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Well, he did kill Hitler
But who’s Joe?
44·21 hours agoThe same goes the other way around: don’t let your enjoyment of something stop you from examining it critically, or, worse, (try to) stop others from doing so - which happens quite often, unfortunately.
1·1 day agoMore like 3.33$ (or 3.33€ in my case) plus fees, but agreed
I must admit that I don’t plan to stop using windows anytime soon.
Linux is great and all, but there’s no replacing windows when it gets hot in the summer and I want to let the morning breeze in.
Mindustry is straight up open source, it is available on github under the GNU GPL v3
4·5 days agoDamage
Grievous and permanent injury, even
27·6 days agoEA has a bad reputation on Lemmy
EA has a bad reputation everywhere, and they mostly deserve it - even if you barely hear about said hatred anymore, because so many publishers and even a few indie devs managed to supersede their reputation.
Ready Or Not, I think?
On the surface it plays like copaganda, some people certainly call it copaganda, it does have some pro-police elements, but there are several bits of lore that points to cases of police corruption or misbehavior on multiple scales.
some examples (spoilers)
- In one mission, you have to detain a corrupt FISA (= FBI) agent - he may pull out a gun and shoot you, if he feels like he can take you out.
- You have to raid a house where three brothers are illegally modding and selling guns, to pay for their mother’s cancer treatment. She tipped off the cops, to stop her children from getting into too much trouble; if you end up using lethal force, you’re killing the sons of a mother who believed in you in front of her, and the game doesn’t count that as a failure.
- There’s an in-universe equivalent of MKUltra, and the main character is apparently a successful test subject of it. Some speculate that the USIA (= CIA) is artificially facilitating crime in Los Suenos to put you to the test.
- A mission briefing states that a police officer (or many? idr) beats up a detained suspect, who has to be sent to a hospital - the “victim” did massacre an entire night club with his buddies, but still, it’s technically police brutality.
- In the last mission of the base game you find a cargo container with human trafficking victims in it, then a sus conversation happens where another FISA agent butts in the comms and orders you to close it; it’s unclear what’s going on, the entire game teaches you that it’s specifically not your job to take care of injured civilians and whatnot, but the tone of the characters implies that the FISA agent may be trying to cover the tracks of the criminal organization.
If you do a bad job too often (which includes harming civilians and surrendering suspects), your subordinates retire (from the police, I assume).
Not you, though.
MKUltra.
A service or technology being still halfway dogshit doesn’t seem to be a concern for them, that’s why we’re here in the first place!
I haven’t played it in a while (a decade, even), so I may be mistaken, but I know of Ghost 1.0.
(it’s definitely not “modern” though)
Surely you don’t expect developers not to ship an entire web browser as a dependency for their application?
Not whom you asked, but I imagine it tastes vaguely like canned Heineken
7·18 days agoI doubt that, if you’re looking for an OG Cube World like you’re probably looking for Veloren
The Farmer Was Replaced — I got this game as a gift on Steam to a friend because they asked for a Python crash course recommendation, as I was assisting him with the learning process (considering that the game doesn’t use the real Python) I ended up playing it myself.
Some resources are surprisingly challenging to gather efficently, and my friend said that the in-game guide didn’t explain basic procedural programming concepts (paraphrased) well enough; he’s planning to start another run, with minimal assistance from me.
I’m not sure I should admit to such things on Lemmy, but I’ve also recently discovered the Peripeteia EA and I’ve played it a few times.
It’s… certainly a game, minus “certainly” — it’s full of bugs, the levels look unfinished (tbf, they are), the Funky Zone™ level is extremely hard if you don’t know the routes by heart, and its gameplay and aesthetics are an acquired taste.
I really enjoyed it (excluding the last currently available level), but I also really enjoy “games” such as X3 or Halo 2 on legendary so my enjoyment doesn’t really mean much.
Didn’t expect for Halo to stick with you this much… a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
If you ever feel like you’re stupid, ignorant, absolutely microbe-brained, and that no one on this planet could possibly be more braincell starved than you:
remember that at least you don’t invest in the stock market for a living