[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

It's too vague a question to answer easily. I'd need specific scenarios because the tell and the tipping point might be different in different scenarios. There might be a pattern, but you'd only see it with multiple scenarios about the same person, and even then, there might be some details you're not privy to that would otherwise change your perspective. It's also entirely possible for a person to be right some of the time, but to fight regardless of whether they are or not.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Probably getting sued out of existence for violating patents and breaking DRM.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I'm disappointed that no one responded to you with YTA or NTA.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I'd recommend delaying quest competition and just go wandering around town and find some fights to get into, get some leveling done, and upgrade your equipment. I find the open world to be more interesting than most quest plots.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Mod-friendly games with large mod communities like Skyrim or Mount and Blade 2. The ability to play a game like Skyrim in completely different ways keeps it fresh.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

This is the contradiction for my taste. I like the dark themes and some of the aesthetics, but not the masochistic game play. I play as much for the narrative or even moreso than the gameplay, so games that make the player get better rather than the character get better are just frustrating because they're punishing me for not spending more time on the least interesting aspect.

Spending 20 more attempts before I defeat a boss doesn't give me a greater sense of accomplishment, but rather a greater sense of wasted time when I could have been enjoying interesting details of the narrative or the aesthetics.

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As smoke drifts off the thusly smote corpse of the aforementioned villain, a whispy shade materializes over the body and resumes where the villain left off, stating: "...and so you will never find the mystical orb of Theremas in the dark tower of Zyyzaxes, beyond the fire jungles of Lardamas, near the equally dreadful pits of awkward socialization, just short of the black cave of high school reunions!"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

80s kids typing in cheat codes on their Game Genies...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you ordered it online, what does it say on the order history? What does it say your card is in system info?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Depends on the stores these days, in my experience. Some stores are scheduling fewer cashiers after installing more self checkout lanes and have removed signage about item limits in self checkout. If you want a human cashier, you have to wait a while because there might only be one on shift so you get a line.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

From an ideological perspective, think of it as a rejection of the uplifting and hope-filled narratives of high fantasy such as JRR Tolkien's work, where characters like the hobbits exhibit the best humanity has to offer in bravery and fortitude and love. Even the darkest aspects of the mythos of middle-earth is filled with instances of redemption and the light standing against the darkness.

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[Steam] Witchy Life Story (store.steampowered.com)
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I have a game key for Witchy Life Story on Steam.

Message me rather than replying to the post. First come, first served.

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I got the Cyberpunk Playground Humble Bundle, but I already own Cloudpunk, so I'm giving away the STEAM key to that game.

  • Message me from my profile page (i.e. don't request it in the replies to this post)
  • These giveaways tend to go fast, so don't be surprised if it's gone by the time you request it
  • I'll delete the post after the game key is taken
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If any nuclear attack would be met with a counter attack using nukes, the whole world would suffer from the fallout that wouldn't be contained only within the national boundaries of the countries that get nuked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust

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Crow on a Fence (imgur.com)
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Crowbits here was trying to shove every last treat I put out for him into his caw maw before flying away.

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languid-lemur asked on the Cyberpunk subreddit what the most cyberpunk thing is in your daily life.

This was my response:

Spending untold amounts of time on executive-function-attenuated addictions to dying corporate ad-driven profit machine engagement platforms that you reopen after momentarily forgetting that you just closed them when the dopamine rewards diminished while your life was happening in the background white noise without you noticing, like the soft hum of the air filters you've forgotten to service for another month. NFC smart watch payments on self-checkout machines for your greater convenience and the lessening need for inhuman interactions and paying fewer retail employees a poverty wage with no benefits, while the smart machine stupidly tells you to remember to take the receipt that you declined to print and tells you to have a nice day and sincerely thanks you for your purchase from the deepest abscesses of its silicon heart. Meanwhile at work you hesitate to deal with the security-obsessed IT administrators who want to lock it all down so the technology is not useable because that's how you prevent issues, deepfreezing 99% of the hard drive so it forgets to remember your files when it reboots over night after an update and a network crash they wait a few hours to tell you about. But at least the black-topped corn starch 3D printed glow-in-the-dark mechanical keyboard caps are turning out decently and the supply chain shortage price-gouged microcomputer hardware you've been waiting for finally arrives via webcam monitored independent contractors so their boss can cowboy up to the mesosphere one more time instead of solving world hunger. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

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The Big Book of Cyberpunk is coming out Sep 26, 2023.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700576/the-big-book-of-cyberpunk-by-jared-shurin/

One of my short stories is getting republished in it, titled Keep Portland Wired.

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