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[Discussion] What are your top 5 favourite weapons in any soulslike and how would you rank them?
  • The great(est) club in dark souls 3. Simple. Effective. Surprisingly effective at catching dodge rolls. It's not bad in the other games, but it really was my jam in ds3

    In Elden Ring, the antspur rapier is stupid basic and fun. Poke, poke, poke, bleed, poke, rot.

  • Windows 10 Countdown: Make the Switch to Linux for a Fresh Start
  • My old computer took to Mint without much of a problem. My newer one... many things didn't work. The mint discord was very helpful though!

    It's a shame more manufacturers don't sell machines that are already set up with Linux, so you don't have to worry about like "oh WiFi doesn't work for some esoteric reason?" as much

  • Gotta get better gear anyway we can. You don't want to be looted yourself right?
  • I think guild wars 1 you didn't just pop on any clothing you found. One of the NPCs was even like "you think you can just pick up a jacket after you set the poor bastard on fire and stab him, and it'll fit nice and snug? No. It won't. Bring me materials and I'll make armor that fits you"

    Then gw2 was like "fuck it people like when items with cool colors pop out of monsters "

  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche reportedly leaves BioWare
  • I thought the game was pretty okay. The romance with the detective lady was a little disappointing. The difficulty fell off a cliff pretty early on as a mage with life drain.

    The arc with whatstheirface and their mother not accepting them seemed pretty plausible to me. I've got a friend going through something like that now. Seeing something like that in media is meaningful to people.

    The loyalty mission prompt was kind of meh. I can see that they wanted loyalty missions, but it felt like they struggled to fit them in.

    Overall it wasn't quite the game I wanted, but it wasn't bad.

  • How long has your PC been on for?
  • I turn it off every night when I'm done. It boots quickly and I mostly just use it for the web browser and steam.

    My work computer (Mac) I put to sleep because I don't always want to open all the terminals and IDE and such every time.

  • Why do libraries define their own true and false?
  • I'm reminded of an old job's database where every key was named "id_foo" instead of "foo_id"

    You didn't have user_id. You had id_user. You didn't have project_id, you had id_project. Most of the time, anyway. It was weird and no one could remember why it was like that. (Also changes to the DB were kind of just yolo, there wasn't like a list of migrations or anything)

  • Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"
  • I feel like how big I want the game to be is a weird quantum unstable value. When I'm interested in the game I want it to keep going. But at some point I lose interest, and I want it to wrap up. But usually I don't want to skip content that's at least okay, especially if it affects endings and other choices.

    Like I enjoyed Veilguard, but there were bits near the end where I was losing focus and kind of wanted it to pick up the pace. There have been other games where I finished all the side quests but was like "that's it? I want more"

    Not sure how to square this circle. I don't think procedural generated or AI content is quite up to the task yet.

    I do think we'll see a game that has AI content in the critical path in the next couple years though. You'll go to camp and talk to Shadowheart, and it'll try to just make up new dialogue. I don't know if it'll be good. There will probably be at some weird ass hallucinations that'll become memes.

  • [FS] How do I fight this boss?
  • Most of the run. I used the antspur rapier for a lot of the game- good shield poke, rot, and accepts ashes. Usually do blood, but sometimes poison for double status build up.

    For malenia I used morghwyn's huge blood spear.

    There's probably other good poke weapons too, but this is what I've been using.

    It's a fun play style. I'm just getting into the DLC with it. Worked really well on the divine beast dancing lion.

  • [FS] How do I fight this boss?
  • Malenia with a tower shield and spear was fun. She's like "spin spin spin" and I'm like "no. And furthermore: counter poke"

    They might have nerfed her healing or something, because it doesn't fill her health all the way back up like I expected

  • Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'
  • I mean... right now I'm using windows on my desktop computer because when I installed mint I encountered a bunch of problems (no Ethernet, no wifi, no HDMI out, crashes on steam games...)

    I really wanted to use Linux, but the out of the box support just isn't always there. I'm not using windows because I like or prefer it.

  • Who's playing in the .32 tournament?

    Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are!

    I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I'd give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it's harder than I expected.

    But now the tournament is live! Who's playing?

    https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/

    I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win.

    There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog'd my way the hell out there.

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    how do people feel about spears?

    I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

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    Polyamory & Open Relationships @kbin.run jjjalljs @ttrpg.network

    How are your metamor relationships?

    Currently, I'm polite to friendly with all of them. No outstanding conflicts. It's sometimes literal kitchen table poly with one, and the others I only see at like parties and such.

    Some years ago I had two partners that absolutely did not get along with each other, and that was rough. Recently I was able to do a dinner with 3 partners and everyone had a good time.

    I try not to make a big deal about folks meeting. I try to model after meeting your friend's friends.

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    Polyamory & Open Relationships @kbin.run jjjalljs @ttrpg.network

    How do you find other poly people?

    For me there's a bit of a network effect where the polycule sprawls out into the distance. Partners have partners who have partners.

    But for disconnected folks, it's mostly been tinder (yuck), and a local meetup.

    (Also this might be the first post? That or nothing federated yet)

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    LFG @ttrpg.network jjjalljs @ttrpg.network

    Looking for a Thursday Evening Game

    I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

    I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

    LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

    Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

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    What's up with memes suffixed with "rule"?

    Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

    Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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