Inui [comrade/them]

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Joined 9 months ago
Cake day: October 13th, 2023
  • Inui [comrade/them]@lemmy.mltoGaming@beehaw.org•thoughts on arpgs?
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    10 days ago

    As someone who isn’t a fan of ARPGs at all, the two biggest problems I have are that click to move feels significantly worse than using a controller in something like Diablo 3/4 or even Dark Alliance like 20 years ago. It’s a convention that I feel is representative of the genre in that most of the big games use it, but that its also an unnecessary limitation in the same way as Real Time with Pause (a design choice) and the DOTA 2 camera unable to zoom out further (a self-imposed technical limitation). I started getting wrist pain after playing like 20 hours of Grim Dawn.

    The other issue is that the builds are never very exciting. They all seem to be very focused on theorycrafting which skills combine best with which gear, but games like Grim Dawn and Titan Quest, which are admittedly older, boil down to picking the best 2 or 3 skills and stacking passives that make them super powerful. So then you end up mashing one button the majority of the game.

    If there are ARPGs out there that want to attract a new audience of people like me, like Monster Hunter with World, those are the two biggest pain points to correct. A better control scheme and more interesting buttons to press.

    I’m definitely open to any that already do this, but I’m not familiar with them outside of Diablo.

  • Inui [comrade/them]@lemmy.mltoscience@lemmy.world•Plant communication captured on video for the first time ever
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    5 months ago

    It doesn’t matter if they’re true. I also never said I was angry. I just find it disingenuous.

    This specific post is obviously about plants, which is neat, but your reply was in response to the very thing I was talking about, an unfunny and reddit-tier joke about vegans that misunderstands their position.

    I’m explaining why I would downvote a comment like yours in that specific context. Why would you bring up the complex lives of plants in response to a vegan poster (who then presumably downvotes you)? Are you trying to genuinely and compassionately suggest that vegans should consider the morals of their diet in the context of plant feelings? Just sharing cool facts? If so, you’re atypical.

    You think its uncharitable, but if you spend enough time on the internet, you’d see that most people are not doing this. They’re suggesting that vegans are no better then carnists. That plants feel pain the same way animals do, therefore its fine to slaughter animals, and people don’t have to think about the harm they’re causing because they’ve now established that everyone is doing just as much harm as they are. Its a cope to absolve people of any responsibility and allow them to strengthen their position against a group they already dislike.

    The takeaway should be ‘then we should find out how to minimize plant suffering too’.

    Given that, out of the blue comments about how ‘plants have feeling’ in a discussion about eating animals serves as a distraction and can be interpreted like this even if you mean it genuinely.