exocrinous

joined 9 months ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

There's no such thing as non-political, whoever told you there was such a thing is a con artist.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

Fucking antisemites. Why won't they let people wave the flag of the Semitic nation of Palestine? Classic Nazi antisemitism.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

China has many more racist citizens than the USA.

Cause there's 5 times as many people there.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Daggerfall procedurally generated?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

Let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and die!

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like you don't want capitalism. It sounds like you want market anarchism. Look up mutualism some time.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

Well then Epic can make an actual profit on the game when they decide to put it on Steam.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

WOW is proof that human beings are biologically programmed to work together to achieve goals. It's a shame capitalism suppresses this desire in people and forces them to only let it out in games. Imagine if we had a society where people's work was properly valued, where they could self organise to accomplish great things.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

Outer Wilds doesn't have any combat, you're thinking of Outer Worlds.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As opposed to Epic Games which literally has a contract saying only they can sell the game on PC. I like how you're "opposing" monopolies by defending anticompetitive exclusive licensing deals.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

isn't optimising the games extra costly?

These days compilers can optimise it for the hardware mostly on their own.

I can imagine the annoyance of getting bad reviews on steam because some Dingus is trying to play the game on a 10 year old PC.

Yeah, that's the great thing about PC. You don't have to upgrade your hardware more than once a decade, and you can give feedback to games publishers that chasing ever increasing graphics trends is alienating their customers. You console gamers have to take whatever slop you're given, but us PC gamers don't have to worry about a publisher not supporting backwards compatibility, so we have more market power. We can apply greater pressure on the industry to apply pro-consumer business practices.

Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games

That's definitely not true. I wish it was.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While mundane fire can't burn underwater, the sudden appearance of magically produced fire underwater would cause instant vaporisation, filling the affected area with bubbles of scalding hot steam. The sudden increase in water pressure from the vaporisation would have an impact like a small bomb, increasing the amount of disorientation and potential damage. In engineering, this is called cavitation and is significantly damaging to machinery. It's the reason a mantis shrimp can kill its prey with a punch that doesn't hit.

TL;DR: you can absolutely kill someone with an underwater fireball. Though you might want to convert half the dice to thunder damage.

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