[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I don't know wtf "real communism" is, all I know is that the communism I advocate for is not that of Lenin, Stalin, or Mao

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Meta Gear Solid -- a game about the metal gear series

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ah established Reddit account with real comments and lots of karma is less likely to be identified as a bot or sockpuppet, which is useful for people who want to run those accounts

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I'll take "statements that aged poorly" for $600, Alex

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Its the same design but with 2020 aesthetics instead of 2005 aesthetics

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

MYST, and if you enjoyed that, Riven and Myst 3

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I almost always prefer a quirky game that does its own thing to a bland game with mass market appeal. Most AAA studios, especially as game budgets have exploded, are afraid to experiment with their gameplay or do anything new. Nintendo is probably the largest exception to this rule, but it comes with the caveat that they generally don't release new entries unless they come up with something new, which is sad for, like, Star Fox and F-Zero fans. But ultimately the more a game costs the less room there is for the sort of risk that makes for the truly special games

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Some of them are. IMO the best are Way of Life, Holy Fury, Conclave, and Old Gods. If you want to play some who isn't a Christian King, such as a Christian merchant or pagan/hindu/muslim king, you'll need to get the expansion for that. Respectively, those are The Republic, The Old Gods or Holy Fury (either will unlock Pagans), Rajas of India, and Sword of Islam. That being said, if you like playing a Christian, Sons of Abraham is worth picking up. Finally, if you're the type of person who really likes optimizing these sort of games, then you'll probably want Legacy of Rome, which adds retinues, customizable standing armies that let a skilled player solve the combat system to punch way above their weight

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I just beat TOTK and while I'm still having fun exploring in that game I've also recently bought the Shadowrun Returns trilogy for super cheap and have been having a fun time with Dragonfall

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, i guess i can see that. personally i never really grokked goodreads but honestly I feel that way about most social media platforms so its definitely a me issue

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

When I was in school, the bus route did not stop near my house, and it was too far to walk, and there was no good bike route (though one exists now). In middle and high school I would often walk or bike to a friend's house after school but that wasn't always an option.

This is a situation forced on us by car-centric city planning

[-] gunnervi@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

There is a powerful network effect to overcome here, and I don't think "being federated" is enough to overcome it for most people. Reddit and tumblr and discord offered us "what if all your forums/blogs/chatrooms were in one place" which is massively convenient, and why people flocked to those platforms. Thats a transformative user experience. being federated is transformative, but the change to the user experience -- beyond a larger barrier to entry -- is minimal. The point of mastodon is that its functionally equivalent to twitter without being centralized. But there are no decentralized places left on the internet, beyond those holdouts who are either very attached to their old technology or want to maintain their unilateral control over their platform, and who are unlikely to federate.

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