WideningGyro [any]

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Cake day: May 28th, 2022
  • WideningGyro [any]@hexbear.nettogames@hexbear.net•What's a game you love but can't actually recommend?English
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    2 years ago

    Archolos is very good - it adds a lot while sticking close to the OG Gothic experience. My biggest objection to it is that as of right now it is only available with Polish voices, and I miss the crappy EN voice acting of the originals :( but that’s hardly fair given the amount of work that went into it. If you have the time, and love Gothic 1-2, you should definitely give it a shot.

    I played Risen 1 and 2 a long time ago and recall them scratching some of the same itch, albeit not quite as good. Just saw there was a third entry which I never played

  • WideningGyro [any]@hexbear.nettogames@hexbear.net•What's a game you love but can't actually recommend?English
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    2 years ago

    Piranha Bytes Gothic and Gothic 2 are some of the best RPGs ever produced in my view. The atmosphere, the sense of progression and danger, the way every single item and enemy is curated and placed in the world with care and thought, the way the game doesn’t hold your hand and characters actually behave like human beings - including the player. All wonderful.

    Unfortunately, the graphics were ugly as shit for 2001-02 and the combat is unbelievably janky. A large part of the game’s difficulty curve comes from how fiddly and frustrating the combat is. So, it is really hard to recommend.

  • WideningGyro [any]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•This simple meme has the potential to launch a days long, 200+ comment struggle sessionEnglish
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    2 years ago

    That’s a super good point, actually. At the risk of committing sacrilege in a thread meant to spark a struggle sesh, that could also be key to finding common ground between the vegan movement and people who aren’t ready (for whatever reason) to go full vegan. Tell them that the next best thing is to be positive about veganism anyway - provide vegan options for your vegan friends, talk about how cool it is that they are vegan, speak out when people scoff at vegans etc. I dunno, probably some people think that’s a dangerous half measure, but I genuinely think there are a lot of potential allies who are scared away by the “all in” approach to veganism (which I get - once you internalize that killing animals for food/products as murder, it’s hard to accept a little murder). Maybe they could, if nothing else, be put to work talking up veganism and vegetarianism to less receptive people - who might be even more inclined to turn out vegan voices anyway.

  • WideningGyro [any]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from January 8th to January 14th, 2024 - The Regional War Begins; US and UK Airstrike YemenEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I remember being, if nothing else, then unsure what to think about the things he was saying (I was a carefree lib in those days, and my racist-radar wasn’t as well developed, also knew very little about SA), but once he started spouting vile racist shit about my Muslim countrymen, everything he had said about SA became sus in retrospect.

    “Most other white people in South Africa statistically enjoy a much higher standard of living than everyone else thanks to generational wealth accumulated during apartheid”

    It’s so absurd to me that South Africa is as inequal as it is. How there wasn’t a massive campaign of wealth redistribution - by force if necessary - after apartheid fell, but then again admit I don’t know the history very well, and I guess it’s more complex than that.