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  • Thanks for the reminder, I needed to put my stoat and fluxer info on my discord profile.

  • Oh were back to this shit again I see.

  • You can take this headline and replace the word consoles with just about any electronic device and it holds true imo.

  • The only thing I doubt in this story is the last 3 words.

  • Time to get shwifty.

  • And the 19th.

  • /a

  • Wrong

  • You're right that they don't need to, but in reality they do whether they announce it or not.

    In 2017 I tested this at home alone in my apartment in by myself using my smarphone by finding a site with lots of banner ads, monologing next to my phone about a topic with no relation to my current life at the time for about a minute, then refreshing the page. To my horror, the exact thing I was monologing about showed up on every single banner ad. Nothing in my life was going on related to that topic and the only thing connecting me and the topic was my own vocal words.

    That was the moment I decided to avoid Google/big tech for the rest of my life.

  • In 2021, I bought 4 4TB bad HDDs for $65 each. I decoded to buy a spare a couple weeks ago in case this shit decides not to stop and an hdd fails since most of my shit is on my NAS. It was $170 for the exact same model.

  • Me: looks outside Capitalism: still exists Me: "dam, it didn't work"

  • Fuck that

  • Time to throw out the roku I never use.

  • I think it's a fantastic idea, I just don't think they'll like where it leads.

  • Fuck Israel. Have fun spreading your resources thinner than Donald's skin, FBI.

  • Grayjay too.

  • Well this is all just my opinion and probably mostly driven by nostalgia, but gw1 to me feels like the story is more about you/your character, and your friends(as opposed to the world). Sure gw2 has instanced content, but it feels more like a traditional MMO than gw1 does. There's nothing particularly wrong with that, but literally all of the mission and quest content in og guild wars is instanced, so it feels more like a single player RPG that you can play with friends and less like an mmo unless you are in a town where you can party up and trade with other players. It really captured a feeling of being out in the wild by yourself and didn't have the same feeling that I get playing every other MMO where you just feel like your going down a beaten path, even if you technically were doing something that literally everyone else was doing. Some games like PoE do have a similar system but they do not do their storytelling or combat in quite the same way.

    There's a bit more to it than that though, the art style, the combat mechanics, and the tone of the story all changed quite dramatically between the games. Gw1 has a less exaggerated, more grimy and down to earth artstyle compared to the more "paintbrush" artstyle of gw2 and gw2 also feels like the overall tone is more lighthearted and gw1 wasn't afraid to just strait up off npcs that you grew to know well in order to advance the story and up the stakes.

    Playing gw2 for the first time as a long time gw1 player was a strange experience, because it felt like Anet had abandoned many of the things that made guild wars unique and different compared to standard mmos, and it honestly felt like they took the stock mmo formula, applied a vaguely guild wars artstyle to it and removed healer classes.

    To be clear I'm not saying gw2 is a bad game, just that it's very different from og guild wars. I would not be surprised if gw3 is significantly different than gw2 and 1.

  • Eh, if they bring back some of what made the original GW feel special I might check it out, but if it's just gw2 version 2 I'm not really all that interested.

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Ducatt doesn't tolerate general strikes

  • Risa @startrek.website

    Zero effort screenshot meme

  • neurodivergent sh itjust works! @sh.itjust.works

    with beehaw defederated with us, I will probably be hanging around here more

  • World News @lemmy.ml

    New World Bank business ratings will examine countries’ worker rights

    www.theguardian.com /business/2023/jun/07/new-world-bank-business-ratings
  • Memes @lemmy.ml

    Me upon learning you can post images in the comments section

  • Memes of the Star Wars Prequels @lemmy.ml

    Me upon learning you can post images in the comments section

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml

    Feature Request: comments sorting

  • Star Wars @lemmy.ml

    New Ahsoka Trailer