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  • One nitpick with this: This only applies to the US.

    I get that a large percentage of Lemmy (and Reddit, earlier on) are from the US, but it bugs me that things like this default to being US-centric without mentioning it.

    Awesome initiative, nonetheless!

  • Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters
  • That's brilliant.

    You know how once in a blue moon you look at news story that's sounds completely crazy and go "huh"? Like when buzzfeed suddenly started using all their clickbait money to fund good, legitimate journamism?

    This would be that.

  • Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2
  • That's the important bit that everybody is missing:

    Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model

    Clicking through to the paywalled article, the headlines reads as follows:

    Apple Suspends Work on Next Vision Pro, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025.

    I am as unoptimistic on the future of VR as everybody else here, but can we please leave the nuance in? Apple are not turning the key on VR, at least not yet, they are simply doing the predicable thing that everybody said their would: Release a VR headset that isn't targeted at developers only.

  • In yesterday's posts, a few people complained about BG3's writing. Which games would you recommend for better story lines and characters?
  • Personally I enjoyed both the storyline and characters in BG3, but I also highly recommend Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

    The gameplay is tighter, owing to a more mechanically sound system (Pathfinder 1e versus D&D 5e), but also not as "free" as BG3. It's a lot more difficult, but it scales better too.

    With that out of the way, both the story and the characters are absolutely excellent. The game is an adaptation of the official Pathfinder adventure path of the same name published by Paizo. For the uninitiated, Paizo started out as the team within Wizards of the Coast that wrote and designed adventure modules. Wizards fired them, so they set up their own shop to keep writing kickass d&d campaigns.

    Wrath of the Righeous is no exception. The scope is enormous, and you really get that classic journey from lowly adventurer to god-killing hero. The characters are excellent and many, both in the party and supporting cast. I loved BG3, but I must admit that I find the villains and plot more compelling in Wrath.

  • Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10
  • Sure, will you call the it admin where I work and tell him I'm switching?

    I want to switch to Linux just as much as you, but at work I have literally zero influence over this. Private OS choice and enterprise / corporate are very different things, and businesses refusing to switch away from Windows is a very big reason why Microsoft's behaviour lately is a big deal.

  • You don't have to use gyroelongation
  • I knew this!

    On the off chance that one of you needs to model an Icosahedron / D20 in CAD, constructing three golden rectangles is often the easiest way to go, as it removes the need for calculating face angles.

  • I fear no man.... Kinda
  • Slight correction: A zealot barbarian, who would have otherwise been dead, has such a low amount of HP that they're vunerable to the sleep spell.

    Zealot barbs have the same mountain of HP as every other barb, so they need winding down before Sleep will touch them.

  • New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June
  • No plot needed.

    To me the essence of 2016 is the scene in the beginning where an info screen tries to dump exposition on you and you chuck it into a wall.

    There is plot, but you don't need to pay attention to it. Doomguy is angry and needs to kill demons.

    To me a big fumble in Eternal was trying to explain why doomguy is angry and so good at killing. He's like an inverse Cthulhu, terrifying, unknowable and mysterious. Trying to explain or understand him breaks the basis for the character.

    On gameplay, I didn't mind the changes, but I thought the embellishments were a little on the nose. The technicolor rainbow explosion of ammo when you chainsaw someone, and the increased focus on using abilities to replenish resources scream "This is a video game!" in a over the top way that I felt took away from the immersion and grit that I associate with Doom.

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