[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Geralt is the reason I have never been able to get into the Witcher series. By all accounts the Witcher 3 is one of the greatest RPGs of all time with an insane amount of depth but I just can't get over the fact that I have no choice to play a character that reads like a 15 year olds checklist of hyper cool masculinity. I get that the character has been around for a while and it wasn't so much a cliche when he was first written but sheesh....I just have a hard time taking him seriously.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Second funniest. Funniest outcome to me is still Biden dying mid campaign leading to Trumps reelection and Kamala being a lame duck for like a month.

....Then Trump dies 2 weeks before taking office and whoever his running mate is becomes president.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also there was apparently a massive antivax campaign being done by the pentagon that continued for like almost a year under his administration. I know it started under Trump but still....drug his feet stopping it.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 20 points 2 days ago

Trump wants to stop the funding to Ukraine and there is no way the bourgeosie is going to let him win because of that.

Meh. They've run this playbook before. They'll just override him. If they don't do it legitimately through congress they'll go through backdoors.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago

....you know maybe its misguided, especially as someone who practices it, but suddenly i can't help but connect this with how intermittent fasting became super trendy more recently.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

Sure, it all just depends on how small you're taking. Like assuming you essentially just want it to be Stellaris but with some adjustments and or an additional unit or something: yeah that's almost certainly lot easier than building your own strategy game from scratch.

If you want to make a total conversion or something using the Stellaris engine...eh....maybe check into unity and see what kind of templates people have made.

EOD what you learn in one will at least partially carry over so go whatever direction sounds more fun.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

That definitely used to be true back in the day, especially for a game with developer mod support.

These days....actually I'm not so sure. There are just so many free resources/assets, and tutorials now with Unity and Unreal. Depending on what you actually want to accomplish/create/learn that might actually be the better path to go down.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago

Hate to out myself but: I resemble this remark currently and consider myself "cash poor". Mind you liquidating shit like your IRA genuinely sucks and should be avoided if possible because you're essentially setting money on fire doing it....but you're definitionally NOT "paycheck to paycheck" if you actually have a relatively decent amount of money in an IRA. "Paycheck to paycheck" straight-up means that if you lose your paycheck that month you can't buy groceries, make a rent payment, or potentially both. It doesn't mean I might have to withdraw X thousand dollars from my account and pay the taxes on it plus a 10% penalty.

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New season new meta comrade!

I'm hype as hell for Jamie buffs. I didn't like hearing the news about them seemingly embracing "fuck it we palm" and making it safe but a lot of his updates look great. I'm super excited to test out Bakkais new i frames.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

As someone who has and will continue to argue for games as art: it is a huge embarrassment and indictment how most companies treat their own legacy IPs. Like when a studio rereleases a crown jewel film like Lawrence of Arabia its assumed that they'll treat it with the legacy and respect such a title deserves and spare no expense opting for a full restoration with the latest technology. Often they'll even try to pull in the original director or cinematographer to sign off on it and make sure everything is as it was intended.

Meanwhile you have shit like Sega releasing Sonic Origins as a complete buggy mess with fans left to try and salvage it and them delisting every other port. Shit like this is just the icing on the cake for how little they actually give a shit about preserving any of this stuff.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

I don't know what the timeline actually looks like but its gonna be both funny and sad just how many people screaming "TAIWAN IS A COUNTRY" anytime the words Chinese Taipei get whispered just straight up evaporate when the inevitable happens. Its hilarious how literally none of them have any clue why they give a shit about what the region is named.

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

....Are we in world war 3 right now?

[-] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

1000% its a limited hangout. There's definitely been an ongoing social media campaign to prime the pump for escalating tensions with China.

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