Yeah, as soon as I saw the word “satellite”, I knew it was a nothingburger. If a submarine is on the surface, it isn’t trying to hide. If it’s submerged, it’s impossible for a satellite to detect it. You’d need sonar to pick it up.

The M’s have been dead in the water for a while now; the only reason I have not completely checked out is that the White Sox are so historically bad.

oof. Yeah, they did the right thing pulling the plug on this for now. You’d probably spend more time waiting for a match to queue up than actually playing the game.

Wow, this is absolutely wild. From launch to delisting in two weeks. Yeah, there’s a good chance that this is temporary while they pivot to a free-to-play model, but holy crap. Guess the PS5 player count must not be substantially higher than the abysmal Steam player count.

Yeah, hopefully the inclusiveness trend continues.

Then we’d be going back to having the vast majority of games having a cis male protagonist. No thanks. I don’t mind playing as them from time to time, but I want a choice, especially if the main character is one of those blank slate types.

thanks!

Thanks for the rec!

Oh, yes I absolutely plan to play around with some looks.

The past day has been full of near misses because I still haven’t that I have something on my face I need to account for.

Thanks! Also, I’ve seen you around before, but I love your username!

Yikes. Well, at least we have something easy to point to when we’re asked why we’re defederated from lemmy.world.

I agree completely. Our collective minds in the U.S. have been warped by decades(if not centuries) of propaganda by the rich and powerful. Things aren’t exactly going to change overnight. Change needs to come from the bottom up, and that’s not going to happen until we start working together to build a culture of compassion.

I’m doing a replay of Dragon Age Origins. Slogging my way through my least favorite part of the game(the Deep Roads) right now. I’m not that good at the game, so for the harder encounters, I’ve cheesed them by having one member of my party run forward to aggro one group, then run back to where the rest are in order to deal with them one group at a time. If I let my party fight normally, they accidentally aggro multiple groups and they get overwhelmed. That plus saving after every difficult encounter is helping me get through it.

My warden is an elven mage; she’s mostly built for casting ice magic and healing. I usually use Alistair as a tank, Zevran as a dual wielding damage dealer and Leliana as an archer/support unit.

Just so you know, you’re commenting in a Beehaw community, and we expect that people be(e) nice here. Being gatekeepy isn’t nice.

Super Mario Bros. 3 was the first game I ever played, waaaay back in the early 90s. That hooked me into gaming for life, and every few years, I do a no warp playthrough of the game that started it all for me.

Then, a few years later, I tried Super Mario 64 in a Toys R Us. It blew my mind and I absolutely had to have an N64.

I despise Nintendo’s business practices, but there’s no doubt they had a formative influence on my childhood.

I’ve always favored a smaller pool of federated servers. I know it sounds gatekeepy, but I’d go as far as not federating with any server that doesn’t require an application to join. There’s not that many Beeple, and it wouldn’t take very much for someone hostile to our ideals to overwhelm us with sheer numbers. Just adding that little bit of friction should help immensely for maintaining our culture.

Of course, I don’t expect this sentiment would be too popular, after all, there’s a large contingent of users who want the biggest Threadiverse they can get. Furthermore, we’d get cut off from a bunch of communities if we did this. Perhaps we could consider a few more in house communities should we decide to go more isolationist.

It definitely seems like it. There’s also been surprisingly high amounts of upvotes on questionable comments lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if lemmy as a whole is getting astroturfed, but I can’t say that for certain because I rarely venture out of Beehaw. Don’t be afraid to make a report if you see something.

I definitely do have to walk a tightrope here, and I am erring towards assuming good faith. A lot of the comments so far have done a great job of pushing back on this, so most of the official actions I have made so far have been to try to prevent tempers from flaring.

But, yeah, I will say that I also am uncomfortable with the implied reverence given with capitalized pronouns. I’ve held my tongue because I don’t want to get sucked into this, and other people have already made my point better than I would have. I don’t want anyone to feel as though I’m disregarding their feelings or ignoring your concerns. Moderation of Beehaw often takes a wait and see approach and actions are often only made after the mod team thoroughly comes to a consensus. But, yeah, the thread’s run its course and we’re locking it now.

I have issued a warning. We’ll see how things go.

Speaking of bans, if you are indeed DroneRights, then one of your other accounts has been banned on Beehaw. I’m not entirely sure of the ban evasion procedure here, so I won’t act on this. Someone else might, though.

You’ve been rather hostile in your comments so far. Knock it off. This is a beehaw community and we expect you to be(e) nice here. Sounds like you’d be best off just disengaging and blocking Grail, tbh.