Meh, fuck canon. It’s all fiction, who cares what Disney says is the ‘real’ fiction vs not?
That universe can house some incredibly good or incredibly stupid content - no reason to judge the good by the existence of the stupid. Same applies to the universe we live in, tbh.
They can do good work: Rogue One and Andor were fucking fantastic.
…but yeah the odds aren’t great when you consider everything else.
My thinking is the reason the only tag available is NSFW is the first two words of that acronym: not safe. Open Lemmy in the break room and surprise! Your screen is covered in titties. The coworker sitting next to you complains to HR, and now your supervisor is explaining to you that exposing a coworker to sexual content without their consent is one of the forms of sexual harassment - which that facility has a zero tolerance policy for - so now they have to let you go.
Real consequences can come with NSFW content if it’s not filtered out in certain situations.
That kind of situation will never play out if you sub the word ‘titties’ above with Trump or Biden or whatever.
So, the urgency to tag NSFW content is high; the urgency to tag political content is non-existent.
Same with any other interest-based tag: I don’t care for sports or anime, which there’s a lot of both on this site. It’d be convenient for me personally to be able to just check a box in the settings to wipe that content from my Lemmy experience, but asking for that to be a core feature opens the can of worms of which topics get a built in tag, and which ones don’t. And even if we do that, whatever the result is won’t adhere to personal preference anyway, so let’s say they go ahead and add the politics and sports tags, but not anime: I’m still at back at square one needing a key word filter, and I’d still need to add key words for all three cuz without the need for a tag like with NSFW content, people won’t be nearly as diligent about tagging political, sports, or anime posts.
So imo just skip the mess: NSFW tag as-is, and customizable key word filter for the individual user to fiddle with according to their personal preference.
Many of the Lemmy apps support key word filters. I don’t think we need a political tag so much as filter support as a core Lemmy feature.
Might be potential for a web extension too - RES made Reddit significantly less shit; a Lemmy version of that would be outstanding.
A veteran of not playing WoW, then? Did he relapse?
ex-WoW vet
He isn’t a WoW vet anymore? How in the time-travel-bullshit did he manage that?!
I mean, nowadays consoles are just a PC with glasses and a moustache… It’d be great if we moved away from physical consoles and more towards digital platforms so that the gaming industry is less fragmented.
Basically officially supported and updated roms/emulators. Or just skip that and make Nintendo and such something akin to Steam.
8 times bigger than Witcher 3 filled wilth Witcher 3 quality content would be a godsend. 8 times bigger than Witcher 3 filled with procedural generation and AI slop… not so much.
If Enderal isn’t on your radar yet, that is reason to buy Skyrim.
Total conversion mod that uses Skyrim’s assets to build a completely new game (lore, characters, terrain, voice acting, etc are new, and have nothing to do with the Elder Scrolls universe).
It’s crazy impressive for an indie dev crew’s passion project.
Completely free, provided you own Skyrim.
It’d be pretty great if consoles finally acknowledged that they’re just a PC with a moustache and glasses nowadays; and transitioned into a digital space to effectively become officially supported emulators. Especially if launcher isn’t restricted.
These games were a highlight of my childhood. That said, I’ve tried to revisit them, and by today’s standards, they did NOT age well. Trying to remaster these would be a massive undertaking - I’ll be cheering for them, though.
If we’re pitching microtransactions as extremist content, I’m on board.
Portal if you want to pass the controller, Portal 2 if you want multiplayer. Both great options for what you’re describing.
Just play WoW on a private server and stop supporting Blizzard’s anti-user business model.
*snaps gloves*
The force is about to be with you.
Yeah those microtransactions didn’t lead to gambling, they are gambling.
Gambling aimed at minors via that lootbox shit was a thing even before videogames - earliest example I’m aware of are baseball cards. Our failure to legislate that shit into the grave at day 1 is why we’re in this situation now.
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HyperX Cloud Alpha is the most comfortable I’ve used - could wear those all day, no pressure points. Sound quality is fantastic, largely due to the closed-back design.
And if you’re not already familiar with the difference between open- and closed-back headphones, definitely learn it! Something not often discussed in headset articles is how YOU sound when wearing them. It’s a bit weird to describe, but you ofc hear yourself when you speak, and something that alters how you’re supposed to sound can be jarring as fuck.
The you sound when you speak without having anything on your head or in your ears, would be most comparable to open-back headphones.
If you plug your ears and then speak, you’ll sound weird, and hearing yourself sound weird can make speaking feel weird.
…idk if I’m doing a good job putting this to words. For real, just stick your fingers in your ears and start saying a few sentences, you’ll hear what I mean.
I did NOT know the difference when I got my HyperX’s, and it took a while to get used to speaking with them on. Had I known the difference, I probably would have looked for an open-back model instead. I love em now, but again it did take a bit to get there.
I’ll update with links when I’m on my comp next (mobile now), but a few off the top of my head:
Portal 1 and 2. It’s so popular that it doesn’t seem like it even can be ‘unique’, but the game play really is one of a kind, and it’s pretty great.
Enderal - total conversion mod for Skyrim, but in the steam store as it’s own game. It’s got familiar combat and game mechanics, but the antagonists aren’t your typical big-bad-evil-guy, but things like emotions, mental states, and philosophies. Somehow they managed to work that kind of content into a fantasy RPG… it’s a fucking masterpiece, and it’s free if you have Skyrim in your library already (it uses Skyrim’s assets and engine, but is not related to Elder Scrolls in any way).
Zelda Majora’s Mask, for the N64. This game is fucking weird, even by the Zelda franchise’s standards. Every scene is bizarre in a way that other games haven’t hit before or since Zelda MJ. It’s built around the Kübler-Ross 5 stages of grief; it never draws attention to that, but guides you through them beautifully.
Secret World Legends. Technically an MMO, but treat it like a single player RPG - the MMO elements are shit. This game will have you running all over the globe to basically do Men In Black shit, but instead of aliens, it’s occult weirdness, and things like urban legends that turn out to be true. Heavy Lovecraftian influence. One of the more challenging parts of the game are investigative missions, which I’d encourage you to give a solid effort before turning to the web for answers. The objectives can be something like “investigate the murder of John Doe” …and that’s it. You have to tackle it the same way you would IRL, so you’d go to places that make sense like a police station or town hall. It doesn’t tell you, which makes it probably the most intellectually challenging games I’ve ever played. If you dive in, you’ll need to choose a faction when you make your character: and trust me in this, choose Illuminati. The story writing is way better than the other two for their faction-specific missions; and the rest of the game doesn’t change by faction (you’ll be in the same zones, grouping and working together with players in other factions; there’s just a few off-shoots of solo faction story time)
This just in: hobby people have had for basically their entire life has big number!!