Shhhhhhhhhh you’re going to wake Gabe!

Starwars: Racer Revenge was by far my favorite racing game. Not to be confused with the much more popular N64 game “Episode 1 Racer” - the PS2 version was kind of an unofficial sequel that made a lot of improvements. Most notably the physics: the PS2 version actually feels like a pod being pulled by two separate engines, vs the N64 kinda felt like you were driving a car that just looked like a podracer. The physics especially shine if you play in 1st person and set the controls so the L joystick controls the left engine and R joystick controls the right - i.e. to turn left, you don’t just push the sticks to the left, you pull the left stick back and push the right stick forward so the right engine accelerates faster and the difference makes you turn. It’s super satisfying, if a bit more difficult.

Full disclosure: relying on my memory from shortly after its release in 2002, so I honestly have no idea if it’s actually as good as I remember, or if I’m just wearing the nostalgia goggles. Grain of salt.

I cast… NON-magic missile!

This just in: hobby people have had for basically their entire life has big number!!

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.