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  • 1 was great but flawed. Just play it blind and finish it.

    2 the puzzles were bizarrely easy, but an incredibly gorgeous game.

    Both have great soundtracks too. Definitely a go-at-your-own-pace franchise and very antithetical to modern AAA gaming. Know who Croteam are and Devolver Digital, and their relationship and what they make and what they stand for.

    I adore both games and think quite highly of them. Again though, don’t look anything up, ever.



  • SCmSTRtoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldYou lose.
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    19 hours ago

    I feel like the whole concept of souls is just racism. Because for souls to have a concept of existence and value, some sort of identity between life and death must be, implying, basically, eugenics.

    “This soul is better than this other soul” etc. An inherent superiority and inferiority, separate from our minds, insulated, even from logic.


  • Don’t buy this game or anything by the studio ever.

    It was a good studio and is a great game, but it was taken over by some really really shitty people in a hostile takeover. A bunch of the core employees got superfucked and have spoken out against it. It was 100% offensive greed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Elysium#Breakup_of_ZA/UM

    Oh god. Looking at the Wikipedia entry, it was apparently super messy and still is. I’m not sure what to go by, now. I’d probably still suggest playing it if you care about depth and intelligence of dialogue, which in my book, in this game is SS-Tier.

    Some games give you options to pick what to say, you choose one, and your character says something stupid that has nothing to do with what you thought. This game is like the total opposite of it, in that you can 100% read into the perspective and intent, and try to infer several steps out. Super super fun stuff. Very very satisfying.

    If you don’t enjoy philosophy and rhetoric, probably pass on the game. Ngl. But, if this type of thing interests you at ALL, give it a shot.

    But probably pirate it.






  • SCmSTRtomemes@lemmy.worldLife comes at you fast
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    3 days ago

    I’m not sure when the Wikipedia page for “generations” was implemented, but I have a feeling the current generational definitions have been defined a lot longer than the past 5 years. Unless your parents are post-end ww2 baby boomers, I see no way for you to have ever been technically considered gen-y.

    That being said, I feel like culturally, it wasn’t really until the massive uptick in school shootings (I’m also making a big assumption that you’re American, here) that gen-z was really defined. From memory, I think the high profile Columbine shooting happened in 1999-2001, but school shootings weren’t really considered commonplace until at the earliest the late 2000s, or even early 2010s.

    Assuming they weren’t held back in school, the youngest millennial would still have been in highschool until 2014, maybe 2015. Compare that to the oldest millennial, who would have potentially graduated highschool in 1999, maybe 1998.

    And since you aren’t even 30 yet (let’s assume 29), that would have the earliest you’d have been slated to graduate highschool at 2014, making you solidly in the shooter generation, gen-z. Again, though, this is assuming you’re American, and the only real culture and history I’m remotely familiar with.

    Counterpoint b, though, a lot of people considered people “growing up around the turn of the millennium” to be a millennial. Sooo, yeah. Culturally, sure, close enough, I guess. But technically, nah.





  • SCmSTRtomemes@lemmy.worldLife comes at you fast
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    3 days ago

    I’ve noticed there’s a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn’t, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don’t and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.

    That’s my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it’s hard to see.



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    3 days ago

    I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that’s average. And as soon as you’re any flavor of queer or there’s conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.