My favorite memory of the two Pathfinder games, and I mean this unironically, is doing that infamous quest in Kingmaker right near the start where you have to fight swarms. Level 1 combat against enemies immune to weapon damage – you have to actually consider your options and possibly accept turning down the difficulty. That interplay of character options and enemy immunities is, in my opinion, the core gameplay of CRPGs.
Incredible. The future. I will pay 10 billion dollars to replace my company with this picture.
Any chance you’re on iOS? That’s where the bug mostly happens, but no one knows why. I can recommend using next.hexbear.net for now.
Edit: Yeah, I’m also on Firefox. I wonder why it works fine for everyone else.
I just got Dragon Age: Inquisition and to be honest, it’s been rather frustrating so far. The controls/camera and interface are obviously made for a gamepad and the whole MMO vibe – endless fetch quests in wide, empty spaces; rogue and wizard are the classes that do damage while warriors are supposed to take the heat – is bothering me. And common equipment at level 7 being infinitely better than rare items at level 5 is just depressing. Still, I’m hoping that the story and characters pick up soon.
I didn’t know they had a foundation. Turns out they’re even renting a unit (probably just a mailbox) in a nice, modern office complex. Somehow, it nevertheless reminds me of those photos of the Something Awful offices…
[Nathan Fielder voice] Oh, okay.
What a cute little rat! They’re really the sweetest-looking pets.
I never liked that article because its message seems to be that we should make it easier for trans women to stay in the closet. Also, there’s an unduly focus on internet interactions and politically-minded undergraduate students – that’s a method with which you can make any political movement look ridiculous and extreme. Like, I can’t remember the last time I heard a strong anti-male opinion expressed in earnest (and I’ve never seen an academic feminist work in which a contemporary author was dismissed for being/seeming male). I feel like the liberal egalitarianism the author ends up advocating for is already the mainstream opinion on discrimination, and the idea that trans women should not transition and instead sublimate their desire into higher things is certainly also popular enough.
One part of the answer would certainly be material conditions. It’s easy to support socialism when it has given you a job and a place to live, but since “reunification”, vast parts of the economy were dismantled and the free market was unleashed, leading to widespread poverty, brain drain, all the good stuff. And it seems to me that poverty leading people to support fascism always wins out over having received an anti-fascist education, unfortunately. Still, the Left is more popular in the East than the West, but who knows if it’s due to the legacy of socialism or just because of regional differences within the party.
North Dakota: Annual income needed to live comfortably: $52,807
That’s way lower than every other state. What’s up with that?
I just looked at the piracy comm to see whether the posts there any interesting. One of the first threads is “Is there any option to rip OnlyFans content?”. TeddyKila posted an emoji at the OP, which is an understandable reaction, but that got removed by a mod. The thread is still up. I’ll go back to blocking that community.
This website, “The Insider”, totally looks like some fed stuff. No masthead, no owners or editors listed anywhere, but an acknowledgement that they are funded by several EU grants. Also, they’ve literally got an international list of enemies titles “Fakesperts”, which is comically incongruent with a serious journalistic outlet both in tone and in its violation of journalistic standards.
No president in our history has done worse.
What a statement. Forget the Native American genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dozens of wars of aggression the world over, or, on an individual level, raping women and owning slaves (sometimes both at once): that’s nothing compared to riling up followers on social media.
Besides, these platitudes about how important stating the obvious truth is are the kind of propaganda any side can claim for themselves. Real lack of media analysis on display here.
Reminds of a German TERF who tried to advocate for “sex-based rights”. But her English wasn’t very good, so in her translation, it came out as “sexual intercourse-based rights”. Nevertheless, she still got a number of votes because no one pays any attention to language if hate is on the menu.
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On a related note, have Israelis reached level of Apartheid delusion where they larp as the people they despise and constantly demand to be called Palestinian/Mena?
It’s sometimes done in relation to the whole claim about being “indigenous” to the Middle East. Read this article for some particularly embarassing examples, featuring the appropriation of Native American headdresses for a double slam of racism.
The post seems oddly trusting towards the game developers and hostile towards the people playing it. I don’t really care whether some auteur followed his vision of making a game with lots of “friction”; I want to know whether that results in an interesting experience that tells us something about the medium. Maybe it does, but the argument that some hypothetical gamer (who’s also excessively anti-microtransactions in a bad way?) wouldn’t like this game isn’t cutting it for me. Especially when the positive comparisons in this post are to Dark Souls (as usual) – isn’t that universally beloved by critics and gamers alike? That’s not a strong argument for explaining why DD2 may be unpopular, if it even is, for which I have seen no evidence.
If you know about the New York Times crusade against leftists on college campuses, he’s the guy who provides them all sorts of “scientific” findings to prove that being on the left is psychologically wrong and bad.
I’ve got a question for all of you: What’s the best way to run a leftist reading group? And where to start? For context, this is going to be a small number of young people who do not habitually read, so my academic instincts are useless here. Someone suggested reading during the meeting, which is maybe more approachable but I don’t see how would this work logistically (do we read out loud? Do we wait for the slowest reader to finish and then talk?). And I need to suggest a text. Presumably, people would get intimated by Capital, so something introductory with short chapters might be better. Any ideas?