utopianrevolt

Diablo 4’s foundation is pretty good in my opinion.

This year will easily go down as one of gaming’s best, if not THE best.

some here won’t like the idea of a premium, private search engine but Kagi is one of the best tech discoveries I’ve made in a long time. I pay $5/month for 300 searches and always seem to hit the limit at the very end of my month, never payed the 1.5 cents per search after that.

so I’m curious, do you just not eat any actual food anymore other than Soylent?

is it better than Huel? Huel tasted awful

it’s not the same thing at all, but I found that my Steam Deck with Windows 10 LTSC 2021 installed works flawlessly as a media server with Jellyfin installed. I’ve found myself thinking that it’s the best contemporary equivalent of a Shield that we’re gonna get.

I legitimately don’t believe that Americans generally dislike smart political candidates, but instead have grown to distrust those same candidates because their intelligence is mostly used to deceive.

After decades of faux-concern-for-national-wellbeing, it’s understandable really. Along comes someone who incorporates fake populism and preys on the unfounded, uneducated fears of many. That person, either haphazardly or intentionally (my money is on the former), exposes the deep-rooted corruption on the American federal government.

it feels like the “promises” (read: lies) of neoliberalism have screwed over many first world nations.

a lot of what you excellently described is going on in the United States as well, for the most part.

many kudos to our French brothers and sisters and their massive protests. I’m not sure what needs to be done, but I hope that people around the world can take back what is rightfully theirs: equality, true freedom from oppressive, corrupt governments, and an honest living

You’re completely right, but it’s also highlighted when people on the internet discuss things they know nothing about but decide to become very sarcastic against “the other side.”

smug superiority indeed. many examples in this very thread.

and much more… centralized? But let’s also just ignore the part where it’s described as generally more secure as well.

it doesn’t, but for sure dispels the myth that the US isn’t evil.

Probably not what you’re looking for but Nobara is great.

all of the above

it’s a soccer competition

Does that occur more happen than abusers who don’t care if they are? I don’t know anyone from LTT personally, but I don’t necessarily get the feeling that Linus doesn’t care. To your point, ignorance doesn’t excuse abuse, but I think it’s an important distinction to make regardless.

I hope you understand that you’re getting downvoted because your reply is very low-effort that refuses to go into any detail. Therefore, it comes across as malicious, arrogant, and dismissive.

please explain

that’s a really disappointing response instead of taking a few extra seconds to protect people who want to have spoiler-free discussions.

spoilers…

“just do this or that.”

while I appreciate the attempt to help and provide options, I think your reply largely misses the point of discussing this. Google is going to keep shutting down those options until there aren’t any left, just like Reddit with Libreddit / Safereddit.

Disclaimer: I am a massive Baldur’s Gate 3 fan and fully expected it to blow-up, admittedly not in the way it has. I personally consider the game to be my favorite game of all time and won’t go into too much detail as to why, I am only attempting to explain the phenomenon that is this game from my perspective. It will be hyperbolic, but hopefully, I’m able to illustrate why I am.

Larian has been an indie developer for quite some time now and have been getting more and more popular with each game, similar to CDPR’s trajectory before the CP2077 launch. They have been a clear ally of the anti-DRM and microtransaction movement since its inception to now, a day and age where publishers have gotten so cozy with monetization that we have glorified mobile games releasing as fully priced AAA games with minimum effort.

Here comes along this developer that has incrementally gotten better at this one, admittedly niche genre of games. Then, it is revealed that those games, already well-loved, were sorta an audition for the D&D franchise and Wizards of the Coast. And then the same developer gets the license to Baldur’s Gate, takes 6 years with a massive, talent, and passionate studio, and delivers a game with legitimately hundreds of hours of interesting stories to tell.

This game is now the highest rated PC game of all time, highest ratest game in a year where a mainline Zelda game of all time, and has turned a NICHE genre to one of the games with a top 10 amount of concurrent players on a SINGLE platform. All while giving players so much… freedom. Gameplay wise (choices, experimentation, splitscreen or online co-op, etc), monetization wise (no-DRM, no-MTX, etc).

I completely understand if, in your eyes, Baldur’s Gate 3 is meh or even a great game that “isn’t anything special.” But this type of zeitgeist is only captured by a very few amount of games in existence, and the fact an indie-turned-AAA developer managed to do it while promoting the absolute best politics and sentiment in video games? That’s a massive win, in my opinion. This moment is very special in gaming, mostly because of its significance in this current time in history.