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MrGabr

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  • Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon is amazing.

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  • I ended up settling on spells in my left hand, sword in my right, dodging like a maniac.

    Right up until the last 3 hours where I respec'd into exclusively two-handed sword + heavy armor because

    the game kinda pushes you into it with the King Arthur gear. Imo respec'ing is too easy, and too necessary. The stat requirements for that armor were so specific and high, and I guessed correctly that I wouldn't need any of my social stats for the rest of the game. Fortunately, I really enjoyed the pure sword combat, so I still had fun, but my character went from light armor spell-sword to plate armor greatsword wielder for just the final dungeon. Kinda odd when you think about it in the RP context.

  • Why is Windows still bloated

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  • The backwards-compatibility stuff already in this thread is all true, but also they don't know how to remove some things. Microsoft has wanted to entirely replace Control Panel with Settings since Windows 8 came out, but they gave up. And rewriting the whole operating system from scratch would take decades and still inevitably lose compatibility with some of the random old software mentioned here.

  • She was arrested for holding a protest sign in small-town California: ‘This is a testing ground’

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  • What happens if you hold a sign that says "Palestine Action" on it?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    MrGabr @ttrpg.network

    Why do people go out of their way to dodge manhole covers while driving?

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  • That's because human perception exists on a logarithmic scale! It's called the Weber-Fechner law, and it was one of the first studied psychological phenomena, before psychology as a field was even defined.

    Interestingly, our sense of the "bigness" of numbers is also logarithmic. This is why there have to be explicit explanations of the massive difference between a million and a billion - our brains instinctively and erroneously think "eh, it's like double."

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  • Thank you North East Ohio Regional Sewer District

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  • So Which Investigative YouTubers Would You Recommend

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  • Boy Boy

  • Looking for 3D Platformer recommendations on sale on Steam

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  • Neon White, Cyberhook, and Crumble are all excellent, though you might be looking for a more traditional platformer.

    Blue Fire is decent and definitely worth checking out while it's $4 right now.

  • Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

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  • Regarding social media feeds, I have mixed opinions, because you're right about the echo chamber, but I also am only still on any mainstream platform for the memes, and I only want it to show me memes, which it wouldn't do if not for personalized recommendations.

    As for games, I don't want my recommendations to be dominated by whatever has the biggest marketing budget and can take over my feed. I mostly play indie games, and I think if my store page wasn't personalized, I wouldn't see nearly as many small games as I do.

  • Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

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  • Would you be willing to share why you don't like the "corpo spying"? I personally never understood - an online service has to know your requests in order to serve the results to you, and keeping revords of those requests is the only way to have personalized recommendations, which I would rather have than be served ads for games (or music or whatever) I'll never even consider.

  • Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix It

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  • VeggieTales is giving them too much credit - there's good moral lessons in there! (And the creator said all the botanically-fruit male veggies are canonically trans??)

  • Boost, repost, & share: Boycott Disney

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  • ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air for saying Kirk's killer was right-wing and that they're trying to use Kirk's death for political points.

  • Looking for 'Machinima' like episodic series that role-play through games (not 'lets play' vids, but actually in-character)

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  • Full story Machinima style series are rare, but if you just want heavy editing and a somewhat coherent plot as opposed to nearly unedited gameplay, Alpharad and LarsBurrito might work. Alpharad heavily edits his videos and usually writes a script to go over the gameplay that does a good job pulling a story out of the footage. LarsBurrito does a similar style, but also often does themed playthroughs where he writes the script to flavor the playthrough to fit whatever character he's roleplaying as.

    If you want actual story but are ok with significantly less editing, Mianite is a series I rewatch every once in a while in a similar way you describe. The scripted story doesn't really start picking up until a significant way through season 1, but there is still enough conflict between the different players to make it more than just a Let's Play.

  • Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent

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  • Indeed. The sources I've read seem to lay blame with games not usually patenting mechanics (which apparently is all patent officers look at for prior art, not other games), meaning it needs active challenging to be thrown out.

    PocketPair is based in Japan, which is where the previous, more directly problematic patents have been filed mid-litigation. While there is clearly prior art for the US patent, it isn't quite as comically broad as the Japan ones, and since Japan doesn't seem to care about prior art, those remain the most concerning to me.

  • Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent

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  • In the US, yes. In Japan, it would appear such a concept does not exist.

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • Yeah but not raw milk straight from the udder (unless you enjoy salmonella), letting it dribble down your chin and get in your beard (unless that's what does it for you I guess, you do you)

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • My main gripe with TLJ is that the editing is a total mess. Multiple scenes lose continuity between shots. The most egregious example is the milk scene, which in addition to being gross and unnecessary, was clearly jammed in between two shots meant to be continuous. Rey and Luke start walking down a skinny peninsula, no space cow in sight, then hard cut to space cow and Luke milking it, then hard cut back to the end of the peninsula and Luke setting down his stuff.

  • Best World-Building Game Coffee Table Books?

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  • I found one for NieR: Automata at a used bookstore that has maps, a ton of concept art, and a short story.

  • "Thanks! Bye!"

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  • Race condition

  • Indie gaming's only three genres have inevitably converged into grimdark Balatro with a whimsical egg idiot

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  • There are thousands upon thousands of indie games with neither of those mechanics...