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  • A friend of mine graduated some years ago from a good uni. He transitioned quickly from actually writing code to just reviewing AI written code. He hates it, and its got to the point he has automated the reviewing process as well. He’s floated the idea of getting into nursing from how much he hates it.

    He used to be very passionate about it.

    I relate w you though. I graduated from Graphic Design the week midjourney took off. It’s been… Rough.


  • I imagine that when base building comes, this’ll be an important thing to consider. For the moment, the only two times it has come up as a significant obstacle to overcome in my playtime was during a Lazarus worm thing I did with my org where it took much longer than normal because some players just kept coming back, making the whole thing take twice as long. The second was the Hathor laser which made it a pain in the ass sitting outside the crater with a railgun. Had to take a Nursa to cool down every now and then.




  • Played about half the game recently with most of those and Dark Future, good list. Dark Future isn’t as tedious as it might sound, honestly. I’m usually not a fan of survival mechanics unless they add something to the game, and in the case of Dark Future I feel like it does, at least early game. You’ll be struggling for money if you don’t do gigs because combat reduces your nerve, which you regain by sleeping and taking on vices. That means less money for weapons, armor, ammo, cybernetics, and vehicles. It adds up if all you’re consuming is good quality food (which doesn’t decrease your nerve). It got to a point where my V was addicted to nicotine, alcohol, and black lace at one point. Really gives you a motivation to be efficient in combat.

    The good thing is at any point you can go to a chemist and buy addiquit (I think that was the name). It’ll dump your energy but you’ll rid yourself of addictions.

    Once you’re halfway through the game and your big expenditures are out of the way (apartments around the city for good coverage in case you need to sleep, different vehicles for fun, getting your chrome progression going) the mod won’t have as much of an effect on your finances. I only kept the nicotine and alcohol addictions because it makes sense storywise.

    I also had a mod that overhauled stealth and another that reduced sponginess, but I can’t recall those names.


  • Mostly Grey Zone Warfare. The update really breathed some life into it and as someone who was there from release, it’s actually good now. PvE is a bit lacklustre, but PvP is good and could be great with some changes. Needs work (ballistics, AI, lighting, FOB respawning), but it’s good enough that I’ve put some good dozens of hours into it. I’m feeling the steam wane though, dunno what I’ll hop to next.

    Other than that, played Menace and it’s great. I’ll wait for more content before actually committing to finishing it, if it can be finished.






  • Arguments against:

    • meaningful positive change for the common person won’t be achieved via an elected candidate. If that candidate was willing and able to make some actual change, they wouldn’t be on the ballot. Voting in a representative democracy is illusion of choice.

    Arguments for:

    • liberals (in the social definition) and conservatives view democracy at least as a tool to get what they want. Conservatives want to twist it to perpetuate and enforce their view of the world, liberals want to get increasingly slow incremental change. It is a losing battle for liberals, but there isn’t enough class consciousness for actual change to happen. I’d rather side with the liberals than the conservatives.


  • Moonguide@lemmy.mltoGames@hexbear.netDivinity
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    6 months ago

    Man I hope it is a crpg. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure Larian could make an amazing third person action game, but there are tons of 3P arpg of varying degrees of quality and production value. There are very few crpgs of good quality and good production value.