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J_Darnley 11 points ago +11 / -0

A shooting is a too quick death. What they really need a long drawn-out struggle on the public street that bystanders can film without context. Police bodycam video doesn't help because they post the full thing.

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J_Darnley 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't want to defend the legacy media but isn't that just "someone in congress said this"?

by Lethn
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J_Darnley 1 point ago +1 / -0

Published by Hooded Horse? They have a lot of interesting games coming. As for the game itself it looks nice. Rimworld at larger scale would be nice but a hard job to pull off. If the combat is more RTS like it would be good.

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J_Darnley 18 points ago +18 / -0

The african pattern scarf is the cherry on top.

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J_Darnley 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sometimes you write things not for the benefit of the person it is addressed to but for all others who read it.

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J_Darnley 2 points ago +2 / -0

It certainly doesn't growl. (If you're unaware they added animal noises on top of the tornadoes in Twister.)

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J_Darnley 1 point ago +1 / -0

I have. It's a great '90s movie: a vague premise to hang action scenes and a little human drama on. It doesn't try to say much. The tornadoes just are. I don't have much hope for the sequel, I doubt they'll be able to imitate the feel of the first one.

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J_Darnley 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah up to you. I don't recommend people use Arch unless they acknowledge it is the hard way.

When I say "older things" I usually mean around the time of Civ 4. 10 years older than that and you might be encountering 16-bit code. Some well-written new stuff works and works well and some new stuff doesn't. Example of the good: Mechwarrior 5. Example of the bad: Baldur's Gate 3.

As for native games, I've not had a problem with any yet except 32-bit builds needing 32-bit libraries but most of those are required by, or optional dependencies of Wine anyway.

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J_Darnley 1 point ago +1 / -0

I do it the hard way by using Arch and stock Wine so I have no good suggestion for you. Proton seems to work well and is therefore popular so find out what distro it can be easily used from and pick that. Perhaps it comes as part of the bundle with the Steam client.

All I know is that native Linux games from GOG work well for me and Wine fills in the gap for older things.

[EDIT] The idea about using different drives for Linux and Windows is a good one.

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J_Darnley 3 points ago +3 / -0

I thought "men who have sex with men" was the new term.

by Lethn
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J_Darnley 3 points ago +3 / -0

Lords of Xulima

Nice visuals but pretty hard. I got stuck and never finished.

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J_Darnley 5 points ago +5 / -0

Would you accept other sailing media? Consider Hornblower and Master and Commander both books but both also good TV/film.

by Lethn
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J_Darnley 2 points ago +2 / -0

The animation corner cutting is widespread. I forget what it was I saw a couple of weeks ago, it wasn't fantasy or isekai, but it was a static drawing with insane camera panning all over. They didn't even bother with some stock effects overlaid. I think it was a battle so they could have done some smoke or sparks or something that moved to hide the still image.

Fantasy need a bit more life and creativity pumped into it and to stay away from the video game tropes. I know it's an isekai but I'll use Konosuba as an obvious example. It has jobs, parties, levels, mission quests, and is basically a video game being played by Kazuma. That is fine in a comedy isekai story like that but I see it seeping into stories that aren't. Goblin Slayer is close because it nearly has all 4: ranks instead of levels, no character has a name just their job, and obvious mission quests, and just straight up parties. Frieren, despite how good it is, still has jobs and parties and almost has levels in the form of mage guild ranks (very coarse).

Record of Lodoss war is hard to beat even if that is just a D&D game turned into a story but we need more like it and LOTR and even just some sword and sorcery like Conan, the barbarian not the detective. Don't use the word "party". Surely there is a Japanese word you could use with a meaning like gang, group, band, fellowship?

by Lethn
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J_Darnley 4 points ago +4 / -0

It was a 3 hour coup. The leader met with the president, prime minister, whatever, and didn't even shoot him. Whatever it was it was a failure. Even worse than the Russian mercenary one a year ago.

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J_Darnley 5 points ago +5 / -0

japanese

Why is it in english?

[EDIT] Minor retraction now I see you've posted the source which is in japanese. But now I need to find another famous thread which revealed several jap posters as being foreigners.

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J_Darnley 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am mostly satisfied with my logitech G402 which replaced my superior G5. It has two extra buttons (more than the relatively common forwards and backwards ones) but I don't use them much. One downside is that it is very angular with a bunch of gaps that collect gunk.

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J_Darnley 7 points ago +7 / -0

It looks like italian, the language, in the tweet.

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J_Darnley 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm sure we all expect them to have a "migration background", as the PC term goes in europe these days, but after the recent elections journalists might be hope you think they're "nazis" instead.

by Lethn
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J_Darnley 3 points ago +3 / -0

Thanks. Maybe I should have added "What is a skin in this game, or what passes for a game?"

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J_Darnley 7 points ago +7 / -0

Walt is probably doing several thousand RPM in his grave seeing what the communists he fought to keep out have done to his studio

Hollywood Was Always Red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtinTlx7yo https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=ZOtinTlx7yo

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J_Darnley 2 points ago +2 / -0

Germany hasn't had a more famous excuse since the "sexual emergency" case which I think involed a boy getting raped at a swimming pool.

by Lethn
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J_Darnley 2 points ago +2 / -0

What's a "skin" and why is it worth anything?

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J_Darnley 7 points ago +7 / -0

Hah. They let too many communists in and get too many ideas about revolution and decolonization.

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