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17hr ago
"Civ VII is the best" is a nuclear hot take. I can only aspire to such heights of picking fights.
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19hr ago
Honestly not sure. I only play on King. Was going to move up to Emperor once I played all the leaders once, but that turned out to take me forever so I still haven't done it.
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22hr ago
I'll give you West Dickens as a comic relief character (though in fairness RDR2 has those as well), but I can't for the life of me see how you would say anything else in Armadillo or Mexico is played for laughs. None of that stuff struck me as trying to be funny.
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1d ago
I also played it a few months ago, so my memory is as fresh as yours is. I completely disagree that the game was full of GTA style goofiness.
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1d ago
It's based on the progression of one of the main story quests. If you beeline just that stuff, I would guess somewhere between 10-15 hours. I looked it up and it's all of act 1, plus 8 missions in act 2. The reason I suggest starting the game normally is because IMO, act 1 is one of the strongest parts of the game and worth playing if you haven't before.
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1d ago
That is also why RDR2 is a huge step down from the first. Rockstar lost sight of the fact that they are making a game, not a movie, and that games need to be fun to play. RDR2 had its moments but overall it was a real let down and I had to force myself to finish it.
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1d ago
I definitely wouldn't say the first RDR had a lot of juvenile humor, or even any that I can think of. Unlike GTA, RDR was never meant to be satire.
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1d ago
I really wish that there was an easy way to change Civ 4 to 1upt (there is a mod I've seen, but I couldn't get it working on Linux so I'm not sure if it's good or not). It's so hard to go back to stacks of units, they're just so boring to play with. Otherwise yeah, Civ 4 is supreme.
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1d ago
Still on my second Cyberpunk playthrough. I did finally get mantis blades! They aren't necessarily any better than a katana or something, but they're fun, which is what matters. I am not yet an unstoppable death machine, but I'll get there. I figure I'll pick up sandevistan for time slow down, as well as more armor because right now it's pretty easy to get shot up in the thick of things (I'm playing on hard to get a bit more challenge, so stuff hurts).
I also started a new playthrough of Coral Island, because back when the game came out I wanted to romance this one character and she wasn't an option. But they just put out an update adding her as an option, so it's time for a new playthrough. Game is much improved from when it first came out, I have to say. I left a negative review back then because even though it was 1.0 the game was a buggy mess, but they seem to have fixed most of the bugs, as well as added some more content and QOL improvements.
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1d ago
You can, but if you haven't really played before I recommend playing the beginning of the game.
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2d ago
Same for me. I wouldn't mind if someone doesn't want to go (it's his loss), but if I was going to be in town during a world cup game I would absolutely go.
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2d ago
There's nothing torturous about going to a sports event, even if you don't enjoy the sport. I've been to games which I couldn't care less about; still had an enjoyable time.
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4d ago
To be honest, at this point whenever I see mention of a woman in programming (or other very nerdy things like speedrunning), I assume that it's a dude until I see evidence to the contrary. It's just by far the more likely bet, in my experience.
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4d ago
In what way have you not been allowed to criticize Wikipedia?
You were the one who implied he shouldn't criticize Wikipedia, by giving the "but it's legal" retort. Come on now.
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4d ago
Wikipedia is a private organization and is allowed to set their policies as they please.
I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise. I do not believe that it should be illegal for Wikipedia to do what they do. But just because it's legal doesn't mean it's acceptable. I believe that it is unreasonable for Wikipedia to act in the way they do, and I (and others) criticize them on that basis.
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5d ago
I just finished A Canticle For Leibowitz based on the recommendations of a few people here. I was genuinely surprised when I finished it and found out it was written in the 50s - the whole time, it felt like it was a more recent work for some reason. I was also surprised it was so Catholic, mainly because religion is so low these days, but coming from the 50s it makes more sense. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, though the transitions between the parts could be a bit jarring as you had to figure out what was going on. Particular favorite bits were
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7d ago
I started a second playground of Cyberpunk 2077 to play the Phantom Liberty expansion. It's been fun, I'm not very far in though. I'm going for a mantis blades build, but I'm too poor to afford mantis blades yet. Soon (TM).
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7d ago
Pretty strong, I'd say. There was a long dry spell after MW4 came out, but we got MW5 7ish years ago, and a Clan sequel to MW5 a couple of years ago. Both are still getting DLC expansions every now and then. Honestly it's a pretty good time to be a MW fan.
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10d ago
That sounds pretty intimidating! I've always low key wanted to learn how to play double bass, because they are one of the coolest instruments around imo. But I've been getting back into guitar and the string tension on my guitars has been kicking my ass at times; I don't like to imagine what almost 3x the tension would be like to play. Maybe once my guitar calluses finally come back, I'll give it some thought.
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11d ago
I think you're close but not quite right. Trans women are more likely to be superior programmers, yes. But not everyone who is autistic enough to be a top tier programmer goes down the trans path.
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12d ago
Of course!
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12d ago
I would choose my current career in IT, but without clankers. Setting aside debates about efficacy, if my career turns into prompting clankers I'm going to hate it. I got into this field because I actually like programming, but right now the industry seems to be trying to take that joy away.
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13d ago
Yeah I think that would be fine too. There were a few people vocally upset about Favre going to the Vikings, but most Packers fans don't give a damn about the Vikings - they aren't the rival team, though they seem to think they are. And even the fans who were upset wouldn't take it out on a Vikings fan who came to town.
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13d ago
As a lifelong Packers fan, that's really funny to hear. Obviously if you show up to the stadium wearing the opposing team's colors you're going to get a lot of shit talking (as you should, that makes it fun). But as I'm sure you experienced, it's all friendly shit talking and people aren't going to start throwing hands (even if you were wearing Bears gear).
Oh, I agree that Civ 6 is better than 5 (though I still enjoy 5 and go back to it sometimes).. I just don't think Civ 7 is particularly good, let alone better than other Civ games. They made their main design objective for the game solving a problem I didn't agree was a problem (late game snowballing) using methods that I think aren't fun to play (era transitions and forced civ switching, though at least they dropped the latter). Pretty poor showing from Firaxis, IMO.
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