I like duck if it’s done properly, but eat kangaroo more often.

I discovered Prey (2017) a few years back. It is so my shit.

It’s probably the worst named game of all time. It’s essentially a sequel to System Shock 2 and Bioshock. Should have been called Xenoshock or something because it’s generic name is nothing like the really original game underneath.

You are fully in the driver’s seat, with a crazy amount of freedom in how you want to get from one section of the space station to the next.

The opening scene, once I discovered the reality behind the scenes, I was hooked.

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.

We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.

That’s monsterous.

Trying pivoting, you might see a solution.

I lived in a flat in London where the only window was filled with these glass bricks. I think I would have preferred a window.

I’ve been refurbishing my PS3. It’s running like a dream.

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Yeah there are much more intelligent takes on this, but they’re arriving at similar conclusions.

https://www.404media.co/why-did-grok-start-talking-about-white-genocide/

Electrician. Everyone needs an electrician.

It’s a big dish as there’s 2kg of carbohydrates there and celery salt isn’t as strong flavoured as sea salt.

Are things like Taro and Cassava readily available in Germany? If so then I’d recommend Sop Sop.

https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipe/sop-sop/n6pvopkow

Can you not get life guidance, community and inclusion without having to believe in the supernatural?

Pretty much any immersive-sim, Prey, Deus Ex, Thief, Dishonored, System Shock Remake.

6 to 10 years? What kind of risk were they taking on? I’ve lost about 3 months worth of value in my superannuation fund.

Nobody born after 1985 has ever experienced ‘average temperatures’.

https://theconversation.com/lets-call-it-30-years-of-above-average-temperatures-means-the-climate-has-changed-36175

This was a news article from 2015. Since then nearly every year has set a record for being the warmest ever recorded.

We’ve had a decade of pumping more money into the money machine while our ecology falls apart around us.

I just prefer Lemmy. I started exploring Lemmy about 6 months before the API fiasco. The content on Lemmy has just kept improving since.

Lol my country is falling to the fascists. I may as well move to a country that has already fallen to the fascists.

Retrogametalk and segaxtreme

“We’ll talk about it later, I told you, I’m very busy”