issues apology after being removed from “Beetlejuice” performance (coloradosun.com)

The Republican congresswoman said “while none of my actions or words as a private citizen that night were intended to be malicious or meant to cause harm, the reality is they did and I regret that”

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She also had a boob out, so there ought to be an indecent exposure charge if nothing else.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Seriously, that’s what I’ve been thinking recently - that we’re hitting the self-destruction theory of the Great Filter.

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The Salt Factory is pretty good, although he does have a bit of an annoying voice. Still, he’s really funny.

For more literary theory-based interpretations, Jacob Geller. I loved his video “Judaism, Whiteness, and Wolfenstein” and “An Uncanny Reality” on Silent Hill 2 and Devotion.

New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease (scitechdaily.com)

Researchers from Pritzker Molecular Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell, demonstrated that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune response linked to multiple sclerosis. Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have developed

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Because there’s a difference between “dismissive” and “skeptical.” Your comment was dismissive whereas adj16’s was skeptical.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I highly doubt we’ll get to a post-scarcity space faring civilization stage. More likely, we’re in the midst of the “self-destruction” part of the Great Filter.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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And surprise surprise, when actual sentences are used to express full ideas and sentiments instead of just sarcasm, it gets accepted better, especially when it’s something that actually matters to folks.

Negative output = negative responses

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Ok bro

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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I fully understand the difference between skeptical and dismissive.

I was very intentionally choosing dismissive.

Have a nice day.

stopthatgirl7 OP , (edited )
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I honestly don’t know which is stupider, console wars or iPhone vs Android. Like. Use whatever you like to get your dopamine rush.

I especially can’t wrap my brain around being so loyal to your console that you’d try to get someone fired for playing a game on the other console. If you are at that point, you need to go outside for serious. Go for a nice hike in the woods or something.

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I did; wth did I type lol

And let’s not start the phone wars, please.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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And I truly do not get it. I was a PlayStation person before I got a PC, and I never understood it even then. Why are you getting mad at more people getting to play good games?

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