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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

So I'm ~5 hours into the story so far. I was super worried it'd be a bad followup to the first game, which I loved.

It's pretty different, without getting into any spoilers, but I'm really enjoying it at this point. It's well done, the atmosphere and decisions are on point, and the micro management seems lesser.

A few UI complaints, I found a tiny bug, but all in all it seems like a good and long single player immersive story city builder. Exactly what I want from the series.

I'd give it a preliminary 8.5/10 because I'm biased and love the first one.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, my parents were cool as shit about this. And I think it had really good consequences for me later on, like in college.

Sex was positively viewed, but strict about protection (rightly so), and drugs were described as a spectrum with weed being very low, and the scary drugs (heroine) being very scary. They were honest about wanting me to wait for drugs and booze till I was more adult, but let me have a few parties with friends where everyone crashed at their house. It was super fun, and very badass feeling. I got to college and was like .... Meh? On partying.

Definitely not the only way to go about it, but the honesty helped me weigh consequences of it all a bit better, I think.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

And it's integrated into Archipelago.gg, which means you can randomize the alttp items with other games.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago

Ah that could be. Either way, $23 isn't the max

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 29 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It reads like the minimum went from $18 to $23. So the minimum is up from $18, to $23.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 151 points 6 days ago

Wow, really well said. Extremely important that everyone reads this info above

Edit: thanks for the gold, kind stranger

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 182 points 6 days ago (15 children)
[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Seconding OpenCourseWare. I used that a lot before and during undergrad (engineer with math minor).

I do recommend checking out the "fun" math videos as well because you'll learn a lot and it's fun, like Numberphile, 3 blue 1 brown, etc

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

Actually, missing because of a high-side on a motorcycle years ago. I did break some bones, but also tore through the ligament. Well, I guess it died from lack of being attached or whatever and was gone by the time they got an MRI on it

It allowed the bicep to regularly pop out of the humeral groove, which I assure you was not pleasant

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had some chronic shoulder pain for years. Primary physician was like "yeah that sucks". 2 specialists were like "yeah, old collarbone injury I guess? Take Advil"

Years later, third specialist opinion found a missing ligament and did surgery.

Moral of the story is that you should get a few opinions here, maybe the first isn't right

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

From a philosophy standpoint, Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. It's a brutally tough read, but a very interesting perspective of a Holocaust survivor and some of the more "mundane" parts (which were still horrific) in between the parts most people know about. The philosophy that follows is interesting.

It's certainly not without it's faults and criticisms, though.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Game is such an unbelievable slam dunk for me. Outer Wilds.

But if I could forget two, it'd be Outer Wilds twice because it's an incredible story

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