conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I bounce around between games a lot, so I was never going to be done before anything else came out, but they should definitely scratch different itches, also. They might both be big RPGs, but I fully expect to be able to play Starfield with stuff in the background and there's just too much narrative to do that with BG3. I also just itch for more actiony stuff at times (right now that's a 2D pixel art game called Chasm). Even if I drop 20 hours in a game before switching to the next one, one game isn't going to actually be the only one I play for that long, personally.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This seems positive enough for me to buy it, even though I haven't even finished part 1 of BG3 yet lol.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's not for everyone, and I definitely wouldn't imply otherwise.

That sounds like potentially it could potentially be lower quality stuff, though. The more plant material you have relative to the cannabinoids, the more dulling you get. (No I can't source that. Just my opinion.) And also the actual blend between different chemicals.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do less lol.

That doesn't mean go out and do it, but next time you might, cut way back on the amount. If one puff makes you feel that way, do 1/4 of one.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Everything that size has heavy elements of procedural generation now, but no man's sky's is pretty bad, then untouched by anyone. A little hand tuning goes a long way.

No Man's Sky more or less just made an algorithm, then that's your world. I'm guessing Bethesda's process is more sketch out broad strokes, let the algorithm fill it in, make adjustments, then hand place some meaningful portion at the end. They're using it an an intermediate step and not the whole process.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They will literally always pass all of their costs of doing business to their customers. That's what businesses are and it is impossible to function any other way.

It is not in any way part of the issue. There is exactly one issue here. It's adding these fees on top of the price you advertised to the customer with absolutely zero way for the customer to find out the actual price they'll be charged. That's the only thing the FCC cares about here and the entire issue. Anything else is a lie and a misdirection.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I did. "Passing on costs" is entirely irrelevant to everything.

The entire point of all of this is that service providers are using nebulous fee structures to lie about pricing. That's the entire thing. There is nothing else.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I tried it on audiobook and couldn't finish it. It didn't help that it was one of the ones with 500 different readers for different characters (and very distinctive voices like Scott Brick were different characters in the second book or part or whatever than the first), but while the world was kind of interesting, I really couldn't be grabbed by the story at all.

And I finish almost everything. Especially on audiobook.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's basically all I use, and most of the headaches are more about publisher hostility than any actual issues with Linux (no, you not being able to install your fucking rootkit is not a failing). I basically don't even look at any of those statuses because I don't feel like I need to. Almost everything actually does just work.

But we're comparing it to a console lol. That, to the point of baked in performance settings tuned to the exact hardware, are their whole purpose.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh this is actual medicine.

I fully expected some fluff piece about using cancer metaphorically, but this is a pretty interesting piece about how the word cancer colors a patient's perception of risk and treatment approaches.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Especially when they were wrong. They're obviously going to pass along any actual cost they have one way or another.

That's not what's shady or what's being addressed. It's the $60 ***(plus $100 in unlisted fees we literally won't even let our support provide or estimate on signup) to lie about prices that's the problem.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This is wild.

I do almost all my gaming on the deck. It's great because of what it is as a handheld. If you don't intend to use those features, the lack of power makes a serious dent in the value it provides. And "no fuss" is correct compared to other PC handhelds, but crazy compared to an Xbox.

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