Celediel

Whenever I see the media being silenced like this, I’m always reminded of a Tyrion Lannister quote from A Clash of Kings:

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

YMCA’d

I dunno if it was intentional or a typo, but this is the funniest thing I’ve read all day.

I quit using Opera when it became just another Chromium fork, and never looked back. It seems like that was an excellent decision, lol.

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What an asinine comment that displays a complete lack of understanding of the history of the situation.

Seriously. There have been about as many civilians killed in Ukraine, since February 2022. Nearly two years vs one month. One is a war, and one is very clearly an attempted genocide in progress.

Not only impunity, but the full support of the governments of the West.

It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

This game is everything I wanted Divinity Original Sin 2 to be.

This is kinda exactly why I haven’t played it, haha. I’m a grumpy old fart who played the first two, and misses RTwP. I did enjoy D:OS I+II though, so I guess I’ll just shut up, play Pathfinder if I feel like RTwP, and be happy good RPGs are being made.

I do all of that with Keepass, for what it’s worth.

I’ve got high hopes for Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general. Voat’s issue was it was a haven for fascists and fascist sympathizers, and a centralized site made that the general vibe. The federated model makes it so they can do what they want in their own little corner of shit, and the rest of us can ignore them like they deserve.

I believe in that much more than I believe in the things spez says.

The comment you replied to literally has the source linked lmao.

A few of my favourites:

• Darklands (1992) - one of the OG RTwP games. Fairly low-fantasy, you play a mercenary gang, doing mercenary things. It’s quite old, and like lots of games of its era, is very obtuse, and not a lot of information is available in game, but if you can get past that, it’s a great game.

• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (originally 1996, but I recommend the Unity fan-rewrite Daggerfall Unity) - Procedurally generated dungeons and wilderness, an absurdly huge world, much deeper skills and stats than later entries in the series. It’s not my favourite in the series (that goes to Morrowind) but Daggerfall is certainly definitely worth playing, and the Unity re-write (with mods!) makes running the game a breeze.

• Ark Fatalis (2002) - underground first-person RPG, with a very unique magic system, incredibly immersive environments (one of the least “game-y” worlds I’ve experienced in a game), and a branching story affected by your choices. It was open-sourced a few years back, and a community has formed around a continuation of it, known as Arx Libertatis.

• Gothic (2001) and Gothic II (2005) - third person RPGs made in and very popular in Germany. Another pair of incredibly immersive RPGs, way ahead of their time in many aspects. The towns and cities all feel very lived in, and the NPCs themselves feel more alive than even some modern games (looking at you Cyberpunk). The character progression is absolutely fantastic, as is the way of levelling up skills and stats. Much more immersive than just “watch number to up”. As with Arx, there is some plenty of that early 2000s jank, and extremely wonky KB+M controls, but there are mods on that add controller support, and various other modernization/QoL features as well.

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I (2003) and II (2005) - Star Wars RPG taking place thousands of years before any other established stories. Very open ended in both story and character progression. It’s like a Baldur’s Gate in 3D, but Star Wars. The first is fantastic on its own, but the second needs the Restored Content Mod.

• Divine Divinity (2002) - from the people who would eventually make Divinity: Original Sin. Diablo-style combat, loot, and inventory management, with classic-cRPG-style questing, story, and character progression. There’s also a follow up, Beyond Divinity, that I haven’t personally played yet, but I imagine is more of the same goodness.

*insert always has been meme here*

Idk, if they release a game in 2023 that is still CPU bound that would be a big L from them.

This is Bethesda were talking here lmao. Starfield is still running on the Creation Engine, which they’ve been hacking together since the Morrowind days.

Most of the closed-source apps are shutting down, and the open-source one goes to a subscription model. What a time to be alive.