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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Out of curiosity, did this have a mechanic for disabling implants (like crits in BattleTech)?

Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh sorry, misremembered. "I assume that people lie more often than I assume you think they do" is...also an odd thing to contribute to a conversation

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the life of me I couldn't figure out what "people lie sometimes" was even meant to bring to the conversation. Everyone everywhere is aware of that possibility, and we all have our own litmus tests and risk tolerance, and it's frankly insulting to imply otherwise

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Forgot to share this before! #FinishTheDamnGame month is great; having a bit of extrinsic motivation has really helped motivate me to tackle a backlog of games that I legitimately enjoy but don't get around to. I've beaten Tactical Breach Wizards and am making steady progress on Midnight Suns! :)

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And the progenitor of a few others! My guess is that the (supposed) secular nature of these cults makes them unusually vulnerable to schism

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

and are consequently portable between CPUs/MBs

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you're still wondering about this, it used to be the case that a new CPU necessitated a new OS, because there would be a number of versions of the same OS with different Hardware Abstraction Layers. Hardware is more standardised than it used to be, so Windows 8+ editions only have one HAL

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This one. Apparently it also does something with card draw and healing? But mostly it's to make him yell

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I specifically turn down the volume any time I'm playing a mission with Wolverine because of his utility card that just makes him yell real loud

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You're in for a treat! Oxenfree has such a lovely soundtrack, and the story (while minimal) has really stuck with me over the years

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh wait, I think the Hitman series hasn't succumbed to this plague. Not entirely sure, those games are far too large for me to keep installed

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I also miss these - love RPGs, but not everything needs to *be* one - and all the newest examples I can think of are either for the PS3 (WET, first Assassin's Creed, first Mirror's Edge) or remakes of even older games. Weird state of affairs

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

To clarify a little: I think these results are *close* to correct; I suspect that the way some traits naturally get grouped (boosted/lowered by the same questions) makes certain traits a little easier or harder to get as the top result

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think this test might be biased towards producing kindness as a result? My results don't look quite right to me (apologies for terrible cropping)

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laura “Skeleton Dragon” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

firing a bunch of people responsible for your good game, hiring some new people and forcing them to make something almost exactly like the old one, miraculously it’s just as good, and then firing a bunch of the new people because your company already ruined its own goodwill. masterful gambit sir

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Did you ever even stop to think about how your game is personally inconveniencing Roko's basilisk?

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

...and very difficult to do so in a comprehensive way that actually captures all the knock-on costs. E.g., lines of code written increased by 200% looks good, but it's easy to overlook time spent fixing mistakes, how many extra lines are due to inefficient coding practices, etc.

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

FWIW, it would need to be a 138% productivitiy increase to balance out (2.38 being roughly the multiplicative inverse of .41). But like you said, it's only perceived increases that matter anyway. Even if they were actually measuring productivity, it would be very easy to do so in a misleading way...

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Oh, and in case you want to know how volkite guns work: what if instead of microwaves wiggling water to heat things up, they just remotely, rapidly, and continuously triggered combustion (importantly, many 40k authors clearly don't actually know this so you'll get mixed descriptions)

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

powered microwave gun, but doesn't utilise plasma at any point. So melta guns are most likely firing an unstable plasma composed of molecules with high specific heat

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Notably, volkite guns, which function very differently, are also described as emitting "pure thermal energy," so I think this is a case of characters in-universe not knowing how their own tech works (very common in 40k). T'au technology is better documented and their melta equivalent *is* a fusion-

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I think what it does has already been covered pretty well by others, but if you want to know how it functions, it uses fusion technology to create plasma and then emits *checks notes* "pure thermal energy." Cannot emphasise enough that this isn't just impossible, it's not even a coherent concept

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I see this and raise you: First names should be one or two letters. Three letters or more is too opulent and spiritually ruling class. - Ø

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

For anyone that has performance issues (esp. in cutscenes), be sure to look up a guide on disabling the 2k launcher

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

One small bag of vile, ultra-processed potato chips, quite unlike the virtuous french fries depicted as the main component of their healthy, plant-based meal

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I mentally group it with "beau" and "eau" (water), but I don't know if that's remotely helpful. Loanwords from French are very unintuitive

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Fun fact: the Challenger disaster happened in part due to chasing federally mandated launch quotas, with the long term goal being one manned launch per week

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Out of curiosity, is "bureau" also a tricky one for you?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The thing about Trump openly confessing to committing a war crime today is that a quarter century ago, Schumer Biden Kerry Hillary and Feinstein voted, in an *overwhelmingly* bipartisan way, to militarily invade the Hague were the US to ever be prosecuted by ICC.

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Idk I thought Sora was pretty decent at posting

In-game social media post in Kingdom Hearts 3, where Sora is whining about being cold and begging Donald Duck to do something about it.

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My first exposure to the series was RE4 so I thought the parasites were evil and residing in people, but apparently parasites are one of the less common types of infection in the series

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Not sure if you want a serious answer, but the idea is basically that evil itself is the resident. It made more sense in the first game, which takes place entirely in a spooky mansion (so evil resides in the mansion), and became nonsensical for most of the rest of the games

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Very unclear how to pronounce the ultimate "bajaja blast"

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Oh it's super easy to emulate older handhelds on a phone. Vimm.net has a bunch of ROMs, .iso files, etc. and also links to emulators to download. I do recommend against DS emulation, melonDS is super unstable and I found it better to just hack a 3DS

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Vimm's Lair: Preserving the Classics

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I think another religion would need to have the festival first so that it can be shamelessly copied

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Oh wait, my issue with KOTOR actually wasn't the gameplay. There was a...very noticeably missing choice in the final mission on the starting planet and it really messed with my immersion. I'll probably get back to it and just pretend I made the choice they didn't allow

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Seconding the Fallouts and KOTOR. I want to like these games, I've tried so hard to get into them, but the gameplay is incredibly dated and it's hard to wrap my head around some of it when I'm used to modern games. The keyboard mapping in Fallout makes me feel insane

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The oil and salt prevent the rice from sticking to the bowl, you do not want to leave them out

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Rice can be microwaved, and once you can do that, there are endless meal possibilities (One cup of rice and two cups of water, tablespoon of oil, dash of salt in a large microwave-safe bowl. Cover with paper towel. Nuke 10 minutes. Stir. Nuke 15 minutes at half power. Rice complete)

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Growing up, teachers constantly talked about how computer science is one of the best degrees to get to ensure a good career, and I turned out to quite like programming. The degree got devalued by the time I graduated, and I'm now a food delivery driver with overwhelming student debt

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is my wife's favourite game! They recently discovered that refusing to check out the research portal does not prevent Demolior from spawning, and then spent the evening forcing all their dupes to build a massive abyssalite cradle in the impact zone (after loading their oldest autosave)

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Tactical Breach Wizards @breachwizards.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them. To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

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In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

As inclined as I am to have in depth discussions, I've become pretty quiet online recently because of this. There's no joy in being the only person in a room trying to understand anyone else there

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

that every weapon in the game may as well be hit scan. This might have been some optional upgrade I took, but I recall my character generally just accurately lobbing grenades where I pointed instead of me having to account for the physics of it. 90% of the challenge is clicking on things well.

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

"FPS is menus" statement is specific to hitscan. Projectile weapons can function identically to hitscan at point blank range*, but that positioning is in itself more parkour. I can't speak to counter strike, but D2 maps are trivial to traverse and engagement ranges are often so short...

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Null (they/them) @emptysetgo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

FPS is, in a vacuum, menus. The main gameplay consists of placing your cursor (crosshair/reticle) over UI elements (enemies) and clicking on them, with high precision and speed. RPG elements definitely add to menu-ness of D2. It's worth noting that projectile based weapons are parkour, and the...

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