It was a trick. She knows Enter Sandman isn’t a Megadeth song, and now she knows you’re not a true metal fan.

The games over before it even started.

I agree - An engine at the end of the day is just a tool.

This isn’t intended to be a bash a specific engine thing. I recently had a discussion with a friend who noted they very specifically avoided certain engines and I was wondering if that was a common sentiment or if he’s just odd.

I hate to wear some tinfoil but I’d 100% be unsurprised if Bungie or Sony were doing ‘marketing campaigns’ using stuff like astroturfing to promote their game. Its not really uncommon on Reddit and I have seen small/medium sized companies attempt stuff like this in an attempt to go viral.

All that being said, there’s absolutely no way bigger companies like that would 1.) be using Discord to conduct this and 2.) paying randoms to do so. There are much easier ways to go about doing this.

In my own experience, if you pick up another language but don’t use it on an at least a semi-regular basis, your skills in it get real rusty real fast.

If you glance over at Mastodon, there are absolutely content creators and people trying to self-promote. I suppose they do here too on Lemmy/PieFed, but its just not as well seen.

I don’t necessarily see it as a problem though if its relevant to the community and its something you can choose to disengage with… And also if the person posting it isn’t aggressively spamming every relevant community.

Dogs generally have a good sense if something is wrong or if someone is being aggressive towards you.
You don’t have to (and shouldn’t!) make a dog “mean”, he’s perfectly capable of it if he feels something is up.

I’d probably argue games that ‘can’ do this well is JRPGs because they tend to be a slow burn and have a lot of small side conversations that are not directly plot related, which allows the characters and relationships to get fleshed out.

The ones that immediately come to mind are FF 8/9/10 but I’m certain there are others.

In games where the romance is like a mechanic and not a part of the story? Hmm that’s a tougher question because I think mechanics/gameification tend to ruin the human part of relationship building.

I’ve found store bought ones are usually bigger but blander. Wild or home grown blueberry is quite a bit better.

Cowards.

I’m uncertain on this as its being made without Larian and likely has more involvement from Hasbro, now that the latter is realizing BG has turned out to be a golden goose despite their attempts to wring it for cash.

I still use my CD player. Especially if I’ve forgotten to turn bluetooth on and can’t be bothering with flipping my phone out. Fiddling with a bunch of plastic and easily scratchable CDs is much better.

Fresh cooked eggs? I mean most of the time, yeah.

I’m going to wait for Steam reviews to see how crunchy the performance is on PC.

Baldur’s Gate 3

Most anything PvP.

I just can’t do anything with games that don’t allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.

It doesn’t help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you’re not reading up on forums or discussions.

I somewhat agree. I think Morrowind would need a proper remake (not just graphics remaster) to iron out some mechanics but also expand on some of the content/areas where stuff got a little thin.

Even so, there’s a 95% chance they’ll face a lot of disappointment unless they nail it perfectly, and I don’t know if they can capture that lightning in a bottle again.

What kind of hosting service doesn’t have afterhours support?

Immersion for me is when you can interact with the world in a realistic or internally consistent way.

This sounds dumb, but if you can walk into a bar and order a drink, that’s a level of immersion. If you can steal the beer off the shelf so ths bartender can’t serve you, that’s even more immersive because even the NPCs are bound to world logic.

That’s great immersion to me.

Playing Factorio co-op was one of the games that got my wife into gaming. She couldn’t do quick reaction time shooters, but Factorio at its most basic is essentially a ‘puzzle’ game.

… But yeah we lost a few weekends or weeks or months to it. The factory must grow.

Kind of funky?

I run into a lot of weirdo problems that have been difficult to figure out, some of which I haven’t solved and just decided to live with for now.

I do a lot of game dev stuff and that’s been a funky space to operate in because a lot of software I use is either not available on Linux or its there but has big quirks that you don’t get warnings about. I’ve generally found alternatives but there are a few spaces where a single app or two absolutely dominate the space and they tend to be extremely proprietary and Windows/Mac only, especially as you start treading into the higher end fidelity stuff.

The other big hiccup I’ve ran into is collaborative stuff. A lot of other people are locked into certain formats or services which either don’t support Linux at all or its such a barebones support that it makes it frustrating to use. The people you collab with often don’t even know of these hiccups so they’re usually baffled on why you’d recommend switching to anything else and tend to blame the issues on Linux rather than the software.

Now I’m not particularly Linux savvy so this could be just normal stumbling blocks on the way to figuring it out, and I am slowly figuring things out, but it has been a funky journey.