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Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

At least it asked politely.

Random Screenshots of my Games #50 - Remember Me in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Thank you so much for writing these posts! Don't worry about slowing down a bit, I'm way more interested in quality instead of them just devolving into a boring streak of daily screenshots, and most importantly, it's supposed to be fun for you in the first place! It shouldn't feel like a job! You can't write good reviews of games if you are not enjoying playing them in the first place, or you're prevented from fully enjoying them by the rush of finding a new title for tomorrow's post.

As for this one in particular, I've had it in my wishlist for quite a while. I've enjoyed most of Dontnod's games and this one seems quite peculiar indeed. I heard a few divisive opinions on it, but you convinced me to give it a fair try.

I'm not a US citizen, but happy veteran day!

World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive in c/[email protected]
World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive in c/[email protected]
'When presidencies go wrong': Economist says Trump may fall into trap that will 'doom' him in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 days ago (4 children)

If the last few years have taught me anything, it's that what you do is not important as much as the narrative that you are able to spin.

As long as TV news networks, podcasters, news outlets, and Musk's Twitter exist, people who are too ignorant to understand they are being lied to, or too lazy to parse credible information, will stay in the dark and vote red in the next election as well.
Democracy doesn't work when the electorate is too illiterate to cast their vote justly. They'll just vote for the next clown who promises them the moon.

I don't have a solution.

How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Isn't it the same as with every other entertainment system? I grew up with a big brother and a little sister. We only had one PS1, later one X360. We could either play in co-op, or take turns. Sometimes my father would also play on the console, and we'd do something else in the meantime.

What's different about the Switch? It's an entertainment system. You insert the game, you play. I don't have one, but I'm pretty sure it allows for different accounts to be created and each have their own save file, so there's no need to buy multiple consoles/multiple copies of the same game. You can either play on the go, or hook it to the TV and play with the bigger screen. You are not forced to play party games just because you have a bigger screen, and you are not forced to treat it like a "personal device" just because you are playing on the smaller screen (I also despise the idea of "personal device" for kids: learning to share games is a very important lesson for kids).

'What the hell?' Far right 'outraged' as Mitch McConnell 'engineers a coup' against Trump in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 188 points 6 days ago (7 children)

You know the times are dire when you find yourself rooting for Moscow Mitch.

Reelecting Trump is the US equivalent of Brexit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 184 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Electing Trump the first time was the equivalent of Brexit.

Electing him twice is the equivalent of setting your own home on fire, walking back inside while the house is still burning and taking a nap, hoping that the flames will only destroy your neighbour's house.

Triumph of the Cynics | Is it possible to resensitize an electorate to scandal and cruelty? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Watergate was such a big scandal that Nixon gave up before the impeachment procedure had even began, and it left such a big mark that we still talk about it so many decades later.

Trump was involved in many, many more scandals of far greater magnitude, and yet he won the majority of votes.

What the fuck happened during the last 50 years?

2024 Presidential Election Megapost! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's no excuse this time around. People know exactly who Trump is, and they have voted for him a second time.

I don't have much to say. I feel a mix of anger and disappointment.

Hopefully the Dems will be able to pick someone better to lead the party four years from now... I wonder what the world will look like four years from now.

How Europe would vote [in the US elections] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, I was talking specifically about the Republican period (1946 and later). As much as I despise our current government, Meloni is not Mussolini yet. We're slowly getting there, though, and I've never seen so many fascism sympathizers in the open (including in the government).

Our scholastic system has failed us.

How Europe would vote [in the US elections] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yeah, I'm Italian and I guarantee that we would not (unfortunately) vote for Harris. We have just elected our farthest-to-the-right government ever, and far right politicians have been popular here for a few decades, now.

I really wish this graph was true, though. I need at least one reason to be proud of my country.

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Exploring Bastions from the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide (www.dndbeyond.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apparently there was barely any change from the playtest version.

Key points:

  • Bastions are acquired at lv5.
  • Each player has their own bastion. Bastions can be grouped together into one bastion, but they are still treated as different bastions for the purpose of mechanics, except that grouped bastions can defend each other from attacks.
  • Bastions can be populated with "basic facilities" (whose only purpose is flavour, apparently) and "special facilities". The latter provide actual tangible benefits by issuing orders to them during the "bastion turn" (once every 7 days). Special facilities are acquired as the players level up: two at 5th and 9th level, and one more at 13th and 17th level.
  • Both types of facilities come in three sizes: "cramped" (4 squares), "roomy" (16 squares) and "vast" (36 squares), and can be upgraded later on. Some special facilities may have a minimum size requirement.
  • The article provides three examples of special facilities. I'm not going to copy-paste them (click the link, you cowards).
  • Project Sigil (WotC's own Virtual Tabletop) ad. Multiple ads, actually. My God stop talking about Sigil pls.
  • Attacks seem... Lackluster. "In the event of an attack on your Bastion, a number of d6s are rolled. For each die that rolls a 1, your Bastion loses that many Bastion Defenders. If you don’t have any Bastion Defenders or lose them all in an attack, a random special facility is shut down for your next Bastion turn." Bastions that are grouped together can sum up their defenders total.

From what I'm reading, there are very few changes from how it worked in the playtest. I guess they were either lazy, didn't have enough time to integrate feedback, or both. This thing only exists to sell Sigil.

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Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon (insider-gaming.com)
 

Cloud Imperium Games, the developer of Star Citizen, has mandated its developers to work seven days a week to meet deadlines for Citizencon on October 19th.

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Inside Annapurna Interactive's Mass Walkout: Internal Politics, the Surprise Remedy Deal, and Why It All Happened - IGN (www.ign.com)
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The entire staff of one of gaming's most beloved publishers walked off the job in early September. Why?

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The Italian town that banned cricket (www.bbc.com)
 

“They say cricket is not for Italy. But I’ll tell you the truth: it’s because we are foreigners"

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Soulslike Enotria: The Last Song delayed indefinitely on Xbox as dev says it's being ignored by Microsoft (www.eurogamer.net)
 

As spotted by Windows Central, though, Jyamma CEO Jacky Greco later went into additional detail on Discord. Following a community manager's statement dismissing speculation the studio had been "paid by Sony", Greco shared his own frustrations relating to the delay. "You can ask Xbox why they haven't answered us for two months," he wrote. "Obviously they don't care about Enotria and they don't care about you... We've Xbox Series X/S version ready, but we can't proceed with submission and release, I spent a lot of money for porting and they decided to ignore us."

A similar statement also appeared on Enotria's X/Twitter feed. After a fan inquired about the "main challenge" holding up release, Jyamma wrote, "Communication with Xbox. The game works fine on Series S and X but we cannot go through the submission process and they can take even two months to reply to us."

Greco later shared a little more on the issue the studio had enountered, explaining it was unable to open Enotria's Xbox store page and submit the game - something Microsoft's support teams reportedly initially took responsibility for, before further communications were ignored. "We really want to release the game on Xbox ASAP," Jyamma added elsewhere, "but with lack of communication on their side it is a hard task indeed."

The suggestion seems to be things might be resolved pretty quickly if Jyamma could get a response from Microsoft, but in the meantime, Enotria: The Last Song will only be available for PlayStation 5 and PC when it launches on 19th September.

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Talisman 5th edition out on July 1st, alongside co-op expansion (www.polygon.com)
 

I'm a huge Talisman fan but I wasn't aware that a new edition was being released, and I thought that others would appreciate the news.

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All announcements from the triple-i showcase (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Some trailers have been shared here, but not all. This is a list of all 35 announcements from the Triple-i initiative showcase.

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[6000x3376] Mt. Le Conte, TN, United States - Photo by Matt Hatchett (lemmy.world)
 

Photo by Matt Hatchett from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/trees-2867013/

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[Bug] 'Hot' sort order in multicommunities not working correctly (lemmy.world)
 

If I sort a multicommunity by 'Hot', it will show all posts from community 1, then all posts by community 2, etc... kind of defying the purpose of a multicommunity at all. I solved it by sorting by 'New' instead, but I figured I'd mention it here because it took me a while to notice - I thought people were not making new posts at all, while in fact, it was just displaying all posts by a lowly populated community first.

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Summit merges the date of publish with the date of edit (lemmy.world)
 

A post/comment that was published, say, ten days ago, but edited two days ago, is shown as being published two days ago. Would it be possible to display the date as "10d (2d)" or something similar, to distinguish between the two dates?

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Dungeons & Dragons Publisher Denies Selling Game To Chinese Firm: Here’s What To Know (www.forbes.com)
 

"In a Thursday statement to multiple outlets, including Forbes, Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro division that publishes Dungeons & Dragons and games including Magic: the Gathering, denied the rumors, claiming while the company has multiple partnerships with Tencent, “we are not looking to sell our D&D [intellectual property],” and the company would not comment any further on “speculation or rumors about potential M&A or licensing deals.

[...]

The Speed Daily report also claimed Larian Studios—the Belgian video game company behind the popular Dungeons & Dragons-based “Baldur’s Gate” games—was originally a possible purchaser of the IP but lacked the funding, and has since served as an intermediary between Hasbro and Tencent, which invests in Larian. But in a post on Thursday, Larian CEO Swen Vincke dismissed the rumors".

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[bug?] Comments list is not sorted correctly (lemmy.world)
 

The comment list is kinda sorted by date, except that sometimes it is not. This bug (?) is present both in my comment list and other users'.

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