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You can get them through playing but you can’t open them unless you buy a key for real money. Each key only opens one box so you basically have to pay for the random chance item

I usually don’t hunt them but some times i do, if it’s a game I’m particularly interested in and i don’t have to go out of my way too much for them. I also like how you can tell a story with them. In the Talos Principle for example there are very branching options that you decide on by being attentive and by testing your philosophy. On my achievement showcase i can now show which path i went on my favourite game.
There’s also the aspect of hints. They hung at little extra challenges and generally tell you there’s something left to experience in the game. For example BG3: after finishing the game I have only 26/54, so i know there’s a lot of content I’ve not explored. I might eventually do another run of it. Had i like 40 something achievements I’d be like "yeah idk that little extra content isn’t worth digging for 60 hours again. I also like the aspect of seeing the achievements of friends showing up in my timeline so i know if i can talk about a certain part of the game without spoiling it.

Oh also if you don’t want some achievements to show up for friends, you can hide the game and activity for others.

Not to forget that EA is iirc getting bought by the Saudis so government entities would already be involved from the beginning

Lil shout-out to pokerogue at this: it is a gen 4 style (i think) fan project that has all the current mons minus the newer mega evolutions in pixel art with up to 3 different shiny variants per mon even. The gameplay loop is very simple with battle/event -> pick reward -> repeat but it’s still very fun

There’s a lot of them. Just not at ubislop

His Howardliness and Todd the Bad are amazing names for him

I read it like that. In Germany we say PnP (pen and paper) instead of ttrpg, which makes it easy to assume that’s the English term, as it’s English words in German

I feel especially Roguelites are bad for limited playtime because they are often designed around having to do the same-ish thing multiple times to get enough meta progression to be able to finish the game. Like the game has content for 2 hours but stretches it to 15 because you need meta progression.

This got me thinking. One of the big things i like about steam is the ease of use on Linux and the achievements with the community profile and friends to share it with on top of it. So what if you made those features federated. A protocol that allows you to attach a game to it and log achievements and display them on friendica. You could also attach the executables from steam or gog or whatever you launch through lutris or heroic or whatever. I think atm Devs put in extra stuff to make steam achievements work but what if there was a common interface for it?

Having played the demo I had some seemingly random drops to 30fps in places that didn’t look demanding so i hope i can fiddle some settings. For reference i have an AMD 7800XT gpu and a 7800X3D cpu. You could try the demo yourself to see how it runs

That is not at all the thing you said. You said two objects moving away from each other each at the speed of light in non-expanding space would be perceived by each other as going at double the speed of light which does indeed not work like that in relativity.

I really enjoyed We Were Here with a good friend. It’s a coop escape room like puzzle game where you’ll play in different rooms but your puzzles interact with the other room and you’ll have to communicate and work the two rooms together to solve it

And that broader social concept is enforced by other men being toxic to people not fitting that narrow definition. Only takes a small loud group to make a much bigger group feel bad about themselves if they don’t fit

This update is more important because before this, the awards granted the recipient steam points that they could trade for cosmetics to have even have a more legit looking account to try to scam people with. So the awards gave points and there was a clown award -> trolls post ragebait, often in the form of queer hate or fake queer demands, to farm clown awards for points. The hope is, that now that the recipients don’t get points anymore, the troll farming stops at least in part.

And abuse is a different word than rape. Maybe meditate on that

Your likebess modified naked being fucked, printed out and stapled to a tree in your neighborhood is ok then?

My likeness posted for the world to see in a way i did not consent to is a thing done to me

It is sexual abuse even by your definition if photos of real children get sexualised by AI and land on xitter. And afaik know that is what’s happened. These kids did not consent to have their likeness sexualised.

It worked really well for CSGO at least for me. I had a lot of nice lobbies

Wow I did not expect such a grim looking game trailer