Thanks for this recommendation. Also not a reader of fanfic but have very much enjoyed reading a few chapters.

I’ve got it downloading now. Love Obsidian games.

Pit bulls, XL Bullys, Akitas… these dog breeds are not fully domesticated.

Always unnerving when you are out walking your dog and you pass the owner of some hellhound saying, “Don’t worry, Toby is friendly!” While the dog is salivating and pulling at the leash to come and maim you lol.

I just swapped to Ubuntu on my straggler/media server Windows 10 desktop. Have been running Gentoo on another PC for years but never had so much trouble as trying to setup bumblebee with a GTX960 - holy crap nvidia suck so hard. The other PC is all AMD so I was living in blissful ignorance.

I believe they call this “biting the hand that feeds”. I don’t think there are a load of heteronormative bros in there buying funko pops.

Their Luna product seems to be different to Steam. It’s a streaming platform like Playstation Now or the Google Stadia one that got shut down.

The other games that they’ve got on there primarily seem to be DRM-free GOG codes, mixed with some for the Epic store. Maybe they meant they were taking on Steam by boosting their competitors?

“Powerful” probably wouldn’t be the word I’d use given that security updates have stopped. Maybe “foolhardy”?

Watching the review from Gmanlives I was struck by how much the game looked like PoE from a first person perspective. Including the mechanics. Like he was complaining about the objects in the world not reacting and stealing not being a mechanic but that’s exactly how it works in PoE (and Baldurs Gate). Also the spells look like they have moved over 1:1.

CBBC website

Digimon Survive was a great VN from a few years back. Darker than I’d expected. Almost a spiritual successor to Devil Survivor.

I think you can have a reasonable expectation that companies won’t store your personal data without permission while you are still alive. However asking future historians to omit or not investigate your existence seems unreasonable.

That’s Paley’s Teleological argument from the 18th century. It’s a classic but back then you have to remember clocks were more impressive.

The modern day spin on it is the “fine tuning” argument. Basically: the chances of life existing at all with our earth and the solar system being in a goldilocks zone seems too perfect to be a coincidence. You can probably explain it with selection bias but it’s a better argument nonetheless.

I share your frustrations. Talking about politics on the internet is usually a waste of time because the people who are most keen on discussing it tend to have extreme points of view. WRT lemmy I only subscribe to non-politics subs and then switch to All if I ever have a rare hankering to discuss it.

Lemmy is pretty good in terms of moderation in my opinion provided you are not talking politics.

Will definitely be dipping into gamepass to try this one out

I don’t think these people actually want to leave reddit. They are only interested in farming karma by complaining about it,

Hell yes! I love the old 2D Shinobi games. I had the 3D one on PS2 as a kid as well but it kicked my arse.

Dumb idea I’m afraid. Although to be honest I did once give someone a paid internship because they had a line in their CV that read, “Hobbies: Daft Punk”.

They did fine in their technical assessment too I guess.

Not weird enough to be Pynchon but it was a good comment nonetheless

I think we’ve both got different perspectives on this that aren’t going to change so let’s agree to disagree.

I’d argue that attempts to force people to change their beliefs too quickly has led to a conservative reactionary backlash in recent years.

Recent surveys are showing an increase in people, in particular young people, harbouring intolerant views vs even 10 years ago. I think that suggests that the maximalist progressive rhetoric on social media is turning people away from progressive causes.

Creating a more tolerant society is a frustratingly slow process where the general public gradually become acclimatised to new ways of thinking. Forcing it creates a backlash because people need to feel like they arrived at their ideas themselves. There used to be an acknowledgement that it was a mutual process which is missing from the debate today.