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  • Ich kann mir das schon gut vorstellen! Seit Jahren mal wieder war ich vor der letzten Landtagswahl bei einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung der Linken mit, neben Gysi, lokalen Linken Vertretern und welchen auf Landesebne (Hessen). Und mir hat das tatsächlich wieder ein ganz gutes Gefühl gegeben, dass die Linke nicht nur aus Wagenknecht's TV Auftritten und Grabenkämpfen besteht, sondern dass da ganz klare politische Ideen dahinter stecken, die linke Politiker, die nicht so eine große Plattform haben, auch vertreten: Mietpreise, Öffis für alle, Reichensteuer, mehr Solidarität und weniger vererbte Macht und Reichtum; Sachen, die einfach Sinn machen, wenn man ein bisschen über sich selbst hinaus blicken kann. Auf alle Fälle hat mir das ein wenig das Gefühl gegeben, dass da noch was ist in dieser Partei. Etwas das mit Themen zu tun hat und nicht nur mit Personenkult. Ich hoffe also auf die nächste Wahl und darauf dass es dann wieder eine inhaltliche Opposition gibt!

  • After the WiiU? Nah man, the Wii was already way behind the rest and from then on out they stayed a generation worth of graphical development behind.

    I honestly don't mind that at all but I am also not the target audience for the latest and greatest in graphics. I love a great indie roguelike just as much as "complete editions" of triple A games from a couple of years ago.

  • The rating is 77. 77 is the lowest rating a game in the main series of Assassins Creed has received. This means the other games have 78 or up. How in the world is this considered bad? For an entire fucking franchise? Not a fan of the series or anything but I just think it's ridiculous how this is an actual headline! Don't the journalists have nothing else to report on regarding video games and the industry? Layoffs? Toxic people and business practices? Microtransactions?

    Nah, instead they go: "pretty good (but not great) game is slightly less good than other pretty good (but not great) games in an overall pretty good (but not great) franchise." Ugh!

  • The two (also slightly different names) I see on my Spotify have a "Viral songs on tiktok" playlist in their profile. So it's probably a way to spread/spam songs around?

  • Eh, there are quite a lot of additional services and products Google is selling. I'd argue they want both: my money and my data. And then they turn my data into more money.

  • I love Dredge! But I think I finished the whole game in 4 or 5 sittings over a weekend. That's not a comment on the game's length per se and more on the fun I had. I just didn't want to stop playing!

  • Well, welcome to the club, I guess? Hard to understand how a corporation as big as Google (or Alphabet) has such a hard time catching up to other music/podcast services. I am subscribed to Youtube premium, so I try Youtube music every once in a while and it's just not as good as Spotify! The playlists Spotify generates are lightyears ahead of anything Yt music has. And the main page of YouTube music is just random stuff that has nothing to do with anything even remotely similar to stuff I listened to. Also, so many artist pages still have no additional information about the artist/band.

    Anyway, for podcasts I prefer Pocketcasts. The free version is more than enough for the amount of podcasts I actively listen to.

  • It's all just buzzwordsalad at this point.

    Who the fuck genuinely cares about a digital plot of land? The only reason stuff like this attracts people is the hope to make money, and therefore only people who only care about the monetary aspect play games like Legacy.

    I highly suggest the YouTube channel "Jauwn"! The dude plays nft games "frome the perspective of a gamer", so he tries to give those games a fair shot (although he is clearly biased against nfts in general). To no one's surprise each and every nft game is just a grift to mine money in the pockets of idiots who think they are smarter than the rest.

  • Haha, Mortal Kombat 1 called, they want their money back!

  • So if one is not very experienced in game engines but likes to tinker and try out a game engine, is Godot something I could check out? I mean, without knowledge of coding.

  • I am totally fine with them only marginally improving combat. Fighting monsters in the first Dragons Dogma is still to this day the best feeling combat in any rpg! What I hope they improve on is the story, the way the story is presented and the way the player can impact the world. The only character from I can remember by name is Mercedes and only because I accidentally let her die in her escort mission and then for her to appear later as if nothing happened.

  • I am just one people, so I only speak for me. What kept me engaged in Witcher 3 was the dark and interesting world and the stories the game tells. I really love that about the game! I recommend playing Witcher 3 and Dragons Dogma back to back: one has this rich and interesting world with so many interesting stories and people in it and the other has this great combat system I'd love if those games had a baby!

  • Recycling my comment from the other day. I am close to finishing The Outer Worlds. The game has a somewhat mixed reception when it comes up in discussions online and I think it's mostly because the developer Obsidian made New Vegas and Outer Worlds apparently is the worse game. So, I never played New Vegas and therefore can't compare the two. I do enjoy my time with Outer Worlds very much!

    • it's basically the same formula as Fallout 4 but in a humorous space setting with better gunplay. Or, alternatively Borderlands with a ton more talking and decisions and worse gunplay. In any case a lot of shooting and looting.
    • different builds are possible but not as significant different as in Borderlands. But since it's not a massively big game it didn't matter that much to me. After a couple of changes I kinda kept investing mostly in my handgun, my companions and personality skills to pass more skillchecks.
    • what I like: the stories the game tells! Be it the main quest line or quests for factions or your companions. All have a nice sense of humor to them without getting too silly. For example there is a dude in a wurst factory and you get sent there to end whatever he is doing there (hint: it's more than producing wurst from spacepigs). And there are a number of ways you can approach this: guns blazing, trying to sabotage the factory or sneak in and just kill the guy.
    • also: great soundtrack and overall sound design! The jingle that plays when you level up is just great!
    • also: while not a massive big game there are a lot of different places to go and explore. From abandoned settlements in some sort of desert to a big city where only rich people live and everything in between.
    • meh: so many drinks, lotions and food items that give you different boosts. Problem is that there are so many different items it's hard to keep track which one does what. I abandoned pretty much all of them and only kept Adreno (restores energy).
    • meh: fast travel can be annoying because most of the time you have to fast travel back to your ship and then from there select another planet/spacestation and then land your ship and then again fast travel to wherever you need to go to. So it's potentially three (not very long, though) loading screens if you need to go someplace different.
    • decisions do matter in quests but the general direction of the story is set.
  • It's not like Borderlands, where there is a infinite amount of new but also more ore less the same weapons with differing numbers! You can upgrade (called tinkering) any weapon with money. It costs more with each upgrade and only upgrade it five levels above your own, so you can't just grind money and get overpowered. But yeah, you can finish this game with one gun you like!

  • I am close to finishing The Outer Worlds. The game has a somewhat mixed reception when it comes up in discussions online and I think it's mostly because the developer Obsidian made New Vegas and Outer Worlds apparently is the worse game. So, I never played New Vegas and therefore can't compare the two. I do enjoy my time with Outer Worlds very much!

    • it's basically the same formula as Fallout 4 but in a humorous space setting with better gunplay. Or, alternatively Borderlands with a ton more talking and decisions and worse gunplay. In any case a lot of shooting and looting.
    • different builds are possible but not as significant different as in Borderlands. But since it's not a massively big game it didn't matter that much to me. After a couple of changes I kinda kept investing mostly in my handgun, my companions and personality skills to pass more skillchecks.
    • what I like: the stories the game tells! Be it the main quest line or quests for factions or your companions. All have a nice sense of humor to them without getting too silly. For example there is a dude in a wurst factory and you get sent there to end whatever he is doing there (hint: it's more than producing wurst from spacepigs). And there are a number of ways you can approach this: guns blazing, trying to sabotage the factory or sneak in and just kill the guy.
    • also: great soundtrack and overall sound design! The jingle that plays when you level up is just great!
    • also: while not a massive big game there are a lot of different places to go and explore. From abandoned settlements in some sort of desert to a big city where only rich people live and everything in between.
    • meh: so many drinks, lotions and food items that give you different boosts. Problem is that there are so many different items it's hard to keep track which one does what. I abandoned pretty much all of them and only kept Adreno (restores energy).
    • meh: fast travel can be annoying because most of the time you have to fast travel back to your ship and then from there select another planet/spacestation and then land your ship and then again fast travel to wherever you need to go to. So it's potentially three (not very long, though) loading screens if you need to go someplace different.
    • decisions do matter in quests but the general direction of the story is set.

    I say: if you like stuff like Fallout, Borderlands and generally combat heavy action rpgs, this game may be right up your alley. And since it's kinda old at this point it's also pretty cheap most of the time.

  • Ugh, I played a lot of video games in my life but this clip right here is the first time I actually felt motion sickness. Like, from the moment the helmet cam starts I started feeling nauseous. No idea what they did with the overly zoomed in perspective but it's apparently the sweet spot for my brain to immediately go "imma barf now" mode. Anyway, I hope the Ukrainians met their objectives and made it out alive!

  • That's just me armchairing from afar, but I can imagen that life in the occupied parts of Ukraine is one with a lot of fear of the military and also fear by the military. There has to be constant fear in every layer of the military of getting targeted by partisans. Also I can only imagine the occupants viewing the people there as being "only" Ukrainians, despite the Kremlin claiming they are Russians. The see them not as equals. So driving carefully through this city with potentially hostile people you view as beneath you my be, in the mind of a russian footsoldier, dangerous. And it wouldn't matter anyway because those people aren't real Russians anyway.

    And all the people acting like nothing happened probably have fear to get involved in anything to do with the military. They know where you live and they can pay you a visit at any moment if they think you called the police on them.

    As I said, that's just my opinion I formed watching this insane war playing out in various forms of media.