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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Have you tried Dragon's Dogma? It goes on sale fairly regular and is one of my favorite RPGs. The story is interesting with enough to keep you interesting if you want to go exploring or if you...

    Have you tried Dragon's Dogma? It goes on sale fairly regular and is one of my favorite RPGs. The story is interesting with enough to keep you interesting if you want to go exploring or if you want to just go straight through the story. A very, do it your own way game without it explicitly saying, "wow look how your choices made things turn out?"

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  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Just started playing Archvale and Deep Space Derelicts on the Switch. For Archvale: On the surface, it promises a bullet-hell RPG with customization in the form of weapons, armor, helmet, and...

    Just started playing Archvale and Deep Space Derelicts on the Switch.

    For Archvale: On the surface, it promises a bullet-hell RPG with customization in the form of weapons, armor, helmet, and badges (like paper mario). Unfortunately, the rpg aspect is it's weakest point for me. I enjoy bullet-hell games with Enter the Gungeon striking the balance of rogue-like / dungeon crawler.
    Archvale struggles to hit that same appeal due to weapons feeling fairly weak and enemies feeling a touch too spongey. It isn't a terrible game, just not one I would recommend if Enter the Gungeon is your preference.

    Deep Space Derelicts is an interesting turn-based dungeon crawler akin to Darkest Dungeon without as heavy of penalties early on. The artwork is beautiful and the sound design is good. Movement in the derelicts isn't as punishing as the torch system in Darkest Dungeon, but you do have to monitor energy reserves because it is your catch all resource. This one feels more promising than Archvale at the moment.

  3. Comment on Boring Report: An app that aims to remove sensationalism from the news and make it boring to read, by utilizing the power of advanced AI language models in ~tech

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    I understand where you are coming from on this. The technology may not be there to alter reality, but machine learning has made text alteration easier to do at a large scale. On the other hand, we...

    I understand where you are coming from on this. The technology may not be there to alter reality, but machine learning has made text alteration easier to do at a large scale.
    On the other hand, we cannot pretend that this is a train that can't stop. Reducing that dopamine rush from sensational news is a net positive in a world that is constantly trying to grab your attention.
    We do probably need more tech literate people in charge of making appropriate policies for limitations and uses of this technology to head off the abuse of this technology (not Rockstar ceos).

    5 votes

  4. Comment on The famous Nuclear Gandhi glitch in Civilization is a hoax in ~games

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    This is so cool! My friends on Xbox live back in the day used to tell me about this glitch. Didn't stop them from picking Ghandi to showcase what was supposed to happen.

    This is so cool! My friends on Xbox live back in the day used to tell me about this glitch. Didn't stop them from picking Ghandi to showcase what was supposed to happen.

    3 votes