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What exactly are you defining the 4th dimension as...?

Link works fine? THR is a pretty large industry publication, doubt their servers would go down from lemmy traffic.

Probably what happens in Charles Dickens novel, except everyone has smartphones now.

But tech bros don't think literature or history are important disciplines, so they don't even know what happens in a Charles Dickens novel.

That's fine, you can disagree. But as someone who 100% the game (and somehow kept my sanity), I really do think anything that is outside of the Clive/Joshua/Rosfiels story is pretty weak, and that is like...35% of the game total.

I don't want to get into spoilers, but I think all the Eikons outside of Dion are severely underutilized, and could have been much more impactful in the story. The whole Ultima payoff is also really not very well thought out with how it's explained. That's why I genuinely think the writers were segmented into different teams and were not communicating with each other.

The Rosfield-centred plot is genuinely great though, I really wish they had stuck mainly to that.

This is just my opinion, please if anyone reading this loves FFXVI don't take it personally!

IMO: The story is ass, the visuals are spectacular (especially the Eikon fights), the soundtrack is amazing, and the gameplay is a weird combo of FFXIV and DMC5. If you're not opposed to some game spoilers, I would really recommend watching a stream of the beginning of the game just to see what you're getting into.

If you've played other mainline Final Fantasy, it's very different gameplay-wise. Your party is AI controlled, and you only control the main character of the section (usually Clive). This really turned me off from the game tbh. The mainline story can really drag too, and the sidequests vary in quality so much I genuinely wondered if they had several different teams working on them and not communicating. The only ones I really liked were the hunts, because I think that's the only time you as a player actually have to think about your moveset and how to tackle a boss.

If you can get it on sale, and you're willing to sit through like...15h of intro to actually get to the main parts of the game, go for it. If you want something a bit shorter, but shows what modern Final Fantasy games seem to going towards, maybe try Final Fantasy 7 Remake. If you want a cleaner version of Clive's gameplay, I recommend the Devil May Cry series, especially 5.

I should clarify to say I've never been in a space where CP was being distributed.

But one of the times it was on reddit (just before the blackout, actually). One of the "recommended" posts to me was a post with a collection of pictures of random screenshots of naked babies and toddlers in bathing suits from random instagram accounts/family vloggers maybe. It had low double digit upvotes but a hundred comments, the top level ones being just...really creepy, and the replies calling them out (I'm assuming these were people who also got the post "recommended" to them, like me).

I reported it and tried to block it from my memory. It freaked me out how many people were in the post defending it as innocent post of just "kids having fun", when like...it clearly was not. I remember the OP's profile having a bunch of posts like that too, even though it was a very new account.

Anyone reading this , please don't post your babies/toddlers on social media 🙏

Yep, lemmy was hit with a bunch of CSAM spammers last year, and I was unfortunate enough to see a post before mods/admin were able to do something about it.

https://lemm.ee/post/5814485

1. Spam
2. CSAM/defending posting CSAM
3. incessant hornyposting on unrelated topics. Not like making a sex joke a couple of times, but a persistent history of pornbrain comments in non-NSFW communities. It's just annoying.

My blocklist (outside of spam accounts) is like 5-6 people on Lemmy. But it's definitely larger on other social media sites because there are a cesspool of people doing #2 and 3.

Ooh, you may be right. I also don't have that set up.

I can't read this without subscribing, and I have no idea how to opt out.

Is it really? I remember Mt.'Hope being more flat, but I've only gone to the side with the tennis courts and the soccer field (for anyone that doesn't know, the University of Rochester and a bunch of it's facilities are right next to Mt. Hope, a sort of cemetery/public park hybrid).

Everyone should watch Shogun! If your anathema is crappily produced/costumed "high quality" streaming shows, it is the exact opposite. Best production I've seen in a long time.