People that don't check what community a post came from on their home feed and just upvote it if they like it.
Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It's very easy to miss sometimes
Isn't the way it works now also a debate winner? The blocked user can reply to you and you won't even know, so you can't refute whatever they've said (and if you've blocked them there's decent odds it isn't good).
This is what happens when you step on the wrong bug a couple million years ago
In my DnD group, my goblin wizard still holds the honor of being the only party member the DM has used Power Word Kill on.
I'm honored.
we have to go back to our roots
I often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We're well overdue.
Bring a book or some headphones and knock out a podcast. Or drink, whatever works
Baldur's Gate 3.
I played through one single player save and two multiplayer ones with different groups, enjoyed it all - but only got a little ways into Act 3 on any one save. A combination of middling performance with my older rig and just having sank so much time in I burnt out a little.
Still think it's a fantastic game, but I don't know if I'll ever go back to finish it - I feel like I'd have to start a whole new save.
I will buy the explanation that the game is too old to continue to support when they stop adding new microtransactions every six months or so
It's like it wanted me to find it, sticking out of the wall...
Going back to broad strokes genres, this week's topic concerns the FPS (First Person Shooter), a staple of the overall gaming scene.
A First Person Shooter is the type of game where you play from a first person perspective (big shocker) and focuses around shooting (bigger shocker there), whether that's other players or NPC enemies. It's nice for a genre to be so plainly self-descriptive! FPS games also involve the navigation of a 3D environment, and often times incorporate standard concepts that are ubiquitous at this point like ammo management and loadouts of different weapons. This genre was heavily shaped by Doom (the original, released in early 90s), to the point where before the name FPS fully took hold, one term often used was "Doom clones". Nowadays there are many subgenres and styles paired with the FPS - class-based shooters, "boomer shooters", milsim and/or tactical shooters, twitch shooters, and others.
Here are some questions and subtopics that I encourage people to discuss:
- What are some of your favorite subgenres or styles of FPS, and your favorite games from them?
- Do you enjoy secondary concepts often associated with FPS games like ammo management and loadout adjustment?
- What genres do you like to see crossed over with an FPS?
- Do you prefer multiplayer or singleplayer FPS games? For multiplayer, Co-op or PvP?
- What are some of your favorite weapons from FPS titles? What's been memorable?
Also feel free to bring up anything you like related to the topic! If you have suggestions for future discussion topics, leave them in the suggestion thread.
Additional Resources
- List of first-person shooters from Wikipedia
- First-Person Shooter tag on Steam
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this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us