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Last achievement and I will have 100%-ed the game, but this motherlover just won't stop randomly one-shotting me. This was meant to be quick and easy...
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The Catholic Church is set to canonize their first saint who was also an avid g*mer.
Carlo Acutis was a young man who died from leukemia at the age of 15. In life, Acutis was a devout Catholic who brought his parents back into the faith due to his curiosity and interest in the religious rites of the Catholic Church.
Acutis allegedly even donated games to children in need through the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Since his death in 2006, the charity and devotion of Acutis became more widely known among Catholics. One of the requirements for canonization into sainthood is to have two miracles attributed to the candidate.
The first miracle of Acutis was in 2019 when a mother in Brazil prayed to Acutis to help her son who was born with a pancreatic defect. The defect kept him on an all-liquid diet, but shortly after the prayer the family claims he felt "healed" and became able to eat solid foods again.
The second miracle of Acutis was in 2022 when a young woman in Costa Rica experienced a brain hemorrhage with a low chance of survival. The woman's mother prayed to Acutis on her behalf and she began breathing on her own shortly after, with all evidence of the hemorrhage allegedly healing.
Acutis is expected to be recognized as a saint during the Catholic Church's 2025 jubilee.
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2024
I'm aware the dates aren't exactly right but I like to keep things refered to their planned date. They are still weekly after all.
#1 --- 043 - [07 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #43 -- mayflyalt
#2 --- 044 - [14 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #44 -- lc
#3 --- 045 - [21 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #45 -- lc
#4 --- 046 - [28 Jan 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #46 -- lc
#5 --- 047 - [04 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #47 -- lc
#6 --- 048 - [11 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #48 -- lc
#7 --- 049 - [18 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #49 -- lc
#8 --- 050 - [25 Feb 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #50 -- lc
#9 --- 051 - [03 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #51 -- lc
#10 --- 052 - [10 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #52 -- lc
#11 --- 053 - [17 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #53 -- Ninjjer
#12 --- 054 - [25 Mar 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #54 -- lc
#13 --- 055 - [7 Apr 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #55 -- Ninjjer
#14 --- 056 - [14 Apr 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #56 -- Ninjjer
#15 --- 057 - [21 Apr 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #57 -- Ninjjer
#16 --- 058 - [28 Apr 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #58 -- Ninjjer
#17 --- 059 - [5 May 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #59 -- RWBY
#18 --- 060 - [12 May 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #60 -- Ninjjer
#19 --- 061 - [12 May 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #61 -- Ninjjer
#20 --- 062 - [26 May 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #62 -- Ninjjer
#21 --- 063 - [2 June 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #63 -- RWBY
#22 --- 064 - [9 June 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #64 -- RWBY
#23 --- 065 - [16 June 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #65 -- Ninjjer
#24 --- 066 - [25 June 2024] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #66 -- Ninjjer
2023
I'm aware there are previous weekly or so megathreads and I'll eventually add them ( green = official, red = fake, yellow = misc, blue = losercel)
#0 - [22 Jan 2023] - some1 should make weekly vidya threads marseytf2spy
#1 - [28 Jan 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" Thread #1
#2 - [4 Feb 2023] - Weekly "Whatcha Been Playing" thread #2
#3 - [11 Feb 2023] - Weekly Gaming Thread #3
#3.5 - [13 Feb 2023] - [Weekly Gaming Thread 2] You will own no NFTs of video game microtransactions and you will be happy edition-- dramamine
#4 - [18 Feb 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing?' thread #4
#4.5 - [20 Feb 2023] - Welcome to the new weekly vidya thread! Week 1 - 2/20/23 -- robotron2084
#5 - [25 Feb 2023] - Weekly "What're You Playing" Community Thread #5
#5.5 - [2 Mar 2023] - So, what do you dipshits play all day? -- horned waifu shill
#6 - [4 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing' Thread #6
#7 - [11 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' thread #7
#8 - [18 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #8
#9 - [25 Mar 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing?' thread #9
#10 - [1 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing?' Thread: #10: Whooaaaa Those are some HILARIOUS patch notes edition
#11 - [8 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' Thread #11
#12 - [15 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What are you playing' thread #12
#13 - [23 Apr 2023] - What're you playing thread #idk
#14 - [29 Apr 2023] - Weekly 'What Are You Playing' thread #14
#15(1) - [6 May 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' thread #15
#15(1).5 - [10 May 2023] - marseyg*mer Gaming Thread - What are you playing this week? -- cynic
#15(2) - [13 May 2023] - Weekend 'What've you been playing?' Thread #15 -- he fricked up the ordering here I'll just go with it
#16 - [20 May 2023] - Weekly "What Are You Playing?" Thread #16
#16.5 - [28 May 2023] - Weekly "What are you playing" thread -- carp
#17 - [3 Jun 2023] - Weekly "What have you been playing?" Thread #new one
#18 - [10 Jun 2023] - Weekly "What are you playing" thread #18
#19 - [17 Jun 2023] - Weekly 'What're You Playing' thread #19!
#20(1) - [24 Jun 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are you Playing?' Thread #20: Modern Warfare III
#20(2) - [1 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #20: Summer Salestice -- same reason as above
#21 - [10 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What're you playing?' Thread #21: loli_esports forgot got chudded edition -- basad
#23 - [15 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #I think it's actually 23 -- should be 22 but I'll go with his ordering
#24 - [22 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing?' thread #24: Lot of stuff coming out all of a sudden, feels like
#25 - [29 Jul 2023] - Weekly 'What games have you been playing' thread #25
#26 - [5 Aug 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #26
#27 - [12 Aug 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #27
#28 - [19 Aug 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #28
#29 - [26 Aug 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #29
#30 - [2 Sep 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #30
#31 - [9 Sep 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #31
#32 - [16 Sep 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #32
#33 - [23 Sep 2023] - Weekly 'What Games Are You Playing' thread #33
#34 - [30 Sep 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread # 34
#35 - [7 Oct 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #35
#36 - [27 Oct 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #36 -- tulpa
#37 - [26 Nov 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #37 -- losercel
#38 - [03 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #38 -- losercel
#39 - [10 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #39 -- losercel
#40 - [17 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #40 -- losercel
#41 - [24 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #41 -- losercel
#42 - [31 Dec 2023] - Weekly "What games are you playing" thread #42 -- losercel
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Last week's game: Elden Ring
Final Score: (10*15+9*7+8*9+7*5+6*5+5*4+4*0+3*0+2*0+1*2)/(15+7+9+5+5+4+0+0+0+2) = 7.91
All Previous Games:
[26. Nov 2023] Hades = 7.60
[3 Dec 2023] Rimworld = 8.93
[10 Dec 2023] Baldur's Gate 3 = 7.54
[17 Dec 2023] Age of Empires 2 = 8.59
[24 Dec 2023] GTA V = 6.62
[14 Jan 2024] Skyrim = 7.25
[21 Jan 2024] Cuphead = 6.97
[28 Jan 2024] Celeste = 5.27
[04 Feb 2024] Planescape Torment = 9.33
[11 Feb 2024] Palworld = 7.39
[18 Feb 2024] Nier Automata = 5.80
[24 Feb 2024] Might and Magic 6 = 5.33
[04 Mar 2024] Balatro = 9
[11 Mar 2024] Helldivers 2 = 7.3
[17 Mar 2024] Heroes of the Storm = 6.79
[25 Mar 2024] Dwarf Fortress = 7.81
[7 Apr 2024] No Man's Sky = 5.96
[14 Apr 2024] Lethal Company = 6.25
[21 Apr 2024] SpaceChem = 6.91
[12 May 2024] Fallout 4 = 5.33
[19 May 2024] Disco Elysium = 7.13
[26 May 2024] Crusader Kings 3 = 6.75
[2 June 2024] Warthunder = 3.63
[9 June 2024] Dragon Age Origins = 7.69
[16 June 2024] Halo: Combat Evolved = 7.85
[25 June 2024] Elden Ring = 7.91
Game to Discuss?
This week, let's discuss Kenshi, which is arguably the most refined take on the Nu-Bethesda RPG. The story is nonexistant, the world strange, the companions memorable, and the settlement building refined.
As always, discuss below, and vote in the pinned comment
carp, capy, geto, donger pin please
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The one good exclusive VR title I know of was Half Life Alyx. Since then it has been crickets over there.
VR as a concept has so much potential so why does has it not taken off so far? Especially in terms of worthwhile exclusives of the AAA variety?
At the very least they could try to step up conversion of pc/ps/xbox games to PSVR variants but they don't even do that outside of resident evil games.
https://www.techradar.com/best/the-best-vr-games
VR should be a whole lot bigger than it is today. What is holding it back? The weight of the headset? The price? The image quality and resolution?
Nevermind it's definitely weight. PSVR2 weighs 560 grams.
If they could get VR weight down below 200 grams they have a real chance at selling them in the mass market. No way its happening before that though.
Your thoughts?
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You should never buy or sell this game. It’s actually CP. https://t.co/Kw8egNmLHo
— Mutahar (@OrdinaryGamers) June 29, 2024
The girl showed them a fake ID tho, so frick that conniving b-word. I hope she got r*ped.
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50.20.249.90:27005
the password is bussy
i left some CCWs i found dropped on the marked street locations, and the house has some more + duffel bags and holsters
the west point police station is open and has some more shotguns and handguns in it
the settings are easier than normal
melee multi hit
move while swinging
zombies 0.75x
xp 5x
reading faster
8 free points for taking super-immune (makes zombie virus incapacitate you for a while instead of killing you)
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As I start my yearlong overseer shift, I reread the old chronicles once more. Our fortress has flourished, mostly, though the masons have cut many coffins as well. We have grown so much since I last served. Still we can only endure, not repel, the sieges of the undead, but last year we reached the precious Adamantine, and we must exploit it. We must delve deeply and greedily, where treasures and fiends sleep in the stone. The danger and distance mean mining this wondrous substance inefficient, and here I hope to improve our industriousness.
As for myself, I am hale and strong. I have fought for our fortress, and I have been made Hammerer, dispenser of final and fatal justice. In all the hustle and bustle of our fortress' great expansion, no dungeon to deliver justice has yet been built. That can be an initial goal.
2 Granite
I have ordered the chains and cages made. Settling into my role as overseer, I find the office of Sheriff has passed into obsolescence because of our growth, and I must consider who to appoint as Captain of the Guard. My task is only to perform executions, and the Captain must apprehend wrongdoers and deliver them for punishment.
I have ordered a few more pockets of Adamantine mined, and set @StarSix , captain of the Cudgel, to stand watch over the Adamant veins for now.
3 Granite
@60horsesinmyherd has ordered me not to export any of our wondrous new battle axes. A wise order, if unnecessary.
Going over the old journals I saw dreams of the fabled pump stack, the mighty shaft to bring magma within easy reach. It would also be an ultimate solution if even Adamantine-armed and -armored dwarves are not enough to take on the dark hunters. I think we can build this, but I expect construction to outlast my year as overseer. For now I have ordered digging of the body of the shaft, well over a hundred levels.
8 Granite
We found an enormous cavern! For later in the year I had considered exploratory mining to find such, but the pump shaft breached it. There is fertile soil, and many spiders. A spot of good luck - with a little shoring up of the cavern walls our pump shaft can continue straight on its current path down.
13 Granite
The adamantine miners unearthed another ancient evil. A fiend of vomit. @Cream_a_da_crop of the Cudgel is on guard nearby and rushes to aid, but the thing is already on the miners. @EskomSePoesOfficial dodges a cloud of boiling vomit while @60horsesinmyherd strikes a pick blow - and the fiend dissipates into a puddle of vile regurgitation. Perhaps it was too foul to have any formidable substance.
17th Granite
Another treasure in the depths!
When we had to rearrange the Adamantine access in order to mine it, miner @Paragon decided to sleep down there instead of wait a few hours for a stair to be carved. Now @Paragon is upset about their decision. They can complain to the Mayor, not me.
22 Granite
Migrants arrived. We are now 118. Thankfully there are plenty of bedrooms from the foresight of previous overseers.
24 Granite
That wasn't all the migrants. 130! So far.
25 Granite
Our hunter @uwu has gone into the caverns to hunt something called an Elk Bird and chased it upwards. Luckily it doesn't seem to be particularly ferocious. I admire the audacity, but I need to finish re-sealing the cavern lest something more dangerous arrive.
6 Slate
I've been told these Elk Bird hides will fetch an especially high price from the trader later on.
12 Slate
With the pump shaft sealed off from the cavern again, I've ordered the start of a separate stairwell for cavern access.
18 Slate
Again we have unearthed evil near the Adamantine veins. A phantom of fire, named Bisekmomuz.
19 Slate
Grim tidings. The thing Bisekmomuz killed the miner @Paragon and the stationed Cudgel member @frick . Dwarven courage and steel could not fight fire. The flames left nothing to bury. The bridge is raised. We are cut off from the Adamantine, as well as two treasures. Bisekmomuz lurks.
20 Slate
I have appointed @sirpingsalot and Ducim as replacement miners.
3 Felsite
@frick and @Paragon are memorialized on slabs.
A large rat scurried into the fortress from somewhere - I took the privilege of killing it myself.
5 Felsite
There is water in the deeps - the miners working on the cavern access passage must work around damp stone.
6 Felsite
I saw a snake, an adder, and felt compelled to attack it. It fled before my onslaught.
9 Felsite
@IslamWasWrongAboutGays is taken by a mood and compelled to craft!
11 Felsite
The Dungeon is complete! To have a fully functional justice system, I have appointed Ral Regshadmal as Captain of the Guard. I chose her for her weakness - Let killing wrongdoers be reserved for me.
14 Felsite
All the raw Adamantine taken before the coming of Bisekmomuz has been processed. It was a slow process.
17 Felsite
@IslamWasWrongAboutGays has created a legendary sheep bone crossbow, but hoarded it to themselves. If that is how it will be, then have hunting duty assignment to make use of it.
2 Hematite
I hear the outcry - SNATCHER! Protect the children - three goblin kidnappers have come. The Cudgel has the kill order.
4 Hematite
The goblins fled before our fighters, never getting close to any children. Two got away, but @StarSix caught the last one with just one blow, our fortress' first with an adamantine weapon.
9 Hematite
A human caravan is arriving for trade.
16 Hematite
The human traders wanted to sell us a scroll titled "Against the Dwarf". I considered slaughtering them all for this insult, but decided we don't need the trouble it might bring. Instead I just traded, though they didn't have much of interest - some exotic drinks and bins of cloth. I also bought the offending scroll to learn what lies they are spreading.
To my surprise, it is written by a self-hating dwarf. A dwarf writing in the name of "labor", writing about their own previous writing, depressing ideas about "Mountain Halls for Everyone." I think I have heard of this nonsense before - it's called communism - but at least I don't think the humans have anything against us.
17 Hematite
@60horsesinmyherd is re-elected Mayor and once again bans me from selling our axes.
18 Hematite
The pump stack shaft has breached a second cavern! This one is full of water and mushrooms. The shaft must route around this one.
4 Malachite
The Livid Guild of Rangers has petitioned for a guildhall, and I will comply with their wishes.
15 Malachite
A few more migrants.
18 Malachite
We now have 4 Adamantine axes. To replace the late @frick I have given one to @_wo_ManBearFridge and appointed them to the Cudgel.
4 Galena
The Elk Birds tend to come upwards into the fort when the cavern is open, but they are more annoyance than danger. One of our dogs decided on its own to take a bird down.
5 Galena
Ordered 100 iron pipe sections and enormous corkscrews for the future pumps. We'll need a bit more than that, but it's a start. Ordered more iron smelted, too.
21 Galena
The Livid Guild Hall is completed, with a fine legendary scepter on display for the admiration of the Rangers.
All this time, Bisekmomuz waits motionlessly
1 Limestone
THE DEAD WALK! Again under siege. We're used to it.
4 Limestone
Everyone is inside. There are 36 of them, with several dark hunters. I don't think it's time to try to take them on directly yet.
There's moss growing on our dirt floor upper levels. Spores must have spread from the caverns. Larger fungus is even beginning to grow in a few places. We can work on laying down an actual floor while we're stuck inside.
8 Limestone
As the besiegers approach it becomes clear that there are living humans and disgustingly, even living dwarves, fighting alongside the shambling undead. Sadly, they kill a few stray cats outside the walls.
20 Limestone
The siege force waits outside our "backdoor". I have ordered the chaining of a beast for bait to lure them in to the KOMPAKTOR for KOMPAKTION.
23 Limestone
@CourtneyGears is taken by a fey mood. I can only hope there's no need for anything from the outside.
25 Limestone
@FBIshill , the dwarf we all call "Carp", has fallen into a severe depression. It's not entirely clear why - some unspecified trauma from last year.
6 Sandstone
No one wanted to chain up a hen or dog as bait - it turned out they considered my order to hide inside more important. I told them to consider the KOMPAKTOR "inside" for these purposes. We were able to smash a few invaders - the timing of the smashing is tricky, and we actually accidentally caught one enemy with the outer gate.
@CourtneyGears was able to find everything they needed and start work - I don't have to worry about them going insane.
10 Sandstone
They created a beautiful mechanism, which I have paired with the one already on display in our gathering hall. This one is more splendid; it actually portrays the history of our people.
13 Sandstone
Managed to draw in five foes, including a dark hunter, for KOMPAKTION.
16 Sandstone
I received notice two prophets were attempting to visit our besieged fortress, in a display of exceedingly poor foresight.
17 Sandstone
Mayor @60horsesinmyherd has demanded the construction of 3 battle axes - again putting me at ease by just asking for what I am already doing!
21 Sandstone
The "leader" necromancer Imbo Pebuer is visiting the area. They don't seem immediately hostile, but it is foreboding. Rumors say Imbo has been associated with many places, peoples, and faiths over the years - why are they here now, at our place?
27 Sandstone
A horrible beast has arrived in the cavern! The Cudgel rushes to the defense.
28 Sandstone
The new recruit @_wo_ManBearFridge , barely trained with their axe, and the Axelord @tempest are first to reach the beast. They meet it in the cavern access stairway. It badly wounds a pet cat, but then they are on it with their axes. Half their strokes sever parts of the beast - one foot, the stinger, another foot, and then @_wo_ManBearFridge removes its head. The beast landed no hits on the dwarves. A great victory!
2 Timber
7 of the siege force, including a dark hunter, submitted for KOMPAKTION this time. Only one dark hunter left.
3 Timber
Depressed dwarf Carp is throwing a tantrum! Embarrassing. Carp assaulted several dwarves and domestic fowl before going to the Mayor for a crying session.
Somehow a human zombie made into our fort. I was the one to engage it, and did so quite handily. I chopped off one hand, then the arm, both legs, and finally chopped the body in two. Cleft in twain, as they say. More troubling than the fight is that we don't know how it made it in.
9 Timber
It is finally time for our justice system to act. Several dwarves have filed charges regarding Carp's tantruming. I have ordered Captain Ral to interrogate Carp for thoroughness, though the guilt is clear.
Good citizens report the misdeeds
14 Timber
Carp readily and foolishly confessed to the tantrum.
Convicted. 19 days in prison, drinking from a bucket of WATER.
19 Timber
The Elk Birds that came up from the cavern continue to annoy working dwarves. The hunters don't always persevere enough to kill them, and they seem to heal quickly, so I put the Cudgel on them.
25 Timber
The annoying Elk Birds are all dead, getting butchered and tanned.
27 Timber
Very deep, not many levels above the magma, the pump stack shaft has breached a third cavern! We'll have to construct the body of the shaft ourselves.
28 Timber
Carp is throwing a tantrum even while imprisoned. Pathetic.
1 Moonstone
More foolish foreign guests tried to reach our besieged fortress and succumbed to the undead hordes, but it seems like they destroyed two zombies first.
The undead have not gone for the KOMPAKTOR trap recently.
3 Moonstone
Better-armed or skilled foreign guests have actually killed or driven off the last dark hunter! One live enemy dwarf and nine assorted shambling corpses remain.
5 Moonstone
Four enemies entered the trap. The bait dog was doomed in any case, but their blows essentially exploded its jaw before the KOMPAKTOR came down on everyone.
The Cudgel sallied forth and tore apart the remainder without injury.
The siege is lifted once again!
17 Moonstone
There have been three babies born in the past few weeks!
18 Moonstone
The Mayor has prohibited the export of figurines. Fair enough, if hard to understand.
23 Moonstone
A strange creature called a Gorlak came up from the caverns. One of our dogs didn't like it very much and killed it.
24 Moonstone
Carp, out of prison, throws a third tantrum and hits a cat.
5 Opal
Twelve witnesses reported Carp's criminal attack on the cat, and Carp's own confession upon interrogation makes thirteen.
I have ordered the stone of the prison to be engraved, in the hopes that greater exposure to our illustrious culture will have a salutary effect on Carp and any other future prisoners.
11 Opal
Sentencing decisions are not in my hands - instead of prison, this time Carp is sentenced to a beating from Captain Ral.
Ral leaving Carp's room after delivering the punishment.
I selected a physically weak Captain of the Guard for good reason - there was only a small blood splatter and one broken bone after Ral was done.
12 Opal
Carp reports to the hospital to heal after justice. Podiatric surgery is required. Even in the hospital bed, Carp throws a tantrum - at least tantrums in hospital or prison seem harmless.
The initial order of 10 Adamantine axes is complete. There are a few Adamantine wafers and spools of thread left - getting more of the raw stuff seems quite a challenge with Bisekmomuz waiting ever-patiently. Over the year the Cudgel has switched over to Adamantine battleaxes, those more used to spears training up in the new weapon.
13 Opal
The baby boom has continued. Our population now numbers 141.
17 Opal
Id Nomalisen the Prophet, who stupidly visited us during the siege, has risen as a ghost. Somehow it's our duty to memorialize them or be haunted.
22 Opal
Even more migrants have arrived. We are over 150 now.
28 Opal
Momuz the Farmer stole the legendary scepter "Ethbeshtaron" from the Livid Guild Hall. Momuz was spotted by @MerrySwishmas and will be interrogated. Momuz seemed to consider fleeing the area but thought better of it as Captain Ral approached.
4 Obsidian
A human named Kuda wants to reside in the fort "for the purpose of eradicating monsters". A human in a dwarf fortress is rather irregular, but I can't argue with the goal here, and have accepted them.
5 Obsidian
Momuz gave up nothing in the interrogation. We can still convict them. One month in prison, and in the cage, not on the chain. The scepter, last seen in Momuz' possession, is nowhere to be seen. There are rumors a visiting necromancer left with it. Did they bewitch Momuz? Perhaps when it seemed Momuz was fleeing they were handing off or hiding the scepter. I put some finely crafted but obsolete steel battleaxes on display in the Livid Guild Hall to satisfy their need for a suitable hall.
6 Obsidian
Yet again, Carp throws a tantrum, knocking over a lever and statue, and destroying the plump helmet field.
8 Obsidian
66 witnesses reported Carp this time. Back to prison!
For further edification of the prisoners, I later placed a legendary cage on display, so they can look at it and think about how much nicer it is than their own cage or chain.
25 Obsidian
Another monster of vomit, coming from the third cavern this time.
27 Obsidian
And with the defeat of this forgotten beast of vomit, my yearlong shift comes to an end, and I hand the fortress over to @StarSix.
Found three caverns.
There is a cavern access shaft to the first cavern w/ drawbridge to secure. This first cavern has cave spider webs, of which a bunch have been gathered I believe, and muddy floors good for farming.
The second cavern is sealed off.
The third cavern is open to the pump stack shaft.
Drawbridge to secure the pump stack shaft is being constructed - will need its lever!
The body of a pump stack shaft is dug to the third cavern, about ten levels above the magma. Probably makes the most sense to just construct the shaft through the cavern. About half the doors are emplaced. Pipes and corkscrews are being constructed. It remains to dig the channels between levels and place the pumps.
We are cut off from the known Adamantine by the Fire Phantom Bisekmomuz. I don't know if it's a thing we can fight. I don't even know if magma would kill it.
We have 10 Adamantine axes, 7 in the hands of the Cudgel.
Carp is pretty continually tantruming. All I saw was the vague "trauma" from the past year. I don't know if continual punishment is the best for it but since my dwarf was made hammerer I went with a justice focus.
Fort operating smoothly overall. Iron production seems a bit jammed up and might need workshop settings adjusted?
Players, in order of succession:
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/h/Love4FatPeople2 please post to this sub and join
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Trust them !chuds
Games journ*lists often beat difficult games, but face criticism and abuse for their reviews.\
The myth that games journ*lists hate video games is false; they are passionate about the medium.\
To find trustworthy game critics, look for those with similar tastes and opinions to yourself.
I get it, games journ*lists are terrible at video games. Remember that one guy playing Cuphead? Let's ignore the fact that games journ*lists regularly beat entire games in a far shorter timespan than regular people who don't have deadlines to meet. Turn a blind eye to the fact that they don't have a single guide to help them beat a difficult boss or access an area with some abstruse entry method like drinking poison that kills you at any other time. Forget about the fact they beat them before the patches arrive to make the game easier.
They also hate video games, and chose to cover this beat because they want to destroy the entire industry. It doesn't matter that wages are low across the sector and crunch is rife, especially when reviewing hundred-hour games with bafflingly tight turnarounds. We hate video games, and can't wait to tear them down.
The myth that games journ*lists not only suck at video games, but also actively hate the medium, is one that I've never understood. However, the issue with game reviews is much easier to parse.
Gaming in 2024 is team-based. You're Team Xbox or Team PlayStation. Team Fortnite or Team CoD. Team Stellar Blade or Team Censorship. Team Developer or Team Journ*list. That's how many g*mers see it, at least.
There's a major problem with games marketing that fuels this feudal misery. Hype trailers for games years away from release whip fans into a fervour, and the excitement heightens to a level where any criticism of the game is seen as a personal sleight. Calling Stellar Blade's protagonist Eve boring meant that you're a part of the pro-censorship wokerati who can't stand a beautiful woman leading a game.
There's another issue here, to do with reading comprehension and media literacy, but I won't go into that today.
Team Elden Ring got mad last week, when a couple of reviews said that it was too difficult. Accusations flew across the Twittersphere, the critics behind said reviews were told in no uncertain terms to 'git gud', and suffered far worse abuse, as misogynistic as it was vitriolic. Cuphead has been brought up, again.
Fast forward a week, and players are levelling the very same accusations at the FromSoftware DLC. Countless mods have added easy modes to the game -- one called Journ*list Mode, despite the fact journos beat the game without needing it. Players feel bosses are unfair, they believe the systems are too abstruse, and yet they refuse to engage with some of the game's core mechanics due to believing they're a cheat's way out. I wonder if any of them have apologised to the reviewers who pointed out these very issues?
It's not just an Elden Ring problem. When Kallie Plagge reviewed Cyberpunk 2077 for GameSpot, she was hounded by thousands of players for pointing out the game's negatives. She didn't like the edgy aesthetics that played no meaningful part in the gameplay, so she was labelled a prude. She pointed out offensive depictions of minorities, so she was called an SJW. She called out the technical issues obvious even on PC, so she suffered a barrage of hatred.
Plagge was at the receiving end of a whirlwind of abuse from g*mers excited for CD Projekt Red's new title, eight years in the making. Their excitement, as well as the marketing campaign, blinded them from seeing fair criticism as exactly that -- fair. I don't know her, but I imagine Plagge was excited to play the game, too. Games journ*lists and critics like games! And yet, her 7/10 review sparked days of collective outrage.
However, when the game released, fans saw the truth for themselves. Just days after Plagge's review was published, a post appeared on the Cyberpunk subreddit titled, "Everyone talked shit about her, but I'm starting to agree with Kelly Plagge [sic]". On the whole, the review was more positive than the sentiment on the subreddit. The fan reaction was so intense that a new subreddit, /r/LowSodiumCyberpunk, was set up by the minority of fans wanting to escape the swathes turning on the game for the exact reasons Plagge pointed out.
What gives? At what point do you start trusting game critics and those who review your games? As much as you think we're different to you, that we have different agendas and want to tear down the things you love, we're not. We love video games. We wouldn't do this job otherwise. But we have to be honest about our opinions.
So find someone with similar opinions to you. While Eurog*mer's reviewer found the DLC so difficult it spoiled their experience, our reviewer relished FromSoftware's seemingly insurmountable challenge. I myself play and review a lot of RPGs and text-heavy games because I'm a book nerd at heart. If you, too, like those sorts of games and welcome valid criticism of the genre, keep tabs on my OpenCritic page.
This is how to navigate the media landscape. Find someone your tastes align with, or whose criticism you enjoy reading. Find your Roger Ebert. Don't just look at the biggest reviews on the biggest sites, because you lack important context about the person behind the webpage. You can expect their review to be balanced and fair, but it will also be entirely subjective -- reviews are opinions, after all -- so you need to dig a little deeper to understand whether this is a perspective that is similar to yours. If your favourite reviewer writes for an independent zine, go for it, that might be more valuable to you than an IGN or TheG*mer write-up.
But no games journ*list is out to get you. The vast majority try to be fair in their criticism and unbiased when it comes to inconsequential arguments like console preferences. Nobody's going to give Astro Bot a two because they love Xbox. Nobody is trying to destroy game developers' lives. We're honest, we're opinionated, we're human. Just like you.
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[Carp's dwarf identifies as her]
Last bit went longer than expected, I will sleep and write up everything tomorrow.
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I play eternal which is basically a clone of hearthstone which is basically a clone of magic the gathering. It's fun but just like in any other card game there's people that take EVERY second humanly possible on each turn. Even in masters I never take more than 10 seconds on each turn. Even the most complicated decks might take 15 seconds of thinking. I genuinely cannot understand what it's like to have a 90 IQ. Imagine taking 120 seconds on something where you have basically 2 or 3 optimal moves in any given scenario. I usually have my entire turn planned out by the time they finish theirs and speedrun pressing the end turn button.
It's crazy how slow people can be.
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⚡Sakurajima Update Notice⚡
— Palworld (@Palworld_EN) June 27, 2024
Palworld's first major update🔥
New area, Pals, buildings and more!
Steam version v0.3.1 has been released.
(Xbox version v0.3.1 will be released when it is ready)
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▼New Content
・New Island - Sakurajima
⤷ A new island has appeared!… pic.twitter.com/2QAxJq2hU0
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