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jaete posted:Here's Corbyn speaking on Afghanistan and refugees and stuff for a few minutes
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ThomasPaine posted:I bought Outer Wilds after the numerous recs itt and holy poo poo this is incredible, thanks lads It's a rotten time everywhere in the world right now, and even a cursory look at the papers is enough to make you want to hurl yourself into a bin but I can definitely say that Outer Wilds was a genuinely good use of my free time and was an enlightening experience that I hope everyone can enjoy if they can .
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Aug 18, 2021 18:18
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Every time someone mentions Outer Wilds my brain parses it as Outer Worlds.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:27
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Court has ruled that Starmer is allowed to strangle that llama.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:28
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Every time someone mentions Outer Wilds my brain parses it as Outer Worlds.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:32
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Every time someone mentions Outer Wilds my brain parses it as Outer Worlds. You and a lot of other people, I think. The games threads make a point of delineating the two.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:33
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Every time someone mentions Outer Wilds my brain parses it as Outer Worlds. I couldn't get into the Outer Worlds, I wanted to, 'cos they'd clearly tried really hard to create a unique environment but it just wasn't open world enough for me. Perhaps the Outer Wilds will be better?
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Aug 18, 2021 18:43
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I wanted to like Outer Worlds so much and it does have its moments, but ehhh. I guess it's pretty ok if you ignore 90% of the gameplay and just enjoy the cool narrative branches, but tbh even they aren't as complex as the game wants you to think they are. Still, definitely the best (and only) Firefly videogame! Pistol_Pete posted:I couldn't get into the Outer Worlds, I wanted to, 'cos they'd clearly tried really hard to create a unique environment but it just wasn't open world enough for me. Outer wilds is a way more indie game and doesn't have quite the same AAA production values, but it's definitely a better game overall. Think smallish-scale exploration (some of it reminds me of the Rick and Morty episode where they build a shack on the tiniest planet in the galaxy lol) in a kinda HG Wells-influenced idea of space travel but you're also playing detective and piecing together a compelling mystery. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 18:45
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Communist Thoughts posted:Have the tories killed as many people as Blair yet? It's gotta be close by now At this point they've probably killed as many British people as the Nazis.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:47
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Pistol_Pete posted:I couldn't get into the Outer Worlds, I wanted to, 'cos they'd clearly tried really hard to create a unique environment but it just wasn't open world enough for me. They're completely different kinds of games. The Outer Worlds is a Fallout-like, Outer Wilds is a chill exploration game.
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Aug 18, 2021 18:48
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Dabir posted:They're completely different kinds of games. The Outer Worlds is a Fallout-like, Outer Wilds is a chill exploration game. Ive been playing No Man's Sky for the past month, didn't touch it upon release as it was a pile of buggy shite... now it isn't. Exploration & inventory management for me. 
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Aug 18, 2021 19:20
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I still can't really see the fun in that game, everything just looks like procgen bleh, and unlike minecraft there's no real developed element of building nice looking things on it.
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Aug 18, 2021 19:22
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Dabir posted:They're completely different kinds of games. The Outer Worlds is a Fallout-like, Outer Wilds was an Irish poet and dramatist. 
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Aug 18, 2021 19:27
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Jedit posted:At this point they've probably killed as many British people as the Nazis. We blasted past the civilian death toll of WW2 just with covid deaths alone last autumn and have hurtles past the per-capita death rate since then, but we lost a *lot* of military personnel in the war (400k or so depending on exactly how you count Crown Dependencies). Austerity + covid are probably bringing us pretty close to that though.
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Aug 18, 2021 19:27
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Boo hoo - can't read replies to tweets without signing in. Was ok this morning. I hope it's a glitch. I need to stay unsigned in for the sake of my blood pressure. ed: if you open it in incognito mode you can read. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 19:40
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Boo hoo - can't read replies to tweets without signing in. Was ok this morning. It's been like this since yesterday for me. I refuse to create a Twitter account so this might well stop me reading it altogether.
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Aug 18, 2021 20:47
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Lungboy posted:It's been like this since yesterday for me. I refuse to create a Twitter account so this might well stop me reading it altogether. Incognito mode works 
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Aug 18, 2021 20:51
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We blasted past the civilian death toll of WW2 just with covid deaths alone last autumn and have hurtles past the per-capita death rate since then, but we lost a *lot* of military personnel in the war (400k or so depending on exactly how you count Crown Dependencies). Austerity + covid are probably bringing us pretty close to that though. UK war attributed death toll 1939-45 was roughly 420k. Being charitable and saying only 100k of the Covid deaths were the fault of the Tories, we're definitely well over 300k from their misrule.
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Aug 18, 2021 20:58
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Dabir posted:They're completely different kinds of games. The Outer Worlds is a Fallout-like, Outer Wilds is a chill exploration game. My favourite was the Spacer's Choice rep on Groundbreaker who if you befriend him, reveals that he signed a contract to have the mask welded on and has to be happy all the time. He's absolutely desperately miserable and can't sleep properly but he signed the contract, so he has to do it. I think one of the reasons people complained is because the biggest cutie on the ship is Parvati, but everyone got mad when her romance quest reveals that she is ace and interested in someone else, so you end up setting her up on a really sweet date. Or possibly you can talk her out of it and she is lonely and miserable, idk I'm not an rear end in a top hat. So obviously the people who get pissy when dudes can't romance the female character got mad. It's alright. The levelling curve / item progression runs out before the final planet, and a lot of the big moral choices you need to get exactly right for it to affect the ending, but it's mostly fun and at least trying to make a point.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:19
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Bobby Deluxe posted:more like the old KOTOR games
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Aug 18, 2021 21:20
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That's FATAL, not KOTOR.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:24
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You're right. In the East Midlands they're called arsehole diameter cobs.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:28
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Incognito mode works Thanks, although constantly having to c&p into incognito is going to get annoying very quickly I fear. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/johnny-mercer-mp-afghanistan-betrayal-boris-johnson-tory-b951174.html Resign the whip then, otherwise it's empty shite.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:45
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OwlFancier posted:I still can't really see the fun in that game, everything just looks like procgen bleh, and unlike minecraft there's no real developed element of building nice looking things on it. It's not minecraft but compared to like Rust or Subnautica NMS actually has pretty good base building options these days. Theres even a creative mode if you don't want to grind forever to unlock blueprints. That hasn't stopped people from building some insane stuff though. Iirc these were made with the help of an outside program to get around clipping issues, but they work in game: https://twitter.com/DaveBastian/status/1410662560794234881?s=19 https://twitter.com/DaveBastian/status/1409584929436930053?s=19 https://twitter.com/DaveBastian/status/1357435836866785280?s=19 https://twitter.com/DaveBastian/status/1357437668309671938?s=19 You can just make enormous dirt penises using the teraform laser if you want the true minecraft building experience though. For me personally theres just something about the scale of NMS that mskes it interesting to me. It may not actually mean anything but you're not just pulling a lever and geting a random result you're exploring a persistent space. The game is so mind bogglingly big and wide that when you land on a planet you're likely the only person who has ever seen it, but theres the posibility that someone someday may stumble upon it and see the same weird birds you gave a rude name to. That luster does fade as you discover how samey the proc gen can be, but it'll still suprise you once in a while. I don't want every game to be like NMS but its nice to just endlessly explore space sometimes. I guess it feels more realistic than other exploration game to me, just like in real life exploration in NMS involves a lot of seeing the same kind of stuff and sitting in a vehicle for extended periods of time, but occasionally seeing something cool and taking a photo of it. I was satisfied with the game at launch for providing that kind of experience lol.
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Aug 18, 2021 21:51
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I guess in the sense that minecraft has a persistent space in the sense that it will generate the same terrain from the same seed. I dunno, I just like minecraft because the world and the building system uses the same system, so it is really easy to make buildings that fit the landscape, and there is no clear line between landscaping and building. There are few other games that work like that and allow you to build entire environments really easily that look like they belong there.   I dunno, I've never been able to feel like NMS's procgen produced anything... interesting? It all just looks like what it is which is a bunch of noise maps and a bunch of randomly selected assets and colours. It hasn't even made me think of a potentially real environment or somewhere that I think would make a nice place to build a little model castle or something. Genuinely I've had more interesting results from minecraft's generator which occasionally makes the odd cool plateau, mountain overlooking a forest, bay, cliff etc. I don't know if it's worse generation or just because NMS tries to work on a greater range of scales to the point that you inevitably zoom out and see the generation pattern, but it's never clicked.
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Aug 18, 2021 22:05
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I had the same problem with Outer Worlds that I have with most Fallout games, which is that I'm always thinking I could be playing Fallout: New Vegas instead. Also I'm not really a fan of the bioshocky steam punky aesthetic.
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Aug 18, 2021 22:49
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Lungboy posted:Thanks, although constantly having to c&p into incognito is going to get annoying very quickly I fear. if incognito works deleting twitter cookies will almost certainly work: in firefox you can hit f12 for devtools on a twitter page go to storage tab and right click the website under cookies and delete all, presumably a similar process on other browsers
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Aug 18, 2021 23:03
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zhar posted:if incognito works deleting twitter cookies will almost certainly work: in firefox you can hit f12 for devtools on a twitter page go to storage tab and right click the website under cookies and delete all, presumably a similar process on other browsers I tried that but I lost the will to live waiting for the cookies to load (in Chrome) so don't know if it works. Ed: re-tried just now and the cookies loaded so I could zap twitter cookies and it works. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Aug 18, 2021 23:17
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OwlFancier posted:
For an interlude between minecraft servers I had a lot of fun with 3 of us on our own Valheim server. Was the closest thing to scratching the itch due to the really pleasing snap to build mechanics. Fighting sea serpents in a tiny boat in a storm was both terrifying and a great deal of fun. Then we sailed around for a week and built a huge fort on an island in the North Sea. Fun times.
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Aug 19, 2021 00:54
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Valheim is good too yes, just wish it had more stuff to build and more to do. Also more purpose to building big things.
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Aug 19, 2021 00:57
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Yeah a team of like 5 people who suddenly became millionaires. I'd not be all too fussed about rushing out new poo poo either.
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Aug 19, 2021 01:04
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I'm currently playing a Minecraft server with friends in VR, and god it is one hell of an experience. One of the mods adds a bunch of multi level dungeons around the place, and it is a magical experience when every block is literally 1m square and you have zombies getting all up in your face.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Incognito mode works delete all the twitter cookies and icognito mode is not needed e;fb
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OwlFancier posted:I still can't really see the fun in that game, everything just looks like procgen bleh, and unlike minecraft there's no real developed element of building nice looking things on it. I really want a higher block definition Minecraft. Even just doubled (8x data) would be great. Biggus Dickus fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Aug 19, 2021 |
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Aug 19, 2021 07:25
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All the centrist on twitter seem to be jizzing themselves, and doing a lap of honour over Kieth shooting fish in a barrel yesterday.
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Aug 19, 2021 08:17
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Thought it was an alpaca he wanted dead
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Aug 19, 2021 08:20
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forkboy84 posted:Thought it was an alpaca he wanted dead True, but he missed as usual.
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Aug 19, 2021 08:23
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We regret to inform you that Sir Kieth has contracted bovine TB (alpacoid variant). I am a centrist and take no pleasure in reporting this
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Aug 19, 2021 08:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:We regret to inform you that Sir Kieth has contracted bovine TB (alpacoid variant). I am a centrist and take no pleasure in reporting this The PLP must now be euthanised and burned in a big pile in a field to contain the infection.
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keep punching joe posted:The PLP must now be euthanised and burned in a big pile in a field to contain the infection. Maybe the Orangemen can be given some community funding to build a big Kieth-shaped wickerman out of old pallets
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