Not sure if Cyberpunk 2077 counts as corporate trash. But the main quests are a pretty good story. Combat is fun. There are upgrade trees that are a bit more complicated than CONTROL.

And as for “power fantasy” if being able to solo an entire megacorp army and win isn’t power fantasy idk what is.

There are also lots of side quests that themselves are pretty good stand alone stories.

This looks like the kiln of the first flame from DS1

I was bored and had heard Elden Ring had great world building and lore. This sounded like the story adventure games I usually played… yeah…

After dying in the tutorial section multiple times because this was the first real combat heavy game I’d ever played. I actually committed harder to playing it.

I had just recently been diagnosed and medicated for ADHD and I decided that forcing myself to beat this Hellish game would be a great exercise in following through with goals and not giving up on tasks that are long/difficult.

It took me longer than I’m willing to admit (in my defense I was playing with a mouse and keyboard for the first week or two), but eventually I beat the game.

Oh I should also mention I did quit about halfway through… to go beat DS1 and DS2. I was dying to the same bosses over and over and needed novelty. So I decided DS1 would give me new things to explore but still help me get better at these games. It worked well enough that I decided to restart ER from the beginning. It is very satisfying to obliterate enemies that used to feel difficult and know that it’s because of skill not upgrades this time lol.

Mostly that’s due to how much restructuring would need done to fix it. Not really because we’re wired in the optimal way.

The left recurrent laryngeal nerve loops down around your aorta and then right back up parallel to itself because as the heart moved away from the head in evolution, the nerve was pulled down with it.

Could you reroute this nerve and still function? Yep, it would even reduce latency and just the amount of nerve tissue needed.

So why doesn’t evolution do this? Because it can’t…probably…

In order to reroute this nerve, you’d likely have to change how your nerves and heart develop in the first place. That would take significant changes to the genome and said changes would have cascading effects on the development of other systems. You’d need to deal with those effects to keep the rest of the organism organized like it was. (Just realized is kind of reminiscent of the transfer learning problem in machine learning, huh)

Point is, your body is wired the way it is because the “tech debt” that lead to bad routing is too much for evolution to fix easily. Much easier to just deal with it duct-tape style than refactor the whole body.

There are probably many more things like this, like our retinas being “reversed” where it likely would be better the other way, but evolution can’t fix such a primary structure so easily (our retinas develop from our brains), so instead it tries its best to make do, and we get specialized glial cells to be as transparent as possible and a neocortex capable of pattern filling in blind spots.

Hey mate you can always create your own community or full on instance if you want to. That’s kinda the point of the fediverse

This one is probably one of the better playlists I’ve found (though it’s called AMBIENT HORROR, not Eldritch Horror)

Fake: cops obeying the law and following due process? Really?

Gay: Anon clearly took “be gay, do crimes” seriously… too bad he didn’t take his opsec as seriously…

Holy shit. I had no idea who this was either. Then, like 5 seconds ago I open Spotify and in my search for eldritch horror music I say “hey why does that name seem familiar?” and then remember this post.

The song is pretty mid (and, while slightly eerie, it is not eldritch horror playlist worthy imo), but it’s just wild that it just showed up right after I saw his name for the first time in this post.

This is the fastest frequency illusion I think I’ve ever experienced.

Ghost in the shell both the original movie and the first two seasons of the of og anime are both classic cyberpunk media

Fake: two lawn chairs? In this economy?

Gay: went back to a guy’s apartment where there’s literally nothing else to do (besides each other)

Limbo and sex

(I will lose to Barbados Slim)

The first thing my mind thought of when seeing this was the firekeepers home in Dark souls 2.

Very different vibe. I guess my pattern recognition just got jumpy when it saw a hollow tree with stairs like that inside

Pull a page out of Disney’s book: dead parents.

In what way could this character have lost his parents in this universe? Vary the emotional damage to fit the theme you want (you can even have the character’s parents die in a stupid way if you want the story to be somewhat humorous)

Create a villain (or hero) to have committed that act—or use factions you already thought of—and voilà you have a character revenge arc set up.

You can repeat this with basically any universe, and it still feels fresh if you just keep changing a few things around.

Did it happen recently to this person or a long time ago? Maybe change it to be a different family member or a friend. Maybe this was a massacre where there are multiple survivors seeking revenge. Maybe instead of seeking revenge they are really just trying to hide because whatever villain took their loved ones is hunting for them still.

Hell you can even push the entire thing into the past, turn the revenge arc into the lore of the world if the completion of that revenge arc would have had a large impact. Then the main quest could be trying to undo what has been done, or trying to stop another group from trying to undo what has been done. You could even obscure the actual events and make legends that all are loosely based around the truth but contradict each other so your characters need to uncover what really happened. (Cultures like having myths that make them seem better than they actually were)

When you need random characters to play roles in the plot, its often fun to just pick a random race/culture/class in your world and then say “how could a person from this group have ended up where I need them to be and with the skills I need them to have?”

And if you directed most of that beam away from the sun and a smaller portion toward the sun (to keep your beam splitter in place) you could move the whole solar system

Not sure which way you mean this:

A) In the “(insert dictatorship-style government with extreme censorship that claims to be “socialist”) isn’t authoritarian because that word was made up by the CIA.” kind of way, or

B) In the “this meme was likely made by someone who fits option A, where they purposefully try to make authoritarian seem meaningless to defend their favorite ‘socialist’ dictatorship” kind of way, or

C) in the “People throw authoritarian around so much to the point it basically has no meaning because multiple groups purposefully shift their definition of it around so it doesn’t apply to themselves or people/governments they like.” kind of way, or

D) purposefully vague so you reap upvotes from people who agree with any of the above

If it’s D, well done my friend lol

Reliable OS: Debian is the standard, or try Fedora if you want to get the latest software features

Alternate DE’s: xubuntu is a classic and it’s fast. LXQT is also lightweight but not as modern feeling imo. Debian install disks should let you choose either of those DEs (or some others) when installing

Sexual Mishap Warning: Do not try to retract male connectors by twisting nuts on yourself or your partner unless your genitals are an APC-7 connector. Organic connectors will not retract and testicular torsion can be deadly.

Note: Above warning does not necessarily apply to custom organic, semi-organic, or inorganic genitals of cyborgs or transhumanists. Please refer to the appropriate manual for guidance on safely operating the specific model in question.

My first times playing ER was mouse and keyboard. I got progressively better but it was incredibly difficult. I thought I just sucked at games, couldn’t get past any enemies that moved fast. And duo bosses? Forget about it.

Then I got an Xbox controller and hooked it to my PC.

That next run-through, I made it from Limgrave to Leyendell in about the time it originally took me to clear Stormveil

It really is just funny that—not only is it an American flag—but it’s the “Earth” flag and it only shows the globe centered on America.

That view of the globe only shows like 20% of the world’s population since the majority of humanity lives outside of the American continents.

Tbf honey bees aren’t really monarchic. Iirc they have a very advanced democracy where hive decisions are made by unanimous votes (you vote by dancing the same way as those who share your opinion of course because you’re bees lol)

Plus the queen basically is just stuck in the hive forever after mating once. The workers are the ones who have exciting jobs with novelty.