This author really shits on Elden Ring in a way that suggests they don't know anything about it other than "popular". Maybe it's LLM generated?

If you want an apocalyptic soulslike shooter we've already got Remnant.

Basically it tastes nice, then you develop a dependency on it.

What's old.lemmy?

(Ps. Your username is very clever 😂)

I would assume not. It works for me

That is a very sad way to think of language.

I'm not a sportsy person but the minis won me over with their silly charm.

The very core of it is moving, blocking (fighting), and ball handling (usually just roll a d6 against your agility start, less modifiers). Players exert a zone of control ("tackle zones") in adjacent squares which apply agility penalties and provide assists in blocks. Grocking the assist rule and its implications is the hardest part of learning the game, but it's not actually complicated. Using all of that together for good positioning has a skill ceiling akin to chess, with risk management layered on top.

More complexity is added when you factor in the various teams and skills that can be developed, but 1) you can and should just learn those as you encounter them, and 2) the complexity:depth ratio there is very favourable imo.

I've never played Warhammer but as I understand it, ~~it's~~ Blood Bowl is quite a bit simpler. MTG is probably a fair comparison, but it's a bit apples to oranges.

In board game terms, I'd say a learning game of 7s (the smaller and sillier quick play variant) is low-mid complexity, and full scale league games with all the bells and whistles while being a tryhard about it is less complex than say, Spirit Island at its peak.

It's also quite telling that you can play it fast and loose as a beer and pretzels game more about "haha silly sports man tripped from running too fast and died" if you don't want a brain burner.

edit: clarity

Thanks for explaining. There is a lot of conflicting information out here - do you have any sources for where I can learn more?

Do you know where I can learn more about this? That's a pretty important detail to be as glossed over as it is in this community

I might be misremembering, but I think the universal translator operates on a basis of reading "brain wave" ✨vibes✨ so it is more about intended meaning than disambiguation of denoted meaning by context, which is why I think it would pick the right word to translate even if the listener isn't familiar with the contextual nuances... The listener is never familiar with those linguistic nuances.

For Darmok to work you kinda just have to accept that there's something fundamental about word-denotative meaning based language and allegorical meaning. Of course it falls apart if you think to hard about the specifics 😂

Love the penetrator. I tend to use armour sets with recoil reduction (explosion resist or engineering) so I'm looking forward to playing with trading recoil for ergonomics.

In general AH seems to approach balance by starting with something lackluster then buff based off of feedback, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a conservative initial set of options.

It works for me... I think it's something like it goes faster with port forwarding but to be honest I don't know the details.

How would MMP/STV handle a situation like this? Can candidates running locally also be on the party list?