Coelacanth

Hope you’re all well, and enjoying gaming lately. Again, all apologies for my absence from Lemmy lately :)

I do miss you and your content dearly but please don’t apologise for looking after your health!

It’s my favourite meme community by a mile, something about it just gets to me.

That… makes a lot of sense.

Great read. Curious that he didn’t bring up Alan Wake 2, I felt like that was an absolutely amazing looking game. Though I’m no HDR expert so maybe I’m not seeing something.

The creator would have had no stubble, denim pants that touch the ground and are usually wet, and hope for the future.

I wonder if we were the last unsullied generation who were allowed to have regular childhoods without the weight of soul crushing despair over the future.

To quote Expedition 33: “maybe contentment is the highest form of happiness”.

I imagine that will be the case many places elsewhere also. Certainly that is in line with my own thinking.

Also like, the whole selling point initially for making a Bloodlines 2 was getting Brian Mitsoda back to write the script. But they’ve thrown it out to make their own story and it will be like BG3 in that sense - a sequel in name only but no actual connection to the original game(s).

Saved you a click: it was due to the chemical treatment applied to the wood. The exact formula is not yet known, further research is needed.

I still use my old iPod from like 15 years ago.

Same, all the Star Wars slop Disney has churned out has completely washed any lingering magic out of the fabric of the franchise for me. I don’t even feel the desire to watch supposedly good Star Wars products like Andor these days.

Here is where I was surprised. My second case the game makes me choose. Between placing Blame, Ascend or Descend the spirit and its most loved one. That shapes the game for you each case choice matters in the end.

What I want to know is: are the choices actually interesting, though? For so many games with choices like this they aren’t really choices. It’s just “do the right thing and get the good ending or don’t and get the bad ending”.

You missed the perfect entry point after the gateway drug of the movie since the last race before the current break (Silverstone) was an absolute banger.

Otherwise F1 is mostly a case of chasing the dragon, at least if you only watch it for the races. A lot of races are going to be average at best, but every now and then you get a fantastic one that in one fell swoop reminds you of exactly why you watch every Sunday.

That being said, the reason F1 is so singularly compelling compared to other motorsports has nothing to do with the on track action. You get access to the drivers and their personalities in a way most other motorsports don’t, which helps you really get invested. You have the development race raging through the season and often shaking up the power rankings of the teams. You have inter-team intrigue, cheating and politics and backroom games. It’s engineering marvel, racing and a soap opera all rolled up into one.

The best gateway into modern F1 - especially given you don’t know the results or anything - is this: don’t look anything up, just watch the 2021 season in order.

If you want more behind the scenes stuff there is also Drive to Survive on Netflix, though I will say that while I thought Season 1 was quite good it went downhill quickly as they started taking big liberties. Last season was somewhat okay though again finally with at least a couple of worthwhile episodes.

I don’t really play any sports, especially these days. I had a hard time fitting in and working well in social situations so I had no interest in even attempting team sports as a kid. Later on - but back when I still had some friends left - I did enjoy the occasional 5-a-side football, but I was never a sporty kid.

For watching sports, I find I can get into almost anything if I give it a chance. My favourite is the Olympics, and getting hyperinvested into niche sports for a month every 4 years. Otherwise I am a big F1 (and general Motorsports) fan. I used to be really into watching football (soccer) too, but that has sort of cooled into a more casual interest over the last couple of years. I still watch games frequently, but it’s not the same sort of obsession.

To watch or to play?

Can’t wait for the next serving of incomprehensible nonsense from the Nomura-Najima dream team…

Same. I haven’t been let down by it yet, so hearing an AI review surge makes me very sad.

I thought he beat cancer and was back to acting? He couldn’t do Sam Fisher in his prime anymore, but maybe an old Sam on his last legs? Though I guess the clock is ticking even for that.

Give us one last proper Splinter Cell send-off while Michael Ironside is still alive, you cowards. A “final job” with a retiring Sam Fisher would be an amazing setup for a game. Not that I trust Ubisoft to pull it off, mind. But we can dream.

Absolutely, just keep in mind one thing: try to find Let’s Players who take things slow and pay attention to the story. It makes a huge difference.