Whatever causes the website to have trouble, I'm all for it, right now.

I already wondered if I got lightning-banned for sending too many API requests in a short time, when I used a script to auto-edit all my comments and text-posts.

Enemies that scale with your level in an RPG. I would rather get completely curb stomped by rare high level enemies, so I have something to work towards. In the same vein, I don't like it when the stat gain you get from leveling ends up with you literally being unkillable by lower level enemies. Most MMOs are an offender to this, where you can just sunbathe in a group of 30 level 1 enemies and are unable to die to them.

Das hat sicher auch sehr viel mit der Einstellung der Eltern zu tun. Wenn die sofort Todesangst haben, nur weil ihr achtjähriges Kind beim Spaziergang zwei Sekunden außer Sicht ist, überträgt sich das (vermutlich) leicht auf die Kinder.

How my father is able to either justify/excuse or even blatantly support any of these illegal acts the American joke of a President is committing.

I cannot see a way how this collector's edition would be worth it. Even if they throw in all future DLC and physical goodies like your very own collection of multiple starship models, it'd be a tough sell to me.

In addition to RimWorld, I would say Deep Rock Galactic has never even once left me in a worse mood after playing it. Every time I boot it up, I cannot stop admiring the love and care GSG has put into their game and almost all of it for free. The only monetisation in this game is purely cosmetic, but they make sure that the stuff you can get through gameplay alone doesn't look worse than the stuff you pay real money for. Add on top of that the awesome gameplay, atmosphere and community and you got a game that pretty much never fails to lift you up.

If shooting native lifeforms as an exploited space miner isn't quite your mood right now, you could also try Tchia. Super pretty and lovely game, although I suspect it doesn't offer too much replayability, once you completed it. But the same could be said for Okami and that is the game I first say when asked what my favorite game is.

Mhmm that's my initial reaction, too. I'll probably look into this, but Elite: Dangerous and, to name another good example, X4 can both be played as pure space trucker sims already. And to a fulfilling degree, I believe.

I have too little experience as a trucker, to say what could be added that is currently missing from E:D and X4. I mean it would ideally be similar to Hardspace: Shipbreaker vs. X4. X4 has a ship salvage mechanic that is pretty abstract (you carry a a ship to a salvage station and then the ship is turned into materials). Whereas in H:S you are the person who receives the ships and you actually pull and cut the ship apart until nothing but the basically worthless bags of space doritos are floating in the salvage bay.

Hey, don't worry, I'm sure most of us really appreciate the work you do. Personally, "the site is online and moderated in accordance with our values" is more than sufficient for me!

Surprisingly tough question. On one hand, I don't think every ex-Reddit user should go "Nah, it's too late, fam" because then it wouldn't even make sense for the devs to make any changes if they had no chance of regaining their userbase. On the other hand, I feel like even if they made really good changes, I would still always be on edge waiting for the bad thing to happen (pretty much what I imagine an abusive relationship to be like).

Mhmm, I feel you. I don't want to touch it before I completed Breath of the Wild. But I'm already getting spoiled with the crazy things you can build. Then again, I'm not exactly making a big effort to stay in the dark aside from averting my eyes as soon as anything Tears of the Kingdom related pops up hah

Another reason why games don't necessarily have obstacles that require pixel perfect maneuevers, is that you no longer need to throw a coin into the machine every time you die.

That said, yeah, I recently watched a video essay on the first Wing Commander and it must have been so crazy back then because there wasn't anything quite like it, if I remember correctly.

Was that Quora as well? I thought that's only StackOverflow :c

But yes, I very much hope that the ethos of beehaw makes for "programming question" communities that are as useful as StackOverflow while not being so rude.

Two things:

Anything that fleshes out "bard classes" (bonus points if you have grest freedom in how you play music). I don't want to be a mage who, instead of fireballs that deal damage, shoots music notes that deal damage. Shoutout to the Entertainer class in Star Wars Galaxies and the ukulele magic in Tchia for getting it right.

High degree of freedom spellcasting. Right now, only Magicka comes to my mind, who really excelled in this. Fictorum also has a pretty awesome spell shaping system, but it limits you to a specific spell loadout that is hard to switch in the heat of combat.

I thought so, too, but there's !ukraine@lemmy.ml, although I have not checked out that many posts there. And the name alone makes it sound more biased than something like r/CombatFootage

I discovered this whole thing just a few days ago (of course from that reddit post) and I love how this has such strong early-internet vibes! I mean where anymore do you ever read the owner of a site casually go "Yeah, since we are a couple hundred dollars in surplus, I was able to splurge on new hardware so that you'll see loading errors a little less often because the server is no longer powered just by my child being strapped into an oversized hamster wheel"?

Oha echt? Interessant. Bei mir ist die Grundschule schon ne Weile her, aber ich will behaupten da sind alle entweder allein mim Fahrrad oder allein zu Fuß erschienen. Allein im Sinne "ohne Eltern". Da wars eher was besonderes, wenn die Eltern dich mal gefahren haben. Aber da lebte ich auch (wie jetzt wieder) in nem Großdorf; vielleicht hängt das zusammen.

I cannot speak for the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, but at least the first entry (Shadow of Chernobyl) is, while still very much playable, just so much better with a couple mods. And once you're familiar with the core gameplay, adding huge mods like Anomaly or G.A.M.M.A. (which itself is a modpack of Anomaly) adds many weeks worth of replayability to the game. Not even mentioning how good the game can look with these mods that touch it straight up into 2023. Of course, here and there you'll still notice that it's based on an older game, but it can easily compete with AAA releases of the past couple years in terms of atmosphere and immersion (especially the sound design).

I just had a quick look at the Dysmantle store page. Am I correct in imagining it similar to Project Zomboid?

I think I'll never not recommend VtM Bloodlines if it comes up! If my memory serves right, you would preferably get the unofficial patches to fix a couple annoying glitches, though.

That's a mind-boggling amount of hours you put into WoW. I haven't been really connecting to an MMO for the past couple years. At the moment, I'm playing Star Wars Galaxies again, but I'm only semi-casually logging in to craft a few things to sell on my vendor and then have two or so hours of RP before logging off again.

For RimWorld at least, I can assure you that it's a lovely time-sink! And while it sucks to lose your little pixel people, allowing your colony to include death and tragedy makes for much more interesting stories.