skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

Basically, yeah, but if every single LBP level wanted to nickel and dime you out of five bucks.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I remember trying to play Earthbound when I was younger. The story is fascinating, I really want to love the game, but the actual gameplay didn't really grab me. I remember getting to the first major town area and getting my ass beat by the gangsters or whoever that you need to fight there. Never made it past that point.

Any tips, if I wanted to pick it up again? Is this a game that expects you to grind? I found the early game to be really difficult, and I'm not usually one to be turned off by that but I really felt like I was hitting a brick wall and I think I must have missed something fundamental.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Our leaders care more about personal enrichment than they care about leading a nation. The problems are multifaceted, but I feel like most of them tie back to that and if that were to somehow change most others of our problems would follow.

Unfortunately I don't know how to change it. I can only sit here and watch it happen.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

At this point I just feel like America deserves whatever happens to us. Our problem is obvious and won't be prevented. We have successfully completed the Roman Empire any% speedrun, it's time to pack it up before we get ourselves a Caligula.

I hold out hope that we can destroy and then rebuild ourselves, like how Germany has done for example. But those hopes aren't high and they're unlikely to come to fruition during my lifetime. We need to wipe the American political slate clean and start over from scratch but that's never ever going to happen until after the existing government literally collapses under its own weight. It will require the complete and total death of America as a nation, in order to save America as a nation. I wish luck to future generations. Me, I'm moving to Australia or Korea before it all hits the fan.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Right. There have been folks getting paid for (and enjoying) being the center of attention since culture has existed. The entire concept of cinema comes from this. I wouldn't call Rowan Atkinson or Penn & Teller "attention whores or people who only want free shit" but they are the "influencers" of their time.

The dynamic has shifted, but I don't see it as some inherently bad thing, this just reads as a "kids bad!" kind of statement.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what "right" key wording you want if not the exact model and part number.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Not sure. I do know new creatures are planned and coming, and player vehicles are planned. I haven't played in a couple weeks though so I'm not sure what all is out and what's still cooking.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nuclear suffers from the airplane fallacy where when something goes wrong it tends to go really wrong and a lot of people die at once and it makes the news. But fact is, many orders of magnitude more people have died from fossil fuel plants, mining, byproducts, and combustion. They just die slower, in smaller groups, so it doesn't get reported on as easily.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

More stuff is coming / is already out. It's actually a really well done implementation of a live service game which I never thought I'd say about anything. That does mean it has a shelf life though and the live service won't last forever, which is a bummer. I'm curious what they'll do with it once they're finished actively managing the war story. Maybe hand it over to an AI in 2-3 years.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Laughs in ED-E/Boone overwatch squad

Those two will drop incoming Legion goons from outside of render range. Boone will jump-scare me with sudden camera pans to exploding Legion heads while I didn't even know combat was happening.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been on this list since the release of the steam deck because the 3 people still trying to play that game on the deck haven't finished loading the world yet

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

I truly don't understand how people are playing games like Fortnite or Genshin on a phone and enjoying themselves. That's probably the single worst possible interface to play the game on, that's like showing up to a counterstrike tournament with a racing wheel. I can't even play Minecraft on my phone without getting extremely quickly frustrated and Minecraft doesn't give half a shit about your reaction time or accuracy most of the time. If you want me to play an FPS on a touch screen I'm just gonna take the L and save myself the trouble, it's not happening.

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