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[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 14 points 6 months ago

Not just a great fight, but also the boss with the best lore.

Extremely powerful giant warrior learns gravity magic so he can keep riding his best skinny horse friend. Aww.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

I'd wait. I feel like consoles must be getting close to a hardware refresh now.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 114 points 8 months ago (33 children)

This is going to be an effective way to tank the Google/Yelp review score of your restaurant. And pay toilets are also stupid in Europe, I say that as a European.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It will be done wirelessly. They're just legally required to call this a "recall" because automotive legislation was written before OTA updates were a thing.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

The Talos Principle 2

It's beautiful, and often really engaging both in gameplay and in story/setting, but I'm already feeling a bit of puzzle fatigue after ~20% through the game. I'll see how far I'll continue.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"Military intelligence Two words combined that can't make sense"

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Same here. Lifelong tinnitus in one ear without measurable hearing loss. Presumably due to a severe ear infection.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The EFF is working on all that. And have been for decades. They are allies.

They're making a stand on blocking because they have a bigger perspective on the issues. Which I thought was quite well articulated in their article.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Net neutrality has been debated for decades and, as the EFF apparently still has to remind people, the entire thing conceptually goes out the window once it becomes acceptable for ISPs to start blocking content on their own volition, even if you happen to completely agree with the block. After some time building blocklists of generally understood to be nasty sites, ISPs with large entertainment interests will block piracy sites. Internet archive? Blocked. Blog which writes something nasty about them? Block. Anarchist Fedi community? Etc. That's what the EFF is warning about.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the cloaked enemies mission was also the highlight of chapter 1 for me. The far more interesting visual design of the area, the unique enemies and the mission design*. It was cool. But still disappointed that the ol' invisible enemies stage was the highlight of an entire chapter :P. I expected a lot more from FromSoft.

spoilerBehind you!

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There's no contradiction there. You are required specifically optimize your build for the difficult boss fights -and- play with Sekiro-like skill. The game is clearly designed like this. And while I've never played any of the previous AC games I agree with OP that this feels Souls-like, with stamina, poise and everything.

The combat is fine perhaps. The main reason I don't like AC6 is because there's nothing interesting in it except the boss fights. It's the blandest FromSoft game I've ever played. Elden Ring kept me enthralled for a 100 hours until I got all achievements, trying to explore everything. An afternoon of AC6 I started to wonder why I was still playing, when after each mission or boss there's just going to be more of the same.

[–] farcaster@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As a massive Dark Souls fan, AC6 is not even a very good Souls game. No deep lore and story, no beautiful scenery, no exploration at all. Even the bosses aren't as good, because DS bosses can be tackled in various ways (melee, ranged, magic, many cheese strats) while AC6 bosses are designed to only let very specific builds succeed, which is incredibly boring. I honestly don't understand the hype.

 

"Noclip" sourced broadcast quality tapes from the E3 event which spawned many memes

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