Chrono Trigger, of course. Some legendary tracks in there that transcend their limitations. The Deadbolt OST, Katana ZERO’s OST. Nier Automata, Street Fighter V.

Oblivion and Skyrim as well. Really there are too many excellent game soundtracks to possibly list in a comment

What’s the the unhelpful hostile attitude? Is it still 1996 where it’s cool to shit on people for not knowing everything about what they’re doing and call them “noobs”?

You go up to the magnifying glass icon on the instance that you want to subscribe on (not the instance that the magazine or community actually belongs to), then that’s where you’d search washingtondc@lemmit.online

It should appear and you should be able to follow it. If you are the first person to look up that magazine on your instance it may say that there are zero posts and that the owner of the magazine is your instance’s admin, but as long as the name and the magazine/community icon looks like you’re expecting you can follow it and it’ll start federating in new posts over time.

Gotcha, the way you phrased the sentences was a little confusing. I agree, if we are talking strictly about the givernment and not the people as a whole, then I believe you are correct

These leaks are never going to be worth it to me. The site just has to swear up and down that their source is correct and all we really see is a “source: trust me bro”

Kind of crazy someone can say that and then be able to visit the Pirate Bay immediately afterwards and not realize the disconnect

So your answer is that all of the criticisms against the Chinese government are justified? It seems like that last comment says that anything that tries to justify the Chinese government’s actions is… Unjustified

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Slurm company dragged his mangled corpse from under the rubble and prevented him from escaping his partying even in death

It depends what you’re trying to get out of it. If you’re trying to relate with them then you can’t really force that and you’d just have to try and steer conversation and hope to strike gold on a few things you might like in common.

But yeah, if you don’t know if their interests match yours it turns into a prompting, then listening, then replying game. You conversate or ask about something general, maybe something going on around you, or something that is happening in current events, or hey, maybe you can even mention some pop culture release you haven’t experienced, and ask them if they have.

If they have, then they’ll tell you so and you can enquire about what they like about it, or if they don’t like it, and you don’t like it either, bam, relatable. If you ask about more general stuff then you can always make it more relatable by telling your experience when they’ve finished sharing theirs. You could ask if they paint, and if they do you can learn about it and follow up by saying you’ve never tried it or that you have and you’re terrible, or whatever.

And then, of course, calling back to things they’ve mentioned previously shows you’re a good listener and will get them to like you. Something like if they mention spending time with their mom recently, the conversation continues into other areas, you can later use that to pivot if the conversation dead ends by recalling, “so do you get to spend time with your mom often?” Mine doesn’t live around here/I do all the time, too/what have you.

There’s a fan made patch that fixes the major problems of the port. I played it totally fine using that.

Knee jerk reactions are easy, all you need is emotion and a single impetus. Nuance is more complicated and can be difficult to fully express. Most people don’t try to make things more complicated than they need to be and don’t put thought into everything they say or post.

Absolutely medical things are the best reason. Anywhere like that from which you can get a note proving the event happened makes it excused in my workplace.

Workplaces would handle it differently. At my current one, you could do that exactly one day, two days and that’d be termination for two no call no shows. If you called in on those days then you could stretch it.

They just have to rename/move the option to be more clear. For all visual issues Lemmy’s UI has, at least their local only filter mode is pretty clear to see and understand. Kbin’s “FEDERATION ON OR OFF” is so open to interpretation I thought for a while if it was a toggle so that things I posted only stayed local and didn’t federate

This time we won’t forget the blackjack, or the hookers.

When you go to check on Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club. I went in blind.

I agree with almost everything except that I think the game’s most clever piece is that the choices don’t matter. At the time that The Line came out choices in games had taken the industry by storm, games like Heavy Rain and Mass Effect 2 were on people’s minds.

The game pretends to give you choices, but the reality is that engaging and going deeper down the path the game and story lay out for you are a recipe for evil, no matter what you think you should be able to control within the game.

The true choice is whether you play the game or not. Do you continue to go through with the whole thing, commit those crimes and destroy that world, and then blame the game for not letting you stop, when the pause menu and a quit to desktop was seconds away at all times?

It’s not a very mechanically unique game, there’s no mechanical enjoyment pretense to justify seeing it all through, you do it through your vicarious, detached interest. Essentially whether the horrible events that occur unfold or not entirely depend on whether you allow the game to fabricate the scenarios by your implicit enabling.

I think whether that was intentional or not just heightens the intrigue of the entire thing. All that being said, it’s a shit game, but its execution and moral message dovetail, intentionally or accidentally, in an extremely unique way that’ll never happen again. That fragile balance of unknown intent and message will be upset if ever they were to remaster it.

Hitman, the reboot trilogy. I can do challenges or the tough Freelancer mode, but if I wanna just chill sometimes I go into the gorgeous levels and just walk around to be immersed.

You could take that to a logical extreme and have companies providing valid product solutions to user problems, while conveniently making it seem like their product is the best choice or deal, while purposefully obfuscating or omitting other products that are actually a better choice, or even just a better choice depending on the user.

Ideally, a neutral user involved in the industry or hobby being asked about would offer general best purchasing advice based on their experience through a willingness to help people like them.

A company would have an extremely apparent incentive to only promote their products, and perhaps even leave out potential issues or caveats with their products since it’d reduce likelihood of a sale.

Again, this is all worst case, and not to say that doesn’t already happen by concealing the company rep behind a seemingly anonymous user account, but allowing companies to dilute advice with monetary incentives seems a slippery slope.

I should’ve just not typed all of this and said: conflict of interest

If people are going to advertise on an instance I’m involved with I would prefer they go through the instance owner and it be an avenue to fund the instance. I dislike that people want to basically plug themselves and use the instance space to advertise without paying the instance owner for it. If we have to see ads, I’d rather they help the instance exist than just be an eyesore for no gain