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  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.

    I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.

    I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.

  • 'Disaster Day of Crisis: A Search and Rescue Game' - Mandaloregaming

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  • I'll never get past the Dangerous Hunts games since some management somewhere at Cabela's had to approve a hunting game with deep lore about a literal shapeshifting demon and chimpanzee supersoldiers.

  • What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?

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  • In Wasteland 2 there is a museum of pre-war artifacts. One item is an undetonated nuclear bomb. If you monkey around with it you can find a big red button. It is obviously a terrible idea to push the button. If you still decide to push it you get a special game over screen.

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  • Soviet soldiers training with anti-tank rifles, Defense of Moscow, WW2, 1941

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  • Would you believe 5.56mm has a higher PSI spec?

  • Soviet soldiers training with anti-tank rifles, Defense of Moscow, WW2, 1941

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  • It's not entirely obvious from the OP photo, but the chamber recoils on a sliding mechanism with spring resistance against the trigger and stock. This design reduces the felt recoil. Not a design that maximizes comfort, but it was designed to be shootable.

  • Soviet soldiers training with anti-tank rifles, Defense of Moscow, WW2, 1941

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  • The OP picture makes the PTR-D rifles look deceptively small, when in fact they are quite massive.

    The chamber and bolt are sturdy, and that's all that the rifles really have going on mechanically, given no magazine hardware in them.

    The lack of any kind of magazine or gas system or any other feature since it is a single shot rifle also gives it a slimmer appearance.

    It went into production side by side with the more complicated PTR-S.

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    I mean if youre gonna use AI slop can you at least glance at it first?

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  • Speaking of disrespectful, the rules for this community specify that posts must be photographs.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Respeccing. It shouldn't be infinitely free, but I like games that allow you to pay (usually increasing amounts) to respec.

    Related to this, in older games without this it was common practice to save up your skillpoints and just sit on them until you'd gotten a little further into the game and hopefully had a better idea how to spend them. What was massively frustrating in older games were when leveling up forced you to immediately spend the points instead of sitting on them.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • I thought about my answer, since many mechanics I don't like can have good implementations, or at the very least are a sort of lesser of two evils kind of thing.

    What I can't stand are tactical or RPG games with realtime or turn based combat option toggles. I play many games with one or the other and enjoy them, but when I play a game with both that can be toggled in options I always feel like neither setting feels perfectly right. The balance is always off no matter what. Understandable with game devs having to double the amount of work for creating combat and tuning items and it ends up feeling a little soggy every time.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • It's very obnoxious. What's worse is when the secret areas provide armor or weapons that feel mandatory to beat the level with. If the secrets are just for a score I can at least ignore them.

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Level scaling. It's a mechanic designers put in because they think the game needs to stay challenging, which is true but I've never agreed with level scaling as the answer.

    The least bad implementations (but still not good) at least replace low level enemies with different kinds of enemies entirely. The worst, most lazy implementations just increase existing enemy HP and damage.

    I think it is much better to have different locations or zones where different ranges of enemies spawn, with more powerful enemies tuned to the expected level of a player character for the quests in the zone.

  • 'Points, clicks, and misery' - Civvie11 plays I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

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  • And then it goes into a sewer.

  • 'Mask of the Betrayer: the last of the boomer cRPG classics' - Warlockracy

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  • I blame the Tylenol.

  • Velma can't math.

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  • You're not getting your deposit back if those creative juices soak in.

  • Velma can't math.

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  • Foundation was so strange because it felt like the writers split into two isolated groups.

    The team that was trying and failing to "reimagine" the original story, and the team the totally abandoned the original story and was doing their own thing with the clone emperors story.

    Unlike other examples where the show felt like an existing story twisted into the framework of an unrelated franchise, Foundation felt like the clone emperors story came out of the talented writers getting frustrated by the quality of the adaption.

  • Americans are afraid of transit crime. Part of the negative image around public transit comes from the idea that it is dangerous

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  • Fantastic. Can I have a graph to show people?

  • Americans are afraid of transit crime. Part of the negative image around public transit comes from the idea that it is dangerous

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  • Does "dangerous" necessarily default to meaning murder? A breakdown for assault and robbery would be helpful since I suspect that's the direction a conversation would go.

  • More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC

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  • I noticed you haven't mentioned the actual quality of the content. Is it a responsibility to give money to a medium simply because it takes payment instead of using ad revenue?

    The competition for what's in those magazines is with independent online reviewers.

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    Black Powder Epic Game - Terry's Garage Gaming blog

    terrysgaragegaming.com /2025/06/08/june-2025-black-powder-epic-game/
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    Without a sound. Barely a movement.

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    exfil

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    Defense outpost 85

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    The strength of street knowledge

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    The end of the beginning

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    "It's here, too."

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    Forget it

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    Tension and Theme Combine Wonderfully in 'Alien: Fate of the Nostromo' Board Game, Now 25% Off

    www.belloflostsouls.net /2025/05/tension-and-theme-combine-wonderfully-in-alien-fate-of-the-nostromo-board-game.html
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    Legitimate salvage

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Is Bigfoot a sovereign citizen?

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    Putting the "fun" in "field medicine".

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    You're being sold as an action figure. What 2 accessories do you come with?

  • Wargaming @lemmy.world
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    The Raid on Caliphane, by the Deathzap blog

    deathzap.co.uk /2025/05/11/the-raid-on-caliphane/
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    The Original Gears of War Is Being Remastered For PS5, Xbox & PC

    wolfsgamingblog.com /2025/05/05/the-original-gears-of-war-is-being-remastered-for-ps5-xbox-pc/
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    Reduced Size Renatio et Gloriam playtest, by Blackshaw Gaming blog

    blackshawgaming.wordpress.com /2025/05/12/reduced-size-renatio-et-gloriam/
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    Autumn Gold - Zion. By Debbie Robb. Watercolor.

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    OC

    'Conversation with Myself', by Lorri Acott

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    Brutal war 80,000 years in the future

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    The VB-Sierra outpost